I'm in the mood for some nineties one-hit-wonder obscurity, so today I am inflicting Spaceman by Bablyon Zoo upon you. They got a bit popular in Britain after appearing in a Levi's advert. They were pretty much gone as soon as they arrived. The lead singer was called Jas Mann, which is just ridiculously brilliant.
Speaking of lead singers, we played videogames this week, and now we're going to tell you which ones. Hit that wacky jump to find out which ones.
Razak: I started playing Roogoo Twisted Towers as I'm a massive fan of the game. Dug about two worlds into it and I'm having fun, but we'll have to see if it offers up some real challenge. I have to get some friends over to play the multiplayer too as that's really the best part of Roogoo. The new skydiving levels are pretty fun too. Otherwise I've been doing some Conduit action and having fun with it online (yes, fun, Wii, online) and interspersing it with Assassins Creed every once in a while. I need to get back into Flower, Sun and Rain as it has drifted away.
North: Pangya: Fantasy Golf is my jam of jams. Monster Hunter Freedom Unite is my jam that I keep dying in. Quiddich is most definitely not my jam.
Sterling: It's mostly been a DS week for me. I've been stuck with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen on both Xbox 360 and DS. I gave up playing the latter because the horrible attempt at using a home console control scheme is cramping my hands up. I've also been playing Overlord: Minions for our review. As the review says, it's good but frustrating, like most Overlord games.
Treasure World has been a strange experience as I "play" that for review. It's incredibly passive, hard to really call a game, and I am confident I can review it after only seeing it in action for a few minutes. However, it's still weirdly brilliant. It'll be interesting trying to review it.
Otherwise, replaying MGS4 and you should know by now that I played Mega Man for all of three minutes to capture footage of absolute fail. That was surprisingly fun.
Niero: I've been playing a lot of not-MAME on our non-existent office arcade cabinet. I'm particularly fond of this one ridiculous Japanese game called Mikey that operates like a retarded version of Diner Dash set in a classroom where you must ass-headbutt your classmates out of their chairs while avoiding the teacher's beatdowns and eraser-throwing. The game features an 8-bit rendition of the Beatle's Hard Day's Night, which makes the game golden. I can't pass the first stage. It is brutal.
Concelmo: After finishing up my Harry Potter videogame marathon (more on that in an upcoming feature) I continued playing (I guess you could technically say re-re-re-re-re-replaying) Final Fantasy VII on PSN. Love the game; love the characters; love the nostalgia; not a big fan of the really dated controls. Seriously, pushing "up" makes me walk in which direction? :/
Bennett: Replaying Puzzle Quest with the expansion pack, messing with Loom on my PC and squeezing in a little bit of Monkey Island.
Villasenor: My sister and I dusted off our Rescue Rangers cart and tried to play through that for the first time in years. And, even though it's been quite a while since either of us have touched it, things went the way they always do: my sister used up all her lives by level 2 and I ended up finishing the game by myself with a good 15 lives left over. She was not amused.
Aside from that, I replayed Chrono Trigger again, got a bit further in Super Robot Wars OG, and tried out NeoTokyo, which I am horrible at.
Grim: At the suggestion of most of the staff, I checked out a bunch of adventure games like Full Throttle, Loom, Space Quest, and Maniac Mansion. Needless to say, good times were had as a result of these fine products. And when I wasn't playing Dead Space to get my last two Achievements, or learning useless trivia from Scene It? LCA, I was replaying some of my GameCube favorites like Metroid Prime, Rogue Squadron II, and Pikmin. Talk about a fun week of gaming.
Concelmo:FULL THROTTLE! BEST GAME EVER!
Also, Pikmin! Yay!
Ross: Let's see, TF2 as always...I finished the first episode of both Monkey Island and Sam and Max E1. Just started playing Death to Spies 2 for review about an hour ago, and I've been playing a ton of Picross DS. Got a little BlazBlue in last night, and I imagine I'll be playing a whole bunch of stuff this afternoon since I'm going to Dexter's.
Aziz: I've been jamming out to this all day:
Come on run away You don't have to stay We're nearly outta time But you're doin' fine So stay on track And don't look back Just feel the pace Come on now race Everybody's Super Sonic Racing Try to keep your feet right on the ground When you're Super Sonic Racing There's no time to look around We're just Super Sonic Racing Running to the point of no return Everybody's Super Sonic Racing C'mon let the fire burn
Everybody's Super Sonic Racing Try to keep your feet right on the ground When you're Super Sonic Racing There's no time to look around We're just Super Sonic Racing Running to the point of no return Everybody's Super Sonic Racing C'mon let the fire burn
Don't you know We really have to go To a place Where you can feel my heart just race (Yeah, yeah)
Everybody's Super Sonic Racing Try to keep your feet right on the ground When you're Super Sonic Racing There's no time to look around We're just Super Sonic Racing (Super Sonic Racing) Running to the point of no return Everybody's Super Sonic Racing C'mon let the fire burn
Everybody, everybody, everybody Everybody, everybody, everybody Let's go Super Sonic Racing Everybody, everybody, everybody, (oh yeah) Let's go (Ooh, yeah, ooh, yeah) Super Sonic Racing Let's go C'mon c'mon yeah C'mon c'mon yeah C'mon, c'mon Let's go Everybody, everybody, everybody Yeah everybody Let's go Super Sonic Racing Oh, yeah Super Sonic Racing (Let's go) Yeah Everybody, everybody Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let's go Everybody Everybody Everybody
Davis: Funnily enough, I actually played Sonic R this week. :)
DMV: Been playing the hell out of Cross Edge, EA Sports' Active, BlazBlue, Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman!, and of course Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2. Somehow I'll get through them all...
Holmes: Bit.Trip Core ate my brain on Monday, so Io spent the rest of the week playing relatively mindless games. Did catch some July bugs and fish in Animal Crossing: City Folk, played The Conduit online, and went back to Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop to try and unlock some secret missions. Totally stuck right now on getting an "S" rank on a mission called "The Drunkard" where you have to rescue a drunk man from being eaten by zombies. Despite the fact that I have the heated up frying pan and the mega buster, I can still only get an "A" on it.
Maybe after my brain grows back a bit, I'll be able to pull it off.
Gutierrez: Gaming on Fight Night 4, I'm obsessed with freaking boxing. Still itching to final finish Dead Space and pick up where I left off on Silent Hill Homecoming. Ugh, so behind!
Zimmerman: You're behind? I just put in Lost Planet for the first time this weekend and I really regret not having played it sooner. It's going to take me forever to go all the way through but I'm really impressed with the gameplay.
I've also been playing BlazBlue and Afro Samurai on the PS3 and Infernal: Hell's Vengeance (still!) and Rock Band on the 360.
Chester: A bunch of iPhone games, including Doom Resurrection. I'm trying to determine if that one is worth $9.99, and so far I'm not convinced. That doesn't mean it's not technically impressive, and that the core gameplay and iPhone control-scheme doesn't work incredibly well. It's just that even on a phone, the Doom series just doesn't have enough to do to keep it feeling fresh, and it doesn't help that the first four or five levels (of eight) look nearly identical. Maybe this engine with the fun and (kind of silly) Doom RPG mechanics might be fun... and worth $9.99.
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I spent this week playing FEDA: The Emblem of Justice, Harvey Birdman, 1 vs 100, and Infinite Undiscovery. so, 4 fun but completely mediocre games entertained me this week.
In response to Conrad, I actually just recently picked up Lost Planet since it was only $5 on Goozex, but I had the opposite reaction. The controls are loose and weird, and it hasn't done anything yet that has wowed me. I'm told that I just need to get further into the game. We'll see, I guess.
I just finished Plants Vs. Zombies and Mirror's Edge, and now I'm playing Dead Space. Yay for new decent computer! Dead Space is really nice, although the camera can get kinda awkward at times.
Also, finished Super Metroid the thousandth time on the Virtual Console.
BlazBlue! I've been playing significant amounts of that, and loving every second.
Also been going back to Burnout Paradise a lot, working on challenges with my friends. Played a tiny bit of Star Wars: Force Unleashed too, mostly because I just wanted to be a badass and mow my way through hordes of stormtroopers. I was not disappointed.
I've been without teh intarwebs these last couple of weeks. So here's a summary of what I've been playing:
WEEK 1:
Completed Advance Wars: Dark Conflict.
Completed Pikmin 2.
Completed Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Completed Rhythm Paradise.
Played (the shitty) Drawn to Life.
Played Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Started playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
WEEK 2: Played Chrono Trigger.
Played The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
THIS WEEK: Completed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Topher was right!).
Played Chrono Trigger.
Played LittleBigPlanet.
Started playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
Superb! It may not have a super hard final level, but the ending was certainly one of the most satisfying things I've ever experienced in a videogame! All those mysteries that where revealed in such a short time; who would've guessed!?
Having money again has helped put me back into the game-o-sphere: I beat Gears of War 2 which was made thousands of years ago, I think. I sped through the first episode of the new Monkey Island game. It's really great, but I hate waiting for the new episodes. Also, I finally finished up Valkyria Chronicles! Great games all around for me! :D
I'm still in the 'awkward discovery phase' with my PS3 so I spent a good amount of time with that. Games I spent time with on that this week include more MGS4 and LBP, some Motorstorm 2, and a small amount of time with Disgaea 3. Are there any other games that scream 'must-play' for the PS3, aside from the obvious ones like Killzone 2 and Uncharted?
Also, I had like, four Rock Band parties this week, with a little interspersed Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. You know what's epic? An entire room of people singing "Freebird". Speaking of GH: Smash Hits, I've played that just about every day at work (It's been a very slow week) and I have to say I'm getting really tired of that game. So much wasted potential, that one. Maybe I'd get a little more longevity out of it if it had MORE THAN 48 SONGS IN THE DAMN GAME. Sixty dollars? I'd pay thirty for it at the most.
Mario and Luigi RPG- Partners in Time. Just as awesome as the first one. At first the battling with the babies was a little confusing cause there was more to press, but now it's turning out good.
BlazBlue, Tiger Woods 10(Wii), and surprisingly Forza 2. I couldn't have given half a balls less about that game when it came with my 360, but it's pretty frigg'n awesome. I rape tarmac with my audi.
Wouldn't hold your breath, if you don't like it now I'm pretty sure you wont like any of the rest. I just couldn't for the life of me get into it for any prolonged period of time, even the multiplayer. I would like it for a while and then get pissed off with the controls and stop playing, for me every good thing in the game was counterbalanced by something that bugged the hell out of me. Very average game in my opinion.
As for what I've been playing, I just started playing City of Villains after a 2/3 month break and I'm totally hooked again. I got a shit load of games to get through but can't drag myself away O_o
Honestly... I don't know what I've been playing. Between looking for an apartment, taekwon do, trying and failing to sleep, and reading (almost finished my first book in over a year :S), I've only played a bit of TF2, Audiosurf, and the Trine demo.
I did quite like the Trine demo, but unless it's a massive game I don't think it's worth the $30 price tag. Audiosuft however is just ridiculously addictive. ^_^
bloodbowl on psp for me- it is harder than I was expecting, though I shoulda expected it since the wh40k tbs had a learning curve in the game like this _/
also: it's been forever since I heard this song
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Good luck with DR: CTYD Holmes. I really need to get that megabuster one of these days.
Also, finished Super Metroid the thousandth time on the Virtual Console.
Man, I love vacation.
Also been going back to Burnout Paradise a lot, working on challenges with my friends. Played a tiny bit of Star Wars: Force Unleashed too, mostly because I just wanted to be a badass and mow my way through hordes of stormtroopers. I was not disappointed.
Battlefield 1943
Lots of FF for me: XII, IV, and IV: the college years
Also found out that L4D makes a great drinking game.
WEEK 1:
Completed Advance Wars: Dark Conflict.
Completed Pikmin 2.
Completed Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Completed Rhythm Paradise.
Played (the shitty) Drawn to Life.
Played Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Started playing The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
WEEK 2:
Played Chrono Trigger.
Played The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
THIS WEEK:
Completed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Topher was right!).
Played Chrono Trigger.
Played LittleBigPlanet.
Started playing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.
What did you think of Layton?
Superb! It may not have a super hard final level, but the ending was certainly one of the most satisfying things I've ever experienced in a videogame! All those mysteries that where revealed in such a short time; who would've guessed!?
Also, I had like, four Rock Band parties this week, with a little interspersed Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. You know what's epic? An entire room of people singing "Freebird". Speaking of GH: Smash Hits, I've played that just about every day at work (It's been a very slow week) and I have to say I'm getting really tired of that game. So much wasted potential, that one. Maybe I'd get a little more longevity out of it if it had MORE THAN 48 SONGS IN THE DAMN GAME. Sixty dollars? I'd pay thirty for it at the most.
who the hell are all these new staff members? ;\
should really introduce themselves on the home page before posting stories all willy nilly.
I've been playing:
Mario and Luigi RPG- Partners in Time. Just as awesome as the first one. At first the battling with the babies was a little confusing cause there was more to press, but now it's turning out good.
Apollo Justice (hot)
Forza 2
I just have 6 and 2 to play and then I've played all 12 main FFs. Finally!
Wouldn't hold your breath, if you don't like it now I'm pretty sure you wont like any of the rest. I just couldn't for the life of me get into it for any prolonged period of time, even the multiplayer. I would like it for a while and then get pissed off with the controls and stop playing, for me every good thing in the game was counterbalanced by something that bugged the hell out of me. Very average game in my opinion.
As for what I've been playing, I just started playing City of Villains after a 2/3 month break and I'm totally hooked again. I got a shit load of games to get through but can't drag myself away O_o
I did quite like the Trine demo, but unless it's a massive game I don't think it's worth the $30 price tag. Audiosuft however is just ridiculously addictive. ^_^
My love of Shampoo's one and only hit isn't even ironic. Love that shit.
Gotta catch'em all!
also: it's been forever since I heard this song