Wednesday notes
- Absolutely HUGE hockey day today. U.S. versus Switzerland at 2 CST and Canada v. Russia at 6 p.m. CST.
I'll be covering the two games tomorrow in my last test show before going live daily (on Monday) at www.sgmore.com. I'm still not sure how effective Twitter is for such a thing, but you can follow me at sgm_glen. It still makes me feel dirty to say that....
- Tomorrow is the MLB2K10 conference call and I'm curious to hear more about how the check swing will be re-implemented into play. Baseball fans know that the check swing is a major part of the game. Hell, the petition to the 1st or 3rd base ump happens at least 5 to 10 times a game. To see something like that removed was disheartening. I'm just curious how it will be re-added and how they can prevent it from impacting the gameplay.
I'm planning on playing the demo a few more times tonight to see if I still enjoy it as much as I did last night.
- Anxiously awaiting my copy of Heavy Rain from Gamefly. I can't wait to start spending time with that. It is the first game in a long time that I cannot wait to play.. and then play again to see how my choices in the game will effect the gameplay later on.
- As far as games that I've been playing, I started up Halo Wars the other day and just don't know if I can really commit to it. RTS games on a console just don't have the controls that I can live with for it. I feel like I'm doing so much time panning back and forth, whereas on the PC, I just click on a part of the map and I'm where I want to be. I'm only a few missions in, so I'll give it a bit more time before hanging it up.
- Also, on a lark, I loaded the original Command and Conquer on my Windows 7 laptop. I was amazed to see it work as well as it did. It's been years since I looked at that title and it was funny to jump back to an old RTS like that and see how far they have come in the last decade.
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Dan:
February 25th, 2010 - 12:08
I put in about 2 hours into Heavy Rain last night. Not sure what to think at this point. It certainly is a different experience to what we’re used to. I just don’t know if I was having as much “fun” with it as I do when I play a good game that I like. I wasn’t bored, but I wasn’t having a blost either. It was unique and the narrative seems interesting, but it is not so much a game as an interactive storybook from what I can tell.
I did find the voice acting far too weak for a game that depends almost entirely on the narrative. Uncharted 2 and Mass Effect 1&2 have far more natural sounding dialog and delivery in my opinion. And that is a big negative in a game like this. Not all of it is awful, but enough to make me cringe at times.
February 25th, 2010 - 12:15
Blost? I meant blast obviously. Or did I?