Blech

Posted by oddbob on August 17, 2007 · Lovingly Filed Under Personal 
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Neon

Ah, the joys of house clearing.  At the moment Chez Bob is still upside down and looking to stay that way for a while. Took delivery of a skip today, so its fun time tomorrow slinging a load of crap out of the place.

Frankly, it’s all a bit odd - we’ve got stuff going out and stuff coming in and of an evening, I’m just in the mood to sit down and do shite all for a while. So, I’ve been amusing myself with the 360 and watching the odd fillum to while the evenings away.

The new tele landed on Wednesday morning after a bit of a kerfuffle so I can now enjoy the 360 in a lot more of a tolerable environment than the ancient old TV of doom. Neon looks spectacular, which makes the impending release of the Official Xbox Magazine 2/10 rated Space Giraffe even more enticing than it already was.

Nice to be able to read the text on Crackdown too. However, even running at a whoppingly decent resolution and on a decent TV I feel the need to punch the guys at Rare square in the face for Jetpac Refuelled.

The text is stupidly fucking small to the point of the scoring and lives being near on unreadable from where I sit opposite the TV (and it’s not like we’ve got an especially big room) and try as I might not to get frustrated with a game that’s so close to being great - the enemies fucking spawn underneath you. This may not be so bad if it weren’t for the fact the backgrounds are so busy in the game and the effects so bright and flashy that often they’re obscured anyway.

What is it with Rare? They always manage to get so close and then fuck it up somehow - be it with the patented Rare Camera (TM) which had a fondness for fucking off in the wrong direction on the N64 or in this case by negating the usefullness of the camera and just hiding the fucking enemies from you anyway? Gah! Stupid, stupid, stupid cunts - because aside from these flaws its a wonderful update of the original game that with a few more options (text size and the ability to calm those fucking backgrounds down) would be top beans.

Still, its only a couple of quid so I can’t complain too much.

Curious how from the video’s of Space Giraffe I’ve seen it appears to manage to throw more stuff around, do more eye monging stuff than any other game beforehand but for the most part, things still seem to be visible. So why Rare couldn’t not fuck up Jetpac I don’t know.

Ah well. I’ll kick myself if SG suffers the same problem, but fingers crossed it doesn’t.

Anyway, I’ve got quite a few “proper” games to get through over the next few days with the impending Arsecast recording so I’m going to shut up now, get back in my box and start downloading the ones I haven’t tried yet. Tempting as it is to just glance at some screenshots and run from there, I guess playing them might be an idea.

Bumper crop to work through this month, which is nice after last months desolation. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some swearing to practice…

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One Response to “Blech”

  1. tim on August 17th, 2007 12:09 pm

    desolation… hmm is that a hint?

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