The Tetris Company blatantly steps Pokemon out. This will probably get ugly when you get a gym badge in Pokemon Black/White for kicking the shit out of L blocks.
Youtube Vs. Vimeo
Let me make this short and sweet.
To be honest I haven't been on vimeo long. It started a couple days ago when I realized all my favourite arty vids online were all hosted there instead of on youtube. Checking out the site it's going for the really simple slick look. To be honest it looks like it was done in by the same people who designed twitter.
All the videos I have looked at so far are in high def and excellently directed. I sort of wonder if each video gets screened before it goes public because I haven't found a single shitty home video yet with kids in it telling in jokes to each other.
If these two sites were clubs, Youtube doesn't check ID, it smells faintly of urine and a million teenyboppers are pretending to be drunk on grape juice.
Vimeo is on a different street, Only people on the VIP list get in, the place smells like old spice. The people are sophisticated and talk about important things like floating houses.
Amsterdam Osdorp from The QBF on Vimeo.
Downloading stuff from steam
This has to be the most epic Peak download speed I have ever had. If only it actually did, for just a SECOND, I would have downloaded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Sigh
Everything Tetris
Well, I have been holding off talking about this particular game for quite a while now, but it's been around a good 26 years so I figured its not going anywhere any time soon. I think I have to start at the begining when it comes to tetris, so you can understand why I have a fetish for it now.
My earliest memories of tetris is my brother getting one of those hand helds that played nothing but tetris, with "ten fun modes" or something like that. He drew on it with vivid to make it look bad ass. He never let me play it. I always wanted to though. I wanted to beat his score and show him how much I kicked butt. (For some reason he took it to the beach once, and I just remember it really clearly. It was a good day, a little breezy at times.)
But I never was. Later on my friend introduced me to it again. same hand held system everything. I remember arguing with him that rows dissappeared because you harddropped (When you make the blocks go down quickly.) I don't really see that guy any more, he kinda grew up to be a crazy thug thing.
Then skip forward quite a number of years, and there it is. That tetris again! My friend (Not crazy thug) is telling me how he's been playing the same game for some crazy amount of hours. And you know, that feeling of wanting to own came back again. So I got into it as well. Currently I have tetris on my DS, And I play regularly on Tetrisfriends.com . I had it on my phone at some stage as well, but it just never was as good.
Now for the review!
Tetris DS: Good well balanced game. It was an early release when the DS first came out. So a lot of the alternate game modes are showing off the touch screen. It has a nintendo theme and features the mario music.
Online play is great, super competitive, and its still quick to find opponents. Although they all have insane scores and all have japanese names.
Tetrisfriends.com: Also quite good. There are enough modes to find one that you enjoy. Don't play with a wireless keyboard, you start to notice that lag quite quickly. Most modes pit you against replays of other people. You can track how you good you are. There are twenty ranks in all, and you go up or down depending on how good you are. I'm sitting at 15 and can't seem to get much higher than that.
Multiplayer beta is out now and you can go up against 4 other people at a time, using items and maps if you're keen. I generally stick away from them. It also features chat, so if you've lost you can talk to the other loosers about how you lost.. against ME. Kiddin.
Tetris Party Deluxe: You know what!? I got all excited when I saw this being advertised! I got it! Immediately! And guess what... HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP TETRIS YOU HORE. Well it could be worse. But it looks fucken ugly. I could understand if it were made for the gameboy colour or advance, but come out. it's the tackiest thing I have seen since.. Shit. I dunno.. This website?
It looks horrendous, seriously, I can't change what the minos (the block thingy) looks like, fortunatly I can change the background to something other than a gif version of what appears to be the walt disney castle complete with fireworks.
Unfortunatly its not touch screen, which would be handy for getting around sometimes. Sometimes I bump my finger on the big inviting buttons, only to realize I have to scroll down like a gimp instead.
I'll be sticking to good ol Tetris DS for now, thanks for nothing.
On another note, check this out, it applies to everything I just said and pretty much everything I have ever done on the internet.
Magic duel
The other day I got my usual craving for browser based MMOs. Something I could just leap into. And thats exactly what I did with Magicduel.com . The only way I can describe the site is "Interesting" With an intrigued expression on my face. It really is quite strange. But I enjoy it. Well, GROWING to enjoy it. It starts off on a rather slow pace in my opinion.
Let me list some of the oddities:
It randomly asks you questions to figure out what your personality is like.
There is no currency.
There is a story mode apart from the main roaming that deals with your stats etc.
Items get created for specific purposes, and specific people. So be honoured if you have any sort of item, its important.
it asks you to choose between different schools of magic, but doesn't explain what they do (Although it offers a huge paragraph about each sort)
Its PvP, and its good to loose half your battles. Balance is important in everything.
The best way to describe it to anyone is "MYST online."
And yes, to be honest, I think magicduel.com is a bad name for it. It makes it sound so gay and generic. When really its so straight and different.
I give it 5 interesting stars out of an undetermined amount of stars.
Let me list some of the oddities:
It randomly asks you questions to figure out what your personality is like.
There is no currency.
There is a story mode apart from the main roaming that deals with your stats etc.
Items get created for specific purposes, and specific people. So be honoured if you have any sort of item, its important.
it asks you to choose between different schools of magic, but doesn't explain what they do (Although it offers a huge paragraph about each sort)
Its PvP, and its good to loose half your battles. Balance is important in everything.
The best way to describe it to anyone is "MYST online."
And yes, to be honest, I think magicduel.com is a bad name for it. It makes it sound so gay and generic. When really its so straight and different.
I give it 5 interesting stars out of an undetermined amount of stars.
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