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E3 2013! (Xbox, Go Home!)

Published on 06/11/2013 in Video Games. 9 Comments

I may not be posting often nowadays, but I couldn’t let an E3 go by without a bit of discussion, so here we are.

Not too much to talk about yet, for me, at least. Microsoft had a decent conference, but the move from video games as a product to video games as service is just completely at odds with how I want to play games. Nothing really looked amazing, and the Xbox (I refuse to call it The One, blech) and PS4 are so similar, other than the PS4′s power advantage, that I just found myself saying, ‘eh, it’ll just look better on PS4′ for every non-exclusive game shown. I think it says a lot that I spent most of the time playing Animal Crossing on my 3DS while MS dangled explosions, gunplay, and set pieces in front of my face, to no avail (I’m starting to think that Nintendo games are created primarily for adults, weird as that sounds).

But seriously, a serial code for every disk game? Can’t easily lend to a friend? Can’t bring a disk over to a friend’s house and quickly play a few rounds without logging in to your account and installing the entire game? Just, what the heck, Microsoft?? I already hated online passes, and I mostly hate DLC, but this is just one giant step even more terrible.

So, Sony’s conference. Not bad, not bad. I’m pretty excited for Second Son, The Order looks like it could be a ton of fun, oh, and Destiny actually looked much better than I though it would (figured it would be more MMO-y, but I like the current direction of ‘suddenly multiplayer’ during single player or co-op play).

I’m obviously writing this post because, once again, I’m stupidly hyped for Nintendo’s conference (er, Direct). Not many ways they can mess this one up, for once. New 3D Mario, NEW (best game series ever) SMASH BROS TRAILER! Even without new hardware launches, Nintendo could knock this out of the park for me by showing actual ‘next gen’ gameplay, which I still haven’t seen yet from the far beefier consoles.

Nintendo conference insta-wins:

- Smash Bros looks more Melee than Brawl (NO TRIPPING!!!)
- 3D Mario looks huge and epic and ‘feels’ new, like Galaxy did, but in larger levels, like Mario 64
- Retro shows a new IP and it looks amazing
- New Star Fox
- New F-Zero (please oh please oh please)
- 2.5D sidescrolling Metroid on 3DS
- Show something that uses the GPGPU to create new gameplay, like manipulating physics, new interactions, cool new stylus driven interactions, etc

Nintendo conference fails:

- More 3DS games than Wii U games
- Wii Sports U or Wii Fit U as main focus
- Mario Party U as main focus
- Wii Music U shown at all
- Any other minor Nintendo IPs given main focus on Wii U (Nintendogs, Brain Age, etc)

Can’t wait to see what Retro’s been working on, can’t wait to see if X looks as amazing as Xenoblade, AND DID I MENTION I WAS EXCITED FOR A NEW SMASH BROS?

Come on, Nintendo, don’t mess this up!

Will be back tomorrow to complain if Nintendo messes this up >:D

New Game Out! SCD of Re-Mission 2!

Published on 05/11/2013 in Video Games. 7 Comments

Yes, you read that right! I actually have a new game out! Re-Mission 2 has gone live from HopeLab, and it’s made up of collection of smaller games this time around.

I did Stem Cell Defender, it’s mostly inspired by Nuclear Eagle (I was even able to team up with Luka again, which was great), but plays differently and I think has a feel of its own.

Check it out!

(I actually prefer playing with ‘auto-fling’ turned on, it’s a bit faster)

Fancy Pants Sketches

Published on 04/30/2013 in The Fancy Pants Adventures and World 3. 15 Comments

Update, more posts!

FPA on consoles is 2 years old! I thought it would be fun to go back and take a peak at where World 3 first materialized. In a notebook, of course! Check out the Facebook Album, and Like / Share / Comment if you want to see more!

Click the images to view the full album.

Album 1:

Album 2:

Album 3:

Album 4:

- Brad

Road Redemption!

Published on 04/25/2013 in Video Games. 6 Comments

Hey guys, yep, its Brad here finally! Hope you enjoyed Fairly’s post monopoly for a bit, we spend a surprising amount of time discussing / complaining about games, so it’s fun sharing a bit of that with everyone.

Anyways, I had to show some love for a fellow Louisiana dev, who are attempting to make a lot of gamers’ dreams come true and build a new Road Rash styled game themselves.

Road Redemption

What I find mind blowing, though, is if you pay over 800 bucks, you get the ENTIRE SOURCE CODE AND RIGHTS TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO WITH IT. That’s almost as nuts as it is awesome.

Oh, yeah, they want to do a Wii U version, and the Wii U needs more games!

Gimme moar Wii U gamez!!

So at least check the Kickstarter page out, I’d love to see more going on locally, and the footage already looks great.

More hardcore old school games made is always a good thing!

Road Redemption on Kickstarter

Gears of War: Judgement

Published on 04/15/2013 in Fairly's Corner. 4 Comments

It took me a bit to figure out how to review this game. So I’ll give the bare minimum.

We came, we saw, we chainsawed, and then two hours after we beat it I forgot we’d beaten it.

Yeeaaaaaah.

Tomb Raider

Published on 04/09/2013 in Fairly's Corner. 19 Comments

So! I know the last game I mentioned playing was Virtues Last Reward (which I am still playing, thank you unlockable timelines I need in order to complete the game) BUT Brad sucked me into Tomb Raider. Something about wanting a female opinion on a female protagonist or something along those utterly sexist lines.

ANYWAY! Brad bought this for PC and I played it with a XBox controller so I’ll be judging it from that angle. I did have a few freezing issues that made me need to restart it. Brad has apparently not experienced it yet, but oh goodness it’s frustrating. Luckily this game saves about every five seconds.

From what I understand this is a reboot. Full disclosure, I swore to myself I would never play this game. After seeing numerous cosplays with random internet nerds drooling over girls I’m not fully convinced know what an inverted control is I was very jaded about the whole idea. Not to mention the whole Angelina Jolie computer enhanced thing. The whole thing was enough to churn my stomach. I know, I’m one of those girls that just doesn’t care about stereotypes and thinks the whole uber feminist thing is blah but geez Tomb Raider’s publicity just turned me off.

That being said:

Loved

This

Game

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Quote

Published on 02/03/2013 in Fairly's Corner. 6 Comments

Since everyone seems to like random exchanges between Brad and I. Here is a sneak peek into part of the review for “Virtues Last Reward.”

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Halo 4?

Published on 01/28/2013 in Fairly's Corner. 43 Comments

Do you want me to review this game? I don’t think you do.

I REALLY don’t think you do.

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Fancy Box: Report 2 – Fight 1

Published on 01/06/2013 in The Fancy Pants Adventures. 15 Comments

Waaait what?? Another post so soon?? This can’t be! But it is!

Watch my cousin Matt and I beat the stuffing out of each other for the grand amusement of teh interwebs! Try this smashing (see what I did there?) new multiplayer mode in the Fancy Box now!