Jump to content

Tokyo Game Show

Jools

By Jools,
in Discussion

 Share

Recommended Posts

Jools

Jools

Posted
Posted

Just got back, and I',m currently in one of those cool japanse manga cafes (cyber cafes) where you can drink unlimited soft drinks. Oishiii!,

The show was pretty cool with lots of top games on show, I',ll tell you right now that my tastes don',t really match most peoples though. For instance, I didn',t look at Halo 2 or the new RE for instance, but anyway, I digress...

First of all the PSP!, It was real cool, and I never fancied it before. Its not the brick that you think it is and fits in your hands and (big) pocket quite nicely I think. The analogue button switch thingy is a bit weird though. On the 3D action game I played it was real rubbish, but that just may have been the game. Puyo Puyo fever was real nice to play on the ordinary D pad. Cant help but think that if someone hacks this machine it',ll be great (ala xbox). Watching media and playing emus and so on would really be great on this machine, its really quite nice.

Conspicous by its absence was the DS. Only three DS games were shown and all of them were videos with no hardware on display.

Xbox Monkey Ball. It was great!, Lovely to see some new levels for such a classic game. The xbox pad is definitely not as good as the GC one so the game does suffer a little but its still great nonetheless. Also, either the controls are a little forgiving or I',m bloody good at the game (despite never really having used an xbox pad before. The lack of &quot,grooves&quot, in the pad (MB fans will know what I',m taking about) does make it harder, but I did great anyway. Time will tell wether its me being ace or whether they',ve made things more forgiving to counter for the the more difficult controller.

PSO Episode IV (Blue Burst on PC). This was awesome to play, entirely new weapons, monsters etc. great fun. High resolution PSO is a joy to see and the gameplay is as fun as ever. However, the gameplay is exactly the same as it was and unless your a fan of this series the sense of deja vu may put you off a little. Still, I',d get it if I had decent PC.

Rez sequel thingy (forget the name, sorry) this looked real cool and I',ll be playing it tomorrow, I',ll tell you about it later!,

Sega Superstars, this game was fun. Everyone was a tad shy when it came to playing this, so the booth staff were all but pleadin me to play, so I got to have as many goes as I wanted - ace!, Seeing me kick ass in expert mode Monkey Ball (which was adjacent to eyetoy) the staff started me off on the eyetoy version of this. Difficult, but great fun. Nothing new at all really just new (incredibly easy) levels of MB with the easyness offset by having to use the eye toy as a controller (each hand/arm controlling the left or right axis and degree of momentum. Great fun and quite hilarious, especially when you just can',t quite manage the level of precision needed to get yourself in the end of level exit.

Being a huge fan of the DC versions I tried Space Channel 5 next. This was qutie predictable, matching the up down left and right of Ulala with some diagonals added to represent &quot,shoot&quot, and &quot,hey&quot,. The general coolness of SC5 made this a great laugh but I did notice that the timing of the your responses was very, very forgiving (unlike the super harsh original versions). The difficulty was in pulling off the physical movements and remembering the sequence rather than the trademark rythmic precision of the earlier games. Still, maybe this was just easy mode...

Overall, great fun, and I',ll report back on the goodies they gave me after I get back home to my cozy apartment in Kobe.

-Jools

Link to comment
Share on other sites
CouldBeWorse

CouldBeWorse

Posted
Posted

Rez sequel thingy (forget the name, sorry) this looked real cool and I',ll be playing it tomorrow, I',ll tell you about it later!,

Cool I await your post tomorrow about this. *rubs hands*

I like Sonys way of stopping people stealing PSPs.

Man:Do you come with the PSP?

Girl:Oh you, *giggle*

8042605493861249.JPG

Link to comment
Share on other sites
routeburn

routeburn

Posted
Posted
Cool I await your post tomorrow about this. *rubs hands*

I like Sonys way of stopping people stealing PSPs.

Man:Do you come with the PSP?

Girl:Oh you, *giggle*

8042605493861249.JPG

So the battery for these things to last a few hours is SO large that it needs a second person to carry it? Winner.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
rafaqat

rafaqat

Posted
Posted
Cool I await your post tomorrow about this. *rubs hands*

I like Sonys way of stopping people stealing PSPs.

Man:Do you come with the PSP?

Girl:Oh you, *giggle*

8042605493861249.JPG

That must be terribly distracting having a gorgeous woman standing less than a foot away and you',re trying to play a handheld. :rolleyes:

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Mr Ben

Mr Ben

Posted
Posted

Jools, if ya can, try out the Virtua Fighters, Nights, and Samba Di Amigo bits of that eyetoy game. I foresee those of us with no Samba Di Amigo wanting this game.

See if they have the sequel to Ico showing anywhere, even if its only a video. Loads of people want to know what it looks like. I',d also like to know what the Rez sequel plays like, if its on show.

Goodies?!,? I hope you got me something ,)

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Harmunt

Harmunt

Posted
Posted

Came home from work and was expecting to set some videos downloading on IGN Insider from Tokyo... Lo and behold, they have NOTHING!, Over at Gamespot they are kicking IGNs arse with loads of stuff. Sadly I',m an insider not a Gamespot subscriber... :rolleyes:

Come on IGN. Sort it out.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Spunky Monkey

Spunky Monkey

Posted
Posted
Came home from work and was expecting to set some videos downloading on IGN Insider from Tokyo... Lo and behold, they have NOTHING!, Over at Gamespot they are kicking IGNs arse with loads of stuff. Sadly I',m an insider not a Gamespot subscriber... :rolleyes:

Come on IGN. Sort it out.

Thats a surprise seeing as they are one and the same now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Jools

Jools

Posted
  • Author
Posted

OK, I',m at the show and I',ve just played the cool Luminess (the cool Rez sequel, kinda). The music is *awesome* in a Rez kinda way and the gameplay is very similar to tetris and columns, *but* I',ll be real honest with you here, I couldn',t really figure what was going on O.o Theres some sort of interaction going on with the music (it seemed) and theres a line that sweeps from left to right which removes the blocks you',ve matched up, giving you a bit of time to add to these blocks before they go, other than that, *confusion*!, It was still cool though. I asked if the designer was around and I was told he wasn',t :(

I',ll play some more eyetoy later and report back.

-Jools

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Use of this website is subject to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and Guidelines.

  I accept