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Satisfied Birds

by Derek on December 14th, 2011
Satisfied Birds

I finally beat all of the levels in the main Angry Birds game. Once again I saw a cutscene of birds getting eggs back from pigs wearing different outfits.

I think the most messed up part of Angry Birds is the white bird who forcefully lays an egg to bomb others basically commits suicide in this act. Kind of like the bee that dies once it uses its stinger. Except in this case, the stinger could’ve been a baby and the whole point was to save other babies. Now it’s a race to see if I can “beat” Angry Birds seasons faster than they release new seasons.

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Welcome To The Internet Pt2

by Derek on November 28th, 2011
Welcome To The Internet Pt2

Just yesterday Naughty Dog implemented a patch to add in the option to change the shooting of Uncharted 3 to that of Uncharted 2 after some controversial changes. There were also a number of multiplayer tweaks added. Of course, the internet didn’t waste a moment to write off all the efforts of the entire team and write posts about how much they weren’t doing their jobs and messing up the game.

The single player changes were met with open arms (I look forward to replaying on the highest difficulty) but multiplayer changes will always be controversial. Once again, being a high profile game developer can sometimes be a thankless task.

I for one say THANK YOU NAUGHTY DOG!

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The 20th Hour

by Derek on November 17th, 2011
The 20th Hour

Yesterday I finally beat “Professor Layton and the Last Spector” which is the fourth Professor Layton game for Nintendo DS (the next chapter is for 3DS). I still have extra puzzles to do and other things to find in the game. My final play time for the game was just shy of 20 hours. For the life of me I don’t know if that’s a good time or not since Professor Layton could be beat relatively quickly if you’re just super amazing at puzzles. The only other thing holding you back would be the dialogue and numerous cutscenes.

Anyway, it amused me to think about what 20 hours in Professor Layton entailed versus other games. This game is such that I spent most of that 20 hours simply staring at my DS while riding the subway (and in some cases missing my subway stop). Games like Uncharted only run 10 hours or so tops so 20 hours isn’t even part of the equation unless seeking trophies or playing multiplayer.

Batman Arkham City had a lot of side missions but the challenge rooms can easily increase the playtime of that game. I just recently beat New Game+ by doing only story missions and was a little surprised at just how short it was.

As for Skyrim, I’m still not terribly interested. I feel very intimidated by a game of that magnitude and feel that slowly chipping away at it during evenings and weekends would get a little frustrating especially with so many other games out now that I want to play.

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Hardcore Profbro

by Derek on November 16th, 2011
Hardcore Profbro

At around midnight last night I was out of comic ideas and very close to the end of “Professor Layton and the Last Spector.” At around two o’clock when I was still playing I decided I should put it down and do my comic. There are moments playing Layton games I feel brilliant, but far more often than not I feel like a complete moron now.

It doesn’t help that this game added “super hints” which are the “ANSWER IS THIS, STUPID!!!” hints which you need to spend five hint coins to get to. It pains me to spend hint coins and it’s especially bad because usually my brain is at the point where the first three hints barely help me at all because I was on the right track. So even though I can collect them like mad, I’m also spending far too many and I feel like less of a smart person for it. I wonder, how fast Stephen Hawking could get through a Professor Layton game?

The other “problem” is that the story part of Layton games is so interesting that I have very little patience when it comes to getting to the next plot point. Though as the games have gone on, they’ve been very good about adding more variety to the games. The only cumbersome part is having to revisit old areas and interact with every character again just to see if they have puzzles for you to solve. This desperately needs to be solved in future Layton games.

If I ever have kids and they need help with their problem solving homework, they’re so doomed.

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Virtual Animal Protection Services

by Derek on November 15th, 2011
Virtual Animal Protection Services

There’s a certain organization out there (whom I don’t want to name because I don’t want to give them more web search results) who said recently that the tanuki suit in Super Mario 3D Land encouraged killing animals for fur. Yeah. This is also to imply that when Mario touches a tanuki leaf which gives him a suit, that the tanuki leaf spontaneously generates a suit made from REAL TANUKI FUR which as we all know are historically known to give Italian plumbers the ability to glide in the air and turn into statues.

You know what? There’s a lot of animal killing in video games, and Super Mario is not the most heinous offender. But this comic is pretty much how I see the meeting going down. Mario is much easier to parody than big budget triple-A video games. That’s also why previous targets were “Cooking Mama” and “Super Meat Boy.” Part of me hopes that the meeting depicted in this comic actually happened, but it would be hilarious.

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Uncharted 3: Dude’s Delight

by Derek on November 1st, 2011
Uncharted 3: Dude’s Delight

Well it’s out today. I’ve scheduled a marathon date after Anna gets back from her trip. Unfortunately it’s about two and a half weeks from now. So I’m going to hold off on buying it rather than test the strength of my will by having it sit around the house until then.

I still have Batman Arkham City sidequests to keep me busy, my second playthrough of Deus Ex and also a rekindled desire to play Geometry Wars. The other thing is that since I’m waiting to play Uncharted 3, that means that same week is when Assassin’s Creed Revelations comes out, which is another game I know Anna is going to want to see.

Anyway, once I get my hands on Uncharted 3 it’s probably going to be a little something like this. (WARNING: Not safe for work!)

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Uncharted Subway

by Derek on October 27th, 2011
Uncharted Subway

Yes, it’s true. I saw a guy on the subway eating a sandwich from Subway and my first thought was “He probably doesn’t play Uncharted 3, so whatever code he got with his sandwich is useless to him! Maybe…”

I did manage to stop myself from approaching him, but the thought did cross my mind. Obsessed? Me?

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Uncharted Among Spoilers

by Derek on October 25th, 2011
Uncharted Among Spoilers

I did read the metacritic blurbs and a teeny bit of portions of the Giant Bomb review, but I found myself in a scenario where I saw even a word related to something content or story related I threw my hands in front of my face and quickly scrolled down. The gist I hear is that the story is again totally awesome and there are some tweaks to the gameplay to add more variety to combat. I’m also pleased to hear that the stealth mechanics are supposedly better too because trying to take out as many guys stealthily is something I did a lot of in the 2nd game.

It comes out in one week, but I’ve made the commitment to wait another two weeks after that so that Anna can be here as I marathon the game. Next to Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2 was one of the first games she watched me marathon and we both enjoyed it so much that I realized I couldn’t not do it together.

Then of course after I beat it for the first time, the next order of business will be capturing all the cutscenes and gameplay so that I can make a new trailer! CAN’T WAIT!

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Uncharted Subway

by Derek on September 29th, 2011
Uncharted Subway

The Uncharted 3 Multiplayer pre-release promotion is starting today in the United States. Unfortunately it involved purchasing stuff from Subway. Hopefully by the time you read this I’m holding a large soda and no other food item from there.

I’ve been reading the Naughty Dog forums and there have been reports of mixed success in either receiving the cup early or having the Subway employees completely oblivious to what they’re talking about. Regardless, Subway employees across the country are going to be harassed by gamers dying for some early Uncharted 3 multiplayer action.

Also for the uninitiated, “Kitty got wet” was an ad-libbed taunt in Uncharted 2 that Nolan North (the voice actor for Nathan Drake) did during one of his voice sessions. During a Comic-Con panel he told theadorable story of the phrase’s origins.

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Subway Audience

by Derek on July 20th, 2011
Subway Audience

The 4-year-old kid wasn’t actually nagging me about the game I was playing on my phone, but she was alternately interested in playing with her friend (or it could’ve been her sister) and then in random intervals she would very obviously look over to see what I was doing on my phone. To give you an idea, if I had moved my elbow slightly it probably would’ve hit her in the face. After a little bit of this I just put my phone away.

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