Great moments in SF3 history….

… the Beast unleashed.

I turn 28 today…

and I feel about the same as yesterday.  Well, my wife got me Rock Band for 360, so I’m happy, but turning 28 doesn’t really feel like anything.  Maybe 30s the magic number?

In Regards to the Dark Knight….

…. I will let the rest of the world gush.

I will just say it was so awesome it gave me a headache for the rest of the day.

Only complaint is it maybe is just a little too long by a hair.

When did movies start getting good again?

Dr. Horrible

GO. NOW!

 

*edit*

They’be pulled the vids.  Here they are on Youtube!

Is there such a thing as TOO retro?

I’d like to jump into a small rant about a trend that seems to be picking up speed. As you may (or may not if your driving buses through the wilds of Alaska) Capcom has decided that Mega Man 9 would not be a logical graphical upgrade from the exceptionally awesome Mega Man 8 (You can call it “Handsome Guy”) but be a complete reversal back to 8 bit. Now I know were all a bunch of nostalgic old softies but I got to say, whats going on here? As much as the NES was great I would think that even the biggest fanboy would admit that in the evolution of 2d graphics the thing was primitive, especially when we see how far the medium could be evolved like in Mega Man 8. Now we’re in a situation where nostalgia has blended with this limitation. I don’t know I guess I find a certain lack of genuineness when a system can clearly produce graphics far better then what were seeing. And I certainly don’t mean that it should be yet another bland 2.5d 3d modeled whatever, just the natural evolution of the 2D medium. I think the start of this preview shows it best as Megaman “evolves” through his Megaman 8 sprite and de-volves back to 8 bit.

It also sounds like it’s hard as shit. Just like old times!

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19908

But This! This….. will not do. Just recently announced is “Gradius rebirth” a basically 2D kickback to the Gradius of the NES. I mean maybe i’m jumping the gun but I have been clamoring for a next gen Gradius ever since rumors popped up about a PS3 version. But basically another NES (or maybe a SNES) Gradius? Gradius for NES is the one I liked the least. Especially after just how spectacular Gradius V was and how great it could be if they just kept rolling with that momentum this just sort of sucked the wind out of my expectations.

I will still buy this

http://www.konami.jp/products/dl_wii_gradius_re_ww/

E3 video breakdown!

Man I wish I had more energy for games. If all this stuff came out in the Malden days I think we would all giggle, pee our pants, and die. Even now in the Jaded age this is some pretty sweet sweet stuff. I’ll skip the big, monotone, shoot-em-up stuff and hit the interesting gay art stuff I want to play.

Street Fighter 4

Sheesh this looks pretty good. And by pretty good I mean “Where were you in 2001?”

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19998

Galaga Legions

Oh god. This looks incredibly rad.

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/20105

Animal Crossing: City Folk

Maybe my excitement is just grandfathered in but I’m actually somewhat dissapointed by the graphics on this. It had better have ten billion new items.

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19976

Bionic Commando

Is it possible that i’m willing to forgive the kinda crappy dreadlocks, fishy looking combat and gunplay, and gritty “extreme” makover by how completely amazing the swinging looks. I’d say very.

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/19997

Mad World

Jesus.

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/20100

So Final Fantasy 13 is….

….going Multiplatform. 

*cricket cricket* *shoulder shrug*

Carry on.

Max Payne Trailer looks shockingly not like a total waste of time.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=49099

Ok lets get a few things straight. I’m not sure if this is even something I would see in the theatre or at all but in terms of expectations I have to say for something that what was pretty much non existent on my radar this at least appears competent at worst and actually sort of coolish at best. I have no idea what all the angels are but, I don’t know, something has my attention with this. Is it the tons and tons of shattering glass. Hard Boiled Nostalgia? Someone please talk some sense into me.

Super Stardust HD = the only game with Trophies.

Pretty much the only reason I picked it up.  But after giving it a spin, its like Asteroids was perfectly translated to 3d.  Just like Geometry Wars, it gets pretty addictive and hectic when you have the entire surface of the planet covered in asteroids AND have more asteroids bombarding you from above.

Its $10 on PSN store.  Is it worth that?  Maybe not, but I liked it anyway.

Wario Land: SHAKE!!

Why are we not talking about this?  Just LOOK AT IT!!  Sweet christmas….

*edit*

Link to the Official Wario Land: Shake It!  Japanese Site