I'm really happy to see now that many gaming publishers are starting to now group games together as a new collection bundle for the current gen consoles. This now means that we can buy our favourite last-gen games for our current gen!
So happy!
Peace out Panda Style!
If anybody has asked or knows me they would have found out that I am a current Media Studies student and also going to pursue a career in the Media industry. This being said means that you end up watching random (and many a time forgeign films that are subtitled though, thank god!). I love media and especially the study of films so my teacher lent me a couple of films to watch. The first being "Let the right one in". If you haven't heard of this film already it is the original version of a film called "Let me in". The film was made in Sweden. I won't tell you the plot to give anything away but all I say is you HAVE to watch this movie if you are a horror nut!
The other film that my teacher lent me was called "City of God". She told me that this is her favourite movie of all time, it is a foreign subtitled film etc. I didn't think much of this as, YES! I like a good film but has never really been appealled by foreign styles of movies..oh how I was wrong! This film is amazing, easily one of the greatest films I have seen. Again I won't give any of the plot but if you haven't seen this film already then you MUST see it no matter what. It portrays the truth of gangs so it is very explicit but this shouldn't put you off!
Peace out Panda time!
Great start to 2011, GET IN YAY!
only problem in I have shed loads of work to do and lots of songs to write, I am one busy person now :(
Gamespot need to add more content and reviews etc surrounding the Wii. I have recently started playing my Wii more often and really want to read up and find out about more things that are coming out for it etc instead of reading the same old day-in day-out.
Point Made.
After being off to a bad start last week with only 2 comments (3 including mine!) I do urge you to tell your friends to add me and read my blog to help my new fun quizzy gamey thingy to do well and have at least FIVE comments! :D
And the winner from last week was....Nintendo are their amazing Wii. It only had two votes and one of them was mine.
This week I am going to keep on the console wars idea and look at strong running game series on each of the consoles. As I am going to do this from personal experience I do apologise now before hand if I do not choose the right/best gaming series on each console.
First up
Nintendo and the Legend of Zelda series (Yes not Mario and my reasons why!)
The Legend of Zelda series is one of the biggest and well known gaming series of all time. It all started in 1986 with its first release "The Legend of Zelda". The series made a massive impact with its new style of gameplay. In its day it set the bar very high for the action adventure genre and it is still keeping high standards now. I understand that for Nintendo a lot more people would have chosen their favourite plumber "Mario" and his menagerie of games but I believe Zelda to be better for a number of reasons. Firstly Mario didn't define the gaming world with his first gaming appearance (Donkey Kong) and even when he did appear in his first self titled game, it wasn't the game that made the impact, but the character. Mario has starred in over 200 video games to date (both leading and cameo roles) but they have spanned across different genres, whereas the Zelda series has stuck to its roots and stayed in the same genre time and time again. I just believe Zelda to be a pioneer of gaming and has changed gaming history, only the character of Mario has changed history more, not the game (again just my opinion please argue against if you wish). If you believe Zelda to be the best gaming series of the three please vote for it by commenting :D.
Sony and the Gran Turismo series
Taking a different turn in genre, I decided to choose Gran Turismo as the Sony gaming series. Gran Turismo has been there since the start of Sony's entry into the gaming series and since the first release of Gran Turismo it has been a highly acclaimed driving series. With the release of Gran Turismo 5 in the last week on the ps3, you can still see that the series is going strong. It is seen as the best, and most realistic driving series of all time (closely followed by Forza on the Xbox 360). As well as winning awards and being help in acclaim, the GT series has also had its fair share of criticism. It was harnessed many-a-time for taking the fun out of driving games and needs to be more arcade fun. Now obviously these people didn't read the box right where it says "The Real Driving Simulator". Gran Turismo has, and always will be, the pinacle of driving games. It hasn't changed up to this very moment and probably will never change apart from the immense graphical changes and the roster of cars and courses. If you believe this series is the best of what Sony can offer then please vote for it.
Finally... Microsoft and the Halo series
The Halo series was considered (at one point) the unbeatable game. Almost everything (mainly shooters) were always spoke about surrounding the question "is it a Halo beater?" which for nearly all of them the answer was no. The Halo franchise is also seen as the best series to come out on Microsoft's console with all the main trilogy and Halo reach all being award winning games. In my opinion I was never really taken back by the Halo series (not to say I don't believe they deserved all the hype given). I found them to be quite simplistic but I believe this simplicity is the key to everybody liking the series. All of the Halo franchise games (apart from Halo Wars) received at least 9/10 by Gamespot. The scores and audience response alone show that this series is obviously the greatest from Microsoft, if not the greatest ever? If you believe this to be true then please vote for it!
There you go, three choices to choose from. All have been chosen from my opinion and for next week I will even take requests on what subject I should base the three choices around!
VOTE NOW PEOPLE!
I thought I would try a little experiment that hopefully would take off with people making a small decision and seeing what would be the final outcome. Every week I will add a blog post with 3 options and simply all people do is comment on which one they believe is the best in their opinion and why. I will reveal the winner of each week on the next blog so people can comment right up until the very last day.
As it is the first week of me trying this I thought I would keep it simple and topical.....
Which one of current motion sensor technology is the best?
Lets start off with the father of the three, the Nintendo Wii. The Nintendo Wii started the craze of using motion sensor technology for the current gen consoles. Motion sensor technology had been used before, such as the PlayStation Eye-toy, but the difference was the Wii used it as its main controls for the console, not as an add on. Nintendo wanted to bring in more family fun and add a third dimension(literally) on to the way people were playing games. Withboth classic Nintendo titles such as Zelda (you get to wield the sword yourself!) and Mario and newer titles such as Wii sports and the Call of Duty series, Nintendo really went all out to appeal to all audiences of gaming, from young to old and casual gamers to hardcore, the Wii does really offer every form of gaming for anybody. Recently the addition of the "Wii Plus" as an add onfor remotes gives the controllers movement an even more realistic than it had before by really tightening the X, Y and Z axis for the controller. Apart from the graphics, in most people's eyes the Wii offers the best motion technology by giving a full package of games and fun.
Next to look at is the PlayStation Move. Probably the only different between the PS Move and the Nintendo Wii is that the PS Move is an add on for the Ps3 and not the complete control system for the console. At first glance the PS Move controller is just a smooth Wii remote with extra buttons and an analog stick in place instead of a D-Pad. As the Wii remote has the additional controller, the Nunchuck, the PS Move controller has an additional controller, the Navigation Controller. The Navigation controller has less buttons and also an analog stick and a D-Pad. The PS Move works very similar to the Wii. It has motion sensor technology both through movement (using a similar sort of axis to the Wii remote) and the point and click way (using the Eye-toy). The content availablefor the PS Move is quick sparse at the moment as it has only recently come out. The biggest selling game for the Move is PlayStation Sport Champions (something very similar to Wii sports), which gets you to grips with using the Move controllers. There are other games such as FIGHT and Heavy Rain but nothing that stands out as being genius using motion technology. You've probably noticed a slight trend in that the PS Move is slightly similar to the Wii, but that's just my opinion no?
The most stand alone in touch technology today is the Microsoft Kinect. Kinect has gone one step further by using the motto "You are the controller". Kinect works in a very similar way to the Eye-toy but many times its superior. Kinect uses both sound and movement for you to use your body to move things around the screen and make things happen. Kinect is a sensor bar that sits on top (or below) your TV and lets you (literally) become the controller. Unfortunately I haven't had the first hand experience I would have liked playing Kinect to say whether or not I believe it is good. From what I have seen and the content that Kinect has, I believe it to be the most dominant on the market today.
In my opinion the PS Move is the loser in this battle. Copying from Nintendo isn't the greatest idea as Nintendo have both better games and better technology that put the PS Move face first into the ground. Kinect seems the most promising as it seems the most user friendly. Anybody can wave their arms about in front of a TV and move as they are told. As long as the Kinect has family fun games, it will keep the Xbox 360 the most enjoyable console out there. The only downfall to Kinect is the price. The price of Kinect is about the same price as the Nintendo Wii (doing my own research this is the case in most shops). Unless you already have an Xbox 360, the Wii would be the safest bet to come by.
My rant isnow over. As the title suggests, you decide who is the winner. Your opinion mattersmost in deciding who will prevail as champion of the motion technology!
I've realised that I've been gone a while and quite inactive but now I'M BACK!
It's good to finally be back and talking to fellow GameSpot(ers). I'm not going to discuss why I was gone as it would bore you all to tears.
I feel I've been gone for so long (which wasn't actually THAT long) that I'm having to adjust to everything again. I've been gaming a lot more and having really good fun with older games that I overlooked on their first release. I've also introduced my girlfriend to online gaming (GtaIV free mode) but it's still good to have somebody to play co-op things with such as Borderlands and Saints Row 2. You know games that hardly anybody plays anymore lol.
Well I'm back and here to stay (again) can't wait to get stuck in again!
Peace Out!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIXi4FM4MVg
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My band are on the rise...having completed our first major songs we are ready to take on the world! XD
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