Fuck Maple Story
Seriously, fuck it. That LV. 30 Forest of Patience jumping puzzle is fucking impossible to do. There's no way you can jump over the spinning blades without getting hit, and there's no way to predict which way you'll fly when you get hit by it, so there's no way you can put any strategy into it. You jump and you fucking fall, and there's not a goddamn thing you can do about it.
Fuck this shit.
At least I have a few other games I can play to distract myself with.
Well, I haven't played Oblivion in a long while now. It's sort of collecting dust on my hard drive. Most of my time has gone into various PC games, like 'Prince of Persia: The Two Towers' (referred to from here on as 'PoP3').
PoP3 was suprisingly good, considering it's predecessor was absolute garbage. The story was interesting, and the combat and platforming elements have really been improved upon. The Prince, though 'anguished', isn't a goddamn emo in this installment, which is likely due to a distinct lack of Godsmack in the soundtrack. However, the voice acting is a bit unconvincing at times, and the body language of the characters in cutscenes is so over the top you beg the on-screen characters to stop trying so hard. Also, the way the game handles quick kills and stealth is crap, and the enemies are pretty dumb overall. The graphics look impressive enough, and the rest of what the game sounds like is pretty good, to. Overall, it's a 8.8/10.
I've also been dabbling in 'kill.switch' (k.s) k.s was something I tried playing ages ago on the PS2, and thought I'd give it a shot on PC. Mouse and Keyboard make the game so much easier, but otherwise it's the same game, which means the game still has some of the same problems it did before. The one man concept is well done, and the way the game handles cover and trench-style combat is interesting, but some of the situations the game throws at you makes cover a really bad idea, basically forcing you to unlearn everything you just learned. Still, fun. 7.9/10.
Just recently I've been playing 'Band of Brothers: Road to Hill 30' (BoB). BoB is a great FPS that features real-time squad control. Though I personally believe that 'Star Wars: Republic Commando' had better squad control, the game is still fantastic, though actually shooting things can be difficult. The recoil on just about every weapon is something to behold, making the main character look like a wimp for not being able to steady the gun while it's firing. Lots of fun, regardless. 8.3/10.
Extra stuff:
Remember that Nickelodeon show 'Nickelodeon Arcade'?
It was a game show filmed at Nickelodeon Studios, featuring two teams of two nerds that claimed to be fashion models and shit. The game show set the two teams against one another in various video game challanges, ranging from Neo-Geo direct ripoffs to some of the newest games to hit the market at the time.
The show opened up with Phil Moore prancing to center stage like a fruit and telling us how things worked. The teams would choose who would have control of Mikey in the first round by having one from each side Face-Off in a random crappy two-player game. Usually the contestants sucked at them. When one would come out on top, they would have control of Mikey, 'The Video Game Adventurer' (not a joke). Players moved this faggy douche around a game-board that was divided into 18 squares towards a "Goal" space on the board. When new squares were landed on, various things would be uncovered, including trivia quizzes (Pop Quiz), video based puzzles (Video Repairman, etc), bonus instant-win prizes (all of which were shitty), automatic point adding squares, 'evil enemies' (a fucking baby cowboy with baby bottles for six shooters was one of them), and 'Video Challenge' squares. The latter involved one player of the team playing one of five 'arcade games' in a half-baked attempt beat a high score within 30 seconds while the other teammate wagers a portion of the points they have on-hand. Winning meant earning the points the teammate wagered and control of the board. Losing meant you sucked at video games and you lost the points wagered for it.
Most of the 'arcade games' they played were home consoles (NES, TurboGrafx-16, Genesis, SNES, etc) housed inside custom arcade cabinets. No modifications were made at all to the games themselves, though back then they did look a hell of a lot better than they did on my shitty TV at the time, which I envied.
The challanges were pathetic in how easy they were, but most of these kids couldn't game their way out of a wet paper bag (25 rings in 30 seconds in the original Sonic the Hedgehog game, and they STILL failed?) Lets also consider the fact that most of these kids are complete fucking morons, which was usually pointed out in the Pop Quiz segments (One time some jerkass had to pick out the heroes from popular movies and he friggin' picked Freddy Kruger as one of them) and then there's the incidents where they wager points..
In this one episode I saw, red team has something like 250 points, yellow team has 225. It comes down to the final minutes, and yellow team gets a video challenge. This video challenge will determine who wins. The guy on the yellow team picks, of all games, Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I started laughing right away, as I assumed this guy was a dumbass, and just lost the game. Well, not only does he beat the wizard's challenge, but he doesn't get hit once. And guess what? His idiot teammate wagered 15 points, giving them 240. They lost the game anyway.
The last challange of the show is the Bonus Level in the Video Zone, where the winning team goes out in a blaze of glory as they take on one of the three horribly designed Game Wizards in OMG THEIR WORLD LOL. It's basically kids running in front of a blue screen with shitty animated overlays. These poor bastards were forced to run around a screen where they couldn't really see what they were doing all the time and make asses of themselves when they would run over a squid coming out of the floor they can't even fucking see. Video Zone was entirely passable if you were quick enough, and not an unimaginative fucktard who wouldn't listen to directions like these assholes:
Fucking
idiots.
If you win, yay, you get shitty prizes. BK Ratch-Tech sneakers? What the fuck? By far the worst prize was the GRAND PRIZE, where you get a TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA! WATE WUT? What a bunch of bullshit!
Summary to everything I've just talked about:
This show was where nerds went to die.
Don't believe me?
Here's
an
episode.
In defense of the show, however, I have this to mention.
Host: "What direction do you want to move Mikey???"
Kid: "Up."
Host: "Alright Mikey's going up!"
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun DUN!
That jingle was fucking awesome.
Fuck this shit.
At least I have a few other games I can play to distract myself with.
Well, I haven't played Oblivion in a long while now. It's sort of collecting dust on my hard drive. Most of my time has gone into various PC games, like 'Prince of Persia: The Two Towers' (referred to from here on as 'PoP3').
PoP3 was suprisingly good, considering it's predecessor was absolute garbage. The story was interesting, and the combat and platforming elements have really been improved upon. The Prince, though 'anguished', isn't a goddamn emo in this installment, which is likely due to a distinct lack of Godsmack in the soundtrack. However, the voice acting is a bit unconvincing at times, and the body language of the characters in cutscenes is so over the top you beg the on-screen characters to stop trying so hard. Also, the way the game handles quick kills and stealth is crap, and the enemies are pretty dumb overall. The graphics look impressive enough, and the rest of what the game sounds like is pretty good, to. Overall, it's a 8.8/10.
I've also been dabbling in 'kill.switch' (k.s) k.s was something I tried playing ages ago on the PS2, and thought I'd give it a shot on PC. Mouse and Keyboard make the game so much easier, but otherwise it's the same game, which means the game still has some of the same problems it did before. The one man concept is well done, and the way the game handles cover and trench-style combat is interesting, but some of the situations the game throws at you makes cover a really bad idea, basically forcing you to unlearn everything you just learned. Still, fun. 7.9/10.
Just recently I've been playing 'Band of Brothers: Road to Hill 30' (BoB). BoB is a great FPS that features real-time squad control. Though I personally believe that 'Star Wars: Republic Commando' had better squad control, the game is still fantastic, though actually shooting things can be difficult. The recoil on just about every weapon is something to behold, making the main character look like a wimp for not being able to steady the gun while it's firing. Lots of fun, regardless. 8.3/10.
Extra stuff:
Remember that Nickelodeon show 'Nickelodeon Arcade'?
It was a game show filmed at Nickelodeon Studios, featuring two teams of two nerds that claimed to be fashion models and shit. The game show set the two teams against one another in various video game challanges, ranging from Neo-Geo direct ripoffs to some of the newest games to hit the market at the time.
The show opened up with Phil Moore prancing to center stage like a fruit and telling us how things worked. The teams would choose who would have control of Mikey in the first round by having one from each side Face-Off in a random crappy two-player game. Usually the contestants sucked at them. When one would come out on top, they would have control of Mikey, 'The Video Game Adventurer' (not a joke). Players moved this faggy douche around a game-board that was divided into 18 squares towards a "Goal" space on the board. When new squares were landed on, various things would be uncovered, including trivia quizzes (Pop Quiz), video based puzzles (Video Repairman, etc), bonus instant-win prizes (all of which were shitty), automatic point adding squares, 'evil enemies' (a fucking baby cowboy with baby bottles for six shooters was one of them), and 'Video Challenge' squares. The latter involved one player of the team playing one of five 'arcade games' in a half-baked attempt beat a high score within 30 seconds while the other teammate wagers a portion of the points they have on-hand. Winning meant earning the points the teammate wagered and control of the board. Losing meant you sucked at video games and you lost the points wagered for it.
Most of the 'arcade games' they played were home consoles (NES, TurboGrafx-16, Genesis, SNES, etc) housed inside custom arcade cabinets. No modifications were made at all to the games themselves, though back then they did look a hell of a lot better than they did on my shitty TV at the time, which I envied.
The challanges were pathetic in how easy they were, but most of these kids couldn't game their way out of a wet paper bag (25 rings in 30 seconds in the original Sonic the Hedgehog game, and they STILL failed?) Lets also consider the fact that most of these kids are complete fucking morons, which was usually pointed out in the Pop Quiz segments (One time some jerkass had to pick out the heroes from popular movies and he friggin' picked Freddy Kruger as one of them) and then there's the incidents where they wager points..
In this one episode I saw, red team has something like 250 points, yellow team has 225. It comes down to the final minutes, and yellow team gets a video challenge. This video challenge will determine who wins. The guy on the yellow team picks, of all games, Super Ghouls and Ghosts. I started laughing right away, as I assumed this guy was a dumbass, and just lost the game. Well, not only does he beat the wizard's challenge, but he doesn't get hit once. And guess what? His idiot teammate wagered 15 points, giving them 240. They lost the game anyway.
The last challange of the show is the Bonus Level in the Video Zone, where the winning team goes out in a blaze of glory as they take on one of the three horribly designed Game Wizards in OMG THEIR WORLD LOL. It's basically kids running in front of a blue screen with shitty animated overlays. These poor bastards were forced to run around a screen where they couldn't really see what they were doing all the time and make asses of themselves when they would run over a squid coming out of the floor they can't even fucking see. Video Zone was entirely passable if you were quick enough, and not an unimaginative fucktard who wouldn't listen to directions like these assholes:
Fucking
idiots.
If you win, yay, you get shitty prizes. BK Ratch-Tech sneakers? What the fuck? By far the worst prize was the GRAND PRIZE, where you get a TRIP TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS FLORIDA! WATE WUT? What a bunch of bullshit!
Summary to everything I've just talked about:
This show was where nerds went to die.
Don't believe me?
Here's
an
episode.
In defense of the show, however, I have this to mention.
Host: "What direction do you want to move Mikey???"
Kid: "Up."
Host: "Alright Mikey's going up!"
dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun DUN!
That jingle was fucking awesome.