A new concept picture has been designed and revealed by Dave Kang, which shows a small hut carved out of a tree trunk and what looks like a minifig inside. Here’s what Dave said,
What’s your favorite thing about this piece?
The colors are warm and cozy.
What’s happening in the image?
A minifig is about to enter a town in the middle of the forest. He is about to enter the big mysterious hollow tree.
Is there anything else you’d like us to know?
The sky is not finished!
Save Our Spirit (162 MB download)
After a whirlwind honeymoon, a mysterious secret society has kidnapped Mary Longstep for her mystical powers, which connect her with precious talismans from famous world destinations. Lord Longstep has set off on a grand adventure across the globe to save the love of his life and stop the DARK soceity from using the mystical treasures for their own evil purposes! Embark on a turn of the century adventure in a tale of intrigue and mystery!
Sesuai dengan tingkat kesulitannya, permainan itu adalah The Worlds Hardest Game versi 2.0. Permainan ini berbasis flash, oleh karena itu browser anda wajib bisa mengenali file flash (swf). Jika game tidak muncul pada browser anda, anda harus menginstall Adobe Flash Player terlebih dahulu.
Permainan ini cukup simple, anda hanya menggerakkan kotak yang berwarna merah ke zona yang berwarna hijau (sambil mengambil ikon koin atau kunci) tanpa mengenai bulat-bulat berwarna biru dengan menggunakan tombol arah pada keyboard.
Jika anda ingin memainkan game ini dirumah (offline), download permainan ini disini (4shared – size 2,2Mb), kemudian buka file game.html dengan browser anda.
Warning !! Permainan ini bisa membuat anda kesal dan sakit hati.. :p
Selamat mencoba… !!!
Hey Guys,
The team has decided from now on you will need to enter a 5-digit number to login to your account.
The current users have received an e-mail containing their code. If your a beta tester, and have not received your
code, please send us an e-mail at support@stick-world.tk
This update will be posted on Saturday, November 28th!
Until then!
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Stick World Team
So finally I took the time to watch Akagi after a friend recomended it to me. And seriously this is one of the best shows I have seen. So how can a show about a board game be epic and awesome? That is what I will tell in this review.
The show starts showing how a guy named Nangou is playing a game of Mahjong against the local yakuza. Nangou is deep debth and suddenly a teenager named Akagi barges in and after waching a couple of games he plays instead of Nangou and at that moment you can say a legend was born. So the story is simply about the ice cold Akagi who is a genius playing Mahjong. There isn’t much more to say about the story. But seriously this show is one of the most epic and suspense things I’ve seen.
Even if the story is pretty simple it’s the interaction between the characters that is awesome. Akagi is one of the most ice cold guys I’ve seen and he is awesome and always cool and collected and one of the coolest character I’ve seen. I guess interaction was wrong word because often you get to hear what the characters are thinking and how they are trying to reading each other and how they will put up their strategy. And this is one of the things that makes it awesome.
Let’s talk a bit about the animation style. I’m not lying when I say that the animation style of Akagi is very very differnet from many animes out there and I was a bit skeptical at first. But after the first episode I didn’t care anymore. And actually the style fitted very vell into the show in my opinion.
The music in Akagi was also really awesome. It isn’t any weird since it’s the same guy that did the death note soundtrack. I really loved it and the music really fitted the show. The opening was really nice and chill. The second ending was better than the first in my opinion.
So what did this anime so awesome? I would say that it was the suspense. Most of the time I wasn’t thinking of will he win but how will he will? And I really loved that kind of suspense. And I think that it got that suspense from the fact that Akagi isn’t winning by just luck and believing in the game and “moral” stuff like this. Akagi wins because of his skills. It’s all that’s to it and I really loved it.
So if you haven’t watched this show yet you should do it. Even if you never played mahjong before you will still appreciate it since they tell about many of the rules when needed to. Akagi get 5/5 riichis from me.
Join Scarlett, the feisty star of Farm Frenzy 3, as she puts robots to work on her land. Can you keep up with the latest advancements in technology as you grow crops, feed animals, collect produce and manufacture goods? Of course you can! Just don’t let the zany new animations distract you from the task at hand. Featuring 90 all-new levels packed with never-before-seen characters, buildings and challenges, Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie promises a bumper crop of fun!
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Farmville Mania
By: Laforteza, Wilbert C.
One morning, I barged-in at the library to tend at my usual task, which is reading a newspaper. Upon entering, I noticed several students huddled on two computers at the IMS Section…hearing some saying the words: eggplant, cow, harvest and wheat. Disregarding the noise, I continued until few minutes later, while reading the Inquirer, I was bothered seeing the restless students…some noisily couch and cheer while the rest stand firmly but with all eyes on the computers. Annoyed but alacrity of knowing what’s going on, I approached the group and took a glance on the monitor then I read the word “Farmville” and saw on the background plots teeming with crops. I sighed, “Oh! It’s a farmers’ game.”
Since I’m a farmer and belongs to a family of farmers, too, I turned interested with Farmville so I got the nerve to research about it thru the net at home, one evening. Before searching, I logged in my account at Facebook then begun surfing. I was surprised to know that it’s simply imbedded at the Facebook’s applications. I’ve been maintaining my FB accounts for more than a year but it was then my firs time to open a game in it. Eager to explore Farmville though still unknown to the mechanics, I tried and experienced the ever first time in my life “virtual farming”…’twas a funny start.
When I scavenged informations and dug up the Farmville’s story, I learned that it’s a social game developed by the Zynga Company and they launched it last June 19, 2009. Since it’s launched, it rapidly gained millions of client users. I was surprised to know that today, Farmville user enormously increasing by a million per week. Wow! It is amazing that so many people patronize this virtual game. This social game is now a world’s giant online game serving several millions of users. Really, the population is huge within the Farmville community…the rapid increase is so astonishing!
There’s a cash flow in the Farmville game, there’s income on every harvest and there are bonus amounts from such visit to neighbors’ farm. I wonder if these dollar pennies can be converted or enchased into real cold cash. Hmm…that could be a good and opportunity for all who are fond of Farmville to earn real cashes. On the other hand, I could not wait that one time; the virtual money accumulated may be used to trade or purchase desired actual products. That would be an easy way to linger a market life via online transactions. It will mean a convenient way to access financial resoureces in just clicks.
Repeatedly, I played Farmville…it lures me to check the game frequently or else the crops planted may wither if they’re not harvested a lengthy time.
Now, something I learned from Farmville; just like in real farming, crops need to be tended and harvested within certain time or else they’ll wither or left unbeneficial. Endeavor, time, capital and labor are of waste if the crops are left unattended in long time or they are abandoned. Abandoning crops, fowls and livestock means loosing a farming livelihood…and losing will let you weep in misery.
Care for crops, animals as well your whole farm; Farmville players…all have the swelling amusement in this game, happy virtual farming! I hope you could be convinced to love farming in real life…farming is a dignifying occupation because you have the opportunity to procure food for everyone who’re waiting for something to devour.
The biographical information below was compiled by Alan Renga, Assistant Archivist, for the 2009 International Hall of Fame Gala. For more information on the Museum’s Library and Archives, click here.
Sean Tucker Hall of Fame Portrait
He is one of the most talented and famous aerobatic pilots the world has known Sean Tucker. Born in Eagle Rock, California Sean earned his pilots certificate at the very young age of 17 even though he had a fear of flying. He quickly realized the only way to conquer that fear was to attack it head on. So he took an aerobatics course…and soon was performing in air shows. Very quickly Tucker earned a reputation for being a highly gifted performer. Many of his maneuvers are original and have never been performed by another aerobatic pilot. Sean has flown in more than 425 air shows, in front of more than 80 million spectators!
Thirty years ago, Sean’s first aerobatic plane was a Pitt’s Special. Striving to push the edge more than the Pitts could deliver, Sean’s team designed the one of a kind Challenger II which produces more than 400 horsepower, weighs only 1,200 pounds, and is considered the most high-performance aerobatic aircraft in the world. Today, the Challenger II is one of the most recognizable small aircraft in the world. To endure the extreme physical demands of aerobatic display, Sean maintains a rigorous physical training schedule by working-out over 340 days per year in a routine of jogging and weight-lifting on alternating days.
Tucker has received numerous awards and recognitions celebrating his career in aviation. He has been named one of the Living Legends in Aviation, is the recipient of the Crystal Eagle Award, was an inductee at the 2001 USAF Gathering of Eagles, and was named one of the Living Legends of Flight. And in 2008 he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, joining such famous aviators as Jimmy Doolittle, Chuck Yeager and Bob Hoover.
Expanding on his love of flying, Tucker created the Tutima Academy of Aviation Safety, a world-class flight training institution dedicated to setting and spreading the standard for aviation safety in aerobatics and aviation at large. The Academy offers a variety of courses including stall/spin recognition and recovery training, aerobatic proficiency training, a low-level aerobatic mentorship program, and formation aerobatic flight training, which can be found no-where else in the world.
Tucker’s self-proclaimed goal is to “share the magic of flight with Team Oracle’s guests by inspiring and thrilling them. I want them to go away saying that the air show was one of the most engaging days of their lives.”
For his incredible enthusiasm for flying and his strong desire to pass this passion on to as many people as possible, the San Diego Air & Space Museum takes great pride in inducting Sean Tucker into its International Aerospace Hall of Fame.
Platform:Sega Saturn
Format:NTSC Japan
Genre:Shooting
Release:23.07.1998(by Treasure)
Current Price:$220
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Considered to be both a milestone in shooter design and one of the toughest games in the genre, Radiant Silvergun comes courtesy of Japanese developer Treasure. Released only in Japan, Radiant Silvergun offered two modes, Arcade and Saturn mode. The former is all about intense 2D shooting action, while Saturn Mode adds a storyline to the mix and features anime-style characters and voice overs. Radiant Silvergun’s most interesting feature is that it did away with the power-up system so prevalent in 2D shooters and instead offered a choice of attacks — and combos between them. From standard lasers, to split shots, tracking fire, homing blasts, rear attacks, lock-on laser, and the Radiant Sword that can act both as shield and smart bomb, players have to choose the right attack for the right enemy to make it through.
Unless I’m going nutz, In the Club Penguin Times, It said the fire dojo [game] would come out the 24th of november… Well I’m posting this the 23rd. Well, here’s a couple uh pics!
Okay! I just wanted to tell you it came out a day early!!!
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Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3rd Story will be released next year for the DS! Yay for skinship~ We are back at Habataki academy seven years after TMGS 1. So far only the details of three characters have been released.
The prince looks sooo cool! Very different from Hazuki or Teru~ His name is Sakurai Ruka (the name reminds me of Ruka in Koi shite vampire ~Vampire Boy~ and Sakurai-san the seiyuu). According to the news released so far:
The prince is definitely the type of guys who acts all tough and bad outside but is a softie inside. I always fall for this type in Otome game!
Apart from the prince, we have the sporty guy (Fujiyama Arashi) and the reliable and gentle senpai (Konno Tamao). Will update again when more information has been released! Is this on your buy list?
It’s finally finished, and released.
My first game ever, developed with Flash CS4 Professional and ActionScript 3.0 (language used in Flash), for a course in Animation and Interactivity at the University of Hedmark. Have fun!
Release date: Released! (18/11/2009) Click here to play.
Genre: Side-scrolling platformer.
Plot: In a world of hard rocks, crumbled papers, and sharp scissors – you’re the hand. Struck your opponents down with great vengeance!
Gameplay: Defeat enemies by transforming into either a rock, a paper, or scissors – depending on the enemy you meet. Rock is weak to Paper, Paper is weak to Scissors, Scissors is weak to Rock.
Characters
Main Character:
Rock:
Paper:
Scissor:
If you haven’t heard of superstar DJ Jaguar Skills yet, chances are he’s already heard of you and he’s standing silently behind you as you read this, katana ready to strike. Not only is this guys a DJ, he’s also a self-proclaimed ninja, never taking his mask off at live shows and never giving interviews. Mysterious.
Anyway, the guy is a rising legend in the UK, known for his huge mixtapes and wicked sense of humour. Back in the summer he performed a live two hour video game mixtape for the BBC that is a crazy mash-up of classic video game music and the best that dance, rock and hip hop has to offer. In a word – ‘Brilliant!’
Out of the two hour set, expect to hear musical cameos from Alex Kidd, Mortal Kombat, Mario Bros, Street Fighter II, Parappa the Rapper, Rally X, complete with radio skits from the Grand Theft Auto series, a guitar hero tribute section and 8-bit remixes of hit rap songs from Jay-Z, Ludacris and Kanye West.
Admittedly, this is old news for gamers in the UK, but as I was listening to this while writing my Assassin’s Creed II review (check back on Friday for the full review!) I though I’d share it with gamers coming to this blog from outside the country.
You can download the whole 2 hour mix here - Have fun and be sure to come back and let me know what bits you liked best.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo!
(That’s his catchphrase by the way, I’m not insane or anything)
Olá, caros leitores. Nesta semana assistí um filme muito interessante. Na minha humilde opinião, considero que seja uma das melhores comédias-românticas-cult que já lançaram, mas não sou eu que vos falarei sobre a película. Vasculhando alguns blogs achei uma crítica muito interessante no “Miolão.com“.
Descrever este filme em duas linhas parece uma tarefa bem simples à primeira vista.
(500) Dias Com Ela conta como Tom Hanson se apaixona por Summer. E também sobre como ela não se apaixona por ele.
Logo de início somos apresentados a Tom, um garoto que cresceu assistindo filmes de amor, tendo certeza que um dia viveria uma história tão linda quanto as que via no cinema. Do outro lado da tela, conhecemos Summer. Uma garota filha de pais separados que só ama de verdade duas coisas na vida: seu longo e lindo cabelo negro e a facilidade que o corta sem sentir absolutamente nada.
Com uma abertura encantadora, ao som de Us, de Regina Spektor, somos inseridos na vida dessas duas pessoas e por pouco mais de uma hora e meia sorrimos, torcemos e sentimos nossa garganta um pouquinho mais apertada. Está tudo lá. Toda a vontade de ser feliz, de se sentir amado, de encontrar a sua cara metade, de encontrar, sem querer, também decepções.
Quebrando todos os clichês que poderiam sair da premissa água com açúcar, Marc Webb subverte a comédia romântica. Aqui temos um garoto apaixonado e uma garota que não acredita no amor, ao contrário da maioria das produções do gênero, onde é sempre a garota que idealiza um amor.
A narrativa fragmentada foi outro acerto. Em vez de vermos um início apaixonado, um meio turbulento e um final feliz, a história inteira se mistura numa ordem não cronológica, soando às vezes cruel, como por exemplo quando o filme nos mostra as piadas que de repente perdem a graça e também como que o que a gente amava no outro de repente torna-se insuportável. As piadas funcionam no tempo certo e quebram toda tensão que o filme acumularia se fosse contado de forma convencional.
Tudo, absolutamente tudo, é mostrado de um jeito sutil, bem humorado e bonito. A dupla de protagonistas tem uma química que desperta simpatia. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, que já tinha mostrado a que veio no incrível Mistérios da Carne e que mais recentemente deu as caras em G.I. Joe – A Origem de Cobra, segura o filme todo, dosando precisamente a comédia e o drama. Zooey Deschanel, que é musa da galerinha indie e que normalmente deixa devendo quando o quesito é atuação, tem o papel de sua vida. No auge de sua beleza, é impossível não se apaixonar pela sua Summer.
Zooey, além de atuar, contribui cantando com a outra metade do She & Him uma versão de Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want, clássico do The Smiths. Aliás, a trilha sonora inteira é delicosa. Além dos já mencionados She & Him e da fofíssima Regina Spektor, temos Wolfmother, Carla Bruni, Feist, Black Lips e até Hall & Oates, com a ensolarada You Make My Dreams.
É, realmente falar sobre (500) Dias Com Ela parece bem simples. Mas quando a gente mergulha no universo projetado pela brilhante estréia de Marc Webb na direção, a gente nota que se trata de algo muito maior do que apenas mais um filminho de amor. (500) Dias Com Ela é um filme sobre a vida. Ou pelo menos, sobre a parte mais gostosa dela.
(500) Days Of Summer, Marc Webb, 2009.
(500) Dias Com Ela. Com Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Geoffrey Arend, Chloe Moretz e Matthew Gray Gubler.
Heres the updated list of top 10 games.
More free games to come soon.
Keep playing on free games india!‘This game is a toybox’ says Jim Cope at Dundee developer Ruffian Games. Made up of half the team that created the original Xbox 360 hit, Crackdown 2 is perhaps in the safest possible hands, playing to the strengths of what made the first title so appealing and adding in a slew of insane new toys for your Agent to play with. As Jim says: ‘This game is childish, but it’s all shits and giggles’. Well said sir.
Set a few years after the Agent released a horde of mutant freaks on to the streets of Pacific City, a three-way civil war has torn the city apart and plunged it into chaos. The civilians, mutants and agency forces are locked in an ongoing power struggle to claim the city, with your Agent stuck right in the middle. Similar to the first title, there is a day-night cycle, but this time it doesn’t exist simply for aesthetic purposes.
When night falls, the mutants come out and roam the streets, killing the few remaining civilians in their sleep and generally causing trouble for everyone. The Agent can wade through the streets tackling hundreds of freaks at once using a meaty new assault rifle or by using the all new melee system. In the example shown, the Agent rips a steel girder out of the ground and uses it like a massive club, battering freaks to bits without breaking a sweat. According to Jim, the new melee system is quite similar to Fable II’s streamlined melee commands. Ranged weapons also let you auto-target parts of the body, as demonstrated by a brutal headshot.
Another superb feature that will make co-op even more fun is armoured cars. During the day, civilians do whatever they can to survive another night with the freaks by gathering supplied and adding armour plating to vehicles. The sight of an armour-plated freight truck with a minigun turret on the back was a tantalising prospect. Just imagine one player driving and another manning the gun. Magic!
During the night, Agents can activate ‘Freak Breach’ side-missons by springing perimeter traps set up by the mutants. Once the alarm has been raised, waves of enemies will home in on your position and the aim is to survive the onslaught. No hints were given as to what the reward for completion would be, but I reckon it could be EXP bonuses. Speaking of which, agility orbs make a return for achievement fans and EXP is awarded for performing certain actions. Melee kills give you melee EXP and so on.
Perhaps the best ‘new toy’ revealed were the all-new ‘mag grenades’ that wreak havoc with the games perfectly tuned physics engine. It’s a little tricky to explain but here goes…If you stick a mag grenade on a car, then throw another on a nearby wall, you can create an elastic band effect that is caused by the electrical charge running between the two grenades. The examples shown included creating a makeshift bridge between two buildings by tethering a line of cars together and levitating them across the gap and creating a slingshot between two buildings that was used to launch a car at a group of pedestrians.
If you have ever played Spider-Man 2, this was similar to the slingshot move that Spidey can use to gain momentum. Another neat trick is that you can shoot nozzles off gas canisters to turn them into makeshift missiles. By tethering one to the ground with a mag grenade you can create swirling perimeter traps as the canister spins round and round on fire. Rather awesome.
Also impressive is the inclusion of the riotous ‘Keys to the City’ mode that is unlocked from the start in Crackdown 2. This is a bit like Halo 3’s Forge mode and it lets you spawn a large set of items into the map. Jim showed this off in superb style by spawning about 40 cas canisters, 10 cars, about a million grenades and (oddly) golf balls into a giant chimney throwing some sticky charges sown the pipe then setting the whole cocktail off. First, the gas canisters came firing out of the funnel and exploded in mid-flight like a mental fireworks display, then the cars came spewing out, closely followed by a shower of golf balls.
The last scene is a perfect example of the ethos behind Crackdown 2. In true sandbox style, the potential is here to run riot around the city and engage in some absolutely insane horseplay, something has was lost in Rockstar North’s GTA IV. Multiplayer also seems a tantalising prospect, with 16-player PvP confirmed and a hint of a 16 player PvE mode that Jim couldn’t talk about today.
Crackdown 2 is due for release in 2010, The rulebook on fun will be re-written at release. Bring it on!
There have been periods in my life where there was only one profound thought in my head that kept repeating itself over and over:
“I have been hurt almost beyond belief!”
I have gone through periods of almost unbearable agony and suffering. I suspect most people do. Nobody I know has gotten a free pass in this damn life.
But geez! I have gone through intense periods of such inner pain, it was like my soul was being permanently branded by the searing heat of it. I could literally feel my soul, my psyche, being warped out of shape by the pressure of it.
“Life is pain,” said the Buddha, and he was not fukking around. Or maybe he was. You don’t really like to think about it; about pain. Just as you don’t really feel like listening to somebody else bitching and whining about their problems, unless its done in a stylish, cathartic way, like “singing the blues”; or the pie-in-the-face suffering of comedy; or a case of somebody failing in a way that makes you feel successful by comparison (gee, I thought I had it bad, but that poor slob); or if you’re a soap opera junkie/tragedy queen who gets off on weeping and wailing for the suffering of the world….. But most other forms of suffering are dreary to think about. And usually we go out of our way to dodge it; to avoid dealing with it. Gimme a handful of codeines and a fifth of Jack Daniels. I’ll out-flank that damn suffering by hook or by crook.
But suffering has a way of exploding all over your soul in a way that demands: “DEAL WITH THIS, MUTHERFUKKER!!”
My Father was a Methodist minister and one of the perennial questions he had to deal with was the suffering of man; i.e. “Why me?” In fact, many of his parishioners came to him specifically in the hopes that he could heal their suffering or, at the least, give them a prescription from the Heavenly Doctor in the Sky.
One night when I was a kid, I remember my Dad getting a late-night phone call from one of his faithful parishioners. By the grave tone of his conversation, I could tell it was “serious.” My Dad kept repeating over and over: “Tsk! It just doesn’t make any sense! Geez!” It turned out the guy’s 18-year-old daughter had just died on the operating table while they were trying to deliver her baby. The guy kept asking my Dad that one unavoidable question:
“WHY WOULD GOD DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS?”
What can you say? “Gee, the Lord works in mysterious ways. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning….”
I know some people who get very bitter at God for interjecting the suffering bit into what otherwise was a very wonderful blueprint. “I mean, what’s the deal here, God?! I could be sitting here enjoying nectar and manna and lolling around on fields of golden grain for all of Eternity with nubile virgins with large breasts and endless supplies of Old English Malt Liquor. But no! You had to add this damn ’suffering’ thing to the mix. Mind you, its not that I’m questioning the wisdom of Your over-all plan, Oh Great Lord, and praises be to You and all the rest of it, etc., etc. But geez Louise! What’s the deal with that suffering thing? I mean, plagues, and locusts, and cancer, and painful rectal itch, and bad TV sit-coms. Talk about over-kill. What were You thinking, Big Guy? And another thing: that death thing. I could have lived without that, too”
I know some people who get so warped by the pain of life, they take the attitude: “There is no God! No God in His right mind would create a world as sick as this!” Others get so pizzed, they refuse to believe in God out of spite: “I don’t care if You are the Heavenly Boss! I ain’t getting down on my knees to You! You can’t break me. You’ll never take me alive! Um….”
The Greeks and the Romans sort of had the attitude that the gods play with mortal man for sport. The Hindus take it one step further by maintaining that God Himself is playing all the roles, that you are God, and He really isn’t doing anything to anybody but Himself.
But one thing’s for sure: It’s mostly pain and suffering that drives us to the spiritual path in the first place. “No atheists in fox-holes,” that bit. I know when I’m sailing along in a fat and happy state, the last thing I want to be bothered with is wrestling with the existential issues of Life. It’s only when I’m driven to my knees in absolute despair that I truly start asking the fundamental spiritual questions. It’s not so much that I’m looking for Heaven. It’s more a matter of: “GET ME OUT OF THIS HELL!”
And maybe that’s part of the answer too: “Why suffer?” If life is basically a game. And the game is basically Get Back to God. Suffering is the prime game rule that keeps us from veering too far off course. Suffering snaps us back to attention right quick.
Also, too, to continue with the Cosmic Sport analogy: Take basketball. Sure, you want to win the game. But you also secretly want to lose, too. I mean; imagine if you won every time. That would get boring. Sure, you could design the hoop so its 100-feet around; every time you threw the ball up you’d get it in. Yes! I’m shooting 100%! But how much fun would that be? Secretly, we want to lose half the time. It’s what makes the game work. Secretly, we WANT a game that’s difficult and full of suffering and frustration. We want to be puzzled by it all; otherwise there’s no fun with figuring out the puzzle.
Maybe this all sounds stupid, but that’s the only “meaning of suffering” that I’ve been able to come up with. And now I’m done with this column. You know what they say: “I’ve suffered for my art; now it’s YOUR turn.”
From/De: EA Sports UK
EA SPORTS FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4 PREDICTS VICTORY BY UNANIMOUS DECISION FOR MANNY PACQUIAO OVER MIGUEL COTTOManny Pacquiao will win his highly anticipated November 14th bout against Miguel Cotto with a convincing unanimous decision, according to the official EA SPORTS™ simulation conducted using Fight Night Round 4. Now available for the Xbox 360® video game system from Microsoft and the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, Fight Night Round 4 is the latest entry in the critically acclaimed boxing series from Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS).
According to the simulation, Cotto’s defensive prowess and methodical approach to attacking Pacquiao’s body kept the opening rounds extremely close. As the fight approached the middle rounds, Manny countered Cotto’s strategy with his blinding speed, keeping out of range and forcing Cotto to keep moving forward.
Forced out of his defensive strategy Cotto leaves himself open and Manny takes advantage by raining down quick combos while maintaining his range. The combos begin to take their toll on Cotto as the fight approaches Round 8, as he is bleeding and visibly slowing down. Cotto continues to attempt to pressure the body, but the damage he has taken throughout the fight slows him down so much that he can’t get close to Pacquiao. Manny, who seems as fresh as when he started the fight, sends Cotto to the mat with a weaving left hook at the end of the 10th. Despite beating the count, Cotto is never able to recover and loses the bout by unanimous decision.
Round by Round Scoring:
Totals 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Miguel Cotto 9 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 109 Manny Pacquiao 10 9 9 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 118The simulation was conducted using Fight Night Round 4’s all-new AI (Artificial Intelligence) system. Dubbed R.E.A.L (Record, Evaluate, Adapt, Learn) AI, the system re-creates each fighter’s ring strategies in the game based on their real life counterparts. Built with adaptive logic, the system triggers fighters to change their tactics based on their success, or failure, throughout the course of a bout.
The highest rated simulation fighting game of 2009 (source: metacritic.com), Fight Night Round 4 features unique boxer styles and an all new physics based engine that creates one-of-a-kind bouts between over 45 licensed boxers, including Cotto and Pacquiao. For more information, log onto http://fightnight.easports.com/. EA, EA SPORTS and the EA SPORTS logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, and the Xbox logos are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies. “PlayStation” and the “PS” Family logo are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.While we wait for Left 4 Dead 2 to come out I thought I’d take a look at its original, known for its creepy atmosphere and diverse zombie sounds (there’s too many to count).
His face is about to be blown off...
As soon as you start playing Left 4 Dead you realise that it’s quite repetitive but you look past that when start blowing zombies heads off. The level design is great and each time you’re placed into a different environment with different obstacles. The different levels include:
- The Sewers
- The Hospital
- The Farms
- The Offices
- The Forest
Guns and Extras:
There are only two major problems that I could harp on for ages. There are only six guns. That’s right. Six! There’s a Pistol, Uzi, M-16, Sniper Rifle, Pump-Action Shotgun and Automatic Shotgun. If there were more than that the game would be fantastic, especially if you could customize them. The other is not being able to look down the sight of your gun. I think I say this because I play a lot of games like COD 4 and 5 I always think of it as being essential. I don’t know what you think of this. Tell me!
I find the Automatic Shotgun the best to use as it provides a one-hit-kill in most instances. The extras are pretty good. In certain areas you get to use a mini gun which shreds the zombies, killing them easily. The pipe bomb attracts all zombies to it and blows up, which makes it very useful for when a horde comes. Molotov cocktails are nothing special and the petrol and gasoline tanks are useless as you can’t carry them with a gun.
Zombies:
There isn’t a very big variety of zombies, but you don’t really notice whose head you’ve destroyed. Besides from the normal zombies, there are boomers: who vomit in your face, hunters: that pounce on you, smokers: who wrap their tongue around you, tanks: that rush at you and witches: who go crazy when you wake them. The guns make a satisfying crunch when you shoot zombies and the zombies have very varied sound effects. The game is classified as horror though you only get the occasional shock when something like a hunter jumps on you. The witches are easily the most challenging opponent because as soon as you shoot them once they rush at you and knock you down. You then have to finish it off and let your teammates revive you. But after you defeat a witch a horde of running zombies will appear.
AI:
The AI are extremely annoying. They are Louis, Bill, Zoey and Francis. They shout unnecessary things like “reloading” and “pipe bomb” which really becomes a pain. It seems like they have to explain everything they do. It’s great fun killing the AI at the start of the level and trying to make it through the level by yourself.
From left: Smoker, Boomer, Witch, Hunter, Tank
Graphics:
Left 4 Dead was made back in November last year and the graphics are not good. Everything is quite blocky and compared to other games back then the graphics are horrible. It’s a shame a game this good is let down by these graphics. It works fine on my ancient PC at home which can’t even play games like COD 4 made all the way back in 2007.
Difficulty:
I’ll make no mistake in saying this, but Left 4 Dead is easy as pie on the Normal difficulty settings. I’ve only ever died a couple of times. Winch it up to the top level and it becomes a bit of a challenge but is still easy. I reckon it’s the way the zombies don’t notice you’re there until you shoot or shine your light on them that makes it easy. It’s not challenging and they should have made a higher difficulty setting.
Controls:
The controls are simple, easy to use and remember but I still wanted a sprint button. When a tank sees you, all you want to do is run and the game won’t let you. Hopefully Left 4 Dead 2 will have a sprint button.
OVERALL
Good game with in-depth gameplay, level design and lots of zombies (wish it was the same for guns). It gets quite repetitive and you might find yourself putting it down for this reason. It will be interesting to see what standard the sequel sets.
Rating: 8/10 Good
Following the popularity of our spooky scavenger hunt for Halloween, your child will now be invited to participate in a Thanksgiving-themed scavenger hunt starting today, in the online world at JumpStart.com.
We’ve placed 20 Thanksgiving items throughout the world. 10 of which will be located on MainStreet, and the other 10 will be found in the Downtown district. This post will unveil the secret locations of all the hunt items, but Shhhh! Keep this revelation quiet, unless your explorers are really having a tough time.
Some items will be easy to find.
Others will be more challenging, such as this set of Pilgrim clothing off a Downtown beach.
Our designers did a good job hiding the items, so don’t be surprised if your smaller explorer might need some extra direction. If that sounds like your child, dive into these spoilers.
Spoilers start HERE!
Downtown District Item Location Explanations:
MainStreet Item Locations Explanations :
Click to enlarge this map with numbered item locations, marked with stars.
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Big big news for Borderlands fans. 2K announced today that Dr. Ned’s brain eating undead island will open on November 24th. The DLC will be available to Xbox360 and PS3 users for 800MS points, or $9.99. The DLC will be released to the PC “at a later date”. So what can you expect from Dr. Ned’s Island? Well according to 2K you can look forward to “ferocious brain-eating zombies, carnivorous Were-Skags and more”. And lets not forget all the “sweet, sweet, loot”
Contributor: Joe Canale
Anyone can create the identity they want with a computer connected to the Internet. A phenomenon that has managed to grow the game world is “Second Life”. Imagine you starting life again. Have a different identity and no longer have any connection with the real world. A virtual world where everything is created by users, just as they want.There are a huge variety of musical genres, enough to satisfy all users. At most events is free access. For residents of Second Life is possible to participate in races with cars, private parties or classes Philip Rosedale, the man who invented the concept of Second Life, said at the beginning: “We do not build a game, but a country”. Today’s project is much more than that. Second Life has become a very popular area, where 8 million people so far have created their own universe. In Second Life there are no limits to creativity, business and social interactions
What you should know about Second Life
In total, users around the world have spent more than one billion hours in Second Life.
Second Life Residents spend an average of about 100 minutes inworld per visit.
The equivalent of more than USD1 billion has been transacted between Residents in SecondLife, who purchase virtual goods and services from one another.
Residents create more than 250,000 new virtual goods every day – from clothing to vehicles to buildings to automatic language translators, and more.
More than 18 billion minutes of voice chat have been used in Second Life since voice was introduced in 2007.
Approximately 1,250 text-based messages are sent every second in Second Life, and more than 600 million words are typed on an average day.
The total land area of Second Life is now equivalent to approximately two billion square meters – roughly the size of the state of Rhode Island.
Tell us your opinions and experiences related to Second Life
The Whalers teams were up in Port Hardy for the weekend playing in the Port Hardy Wild Wedding tournament. The Whalers had two teams entered in the tournament with the full-time players playing under the Whalers name while the part-time players played under the Orcas name. Both team had a very successfull tournament playing and winning both their games on Friday night. The winning streak continued on Saturday for the Whalers with two more wins while the Orcas split their games with one win and one loss. After the round robin play, the Whalers and the Orcas were seeded first and second therefore lining up against each other for the final. The final game took place Sunday at noon, with farely depleted rosters on both sides due to injuries and sickness. It was a nicely and clean fought game with a lot of outstanding plays coming from both teams. The Whalers came up on top with a 3-1 victory. Congratulations to all!
Game MVPs: Tera Kasubuchi (2), Debra Lacroix, Marianna Stephens
If anybody has more details, please let me know. Working of my memory which is still a bit foggy…
New on the roll this week:
Hunter Huxley distinguishes between alpha and beta assholes.
Julian marvels at the cheapness of old religious books.
Sofia is back!
The Liberal Biorealist notes the hypocracy of Richard Dawkins.
Ray Sawhill reviews Sadomania. (NSFW)
Satoshi Kanazawa asks whether women want their husbands to cheat.
Also check out Kathy Farrelly’s and Kimberly’s Lament’s blogs.
Everybody else:
Prime contrasts his grandfather’s world with his own.
Female Misogynist waxes on the “all or nothing” conceit of feminism.
Chuck lays out the concept of “alpha churn.”
Pro-Male/Anti-Feminist Tech has fun with a hilarious hater.
Roissy reports on the phenomenon of rude, classless omegas.
The Elusive Wapiti makes observations on his new home.
Zdeno writes on fratire at 2 Blowhards.
Al Fin asks how Barack Obama can be so smart and stupid at the same time.
11minutes reports on the conspiracy against beta cuckolds.
Anakin Niceguy muses on marriage, maturity, and manhood.
Alex Birch writes on exploiting peoples’ vulnerabilities.
Martin Regnen lists examples of how not to be an attention whore.
Double-Minded Man comments on the different ways men and women define love.
Fabius Maximus asks why people should go to college.
Max has a laugh at Walmart condition codes.
From Girl Game: Sofia blogs on the importance of class, LILGRL outlines what makes a woman marriage material, and Aoefe laments the death of discretion.
Josh Xiong talks about his atheism.
Dennis Mangan remarks on his loss of loyalty to America.
MarkyMark takes down a woman who claims to be happier with her husband dead.
OneSTDV analyzes the defeatist attitude of the right-o-sphere. (See Dennis Mangan’s response here.)
Professor Hale gives his take on the Fort Hood shootings.
Roosh explains how rationalization hurts people.
Talleyrand defends assholery, identifies cognitive dissonance in married men, urges his readers to put themselves first, and discovers a way to end divorce.
Coldequation compares and contrasts liberal creationism with conservative creationism.
Hestia outlines the different types of love.
Marquis notes differences in how little boys and girls are punished for bad behavior and how this affects them when they grow up.
Chip Smith reports on the phenomenon of women having sex with their gay boyfriends.
Thursday critiques “liberaltarianism“.
HBD Girl differentiates between fickleness and playfulness.
Obsidian urges men to look at things from a woman’s point of view.
Robert Stacy McCain tells tales of his adventures in the Adirondacks.
Slumlord analyzes The Sex Diaries.
Hugh MacIntyre reports on the collapse of Quebec’s only conservative political party, the Action démocratique du Québec.
Gerard O’Neill speculates that the future will favor men over women.
Tyler details how to get what you want from women.
G Manifesto writes a guide to dating multiple women at the same time.
Unfrozen Caveman relays a comment from a guy who’s given up on women.
Guy White notes the new trend of fugly women being aggressive sexually.
Richard Hoste reviews SuperFreakonomics.
Spoony takes a look back at System Shock.
Bruce Grossman reviews three vintage Harlequin novels.
Bryan Caplan writes on what he doesn’t like about Singapore.
Art Carden deconstructs popular objections to capitalism.
Agnostic asks why college kids are so boring these days.
Eolake Stobblehouse comments on map “trap streets”.
David J. Balan criticizes the logical basis of arguments in favor of disciplining children.
William Lind praises the Swedish military.
Emach mocks a Playmate who claims that posing naked is a form of female empowerment.
Larry Arnhart asks whether might makes right.
Jim Kunstler reports on Goldman Sachs’ government-supported rape of America.
Fjordman muses on the role IQ plays in waging war.
Half Sigma claims that supporting families means supporting abortion and argues that pro-lifers are destroying the Republican Party’s future.
Joe Bageant prints a letter from a brainwashed American sheeple.
Burt Blumert explains how men are losing the war of the sexes.
Mark Richardson posits liberalism as the last remaining extremist ideology.
David Lindsay claims that the rise of Doug Hoffman signals the fall of the GOP.
Will Grigg asserts that new federal hate crime legislation is an assault on liberty and that it will kill more people then it saves.
David Goldman attacks Obama’s absurd foreign policy and states that socialism won’t save the economy.
Ellison Lodge takes a look at the GOP’s idiotic new website.
Steve Sailer analyzes Mad Men.
Tim Worstall writes on the sex tape stupidity of Carrie Prejean.
Peter Brimelow compares the success of Doug Hoffman’s campaign to the ascendancy of Goldwater and Reagan conservatism.
Paul Belien reports on the conquest of Europe by Belgium.
Takuan Seiyo charts the liquidation of the United States.
John Dolan praises Lord Byron.
PLEASUREMAN theorizes why beta males are pro-gay rights and are attracted to left-wing politics in general.
Vox Day attacks the fascism of Apple computers.
Peter Frost writes on the demographic changes wrought by the Roman Empire.
Randall Parker reports on sleep deprivation’s effects on brain activity.
I don’t really want to rank the other teams… I think it’s too early to rank them because they are all bad except one. That is why I am ranking this last team 20th…No guys, not the knicks…it’s their cross-town rivals the NETS.
20. Nets – Two words “no wins”
I was browsing this great post by zed at The Spearhead (go read it if you haven’t already) when I came across this equally awesome comment from finsalscollons. He’s a bit too much on the extreme side, but his overall thrust is powerful:
What men want from women? Irrelevant. Any society in history has been the answer to the question “what women want from men”. Men are programmed to please women and not the other way around, the same way mothers are programmed to please children and not the other way around. It is only evolution in practice. Women control men, always have, always will.
DNA studies showed that aboout 80% of women of yore managed to reproduce as opposed to 40% of men. Women have always been hypergamous and the few millenia of monogamous marriage have not changed their basic nature. In order to tame the hypergamous female sexuality, massive cultural artifacts have been required. It has been required the brainwashing of women (religion, “be a good girl”). It has also been required an universal social stigma against hypergamous behaviour (illegitimate children being labelled as “bastards”, promiscuous female behaviour being labelled as “slut”, stigma against single moms). It has been required that women were not able to economically support themselves, in order to force them to forfeit the excitement of an alpha cad in favor of a more stable beta provider, in order to make ordinary men attractive for women.
On the other hand, men were pressured into marriage in an early age where their hormones were high and were willing to trade a life of economic support for a bit of sex. Men were brainwashed to think marriage was the only honorable option. The fact that sex was taboo was a way for these men not to know that sex dries up in marriage so they entered marriage thinking they have secured a steady supply of sex (I think Erasmus told that “men enter marriage dreaming of white sheets”). Everybody thought that the neighbor was having more sex than himself (see “How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life”)
All this cultural brainwashing was to make women want a beta provider. The answer in the good old days to the question “what women want from men?” was a “good husband and father”. But this was not the true nature of women, only result of massive brainwashing for millenia.
All these cultural artifacts have been dismantled the past few decades and now the answer to the question “what women want from men?” is “an alpha if this is possible, if it is not, then a share of an alpha”. This is the basic female nature: hypergamous and has an evolutive explanation, as all of you know.
So when women whine about not finding men and about men being afraid of commitment, many MRAs take a perverse pleasure saying “they are reaping the consequence of their behavior”, “let them rot”, etc. I myself have been victim of this schadenfreude.
What many men are not aware of is that women whining about the lack of commitment are not whining about the lack of commitment from us, but about the lack of commitment from Mr. Alpha. When people are in their twenties and thirties, there are more men than women, so every woman could have a husband (if she lowers her unrealistic standards). But they prefer to be with an alpha who is pumping and dumping her than with a beta husband.
So all this fantasies about women rotting and discovering that their refusal of men have taken them to a single life and then abandoning the gender war and becoming traditional women are only fantasies. Women are in the exact point they want to be. They always have, they always will, because biology has given an enormous amount of power to the female of every species. Of course, women whining about everything (it’s their unconscious way to make other people work for them to help their offspring), but they don’t prefer being married to the current state of affairs and they don’t want to go back to the fifties (as opposed to the idealization of the fifties, with an alpha in any household).
What are the solutions for men then? On a collective level, the solution is the inevitable overcoming of matriarchal Western society by patriarchal societies. Every time a society becomes matriarchal, it is overcome by patriarchal societies, which are more efficient in reproduction. This happened with ancient Rome, with Sparta, with Babilonia (read “Sex and culture”). Europe will be Islamic in one century. I don’t know how things will be in USA but the future is patriarchal (right-wing, Latino, you name it, but patriarchal).
Resurrecting the patriarchal nature of Western society is futile now. Once the stigma against hypergamous nature is gone, it is impossible to resurrect it because it would take a conscious decision of the vast majority of the elite to “brainwash” the masses. This is not going to happen. Brainwashing is imposed by the culture but not choosen. Furthermore, the elite has interest in the current state of affairs and most elite males are alpha and having the time of their life with all these informal harems.
On a personal level, there are three solutions from men. Learning Game and pumping and dumping women (”the PUA way”), leaving women alone and find meaning in other pursuits (”the MGTOW way”) and expatting. I have expatted and I am happy of having done so. I have lived in Central America for ten years.
Don’t be fooled about all these siren songs about non-Western women being better than Western women. The basic instincts are exactly the same and non-Western women also look for alphas. They also prefer to be in an alpha harem than to be in a beta marriage. Believe me: I have know them for ten years. Women are women everywhere and their hypergamous nature is biological not cultural. The difference is:
(a) I was a beta in America but I am an alpha here and I can choose between a harem and/or a traditional wife.
(b) Laws are not that stacked against men and many women are still brainwashed into being a “good girl” (this is rapidly disappearing because of Western influence). So non-Western women are sweeter, more traditional and behave better than Western women. But, in the core, all women have the same nature and the faster men understand that the less pain they will have when they see their illusions being broken by a woman.
Sallys Quick Clips (86 MB download)
Snip, clip, and style with Sally as she remembers how she started her career in this puzzle prequel, Sally’s Quick Clips. Arrange scissors, dryers, hair color, and more into matching groups of three to gather resources for the special services you provide to clients. Match your customers’ tastes and make them look sharp in fun mini-games as you help Sally win the TV competition!
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Dopo circa tre anni di sviluppo, è finalmente uscita la nuova fatica dello studio Amanita Design: Machinarium.
Questo trasognato adventure game, ci porta in un mondo di robot cigolanti, rottami ed inquinamento dove c’è però spazio per l’Amore il Sogno. Il gioco è veramente gustoso, semplice in alcune situazioni difficile ed intrigante in altre. Una splendida colonna sonora fa da cornice ad illustrazioni che riescono a farti dimenticare i progetti multimilionari delle hit 3D del momento.
Il gioco è disponibile su piattaforma Mac, PC e Linux al prezzo di 20USD (compresa la colonna sonora in formato mp3).
Game – The R.E.D. Album
Interscope Records
Dropping: February 26, 2010
Its only 4 months away! Haha. Three new tracks have leaked but those are after the jump. Is it just me or is The Game scratching his balls on the cover…?
Read More For Three New Tracks…
Krazy [Feat. Gucci Mane & Timbaland] [Prod. Timbaland]
Big Money [Prod. Cool & Dre]
Better Days [Prod. Jim Jonsin]
Ngmoco has been talking up its new offerings for a while now, including the visually stunning first-person shooter Eliminate, and the virtual pet Touch Pets series of apps. Both of these are now available, free of charge, on the App Store, as of yesterday.
Even though the apps are indeed free to download and install on your device, it should be noted that both of these apps represent the latest attempts to capitalize on Apple’s in-app purchasing system, in perhaps some of the most diabolical ways yet. ngmoco has recently used in-app purchasing to sell level packs for Rolando 2, which can now be downloaded for free with Chapter 1 included.
Eliminate (Free, iTunes Link)Space marines, jumping, shooting, glowy surrounding, what more could you ask for? Eliminate is the first fully functional, original IP (not that we’re saying it isn’t derivative, mind you) first-person shooters to hit the iPhone platform, and it’s been highly anticipated as a result. It features global matchmaking for multiplayer combat over both 3G and Wi-Fi networks. Sorry, no EDGE, but it probably couldn’t handle the action anyway.
There’s also Plus+ network integration so you can track your stats and invite your friends and contacts to go toe-to-toe in deathmatches, and compare stats on the leader board. And the game includes a leveling and credit for weapon and armor upgrades and customization. Sounds pretty good, right? Now the bad news.
Eliminate is free to play, but it definitely gives you an advantage to pay. As the cleverly designed opening sequence relates, you are equipped with a set amount of energy in Eliminate, and when said energy runs out, you no longer earn credits for kills. Energy refills over time, or you can simply buy more using the in-app purchasing system. Credits allow you to upgrade weapons and armor.
You start with 30 power cells of energy. Based on my trials, that will probably last you about 10 to 15 minutes of play, if that, though I’m not sure of the actual conversion rate. Once you expend any points, a countdown clock starts until you charge again. The clock lasts around 240 minutes, so you are recharged every four hours, basically. You can buy additional power cells in blocks of 20, 280, and 975 for 99 cents, $9.99 and $29.99 respectively if you’re not the patient type.
The game is fun, and works surprisingly well given the touch controls you’re stuck with on an iPhone or iPod touch, and you can practice against bots or play without earning credits for free any time you want. All of which means that ngmoco is being pretty fair with its use of in-app purchasing this time around. Basically, you pay to progress, but the game is still enjoyable by all without that aspect. It’s a nice blend, and one that I predict will be hugely successful once Eliminate hits wide release.
Touch Pets Dogs (Free, iTunes Link)I admit to once having owned a tamagotchi. Or if not owned, at least permanently on loan from my sister. The problem, of course, was that they always proved more of a nuisance than anything else. All of the demands of a real pet, and none of the benefits, like companionship or snuggle-ability.
Touch Pets Dogs follows in the footsteps of Nintendogs and other pet simulators before it. You pick out a puppy, name it, and then begin taking care of, playing with, and training it. It has a Sims-like interface for checking on your dog’s skills and happiness level, and even their Job status, which is a unique feature introduced by the ngmoco sim. You can train your dog to follow a career path, which makes it even more like The Sims.
There’s actually a lot to do in Touch Pet Dogs, and you gain levels as a dog owner in different areas, just like your dog can gain skills and job levels. It’s much richer than any other pet sim I’ve played, and it managed to keep my interest for more than one play-through, which is a record I think.
The in-app purchasing component to Touch Pets is fairly devious, though. You have to pay for food, which seems extremely cruel, since it’s such a basic necessity for your dog’s well-being. Luckily, your food automatically refills to a maximum of two bowls, and does so relatively quickly, so you can still play without having to cough up micropayments, but it will be harder to keep your dog hale and hearty. You can also buy more Puppy Bucks by converting food that you buy via iTunes.
The Future of iPhone Gaming?Both of these new games from ngmoco show different types of attempts at capitalizing on the iPhone’s in-app purchasing system. It’s a thorny issue to navigate, since on the one hand, you could stand to make a lot more money than by selling apps in a more traditional manner, but on the other, you could inspire the rancor of your customers if you appear to be using the system unfairly. In my opinion, ngmoco’s done a good job of treading that thin line thus far, and it looks like they’re committed to making changes to make sure they strike the right balance.
1 week and 4 days ago, I got my grubby little mitts on Smackdown Vs Raw 2010, and seriously, I’m enjoying the hell out of this game, even more than I have enjoyed the previous 2 editions of it. Really, the community creations feature despite it’s two major flaws, is a great addition to the franchise.
But I’ll tell you this, the time I had actually buying the game was a nightmare. A real nightmare. For the past 3 and a half weeks, I’ve been 20 years old. Keep this in mind, as you read on.
I walk into GAME, one of the big two game shops in the UK, a place that I have bought countless games from, and never had an issue. I pre-ordered Smackdown Vs Raw 2010 about a month before hand so I could secure my Stone Cold Steve Austin exclusive DLC.
Unfortunately I lost he pre-order slip, but surely they’d have the pre-order on the system with my Reward Card account details… My second fail-safe didn’t even come in, which was supposed to be a text from GAME telling me that my pre-order was ready to be picked up.
Anyway, so this idiot behind the counter goes to the back and brings out my game, and I’m all ready to pay for it when she asks the question that I’ve never been asked before in my life.
“Have you got an I.D.?”
My first instinct is “are you fucking serious?”, I’m 20 years old, and I’m being asked for I.D. to buy a 15 rated game! Surely there’s no logic behind this! It’d be understandable if I was trying to purchase Grand Theft Auto or something like that, but I’m not! This dumbass must have thought I was 14!
This moron must have something wrong with her, because quite simply I don’t look 14, and I haven’t been 14 in 6 years! The only reason you ask for I.D. is if you are suspicious of the age of the person purchasing it.
Anyway, the only way I could have gotten the game without I.D. (I don’t actually have any) is to drag my mother from the car into the store. And when I did this, this bitch treated us both like shit! Seriously bad service.
Even with my mother there, I tried to hand over the cash to pay for my soon to be brand new game. She turns around and says “I can’t take that from you.”.
What the fuck? So now my money isn’t good enough? What a mindfuck! So I hand the cash to my mother to hand to the ignorant buffoon and my mom has to bail cuz this store doesn’t have adequate air conditioning.
The cretin pops the game into the bag and hands it to me, and is about to give me my change until she changes her mind and says “I can’t give this to you. I’m sure your mom will understand.”
Oh really? I wonder if she’ll ever understand the finer nuances of selling games, cuz I’m never going to their store again. So after technically having my mother buy my game, I pop into another shop to buy a few Christmas presents before I blow the rest of my money on random shit I don’t need.
I pick up an Al Murray comedy DVD (18 rated) and a Buffy DVD (15 Rated) and pay for them upfront, without a call for my I.D.
Seriously, fucked up sales pitches.
Oh and I eventually got the text… About 30 minutes after I left the store, and my game didn’t have the DLC I pretty much wasted £15 on (I could have gotten the game at ASDA for £25).
Fuck you GAME.
Setelah sebelumnya membahas sepuluh karakter laki-laki dan perempuan terbaik di dunia game, kali ini Navilink47 & Typercat18 akan membahas sepuluh serial game atau game franchise terbaik versi Navilink47.
Baiklah, mari kita mulai hitungan mundurnya….
Out of nomination:
Ada beberapa serial game yang Navilink47 anggap baik, namun tidak masuk ke dalam nomimasi sepuluh besar. Mereka adalah Gran Turismo, Metal Gear Solid, Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Castlevania, Contra, dan Call of Duty.
10.
Grand Theft Auto
(by Rockstar)
Seri-serinya: GTA, GTA II, GTA III, GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA: Vice City Stories, GTA: Liberty City Stories, GTA IV
Sesuai namanya, Grand Theft Auto atau disingkat GTA adalah permainan mencuri mobil punya siapa saja. Seri pertamanya muncul untuk PC dalam format dua dimensi dan muncul dalam format tiga dimensi pada seri-seri berikutnya untuk berbagai platform mesin seperti PlayStation, PS2, dan PC. Game ini memang ratingnya bukan untuk anak-anak dikarenakan banyaknya unsure-unsur kekerasan yang ditampilkan oleh game ini. Namun entah mengapa anak-anak pun suka memainkannya.
Game ini menjadi idola di kalangan gamer dikarenakan gameplay yang menarik dengan berbagai macam fitur dan lokasi yang bisa dijelajah. Storyline-nya biasanya tentang seorang anggota geng yang berusaha membalas dendam atau bertahan hidup di sebuah kota yang penuh dengan peperangan antara geng dan kriminalitas. Kota yang menjadi latar belakang game ini pun diangkat dari kota yang benar-benar ada seperti Vice City dan Sand Andreas. Bahkan dalam GTA IV, kota yang ditampilkan sangat realistis dengan kualitas gambar yang mantap serta beragam fitur yang sangat luas untuk dieksplorasi. Meskipun masuk dalam daftar serial game terbaik, namun game ini bukan untuk konsumsi anak-anak, bahkan remaja. Seri GTA terbaru yaitu GTA IV sendiri jelas-jelas memberi rating dewasa pada game ini.
9.
Metroid
(by Nintendo)
Seri-serinya: Metroid, Metroid 2: Return of Samus, Super Metroid, Metroid Fusion, Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Metroid: The Other M
Metroid adalah salah satu serial game panjang milik Nintendo. Muncul pertama kali di tahun yang sama dengan Super Mario Bros. untuk mesin NES, Metroid mengambil kisah seorang bounty hunter wanita bernama Samus Aran yang bertugas menghancurkan Metroid, sebuah sel kehidupan yang sangat berbahaya. Dalam perjalanannya memburu Metroid, Samus selalu berhadapan dengan pembajak luar angkasa yang berniat menggunakan Metroid sebagai senjata biologis.
Game ini muncul di semua platform game Nintendo mulai dari NES sampai yang terbaru, Nintendo Wii. Jenis permainannya pada awalnya adalah side-scrolling shooter action game, namun pada perkembangannya berubah menjadi first person shooter (FPS) dalam serial Metroid Prime, serial FPS yang menjadi saingan dari serial Halo milik Microsoft. Ceritanya sendiri cukup dalam pada platform generasi terbaru seperti GameCube dan Wii dibandingkan pada mesin terdahulu milik Nintendo. Karakter utamanya sendiri, Samus Aran selain muncul pada serial ini juga muncul pada serial Super Smash Bros., baik dalam wujud armored suit maupun zero suit. Konon kabarnya serial terbaru Metroid, Metroid: The Other M yang rilis untuk Nintendo Wii akan menggunakan genre baru perpaduan dari side scrolling shooter dengan FPS. Kita nantikan saja.
8.
Command & Conquer
(by Electronic Arts.)
Seri-serinya: Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn, Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Command & Conquer: Generals, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3.
Kehadiran serial Command & Conquer atau disingkat CnC di industri game dunia pada tahun 1995 menjadi sebuah tonggak lahirnya genre baru dunia game yang disebut real-time strategy atau biasa disingkat RTS, sebuah genre yang mengharuskan pemain mengatur strategi dan pasukan untuk mengalahkan pasukan musuh. Game yang awalnya dikembangkan oleh Westwood Studio dengan bantuan Virgin Interactive ini menyajikan gameplay yang sederhana dan juga cerita yang sangat dalam. Bisa dibilang CnC adalah perintis game strategi di dunia.
Cerita game ini tak jauh dari perseteruan dua kubu yang saling mengklaim sebagai wujud kekuatan terhebat di dunia. Serial CnC sendiri dibagi menjadi dua timeline atau jalan cerita yang muara awalnya adalah seri keduanya yaitu Command & Conquer: Red Alert. Red Alert mengisahkan perseteruan kubu sekutu yang dipimpin Amerika Serikat dengan kubu Soviet yang dipimpin Rusia setelah perang dunia kedua. Dalam perang dunia ketida, istilah dalam pertempuran Red Alert, bila dimenangkan oleh kubu soviet, ceritanya akan berlanjut pada seri pertama Tiberian Dawn atau sering disebut Tiberium series. Sedangkan bila perang dunia ketiga dimenangkan oleh kubu Sekutu, maka alur ceritanya berlanjut pada seri Red Alert 2 atau biasa disebut Red Alert series. Pada Tiberium series, muncul dua faksi baru di dunia yaitu Global Defense Initiative atau disingkat GDI yang terdiri dari neagra-negara sekutu dan faksi Brotherhood of Nod atau sering disingkat NOD yang terdiri dari kelompok negara pecahan Soviet serta negara-negara pemberontak lainnya. Dalam Tiberium series dikisahkan sebuah meteror berisi mineral alien yang disebut Tiberium jatuh ke bumi dan mulai menghancurkan populasi umat manusia. Kedua faksi tersebut berusaha merebut dominasi dunia melalui mineral Tiberium. Sementara pada Red Alert series, dikisahkan bahwa kekuatan Soviet kembali bangkit dan memulai perang dunia baru antara pihak Soviet dan Sekutu. Pada seri terbaru serial ini yaitu Tiberium Wars dan Red Alert 3, perseteruan terjadi melibatkan tiga faksi. Dalam Tiberiun Wars melibatkan faksi GDI, NOD, dan Alien sementara pada Red Alert 3 melibatkan Soviet, Sekutu, dan juga Jepang. Bahkan pada Red Alert 3 yang memiliki kemampuan grafik yang bagus menampilkan cerita, apa yang akan terjadi bila masing-masing faksi memenangkan pada perang dunia kedua. Serial Generals lain lagi kisahnya. Generals mengambil kisah konflik global mutakhir antara Amerika Serikat, Pemberontak Kebebasan, dan China, jauh dari cerita awal serial game ini sehingga bisa dibilang sebagai spin-off.
Panjang dan berliku bukan kisah peperangan ini? Itu pun belum termasuk seri Expansion-nya. Karena itulah serial game ini layak masuk dalam daftar serial game terbaik.
7.
Tekken
(by Namco)
Seri-serinya: Tekken, Tekken 2, Tekken 3, Tekken 4, Tekken 5, Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken: Dark Ressurection, Tekken 6
Penggemar game fighting pasti ingat game ini. Tekken adalah salah satu game figthing terbaik yang pernah ada. Muncul pertama kali untuk mesin Arcade, Tekken mengambil kisah turnamen Iron Fist yang diadakan oleh Heihachi Mishima untuk mencari petarung terkuat yang akan direkrut dalam organisasinya.
Serial ini makin terkenal dari setiap seri yang muncul. Karakter gamenya pun beragam dan kesemuanya memiliki ikatan kronologis dengan jalan cerita game ini. Dan tidak sulit bagi game sekaliber Tekken untuk membuat setiap karakternya diingat oleh gamer. Adalah Heihachi, Jin, King, Hwoarang, Paul, Eddie, Jack, Law, dan Nina nama-nama karakter yang sangat diingat. Anda tak ingat mereka? Mungkin Anda perlu memainkan game yang sangat mengasyikkan dan telah diangkat ke dalam sebuah film CGI ini. Karakternya yang banyak dan gameplay yang konsisten menjadikan game ini layak masuk daftar.
6.
Resident Evil
(by Capcom)
Seri-serinya: Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Director’s Cut, Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Resident Evil Zero, Resident Evil Code: Veronica, Resident Evil: Dead Aim, Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Resident Evil:Darkside Chronicles, Resident Evil 5
Mungkin Resident Evil atau sering disebut RE bukanlah pelopor dari genre survival horror, namun game inilah yang menjadikan genre tersebut tenar saat ini. Bayangkan saja bila Anda tiba-tiba berada di lokasi yang penuh dengan mayat hidup yang selalu siap untuk menerkam Anda, maka Anda pun harus selalu siap menembak hancur kepala mereka. Inilah inti dari setiap game RE, walaupun saat ini genrenya sendiri telah berkembang.
Cerita bermula dari kecelakaan di laboratorium Umbrella, sebuah perusahaan kimia yang memproduksi virus berbahaya yang disebut T-Virus. Virus tersebut lalu menyebar dan merubah manusia menjadi mayat hidup atau zombie. Maka muncullah zombie-zombie yang meneror kota bahkan dunia. Saat seperti itulah ditugaskan banyak polisi-polisi untuk membunuh mereka. Dan gamer pun mengenal tokoh-tokoh seperti Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Claire Redfiled, Leon Kennedy, dan banyak tokoh-tokoh lainnya sebagai para penumpas Zombie.
RE telah menjadi sebuah franchise yang laris manis di pasaran bak kacang rebus. Serial ini bahkan telah diangkat dalam tiga buah film layar lebar live-action yang dibintangi Milla Jovovich dan meraup box office. Selain itu dibuat pula game spin-off semacam seri Dead Aim dan Umbrella Chronicles. Filmnya pun juga muncul dalam format CGI yaitu Resident Evil: Degeneration.
5.
Harvest Moon
(by Natsume)
Seri-serinya: Harvest Moon, Harvest Moon 2, Harvest Moon 3: Boys & Girls, Harvest Moon 64, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town, Harvest Moon: More Friends Mineral Town, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Lufe, HArvest Moon DS, Harvest Moon:
Anda adalah seorang petani yang memiliki sebidang kebun dan Anda harus mengelolanya untuk kehidupan Anda. Itulah inti kisah Harvest Moon. Game berjenis Simulation RPG ini menuntut Anda untuk aktif dan berdisiplin dalam mengelola kebun Anda, mulai dari menanam brokoli sampai menanam strawberry. Bermain game ini ibarat menjadi seorang petani. Yang menjadikan serial ini tidak monoton dan membosankan adalah ceritanya yang sangat menggemaskan. Di sini gamer dituntut untuk dapat bersosialisasi dengan semua penghuni desa dan juga dituntut untuk menggaet salah satu gadis desa untuk dijadikan istri. Wow….sangat menggemaskan. Lupakan game RPG yang penuh dengan darah, mari sejenak merasakan nikmatnya menjadi petani….
Biarpun gameplay-nya itu itu saja, yaitu hanya bertanam di kebun, merawat ternak, dan juga bersosialisasi, namun setiap seri game ini selalu dicari dan diburu oleh penggemarnya. Selalu ada yang baru, itulah yang menjadikan Harvest Moon menjadi salah satu serial game yang laris dan juga populer.
4.
Pokemon
(by Game Freak)
Seri-seri utamanya: Pokemon Red & Blue, Pokemon Gold & Silver, Pokemon Crystal, Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire, Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen, Pokemon Emerald, Pokemon Diamond & Pearl, Pokemon Platinum, Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver,
Seri-seri spin-offnya: Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Stadium 2, Pokemon Pinball, Pokemon TCG, Pokemon Puzzle Challengge, Pokemon Colloseum, Pokemon XD – Gale of Darkness, Pokemon Rangers, Pokemon Rangers: Shadows of Almia, Pokemon Mistery Dungeon: Red & Blue Rescue Team, Pokemon Mistery Dungeon: Explorers Time & Darkness, Pokemon Mistery dungeon: Explorers of Sky, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire Box, Pokemon Dash, Pokemon Trozei!
Game yang awalnya dibuat untuk permainan antar GameBoy ini di luar dugaan meledak di pasaran dan kini menjadi salah satu ikon budaya pop dunia dengan penualan terlaris untuk setiap serinya. Adalah Satoshi Tajiri sang “penemu” Pokemon yang telah menciptakan sebuah game unik dan menjadi terobosan baru saat itu.
Permainan Pokemon pada awalnya hanyalah menangkap berbagai macam monster unik yang disebut Pokemon. Pokemon-Pokemon ini kemudian dapat digunakan untuk pertarungan antar trainer dengan misi utama mengumpulkan mereka semuanya dan menjadi juara liga Pokemon. Namun, game dengan maskot Pikachu ini kemudian berkembang menjadi game dengan berbagai macam jenis permainan dari yang awalnya berjenis Role Playing Game (RPG). Sama seperti serial game lain dalam daftar ini, Pokemon selalu penuh inovasi. Proses pertukaran Pokemon dengan menghubungkan dua buah mesin game menjadi syarat mutlak untuk menyelesaikan game ini. Selain itu pertarungan Pokemon antar negara, lingkungan game yang memiliki waktu real-time, serta event-event khusus yang diadakan Nintendo menjadikan Pokemon penuh inovasi. Bahkan pada seri barunya yaitu HearthGold & SoulSilver, kabarnya lingkungan permainan dapat diputar secara interaktif seperti pada permainan Wario Ware.
Selain dalam bentuk game, serial ini pun muncul dalam berbagai media seperti film animasi, trading card game (TCG), komik, dan film bioskop. Untuk informasi lain tentang serial game ini, klik disini atau bergabunglah dengan komunitas multiply pertama yang berbahasa Indonesia di www.pokemonindonesia.multiply.com.
3.
Zelda
(by Nintendo)
Seri-serinya: The Legend of Zelda, Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda: Majora Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventure, The Legend of Zelda, Four Swords, The Legends of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
The Legend of Zelda diciptakan oleh tokoh yang sama yang membuat Mario, siapa lagi kalau bukan Bapak Video Game Modern, Shigeru Miyamoto. Kelahiran Zelda seolah menjadikan titik awal lahirnya genre baru dunia game yaitu genre Action RPG, sebuah genre yang menggabungkan genre Action dengan elemen-elemen RPG. Disini tokoh utama yang bernama Link selain bisa beradu pedang dan menjelajahi dunia Hyrule juga diharuskan berinteraksi dengan non-playable character lainnya serta harus memecahkan puzzle teka-teki. Gameplay seperti inilah yang menjadikan Zelda terkenal di kalangan gamer dan yang menginspirasi game-game sejenis seperti serial Mana atau Seiken Densetsu. Bahkan seri Ocarina of Time disebut-sebut sebagai game terbaik sepanjang masa karena memiliki elemen game yang sangat lengkap.
The Legend of Zelda intinya mengisahkan petualangan Link, seorang ksatria muda bertangan kidal dalam perjalanannya menyelamatkan Putri Zelda sang Ratu Hyrule dari cengkeraman penyihir jahat bernama Ganon atau Ganondorf. Meskipun demikian, sama seperti serial game lainnya, The Legend of Zelda juga memiliki cerita spin-off atau diluar dari cerita serial utamanya seperti pada seri The Minish Cap dan Four Swords dimana lawan yang dihadapi adalah Vaati, penyihir angin yang jahat. Selain itu The Legend of Zelda juga memiliki dua seri game yang apabila disatukan akan membentuk sebuah jalan cerita baru, mirip dengan serial game Pokemon yang menuntut pemain untuk menghubungkan kedua game untuk melakukan barter. Adalah seri Oracle yang apabila seri Oracle of Seasons dan seri Oracle of Ages disatukan akan membentuk cerita baru dimana Link akan berhadapan dengan Twinrova yang hendak membangkitkan penyihir jahat Ganon.
Banyak sekali inovasi baru yang muncul pada setiap seri game The Legend of Zelda yang menjadikan penggemar selalu menantikan seri baru dari game. Misalnya bentuk karakter dan penggambaran yang berbasis cell-shaded pada seri The Wind Waker dan Four Swords Adventure untuk mesin GameCube, touch screen yang sangat berperan penting dalam seri Phantom Hourglass untuk mesin portabel Nintendo DS, dan penggunaan fitur nunchuks dan wii-mote dalam seri Twilight Princess untuk mesin terbaru Nintendo Wii yang memungkinkan pemain melakukan sayatan pedang dan memanah dengan menggerakkan tangan layaknya berpedang dan memanah sungguhan.
Ketenarannya menjadikan The Legend of Zelda sebagai salah satu mascot Nintendo selain Mario dan Pokemon, dimana game ini dipastikan akan selalu ada di setiap mesin game buatan Nintendo.
2.
Final Fantasy
(by SquareEnix)
Seri-serinya utamanya: Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantay IX, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XI
Seri spin-off: Final Fantasy: Mystic Adventure, Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerberus, Chocobo Mistery Dunegon, Dissidia
Coba sebutkan siapa gamer RPG yang tak kenal dengan judul ini. Ya, Final Fantasy adalah serial game RPG terbaik sepanjang masa yang sudah sangat diingat oleh gamer RPG di belahan dunia manapun. Tak ada yang pernah menyangka pada awalnya bila game ini bakal menjadi pusat perhatian seluruh dunia.
Adalah Hironobu Sakaguchi yang menciptakan seri Final Fantasy yang pertama di tahun 1987 sebagai proyek terakhirnya dan juga game terakhir yang dirilis oleh SquareSoft yang saat itu mengalami kebangkrutan. Tak dinyana proyek terakhir mereka yang diberi nama ”Final Fantasy” alias harapan terakhir itu meledak di pasaran dan berhasil menyelamatkan SquareSoft dari kebangkrutan. Dari situ mulailah era emas Final Fantasy yang bertahan hingga sekarang. Serinya secara berturut-turut pun terbit dan menjadi rebutan di kalangan gamer. Era keemasan itu pun mencapai puncaknya saat Square merilis Final Fantasy VII untuk mesin PlayStation yang diklaim sebagai game Final Fantasy terbaik sepanjang masa.
Gameplay Final Fantasy cukup sederhana dan merupakan ciri khas dari permainan RPG pada umumnya seperti menjelajahi gua, hutan, lautan, kota-kota, membentuk tim, bertarung melawan monster, dan pada akhirnya menyatukan seluruh jalinan cerita yang ada. Ceritanya sendiri tak jauh-jauh dari dunia yang penuh kekacauan dan menuju pada kehancuran dimana kemudian muncul para pahlawan yang datang untuk membela kebenaran dan mengalahkan para penjahat demi mewujudkan ketentraman di dunia tersebut.
Mungkin sudah menjadi tradisi bagi serial game yang populer untuk dipastikan memiliki seri game spin-off tersendiri. Final Fantasy pun memiliki seri spin-off dengan berbagai genre. Bahkan saat ini telah rilis seri Dissidia yang bergenre fighting dengan menggabungkan semua karakter yang pernah muncul dalam serial Final Fantasy.
Selain dalam bentuk video game, Final Fantasy kini telah diadaptasi dalam bentuk film, walaupun film CGI pertamanya, Final Fantasy: Spirit Within gagal total dan memaksa SquareSoft melakukan merger dengan Enix hingga berganti nama menjadi SquareEnix. Namun film CGI keduanya yaitu Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children mendapat apresiasi yang sangat baik.
1.
Super Mario
(by Nintendo)
Seri-seri utamanya: Mario Bros.,Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars!, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi Island, Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshines, New Super Mario Bros., Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2
Genre lain: Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Super Mario RPG, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Meele, Mario Strikers, Mario vs Donkey Kong, Mario vs Donkey Kong: March of the Minish, Luigi Mansion, Super Princess Peachm, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, dll
Di urutan pertama dari daftar ini ada tukang ledeng favorit kita semua, siapa lagi kalau bukan si Mario. Karakter ciptaan Master Shigeru Miyamoto ini tampil pertama kalinya dalam game Donkey Kong. Saat itu hanya bernama Jumpman. Mario memiliki game pertamanya sendiri dalam permainan arcade berjudul Mario Bros. dimana dia tampil bersama saudaranya yang bernama Luigi. Namun seri Super Mario Bros. Yang rilis tahun 1985 bersamaan dengan NES-lah yang menjadikannya sangat tenar sampai saat ini. Serial game pun terus bermunculan dari yang awalnya hanya permainan platform adventure berkembang ke dalam berbagai macam genre mulai dari balapan, sepakbola, tenis, golf, party game, fighting, puzzle, hingga RPG. Daftar yang tertulis di atas tidak mencakup semuanya dikarenakan setiap karakter dalam game Super Mario sendiri sekarang telah memiliki permainannya sendiri seperti Luigi dengan Luigi Mansion, Yohsi dengan Yoshi Cookie, Wario dengan Wario Ware Twisted, hingga Princess Peach dengan Super Princess Peach. Namun meskipun sekarang berkembang dalam berbagai genre, Mario tetap fokus pada jalan cerita utamanya yaitu menyelamatkan sang Putri kerajaan Toadstool dari penculikan King Bowser yang jahat.
Tak dapat dipungkiri bila maskot Nintendo ini kemudian menjadi game paling diingat sepanjang masa sehingga oleh IGN game pertamanya berjudul Super Mario Bros. dijadikan game terbaik sepanjang masa dan bahkan mendapat tempat tersendiri dalam Hollywood Hall of Fame. Game yang selalu hadir di setiap mesin game Nintendo ini pun masih tetap eksis sampai sekarang. Perjalanan panjangnya dimulai dari mesin Arcade sampai pada era Nintendo Wii yang menandakan bahwa serial game ini adalah salah satu serial game tertua di dunia selain serial PacMan dan Tetris. Game terbarunya, Super Mario Galaxy dan Super Mario Galaxy untuk mesin Nintendo wii disebut-sebut sebagai kandidat baru game terbaik di dunia.
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