CLiX Games

     So I stumbled upon this website, www.bobsgame.com.  And its a really neat story.  This guy Bob, made a DS RPG game from scratch, all by himself.  The game took him 5 years to make.  WOW.  That is dedication.  It is apparently the first homemade game of its size and kind.   Anyway, in order to have his game made he has to become a licensed developer in order to have a licensed game.  He contacted Nintendo about purchasing a DVD with the software that he need to complete his game.  The application he sent in told him that he would know if he could get it or not within 6-8 weeks.  They haven’t let him know yet, and its been 17 weeks.  You can read more about it on his website.  So he’s decided to do a peaceful protest against Nintendo.  He is locking himself  in a room with nothing but the games he’s programing, his cellphone and the necessities for living.  He can access his email through his phone so he knows when NOA contacts him.  He claims he do this for a 100 days, or more if thats what it takes.  On his website it shows a live feed of him just working mostly.  Currently he is on Day 12.  I really hope that I get to play his game, there is some footage of it on youtube.  Here is to hoping that it all works out for him. 

    So I have to be honest here and say even though I’m a huge RE4 fan, it is actually the first RE game I’ve actually played.  And because of it, I’m really looking forward to RE5 come spring time.  So anyway, I’ve been hearing about the new animated Resident Evil movie and how it is directly tied to the happenings of Resident Evil 2.  Since I’ve heard that I’ve been looking around to get my hands on a copy of it so that I could play it.  This past Saturday I happened to find a copy for the Nintendo Gamecube for $30.  I was super excited to take it home and play it. 

     When I got home I popped it into my Wii cause I had some free time.  The opening cinematic experience was pretty nice, and then the game started.  Now my only other game to help my frame of reference for RE2 was RE4:  Wii edition(which is an awesome game).  So I was used to seeing like a heads up display of what my health was, how much ammo I had left, and stuff like that.  But no, In RE2 you get to tell how much health you have by looking at the condition of Leon/Claire.  And as for ammo, you can see how much you have from you menu.  The games controls are far from what most would consider easy.  I’m still not sure if I was doing it right.  And also, do the zombie actually die ever?   Now, I realize that this game was made in 1998 for the Playstation, and then remade for the Nintendo Gamecube in 2003.  So its already a decade old.  So my conclusion is, if you liked RE2 when you played it back then, it’s probably still good for you.  If you didn’t play it back then, don’t play it know.

     It has been confirmed, the pretty cool Konami screen that was released a little bit ago that appeared to represent a new Metal Gear has been confirmed by Konami.  There was much speculation on what the new Metal Gear would be on, since the font was in green some thought XBOX 360, since there were two i’s in it some thought maybe for the Wii but what it is really being released on is the iPhone.  The game is going to have 8 missions and be contained in the world of MGS4.  Its set to come out in spring of 2009.

     Personally, I don’t have the best feeling about this game.  When I think of gaming, my thoughts never lead me to the iPhone.  I’m not saying that its going to be bad, I’m just a little concerned how its going to work.  Is it going to be hard to control?, touching Snake like that?  Will you use the accelerometer? I just hope that the game doesn’t fail.  I’ll probably be getting when it comes out either way.

     When I first saw about this game a while ago I  was thinking how cool it was that there are still new games being made on the PS2.  But then after rethinking what I had thought, I realized that this isn’t entirely a new game.  While it has just recently been released, I guess you could call it “new” in that sense.  The game is only really a 3-D remake of the GBA card based RPG.  So yes, there are new games on PS2, kinda.

     The Kingdom Hearts series is one of my favorite series, its up there with Metroid and Metal Gear, but still under Mario, Zelda, and the Tales series.  This game, as stated before, is just a replica of Chain of Memories.   Albeit, COM is a good game, I’m not sure they need to remake it into a 3-D model.  Personally, I’ve never been that big into Card games.  I mean of course I had like a thousand Pokemon cards, but I don’t think I ever actually played more than 5 games of it.  This is another reason I probably won’t get this game.  The card system isn’t a bad one.  It still was rather enjoyable, it just wasn’t really my preferred battle system.  If you played the first Kingdom Hearts, a good portion of COM should be familiar.  If you didn’t play the first one, you should most certainly play it.  

     Having personally already played this game, I probably won’t be playing it again on my PS2.  However, if you are a fan of the series and haven’t played Chain of Memories, then the 3-D remake for the PS2 would most likely something you don’t want to pass up.  

     So I don’t own the game Dead Space, although it is on my Holiday “Wishlist”.  So instead of going out and buying it while it was on sale this past friday, I just put Downfall on my Netflix list.  Downfall is an animated movie that explains the events leading up to the game, a prequel you might say.  Before I saw Downfall I had a very vague clue about what the game was about, now it’s been explained.

     The movie was ultimately a good film that somewhat kept my attention.  I will try not to spoil it but if you’re really worried about it be careful about reading this.  The beginning starts out pretty boring, and also a little bit confusing.  There was something about a religious relic that I’m still not too sure about.  But after about 30 minutes the animated action starts to kick in.  The movie is some what over gory.  I know you can’t ever have too much zombie gore, but some times it just seemed a little overdone.   It was kinda humorous to hear the random and excessive obscenities that they scattered through the movie.  Most of the time they could have easily done without swearing, but then again if zombies were coming after me I can’t say I’d be too thrilled.  I haven’t played the game but the end of the movie set up either a sequel or the intro to the video game, and judging by the quality of this movie I hope that it is the video game that comes next and not another movie.  

      Overall I think this movie was worth my time.  Especially since I want to play the video game, it sets the mood.  I wouldn’t personally buy this movie but definitely put it on your Netflix or rent it, actually if your not a zombie fan, don’t even see it.