The Superest – Who is the superest hero of them all?
Having seen the dg post on the Daily Monster , it jogged my memory to catch up on The Superest . In their own words, every few days Kevin Cornell, and Matthew Sutter, play the following game:
Player 1 draws a character with a power. Player 2 then draws a character whose power cancels the power of that previous character. Repeat.
The collection is worth browsing from the start, with many a chuckle along the way.
Read MoreZero Punctuation on Prince Of Persia
Zero Puncuation is still one of the best break review sites around. I might not agree with all his reviews (i.e. Castle Crashers, BC: Re-armed), but what makes the site good is that he’s not trying to make anyone happy. It’s a review site with an opinion, a great sense of humour, and not a back handing promo site stroking every publishers epeen. Back on track, the Prince of Persia review had me falling off my chair. Check it out below. 
Game Review: Star Wars – Force Unleashed
It’s rare that a big label game comes along, and I play it until the end. Since Halo3 there have been very few games I’ve been bothered to complete, and most of them XBox Live Arcade games (that reminds me, I need to review Castle Crashers and BC: Rearmed). GTA IV did take a fair amount of my time, but the mechanics of the game were too unforgiving. Anyway onto the review…
Star Wars – Force Unleashed: Kid, flash forward, adult, bad, slash slash, bad, push push, bad, zap zap, confused, zap zap, good, slash zap pew push slash, boom, vader, confused, emperor, bang bang, the end.
This game was a real treat. Bad camera, quite buggy, emphasis on the controller-in-tv infusing camera, but a real treat. The game mechanics at a high level are quite awesome. Your character levels up slowly, unlocking abilities as you go, which is nothing new. What makes the difficulty slider on the game.. slide… is that every time you die, you don’t lose experience Jedi uber power points. Hence the game gets easier and easier as you bash your head against the wall. This works well for impossibly large groups of gun toting angry wookies, just after you opted for the focus fire and are in dire need of AOE. Boss fights start off impossible at times, and then you figure out the strategy, and away you go. The Darth fight was really well done, and the emperor fight, well, who cares! I just pulled a Star Destroyer out of the sky!
The downside, aside from the plot, which in essence is needed for the game, SWFU is short. Whilst dodging the store salesperson who was determined to sell me the Wii version with the WiiSaber, I picked up the game amazed they had a ‘pre-owned’ version so close to launch. “That makes no sense!”… but after playing the game, it made perfect sense. Finished in an AFL Grand Final weekend whilst doing everything else I needed to get done. Other downsides, no multiplayer that I can find, and faux replayability.
Buy it if you are a die hard fan, but otherwise, rent it.
Read MoreProject Rubixel – Now Live
People have been bugging me about getting some images of my Rubik’s cube creations. So to avoid this blog filling up with Rubik upon Rubik, I have created Project Rubixel. A combination of pixelisation and Rubik’s cube turning, which earned the term “a rubixelisation” or simply “a rubixel”. Currently with 3 Rubixels on the site, many more to come, and many more images of the existing Rubixels. So head on over to the Rubixel site to see more. As a teaser, here are the Street Fighter II boys, all 700 Rubik’s cubes in full glory.
State of Installation
As a developer, over time the gradual corruption of your computer through installing, compiling, crashing, and bending your OS into shapes it was never intended for, leads to only one solution. A fresh install, and while we’re at it, a new PC.
Time to dig up all the software installs, which some how after 2 years, are still where I left them.
Vista install kicked off, and head to dinner. Back from dinner and Vista is installed, ready to rock. I install live mesh and synchronise my tools folder. Less than a minute later I have my swiss army knife of software downloaded, installed, and configured out of the box. Now for software that requires an actual full installation.
Office, check. Takes only a few minutes. Last but not least, I’m lead to reinstalling the Adobe software I need.
10 minutes pass. 15 minutes. 20 minutes pass. At this point I start writing this rant, and now I’m waiting for the installation to complete before continuing. 45 minutes pass, on a new PC, and the installation is completing. I could understand if this was an installation of the full CS3 suite. But Photoshop CS3 only, as a minimal install, I am confounded. This is not the first time I have had this experience, but in the past I thought it was because the PC I was installing on was past its prime.
I don’t have a problem with software taking forever to install if I get a list as long as my arm in features, but when an application evolves to be a polished version of the same software I used over 10 years ago, and it takes longer to install than the operating system, there is something seriously wrong. It is time for the CS3 install team to wake up to themselves.
Update: CS2 required installing on an older machine at work. It was significantly faster. I thought maybe I had not noticed it in a previous release, but once again, it’s just CS3.
Read MoreRe:Animation – Underground Film Festival
I headed out last night to the Underground Film Festival. Re:Animation was 2 hours of short animations from artists world wide, ranging from sketches, to cartoons, stop motion, to full CGI productions. It felt like two hour flash back to eat carpet.
There were many highlights, from entertaining, to simply purplexing, but for me the biggest highlight was MUTO. MUTO is one of the best street art creations I have seen. Thanks to the guys at blublu for putting it online. View the video below. More information can be found here.
Rubik’s Cube Mario
This was something I have wanted to do for a long long time. After stumbling on some bulk Rubik’s cube clones, I took the plunge.
But that was not the end. The reaction from the people who have seen it has been nothing short of remarkable. I now have 7 more on backorder which I will start making as soon as I get the 245 Rubik’s cubes to make it.
PS3 Video Service for 2008! Just not for PAL…
The PS3 Video Service is to be launched in 2008, worldwide. But if you are in a PAL region, you are going to have to wait until 2009. With a video download service being a lure for Blue-Ray seekers, a delay of 12 months is going to push more of the market to competing services, or torrents.
Mirror’s Edge E3 Trailer
I am very eager to get my hands on Mirror’s Edge. My hope is that it will be a nice fresh immersive experience, that has only happened a few times in the last few years with titles of the likes of Portal.
Check out the E3 trailer below…
And that music track is haunting… where is it from?
Read MoreDVD Review: Futurama – The Beast With a Billion Backs
Mission excuse, mission, big alien, breading, heaven, robot armies, bang bang, the end. If you like Futurama, expect the Simpson’s Movie Syndrome to set in at around 28 minutes, however you will come away loving it. If you don’t like Futurama, or have never watched Futurama, don’t touch it.
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