ok. Ive been working on this for a while. But im starting a new account on gamespot. ditching this one.
why, because im on too many websites and have too many accounts. this is zero hour so to speak and i want to refind a focus.
Ill post up the new account details for anyone who may be interested , but This is it.
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I never understood the problem people had with rayman.
I love rayman. Ok so love is a strong word. but I very much like him. The big complaint was that he had no character. But from what I could see he had plenty.
Rayman. What must but the most ported game in modern history . Well of the cd generation anyway.
It's not exactly a groundbreaking game. But even for its time it looked lovely. The world full of colour and charcter.
Rayman 2. One of the greatest 3d platformers ever formed. Better before it was ported to ps and ps2 and given English voices mind, it had far more charm without them.
The game was deep, inventive, fun and created a full world. It even stepped up in the music. A highlight is the 1st level, after rayman meets glowboxes kids, he turns a corner into a small grassy area with butterflies and a small section of wall to climb. The music seamlessly changes from one score to another mid level.
I loved this and it remains a highlight of the best of ubisoft games. Beyond good and evil and its first monster encounter is also a highlight.
Rayman 3 was not exactly a highlight. Its attempts at self satire and again the English speech brought its charms down. It was still an ok game, and had its inventive moments. But its charm had gone.
Now rayman is just an all but forgotten character. With each further instalment of the rabbid games rayman becomes more tainted and less fun.
I would love to see a new 3d rayman platformer, a new adventure in raymans world and with its many characters. One that expands upon it and introduces more. I hope there's a new rayman, one more like rayman 2 then any other rayman. But any 3d platformer would be a good start..
So I submitted an artical to a relitively new website , and they are putting it up.
Cool. and stuff.
take a look at the site. Its still very much in its early days, but it's quite good, and being so new it needs our support. While your there join the forum or even submit an article too.
Oh , mine is not just up yet, soon though, my writers name is robin smith. keep an eye out . and tell me what you think.
thanks..
I suppose i'm not the first to wonder. Exactly what use are gamer points?
But I don't happen to know any of the people who asked that before or who said what the answer was, so I'm asking now anyway. What?! It's my bit ok, I can spend my time going off on pointless quests and endless tangents if I like! ....! Where was I?
Ok, so back in the day we used to spend all hours bumbling our way through super Mario brothers just for the sake of fun. We didn't do it to see the end, or to get a strange unlocked video of Mario making eggs for breakfast and then tripping and dropping them (dead or alive 4, "reference"!! woo) and we didn't do it to unlock the chance to play as bowser ... (although, cool idea! Nintendo, get on it! Download patch for wii!) We just did it.
I have fond memories of paying for so long id get head aches, and repeating the same bit over so many times that id cry from frustration.
The point was we didn't know or really care about the idea of completing the game for the story, we just played, and mostly had fun.
Now with age comes the need to prove yourself, or just the want to get something out of what you do. Using it later as a form of playground one-upmenship. "i beat the game last night!" "Well I did it in under an hour!!" "Well I did it hanging upside down and on fire...!" and so on.
I like, well used to when I had free time, to play a game to the end, enjoy a challenge and love it when I unlock a special weapon or character. It was always extra special to play as the fourth survivor in resident evil 2, or a boss character in king of fighters. You got something for what you did, something that actually had a function... normally fun.
And then came the gamerpoints and Xbox achievements. Now forgive me for saying this, but they serve no point. It's argued that a user's gamerscore shows how much they have done and how good they are, and on the surface that makes sense. But when you look at things closer.
A game normally has 1000 gamerpoints available for claiming through a number of means (arcade games 200 on average) and if I have 4000 points that looks quite good. But my friend with 60783 points makes me look like a looser. But really, is it a good measure of how good a player I am in general. The points system does not take into account 1. Length of time a live user or Xbox owner. 2. The cost of owning or renting games. 3. The difficulty of the achievement.
Play the csi game (I don't know what it's called, I'm not interested really) and you get 200 points for each achievement! 200! That's no measure of skill or commitment. All you need to do that is a walkthrough. It's about as hard as reading a book.
Worse , a game like dead rising has the same amount of points for falling from the 1st floor to the ground (2nd to 1st floor if your American) as it does if you play the game straight for 12 - 14 hours and unlock the 7 day survivor achievement. One takes no effort and at most a few seconds, the other takes half a day and almost constant playing... (Unless you have an alarm clock or egg timer).
It's just not a good measure of how good a gamer you are, or very much of an award for playing the game. Achievements, now those without the point score I do like. They do feel like something you earn. Yes some might be easy, but if you take away the gamerscore part of it and they are a cleaver and rewarding extra. They let people know what you and others know exactly what you did to unlock them. If it says you scored 10'000 points to get it, you must have. Simple.
This all does have one other effect.
The worrying rise of pay to download extras.
Before online, before Xbox live, you'd earn your hidden characters. But now, if you're willing to pay the extra, you can get them for no effort. Worse still soul calibure 4 makes you pay to get the full roster, darth vader can only be added to the Xbox game if you pay for him. Is that right? I can only see this becoming a negative effect on the whole gaming experience. And that makes me sad.
Anyway, I must go I need to upload this now; I'm trying to get my gamespot rank up to level 14.
I , as some of you will notice if you have seen my games list, own and have access to over 265 games. (more if you add in those not featured on gamespot and those that are downloads)
I work 37 hours a week (more if you add getting to and from work) , i sleep 4-5hours a night , on average, and theres all the other stuff , washing , cleaning , cooking. visiting my daughter. I dont have any time free.
But i have managed to find enough time to play games for at least 3- 4 hours a day... most days. for much of the last year. Not bad you may say. but iv'e still not finished more then a few. and even then , not what the avaerage hardcore gamer would think of as finished. all endings seen , all objects found, all achevements on 1 xbox 360 game. so on and so forth.
So with the new year i want to make a fresh start , and complete all the games i can this year. But is that possible. I do have 265+ , and at the start of the year i had no more then 20. if that.
Add into that my own game projects (simple stuff on mugen and some basic online adventure game editiors) and my art projects (im a comic artist in my own time) how am i to do this. Should i pick and choose which games i complete? how would i do this? and how to keep track of them... Do i write a review after each time i complete a game? Are there restrictions on how i complete a game?? do i play normal, hard or extra hard difficulty? Do i post up videos??
(actually , i dont know how you get videos of games... so anyone who knows what sort of equipment i'd need for my pc and where to get it that would be most appreciated)
Maybe i just need a new job, one that paid me sometimes would be good . (dont get me started)
just when is a game "completed" , I used to need to do everything. But these days its just not possible.
On an unrelated note, why are there some games that are not featured on gamespot (GLOBAL DEFENCE FORCE FOR EXAMPLE) and why do many older games have no official reviews. I think gamespot should have a retro reviews team. covering the games time and gamespot forgot. I'd do it, for half the normal price. (or for a hot chocolate and a cheese roll.) And when theres a game released in the uk with noteable differences from the us or japanese original, why is it not given an independent review... jet set radio for example, not just a different title but some noteable content differences... huh.. huuuuh.
Welcome to the end of the year. The one that has past brought much of the same and yet much un expected.
I have no desire to look back, especially as i find myself finishing the year up on a mental , and phyisical downer. But this is good , i hope to start the next year much better and stronger. It seems the last few weeks have given me , an agender or two.
Think of 2009 as a renewal of strength and style. The world will be mine... and so on.
Same as it ever was.
ok , so to save some time now , although ill be adding them all later, this is the most up to date list of games i currently own. This needs to be updated too though as i must add my 360 games.
saves adding them all to my list on here now
VIDEO AND COMPUTER GAMES LISTED ITEMS.
PS2.
KLONOA 2
TOKOBOT PLUS
MAXIMO
LEGO STAR WARS
ULTIMATE SPADER-MAN
PSYCHONAUTS
SPYRO ENTER THE DRAGONFLY
WE LOVE KATAMARI
ASTRO BOY
SEGA SUPERSTARS
CAPCOM ****CS COLLECTION
CAPCOM ****CS COLLECTION VOLUME 2
SONIC GEMS COLLECTION
SEGA MEGA COLLECTION
SHADOW OF THE COLLOSSUS
SHINOBI
ICO
ONIMUSHA 2
24 THE GAME
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER LEGEND
SILENT HILL 2
RESIDENT EVIL CODE VERONICA X
METAL GEAR SOLID 2 SONS OF LIBERTY
TENCHU WRATH OF HEAVEN
SOUL REAVER 2
CHAOS LEGION
RESIDENT EVIL 4
DEVIL MAY CRY 3 DANTE'S AWAKENING SPECIAL EDITION
DIRGE OF CERBERUS FINAL FANTASY VII
ONIMUSHA 3
DEVIL MAY CRY 2
DEVIL MAY CRY
DEVIL MAY CRY 3 DANTE'S AWAKENING
METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER
KING OF FIGHTERS MAXIMUM IMPACT
NEOGEO BATTLE COLISEUM
NARUTO UZUMAKI CHRONICLES
BLOODY ROAR 3
CAPCOM VS SNK 2
VIEWTIFUL JOE
KING OF FIGHTERS MAXIMUM IMPACT 2
DEAD OR ALIVE 2
SOUL CALIBUR 2
GOD HAND
METAL SLUG 3
THE THING
GLOBAL DEFENCE FORCE
HALF-LIFE
ZONE OF THE ENDERS
SSX TRICKY
SSX 3
SSX ON TOUR
FINAL FANTASY X
KINGDOM HEARTS
KINGDOM HEARTS 2
FINAL FANTASY X-2
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
FINAL FANTASY XII
SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA 2
DRAGON QUEST THE JOURNEY OF THE CURSED KING
PHANTASY STAR UNIVERSE
OKAMI
PARAPPATHERAPPER 2
VIRTUA FIGHTER 4 EVOLUTION
ONIMUSHA BLADE WARRIORS
ONIMUSHA
NINTENDO GAMECUBE
PHANTASY STAR ONLINE EPISODE 1 AND 2
TALES OF SYMPHONIA
SUPER SMASH BROS MELEE
SUPER MONKEY BALL
SPYRO A HEROS TAIL
SONIC MEGA COLLECTION
SONIC ADVENTURE 2 BATTLE
SKIES OF ARCADIA LEGENDS
RESIDENT EVIL
RAYMAN 3 HOODLUM HAVOC
PRINCE OF PERSIA THE SANDS OF TIME
MARIO KART DOUBLE DASH
BLOODY ROAR PRIMAL FURY
BILLY HATCHER AND THE GIANT EGG
PHANTASY STAR ONLINE EPISODE 3 C.A.R.D. REVOLUTION
RESIDENT EVIL 4
ANIMAL CROSSING
X-MEN 2 WOLVERINE'S REVENGE
XBOX
BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN
PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 2
TIMESPLITTERS FUTURE PERFECT
DEAD OR ALIVE ULTIMATE
METAL SLUG 4
HALF-LIFE 2
MAX PAYNE
HELLO KITTY ROLLER RESCUE
SHENMUE 2
SEGA DREAMCAST
CHUCHU ROCKET
CRAZY TAXI
SONIC ADVENTURE (X3)
CRAZY TAXI 2
RAYMAN 2 THE GREAT ESCAPE (X2)
SHENMUE 2
EVOLUTION 2 (NTSC)
SHENMUE (NTSC)
PENPEN
RESIDENT EVIL 2
RESIDENT EVIL 3 NEMESIS
TOMB RAIDER THE LAST REVELATION
SHENMUE
JET SET RADIO (REVIEW CODE)
PROJECT JUSTICE RIVAL SCHOOLS 2
DEAD OR ALIVE 2
LEGACY OF KAIN SOUL REAVER
SOUL CALIBUR
SPEED DEVILS
CAPCOM VS SNK
SHADOW MAN
NINTENDO 64
CARMAGEDDON 64
F-ZERO X
SUPER MARIO 64
MISCHIEF MAKERS
WORLD CUP 98
AEROFIGHTERS ASSAULT
WWF NO MERCY
BANJO-KAZOOIE
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME
MARIO TENNIS
LYLAT WARS
PILOTWINGS 64
F-1 WORLD GRAD PRIX
INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR SOCCER 64
INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR SOCCER 98
SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINENT SYSTEM
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA A LINK TO THE PAST
STARWING
SUPER PUTTY
ZOMBIES
SUPER MARIO WORLD 2 YOSHI'S ISLAND
SEGA MEGA DRIVE
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS WARRIORS OF THE ETERNAL SUN
TINY TOON ADVENTURES BUSTERS HIDDEN TREASURE
ANIMANIACS
SWORD OF VERMILLION
ECCO THE DOLPHIN
RISTAR
SONIC 3D
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
THEME PARK
ROCKET KNIGHT ADVENTURES
MEGA BOMBERMAN
STREET FIGHTER 2 SPECIAL CHAMPION EDITION
EARTHWORM JIM
SEGA MASTER SYSTEM
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
NINJA GAIDEN
LORD OF THE SWORD
TENNIS ACE
GOLDEN AXE
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2
GREAT VOLLYBALL
GHOST HOUSE
TAZ-MANIA
THE SIMPSONS BART VS. THE SPACE MUTANTS
PLAYSTATION / PSONE
SPYRO 2 GATEWAY TO GLIMMER
GEX 3D ENTER THE GECKO
TEKKEN 2
CHILL
TOMB RAIDER 2
FINAL FANTASY IX (X2)
STREET FIGHTER EX PLUS a
BUSHIDO BLADE
NIGHTMARE CREATURES
TEKKEN 3
POCKET FIGHTER
BLOODY ROAR 2
KLONOA DOOR TO PHANTOMILE
SPYRO YEAR OF THE DRAGON
HOGS OF WAR
THEME PARK WORLD
TONY HAWKS PRO SKATER 2
RIDGE RACER REVOLUTION
MICRO MANIACS
BLOODY ROAR
SPYRO THE DRAGON
VS. (X2)
NIGHTMARE CREATURES 2
GRAND THEFT AUTO
FINAL FANTASY VII
SOUL BALDE
TOMB RAIDERKLONOA BEACH VOLLYBALL
JUMPINGFLASH 2
JUMPINGFLASH
TENCHU STELTH ASSASSINS
APE ESCAPE
PLAYSTATION PORTABLE
GRAND THEFT AUTO LIBERTY CITY STORIES
ME AND MY KATAMARI
GURUMIN
TALES OF ETERNIA
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER LEGEND
POWER STONE COLLECTION
ASTONISHIA STORY
GAMEBOY ADVANCE/SP/MICRO
RAYMAN RAVING RABBIDS
KLONOA EMPIRE OF DREAMS
SONIC ADVANCE
SONIC ADVANCE 2
SUPER MARIO WORLD SUPER MARIO ADVANCE 2
LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER LEGEND
SONIC ADVANCE 3
MEGAMAN BATTLE NETWORK 3 BLUE
TALES OF PHANTASIA
COLUMNS CROWN / CHUCHU ROCKET
KINGDOM HEARTS CHAIN OF MEMORIES
NINTENDO GAMEBOY
KIRBY's DREAM LAND
NINTENDO GAMEBOY COLOUR
DRAGON WARRIOR 3
NINTENDO DS
SONIC RUSH ADVENTURE
SUPER MARIO DS
SONIC RUSH
WARIOWARE TOUCHED
NEW SUPER MARIO BROS.
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA PHANTOM HOURGLASS
ANIMAL CROSSING WILD WORLD (X2)
POKEMON PEARL
TONY HAWK'S AMERICAN SK8LAND
SEGA SATURN
RAYMAN
RESIDENT EVIL
CLOCKWORK KNIGHT
SONIC R
SEGA RALLY CHAMPIONSHIP
VIRTUA FIGHTER
ATHLETE KINGS
NIGHTS INTO DREAMS
CHRISTMAS NIGHTS
PANZER DRAGOON 2 ZWEI
CASPER
PEBBLE BEACH GOLF LINKS
VICTORY BOXING
SONIC JAM
TOMB RAIDER
BATTLE ARENA TOSHINDEN REMIX
FIGHTERS MEGAMIX
VIRTUA FIGHTER 2
PC
DISCWORLD NOIR
BONE OUT FROM BONEVILLE
BONE THE GREAT COW RACE
GRAND THEFT AUTO LONDON 1969
ALIENS VS PREDATOR GOLD EDITION
SONIC R
FINAL FANTASY VIII
I go away for a few weeks , and what happens.
You go and change the layout without letting me know. I know Im JUST the most important member here , but still.
Ok , maybe not , but still... really , i mean really.
I go away for a few weeks , and what happens.
You go and change the layout without letting me know. I know Im JUST the most important member here , but still.
Ok , maybe not , but still... really , i mean really.
What to do when you have a loss of faith.
My girlfriend, whome now lives with me, informed me today in our local game shop that shes not into games anymore...... at all. I wont go into why. But it's shocked me , knocked me for a loop. or whatever.
Ive had that loss of interest thing before. It seems to hit people at 20 - 25 when they used to like games a lot. Some get back into them more then before , some dont at all. But it's still a suprise when someonhe elce says about it. Especially when they were into them a lot.
We have a big collection of systems and games between us. and now its like "im not really interested anymore". It seems like a shame.
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