The Podcats- Gaming on Non-Gaming Devices
These days you can play games on devices that aren’t traditionally gaming machines such as your phone, your browser and the Wii…
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February 6th, 2010 at 9:53 am
This was an interesting podcats. I liked the discussion of casual gaming and how it’s finding new players through Facebook.
I also laughed at the brief talk about Brutal Legend. I just completed it the other day; it’s a tough game to talk about, isn’t it? It wants you to like it so badly, and yet it throws so much at you that you feel smothered. Big open world, but not enough to do in it. Tons of collectible landmarks, but they all do the same thing: give you money. You gain control of all kinds of units, but then the game asks you to jump in and constantly protect them. What the hell? There’s no focus here! Plus I’m not sure how many of today’s gamers were weaned on heavy metal. I know I wasn’t, and most of the game’s songs sound the same to me.
Hey, great voice acting, though!
Sorry for the digression. Great podcats!
February 6th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Oh! Oh! I forgot something.
I totally agree with George’s assertion that platform games are not dead, they are merely alive in a different form. I was playing Uncharted 2 the other night and I had an epiphany. Here I was, running, jumping pits, climbing spinning platforms, collecting weapons, and shooting enemies, and it hit me: I’m playing Mega Man! I’m performing the same activities as I did in all the 80s side-scrollers, they just look better. I guess I can live with this: Chloe’s pretty hot.