Hello! This is R2-D2 with our long-awaited review of the MMOG, Nation States 2!
STORY: You are a world leader. Do as you wish.
STORY: 0/0.
GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is text based, you run a nation, make friends (or enemies) with other nations, blockade people, trade with people, Answer issues (that will mould your nation) join alliances, and more, all with the mouse. There are very little restrictions as to what your nation can do, but there are a few annoying things that I'd like to note:
-The website (http://www.nationstates2.com/) is very slow, and often just STOPS for no apparent reason. I guess that's to be expected with 30,000+ nations.
-If, say, you are in a big alliance, and an alliance law demands that you trade with everyone in that alliance, you cannot set to trade wth everyone in the alliance. You HAVE to go nation by nation, setting status with each one.
-LOTS of inactive nations. (cough cough Yeah568) In some worlds, literally almost half of the nations are inactive and haven't logged in for a few weeks.
Other than those issues, the gameplay is good.
GAMEPLAY: 7.5/10
GRAPHICS: Text based. (N/A)
MUSIC: Browser-based games don't have music. (N/A)
OVERALL: A good game to pass the time. Just don't expect to be on it for hours on end.
OVERALL: 7.5/10
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Gotta Love Glitches. Episode 2.
Hey guys!
I'm finally here with another episode of Gotta Love Glitches. I'm now attempting to try to get a new post up two or three days, but I don't promise anything. Anyways, on to the post!
This time, the glitch is from Game Giveaway of the Day, a site which gives away games for a day, for free.
As you can see, the thumbs up or thumbs down percentage equals, well, 101%. One hundred and one percent. 100+0+1%. Not the usual 100%, but 101%. Weird, huh? GGotD has some explaining to do......
So, that about wraps up this episode of Gotta Love Glitches. 'Till next time, this is Yeah568, signing off.
I'm finally here with another episode of Gotta Love Glitches. I'm now attempting to try to get a new post up two or three days, but I don't promise anything. Anyways, on to the post!
This time, the glitch is from Game Giveaway of the Day, a site which gives away games for a day, for free.
As you can see, the thumbs up or thumbs down percentage equals, well, 101%. One hundred and one percent. 100+0+1%. Not the usual 100%, but 101%. Weird, huh? GGotD has some explaining to do......
So, that about wraps up this episode of Gotta Love Glitches. 'Till next time, this is Yeah568, signing off.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Send it in!
Just a little tip to you loyal fans out there that there's a new e-mail for the Mario Blog team - roosterton.blog(at)gmail(dot)com . Send us your questions, concerns, recommendations, whatever to that email there. And BTW - we're accepting positions to help us with our blogging. Send us a simple resume to the address above.
Yeah568, signing off.
Yeah568, signing off.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
One-man Orchestra plays Wind Waker Music
Hey! Yeah568 here with another awesome find, which is just awesome. Also, sorry about the long period of time when I wasn't posting. I was on vacation, and nowhere was there free Wi-Fi! Grr....
Anyways, a guy named Fredrik Larsson created this jawdropping piece of music. All by himself. No help. 19 parts. Over and over and over. Amazing, isn't it?
Watch the video on YouTube here.
So, I have to go do other stuff now, so see ya guys later!!
~Yeah568
Anyways, a guy named Fredrik Larsson created this jawdropping piece of music. All by himself. No help. 19 parts. Over and over and over. Amazing, isn't it?
Watch the video on YouTube here.
So, I have to go do other stuff now, so see ya guys later!!
~Yeah568
Friday, January 2, 2009
Star Wars - The Force Unleashed (Wii) Full Review
Hello! This is teh R2D2, with the full SWTFU review.
I finished the game a LOT sooner than I expected, if anyone's wondering why the pre and full reviews are so close together. Anyway, on with the review!
STORY:
The main character is the un-named apprentice of Darth Vader between episodes 3 and 4. While he starts out serving Vader, he slowly betrays him and eventually fights with him. With an original story and a tragic-but-heroic ending, the story is pretty damn good. However, it loses a few marks for one reason... I beat it in SEVEN HOURS and 20 minutes, split among three days. :0! Way too short.
STORY: 7/10
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay seems good at first. The Wii-remote is used as your lightsaber and the Nunchuck is used to control your force powers. And throwing Wookies of high bridges with the force never gets old :). However, it sometimes gets irritating as you start to feel that the Wii-remote is a bit undersensitive, and the Nunchuck is a bit too sensitive. Also, the creators need to draw the line between "a Large Variety" of Force Powers and "An Excessively insane" amount of Force Powers. You seem to have so many, yet I probably used only half of them more than once or twice. The enemies and landscapes don't really change much throughout the game, and they get boring after a while.
GAMEPLAY: 7/10
MUSIC:
The music is taken pretty much directly from the movies. While it isn't bad, you'd think that they could be a BIT more original.
MUSIC: 8/10
GRAPHICS:
While the Graphics to a good job of animating flinging Storm-Troopers and Force Lighting Storms, the character detail is like that of a PS-2 game. Literally. Its detail is about as good as Star Wars BattleFront 2, for the PS2. They could be more detailed, me thinks.
GRAPHICS: 7/10
OVERALL:
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a C+ Game, nice if you want some mindless lightsaber-swinging action. However, don't expect it to be a 24-hour Epic, or a challenging game.
OVERALL: 7.25/10 - meh...
I finished the game a LOT sooner than I expected, if anyone's wondering why the pre and full reviews are so close together. Anyway, on with the review!
STORY:
The main character is the un-named apprentice of Darth Vader between episodes 3 and 4. While he starts out serving Vader, he slowly betrays him and eventually fights with him. With an original story and a tragic-but-heroic ending, the story is pretty damn good. However, it loses a few marks for one reason... I beat it in SEVEN HOURS and 20 minutes, split among three days. :0! Way too short.
STORY: 7/10
GAMEPLAY:
The gameplay seems good at first. The Wii-remote is used as your lightsaber and the Nunchuck is used to control your force powers. And throwing Wookies of high bridges with the force never gets old :). However, it sometimes gets irritating as you start to feel that the Wii-remote is a bit undersensitive, and the Nunchuck is a bit too sensitive. Also, the creators need to draw the line between "a Large Variety" of Force Powers and "An Excessively insane" amount of Force Powers. You seem to have so many, yet I probably used only half of them more than once or twice. The enemies and landscapes don't really change much throughout the game, and they get boring after a while.
GAMEPLAY: 7/10
MUSIC:
The music is taken pretty much directly from the movies. While it isn't bad, you'd think that they could be a BIT more original.
MUSIC: 8/10
GRAPHICS:
While the Graphics to a good job of animating flinging Storm-Troopers and Force Lighting Storms, the character detail is like that of a PS-2 game. Literally. Its detail is about as good as Star Wars BattleFront 2, for the PS2. They could be more detailed, me thinks.
GRAPHICS: 7/10
OVERALL:
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a C+ Game, nice if you want some mindless lightsaber-swinging action. However, don't expect it to be a 24-hour Epic, or a challenging game.
OVERALL: 7.25/10 - meh...
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Wii) Pre-Review
Hello! R2D2 here!
I recently got Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Nintendo Wii. So far the game is okay. Here are my draft - rough copy thoughts on the game so far.
Story - The story looks good so far. A bit corny at times, but good. (I will say what the story actually is in the full review :))
Gameplay - Good gameplay at first, but it gets a bit drab. Also, the Wii Remote (Used as your lightsaber) is somewhat unresponsive at times. Force powers are cool, though.
Music - Music taken straight from the movies, so I can`t really complain.
Graphics - Meh. Could be better.
That`s the quick idea of it. Much more detail in the full review, coming soon!
I recently got Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for the Nintendo Wii. So far the game is okay. Here are my draft - rough copy thoughts on the game so far.
Story - The story looks good so far. A bit corny at times, but good. (I will say what the story actually is in the full review :))
Gameplay - Good gameplay at first, but it gets a bit drab. Also, the Wii Remote (Used as your lightsaber) is somewhat unresponsive at times. Force powers are cool, though.
Music - Music taken straight from the movies, so I can`t really complain.
Graphics - Meh. Could be better.
That`s the quick idea of it. Much more detail in the full review, coming soon!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Gotta Love Glitches. Episode 1.
Hey guys, it's Yeah568 here. I know I have been here for a while, but us bloggers have to go to something that starts with S-C-H and ends with O-O-L. So yeah, on with the post!
I just started a (hopefully) weekly post on random bugs/glitches that I happen to see on my old computer. Tip: If you want to see glitches, ditch that uber fast gaming computer, and go back to an Intel Celeron with 512 MB of RAM. It's easier that way.
So, today's glitch is in the one OS that I personally hate the most, Windows!
(Like my uber awesome desktop? Yeah. And no, I do not actually use pirate to pirate things off the internet. Just to get Ubuntu and that offline Wikipedia thing. Just sayin'.)
As you can all probably see, the pop-up balloon used by Windows to tell you "Updates are available, download them already!!!!! I'll keep nagging you If you don't." is in the totally wrong place. And that black box thing in the lower-right hand corner, that's Launchy. It's actually quite useful (in my opinion).
That wraps up this week's post on Gotta Love Glitches. Till next week, I'll see you later.
~Yeah568
Did anyone actually read all that? If you did, then you should know by now that Macs are superior. Let the flame wars begin.
I just started a (hopefully) weekly post on random bugs/glitches that I happen to see on my old computer. Tip: If you want to see glitches, ditch that uber fast gaming computer, and go back to an Intel Celeron with 512 MB of RAM. It's easier that way.
So, today's glitch is in the one OS that I personally hate the most, Windows!
(Like my uber awesome desktop? Yeah. And no, I do not actually use pirate to pirate things off the internet. Just to get Ubuntu and that offline Wikipedia thing. Just sayin'.)
As you can all probably see, the pop-up balloon used by Windows to tell you "Updates are available, download them already!!!!! I'll keep nagging you If you don't." is in the totally wrong place. And that black box thing in the lower-right hand corner, that's Launchy. It's actually quite useful (in my opinion).
That wraps up this week's post on Gotta Love Glitches. Till next week, I'll see you later.
~Yeah568
Did anyone actually read all that? If you did, then you should know by now that Macs are superior. Let the flame wars begin.
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