Colossal Holidays
Yes, its been good lately. My lewt has consisted of an Oilers pullover, a Team Canada Hockey jersey, chocolates, comfy socks, Timmies Coffee (always nice over here), scotch and a fair amount of money.
And Shadow of the Colossus for the PS2.
So thanks everyone. You rock.
I'm gonna talk about the game for a bit. Cause it's different. Really different. And I'm a bit of a geek too.
The sense of scale in this game is unreal. See the little guy on the statue's sword? That's you.
So take a game like Prince of Persia, where you are doing a lot of jumping, climbing, shimmying and fighting. Now in this game, you are doing all that on something that is moving. Something that isn't all that happy to have you jumping, climbing, shimmying and fighting all over it. It's a crazy concept, and you'll be spending a lot of time hanging on to the thing as it tries to shake you off. There have been a couple of humorous comics made on the subject of this game as well.
All in all, great stuff though.
Oh yes, and 2 tries and a walkthrough later, I managed to defeat the Ur-Quan in Star Control 2.
Happy days.
posted by CanadianAttackBeaver at 4:47 PM
17 Comments:
Congrats on your victory over the Ur-Quan. They're bad, but you kind of feel sorry for them, right? I mean, because they were enslaved, too.
That colossus game looks interesting, and that comic strip has some good ones..
10:08 PM
That game looks sweet. I can't beleive you're still playing PS2 games though.
Pfffffft.
1:29 AM
Keeeeeevvvviiin. Buy an XBOX 360! Buy it nowwwwww!
You know you want oooooooooone!
3:09 AM
OOooooooOoo!
Damn webpages that block referers!
5:51 AM
Yeah, actually, those poor Ur-Quan had a bit of a rough time. And having to be in constant pain to break free? That must have been the suck. And they were just enslaving others to save them from certain destruction.
I feel sorry for the Colossus's as well. They really didn't DO anything to deserve being stabbed in the head over and over again.
Maybe all video game villians are really just misunderstood.
Maybe we, the players, are the real villians.
And I'll take another look at the ol' 360 when Oblivion comes out. It does look really good. Course, then my parents will get one. And then, will I still want one? Will it still be edgy and cool then?
2:28 PM
Your parents rank fairly high on the PACO (parental coolness) scale, so them buying a XBOX 360 would just mean that they would need to invite me over more often. You know I used to just come over to play your console systems, right?
12:13 AM
Oh yeah, and to raid your parent's pantry.
4:33 AM
that WAS a good pantry. And the Beav was always fairly generous with the cognac and whiskey.
Yes, I'm considering buying a whole new computer to play Oblivion. The NPCs in the game have their own lives. They sweep floors. Did you hear me?
They SWEEP FLOORS!
8:02 AM
Shit, I'm spending the 2 days it takes to reinstall Windowz so I can get Half Life 2 working on my portable.
8:28 AM
Sounds like Ultima 7, in 3d....
7:46 AM
Those Ultima games were fantastic as well, at least the middle ones. Ultima 6 was the best. Once they stopped having turned based combat, it went downhill.
8:45 PM
You know, unlike most people, I actually enjoyed Ultima 8. However, Ultima 9 was a steaming load. They really should have given me my money back for that. It shipped with a ton of bugs, and yeah I just stopped playing it a couple days after I started. It diverged way too much from what Ultima games used to entail.
Too bad they won't likely put anything out worthy of the "Ultima" name anytime soon. The geniuses behind it are gone. At least we were there to experience the original masterpieces.
9:53 PM
Oh yeah, Ultima 6... man, at the time, that game was mindblowing. Even now, it'd be pretty good.
I got pretty far in Ultima Underworld, which was incredible, I thought. Then I got stuck behind some immovable door and had to stop playing.
10:19 PM
Hear hear to Ultima Underworld!!
That game was great, and even the custom mapping tool incorporate within it was pretty sweet. It definitely encouraged exploration and note taking. From figuring out what those lizard men were talking about, to noting the state of switches in various sections of the dungeon.
Even the story suited the game perfectly despite its simplicity: The king has thrown you in the underworld and locked the door. Your only way out is to explore and find one, or return with some evidence that you are innocent (like the girl that was kidnapped).
I accidentally dumped my spider silk in the water and never did get to make those lava proof boots dammit!
3:40 AM
Oh yeah that freaky lizard language was amazing.
I got heebies on the ghoul level. Man, I hate ghouls - they're just sitting around waiting to eat human flesh. I feel sorry for the ones I just robbed in Fallout, though. Their entire city got destroyed by mutants...
7:46 AM
Ultima Underworld was advanced technology wise, even. I remember when the first Doom came out afterwards, with it's faux-3d, and thinking "What's the big deal?"
10:51 PM
I liked the freedom in the game. You could put random runes together and you might make a spell. You could solve problems in different ways, and you could fly over lava.
l-l-lava
2:34 AM
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