xyzzysqrl: (Play with me.)
xyzzysqrl ([personal profile] xyzzysqrl) wrote2004-12-14 05:40 am

New Reviews

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.

[identity profile] llyander.livejournal.com 2004-12-14 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
~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!

[identity profile] orrin.livejournal.com 2004-12-14 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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).

[identity profile] phennphawcks.livejournal.com 2004-12-14 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] orrin.livejournal.com 2004-12-14 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
There were 5 or so at my last count.

[identity profile] swordianmaster.livejournal.com 2004-12-15 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
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*

[identity profile] stolisomancer.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] stolisomancer.livejournal.com 2004-12-17 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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.