tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-321470332023-11-15T06:47:39.768-07:00Hans On Video GamingComments on gaming, games, game design, the video game industry, and my game-related activities.Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-37164913225345190372011-03-24T16:03:00.002-07:002011-03-24T16:05:52.620-07:00Pulling Up StakesToo busy to post here on a regular basis. Also, one-liners are better suited for Twitter anyway. So @hidannik on Twitter is my new home.
Be well, citizens.
HansHans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-66501718997961167332010-03-30T17:39:00.001-07:002010-03-30T17:39:34.787-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Red Faction II</b></dt><dd>Squad of space marines blows stuff up real good.</dd>
<dt><b>Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney</b></dt><dd>This can't be Wright!</dd>
<dt><b>Star Wars Battlefront</b></dt><dd>Battlefield 1942 with a Star Wars skin.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-32662073192672612462010-03-15T22:20:00.000-07:002010-03-15T22:33:22.522-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Ben There, Dan That</b></dt><dd>Two wisecracking friends; A point-and-click adventure; Sam and Max cry foul.</dd>
<dt><b>God of War II</b></dt><dd>Greek gods demote him; A Spartan sides with Titans; Olympus threatened.</dd>
<dt><b>Assault Heroes</b></dt><dd>Tasty twin-stick tidbit.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-38238036373471344252010-03-12T14:55:00.001-07:002010-03-12T14:57:06.736-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Mass Effect 2</b></dt><dd>Mordin. <I>Awesome.</I></dd>
<dt><b>Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood</b></dt><dd>McCalling you out!</dd>
<dt><b>Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth</b></dt><dd>Miles to go.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-79807164592100030152010-03-11T13:08:00.001-07:002010-03-11T13:10:37.434-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Team Fortress 2</b></dt><dd>Rocket jumps! Turrets! And <I>shoot the Medic</I>.</dd>
<dt><b>Civilization IV</b></dt><dd>Ruthless conqueror; More fun than anything else; Gandhi surrenders.</dd>
<dt><b>Pinball FX</b></dt><dd>Floaty ball physics; Tables too small for play; Program gathers dust.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-38367001388971039412010-03-04T14:32:00.000-07:002010-03-04T14:33:35.110-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time</b></dt><dd>Every boy needs a fairy!</dd>
<dt><b>Return to Castle Wolfenstein</b></dt><dd>Naughty Nazi Necromancers.</dd>
<dt><b>Obscure: The Aftermath</b></dt><dd>Mmm mm that smell... Can't you smell that smell?</dd>
<dt><b>Jedi Outcast</b></dt><dd>Lightsabers and blasters are fun. FPS jumping puzzles are <I>not</I>.</dd>
<dt><b>Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation</b></dt><dd>Like every other Ace Combat, but prettier.</dd>
<dt><b>Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection</b></dt><dd>Black Knight!</dd>
<dt><b>Timesplitters: Future Perfect</b></dt><dd>Embrace the goofiness.</dd>
<dt><b>Advance Wars</b></dt><dd>Chibi kids go to war.</dd>
<dt><b>Battlezone</b></dt><dd>Nostalgia value only.</dd>
<dt><b>Silent Hill 4: The Room</b></dt><dd>Is that... blood... on that toy bunny's muzzle?</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-56029914013343800672010-03-03T14:38:00.000-07:002010-03-03T14:39:13.789-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Black</b></dt><dd>Satisfying explosions vs. rage-inducing unskippable cutscenes.</dd>
<dt><b>GRID</b></dt><dd>Exciting races.</dd>
<dt><b>Battlestar Galactica</b></dt><dd>Not the Live Arcade one, the <I>good</I> one.</dd>
<dt><b>Crackdown</b></dt><dd>Skills for kills, agent, <I>skills</I> for <I>kills</I>.</dd>
<dt><b>Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures</b></dt><dd>Legos... Why'd it have to be Legos?</dd>
<dt><b>Puzzle Pirates</b></dt><dd>Tetris ahoy!</dd>
<dt><b>Star Ocean: Till The End of Time</b></dt><dd>What's this high fantasy doing in my sci-fi RPG?</dd>
<dt><b>DiRT</b></dt><dd>Rally round, boys! Rally round!</dd>
<dt><b>Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (for PS2)</b></dt><dd>I can use these PS2 controls, or chop off all my fingers? ... What? Hold on, I'm <I>thinking</I>...</dd>
<dt><b>Jedi Academy</b></dt><dd>Jedi High.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-75502963779294357932010-02-25T13:47:00.000-07:002010-02-25T13:50:11.810-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Galcon Fusion</b></dt><dd>RTS simplified, purified, intensified, addictified.</dd>
<dt><b>Jade Empire Limited Edition</b></dt><dd>Magic Kung Fu fighting to save the Empire.</dd>
<dt><b>Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter</b></dt><dd>Player pursues purloined president by messing up Mexico.</dd>
<dt><b>Braid</b></dt><dd>What if you <i>could</i> go back and do it over?</dd>
<dt><b>Persona 3 FES</b></dt><dd>How can we improve this hundred hour game? I know, let's add content!</dd>
<dt><b>Indigo Prophecy</b></dt><dd>It's what happens when game developers eat peyote halfway through producing a game.</dd>
<dt><b>Forza Motorsport 2</b></dt><dd>Race. Win. Acquire. Upgrade. Unlock. And no stinking license tests nor Kudos challenges.</dd>
<dt><b>Mercenaries</b></dt><dd>GTA, but with mercenaries and North Korea.</dd>
<dt><b>Max Payne</b></dt><dd>Dyspeptic detective depopulates designer drug dealer demographic.</dd>
<dt><b>Perfect Dark</b></dt><dd>Corporations, A.I. and Gray Aliens, oh my.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-19057073210243334912010-02-23T12:48:00.001-07:002010-02-23T12:49:24.102-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Descent 3: Mercenary</b></dt><dd>Yes, Mr. Dravis.</dd>
<dt><b>Descent 3</b></dt><dd>Die, Dravis!</dd>
<dt><b>Serious Sam II</b></dt><dd>Serious Sam, prettified.</dd>
<dt><b>Bejeweled 2 Deluxe</b></dt><dd>Time-sink trance.</dd>
<dt><b>Too Human</b></dt><dd>Slide attack!</dd>
<dt><b>Namco Museum 50th Anniversary</b></dt><dd>Galaga!</dd>
<dt><b>Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars</b></dt><dd>Kane is back, as are silly overacted cutscenes.</dd>
<dt><b>Bionic Commando: Rearmed</b></dt><dd>Hooked.</dd>
<dt><b>Star Wars Starfighter: Special Edition</b></dt><dd>Better than the prequel movies, though that's not saying much.</dd>
<dt><b>Eternal Sonata</b></dt><dd>Chopin's dying dream is a high-fantasy JRPG?</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-12746557489810500052010-02-22T12:57:00.001-07:002010-02-22T13:58:34.676-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Project Snowblind</b></dt><dd>One man army blows up Hong Kong real good.</dd>
<dt><b>Tomb Raider Underworld</b></dt><dd>Lara Croft blows up her own mansion??!!</dd>
<dt><b>Darkwatch</b></dt><dd>Old West Painkiller.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout Brotherhood of Steel</b></dt><dd>Diablo, Fallout style.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout Tactics</b></dt><dd>Fallout with squads.</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life: Source</b></dt><dd>Half-Life plus physics.</dd>
<dt><b>Halo 2</b></dt><dd>More Halo, but with pop-in and an abrupt ending.</dd>
<dt><b>Marvel Ultimate Alliance</b></dt><dd>Diablo, with superheroes.</dd>
<dt><b>Okami</b></dt><dd>Beautiful odyssey through Japanese mythology.</dd>
<dt><b>Universe at War: Earth Assault</b></dt><dd>Five-cornered fight between humans, aliens, AI robots, powerful ancient Earth-dwellers, and dodgy framerates.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-88461653533186071602010-02-20T00:31:00.001-07:002010-02-20T00:34:21.820-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Ridge Racer 6</b></dt><dd>Drifting into victory.</dd>
<dt><b>Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney</b></dt><dd>Hob check shun!</dd>
<dt><b>Lost Odyssey</b></dt><dd>Dino-men vs. the pull-ring hat army.</dd>
<dt><b>Fable: The Lost Chapters</b></dt><dd>More fables.</dd>
<dt><b>Ridge Racer V</b></dt><dd>Understeers, understand?</dd>
<dt><b>Persona 4</b></dt><dd>Can we make this game any longer? Yes!</dd>
<dt><b>Prince of Persia 2008</b></dt><dd>Fun flowing free-running.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout 3</b></dt><dd>Leave It to Beaver meets Mad Max.</dd>
<dt><b>Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories</b></dt><dd>Card combat craziness.</dd>
<dt><b>Banjo Kazooie</b></dt><dd>Gotta collect 'em all. Notes and jiggies and coins, oh my!</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-65860239455278698792010-02-18T16:41:00.004-07:002010-02-18T23:23:25.708-07:00XLink Kai, The PlayStation 2, And Gotchas<a href="http://hansonvideogaming.blogspot.com/2010/02/hamachi-and-console-gaming.html">Recently I and a distant friend were trying to start a game</a> of <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Snowblind">Project Snowblind</a></span> on the PS2. We discovered that the Internet servers had been shut down long since. But the game supports LAN play, so we started looking for LAN-over-Internet solutions.
At first we tried <a href="https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/">Hamachi</a>, but discovered that nothing we could do with that tool would bridge our two LANs so that our PS2s could see each other.
Next we tried <a href="http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/">XLink Kai</a>. This we eventually got to work (and work well), but there are some gotchas which I'll list here for the benefit of others who may want to play PS2 LAN-enabled games over the Internet.<ol>
<li>As of this writing, XLink Kai version 7.4 does not work with PlayStation 2 consoles.
<p>Instead, install version 7.3.1.7. The user interface is far more confusing, but it definitely works.
<li>Kai's instructions are misleading on a critical point. They say that to get Kai to recognize your console, you should search for a game to join. This is true enough, for games that get their network address when they search for a game.
<p>What actually happens is that when the console asks for an IP address from DHCP, XLink Kai assigns the address before the router can get to it. It's the point at which Kai assigns the console an address that it recognizes it.
<p>In the case of a game like <span style="font-style:italic;">Project Snowblind</span>, the game connects to the network and asks for an IP address before the user makes a choice whether to host a game or search for one.
<p>So it's vital that Kai <span style="font-weight:bold;">already be running</span> when starting multiplayer on a PS2 game. It's easier to just reset the PS2 after starting Kai. This guarantees that Kai will be running whenever the console asks for an IP address.
</ol>
It's also worth noting that I successfully ran Kai in Windows XP, which was running in a <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a> virtual machine set for bridged networking.Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-31520460241746058952010-02-18T16:13:00.004-07:002010-02-18T16:44:01.894-07:00Hamachi And Console GamingI tried the other day to set up PlayStation 2 console gaming via <a href="https://secure.logmein.com/products/hamachi2/">Hamachi</a> with a far-away friend. We could never get it to work.
<p>
Since game consoles cannot run Hamachi clients, we needed some method for bridging our LANs across Hamachi so that packets sent from one console would show up on the other LAN.
<p>
The first thing we tried was using <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb457038.aspx">Windows Bridging</a> to connect both our real LANs to Hamachi's virtual one. Broadcasts and pings sent from one LAN did not show up on the other.
<p>
The second thing we did was to set up static routes from one LAN to the other across Hamachi, according to <a href="http://logmeinwiki.com/wiki/Hamachi:Routed_Tunneling_/_Bridging_Networks_Together">a document he found on the Hamachi wiki</a>. Again, broadcasts and pings did not go, even when we turned off (briefly) our firewalls.
<p>
Since neither of these methods worked, we gave up on using Hamachi for console gaming, and turned to the dedicated solution: <a href="http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/">XLink Kai</a>.Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-47492634030620506512010-02-18T16:08:00.001-07:002010-02-18T16:11:08.060-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Gateway II Homeworld</b></dt><dd>More Heechee clickee.</dd>
<dt><b>God of War: Chains of Olympus</b></dt><dd>Kratos is angry again. Who would've guessed?</dd>
<dt><b>Gears of War</b></dt><dd>Look out! Cliché overload!</dd>
<dt><b>Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3</b></dt><dd>Manapults!</dd>
<dt><b>Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath</b></dt><dd>Kane saves face. Well, half.</dd>
<dt><b>R-Type Dimensions</b></dt><dd>Classic hardcore punishing shmup.</dd>
<dt><b>Silent Hill: Homecoming</b></dt><dd>Little Brother is watching you.</dd>
<dt><b>Enchanted Arms</b></dt><dd>Magic guns.</dd>
<dt><b>On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2</b></dt><dd>Perverted Produce Penetrators.</dd>
<dt><b>Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne</b></dt><dd>The Joy of Sax.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-47569944181226289142010-02-16T13:24:00.001-07:002010-02-16T14:06:01.450-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Tron 2.0</b></dt><dd>Disk? Oh, tech!</dd>
<dt><b>Tribes Vengeance</b></dt><dd>Fuel dump frenzy.</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life 2: Deathmatch</b></dt><dd>Gordon Freeman was killed by a flying toilet.</dd>
<dt><b>Far Cry</b></dt><dd>Dr. Moreau's Deathmatch Delight.</dd>
<dt><b>Duke Nukem 3D</b></dt><dd>Damn, I'm looking pixellated.</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life: Opposing Force</b></dt><dd>Yo Adrian!</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life: Blue Shift</b></dt><dd>Alien: Oh no, it's a security guard! Run!</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life</b></dt><dd>Physics geek defeats alien horde with crowbar.</dd>
<dt><b>Frederik Pohl's Gateway</b></dt><dd>Point. Click. Explore the Heechee universe.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-57788398445163257432010-02-12T00:40:00.001-07:002010-02-12T00:40:43.281-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Sacrifice</b></dt><dd>Soul food.</dd>
<dt><b>Lure of the Temptress</b></dt><dd>Pixel hunt.</dd>
<dt><b>Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and the Damned</b></dt><dd>Do not operate motorcycle with face contacting tire. Unless it's someone else's face.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage</b></dt><dd>Shoot Chinese soldier. Replenish ammo. Repeat until bored or finished.</dd>
<dt><b>Exit 2</b></dt><dd>Taking escapology to the next hundred levels.</dd>
<dt><b>X-COM: Terror from the Deep</b></dt><dd>UFO = Underwater Flying Object.</dd>
<dt><b>X-COM: UFO Defense</b></dt><dd>SHADO war.</dd>
<dt><b>Castle Crashers</b></dt><dd>Merry mayhem.</dd>
<dt><b>Beneath a Steel Sky</b></dt><dd>Grim tale set to cheerful music. Say what?</dd>
<dt><b>Unreal Tournament 2004</b></dt><dd>Run. Shoot. Kill. Die.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-50327550844770834492010-02-10T11:39:00.000-07:002010-02-10T11:40:33.468-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Halo Wars</b></dt><dd>They're everywhere!</dd>
<dt><b>Halo: Combat Evolved</b></dt><dd>FPS comfort gaming.</dd>
<dt><b>Empire Earth</b></dt><dd>Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?</dd>
<dt><b>Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri</b></dt><dd>Mindworms! Bzzt bzzt.</dd>
<dt><b>Age of Empires II Gold</b></dt><dd>Lift that barge. Tote that bale. Build that army. Invade that neighbor.</dd>
<dt><b>Duke Nukem 3D</b></dt><dd>Damn, I'm looking good.</dd>
<dt><b>Burnout 3: Takedown</b></dt><dd>Yes, officer, I <I>do</I> know how fast I was going. Road-blurringly, cheek-ripplingly, face-meltingly, doors-blowing-offly fast.</dd>
<dt><b>X-COM: Interceptor</b></dt><dd>Controls as awkward as a nerd's first date.</dd>
<dt><b>X-COM: Apocalypse</b></dt><dd>Unremarkable Steam sale filler.</dd>
<dt><b>Tomb Raider Underworld: Beneath the Ashes</b></dt><dd>Undiscovered ancient tomb beneath tomb raider's mansion? Well isn't that <I>convenient</I>.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-32244428316250047922010-02-09T16:22:00.002-07:002010-02-09T23:27:37.096-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Killzone</b></dt><dd>Server still up. Multiplayer still fun.</dd>
<dt><b>flOw</b></dt><dd>Eat or be eaten.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout 2</b></dt><dd>More mutant merriment.</dd>
<dt><b>Fallout</b></dt><dd>War never changes. Humans, however, mutate.</dd>
<dt><b>Darwinia</b></dt><dd>Paper dolls vs. origami snakes.</dd>
<dt><b>Armagetron Advanced</b></dt><dd>MS Office apps ride light-bikes when they're not working... who knew?</dd>
<dt><b>Alien Hominid</b></dt><dd>The original Flash game. At least I can get groin-kicked for free with this version.</dd>
<dt><b>Tomb Raider Underworld: Lara's Shadow</b></dt><dd>Lara's more badass evil clone.</dd>
<dt><b>Prince of Persia: Epilogue</b></dt><dd>Doing my part to make the DLC problem worse.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-40417471014239678082010-02-08T10:31:00.001-07:002010-02-08T10:31:44.639-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b> Alien Hominid HD</b></dt><dd>This game is hard. Hard. Did I say hard?</dd>
<dt><b>The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena</b></dt><dd>More Riddick, but with guns.</dd>
<dt><b>Desktop Tower Defense</b></dt><dd>Dune 2000, but more boring.</dd>
<dt><b>Dead Space</b></dt><dd>I dismember you!</dd>
<dt><b>Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth</b></dt><dd>I'a Dagon!</dd>
<dt><b>Peggle Extreme</b></dt><dd>Half-Life 2 themed Peggle demo.</dd>
<dt><b>X-COM: Enforcer</b></dt><dd>What, I have to shoot some <I>more</I> aliens?</dd>
<dt><b>Mona the Assassin</b></dt><dd>Don't mess with Mona.</dd>
<dt><b>Half-Life 2: Lost Coast</b></dt><dd>Short tech demo.</dd>
<dt><b>Frozen Bubble</b></dt><dd>Bubble Bobble boosted.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-4560534445954197002010-02-05T06:15:00.001-07:002010-02-05T06:19:07.506-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Titan Quest</b></dt><dd>Click. Click. Click click. Click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click ...</dd>
<dt><b>Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories</b></dt><dd>I have to drive <i>how far</i> to get to a save point?!</dd>
<dt><b>Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles</b></dt><dd>Rondo of Blood <i>and</i> Symphony of the Night, all in one convenient package.</dd>
<dt><b>Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars</b></dt><dd>Eco, Brown, or Spielberg? We'll see.</dd>
<dt><b>Project Gotham Racing 4</b></dt><dd>Kudos! Again.</dd>
<dt><b>Halo 3</b></dt><dd>Bad cyborg!</dd>
<dt><b>Bully: Scholarship Edition</b></dt><dd>Preppie pranksters.</dd>
<dt><b>The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay</b></dt><dd>The dark... My favorite.</dd>
<dt><b>Condemned 2: Bloodshot</b></dt><dd>Oil men.</dd>
<dt><b>Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts</b></dt><dd>If you build it, it will go.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-16810781458182174262010-02-04T18:04:00.003-07:002010-02-04T18:23:06.774-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Syberia II</b></dt><dd>More mechanical mystery.</dd>
<dt><b>Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow</b></dt><dd>Good PSP shooter. Yes. Good. Deal with it.</dd>
<dt><b>Speed Racer</b></dt><dd>Like WipEout, but with cars. And anime style talking head text balloons.</dd>
<dt><b>Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway</b></dt><dd>More Brothers in Arms.</dd>
<dt><b>Infinite Undiscovery</b></dt><dd>Infinite Unexcitement.</dd>
<dt><b>Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII</b></dt><dd>Pretty prequel.</dd>
<dt><b>Devil May Cry 4</b></dt><dd>No one can escape... the claw!</dd>
<dt><b>Medieval II Total War</b></dt><dd>Total strategy.</dd>
<dt><b>Rez HD</b></dt><dd>Trippy musical rail shooter. Great aiming system for consoles.</dd>
<dt><b>Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions</b></dt><dd>Not a new game; just FFT, portable.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-51917543380284459242010-02-02T11:58:00.002-07:002010-02-02T11:59:15.513-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories PSP</b></dt><dd>Fun if you like GTA. I like GTA.</dd>
<dt><b>Star Wars Republic Commando</b></dt><dd>Cloning around.</dd>
<dt><b>Mirror's Edge</b></dt><dd>Parkour bliss. Shooting not so much.</dd>
<dt><b>Flatout 2</b></dt><dd>Demolition derby delight.</dd>
<dt><b>Battlefield 1942</b></dt><dd>Fun camping the enemy spawn point with a tank.</dd>
<dt><b>World in Conflict Complete</b></dt><dd>WW3 strategy.</dd>
<dt><b>Lost Planet: Extreme Condition</b></dt><dd>Giant ice bugs and mechs.</dd>
<dt><b>GUN</b></dt><dd>Fun Old West shooter/RPG.</dd>
<dt><b>Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars</b></dt><dd>A different perspective on GTA. Still GTA. Fun.</dd>
<dt><b>The Orange Box: Portal</b></dt><dd>The cake is a delicious lie.</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-51086073671073891492010-02-01T09:59:00.003-07:002010-02-01T10:29:30.031-07:00One Liners<dl>
<dt><b>Civilization Revolution</b></dt><dd>Pure. Simple. Fun.</dd>
<dt><b>Bejeweled 2 Deluxe</b></dt><dd>Endless mode? Gem-matching trance.</dd>
<dt><b>Sins of a Solar Empire</b></dt><dd>Epic space battles.</dd>
<dt><b>Frontlines: Fuel of War</b></dt><dd>A game I play to escape everyday worries about politics, economics, the environment, dwindling energy supplies... oh wait...</dd>
<dt><b>Battlefield: Bad Company</b></dt><dd>"Hold the phone. Did you just say I can blow up anything?"</dd>
<dt><b>Tales of Vesperia</b></dt><dd>Pretty JRPG.</dd>
<dt><b>Ico</b></dt><dd>Heart-tugging protectiveness among lonely magnificence.</dd>
<dt><b>Guitar Hero 2</b></dt><dd>Rock out with the band. And practice.</dd>
<dt><b>Guitar Hero</b></dt><dd>Rock out with the band.</dd>
<dt><b>Fable II</b></dt><dd>Good dog!</dd>
</dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-23545858191407571692010-01-29T10:41:00.005-07:002010-01-29T10:48:53.487-07:00More One-Liners<dl><dt style="font-weight: bold;">Mass Effect 2</dt><dd>What light through yonder window breaks?</dd>
<dt style="font-weight: bold;">Duke Nukem</dt><dd>Never Forever.</dd>
<dt style="font-weight: bold;">Pandemic</dt><dd>Sick. Dead.</dd></dl>Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32147033.post-52105013783945665592010-01-28T14:49:00.003-07:002010-01-28T14:50:50.730-07:00LabelsScrew the labels. One of the reasons I haven't been posting is that I have to spend too much time putting labels on, formatting my paragraphs, and so on. From now on this is like Twitter. I have a thought, I post it. No more writing entire "articles."Hans Dannikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16040498215684270130noreply@blogger.com0