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GeekNights 20110726 - Half-Minute Hero
Tonight on GeekNights, we review the refreshing Half-Minute Hero on XBLA. Gamepro moves to a quarterly format and EA buys Popcap for over a billion dollars.
We also consider a number of XBLA games, but only Catherine stands out.
- Rym's Thing - Bulldog has a Great Idea
- Scott's Thing - Alice in Musicland
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On the diversification front I mean that they are trying to widen the appeal of games they make, if you look at the other big game publishers (especially Activision) they are mainly aiming for larger blockbuster games. Which is incredibly risky, because if one of those big budget games fail you are suddenly out a large chunk of money. But by having more of these casual games EA can withstand any trouble if one (or more) of their big titles don't meet expectations in terms of sales by having a consistent source of income.
Basically they are trying to make themselves more nimble so that they can change the sort of games they make to fit the economic environment. They probably would have if Rovio could prove that they weren't just a one hit wonder. No one took Pop Cap seriously until Plants vs Zombies, which was their I think forth or fifth game to sell extremely well.
Oh, also, for some reason, if you just unplug the PSP, it won't recognize the game, but if you press X to go out of transfer mode it does. Entire process of wanting a game and getting it on your PSP doesn't take more than a few minutes, with of that, 10 seconds requiring effort.
(New PSP models are a bitch to hack. Hardware needed. See if you know someone who bought an old PSP and doesn't use it, or if you can find one cheap second hand from someone who doesn't know its easily hackable.)
Edit: Oh you said 'how' for XBLA too. I'm not exactly sure. You can just put it on a USB thing or a disc and run it, but it would check if you owned the game or not (if not, it would be the demo). My mate did something so it doesn't change your account.
Also it was fun to hear in one section "When was the last time we said something was awesome?" and then later "This game is awesome, buy it."
Also Catherine is an interesting game, the puzzle/dating sim game play is worth the time to check it out, also once you beat the game it unlocks the multiplayer of it. They purposely did that to make sure that the people playing multiplayer ACTUALLY knew how to go and play the game. More games should do that.
Also on the magizene topic I recommend Retro Gamer, Play, and Edge. All three have the good commentary that kicks ass and touch on a different aspect of the gaming culture.
The story is very compelling and the puzzels are hard. Yeah, the demo that Scrym tried only had the puzzle's levels on easy, so you guys can imagine how hard they can be on normal.
So far I would definately recommend it to buy it. If only because the puzzle's are hard enough that one could not finish it just by renting it.
But yeah, what you're looking for is a piece of software called a "Homebrew Enabler for $FIRMWARE_VERSION". Get a Fat PSP, as I've heard those are more easily hacked, but I know Yuyuke's run one on his slim. Dunno about the Go.
Evil Lord 30, pretty interesting and quick if you play avoid everything technique, other wise its rock paper scissors with rts elements, just enough to keep you occupied for an hour or two.