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Phantom Hourglass
So I bought it , of course - this game is great so far. Although I predicted that a future episode of stupidity would be responsible for my buying Hourglass, this was a smart purchase. This may in fact be the killer app for the DS; the control, graphics & gameplay are uniformly excellent - […]
Join Us!
You love the site, you’ve been thinking of joining, why not do it? Because you can’t - that simple feature was accidentally removed from Video Game Geek by the site admin during the recent visual upgrade. I would tell him, but I’m curious to see if he ever reads my posts. So if you want […]
Old Habits
Aw, what happened again? Someone, drunken, lazy, sleepy & often all 3 at once, didn’t post on the geek-blog for days. Dammit. Well, all I can say is I’m sorry, & I’ll just have to do better - sorry non-existent audience.
Halo 3!
Yes, I keep playing this game & its gets better every time - problems remain ( any level with vehicle combat automatically means some cheap deaths… ) but the experience itself gets deeper & more satisfying, & I have yet to play this online. Amazing. Plus I found a few skulls ( that would be […]
Slacking again
Just a quick word today, I just got in from work, took email abuse from the site admin & immediately sat down to write my geekblog, so sue me if it’s brief ( I still need some dinner & should play some more Halo 3 ). I played some Animal Crossing in the staff […]
Big Changes at Video Game Geek
Damned if I know what’s going on here - I had to sign in through a comment on one of my own posts ( of course, they’re almost all my own posts ). There’s been no word from the site admin, even after I sent him an email congratulating him on the quality of the […]
September 25th 2007
Last night I lined up for Halo 3, & let me tell you that was an odd experience. More than one person in the line could be heard asking “So - are we officially losers now?” Brother, do you have to ask? Geeks, I tells ya…Anyways, Halo 3 is great ( I haven’t finished it […]
What’s going on with this site?
Every thing’s fine, sometimes we just don’t feel like writing. Like when a new game is released, or when we’re enjoying an old game - or when we’re drunken. Yes, that’s just the Mario business for you, you’ve got to take it as it comes, but dammit, that’s the fun of it.
Top 10 signs that you may be a geek
10. You went to a special voice coach to stop snorting when you laugh - it didn’t work.
9. You stutter so badly when talking to the opposite sex that you were diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome because of it.
8. You have publicly admitted to watching Sailor Moon - the North American kid’s TV version. You did […]
The Perfect Videogame
What elements make the perfect videogame? I don’t know, but if I jam all sorts of stupid ideas together I know In can get a VGG article out of it.
Cyberspace Mountain at DisneyQuest runs on Windows 95
I had the pleasure of spending the last week in Orlando with my girlfriend. We basically went on every ride at every park in the entire city. So on Friday night we decided to take a drive down to Downtown Disney and check out DisneyQuest, an interactive themepark with some interesting VR games, […]
Summer
No games come out in the summer, I think someone must have passed a law - sort of. No games are released in the summer because, back in the day ( when the business was invented ), the exclusive demographic for them, kids, were all sent away to holiday jail for the duration. The only […]
Westerns
This one got edited by me because it wasn’t funny - sorry, but you’re really not missing anything.
Street Fighter 2
I was happy to see SF2 offered on Xbox live, so of course I downloaded the full version right away. Street Fighter 2 is considered a classic for so many reasons, but playing the game again I noticed some innovations which are often overlooked:
-Cheap, grabby AI.
-Throws which take off half your life.
-Only 2 good […]
Brutal
Since the release of Halo 3 is just a few months away, it gives me a chance to reminisce about my favorite part of Halo 2 - Brutes!
“Oh, look, a monkey - everyone loves monkeys, they’re cool. Hey, there’s an interesting gameplay feature -no matter how many times I shoot his head, he doesn’t die. […]
Micro-transactions
“Well, I’m basically enjoying Oblivion, but I don’t know, somethings missing…oh, I know, my imaginary horse doesn’t have any armor. Here’s $5 for Microsoft, and…there, that’s perfect. Now I can really enjoy this game - except, hum, I wonder what other great stuff I can buy for my virtual pet. Like a hat & tie, […]
Retro-Gaming Pigpile
Why are so many of us playing antique games on our new systems?
If I allowed auto-downloads on my 360, I would already have 500 demos of games I would normally need a broken 360 to actually make me consider playing. But I do play them, even the editors at 1up are playing them ( they […]