New Reviews

[xyzzysqrl]

Of Lord of the Rings: Third Age, which really isn't so hot (and which I enjoyed far more than I really should have), and of
Return to Mysterious Island, which I expected to be a lot worse.

Comments

[llyander.livejournal.com]

~Just falls over giggling at this line~ "...Boromir, whom you may recall as the grabby fellow who dies at the end of the first movie..."

Grabby fellow. Bwahahahahah!

[xyzzysqrl]

But Sam will kill him if he tries anything. *nod*

[orrin.livejournal.com]

I believe sincerely that Return to Mysterious Island would have been better if it were the titular island from the movie (you know, the one with giant Harryhausen-crafted fauna).

[xyzzysqrl]

Anything is better with Harryhausen-crafted fauna. Or flora.

There should be a project started to digitally insert them where they will bring hope to us all. (I'm not naming names here, but I for one can picture a large white building that would be greatly enhanced by being squish-fodder for that giant statue from Jason and the Argonauts.)

[phennphawcks.livejournal.com]

That LOTR game plot sounds... um, weak is probably too kind, but we'll go with that. Fellowship of the Hobbit-stalkers!

Plus I'm pretty sure there's been at least one or two Middle Earth games out on PS/2 already. I've noticed a PS/2 game based on The Hobbit knocking around the video game store shelves.

[orrin.livejournal.com]

There were 5 or so at my last count.

[swordianmaster.livejournal.com]

There was:

1) LotR: Fellowship of the Ring
2) LotR: The Two Towers
3) LotR: Return of the King
4) LotR: The Third Age
5) The Hobbit which is nothing like a LotR game
6) LotR: The Treason of Isengard, which was cancelled.

And none of these hold up to being compared to the SNES Fellowship. *shudder*

[stolisomancer.livejournal.com]

Future reference: it should've been "...basic tenets of game design..." in the Mysterious Island review.

By the way, you're doing pretty well. Tony, a.k.a. Ouberlord, is now using a quote of yours as his .sig file on the WP forum.

[xyzzysqrl]

The mistake's been pointed out for me once already elsewhere, but that doesn't make it less wrong. This renforces that. Thanks.

...Say. As long as you're over here, maybe you can offer a bit of help. I've been eyeing an Xbox, because I clearly don't have enough to do gamewise. (Also because I've been looking at Crimson Skies and Panzer Dragoon Orta with deep heartfelt longing for the last year and a half or so, but that's beside the point.) Is a Live account worth maintaining even if I'm not going to use it that often, for game updates and whatnot? Are Live-only content updates common or frequently seen as required?

I know nothing of this console, so I'm a little baffled now that I'm starting to pick up interest.

[stolisomancer.livejournal.com]

A Live subscription is forty dollars a year. Yeah, go ahead and maintain it. Crimson Skies multiplayer alone is reportedly worth it.

I'll warn you now, though, that unless you have the fattest available broadband pipes, Live tends to lag some.

[xyzzysqrl]

All online games lag to some degree, I've found. The question is really more player tolerance levels. I think I can handle it, but thanks for the heads-up. I was mostly concerned that it'd be a new and exciting way to meet complete asshats, but I've been convinced otherwise.

Mostly.