Aww Dip

This is it. The last decent song on the “Punk goes Crunk” (blatant lies) album

Continuing with the “Punk goes Crunk” (but not really):

I avoided this game like the plague at first, because I assumed any game with a title written in quasi-1337sp33k wouldn’t be worth the $1 price tag…. and I was really wrong. Once I found out it was made by Ska Studio’s, I bought it right away. They are people that did Dishwasher: Dead Samurai, which was one of my top 5 games of 2009.

It is a simple zombie twin-stick shooter. If there was a way to add tower-defense, it would be the perfect game for me. There are tons of power ups, the soundtrack is rough, but the game is tongue-in-cheek so that doesn’t bother me. I find myself wanting to play this more than some XBLA games that I have payed $10 for.

WARNING: There are a lot of strobing lights, so if you are in any way sensitive to that, do not get this game. I found that if I hav a really good run and can live for more than 10 minutes I get nauseous.

Video of gameplay:

System: Xbox 360
Distributed: XBLA
Download it to your xbox- http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/games/media/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d802585502a6/

That was good for me, was it good for you?

There is an album out called “Punk Goes Crunk”. While this sounds great on paper, it is neither punk nor crunk. There are about three decent songs on the whole album. This is one of them:

100% Guilty pleasure

So there is this thing called New Media Cincinnati. While I could go on a tirade about how a group of people patting each other on the back for being self-proclaimed “new media” experts is not my idea of a good time, there are other people who do it better than me.

While these NMC events used to be free, they now cost ~$6 to attend. IF I was ever going to pay, it would only be to see this person speak, since they are experts in all areas (except knowing what their twitter name is).

New Media Expert ahoy!

This tugs on every one of my heartstrings. I didn’t realize how much I missed hearing “Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Brooklyn bound L train will be arriving in X minutes” until I saw this video.

Found in my Kotaku RSS feed

If I haven’t mentioned it enough, I am a HUGE fan of Team Fortress 2. Not only is the game balanced (for the most part), but it is done in a tongue-in-check way that doesn’t take itself to seriously. TF2 focuses on being fun first, and everything else falls in to place.

Sadly, TF2 on the Xbox 360 is no where near the amazing experience it is on the PC. It has yet to be updated from the initial launch of the game, which means all of the new weapons, class balancing, maps, and rule sets are missing on the console version. It is also prone to people cheating, and if you can find a match, it will be a test or your patience. There was a video I saw that restored my faith in class-based shooters on a console:

Monday Night Combat, by Uber Entertainment, looks strikingly similar to TF2. There are multiple classes, each with strengths and weaknesses. It is light-hearted, and for all intents and purposes is a re-skinned TF2…. and I am fine with that. I would love to have a great class-based shooter on the 360.

The one thing that Uber needs to make sure they do is push updates to players for new content. If I have to pay $5 for every update, I am going to leave this game by the wayside and go turn on my PC, where I get all the TF2 updates freely. Games like this require constant tweaking and regular rollouts of new additions to keep the game fun and balanced. If Uber treats MNC like Valve treated the console version of TF2, it will become the same wasteland that TF2 is now.

(And yes, I realize that Valve wanted to put out free updated for TF2 and Microsoft wouldn’t let them distribute the content for free at the time.)

I have been on a Grizzly Bear kick without even knowing it. I somehow wound up with a ton of mashups/remixes of their stuff.