I will keep enjoying this niche genre for a while longer. And I just dropped twenty bucks for the new Billy Joel pack. You'll have to pry my fakey drumsticks from my cold dead fingers. It won't save the genre, and, considering that my half-assed efforts easily put me high up on the leaderboards, not many people are playing.īut hey, I'm a dead-ender. Now hit the yellow button." gameplay that most people have gotten totally tired of by now. When your development house releases its classic for the ages, and, a couple of weeks later, your owner puts you up for sale, well, not so good.Īnd, while the keyboard is a nice little bit of variety, it's just more of the same simple "Hit the green button. It's got a lot of awesome songs, fantastic interface improvements, some nicely done Pro Modes that only 1% of the players will care about, and a keyboard.īut music games are a fad that is slowly choking on its own blood. However, I can't work up the energy to write a Rock Band 3 review. I've never hidden my huge love of Rock Band, and I've written about the series on several occasions. Which might make it a little bit relevant to that whole, tedious "Are games art?" argument that keeps resurfacing, no matter how much we might wish it'd stop. I really felt for them as characters and it made the last chunk of the game much more engaging. It helps a lot that the relationships between John Marston and his wife and son are very nicely done. ![]() These missions are quiet, simple, and really quite affecting. ![]() You meet your family, try to relate to your son, and work to rebuild your farm. But in this game, after the bad guy is gone, you then have a bunch of missions at your home. You see, in most games, after you kill the Head Bad Guy, that's it. One thing I really loved about the game: The storyline in the last ten missions or so. I suppose the doors could be better, but you really spend very little of the game in places that even have doors. The last time I wrote about it, I heard from some people who were infuriated by the awkwardness going through doors. I finished Red Dead: Redemption, and I enjoyed that game as much as any I've played in a long time. It wouldn't be historically accurate, but I would have loved to borrow 99 Luftballoons from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to keep my energy levels up during long rides across Mexico. Pity that you don't have a radio, ala Grand Theft Auto. This is the sort of excessive, terrifying craftsmanship that keeps me coming back to their games. And yet, someone at Rockstar took the time to animate a crippled bunny. It started flailing around on the ground in tormented agony.Īnimating characters is difficult, time-consuming, and expensive. I spent a lot of time hunting animals, for money, for cheevos, and to break the monotony of long horsey rides.Īt one point, I shot a rabbit but only grazed it. ![]() One thing I forgot to mention about Red Dead: Redemption. I haven't gotten lots of e-mails yet about how wrong and dumb I am, so the interview was probably a failure. I got to say a lot of things about the game industry, Macs, DRM, and our upcoming game, Avadon: The Black Fortress. ![]() There is a nice interview of me up in Inside Mac Games.
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