World of Warcraft has lived up to its name and turned the world of PC gaming into a world of WoW. The most successful MMORPG (massively multiplayer role-playing game) to date, boasting over 11 million subscribers (that’s more then the entire population of Switzerland!) and its showing no signs of slowing down as it nears its five year anniversary.
Star Wars and Indiana Jones are integral parts of my childhood and have helped mold me into the person I am today. Despite the strong early years attachment I have to them, they managed to maintain those awe filled memories with sappy nostalgia instead of shattering them into bitter shards of disbelief. (Must be magic!)
Delving into such a precious license can be daunting, as there is a lot of emotional history attached to it.
Lego Indiana Jones masterfully manages to honor the movies and bring some freshness to the story without squashing any nostalgic memory I have.
One of the main reasons that I started with the Lego Star Wars review was to use it as a baseline. Fundamentally, Lego Batman is the same game. Why rehash all their similarities then?
The original Lego Star Wars came out over four years ago. It was such a success, loved by critics and fans alike, that it spawned a bevy of similar games based on a variety of Lego licenses.
I never got to play the Original game. Its successors on the other hand, have gotten quite a workout.
To talk about Animal Crossing: City Folk is to talk about the previous version of the game. All of its incarnations so far have pretty much been the same. Therefore I am going to take this golden opportunity to discuss all three versions. Three reviews in one!
Sit up Music industry and listen, for your future has just been redefined, again. Interactive music is by far the most interesting and innovative direction music has taken since the record player. This it the time to get involved, help not hinder. Your industry needs this boost of fresh energy that this venue is providing. If handled in an intelligent manner it could be quite a boon.
Rock Band developers meet iTunes. This is a match made in heaven and would blow the socks off of everyone on the planet. Please make it happen.
Another thing, could you please have more song expansions that focus on different genres? I have so many friends that would kill for a best of 80s or best of 90s. Throw us ladies a bone please.
The Beatles expansion is a good start. =)
I view Pokemon Ranch as wildly misunderstood by the general public. Whether this was due to bad publicity or lack of transparency I don’t know. (But lets face it the developer to user pipeline is infinitely flawed!)
Upon release the web waves were awash with the cries of foul – there is no real game, the graphics are crap, this is not the game we paid for, and so on.
Ultimately what was understated (or overlooked) is that this is not a standalone game. Most Pokemon games tend to be interconnected, but this game took it even farther. Pokemon Ranch became the game that linked all previous Pokemon games into one gigantic quest to capture Mew!
A bunch of us are spending the weekend up the mountain. We had the fortune to introduce Arkham Horror to some unsuspecting friends, and there is no better place to experience AH for the first time then in a log cabin surrounded by deep dark snow covered woods.
Despite the ominous environment we had the smoothest sailing game I have played in a long time. Beginners luck struck again. =) Never the less, all of us had a fabulous time.
The big sell on this new Wii version is the ability to go visit other towns. For the longest time we couldn’t seem to connect to anyone, nor could anyone visit us.
I like to blame it on not having any friends, but really I don’t know why we suddenly can connect.
Here are some suggestions we got from reading the forums over at Nintendo Techforums. These are listed in no particular order and are intended to help with the not being able to see or enter your friends towns or vice versa.
-Turn off all other computers that might interfere with the internet connection in anyway.
-Restart your modem.
-Turn off privacey mode on modem, if there is such a setting.
-Test the internet connection on the Wii. The initiated the latest Wii update for us.
-Turn around three times and tap your head counter clockwise. (Okay I just made that up!)
Its hard to tell if it was just luck but we did do all of those things and it worked today. Yaay.
But we still need more friends, so here is my info. Add me as a friend and email me (tfg@tokenfemalegamer.com) or comment with your info and then let the visiting begin! =)
Character Name: Verina
Town Name: Clover
Friend Code: 3265-9547-2194
Fruit: Peaches & Coconuts (and soon Cherries!)
<3
Token Female Gamer
..Time!
With all the holidays and new games coming out, with World of Warcraft expansion and Warhammer Online, with Thanksgiving and New Years, this is a very busy season. I don’t know how people manage to fit everything in.
