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Re-Design And Innovate
A Short Observation in The Growth And Design In Game Designs.
Its great that publisher are now really starting to put the great collection of franchises out into the hands of gamers who have great memories from the past ten years. although this collections is complete (silent hill HD cough’ cough’) it still has its black sheep ‘DMC2’.
But you can really notice how game design has changed over a franchise and it shows when moving from DMC3 to DMC1. The first one in the series (by release date) has a more Resident Evil style design, you enter the first area not knowing what the hell your supposed to do or where your supposed to go (I literally spent the first 10 minutes of the game looking for the right door to go through).
When you look at the third game in the series, Capcom have just streamlined and cut all the fat and left the meat and potatoes, Its something that you don’t really notice until you play them back in these collections. Todays games will sometimes actually move in the wrong direction, SSX for example. All the past games had great content and addicting core gameplay, So what did EA do to bring it into this generations? they added the deadly descents.
They act like boss stages for each region and become the most annoying part of the whole experience. It turns a game from style and speed into a frustrating soul draining half an hour of restarting and cheating rewinding using the games newly implemented whoops button.
Other great examples of getting re-invention right can be found in the Dead Space Series and the Mass Effect Games.
Ty’s Recommended Apps List
This Post is to help mainly my friends who have recently got an Android Phone and is written primarily for the Samsung Galaxy S2, This is not the Definite Must have list but a good start for anyone who has recently joined the Android Family for the first time. If anyone would like to see something on the list please forward it on, A must have games List will be up as soon as iv finished trying them all out.
Closes Left opened Apps which consumes your background memory and battery. Adding the widget to a home screen gives you a one button press function.
A great alternative web browser that offers faster speeds and a smoother interface. It also compresses web pages so you view them quicker and save on data usage.
This app tracks your mobile internet usage (4G/3G/Edge/GPRS) and notifies you when your reaching your limit and can even stop the continue of use saving you from going over your monthly allowances. It has lots of options to customise reset dates,allowance limits and notifications.
This is a short cut button to obliviously turn the wifi on and off. Great for lazy people. The market place page also offers buttons for other connectivity short cuts, I personally have the Wifi And 3G buttons on my main screen.
This app allows you to schedule the AirPlane mode of your phone to a start and stop at certain times (e.g during sleep) to save your battery. You can set which day of the week to turn on the mode and what connectivity to turn off when in AirPlane mode.
Go locker replaces the default lock screen with custom ones which can be downloaded from a huge library of many different styles and functions. One downside is that you have to download the Go Launcher Ex App (download here) for it to work, Go Launcher ex is an App that changes the default home screen to custom designs, you don’t have to use it just set the Samsung default home screen when you press the home button next. I personally dont like to use it but you have to have it installed to use Go Locker.
If your like me and still use the stock messaging app, then SMS Popup is a must have. Does Exactly what it says on the tin, And even has a quick reply section so you never have to go into your message list.
A great app for creating ringtones, can use sections of songs and save them to your phone.
Battery widgets are great to have on the home screen, there are many on the marketplace but I am currently using this one. All of them have some kind of % or Accurate Value of you battery life and some come with extra features to save your battery life like auto screen brightness and notifications.
Again, there are many Flash light apps out there and this one is the most popular (although they all do the same thing). A handy thing to have, shame the Samsung doesn’t come with one.
A music recognition app which identifies the song you want to find out more about like the artist,year ect. Great for when you hear a song on the radio and don’t know who sings it.
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sheer brilliance!
~ty
Image From Spikes Article on The Top 10 Darkest Educational Games. Just Thought The Screen Cap Was Funny!
~Ty
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Game of Blades by Zerobriant - Thursday July 21, 2011
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HD Remake Pack Madness!
Konami today have said that it will be releasing HD remake collections of Silent Hill ‘But only 2 and 3, and not 4 for some reason’, Metal Gear Solid 2, Snake Eater And peace Walker ‘with duel controls now added which will make the game so much more approachable.’ and finally Z.O.E 1&2 which suggest to me that they might be working on a third game. I say this because the other 2 franchises have squeals coming shortly, And this has been proven with the other Packs they have released for example the sly raccoon collection for Infamous 2, Ico & Shadow of the colossus for The Last Guardian. All with have re-worked assets and trophy’s/achievements and for the PS3 versions a Transferring Option which is yet to be detailed but my guess its for remote play on the NGP. Stay tuned!
By Ty
Steam: 66% Off Singularity (£6.80)
An absolute bargain has appeared on steam today, I had written a review a few months ago on Singularity so check that out Here. Its a great game that fell by the way side in the shadows of Halo and Killzone. Buy it now!
By Ty
Shadow of the Colossus for Gameboy
Part of a project by kotaku reader Maxwell, lonely wandering and moral ambiguity on the go!
(via gamefreaksnz)
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