Exploring Stuff That Makes Life Great
We’ve now added a Video Game Music Channel. So far we’re playing Wadjet Eye Games‘ ‘The Blackwell Legacy’ and ‘The Shivah’ as well as United Minds Games ‘Space Renegades: The Series.’ We’re always looking for new contributions so go here to see how you can!
At the same time we’ve updated the Wii Game Videos with EA’s MySim teaser trailer.
Also we’ve updated the top frame to include a more visually appealing navigation bar.
With the success of the StuffWeLike Media Player, we’ve expanded our lineup to now featuring ‘Movie Trailers’ and ‘Live Events.’ Movie trailers shows trailers for upcoming movies. Live Events shows events that were filmed on some location other than our dorm, usually a special event.
In related news we’ve uploaded The Making of Myst video that came with the game back when it was released in the early ’90s.
We’ve uploaded a brandnew trailer for EA’s Burnout Dominator being released on March 6 for the PS2 and PSP. Check out the PS2 Game Videos to see the trailer.
We’ve now added the first interview on the highly anticipated Halo 3 for the Xbox 360. You can find it in the player under Video Interviews.
After an entire weekend of labor, version 7 of StuffWeLike.com is now officially online! What’s different about this version from ones in the past is that we now have a multimedia player! I’m looking into creating a video game music channel with this player. As such if you’re an indie developer and would like to have your music on this channel please contact me!
Name a great game show with a less than great video game adaptation.
Let me start off with this: I love game shows. I used to play Wheel of Fortune on my cousin’s NES. After that it was Wheel of Fortune for my Super Nintendo, and one of the best parts of getting cable television was getting the Game Show Network. I still go over to my friend’s house to play Jeopardy! on her NES. I’m even going to be spending a day of my Spring Break to go watch The Price is Right before host Bob Barker retires. I’m not saying no to this game because it’s a game show game. I’m saying no because it’s a terrible adaptation of the show.
The game show is basically a quiz to see if you have your finger the pulse of modern society. And normally, it does so pretty well. However the game pulls it off poorly. Sure, the basic structure of the game is preserved, however, the graphics and execution just turns me off to playing the game any longer then I had to. For one thing, the game lacked the show’s hosts. Richard Karn, Louie Anderson, no one. Instead, we have Todd Newton, who has never hosted Family Feud. Second, even if it had a representation of one of the hosts, he would have been unrecognizable. The human models were horrid. The voice acting was also terrible. It was pretty annoying to hear the same question asked 10 times a row without any variation of banter.
On the bright side, after you get past those things, the gameplay felt alot like watching the show. You were given a topic, and you typed in your answer. Pretty straight forward. And the stage and game-related graphics were true to the show. Sound effects, like the all important buzzer, were perfect.
Overall, I’m sad to give this game a minus. But I certainly hope that another Family Feud game is released that deserves the name.