Pheonix Gamma

It's funny because everyone is waiting for Nintendo to swoop in and be big damn heroes. Make the Wii, bring in a new flood of casual games, everyone else gets wrapped up in it, then heel face turn with some Zelda, Metroid, 3DS, Mario Galaxy 2...if I didn't know any better, I'd say Nintendo totally played the entire industry and made a shitload of cash in the process. Haters gonna hate. And eventually people got sick of platformers too. And sandbox games. And now music games aren't doing jack shit. The industry cycles through genres. All you can do is support the games that are really interesting like Last Guardian or whatever, and hope it works out. I think Kinect actually shows the most promise. It has a lot of unique functions (face recognition XBLA login, voice commands, and all the fancy stuff that it does in games like head tracking and such), but developers don't really know what to do with it. I'd like to see a Time Crisis where you move the camera around by moving around the room to get a better view, and aim some silly blue or pink gun at dudes. I'll go inform the young that your lawn is not an acceptable venue. Though it's funny that you're talking about Rising's gameplay when, if any game is MOST GUILTY of being a movie, it's a Metal Gear game. And Metroid looks superb. Aside from my worries about controlling with the D-Pad, I'm totally looking forward to it, and knowing that Sakamoto and his team are still the head honchos of the project leaves me confident in their results. Team Ninja's just working with them to A) Help the team work on their first 3D game, strengthen their relationship with Nintendo as a company and vice versa, and C) Get good PR for both companies (Nintendo tells the hardcore to shut the fuck up, Ninja gets to say they worked with the biggest developer in the industry.)

Dude, I saw a clip of Microsoft's Curc Du Solei shit or whatever the fuck. Fucking sad, man. Then I guess it turned out to be an exclusive ad or whatever for MTV, and the journalists who sat through that bullshit were given light up ponchos to be used as part of the performance or god knows what. And they weren't even playing the Kinect games either. Just acting. I think they made it overly flashy because they didn't have jack shit to show besides Kinect Wii Sports, new 360 model, and MGS Rising. I was interested in getting that new 360 model since I still don't have one, but at that price, I might as well get the old one and run a long wire to my room.

We usually have one of these every year, so I figured I'd start it off. First day's pretty boring, and Microsoft's conference felt kinda lackluster, but big things are on the way for Nintendo and Sony tomorrow (or, I think it's tomorrow) so I'm pumped. Plus, the MGS:Rising trailer looks soooooo good. I can't wait to see what kinda shit you'll be able to cut. http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-metal-gear/101272 Also, Super Scribblenauts seems to just scream "WE MADE IT NOT MEDIOCRE THIS TIME. SERIOUSLY" http://www.destructoid.com/e3-10-super-scribblenauts-is-pulling-me-back-in-176321.phtml

Friend showed me this today. It's from a demo of some Sherlock Holmes game, which apparently was made by devs too lazy to program Watson to walk around with you, so they...well, you'll see.

More like "totally gay". AM I RITE GUYS? Anywho, both SA and other Dreamcast games confirmed for PSN/XBLA. So there ya go. http://www.destructoid.com/confirmed-dreamcast-games-are-going-digital--176019.phtml&mainnav=Top+stories

There was a document leaked saying Sega and Sony were in talks of putting Dreamcast games on PSN. It was on an official Sega press site until it was taken down shortly after. But no, nothing specifically mentioning Sonic Adventure.

Some things I noticed: -Fuck the bosses. There's too many, and they're all boring and tedious. Fuck them so hard. -Goddammit Amanda won't heal past 20. Stupid bitch. -Oh hey Vocaloid. You make those lame boss fights way more adorable. Oh wait where did it go? I can still hear OH JESUS FUCK LOOK OU- -Oh great. Cardboard tanks for multiple people. I can never use these. Sure, I'll take six :< -Seriously why are there bosses after every two missions goddammit -Snake's pistol stance is goofy now that he doesn't hold a knife in the other hand. -OKAY THIS MIKU TANK JUST PUNCHED ME WITH IT'S TREADS HOW DOES IT EVEN DO THAT WHAT AM I LOOKING AT THIS DOESN'T-

Ffffffuck. The PS3 needs to be wireless cause it's on another floor from the router and shit.

I do, but doesn't that require new PSP firmware? Cause...I'm not getting rid of all of my emulators.

I was trying to think of what to post on here. Then I realized I should probably post something Pink. Happy Birthday :V

Started it yesterday at work. Pretty rad. Sadly, I don't have anyone to play multiplayer with. Two whole people play PSP games anymore in Massachusetts. I'm both of those people.

From the Sonic Colors articile: Translation: the leaked footage and massively poor response has led Sega to realize they made a booboo. Also, Sega says it's doing more than "tweaks" and is "changing physics, balancing, and even level design." Translation: they made a big booboo.

Nintendo Power Scans http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg65/Metroidfan19/NP2561.jpg?t=1275514661 http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg65/Metroidfan19/NP2562.jpg?t=1275514711 http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg65/Metroidfan19/NP2564.jpg?t=1275514763 Looks pretty, at least. Not sure how I feel about Sonic having power-ups like turning into a drill or a ball f energy, though.

Depends. Is it under warranty? My old laptop, a Dell, had 4 year coverage. They fixed damn near everything those four years; keyboard, motherboard, monitor, charger... I spilled soda on my laptop once. Dell guy came over to fix it. Turned out the motherboard was fried. He had the parts in the van with him, and it only took about a half hour to fix, but yea, it'd have sucked to repair that if it wasn't under warranty. Find out if it's covered.

241. The 242nd star is one hell of a doozy. That, or I'm just tired from marathoning the last 31 stars.

212. The green stars aren't as hard as I expected. Just really sneaky. You need to reach areas of levels you usually don't try to get to, so depending on the situation it can be really hard or really easy. Only one star comes to mind when I think of hard shit you need to do to get it. The rest is just clever footwork. I'm not looking forward to S World's green stars, though. Particularly Stone Cyclone Galaxy. That level can go climb a wall of dicks.

Oh, that's her lower lip. I think she's supposed to be pouting? I forget :V It was just a warm-up before I started reworking my old comic pages for submissions, so I didn't put much thought into it beyond "I should add pubic hair riiiight there." Regarding how I keep drawings clean... (EDIT: I'll bold the important stuff and spoilertag the whole thing. I accidentally typed way more than I thought I would. I just love talking about the process of making drawings or paintings or sculptures. It was probably my favorite part of being an art student.) But that's it, really. I don't think there's anything particularly different in my process from what most digital illustrators do. They might make their strokes a lot slower than I do, though. I have a really bad habit of running the pen on the tablet like a madman so that my hand doesn't shake, but that rarely results in good lines. Well, sometimes it does, but I really shouldn't be doing that.

Warm-up sketch I did today. Kinda mature I guess(?)

I love the new side characters. It's a shame they killed so many of the old ones off, but Shia the Buffalo is just too badass.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA CRY SUM MOARRRRRRR But seriously you sound like one of conicteam's drawings.

I don't. I hope Sonic contracts something and DIES. Mario Galaxy 2 is really fun, though. 20 perfect scores on Metacritic, you guys!

You forgot the second page of that NP spread Oh Nintendo Power. So naive. Haven't learned a thing, I see.

The problem is my video driver's program thinger that lets me tweak it doesn't want to run (I'm on a laptop, so there's no way for me to change the monitor's settings without doing this). I really need to figure out what kind of desktop my parents should gift me. This is gonna be a problem.

See, I thought those were great. Especially the last one. I replayed it a few times just to see how fast I could barrel through the wreckage. Broke 1 minute. Controls just came naturally to me.

Stop. Making. New. Sonic games. If. You can't. Get. ONE. Right.