Archive for the ‘Games’ Category
Braid: Over-Blown
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games
Over the past two weeks, the gaming press has assaulted me with stories about a downloadable Xbox Live game called Braid. Joystiq and Penny Arcade in particular have been blaring the “OMG BEST GAME EVAR!!1!” trumpets (to paraphrase), but apparently they aren’t alone. The game is a Super Mario Brothers-styled platformer with time-controlling elements similar to Prince [...]
Thoughts on big breasted women with swords and the importance of data backups
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Gadgets, Games, Misc.
Warning: incomprehensible nerdish ahead. Translation follows after the next two paragraphs.
While browsing Digg just the other day, my monitor started to display all sorts of strange artifacts. Being the sensible, computer-literate type, I decided to reboot to attempt to fix the problem. Not only was I greeted with more strange dots and artifacts upon boot [...]
Grand Theft Auto IV - Full Review
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Obscenely Late, Reviews
Here’s the entirety of my Grand Theft Auto IV impressions and review, all gathered up into a neat little pile for you:
Part 1: The Story
Part 2: The Gameplay
Part 3: The Problems
Part 4: Multiplayer
Part 5: The Final Word
GTA IV - The Final Word
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV is a great game. It’s fun, it’s impressive, and it has plenty to justify the $60 price, well after the 30-40 hour single player campaign. So, taking that into perspective, the fact is that GTA IV is more evolutionary than revolutionary.
The single-player story starts out strong, but loses steam near [...]
GTA IV - Multiplayer
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
One of the biggest new features of Grand Theft Auto IV was the brand-new multiplayer modes. GTA hasn’t had proper multiplayer since my friends and I got together and had a LAN match playing the original GTA, so it’s been a while. Rockstar jammed a crapload of multiplayer modes into the game to [...]
Tekken 6 HD Arcade Machine spotted in Houston
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games
While I was down in Houston this week on business (yes, actual business, not “business”), I ducked into the Tilt arcade in the Houston Galleria for a quick couple of games on my way out of town. I was pleasantly surprised to find a handful of clean, well-maintained, fun games. I was even more surprised to stumble upon a very new looking Tekken 6 [...]
GTA IV – Problems – Welcome to Glitcherty City
Posted by RandomRage | Filed under Games, Reviews
Grand Theft Auto IV is shaping up to be one of the biggest and best games of the year, but it’s still got a few chinks in its armor. One of the biggest drawbacks of the “open world” or “sandbox” genre of game (which the GTA series pretty much pioneered), is the fact that since [...]