Anyway, I got Scott Pilgrim the game and Blood Bowl. Scott Pilgrim is an xbox live arcade game that is like the old arcade beat-'em ups. Similar to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or The Simpsons but your characters level up and get new skills. The game claims to be 8-bit, and it's soundtrack is certainly made with nintendo-era technology. But the graphics being truly 8-bit? I'm not buying it. They do a good job of making the graphics look like a throw back to 8-bit, but everything looks too clear for me to legitimately believe they didn't supe them up a bit.
I don't know. You tell me.
Anyway. I like SP the Game because it's just plain fun. My problem is that after about 3 hours of play I already made Scott max level. The upshot is that the better Scott gets the more fun it is, but I suspect after playing through each level ( 7 I assume ) once I think there might be quite a bit of fun fall off.
So Blood Bowl. I got it a few days ago on PC ( from Steam ), I've sat down and tried to run through the tutorial on 2 separate occasions but failed to make it all the way through. Not because it seems like a bad game, but it seems so complex. It's a football game based on Warhammer. I don't know enough about Warhammer to explain so look at the Warhammer wiki. But its basically a football game mixed with a tactical RPG. My impression thus far is that you pick a team made up of orcs, or humans, or undead things, or other fantasy races. You then play turn based football where instead of tackling or whatever, you pummel or kill people...or orcs. But the rules seem so complex that once I'm done writing this I'm going to look up the rules of the game.
Finally, the Eve honeymoon is over. I'm still playing it, but I'm past the fanatical overzealous period of an MMORPG during which the power of Eve compels you to play at all times.
I wanted to play the Scott Pilgrim game soooo bad. Dibs on Stephen Stills.
ReplyDeleteIt's fun. If I had more than 1 controller I would say we should play it, it would bring us back to a time of River City Ransom. It's ALOT like RCR, you even go into shops at the top of the screen and buy food that increases your stats
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