To start off david_lck was correct one of the games is Punch-Out!! on the NES. So you must hury young man, choose your prize, or else!:x :P
The second review is Super Punch-Out!!
Now I need one more review to be able to get nominated for the top 100 or 500 reviewers. I hope I can get one, because I really worked hard on all my reviews.
So enjoy! And if you want to leave feedback on my reviews feel free to do so.
Yes, I wan't too active renetly. But I am writing 2 reviews, here's my proof for one of the reviews:
If you can guess what games they are, you win a special prize. You can either get alot of money, or the SUper Secret Awesome Turbo Mega Prize.
Here's the money:
That's alot of money
I'm also almost done with Doom 3. It's okay, just kinda repetitive, but it's still a good alternative to the barage of Nintendo games I've been playing. And no, it's not the slightest bit scary.
I've also found this great movie for $7:
Normally I stick to Marvel Comics. but DC movies are usually great, so for 7 dollars it's very reasonable. The problem though is that the DVD case is not plastic but cardboard, but then again it was $7 dollars.
So have a great day/night.
Over the years I have realized that gaming has become a more serious matter than before. No longer do people judge on how the game is just fun, but rather than how well the production values, graphics, and presentation are. Many developers are now taking this under consideration and work on the production values a lot higher than before. But a problem is that there are less people who are interested in the imagination presented through the games, which is a shame, considering how imagination is what brought gaming to what it was.
Back in the days of the Atari 2600 the developers didn't have much to work with in their hands, all they could make were little shapes of color doing small actions like "shoot" or "punch" and it was apparent that realism is out of the question. However, they did have one thing at hand and that was creativity. Look at this picture:
What does it look to you? If your answer was a man with two ladders then you are wrong. In the minds of these developers it was an adventurer searching for treasure with two passages leading him to the unknown, while surrounded in a fearsome jungle and a huge log that he can't pass through. This is what had people coming for games besides the simple gameplay, the imagination through the graphics. These games are what sparked and fueled our minds wit endless wonders. You had to think beyond of what is presented in front of you.
After the reign of the Atari 2600 and later consoles, a new era of imagination has begun. No longer were you guessing what the graphics were telling you, you had a clear vision of what was presented to you. Basically, what you saw was what you got. This era came in the form of a console called the Nintendo Entertainment System. The imagination used in the console was limitless and it was in the form of the graphics, just like the Atari 2600 but different. The imaginations presented were about plumber consuming mushrooms to turn bigger, jumping on turtles, going through pipes to get closer to a princess he is trying to rescue from a dragon. Sounds stupid, but it was made into one of the most revolutionary games of all time.
On paper, this is the stupidest idea ever
The whole basis of creating and imaginative game is by creating something unreal, something that can only happen through the mind of the gamer playing it, something that will make the gamer think and see the wonders of the product. This was the basis for most of the games, providing a fun and imaginative experience that you can't get from the real world.
What will be in store for us in the future?
This basis was used for many consoles to come including ranging all the way to the 7th generation of consoles. Though many games have no sense of imagination (most sports games), the imagination has always been within the games, much less graphically these days, but more gameplay-wise. Imagination is something that will always be within games, in some form or another. People may ask how? My answer is that games like infamous, Fallout 3, and even Call of Duty 4 may seem "realistic" graphically, but it is oozing in imagination gameplay, story, and setting-wise. Seeing how imagination in gaming has evolved, who knows what will be in store for us in years to come. Thanks for reading, feel free to leave a comment
Ever since I came back from Phoenix I'vebeen pretty inactive on my blogs, so on my behalf I apologize. Also school starts in 2 weeks, so in 2 weeks I'll be shutting down my game systems for a good while, which I hate, but for me my academics come first so no first impressions or reviews will be done. However every month or 2 I'll be posting a blog, which is scarce, but I wish I could write more.
I got a recent purchase yesterday at Best Buy. I went and bought Wii Sports Resort and Terminator 2: Judgement Day for 3 dollars (which was a complete bargain being that it is also the Special Edition DVD). I have to say, watching this moie again, I remembered how incredible it was. If you haven;t seeen it go on and buy it and if you haven't seen the series, I suggest you do (by that I mean watch the first 2, though it is possible starting with the sequel). If I had to give it a rating it would be a 10/10.
In other news I bought Wii Sports Resort yesterday and I have to say it is extremely fun if you're in the right mindset. The minigames are a whole lot deeper spawning from different games within the minigames, to being able to choose stages, and the controls just sweeten the deal. My favorite sports are cycling and sword play (or whatever). Actually the sword combat is prety fun and it has 3 dfferent modes; duel where you try to hit you opponent out of the area into the water; a slicing one, where you try to slice obects at different angles faster than your opponent; and a horde type mode (personal favorite), where you run down and try to defeat a horde of opposing miis. The combat itself is accurate, as is the whole control scheme, so if you are terrible at one game, you can't blame the controls. However the best way to experience this is with a friend, parent, sibling, spouse, whoever. It is just more fun to play with a partner (though you need to buy another Wii Motion Plus Attatchment.
First Impression Score: 8.5
In my other games, I started to play Super Mario RPG again and I have to say it is very fun and I'm at the 4th star, which is about half the game. The combat is pretty fun and I love the RPG elements, but the weird thing is that I generally shy away from turn based RPGs (except Pokemon), so it's a great game on VC
First Impression Score: 9.0
And the last game I'm on is Super Punch-Out!! and I made it to Rick Bruiser. He's hard, not Mike Tyson hard but hard. He's just so unpredictable. But I'll eventually beat this game when I feel like sitting down and having the patience.
Finally I redecorated my profile a bit, but my blog image is having difficulties so I altered it, the changes should happen soon.... As you see I have Mario and Link on top with a black background as my banner and I also put Ryu from Street Fighter and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil (Marvel Vs Capcom 2 look) as my blog image. The images actually took longer as it should of simply because I didn't feel like downloading the Photoshop Trial Edition and having to install it, so I used Microsot Paint and had to color over the non-black areas (trust me there were alot!), but in the end it was all worth it.
So.... have a great day/night!
Recently one of my favorite games of all time came out, Marvel Vs Capcom 2 and was extremely dissppointed hearing that it was not coming to the Wii. However I do not blame Capcom for this for they can't do anything due to Nintendo's file-size restrictions. Here is the article. I really wanted Street Fighter 4 and this, but then again Capcom would have to go through alot of trouble making those, so there's no point. Looks like Jill Valetine, Akuma, Spiderman, Ryu, and Sakura won't be in my near future, since I own pure Nintendo consoles. :( But this is going to be a part of Ehsan Rants!. Yeah! You will get a rant about this! This is ridiculous! Next Blog Ehsan Rants! Part 2: Wii-Ware.
Looks like Wii owners are left in the dust again.... We're not going to be taken for a ride.
UPDATE!: And no I'm not buying Tatsunoko Vs Capcom. And I'm not saying that I lost all hope in Nintendo and they don't care. It's just that they make really stupid mistakes.
Recently I've been going through some Guitar Hero 5 news and I noticed the cover of the game. It was just an amplifier with Guitar Hero 5 printed on it with a list of songs that there is going to be, which in my opinion is a lack of creativity. I don't think Activision cares anymore. All they're doing is putting a random picture with a list of songs and saying, "buy our crap and don't complain" If you're still not convinced look.
Looks okay, not incredible, but it gets the job done.
I actually thought this one is pretty good. It capture's Aerosmith very nice and looks like an appealing cover to look at.
I've seen this somewhere before, but I just can't put my finger on it. Oh wait:
You can't move the people around and change the color from blue to red and call it your own cover
All you guys did was type the guest bands and put the logo on top. Not very creative
The cover just sucks, the end.
My point is that Activision is too busy rushing out the games that they don't even put any effort of making a cover for a Guitar Hero game. Look I just made this in 5 minutes:
Thanks for reading, feel free to comment.
I came back from Phoenix yesterday very tired and I was going to read some of your guy's blogs and comment. I went to the Off Topic Discussion for some reason and found this offending topic. Personally as a Muslim I was offended and decided to ask why he feels like that and it shouldn't be like that. So it kind of turned into a huge back and forth discussion of whether the Religion of Islam is a Religion of hate and violence. I feel that I shouldn't comment any further on that board, but if I feel that Ineed to speak I will. Check out the board and try to read the posts, though it is very long I encourage you to try. I'm usually a person who tries to keep his cool, but I felt that I needed to bring a bit of justice along with a few other users.
My final words in the topic were:
[QUOTE="PrinceofTHEATL"]Whatever im done with this thread
ehsan8888
I'm kinda in a ticked off mood so my next 3 reviews are going to be coming in late. But the next review is going to be Punch-Out!! on the NES. So later.
UPDATE!: Some of my posts did say some stupid things and I was corrected about Mohammad's marriage, but it was because I was very tired and sort of forgot alot of verses I could have stated.
Here is my review for Mario Kart Wii. Enjoy!
Also I'm going to make 3 more reviews, because I want to be part of the top 500 reviewers.
Here are my candidates + Punch-Out!!:
Well I've taken a break from playing games so I started to read a few books along the way. Now I'm trying to finish War And Peace which was indeed a great book. I really haven't had much to do.
Recently I've heard of an old shop in my downtown area that sells alot of old video game and I'm planning to go check it out and see I can find an SNES and pick up slot of games so I can start selling it on my shop at eBay to get a headstart on y college money. I also got a job application for EB Games for salesman or something like that. But that'll be next year so I'll just have to wait.
I also beat Prefect Dark this week and I have to say it was very fun and I liked it better than Goldeneye 007. I polayed the game in short bursts and managed to finish it in 2 weeks. Good game.
On the Wii Shop Channel I downloaded Super Punchout and I have to say it is fun but still hard. I m managed to beat the first two circuits in less than an hout but this guy named Heike Kagero keeps knocking me out with his stupuid flying hair technique. I also find the game to be a bit cheap with the boxers headbutting you and hitting you with their hair. Still pretty fun.
And finally I got tickets to Aerosmith next week in Phoenix, Arizona. I can't wait, Aerosmith is oneof my favorite bands and I could believe that they were going to Phoenix, which is not too ar from New Mexico.
And also I'll stop wrtiting blogs once school starts, which is in a few weeks, so I won't be on Gamespot at all, unless it's a holiday. So that's about it,. Have a great week!
UPDATE!: I'm at Super Macho Man. The problem is that I use my old Punch-Out!! technique and it really makes things harder in this game. And the characters aren't memorable. And where the heck is Don Flamenco!? I love Don Flamenco. I would buy this game for the reason of him dancing to Carmen in 16 bit glory any day.
So I woke up this morning on the couch (a mouse went into my room, so I slept on the couch, not comfortable at all) and I saw that some package arrived. Stupidly I thought "Maybe its that calendar Nintendo sent me instead of the awesome Mario cap or Doc Louis' Punch-Out!!" So I open it and my face brightened up. It was this:
Rocky and Rambo Collection not included, you can find those at you local movie retailer.
and
I watched through the E3 2003 one and it was just awesome on the quality of the footage it was over 3 disks of the 3 conferences, interviews, and gameplay footage. Actually I have to hand it to JodyR for having this contest, it was really nice of her. Thanks!
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