The nearby picture tells me that my son & I aren't the only two people who love the new Katamari game.
Category: video games
I Love Katamari
Who doesn't? My copy of We Love Katamari should arrive any day now, then I can go back to getting my fill of rolling over things with my stickyball. Me and Jake have prepared by taking his mom's Yoga balls and rolling them all over the house. Perhaps we could develop a live action Katamari Damacy, like those folks that play Pac-Man through the streets of Manhattan.
GTA: Long Night
I'm a PS2 guy and not a PC gamer, but I hear good things about the Long Night mod for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on PC.
Zombies, lots of 'em. 20 new missions. Play as different characters. New radio stations. New storylines as well. A frend has been playing this since the weekend and gives it a big thumbs up.
“Hot Coffee” on PS2 Confirmed
As I've got my hands full with the newborn these days, I've left the dirty work to Migs. He has confirmed that the Action Replay codes that have been floating around do indeed work on PS2 versions of GTA: San Andreas. You enter the house of your date and make with the festivities. Gamespot also confirms.
There was a post on Joystiq about the scapegoating of Rockstar Games, when apparently, God of War has much more violence. But the furor over this is blown out of proportion. To play the “Hot Coffee” mode, you need either an Action Replay, a Game Shark, or to download mods and patches. Then you need to find the codes necessary to make this thing work. Then you can play simulated sex games. And for a child to do this, it means the parents must have been blind to every news story about GTA: San Andreas when it was first released, and not really given a fuck about what games their kid played. Heck, those parents are probably getting their kids beer and cigarettes.
In this day and age, I think it's a lot easier to find porn on this little creation called the Internet. You may have heard of it. Al Gore invented it. But Tipper wouldn't have allowed that to happen, if she knew her hubby's creation was going to be used in such a way. Maybe we can place a warning sticker on the Internet. Then maybe Wal-Mart wil sell it. I hear they got the cheapest Internets at Wal-Mart. My buddy got one the other day, and its got the porn on it and everything.
As this post collapses into nothingness, at least I feel like I've done my job, I can't have all those other posts about GTA and not comment on “Hot Coffee”. Although, to be honest, I am sick to death about reading about it.
So, Net-net. Rockstar basically says they didn't inhale, but put a Rumsfeldian spin on it. The game gets pulled from shelves, gets an AO (Adults-Only) sticker. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher that owns Rockstar, tells Wall Street the numbers will be lower. I hope to read more about games and less about this garbage in the near future.
Distract all Humans
God of War
A score of 94 impresses me greatly, especially when it's determined from a field of 61 reviews. I expect God of War to be in heavy rotation on my pS2 in the near future.
I hear good things about Destroy All Humans as well, even though the Meta-score was nothing special. (Stuff checked in with the highest review.)
Metacritic brings warehouse club convenience to the world of reviews.
Cheat Codes GTA San Andreas PC
I fondly recall the days of posting about edisoncarter and his cheat codes for GTA: San Andreas. The PC version is out now so here's a link to edisoncarter's cheat codes for PC.
The PS2 community owes a great deal to edisoncarter for his research endeavors in going where no one else was going to go. At least not as quickly, in delving into the unknown netherworlds within San Andreas. He has no booth at E3. There is no Hall of Fame for him. But he looks not for thanks and praise, just for more cheat codes.
GTA returns to TBIMB
It's official. Grand Theft Auto for Sony PSP. Fall 2005. Now maybe I'll think about keeping that unopened box that wasn't going to fund my retirement on eBay.
Any PC users looking for multi-plaer mods of GTA. Try this.
I guess this post may as well include all things Rockstar, so here's the official site for Bully. No info, much like the GTA:LCS site, but bookmark these things, it will come.
Rockstar is supporting the PS3, apparently a Red Dead Revolver demo was shown at E3. No announcements of GTA for PS3 yet, there are rumours floating on the Yahoo Finance messageboards about Microsoft buying TakeTwo (Rockstar's owner/publisher), but as a lot of rumours on finance messageboards, there's a good chance they're crap. They probably heard from the same two morons at a Gamestop that told me last year that Microsoft already had XBox exclusivity for the next version of GTA. Of course, I knew they were full of shit, because I was a TakeTwo shareholder at the time. But as they possessed the oft time ugly “clerk-snob/god” attitude, there was no telling them otherwise. But now if there is any truth to the new rumours, these tow will pat themselves on the back, with the only real gain being the 4 words, “I told you so”. Meanwhile I've picked up 10 points on TTWO stock. Now I'm the one with the smug little smirk.
Star Wars Kid vs Tony Hawk
Just found this appearance in Tony Hawk Underground 2.
Slut Magnet
Hey! edisoncarter's back with Slut Magnet. It's there. Go ahead and scroll down a bit. Just when I thought I'd never make another GTA: San Andreas post. I'm having a bitch of a time with flying, although I really haven't had the time and/or made the time for the requisite level of immersion. (For all the cheats I've posted, I like to complete my missions boy scout style. Well sort of, I mean this is GTA , if there were merit badges for carjacking, mayhem, arson, murder, and fornication, well maybe he's reach Eagle Scout status.) I'll try to earn my wings cleanly, but we'll see how long that takes.
