This water pokemon is the Master of Unlocking!

• 13Sep 04

  Burnout 3: Criterion good, Electronic Arts baaaad.

  There's so much priase going on about Burnout 3. I'm sure it's a great game. Props to Criterion for managing to make such a great game that is really fun.
  
  
  Neverthless, the huge bummer is that the game is published by Electronic Arts. So, sorry, good game, but I would not buy Burnout 3. My money deserves to go to other publishers and not to Electronic Arts.
  
  
  It's cool that everyone else is enjoying the game. It is also equally cool that Electronic Arts will not be enjoying my money too.
  • Posted Sep 13, 2004 8:50 am PT
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• 8Sep 04

  Graphics-O-Rama!! Thought of the day.

  Thought of the day: Do you want to live in a world where less and less people actually PLAY games, and instead, more and more people just want to spend some money and then watch some fancy graphics on their TV screens?

  Consider this: What if such people (those who are only interested to watch graphics on screen as opposed to PLAYING and interacting with the game) actually join the game development industry and start making such “games"?

  Consider this: You love gaming your entire life. You enjoy a game where it engages you with interesting options of play and the entertaining consequences of your interactions within the game world that follows. Such experiences can never be described by just fancy computer graphics alone. You join this industry in the hope of making great interactive entertainment that people can engage in, and have a good time with. And then, you get put in a development team full of people who just want to WATCH fancy graphics in a game. Your programmers think that programming a fancy graphics engine equals making a game, and proceed to do as such. Your artist think that writing elaborate stories and making “super” non-interactive CGI movies equals making a game. What will you do?

  What will I do?

  • Posted Sep 8, 2004 9:33 am PT
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• 7Sep 04

  Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan

  Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan
  
  There's no doubt about it.
  
  The best thing to me about living in Japan is Akihabara.
  
  Here, gaming history is alive and well and most importantly, FOR SALE! To be able to experience, first hand, the gaming past, present and a peek into gaming future is priceless. It is about an hour's train ride from my place and I visit it almost every weekend, Sure it hurts on the wallet when there's just so many things that I really want to buy there. Also, just to hang out in the arcades and watch people play.
  
  This is one of the best experiences in my life so far. I am happy and grateful to my luck in order to have such an oppurtunity to live the dream.
  
  
  
  
  • Posted Sep 7, 2004 1:05 pm PT
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