Bad Day Thursday

I was planning to play Halo 2 over XLink Kai today. However, it's not working. I posted my problem at the help forum.

I started playing the Live Search games, though, and I have the option to play Sauerbraten, so I'm fine for now.

Site of the Moment: Live Search

Looking for a rewards site you could actually get something from? Look no further, my friend(s). Live Search is a Microsoft charity program. It allows you to earn points playing puzzle games and either spend your points or donate them to a charitable cause of your own specification.

Click here: http://club.live.com

The prizes range from music downloads to magazines to Xbox and PC games to PC accessories to an actual Xbox 360. Of course, it'll take you a very long time to collect enough points to get anything decent, but you'll get there as long as you keep playing the games over and over again.

If you get anything from this service, tell me.

Weekly Game Bash #1

Every week, I will post about games I don't like and what I hate about a good game...

I was searching around for a good Tifa Lockheart wallpaper, and Google presented me with this Soul Calibur III custom character. That could be any black-haired lady with great breasts! I never actually got to try out the SC3 character options, but I did see quite a few vidocs about it. As far as I can tell, it's like WWF Smackdown 2 from the late PSX generation. Sure, you have a lot of options, but the characters are always so generic. At least, I can make characters in these games, though. Look at Super Smash Bros. Melee or even Brawl. Okay, Brawl has a level editor, but it sucks more than a cheap whore.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Great game. But short. I don't know if it's just my skills or if the game is designed for retards, but I found the story mode to be insanely easy to get through. The final boss was a bit difficult, though. The levels are great, and there are unlockable stages, but the level editor is worse than the Halo 3 Forge. Yes, I hate the Forge, but I'll save that for next week. I absolutely despise the Brawl level editor. It is like a RPG Maker 1995 tile system slapped on a Fighter Maker game engine with almost no opportunity for originality.

Brawl doesn't even make use of the Wiimote! Argh! There's a stage in Brawl based on the most Wiimote-friendly game ever, Warioware: Smooth Moves, yet even that stage has absolutely no opportunity to use the Wiimote sensors. The minigames, nope, no Wiimote usage. The Masterpieces are game demos of real old Nintendo classics, which is pretty kewl, but why play through Brawl to play Zelda for only five minutes when you could just emulate the games on your PC?

Brawl is just a fighting game. All the extra features are crap. Want classic games? Emulate them or buy the real thing. Want to edit levels? You're out of luck unless you want to get into game modding, and I highly doubt Brawl will ever become a mod-friendly game, like Half-Life.

Internets!

I have my wireless connection set up again, so I'll be online more often. I'll continue blogging, but I also want to play some MMOs a bit. Any suggestions?