It's been out for like ages now, and I finally got around to renting Super Mario Strikers yesterday. Long story short: best Mario sports game ever.
What we have here is a pretty basic game of soccer, only it's been pumped full of adrenaline and awesome. The big differences between this and normal soccer games would be A) the use of items B) "super strikes" and C) the amount of hitting. As you can see by those few points, this game pushes the offense envelope farther than you might have expected. Items aren't overly useful or varied, but they cause a lot of damage. Super strikes are basically guaranteed goals if you manage to get the timing down perfectly, and can cause some mind-bendingly high-scoring games. Lastly, there's so much body-checking in this game that it's nuts. Also, Bowser shows up every once in a while to royally mess up everybody's shit.
Again, killer game. Tons of fun, and an excellent party game. It's like the Super Smash Bros of sports titles. It's even got some kickass robots. Highly recommended.
So that article's up now. Only... it's not really an article. Yeah. That's right. New Chat Radio. Sorry. Better luck next week.
I know you're here looking for the weekly article, but it won't be up until tomorrow, unfortunately. While you're waiting, why don't you go check out the Mario Ice Capades? I've got nothing else today...
Good evening, all. I figured I could take some time to pop in for a bit and let ya know that I've been making small updates to the ol' DeviantART gallery over the past week or so. Nothing great, but it's filling in quite nicely. There's some photography, some new MS Paint abortions, and a couple other random bits of junk. Just thought I'd make sure those of you who don't take a look-see regularly are on top of things. Later.
This dude has multiple personailities. Neither of them makes a very good argument.
Kickass (and super-tough) Bullet Bill game
Essential Super Mario Galaxy footage, for those fools who haven't seen it yet.
It's been too long since I linked to a sweet remix. Here's some WoodMan goodness.
I had big plans to get some suff done around the site and home during the weekend, but unfortunately, I made a decision that will probably take over my life for a good while to come. You see, on Friday afternoon, I started playing an MMORPG. MapleStory, to be precise. I've never been overly enthusiastic about even trying an MMO, never really seeing the point, but I got sucked into MapleStory really quick. With it's unbelivably cute sprite graphics and simple platformer gameplay, it was a temptation that a gamer like myself can only resist for so long. I mean, it's not get-up-and-call-everyone-you-know fun or anything, but you just can't get away when you're so close to that next level or just need another five grand for that sweet new armor. I now understand how people's lives crumble while playing these games. Fortunately, my wireless network (which is made mostly of LEGOs and bubblegum) isn't 100% stable, so it goes out for a minute now and then and kicks me off the game, which is actually a really good thing in that it keeps me from playing obsessively.
So in conclusion, I say give it a shot. It may not be super complex or all the rage like World of Warcraft, but it's a fun little game, and will eat away the hours really quickly (if you need something for that purpose). I play on Cassiopea 2 if you do decide to try it out (or already play). Keep an eye out for RyanDS and maybe we'll do that party thing people are always talking about.
Sunday. Article day. Yeah, I copped out a bit, but I have my reasons. I'll be posting better stuff in the next couple weeks. Gotta go back now... Almost have enough for that new armor...
EDIT: Had to make a little change in my article. Actually, it was a rather sizeable change. I was jsut sitting her and realized that I'd missed something. Well, it's fixed now, so it's back to the grind for me. I'll explain tomorrow...
I don't really have anything to post about, but I do have a little somethin' for ya...
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A chance to grab the newest Coozy For Hire wallpapers a whole week before those who don't bother to read my blog! These are brought to you by my extreme pride in the latest CfH comic. The big one looks a little stretched, but do you really look that closely at your wallpaper anyway? But enough of this crap, I have to go buy me some New Super Mario Bros! (Make sure to click that link, they've revamped the site big-time.)
It's Mother's Day, and it's also the start of a new week. Know what that means? Bingo; article day. While I can't promise that they'll always be up on Sunday, I am striving to post one article a week. And while this week's is somewhat weak, it's still there. Enjoy. Next week I'll have something slightly less... re-used.
You may have heard a really high-pitched sqee of joy echoing around the world last night around 12:45. Yeah, that was me, after watching the Super Smash Bros Brawl trailer. I was already pumped for Wii due to the last two days of E3 coverage, but once I saw SSBB - and subsequently that Solid Snake would be a playable character - my head nearly exploded. Anyone who knows me remembers what I was like waiting for Super Smash Bros Melee to come out, and to them, I say that it's gonna be like 20 times as bad this time around. HOLY FUCK I NEED THAT GAME NOW. With any luck, we'll see some more playable Konami characters (like Django), and better Wii support from Konami than they gave the GC.
In other news, I was going to get me some breakfast yesterday, and I opened the pantry to an odd surprise. You see, up by where the cereal sits, there was a bag that looked mysteriously like a bag of dog food. I was bamboozled, but then took a closer look and saw that it was, in fact, cereal.
Surely, you can imagine that from the side, it does bear a frightening resemblance to some sort of pet food and I'm not just a moron. But anyway, it was cereal, and quite the cheap-ass cereal to boot. They can't even afford to package it in boxes. I'd like you to note right now that the cereal seems to be of an Australian theme, what with the "Mateys" and the kangaroos (named "Cool Blue" and "Li'l Oaty")down on the corner there. This will come into play right after the next picture.
Now you get a look at the marshmallows. While the fornt of the bag would lead you to believe that the "Mateys" in the title was just some kind of butchered Australian catch phrase (they do just say "mate", right?) because of the kangaroo, the cereal is, in fact, pirate-themed. Now what kangaroos and pirates have to do with each other, I have no idea. Perhaps whoever was running the package design had really bad short-term memory, and forgot what theme he was suppose dot be going for? Maybe Malt-O-Meal is just run by idiots? Their website people seem competent enough. Maybe it's just the package designers.
Wait... No. I'm the idiot. Upon closer inspection, the kangaroo is just their mascot that they tack onto every cereal. I wish I hadn't looked up that website. That point was like the bulk of this post...
The other thing of note about the cereal is that they claim to tase just like Lucky Charms. Now it may be just because I'm a cereal connoisseur, but these things taste nothing like Lucky Charms. The oaty bits are nowhere close to the right taste, and the marshmallows, even though all cereal marshmallows taste the same, taste completely different as well. So boo to you and your false advertising, Malt-O-Meal. Boo to your dumb name too. And your poorly designed bags. Damn things rip apart rather than opening.
In conclusion, Marshmallow Mateys suck. They don't taste horrible, but I've fostered enough distaste for Malt-O-Meal in the fifteen short minutes it took to write this that I'm going to say that all their products suck. Each and every one of their rip-off cereals (which are probably all touted to taste the same as the name-brand stuff).
I've been trying my damnedest to remain impartial to "the competition", but as of today, I officially hate Sony. Why? Well, yesterday they announced that their Playstation 3 "Dual Shake" controller will have a tilt sensor. They razzed Nintendo when they revealed their "Wiimote" controller last year, and now they're essentially trying to steal the idea because it's been the most talked about thing since it was unveiled? That's just plain despicable. What a bunch of dumb fucks.
On the other hand, as it turns out, the Wiimote is going to have a speaker in it to play local noises. So far the only example is how in Zelda: Twilight Princess (to have separate releases for Wii and Gamecube), an arrow's sound goes from the Wiimote's speaker to your TV's speaker as it gets further away, but it seems like a really neat feature. It's no VMU, but it'll add a nice extra layer of depth if used properly/enough. Okay, now it's back to E3 coverage for me. Catch ya later.
E3 starts tomorrow, but I've got something else on my mind at the moment: Guitar Hero 2. A couple days ago, the first few tracks in the game were revealed, which got me thinking about which songs I'd like to see. So with the revealed tracks ignored, Here's my dream track list for Guitar Hero 2 (Not necessarily in order of difficulty, but arranged in such groups).
Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
BTO - Takin' Care Of Business
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band- Roll Me Away
Span - Baby's Come Back
Colin James - Chicks and Cars
Styx - Blue Collar Man
Firehouse - Lover's Lane
Journey - Line Of Fire
The Doors - Peace Frog
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
Tesla - Don't De-Rock Me
Story of the Year - Wake Up The Voiceless
Matthew Good - North American For Life
Guns N Roses - My Michelle
TSOL - Everybody's A Cop
Headstones - Cemetary
Heart - If Looks Could Kill
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
Loverboy - Hot Girls In Love
Harlequin - I Did It For Love
Nazareth - Razamanaz
Kiss - Psycho Circus
Rush - Closer To The Heart
Van Halen - Unchained
Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
Trooper - The Boys In The Bright White Sports Car
Def Leppard - Rock Brigade
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
Lostprophets - A Million Miles
Note the inclusion of more than one Canadian band. At least Rush is confirmed for GH2.
You know what's cool? I've actually recovered the drive to write articles! Just look at this new one I wrote today! Ha. Now I'm good until next week. That's two in less that a week, actually. You'd better be grateful.
I'm far too tired to put you through the usual BotM paces today. This month. Ever again. So you know, here's the sum of what I have to say. Band of the Month is We Are Scientists. Chances are that aside from my blog, you've never heard of them. But they're a pretty good band. Their latest CD, With Love and Squalor is their best so far, but my favourite song, "Mothra Versus We Are Scientists" is not from that particular disc. Search them up. I had a link to bunch of free stuff a while back.
And now that that's over, I have a few notes.
-Topclasshost does not allow torrent files. As such, all torrent links are stale.
-This page seems to not load every now and then, at least for me. So if it just comes up as black, click refresh a couple times.
-April 2006 archive is up. All [new] archives now have updates sidebars too.
-I don't know if you noticed it, but the Coozy War page is on the sidebar there.
-DS Lite release is June 11. However, they're only launching in white. Fuckers.
New article... not so up. But trust me, it will be sometime later today. I just wanted to make the news post right now. Currently, I'm finishing up with moving stuff off the CN webspace. Just the CD archive left, really. Pulled that half of the site together pretty quick, wouldn't you say? Maybe that's a good omen, indicating that I'll get all those many articles over from Angelfire sooner than later. So yeah, check the articles page later on.
I went out to do a little shopping yesterday, and while I want to talk about what I bought, I just realized an even better idea. Seriously. As I was writing that sentence. Surely you remember that Mike did a couple mass reviews back in the day. They seem to have gone poof along with a lot of his other old stuff, but I'm basically gonna steal the formula for an easy out. Yeah. That'll be next week's article. You know what? If I play my cards right, I could very well have weekly articles for the next couple months, just like I predicted a few posts back.
The last thing I need to do (and this is way overdue) is give a little plug. I've been enjoying my iPod for all it's worth (which is a lot), and part of owning an iPod is listening to podcasts. Now I don't really care much for people talking about stuff, but for the record, I love the Penny Arcade podcasts. They're hilarious and I highly suggest you go and download one and give it a listen (for those out of the know, you don't need to own an iPod to listen to a podcast. They're just really long mp3 files). I also recommend subscribing to the iTunes compatible feed if you want to round up the old ones quickly.
EDIT(3:43PM): The new article is up, and I absolutely love it. You may not agree with me, but I think it really captures the best of my writing. That and it really feels like an X-E article, just a bit shorter.
So I think I'm dying. Or really malnourished. I'm not too sure. Anyway, time for more important matters.
The new New Super Mario Bros video is up. It's really looking good, but upon closer inspection of the bottom screen, the levels seem to be a little short. Let's just hope it ends up being as good as Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World.
I shouldn't have to remind you, but E3 starts in a week. It's gonna be an awesome show, because we're finally going to see some Revolution Wii games. Hearing all this talk about Red Steel and Madden 2007 (which sounds like it's going to be really sweet) is all well and good, but I need something I can really sink my teeth into. Like maybe a video or two of the new Super Smash Bros game. Anything from Nintendo would be nice, really. This is going to be even better than the E3 where they showed off all the Gamecube stuff. It's bringing back memories of the time before the GC was released, where my friend and I would just sit at IGN and refresh every minute in hopes that some new screenshots or videos would be added. Ah, good times. Good times.
In other news, I may have an article tomorrow. I may not. Depends on how I feel today. And also if I spend the whole day sleeping, like I have been for the last 4 days. Damn overnight shift broke me good. Thank God it's almost over.