Category: Video Game Musings

Wii Is Now A "Retro" Console

Original Article: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/11/20/nintendo-not-developing-wii-titles.aspx

Not surprising that Nintendo isn’t going to be developing any more Wii titles, considering they have a brand spanking new console on the market right now. I’m pretty sure they’ll still sell the things for another year or two and it’s a nice, cheaper alternative for those looking for a new console. So I guess the Wii is now a “retro” game machine.

I wonder if I should mod it now or later…

Personal Feat

So I’ve managed to unlock everything in WWE ’13… I think that’s a first for me where I was able to go through the whole deal. Quite a feat… then again, I’m digging this game’s Universe mode and the customization options. It’s not as deep as the stronger consoles are, but what’s there is enough to keep me enthralled for hours on end. How long has it been since a new release for the current generation of consoles kept me going for hours on end? Very few.

"If You Think That's Bad…"

Somebody had posted a comment on my Street Fighter II (MS-DOS) review, telling me that if I thought that port was bad, I should check out the two Mega Man games on MS-DOS, because those are worse.

Somehow, I was able to resist the urge to inform kindly YouTuber who meant well that I already reviewed those games… and hence, have no desire to revisit them.

Yay, me.

My Sacrifice Was Not Reflected…

Did a little review and submitted details to this Review A Bad Game Day site yesterday morning… as of 10:44 AM EST today, my sacrifice was not reflected on the site.

Oh well… doesn’t really matter. It was a fun project and hopefully, they’ll do another one of these next year. There’s no shortage in crap games out there, so why not?

Oh, hum…

Interesting little something I noticed while I was visiting the local EB Games/Gamestop thing; they had a whole stash of copies of Metroid: Other M for $9.99. I didn’t get an exact count, but there could have been more than a dozen copies on the shelf. Unloved.

I guess giving Samus a personality that repelled gamers is the kiss of death for your franchise… I’d feel bad for all the shelf space it was occupying that could’ve been filled with games that were worth a damn. Too bad I didn’t have a camera on me.

$9.99… I’m almost tempted to pick up a copy… but decided on a Baconator combo from Wendy’s.

They make good burgers.

Good night.

Capcom blames lackluster SFxT sales on cannibalism

Source article here: http://www.gamespot.com/news/street-fighter-x-tekken-sales-blamed-on-cannibalism-6376795

So, cannibals are to blame for Capcom’s lack of success with SFxT as far as sales goes? Are you sure it’s not because of the fact that you stored away locked content on your discs and are only selling codes to unlock that content and that people are pissed off because of that sort of shady business acumen?

Other than Mega Man 9 and 10, I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with that kind of bullshit.

Need For Speed Gets A Movie… And Nobody Cared.

Before we get into it, here’s the source article of the news… and the Moviebob blog post in question.

So, according to Moviebob, there’s going to be a Need For Speed movie under development and Bob is apparently pissed that it’s not a “classic” video game franchise getting the movie treatment. Because, you know, the world is clamoring for a poorly made Metroid movie or something. Then again, I don’t think anyone was clamoring for another car movie to be made. What does Need For Speed have exactly that you can’t already find in other films such as, say, The Fast And The Furious?

Considering the movie industry’s track record in converting a largely interactive medium into feature films, I like to think that a lot of these franchises that are far more “worthy” of being adapted are fortunate not to suffer such a misstep. Aside from that, some franchises simply wouldn’t work as high-budgeted Hollywood productions considering their fantastical nature and the limited scope and vision of some of these producers. Ask yourself this; is it really worth turning Zelda into a Lord Of The Rings knockoff just so we can get a movie based on it? Is it really worth watching a Castlevania film degrade into depths that isn’t worth exploring?

Comic book movies are sort of reaching that level of respect to the source material that they’re true to the spirit of the original comics – the recent string of Marvel movies are good examples. Video game movies still have a long way to go if they’re going to get that same respect, especially if duds like DOA: Dead Or Alive, Legend Of Chun-Li, and the endless stack of Uwe Boll travesties are anything to go by.

TMNT Games?

A friend was asking me the other day why I haven’t touched any of the TMNT games I owned for review, especially one that has been the subject of a past Grumble, Grumble commentary. The only answer I gave him is that I’m waiting for the right time… whenever that happens to be. For those who are wondering what games I have, here’s a quick list off the top of my head.

  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES and PC MS-DOS)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
  • Teeange Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time (SNES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (SNES)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Genesis)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall Of The Foot Clan (GB)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (GB)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (PS2)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Battle Nexus (PS2)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Mutant Nightmare (PS2)
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up (PS2 and Wii)
No guarantee that all of these games are up for review anytime soon, but I am going to do some of them… when the time comes.