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  1. I finally got a copy of the SNES version of Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and it's stranger than I remembered it. It's weird being considered a canonical sequel to SMW, because it doesn't play like a Mario game at all. It's harder, and being that you play with Yoshi, the controls and mechanics take a lot of getting used to. His movement is fast and kind of slippery, which makes the usual Mario platforming a sloppier affair. Saying all that, it is pretty fun and I'm glad I finally got the cart. I only rented the game once or twice when I was in high school, and I barely played it, so coming back to it now seems like a new experience.

  2. Squarepusher x Z-Machines - Music for Robots: Listened to it about 10 times in a row. It's so short and not very challenging. I enjoyed it, though. I would have hoped for something less guitar-based and more insane and electronic. I feel like he had the opportunity to show "the mainstream" (since he's getting mainstream coverage) why he's The Fucking Daddy, but opted to give us another dose of Just a Souvenir. Which is fine.

     

    Dutch E Germ - IN.RAK.DUST: Pretty good record. I've only listened to it twice. The only track that stands out to me so far is Nine.

     

    Ekoplekz - Unfidelity: Another grower. It has the potential to be one my favorites this year, but so far I just like it.

     

    Beck - Morning Phase: As the sequel to Sea Change, which I've never really liked, it certainly carries the torch. It's just inoffensive music that doesn't make an impression, good or bad. Wave is a good one, though. Upon the second full listen, I just played that track over and over and turned it off afterward. I have higher hopes for the next album he is currently working on.

  3. My iTunes is inaccurate because I got a different computer and I rarely use it now:

    Maximalist - Baths
    Take Off Your Shirt - Bibio
    Walking Shade - Billy Corgan
    The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) - Black Sheep
    Think of You - Bleached
    So Alive - Blueprint
    Blue Skies - BT
    Days Of Future Past - The Dead Science
    VillVille - The Dead Science
    Get Got - Death Grips
    European Oils - Destroyer
    Wiggly World - Devo
    Blockhead - Devo
    Battle Slang - Dirty Ghosts‏
    The Bristol Stomp - The Dovells
    Black And White Town - Doves
    A Paw in My Face - The Field
    OMH - Flight
    Grease - Frankie Valli
    ALWAYS - FRIENDZONE
    Peak Out - Girl Talk
    Treasury Of We - Glasser
    DedNd - Gonjasufi
    EATFISH_ - GONJASUFI.w_BLU
    Taco Grande - Weird Al Yankovic



    Past 12 months on last.fm:

    Percee P – Reverse Part 2
    Leftfield – Dusted
    Audionom – Kristall
    Flow Child – The Tripster
    Pop Will Eat Itself – Def Con One
    Bosnian Rainbows – Worthless
    M.I.A. – Bring the Noize
    Zambri – Icbys
    Modeselektor – Die Clubnummer
    Sean Price – BBQ Sauce
    Pusha T – Numbers on the Boards
    Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
    Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner
    Deerhoof – We Do Parties
    The Bug – Run The Place Red (Ft. Daddy Freddy)
    Sophie – BIPP
    Kool Keith – Jedi Supreme
    The Buggles – Kid Dynamo
    Fulgeance – Montefalco Mato
    Sleigh Bells – Sugarcane
    Sneaker Pimps – Tesko Suicide
    hello – New York Groove
    Mutsumi – Why I Left
    Austra – Home
    Clark – Dirty Pixie



    Overall last.fm:

    Ohgr – Cracker
    Thom Yorke – The Clock
    Beck – E-Pro
    TV on the Radio – Staring At The Sun
    Modest Mouse – Might
    Madvillain – Accordion
    Billy Corgan – The CameraEye
    Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
    Thom Yorke – The Eraser
    Ugly Casanova – Cat Faces
    Quasimoto – Bus Ride
    Madvillain – Curls
    Pretty Girls Make Graves – The Nocturnal House
    M.I.A. – Bucky Done Gun
    Radiohead – Like Spinning Plates
    Sean Paul – We Be Burnin'
    Billy Corgan – Walking Shade
    Interpol – Obstacle 2
    Billy Corgan – toLOVEsomebody
    Prosaics – Teeth
    Wolf Parade – Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts
    Beck – Cellphone's Dead
    Neko Case – Hold On, Hold On
    R.E.M. – Let Me In
    Xiu Xiu – Muppet Face

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    up to the last main mission on gta5. my attention is starting to wander to other games, mostly because i don't really want to end the storyline. has been great. can't see myself doing all the other side missions after i end the main mission (what typically happens with me with open world games - fallout 3 was the same despite there being a ton of the world i hadn't explored yet).

     

    anybody played the new deus ex: human revolution update? i absolutely loved the shit out of the game on the first playthrough, wondering if it's worth playing it through again.

     

    shame watch dogs has been delayed. looks amazing. mostly because it looks like deus ex: hr + gta, admittedly... ;)

     

     

    edit: any wii u recommendations beyond sports club? probably should use the bloody thing more.

    Not sure what you're into, but New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Luigi U are the best games on it right now, in my opinion. Darksiders II is good if you haven't played it on another system, and the Wonderful 101 is great as well.

     

    There really aren't a ton of Wii U games that can be recommended because, well, there aren't many that exist at the moment. I hear the Wii U version of Rayman Legends is the best version. Super Mario 3D World comes out on Nov. 22. I am so looking forward to it.

    Pikmin 3 is the reason I own that system, excellent game.

     

    Played that new Zelda for 3DS, talk about fugly, shit

     

    Yeah, the art style isn't great. I don't know why they chose to make it look like that when they can do a variation on the Wind Waker style or something that pops more. In motion, it doesn't look terrible, but it could be better. I loved A Link to the Past, but it's this new game's art style that keeps me from rushing out to buy it. A really striking art style is what usually makes me decide to pay attention to a game. I think they failed on that aspect here.

  5. up to the last main mission on gta5. my attention is starting to wander to other games, mostly because i don't really want to end the storyline. has been great. can't see myself doing all the other side missions after i end the main mission (what typically happens with me with open world games - fallout 3 was the same despite there being a ton of the world i hadn't explored yet).

     

    anybody played the new deus ex: human revolution update? i absolutely loved the shit out of the game on the first playthrough, wondering if it's worth playing it through again.

     

    shame watch dogs has been delayed. looks amazing. mostly because it looks like deus ex: hr + gta, admittedly... ;)

     

     

    edit: any wii u recommendations beyond sports club? probably should use the bloody thing more.

     

    Not sure what you're into, but New Super Mario Bros. U and Super Luigi U are the best games on it right now, in my opinion. Darksiders II is good if you haven't played it on another system, and the Wonderful 101 is great as well.

     

    There really aren't a ton of Wii U games that can be recommended because, well, there aren't many that exist at the moment. I hear the Wii U version of Rayman Legends is the best version. Super Mario 3D World comes out on Nov. 22. I am so looking forward to it.

  6. Finished Arkham Asylum earlier this week, and despite everyone hating on it for having a couple bugs (which have been patched), it was a pretty damn good dame... The story was pretty great, I liked it more than Asylum but I'm not sure about City. The combat is challenging and fun, I feel like they ramped up the challenge just a bit from how it was in City. It's not a perfect game but it still deserves more credit than a lot of people are giving it.

     

    I actually loved Arkham Asylum. I played it a bit when it first came out and thought it was boring and hard (I hate stealth games). Then I picked it back up again last year and really had a great time with it. Not sure what made the difference, but I am glad I tried it out again. After I beat it, I immediately started on Arkham City, and unfortunately, it didn't live up to Asylum. There's just way too much to do in City, so easy to get sidetracked (and lost). I quit on it. Maybe I'll come back to it some time in the next year and love it.

  7. Yeah, so I tried to get into this game, but I couldn't. It feels really off to me. It looks and sounds like a MM game, but doesn't feel like it at all. It's way too hard, and I know MM games have a reputation for being hard, but the truth of the matter is that they really aren't. With the exception of 1, 9, and 10 (and MM&Bass), none of them are as insanely difficult as this one. The enemies' patterns and attacks just seem built to frustrate. There' s one stage that starts with a possible instant death. That's not something you'd find in an official MM game. It is, however, much better than that SFxMM trash.

     

    played a bit of MEGA MAN UNLIMITED today.

     

    download

    http://megaphilx.com/?page_id=1003

     

    a fan made 8-bit mega man game that's actually pretty perfect. i found the difficulty to be harder than the original mega man games (in particular, the length of the levels is a bit rich with only one or two checkpoint sparingly spread with great lengths of difficult gameplay in between). the music, and graphics, and controls, and overall style and feel of the game is spot on. what also is pretty remarkable is that the game feels fresh and innovative. it takes risks and has fun gameplay elements in its level and enemy design, that it actually feels like a fresh new legitimate mega man sequel, as opposed to a fan made clone or homage.

    definitely recommending it to any mega man fan. it definitely plays better than the capcom released (..endorsed?) street fighter x mega man. and seems even better and fresher than mega man 9 and mega man 10. definitely better than mm 10, at least.

     

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