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Breaking News: NY City destroyed by pixels!
Posted By Jeff On April 10, 2010 @ 12:55 pm
If you’ve ever wanted to see New York city completely taken over and taken apart by your favorite 8-bit characters, now is the time to do so. Patrick Jean did an amazing job on this, I’m astounded and in awe.
PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN.
Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Arts and animation videos.
[Via Mashable!]
Games: Battle of the Bands
Posted By Jeff On January 15, 2009 @ 9:21 am
As promised last week, today we’re going to take a look at
Battle of the Bands
At first glance, this game looks like it can be a lot of fun. Well, it can once you get past the lack of content in the game itself. Lets have a look at some of what the game has to offer:
- A decent variety of songs (of course, no where near some of the more costlier games on the market)
- The joy of rhythm based games without the need to have any extras hanging around
- A quirky variation to the plain old ‘hit the notes and you win’ formula
Battle of the Bands offers some classic favorite songs such as Black Betty and Jungle Boogie; mixed in with some fun songs like Feel Good Inc. by the Gorillaz and Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones. Though the songs are few, they’re good to play.
Unlike some of the other rhythm games, Battle of the Bands uses only the wiimote to hit notes (left/right/down/stab/shake). It’s a fun concept, though a little tiring on the wrist at first on some of the higher difficulty levels. Also, if the wiimote is tilted it often doesn’t hit the note. Once you get used to this though, it’s a fantastic workout for your wrist.
Above all else what makes this game worth playing is the presentation itself. The game is one big battle, so you’re always in a versus mode against either an AI or a Player. Each band gets to choose a style of music, for example country and hip-hop. While playing, if the country team is in the lead the song which they’re playing will be done in a ‘country version’ (IE redneck accent and banjos). As the teams battle, the song jumps between the two bands’ type. It’s a riot when the types are conflicting as they switch seamlessly.
Another cooky part of this game is that you can attack the opposing player. Teams get the option of 3 weapons to use, all with different steak counts. Once a team has a streak to the length of the weapon, it will fire causing the other player to miss a beat if not blocked (hitting B). It’s quite off tilt to have a battle of the bands where you can shoot lightning at the drummer on the other team, but a blast none the less.
Overall, I can understand why this game is so cheap (I got it for $15) because though the concept of it is amazing, the final execution of it is lacking. If they had access to a larger library, or even if they had more modes or unlockable content it may have made it a little more interesting. For what the game is though, it was worth the cash and I’d suggest it to any music lover out there if not only for the music player feature that allows you to switch between styles without having to actually play the game.
Games: Rock Band 2
Posted By Jeff On January 8, 2009 @ 1:56 am
Today we’re going to get some rock off with our socks off with a quick review of Rock Band 2
For those of you unfamiliar with the ‘musical gaming’ genre, Rock Band and similar products often use controllers shaped like guitars or drums. You simply hit the colored buttons on the instruments in time with the colors on the screen to play the notes. A simple concept, but incredibly fun none the less.
What first made Harmonix‘s Rock Band stand out in comparison to it’s nearest competitor Guitar Hero is that it allowed players to not only play guitar, but drum and sing as well. Though this has been evenly matched by the most recent Guitar Hero World Tour
Aside from just hitting the buttons to match colors, I think a huge part of the appeal of these games is that you can be part of a band, not just somebody playing a game at home on a Saturday night. Rock Band 2 takes advantage of this by giving players the ability to not only form a band with friends at close range, but to join with anybody online. This, for me, is a huge factor as the people online can’t see you dancing around in your PJs while playing We Got the Beat by the Go-Gos.
Rock Band 2 has also capitalized on the character creation factor of games, giving users the ability to make their avatar as normal or bizarre as they want it to be with everything from ripped jeans to a Viking helmet. Along those lines, users are able to register their bands online and put their custom bands into cool looking photos. They can even print out stickers and make t-shirts! (Check out yours truly rockin’ out here)
But what good is playing when you don’t know any of the songs? Rock Band 2 has a ton of good songs, and (whenever Nintendo gets around to it) will feature downloadable content (DLC) to allow aspiring musicians to enhance their library even further.
The only fault I’d say (if anything) this game is lacking compared to Guitar hero is the ‘oddity’ factor. This is just playing songs, where as in Guitar hero there are ‘battles’ where you can throw off your enemy and random encores through out the game. It makes it good to spice up. Rock Band does this with ‘benefit shows’ and ‘TV recordings’, but the game play is still just playing the songs. It would be nice to see a mode to make it a little more interesting in Rock Band 3. (I have picked up another musical game today completely based around being strange, keep an eye out for a review)
So are any of you rock legends? Let me know in the comments below, maybe we can do some face melting some time. Rock on!
I am Batman Pac-Man
Posted By Jeff On October 10, 2008 @ 1:08 am
Let’s stick with some gaming fun here. To follow up with the totally badass furniture that I showed last week, I have found some more cool Pac-Man stuff that I would love to own.
</a.First off, the Pac-Man Hoodie from Think Geek. If this doesn’t confuse people and earn you a hand full of cherries, an extra life and the all time high score, nothing will.
If that design made your headspin, you might be suffering from a Dot Overdose and need this shirt from Dead Zebra. Friends don’t let friends OD on Dots…But they do buy them the shirt.
And the last one for today (though not pac-man inspired) is the Most Deadly shirt from Busted Tees. You may recognize this from Perfect Dark (or maybe you don’t if you suck at it) but even the biggest lamer *cough DEL cough* can pretend to be old school now.
A Gamer's home is his castle
Posted By Jeff On October 1, 2008 @ 9:45 pm
*may or may not include princess*
I don’t know about you, but Pac-Man seems to constantly have an impact on my life. It may come in the form of a T-shirt from a friend or just me eating random dots off the ground. But after a long day of chasing ghosts, wouldn’t you like to just put your feet up? Me too, so buy me this footstool thanks.
While you’re at it, buy me this medal for being epicly old skool too. Console Wars Veteran
Smash my way to the top
Posted By Jeff On July 29, 2007 @ 7:32 am
I’ve managed to make it to the top for now, got lucky on some rolls. The current scores are.
1st HammerBro (8/10)
2nd Toadette (5/25)
3rd Birdo (3/4)
4th Bones(0/8)
Also only 3 more posts after this one! It’s almost over! And I’m just getting my second wind too. Anybody up for another 24 hours? haha.
Mario Kart DS!!!!one!
Posted By Jeff On November 17, 2005 @ 3:27 pm
I got Mario Kart DS! It has Wifi! All you need is a wireless router! I have one! I’m playing online!
*splat*
Sorry that was just my head exploding again. It’s awesome! Exclaimation point!
My friend code is:
270642
505230
Add me suckas!
*splat*
Looky, Looky
Posted By Jeff On June 27, 2005 @ 1:42 am
So I don’t have too much to blog about ATM. I’m attempting to find some links or something interesting on BoingBoing, but it’s coming up short. My next stop is I-am-Bored. Anywhere, here is what I have so far.
Kitty Train! It’s an actual train and has kitty ears! I’m not huge cat fan (understatement of the year) but this is cool. [Link]
Some guy decided to make a collection (a nice one I might add) of a bunch of NES stuff that had come out. It’s funny how Nintendo had it all out before it was cool, now it’s coming back revamped and being the bomb digity. Anyway, I highly recommend you check it out. [Link]
And that’s all I have! What a huge amount huh? I’ll come up with something of value to blog about tomorrow. I’m also planning on giving shirtninja a new layout. It’s slowly putting itself together in my head as we speak. My set date is August 6th for having the new layout done (Blogathon) but I’m hoping to have it done up before then. Anyway, so keep an eye out in the coming days/weeks, as I know I’ll be asking advice on stuff. That is all.
Edit: I’m on the hunt to find a charity (Canadian if possible, but not needed) that is dedicated to Online safety or child safety online or something along those lines. So far I only have WiredSafety noted. So if you find anything, letting me know ASAP would be awesome. Thanks readers.
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