11 Ages ago July 20, 2007, 5:25 am
 | W8 Review Request!
Amazing graphics.
26th September 2008
I don't really care about any of those games apart from Alan Wake.
no more
To be honest, I got tired of wasting hours doing reviews and whatnot just for the same 4 people to go "Great review" etc. I don't expect any sympathy for that, I'm just saying it how it is. I don't even play modern games anymore anyway. Unless you wanna put me in charge of like a 'Retro' section lol. Banjo-Tooie review, anyone!??  
Warehouse8 Recode/design
Looks nice. What happened to that thing W8 used to have where if a picture exceeded the page width, it appeared in a frame?
Games as Art
It was half music, half the really sad setting and scenes. Like the bit with the little girl and her dad had turned into a monster- did that really freak anyone else out?
Games as Art
Depends how you mean. If you mean art as a visual thing, then I'd agree with you. But that's not art. Art is the conveyance of emotions and ideas, in whatever form that may take. The Majora's Mask makes me feel sad could make it 'art', and it'd be nothing to do with the graphics or visual design.
Games as Art
Shenmue
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
Etc..
Basically, the issue is how do you define the term 'art'? Wikipedia defines it as the following;
Wikipedia said:
Generally art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind; by transmitting emotions and/or ideas. Beyond this description, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art. Art is also able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions can elicit previously hidden emotions in its audience.
Under that definition, some videogames can easily be considered as 'art'.
Gaming tourettes
I remember I once through the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters cartridge at my big sister, because she beat me, and then wouldn't stop gloating about it.
The best 90s 2D platformer
Quote: Paul
It's Sonic 2.
I'd go with that, though I'm hardly the authority on 90s 2D platformers. Banjo-Kazooie is definitely the best 90s 3D platformer, though 
Money down the drain
Got my import N64 crap through the post today. The Jap carts of Majora's Mask, Wave Race 64, the fully-boxed Jap version of Banjo-Kazooie, and that special screwdriver you need to under Nintendo's gay proprietary screws. Apart from the screwdriver, it's all rather useless. Can't understand what the fuck is going on in any of the games. Yeah I've played them all before (MM and BK a lot), but I don't have them mapped in my mind that well that I can complete them without reading any of the text on-screen.
Still, they were really cheap, and the Japanese N64 boxes are awesome. Really really awesome! Furthermore, I got to (very sadly and anally) compare NTSC BK and MM to the PAL versions for speed differences, etc. Other than that though, waste of £14. The screwdriver is probably the best buy. I opened up both my NTSC and PAL N64s, just to see what the differences in the chipsets are, and why the earlier NTSC models were RGB mod-able, and why the PAL versions weren't at all.
My goal is to one day figure out a way to RGB mod the PAL unit. There must be a way!
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