2 posts tagged “360”
Pokemon Pearl & Diamond US Versions have hit the ROM sites already, R4 owners are happily training up their pokemon while legit fans of the series have to sit back and wait. Being an R4 owner and not a hardcore pokemon fan I thought I'd give the dirty version a go and write my general experience of the game so far...
My last real experience of a pokemon game would be pokemon blue on the Nintendo Gameboy, so you are going to have to forgive my lack of pokemon knowledge. Actually I haven't played a good round of Pokemon since I was 12 that's over 8 years ago! I start up and you do the general naming and sex of your character. Finally the girl actually looks pretty awesome. I select my gender and carry on to name my friend/rival and proceed through the general dialogue of the game. Graphically the game looks 2-D but if you look hard a lot of the buildings and such have gone 3-D! It looks great. You go off and oh no! The professor has left his briefcase on the tall grass! You should really get it but the pokemon might attack. Of course you go in anyway and ironically 2 bird-like pokemon attack you. This is where you get the choose your starter pokemon. I chose Piplup because it was cute. I am a girl and I like cute things. Then you go on to battle the pokemon, win (very hard to lose to be honest) and realise what a silly thing you have done by using someone else's pokemon! Then the professor's assistant comes along to collect the briefcase from you. It soon turns out that the professor see's a growing bond between you and your pokemon and requests you go on a pokemon adventure to collect data on other pokemon for him! Not really original story line wise but hey we don't really play pokemon for a riveting story, ay?
Battle wise the game looks great. I usually turn off the move graphics because they are not really that amazing and in the case of pearl you are not going to see any fireworks go off. I am sure they could of done a lot better with the battle systems graphics but then would fans accept such a dramatic change? I doubt it. To be honest Pearl just reminds me of Pokemon Blue but prettier and on my DS with more pokemon to choose from. The map is huge and I can't wait to see how many hours I am going to put into this game. So far I am enjoying it and memory lane is kicking in haha. I recommend grabbing yourself a copy when it does come out, don't feel too upset about us R4 owners owning you up online ;-D We've had the game longer!
Apart from that, what games coming out are you looking forward to? Left 4 Dead certainly interests me, it's been a while since something this exciting has come out. Seriously click on that link and check out the gameplay video. It looks amazing! Who would you play though? I kind of like the idea of being a Zombie because I feel bad after popping so many of their heads off. However if you be human and see the AMOUNT of zombies that are after you it might be worth that risk alone! Also BIOSHOCK looks fantastic. If you haven't checked out some of the HD trailers on the 360 marketplace then I advice you go do that now because the game looks messed up in a good way! I cannot wait to bug my friend for the promo and I hope it turns outs to be as good as I expect it to be. Don't be a let down :( Yeah yeah I know they are both 360 titles, but hey until FF13 & MGS4 gets into gear on the PSTripple I am not even going to look at the thing. Plus I am poor because of all the money I spent towards going to PAX.
On a quick note, Japanator had me record another podtoid-san last night. Was a lot of fun, thank you guys! And Epileptic Gaming are going to be back in the USA from their trip to China, so if you have not ever seen their show it's 7pm EST Monday to Friday. I'll be in the chat as usual so just send me a message or something. Now, my pokemanz! I must find me a mudkip!
Pimping myself out big time! Okay well that just means I've been sat in on my week off from work doing some serious gaming and socialising with gamers online. Sad? Maybe. Fun? Hells yeah. The arrival of my SNES has made me a happy girl again (oh I missed you so) and I am finally getting back into hand held gaming again, thank you R4!
So Japanator.com asked me to do their podcast! It was a laugh we pretty much went free-for-all on the whole thing and you can hear me embarrass myself with some "drunken-remixed-gems". It's worth listening just for that I think. I feel terribly British on the show being the only br1t-fag there, so sorry for the bad audio and lag. Anyway, if you are an anim?�/Japan fan then check it out please!
This week I received my R4. What a beautiful creation, seriously! The package comes with the R4 card that goes into your DS. A micro-SD card and a micro-SD card reader. And an SD card that can take the micro-SD in it. The whole point of the R4 is to pirate games, naughty naughty! I never got into ROM's, I like OWNING the games. However when you venture out into the real world and work for a living you realise... I need more free stuff because I am poor. And I tell you living off of bread for 4 weeks after buying my 360 was not very fun! Did lose weight however so it might of been worth it. Anyway, downloaded some games and it's only convinced me to buy even more. After wasting a good �?20 on Puyo Pop Fever I stopped buying DS games, so the R4 has saved my relationship with my white little friend. I am sure it's only too long until the R4 is taken down and burned by NINTENDO hungry lawyers. However if you have a spare $60 then its worth getting, especially with Pokemon Pearl coming out which is amazingly fun by the way.
Gears of War's new update has caused some bad press of late. The roadie run has been completely destroyed and certain weapons have become too strong making my usual sneak and chainsaw tactic useless. Sad Panda right there. Well at least it stops me from shouting Leeroy Jenkins during the game, haha. On other 360 news, a new interface is coming but are the MSN add-ons going to be worth it? I used to be a huge fan of MSN but after using gtalk I've hardly logged into it. I don't think I'll be using it, I want to see my XBL friends online not my contacts list! I don't want to be bugged during my game with random messages because I get that a lot already! I see your ultimate integration, but it's not doing anything for me Microsoft. Goal for this weekend, PLAY MORE RAINBOW SIX VEGAS!
Who else has been enjoying C&C3? I have not played an RTS since well... C&C1! It's great to get back into the genre and I am finally going to get myself a copy of StarCraft seeing as the Koreans are crazy of that! Online play has been tricky and I know the team as desperately trying to fix all its glitches with a few patches. The first patch fixed my problems and the second patch seemed to destroy them all over again! So I am just awaiting the next patch. Playing on network play via Hamachi has proven good enough however and it's going well. The TANK RUSH's are getting OLD however, trying to learn a number of counters to defend from the RUSH but DAYMN! It's driving me nuts. Please grab a copy of the game though, send me a message and I'll get online/hamachi and try give it a go.
I LOVE THIS GAME! Seriously, play it. Play it hard! I was never a wiz at music games but DJ MAX PORTABLE has always offered me a chance to build skills. I love the series and I am glad they released a sequal. The second game is so much fun and I enjoy the new levelling system. I mentioned about this game in a previous post however I do really need to pimp this game out because it's previous version never hit European shores and I am guessing American stores too. The second volume comes with English, Korean and Japanese languages so don't even use the language barrier as an excuse! Play it with 4 buttons, 5, 6 or even 8 button modes. There is a freestyle mode which is basically a chance for you to try get MAX combo's and build them up. The levelling and money system make it harder to get songs and notes and such but it's so much more enjoyable. Seriously a gem of a game! Get it!
So mudkipz, i herd u lyke themz? I SURE DO! Started playing Pokemon Rescue Team and I got to choose a Mudkip to partner up with. That's EPIC right there! The game is very simple hit A to attack and B opens up a menu for special moves (pro tip: use more moves to gain higher EXP, lul). The storyline is obviously simple and happy and no pokemanz were harmed during the course of the game but it's a good time filler while you are awaiting Diamond and Pearls release. Pre-ordered mine and so has everyone else apparently!
Final Fantasy Chocobo Tales is a good laugh, although extremely cutesy I do enjoy the idea behind it all and it makes full use of what the DS has to offer and some pretty impressive graphics too! Oh I am sure a DS whore lately!
Epileptic Gaming is in CHINA this week at CHINASOFT. So if you want to see a bunch of over 6ft Americans tower above the Chinese and then talk about some video games, I'd check out their show. Check it out live at 7pm EST, that's Midnight for all us Britannians, the show usually lasts and hour and is a good laugh. I've called in a number of times during their other shows. So please check them out! Plus the chat is a good laugh!
