Now this is just hilarious … Accidental Video Game Porn or like you would say ‘don’t let your mother see this!’ An archive of screenshots and animations showing explicit (and all non-intended of course) scenes from various old and new video games. Searching for backdoor demon sex with Zelda or hardcore bestiality orgies with Pikachu? You’ll find it there! I haven’t imagined video games are so full of ambiguous material! The funny thing about it are really the comments to the pictures. And unlike others, the emphasis lies here on ‘accidental’.
I’ve been playing The Sims several times and while it was a very interesting (and resource demanding) type of game at first, with every add-on that was released the intended reason for this game became more dull. The characters can become a couple or disputes and you can follow the career path up to no real destination in terms of game ending but while this all becomes boring by time the real matter of this game is the interior house and fashion design by the game players! Yes, The Sims is not about simulating interpersonal relationships but about the design of interior and clothing.
Maxis made two mistakes in my opinion. The first was to make the game system too demanding and complicated. I don’t mean the games interface but how the game handles resources. You add more and more user created objects to the game and your harddisk gets spill over with ‘uncompressed’ BMP images and the like (my Sims folder was about 3Gigs at the end) and the game loading time could easily raise up to 6-8 minutes with that.
The second bad thing that Maxis did was to create completely boring add-ons. Great now you can have your sims become superstars or magicans but they stay what they are: too limited in terms of interaction and real life behavior.
There are masses of user created sites on the web which offer excellent free objects and stuff created by the players and which in many cases look better than the games default contents.
By the time there where two objects I’ve created for the game … one was a rather moderate designed character skin of Lacey Chabert with the dress from Lost In Space and the other one was an object of the Commodore C64 computer which offers some interactivity.
I would have the game still installed just for the fun to try out new furniture and clothing if this game wouldn’t be such a dissipater on the harddisk.
Review: Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic (DOS/C64)
One of my very favorite games back on Amiga was the space RPG Hard Nova (to be reviewed in a while) which took me long cozy winter nights to solve. The predecessor of Hard Nova was a game called Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic which was released in 1988 by Electronic Arts and had it’s success under science fiction RPG videogamers. Me – PC-less – always looked enviously over to the PC crowd. But that only until decent DOS Emulators were developed, like DOSBox.
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Download: Custom VEB Missions and Campaign for Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games
My big move has been delayed for a short time! I will leave here at the end of December and move to far east in middle January! I actually packed everything and made most preparations so I’m stuck with being bored now, counting every minute and hope that time passes faster.
So what to do? One good idea I had, was to keep up with writing some blog stuff that I already planned in my mind. One if it being about one of my favorite Abandonware DOS games Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games!
Over the last couple of decades this game kept me from being bored often! With it’s cozy winter evening fireplace warmth strategy gameplay atmosphere and quietly playing midi music it charms easily to take a session of round based war monging.
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finally found an excellent sorted database site about all sorts of game music! on www.mirsoft.info is a well worked out database containing info on all kinds of video games and formats! even found some info about the fighting force 1 soundtrack, which became one of my favorite by the time…. despite others gave it a medium rating, i’d say it is well made! they cover alot of formats from digital audio to Turbo Grafx-16 HES music but there is no original music downloadable, except for several MIDI files and alot of links to other sites.
About four years ago there was a game in development that I highly anticipated but that never actually got released. The now disbanded software company Psygnosis was about to develop a new 3D version of their 16bit classic Hired Guns.
I remember playing Hired Guns back on Amiga and while the Gameplay wasn’t anything particularly new, the game had a nice and dark futuristic atmosphere with it.
The idea of the sequel was to only take four of the characters of the old version into the game that can be played together as a team and the Gameplay running on the unreal engine should have an impact on strategic team play, not just wild shooting.
I’ve lost Psygnosis’ path then and didn’t knew what happened to stop the developing on this game. Might be that they had to give up when they dissolved.
What makes me wondering is that this nice gaming idea wasn’t sold and continued by someone else!
There’s still a preview existing on ign.com but no information about why the game got discontinued.
If you know more, please feel free to drop a comment on that.
Review: Star Wars Galaxies (PC)First of all I’m not that far yet and played this game now for one week so you will not get any too detailed information about it here. I’ve spent most of the recent days training my character in the Tyrena area on Corellia an finally got my pistol skill tree full being able to call myself a pistol apprentice. I thought I would be able to hop right on the novice smugglers skill trees but to my surprise I still have to get some more skill points in at least pistol ranged combat before I can do that.
I’ve started off with an artisan and did the tedious task of surveying and sampling ore, minerals and chemicals for a long time with the intention to manufacture my own (better) weapons, since these seem to be very rare (at least on the Chilastra server?!), even bought and planted some personal mineral extractors later but got bored with it and decided to get onto the adventurous side with the rebels. Gladly I’ve already worked my pistol skills up a lot to that time. So after doing rebel delivery and destroy missions until I’ve got 200 rebel faction points to join them and hanging around on Corellia for almost one week I’ve decided it’s time to take a flight to Tatooine.
Shortly after I arrived in Mos Espa, I’ve grouped with a Trandoshan and a Bothan who asked me to join to raid Fort Tusken which lies close to that area. Three persons are way to few to raid the Tuskens but we thought to find others on that location to team up.
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Today my copy of Star Wars Galaxies arrived and I was more than enthusiastic to push the CD in and run it up. I have to admit that I’m a complete newbie to online roleplay games and besides tried some Ultima Online before played nothing else in this direction. However SWG was just too tempting after I’ve read many good and not so good reviews on that game!
After I’ve created my first character with much love and detail I arrived on the space station and prompt the server was down….. for several hours …… as I had to find out later that there’s a maintenance downtime everyday!
So I hardly had time yet to see something of the game but I surely will so today evening and post some upcoming reviews on that game here later.
Review: Tomb Raider – The Angel Of Darkness (PC)
Lara's back ... in 5000 Polygons.
As an old Tomb Raider player who digged through the vaults of the Tomb Raider series from the beginning on the Playstation, I got myself to give the newly just released Tomb Raider – The Angel Of Darkness in that Lara has to solve mysteries that will brighten up why her former mentor got killed after she gave him a visit after that she got suspected and hunted for the murder.
Several years after the last part Tomb Raider Chronicles was released, the expectation for the new game became high and the big question you might ask is if Core Design managed to bring Lara back in a style that she deserved.
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Review: V-Scroll-Shoot’em’ups with MAME
Nothing rocks more for a spontaneous minute fun than playing a session of arcade shoot’em’ups! They always kicked up the limit of graphic power in the eighties and nineties that home computers couldn’t provide! Nowadays someone who collects and eventually owns a room full of arcade machines could count himself to the happy ones owning these oversized piggy banks! But with a PC or Mac and a recent version of MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) there’s nothing in the way for some fast paced fun!For this reason I’m going to introduce some of my favorite Shoot’em’ups here …
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