Comments on: Perfect Dark Zero http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html seanobrien.org Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sean http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-180 Sean Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:47:54 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-180 @Joe - Crap is right. That ytmnd.com is filled with crap. To steal Ed's line about it from last night, "it is for people that YouTube won't take, and they take anything." @Joe – Crap is right. That ytmnd.com is filled with crap. To steal Ed’s line about it from last night, “it is for people that YouTube won’t take, and they take anything.”

]]> By: The Ed Zone » Blog Archive » Game On http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-177 The Ed Zone » Blog Archive » Game On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:38:44 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-177 [...] As for Sean’s comments on Perfect Dark Zero - it was a decent game that suffered the unfortunate position of being the 360 launch title. Because it was a sci-fi shooter published by Microsoft, everyone expected Halo 3. That’s a big weight to shoulder. Taken on its own, its a decent enough shooter that kills some time, but doesn’t necessarily tattoo itself upon my psyche. The interesting thing is, this seems to be Perfect Dark’s lot in life, as the original N64 title was Rare’s highly anticipated follow-up to Goldeneye. Once again, that original couldn’t match up to the hype of Goldeneye (clearly the best movie based game of all time). [...] [...] As for Sean’s comments on Perfect Dark Zero – it was a decent game that suffered the unfortunate position of being the 360 launch title. Because it was a sci-fi shooter published by Microsoft, everyone expected Halo 3. That’s a big weight to shoulder. Taken on its own, its a decent enough shooter that kills some time, but doesn’t necessarily tattoo itself upon my psyche. The interesting thing is, this seems to be Perfect Dark’s lot in life, as the original N64 title was Rare’s highly anticipated follow-up to Goldeneye. Once again, that original couldn’t match up to the hype of Goldeneye (clearly the best movie based game of all time). [...]

]]> By: Joe http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-176 Joe Sat, 10 Jun 2006 13:23:58 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-176 Saw your stuff about X-Box shooters, and I thought you may be interested in something I found in my search for online crap... Halo 3 Ending leaked... http://halo3ending.ytmnd.com/ Saw your stuff about X-Box shooters, and I thought you may be interested in something I found in my search for online crap…

Halo 3 Ending leaked…
http://halo3ending.ytmnd.com/

]]> By: Sean http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-173 Sean Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:59:41 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-173 Holy Crap Batman! That's a full-blown blog post in my comments. You need to copy and paste that into a post for your own blog and let the magical ping do its thing... Three problems with Mook: 1. He doesn't like shooters, so he's of no use to us. 2. He'll never spring for broadband. He's too cheap. 3. Is he even still our friend? Holy Crap Batman! That’s a full-blown blog post in my comments. You need to copy and paste that into a post for your own blog and let the magical ping do its thing…

Three problems with Mook:
1. He doesn’t like shooters, so he’s of no use to us.
2. He’ll never spring for broadband. He’s too cheap.
3. Is he even still our friend?

]]> By: Ed http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-172 Ed Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:52:51 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-172 News Flash We have a convert. Mook picked up his 360 today - a gift by one of his companies' sales weasels for skipping my son and daughter's birthday party. Now we just have to get him broadband. News Flash

We have a convert. Mook picked up his 360 today – a gift by one of his companies’ sales weasels for skipping my son and daughter’s birthday party.

Now we just have to get him broadband.

]]> By: Ed http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-171 Ed Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:51:51 +0000 http://www.seanobrien.org/2006/06/perfect-dark-zero.html#comment-171 What XBL needs is the ability to truly filter out the singing sophomores, the spawn-killing n00b haters, and the racist bastards that like to use the anonymity of online play to label me a n!ggah (if you're gonna' blast my heritage get it right beyotch, I'm a Canucklehead). They need to create a separate channel for people to sign into that is heavily moderated that allows for people who want to play together - to strategize - to really role play within these games. The online shooters have the ability to allow for some great strategic war plans - with a squad figuring out the right plan of attack and then executing it - with people stopping and waiting for their fellow man to perform some action that allows the others to proceed towards the objective - to revel in the love of a plan that comes together. Instead, we get every man for himself - guys jumping in Warthogs and splattering their fellow teammates and then jumping out and teabagging every last one of us - while we watch the countdown tick down in futility - meanwhile across the map, Alpha Team absconds with our flag for the nth straight time. Part of the reason Sean and I are so high on getting others (with broadbacd connections) to grab the 360 is so we can form our own squad - and at the very least - realize this dream of real teamwork through the creation of our own squad of digital war buddies. I'm sick of hanging with strangers who are patting me on the back one moment and slapping me upside the head with a plasma sword the next. As for PDZ - it was a decent game that suffered the unfortunate position of being the 360 launch title. Because it was a sci-fi shooter published by Miscrosoft, everyone expected Halo 3. That's a big weight to shoulder. Taken on its own - its a decent enough shooter that kills some time - but doesn't necessarily tattoo itself upon my psyche. The interesting thing is, this seems to be Perfect Dark's lot in life - as the original N64 title was Rare's highly anticipated follow-up to Goldeneye. Once again, that original couldn't match up to the hype of Goldeneye (clearly the best movie based game of all time). One thing about shooters - if they don't tell a decent story - they really lose me. I know it's supposed to be about the twitch action - but I find that gets monotonous if I don't care about why I'm blasting away a billion Covenant. Think about this - for all those fanboys that crowed on and on about Halo 2's abrupt ending - was it due to the fact that they wanted another level to blast through or were they pissed to be left hanging. That game delivered its fair share of levels (and challenge if you started on Heroic like I did). I think everyone was so steamed because they wanted to know what happens next. That's half the reason I get chills in watching the Halo 3 teaser. If I want mindless twitch shooting, I'll fire up Geometry Wars. What XBL needs is the ability to truly filter out the singing sophomores, the spawn-killing n00b haters, and the racist bastards that like to use the anonymity of online play to label me a n!ggah (if you’re gonna’ blast my heritage get it right beyotch, I’m a Canucklehead). They need to create a separate channel for people to sign into that is heavily moderated that allows for people who want to play together – to strategize – to really role play within these games. The online shooters have the ability to allow for some great strategic war plans – with a squad figuring out the right plan of attack and then executing it – with people stopping and waiting for their fellow man to perform some action that allows the others to proceed towards the objective – to revel in the love of a plan that comes together. Instead, we get every man for himself – guys jumping in Warthogs and splattering their fellow teammates and then jumping out and teabagging every last one of us – while we watch the countdown tick down in futility – meanwhile across the map, Alpha Team absconds with our flag for the nth straight time. Part of the reason Sean and I are so high on getting others (with broadbacd connections) to grab the 360 is so we can form our own squad – and at the very least – realize this dream of real teamwork through the creation of our own squad of digital war buddies. I’m sick of hanging with strangers who are patting me on the back one moment and slapping me upside the head with a plasma sword the next.

As for PDZ – it was a decent game that suffered the unfortunate position of being the 360 launch title. Because it was a sci-fi shooter published by Miscrosoft, everyone expected Halo 3. That’s a big weight to shoulder. Taken on its own – its a decent enough shooter that kills some time – but doesn’t necessarily tattoo itself upon my psyche. The interesting thing is, this seems to be Perfect Dark’s lot in life – as the original N64 title was Rare’s highly anticipated follow-up to Goldeneye. Once again, that original couldn’t match up to the hype of Goldeneye (clearly the best movie based game of all time).

One thing about shooters – if they don’t tell a decent story – they really lose me. I know it’s supposed to be about the twitch action – but I find that gets monotonous if I don’t care about why I’m blasting away a billion Covenant.

Think about this – for all those fanboys that crowed on and on about Halo 2’s abrupt ending – was it due to the fact that they wanted another level to blast through or were they pissed to be left hanging. That game delivered its fair share of levels (and challenge if you started on Heroic like I did). I think everyone was so steamed because they wanted to know what happens next. That’s half the reason I get chills in watching the Halo 3 teaser.

If I want mindless twitch shooting, I’ll fire up Geometry Wars.

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