In this episode of Multiplayer Singleplayer, Adam gets the new Halo: Reach Noble Map Pack… or does he?
Remember when the little yellow circle thing ate the little pellets and went waka-waka? Those were good Pac-Man times, right? Remember a bunch of years later when they added a phat techno beat and a timer and made it look like Geometry Wars? Those were good Pac-Man CE times too. Well, in the tradition of those times, if you’re smart enough to drop the 800 MS points today, then you’re going to have some good Pac-Man CE DX times as well.
The original Pac-Man Championship Edition took what the world loved about Pac-Man and made it relevant again. They kept the gameplay we knew and loved and turned everything on its head by adding a timer. This made the game less about staying alive and more about moving as quickly as possible to get a higher score than all of your friends.
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX takes the divergent path of the original CE further down the pellet-popping warp hole. What emerges on the other side has more maps, more modes, and more visual-style choices, all with the most rewarding ghost-gobbling I’ve ever experienced. And yes, Pac-Man now has bombs. Continue reading
Special thanks go out to P. Nathan Smith’s pipes.
Hello. Welcome to part one in an ongoing series titled “What is this?” where my girlfriend comes into the room while I’m in the middle of playing a videogame, and I have to try and explain to her what I’m playing. Oh, here she comes now.
Girlfriend: Hey. What is this?
Adam: Oh. This is Bayonetta.
Girlfriend: What’s going on?
Adam: It’s complicated. I’m a witch or something, and I have to kill these scary looking angels.
Girlfriend: Why do you have to kill angels?
Adam: I don’t know, because they’re trying to kill me? And I like have to find out who I am or something, I guess. I don’t know. And there’s this black guy who’s a devil who I can buy guns from, but I have to give him broken vinyl records to unlock new guns. Continue reading
Good evening! … or afternoon… or morning… what time is it for you right now? Oh, it doesn’t matter, because we’re about to go in a TIME MACHINE. Right this way, have a seat in my Delorean. Pretty comfy seats, right? It’s a bitch to park, though. Okay, let’s get out of this Delorean and hop on inside of my time machine. Oh–did you think this was the time machine? Haha, you’re silly.
The year is 1996. Or something. Something like that. It’s the summer before my freshman year of high school. The future is nothing but opportunity! Well, opportunity to be picked on and belittled by my peers, but I don’t know that yet. Right now, everything is awesome, because I’m at some friend’s house, and I’ve just seen Duke Nukem 3D for the first time. Continue reading
Hi first-time Multiplayer Singleplayer reader! Thanks for checking out the site. Did you google funny videogame reviews and find us? That’s great! So, here’s the deal: Two of us write for this site.
1. Me, Young Adam Dorsey
2. My good friend, Curtis Retherford.
Although this website is written under the guise of a funny videogame review blog, its true purpose is to convince my friend Curtis Retherford to buy an Xbox 360 or a PS3 so that I can play games with him. That’s kind of why I roped him into writing for the site in the first place; I figured he would be more likely to read the posts if half of the articles were credited to him.
Unfortunately, I seem to have lost my way, because I’m about to talk to you about Gears of War, and let me be upfront, Gears of War is no reason to buy an Xbox 360.
This week I was lucky enough to receive an invite code to the Blur multiplayer beta. The thing is, I’ve never really been the racing game type. There was a three-week period there where I got really into Gran Turismo 3 on the Playstation 2, even going as far as to order a steering wheel/gas pedal system on e-bay. Unfortunately, by the time the steering wheel arrived, I was bored of the simulation gameplay of GT, and had already moved onto some other, non-racing game. I used the steering wheel once.
That said, I love the Burnout series, particularly Burnout Paradise. I have put more hours into that game than just about any game this generation (the only possible challenger being Rock Band). I love everything about Burnout, but particularly I love that I don’t have to worry about racing lines or braking properly or any of that other stuff. If I eff up, my car explodes fantastically, and I get right back to racing. That’s what I’m looking for in a racer.
And, wow, you guys, does Blur ever deliver. It’s like if Mario Kart turned into Mario Awesome Licensed Cars, fucked Burnout Paradise until it shit out a baby, trained that baby to be more like Modern Warfare 2, and then belittled that baby, saying that it should look more like Geometry Wars. “Sure you’ve got awesome cars and crazy weapons and a fucking perk system, BUT WHY ISN’T EVERYTHING SHINY AND NEON?! You’re no son of mine!”
I’m glad we could write this blog together. I have fun playing videogames, and so do you, and so I’m glad we joined forces to write about games. Coincidentally, it is actually your love of videogames that brings us here today. I heard you love them, particularly the high quality ones, and so I would like to point your attention to Mass Effect.
I know what you’re thinking: What year is it, 2007? Next you will be asking me if I have tried that new hit adventure game about the yellow-man named Pac. Ha, you think you are so funny, Curtis. But no, I know that Mass Effect came out a long time ago, and I know that there’s already a sequel out and that it’s supposed to be loads better, but for whatever reason, I never got into Mass Effect when it first released, and instead the disc just sat by my tv for two years.
When Castle Crashers first released, I thought whoa. A 4 player side-scrolling beat-em-up with light-RPG elements from the dudes who brought us Alien Hominid? Do you need to see my geek card? Oh, I left it at home, but here’s a picture of me at 12-years-old spending all of my allowance by pumping quarter-after-quarter into The Simpsons arcade game. Now give me the demo to this Castle Crashing thing! But then, well, I played through the demo, and bleh. When that little blurb popped up telling me to drop 1200 Microsoft Spacebucks to continue the cartoony adventure, I respectfully declined.
A couple months back, Castle Crashers was the deal of the week, and at 800 Spacebucks, even games that make you go bleh suddenly feel like a reasonable purchase. I convinced a good friend to pick it up as well, and we started playing through the campaign in co-op. Several patches since launch, and the online multiplayer now worked like a charm. Also charming? The art-style, the simple but ridiculous story, the potty humor, the light RPG elements, and the just-deep-enough-to-keep-me-from-killing-myself-with-boredom button-mashing combo-system.
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