planet rome.ro: Happy Holidays!

Saturday, January 06, 2007

Happy Holidays!

Well, here's to hoping your last 3 weeks were pleasant. I had a great time just hanging out at the house and not traveling anywhere. During the vacation I played a lot of games and the one that really stood out for me on the PC was Flat Out 2. If you're a fan of Burnout 3 (uhh, not BO:Revenge) and an avid Excite Truck player, you will *LOVE* playing Flat Out 2! Something I really love is the fact that you have a person in every car instead of Burnout's robot cars. And when you crash -hard- your driver will blast out of the windshield screaming and ragdoll his/her way all across the road, most likely getting run over repeatedly by the other drivers who LOVE to smash into your car/driver any chance they get.

Flat Out 2 looks *excellent* - this is HDTV gaming but for your PC. The graphics and engine feel very much like Half Life 2's and the speed is intense with motion blur, glow and lots of particle effects. Just about everything is destructible so you can just take the whole place apart - it's hilarious fun!

I bought Flat Out 2 through Steam, which I love, so I had no copy protection hassles like the European version that has Starforce on the CD.

Other games I was jacking around with during the holiday and up to now:

Sam & Max: Culture Shock (telltalegames.com)
Sam & Max: Situation Comedy
Quake 1 (DM7) deathmatch using DarkPlaces
DOOM II (MAP01) deathmatch using ZDOOM & JDOOM
Ghost Recon Gold Edition
World of Warcraft (of course)

Other news: my son Michael is just a few months away from going to Full Sail in Florida (21 month track) so he started interning at Slipgate Ironworks and learning C++.

Labels: holiday games warcraft

28 Comments:

Justin said...

I wasn't convinced the whole episodic gaming thing was going to take off until I played the Telltale Sam & Max games. The episodic versions were admittedly a bit tamer/simpler than the original Lucasarts adventure "Hit the Road", but I still enjoyed them immensely and have therefore revised my previous opinion on episodic gaming :)

12:48 PM

Coder Floyd said...

I heard Full Sail is intense. Better spend every available moment studying before you even get there!

5:50 PM

smithy1185 said...

I have been meaning to pick up FlatOut 2 for a while. Sounds like the differences between it and Burnout should be a nice change.

3:50 PM

DoomFan said...

I'm still in high school, and my career of choice is of course programmer. I'll look at colleges very soon, so I think I'll take Full Sail into consideration.

4:28 PM

Irritant said...

Oh no, please don't tell me WoW is consuming you! It's ruining lives!

10:33 AM

the doom freak said...

oh ya ure opinion doesnt count cuz u did not create a revolutionary game...romero knows wat games are best

...btw romero wat do u think of teh doom movie :S

10:35 PM

Gustavo said...

I think the most fun game I've played recently was "guitar hero 2"... it's just insanely fun. It comes with all these songs from Black Sabbath and other bands I used to listen to when I was a teenager... soooo cool. I would love to read John's opinion about the game.

11:08 AM

John Romero said...

The Guitar Hero games are absolutely AWESOME! :)

11:29 AM

Nukem said...

Justin:
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The episodic versions were admittedly a bit tamer/simpler than the original Lucasarts adventure "Hit the Road", but I still enjoyed them immensely and have therefore revised my previous opinion on episodic gaming :)
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I'm from Germany and therefore didn't get *ALL* the fun stuff / puns (the VERY fast talking just adds to that!) I guess, but I would call HtR the _tamer_ game. Purcell himself said that LucasArts wanted to make the two guys more "child-friendly". Ever saw Sam draw THAT BIG GUN from his suit in HtR (or gibs in StarWars ;)??? I didn't.
But in SnM:CS this was just too cool.
Of course you're right that CS is far more simple (puzzles included).
I also agree with your opinion about episodic gaming. :)

6:49 AM

Gustavo said...

Hey, don't know if you already know about this but there's a guitar hero clone game that's open source; I think it's made by some guys in Finland. To play you grab your pc's keyboard as if it was a guitar, I think it's a cool idea, someone should do a commercial version. The name of the game is "frets on fire"

10:59 AM

Anonymous said...

Flat Out is from Finland and I'm from Finland too. I'm so proud of my homeland. :)

PS. Alan Wake is coming soon and it is from Finland. ;3

7:10 AM

Anonymous said...

I totally agree, Burnout 3 was much better then Revenge. Also the menu system in revenge just sucked. It was kind of a pain if you just wanted to pick up and play to go find a map and jump on it.

Also the traffic checking kind of felt like cheating to me. It was fun at first but then I went back to burnout 3. ;-)

Blades

9:42 PM

Doug said...

Hey, I graduated from Full Sail and I figured I would give your son the heads up. I was not in the gaming dept., but I had a lot of friends that were. It is intense and very heavy on coding, but it is also a lot of fun. As you probably know, it's 4 hour blocks of class, anywhere from 8 to 12 hours per day(i.e. 1-3 classes), and everyone looks forward to their 30 min breaks to get their fill of caffine and nicotine, as well as some intense games of Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter 2 with what seemed to me the best players out there. But it is well worth it and was a lot of fun. 1AM and 5AM labs are tough, but looking back, glad I went through with it.

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