Here's a bit of a catch up on all of the Halo 4 news that's made itself known on the internet in the latter bit of September. All of these Halo 4 videos don't actually have gameplay, but there's definitely news there to be listened to in a very easy-to-listen format. Enjoy!
Halo 4 - Valhalla returns | Valhalla Remake | Ragnarok leaked | Mantis gameplay leaked
Halo 4 - Flood Playable in multiplayer war games infection (flood) mode!
More Halo 4 Gameplay news to be added soon!
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Thursday, 20 September 2012
The best handheld game, ever.
Alright, that's a bold statement to make, I agree. Maybe it's not the absolute best handheld game out there, but it's definitely high up there on the 'great games' scale, and funnily enough it's not widely recognised by people as such.
What is this game, you ask? One of the Mario games? Nope. Sonic? Nope. Metal Gear Solid on the PSP? Nope.
Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction on the Gameboy Advance.
I'm guessing that's either a look of confusion or disgust on your face right now, in which case - shame on you! RWED on the GBA (acronyms LOL) is quite frankly one of the best games of it's era, and even today too! Whilst it's definitely not the best game it could have been, RWED definitely encompasses everything a Robot Wars game should be. On top of that, despite a very small number of modes the game still manages to be entertaining to this day, 10 years later or something - that's an achievement in itself.
Of course, being on GBA it does have its graphical limitations. And by graphical limitations, I mean it's about as soothing on the eyes as shards of glass. Don't get me wrong, it's not the worst out there but it's certainly not the best and in any case the robots at least look recognisable. It's not beautiful, but pretty much full 3D with a damn good physics engine on the Gameboy Advance is incredible for the time. Incredible, I say!
Most of my sheer delight playing this game may come from the nostalgia of Robot Wars (I still watch it daily!) but I have to say it's even great fun for people who know nothing about Robot Wars, sure you won't get the whole 'You unlocked Chaos 2' thing (2 time Grand Champion) but it'll still be a blast to play through nevertheless. You'll blast through said game in an afternoon if you're half decent at it, but the replayability is what really draws me back to this game. The fact that you'll never meet a made-up robot (as you would in the console games) in any of the modes minus multiplayer if you still have a link cable, or indeed build your own and enter it in the main contests, means that everything just works. It feels like the Robot Wars game that Robot Wars should always have had.
Especially compared to the console ports, the game is incredible - I can't sing it's praises enough! If you go back and play the old console/PC games now, you'll know that they're buggy, don't work right, look silly... granted, they're fun but a true representation of the show they aren't. The GBA counterpart isn't either to some extent, with no visible damage on robots unless you count a certain polygon glitch and no mid-round fixing of the machines. As a concept and a game it works fantastically well, but just imagine if someone were to develop a combat robotics game using a proper physics engine for the PC...
Now THAT would definitely be worth throwing some money at!
-Flag Captured
What is this game, you ask? One of the Mario games? Nope. Sonic? Nope. Metal Gear Solid on the PSP? Nope.
Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction on the Gameboy Advance.
I'm guessing that's either a look of confusion or disgust on your face right now, in which case - shame on you! RWED on the GBA (acronyms LOL) is quite frankly one of the best games of it's era, and even today too! Whilst it's definitely not the best game it could have been, RWED definitely encompasses everything a Robot Wars game should be. On top of that, despite a very small number of modes the game still manages to be entertaining to this day, 10 years later or something - that's an achievement in itself.
Of course, being on GBA it does have its graphical limitations. And by graphical limitations, I mean it's about as soothing on the eyes as shards of glass. Don't get me wrong, it's not the worst out there but it's certainly not the best and in any case the robots at least look recognisable. It's not beautiful, but pretty much full 3D with a damn good physics engine on the Gameboy Advance is incredible for the time. Incredible, I say!
Most of my sheer delight playing this game may come from the nostalgia of Robot Wars (I still watch it daily!) but I have to say it's even great fun for people who know nothing about Robot Wars, sure you won't get the whole 'You unlocked Chaos 2' thing (2 time Grand Champion) but it'll still be a blast to play through nevertheless. You'll blast through said game in an afternoon if you're half decent at it, but the replayability is what really draws me back to this game. The fact that you'll never meet a made-up robot (as you would in the console games) in any of the modes minus multiplayer if you still have a link cable, or indeed build your own and enter it in the main contests, means that everything just works. It feels like the Robot Wars game that Robot Wars should always have had.
Especially compared to the console ports, the game is incredible - I can't sing it's praises enough! If you go back and play the old console/PC games now, you'll know that they're buggy, don't work right, look silly... granted, they're fun but a true representation of the show they aren't. The GBA counterpart isn't either to some extent, with no visible damage on robots unless you count a certain polygon glitch and no mid-round fixing of the machines. As a concept and a game it works fantastically well, but just imagine if someone were to develop a combat robotics game using a proper physics engine for the PC...
Now THAT would definitely be worth throwing some money at!
-Flag Captured
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Tiger Bread? You're having a Giraffe, right?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16812545Not all news these days is bad news, sometimes you get those genuinely funny bits of news like this. Basically, the retail chain Sainsbury's recieved a letter, saying "Why is tiger bread called tiger bread? It should be called giraffe bread. Love from Lily Robinson age 3 and 1/2".
This made me chuckle. It proves that not all major retailers are heartless, money-grabbing organisations. Well, it might still be, but it just shows that they can have a laugh every once in a while.
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Flag vs the Media
You know Britain? Yeah, the place that's just had the riots. Well, the media have had an absolute field day with it, and guess what's to blame. Videogames - clearly, every single person who went out and destroyed stuff because they felt like it and wanted to loot stuff plays video games like Modern Warfare and Grand Theft Auto and they all simultaneously went out to be violent at the same time. No, that's nonsense. Videogames have NOTHING to do with this at all - it's simply people being idiots because they're opportunists.
It would be brilliant if some of these newspapers actually read this, because it's discrimination against a certain group of people by saying that, or even suggesting that videogamers are violent people. Because of this, there's people that now avoid me if I wear a 'space invaders' shirt simply because I play videogames and will therefore take great pleasure in punching them square in the face, except I won't because that's just a preconception you're getting in people's heads.
But still, I could condemn the papers too much. I would leave it here for good, but it's inevitable The Daily Mail's going to go bash another group of people soon, so yeah...
It would be brilliant if some of these newspapers actually read this, because it's discrimination against a certain group of people by saying that, or even suggesting that videogamers are violent people. Because of this, there's people that now avoid me if I wear a 'space invaders' shirt simply because I play videogames and will therefore take great pleasure in punching them square in the face, except I won't because that's just a preconception you're getting in people's heads.
But still, I could condemn the papers too much. I would leave it here for good, but it's inevitable The Daily Mail's going to go bash another group of people soon, so yeah...
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
I condemn a riot.
Alright, this has gone on far too long now. These riots are quite frankly ridiculous, but to be honest, I could see something like that happening with the most senior people in our Government on holiday at the SAME TIME.
David Cameron's come back home from his holiday and seems pretty annoyed that he's had to come back, and whilst I can understand why, he shouldn't have put himself forward to be prime minister if he wasn't prepared to do what he has had to do.
These rioters are terrorists. They're destroying homes, shops, cities, and so on - They deserve no sympathy whatsoever and need locking up for life - I've seen people on the news who've lost everything because of these idiots, and in all honesty, I think we need stronger security measures. Yes, get riot police to block them and try and get arrests made, but this is an attack, not a bit of an out-of-hand protest. If the rioters aren't taught a lesson, they'll try and get away with more and more, and eventually there'll be something close to a war going off, if they aren't stopped completely and swiftly.
To be honest, I hope the rioters grow the hell up and turn themselves in.
David Cameron's come back home from his holiday and seems pretty annoyed that he's had to come back, and whilst I can understand why, he shouldn't have put himself forward to be prime minister if he wasn't prepared to do what he has had to do.
These rioters are terrorists. They're destroying homes, shops, cities, and so on - They deserve no sympathy whatsoever and need locking up for life - I've seen people on the news who've lost everything because of these idiots, and in all honesty, I think we need stronger security measures. Yes, get riot police to block them and try and get arrests made, but this is an attack, not a bit of an out-of-hand protest. If the rioters aren't taught a lesson, they'll try and get away with more and more, and eventually there'll be something close to a war going off, if they aren't stopped completely and swiftly.
To be honest, I hope the rioters grow the hell up and turn themselves in.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Back/rant.
So yeah, I took a bit of a break from updating this. There are many reasons why, but to be honest, I really wasn't motivated with anything and so this blog had to stop. For a bit. There was one reason why this all happened, but it quickly progressed into another, but later turned out I was overreacting about said thing (I think so, anyway...)
But yeah, I just felt like I needed to catch up on the rants, so here's a selection of 'tweet rants' that I've had ready to go for the last few days on twitter/wherever, but guess what? That went the way of the Blog too.
Duke Nukem Forever has been released, and it looks a good game. What I hate is the reception it's had - there's no way possible it could live up to the hype, but stop bashing it because it's retro, or it's not enough like Call of Duty. Of course it isn't - that's the whole point. It's designed to be fun, not realistic. And completely realistic games are awful anyway, like those 'realistic' sports games. WHY?! Just go and play the sport fo reals if you really want an authentic sports experience...
Lag switchers, Turtle Beach headset users and Modded controller users - go away. Nobody likes you in the gaming world. Yes, Headsets as well. I'm sorry if I've just bought a £45 game on a £200 console with a £40 a year membership, I don't really want to pay another £150 to be able to do better at a game, and nobody else should have that privilege either.
Alright then, in the next Call of Duty, make Headsets still effective, but I want to buy constant radar and the best guns straight away. And all the people who don't buy them have to lose all the time. That's the same thing.
School. Enough said.
Exam boards, why are they so vague with questions? I've had History today, and a question went 'What does Source X say about the popularity of Jazz Music' and the Source literally only said it became more popular. Great, one mark. What about the other 3? Fail.
And don't even get me started on Religious Studies. "Christians should look after the world. Do you agree? Give an opposite view referring to Christianity."
Erm... What? I've got to suggest that Christians should leave the world alone for it to descend into ruin when nobody cares about pollution? HOW DO I ARGUE AGAINST THE STATEMENT?!?!
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But yeah, I just felt like I needed to catch up on the rants, so here's a selection of 'tweet rants' that I've had ready to go for the last few days on twitter/wherever, but guess what? That went the way of the Blog too.
Duke Nukem Forever has been released, and it looks a good game. What I hate is the reception it's had - there's no way possible it could live up to the hype, but stop bashing it because it's retro, or it's not enough like Call of Duty. Of course it isn't - that's the whole point. It's designed to be fun, not realistic. And completely realistic games are awful anyway, like those 'realistic' sports games. WHY?! Just go and play the sport fo reals if you really want an authentic sports experience...
Lag switchers, Turtle Beach headset users and Modded controller users - go away. Nobody likes you in the gaming world. Yes, Headsets as well. I'm sorry if I've just bought a £45 game on a £200 console with a £40 a year membership, I don't really want to pay another £150 to be able to do better at a game, and nobody else should have that privilege either.
Alright then, in the next Call of Duty, make Headsets still effective, but I want to buy constant radar and the best guns straight away. And all the people who don't buy them have to lose all the time. That's the same thing.
School. Enough said.
Exam boards, why are they so vague with questions? I've had History today, and a question went 'What does Source X say about the popularity of Jazz Music' and the Source literally only said it became more popular. Great, one mark. What about the other 3? Fail.
And don't even get me started on Religious Studies. "Christians should look after the world. Do you agree? Give an opposite view referring to Christianity."
Erm... What? I've got to suggest that Christians should leave the world alone for it to descend into ruin when nobody cares about pollution? HOW DO I ARGUE AGAINST THE STATEMENT?!?!
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Tuesday, 7 June 2011
BRB
Stuff's going off, lost motivation to do this, etc. etc.
So I'll be back in a few days once it's all blown over - I get over things easy.
So I'll be back in a few days once it's all blown over - I get over things easy.
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