Monday, Monday…
1. After watching the Kansas City Royals play the Brewers this weekend, I have no idea how their coaching staff hasn’t been fired. There were so many base running mistakes made by that team that I was amazed that any of the players involved in them had played professional baseball before. Ugh. Maybe that team will get better in time, but whew… that was tough to watch.
2. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but we’re rapidly approaching our 500,000 visitor to the blog. It’s a pretty cool achievement for the site and we’re working on a few things to add to what we’ve already got going here. For a hint… take a look at my email contact on the right side.
3. Based on Dan’s recommendation, and the fact that I couldn’t find any other games to try out on Gamefly, I rented TMNT for the 360. Man, that was an easy 1,000 points. 4 1/2 hours and the game was done and all achievements were completed. Not a bad brawler, but some of the jumping portions of the game were very poorly done. You could count on at least one or two jumps per level where you would die the first time, because you had no idea where you had to jump to next. Frustrating to be sure, but there were plenty of checkpoints to move things along quickly.
4. I know I’m a huge Nintendo fan, and this won’t come as a shock, but the new screens of Metroid Prime 3 that were in the most recent Play magazine were pretty damn impressive looking. Easily the best looking Wii game, thus far, from those screenshots.
5. Big week, no pun intended. I’m very interested to see how well The Bigs turns out. Especially with the Wii controls. Some of the previews have mentioned some issues that they would like to see fixed, which isn’t a good sign because if the code they have for previews isn’t working right… my guess is that it won’t be fixed by now. We’ll see soon enough.
6. Memo to Dan, Ratatouille is probably going to be the best Mouse/Chef simulation on the market.
7. What is it about ‘The Darkness’ that has so many people interested in it? The videos I’ve seen just look ultra violent and not much fun. Maybe I’m just getting old though.
June 25th, 2007 at 8:45 am
My guess at why “The Darkness” is popular is twofold. The first is that it is based on a comic book whose readers could correlate into game players. The second is that it is the next game from Starbreeze, the makers of the Chronicles of Riddick game that many people fell head over heels for.
June 25th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Yeah, I have Chronicles of Riddick, but have never played it…. go figure.
Also, I haven’t been interested in comics in about 10 years, so I guess that’s why I’m so out of the loop on it.
Thanks for the info.