Author Archives: Filemon

inFamous

Finished inFamous and looking forward to a sequel.  I guess that’s pretty high praise in and of itself.  Played it through twice, even.  Finished all of the side missions on my first run through and then just finished the storyline on my second run as a good guy.

The nice thing is that it lets you sandbox once the game is over.

You can go through Empire City and get all of the things you missed because you were too busy trying to get through the storyline.

Overall, a lot of fun, and fairly compelling.

E3 in two words

Motion controllers.

Motion controllers seem to be the big deal, what with Microsoft pushing Natal and SONY with their tech demo.  Nintendo has the Wii Motion Plus add on for the Wii remotes.  All three seem to think that immersion is the next big thing.  It may be, but I want compelling games that use that motion control accurately.  Otherwise it will just be a huge exercise in frustration for everyone involved.

While interesting, I didn’t see anything from the news coverage that was really exciting.  Oh well.

I guess it’s time to look forward to the WWDC for interesting news from Apple.

SONY Keynote

I wasn’t too impressed with the SONY keynote.  Even the bits that were impressive were mainly tech demos that are years and years away from being implemented.  While interesting and kind of awesome, they’re just technical demos.  I didn’t see a game here, but I’m hopeful that in two years or so there will be something worth playing down the road.

Not too pleased with the PSP GO price point, I think I’ll stick with the PSP-2000 for now, clunky as it may seem in comparison.  Reading the reviews, it looks like PSP GO enthusiasts are in for a bit of retraining on the button layout.

Overall: Meh.

Finishing

I just really finished a jar of peanut butter.  I mean really finished it.

As in from start to finish, every serving in that jar was consumed by me.  All estimated 3200 calories, if the label is to be believed.  It’s a jar that I’ve kept at work over the last couple of months.  It sits next to the jar of nutella that’s remains unfinished.  I’ve taken a small teaspoon to the jar, scraping along the sides and the rims.

I’d need a tiny squeegee now if I wanted to get the rest of it out.  Which is bothering me, because now I’m wondering about tiny squeegees to get everything out of jars.

Nintendo Keynote

Health monitor?  No thank you.  Metroid game developed by Team Ninja?  Okay, maybe you’ve got something there.

Sure, I’m dismissing the health monitor without really thinking about the benefits that it grants.  If the Wii knows my heart rate then it’ll know that I’m extremely bored with most of the game lineup and I’m playing other consoles.

It really needs games, not gimmicks.