Hangover Postin'

Hopefully this stay's mostly PG-13 to R, as I am feeling the banging of Thor's Hammer and that of a fat cow all over my head right now! Since my brain is not exactly being massaged by muses or getting the best treatment right now, I am going to stick to a simple formula today, gonna pull a few titles from my collection 1 NES era, one 32 bit era and one current gen and say a few words on it. Last but not least I'd like to say this... last night was not all It could have been, and that's why I have a hangover, had it been what it could have been I'd still be too wasted to be hungover!

Muppets Muppets I love the Muppets! From the TV show, Muppet Babies, Seasame Street, Muppets were the shit! Having seen a "talking" Sesame Street N.E.S game in a store once I was HEARTBROKEN that it was for smaller kids, so HAPPY day when I saw this..of all places in my mom's avon catalog..THAT should have been a sign! Needless to say I found the 59.99 plus crazy avon tax and 2 weeks later I had this thing in my hands, still recall thinking "OH neat No.1" thinking they were going to make more! Popped it into the old deck, hit the power button and braced my self.
Egads Man! The controls, the presentation, the animation (or lack of) all the things that I had only heard of through friends, all the things that made up a "bad game" sitting in front of me on my zenith! Sad, astonished, and most of all STILL happy that it was a Muppet game I trecked on. Sadly Kermit's raft ridde and Fozzie's maze (to name a few) were too much for me and I never reached the point of trying to save Ms. Piggy! Muppets you were my first BAD N.E.S game, SHAME ON YOU!

I am gonna sum this up in a short way, I WANTED this to be like the arcade version of this game, as I could never spend more than 5 minutes on it! So wanted this to be like that, I wanted to learn the insane juggles the crazy cancels! Seeing this bad boy sitting in the circuit city glass case (smaller CC which kept games in a glass case)I was so giddy! Plopped my 59.99 and kept pushing my mom to hurry up and leave her shopping till later!
Excited I nearly frisbee'd my copy of Mortal Kombat 3 out of my ps1 and popped in this. Capcom Logo appears, YAY, ....wait...intro seems different and cheesy music from movie.. no crappy midi street fighter theme like on the arcade..ok ok np.... OH there's a story mode! ...OMG........this is...SUPER TURBO in digitized disguise! Good enough for me, screw the arcade game!

Burnout to me was always about the pre-determined crash courses and the crazy speed routes on a race, while I will not lie I often thought of what the series could be totally open-world I always thought It'd be more problematic than good. When the demo hit pre-release on live I got it with high hopes and honestly due to the fact that I did not much bother paying attention to what was being said about the game in the intro etc I found it be problematic and I felt like it would not work long term. Months later I'd re-download the demo and actually pay mind to things and try to follow through with what was being said, thought it would at least maybe let me see the core of the re-tooled gameplay and once I had that down I could understand how this would work and why it had gotten so much praise.
Burnout Paradise turned out to be just plain out fun, with so much structure to it that responds both to being followed and broken, total freedom to accomplish many of the goals in either the right form or balls to the wall wrong form. The atmosphere in the game world is not only fitting but it's alive, every turn every twist you can tell that when the design team took this task upon them they really thought out "WHERE would this kind of event FIT perfectly what paradise can we F*** up?" Got a next gen console or pc? TRY THIS! Racing fan or not!

Today I leave you all with one question...name this sprite!