GoldenEye revisited

Not too long ago, I laughed at claim that Goldeneye for the N64 was the BEST FPS EVAR!!! And I ended my review with a prediction that there would be 3 camps for the release of it's reboot; GoldenEye for the Wii,

1. Fanboiz that love it for no apparent reason
2. Fanboiz that would hate it for no apparent reason
3. Everyone else that wouldn't care.

Let's see if I was right.

WIKIPEDIA POWAHS ACTIVATE!
"Reviews for GoldenEye 007 have been mostly positive."
Oooh, first blow against me...
"Frankly, I haven't seen a more impressive Wii shooter."
Note the use of 'Wii' there? That means there is better, but not on the Wii (just like GoldenEye for N64!)
"a lackluster game that fails to hit the same high notes of the original, or keep pace with modern shooters"

Huh, looks like I lost the first round but won the match, how about Metacritic?

Current score is 81, which is lower than the original by around 13 points... Highest score was 100; Lowest score was 58% which suggests a broad range of opinions. Innnnnnteresting. I'll take that as a point in my favour.

The comments I'm reading on various reviewer pages (metacritic and others) seem to roughly fall into two groups, those that like the wii version, and those that compare it to the N64 version and find it lacking. Another point in my favour.

...of course, it's hard to prove a lot of people don't care about it... or is it?

Let's look at sales numbers of the old and new game; based on this site (Goldeneye Wii, Goldeneye N64)

GoldenEye N64: 8Million+
GoldenEye Wii: 1,085,651

Granted, the older version has been out for a loooong time, but the Wii version has had nearly 6 months, I would think with the larger player base out there would make a great game sell a lot more copies, as a comparison, over roughly the same length of time Modern Warfare sold over 10 million copies on the XBox 360 alone (source).

Modern Warfare 2 (XBox360)GoldenEye(wii)

Not hard to see why, is it?

Though, I should point out that I'm not fond of Modern Warfare either, but that is a story for another time...

Regardless, I claim victory, my only prize is the fuzzy feeling of rightness... or perhaps righteousness?

Let me say though, that I would have been happy to have been wrong; I want nothing more than good games to come out and for people to be entertained rather than disappointed, but before that can happen we as consumers must start refusing inferior products and demand more for our money.

Keeper3, I love being right, and I hate being right.

Next up, Dungeon Keeper.

Magicka - and other stuff

Magicka is awesome... Just don't expect it to be serious. :)

Oh, and if you were scared off this game because of all the complaints about bugs, don't worry about that now, the game is pretty good with only one bug I've noticed so far.

Play it! Play it NAOW!!! It's silly and crazy and every character sounds like the chef from the mupput show! DOO EEET!!!

Anyway, this post isn't really about Magicka (it's hard to make a long post about a good game) it's more about something I've noticed recently... and that is the realisation that I started this silly little soap box blog almost a year ago on April the 20th, 2010. So, I'm gonna do what I was always meant to do... I'm going to review Dungeon Keeper, Dungeon Keeper 2 and as many DK rip-offs as I can find in order to celebrate this waste of time I like to engage in.

So you may ask... "Why Dungeon Keeper? Why now? Who cares?!? What's dungeon keeper again?" All reasonable questions (except the last one!), however my answer to all these questions is: I love these games and it's my blog.

...alright, alright! There is more to it than just that. I think I really need to put down in words exactly why I like these games; why I can play these games despite the age and the flaws I know that each one of these games contain... Dungeon Keeper 2 for example, has pretty aweful AI at times to the point where the closest to intelligence the AI keepers or the heroes show is from scripts... There's more, much more... The first game has weak AI as well, but not as pronounced (that I remember).

I only know of one DK rip off thus far, something called "Dungeons"... Overlord doesn't count, it's in the same spirit but it's not a strategy game, it's more RPG/tactical. Dungeons is a bad game based on the accounts I've found thus far... this won't stop me playing it.

If anyone has any ideas on a good (or bad) Dungeon Keeper style game, lemme know.

Keeper3 - If only my name meant there was a third dungeon keeper game... Oh well. PLAY MAGICKA!