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February 28, 2007

Some game reports or something. I talk about games I'm playing. Read it, if you wanna know about what I think about games I'm playing.

Jonathan just had a genius idea. Hobo-Erotic, a Hobo-themed porn site. Just think about it. EVERYONE wants to have sex with filthy vagrants, right? It would make MILLIONS.

I have two games to talk about. Alien Hominid HD and Monster Hunter Freedom. I'll start wiiiiith... Alien Hominid.

Warning: Tangent. It amazes me that people are bitching about it being out. Now, I'm sure a Metal Slug clone with style is not to everyone's tastes, but GODS! People! It's new original content! It's not NOTHING! It's SOMETHING! Shut the fuck up! This is a good thing. If nothing else, now that Alien Hominid is out, that's one less thing to stand in the way of your Castlevania or Worms. I don't know... so much of the bitching on the comments I see are justified. Being charged for 108kb unlock keys for stuff on the disk that they held back to sell for more money? Completely justified in bitching about that. No original XBLA release in 2 months? Justified. The exact game I wanted doesn't exist right now? Shut the fuck up.
Tangent out of the way, Alien Hominid rocks. I would not have paid 30 dollars for the original disk releases. But for 10 dollars, this is definately one of the best deals on the XBLA. It's fun as shit co-op, and although online co-op would have been preferable, I probably wouldn't have used it any, so I'm fine with it just being offline. It feels a bit harder than Metal Slug. I think that has to do with the art style. It's cool, but for whatever reason it makes certian collisions or whatever hard to judge. But yeah, 16 levels of co-op blasting? Tons of fun.
Plus, you get a bunch of minigames. On this interview I heard with the Behemoth guy, he was talking about "PDA Game," one of the minigames, and how it's a great party game and how it's almost as popular if not more so than the main game, and they plan on releasing more levels for it in the future. I haven't really tried it yet, but it DOES have online Co-op, so maybe I'll have to at some point. I don't know, it's interesting. I will try it out. Anyway, if you have a 360, there are likely billions of worse uses for 800 points. Probably most of them are gamer pictures.

Mid-ramble tangent link... GO! Sony, what the fuck? Seriously, go OUTSIDE or something.

Monster Hunter Freedom is a PSP version of Monster Hunter that doesn't have online play. I wish it did have online play, because that would be cool. I bet the sequal in Japan does. It's never getting over here, though.
Now, back when I was all excited about the PSP, and raring to buy one on launch day, the reason I wanted one was because I was so sure I was going to get that home console experience, only on the go, where I play more and finish more games. That's what I wanted. Monster Hunter Freedom is the first game where I have gone "I am just playing Monster Hunter." Granted, I SHOULD have felt that way when playing MGS: PO. But the fact that so much had changed to make it a portable game (which is probably a good thing, designing games for short bursts on a portable is a good idea) made it not grab me that way. Monster Hunter, it feels that way. I looks like a PS2 game, at least on the little screen. It CONTROLS WELL, which is weird for a PSP game. Granted, if the nubbin' placement were better, it would control even better, but I have 0 issues with the controls. Portable Ops still felt clunky, but I think that's because there is more to have to fiddle with in that game.
The gameplay itself is pretty fun. It's got my interest. There was alot of bullshit with the fishing training? The fishing in that game is painful. Also, I'm on a mission now where I have to carry this egg, and if I'm tapped by an enemy, the egg breaks. There are tons of enemies on the path back, and I can't like... clear the area, because they respawn. Also, I don't think I can set the egg down, kill the guys, then go back and pick up the egg, like a sane person. I don't know. Hopefully I figure out what the fuck it wants me to do and that mission doesn't ruin it for me.
Also, there are like 15 different voice sets. WHY? All your character says is GGGGGRAAAAAAA! HIYAH! and things.

And now I am done talking about the games I've been playing. NO! WAIT! THERE'S A THIRD!
I've been playing Kingdom of Loathing. If you need a free broswer-based RPG to waste time, I highly recommend it. HIGHLY. I mean, you have to pass a literacy test in order to use the chat. THAT'S AWESOME.

THE END.

Posted by poetfox at February 28, 2007 05:24 PM

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