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WARNING: SPOILERS FOR METAL GEAR SOLID 3 FOLLOW.
I first played Metal Gear Solid 3 when I was 13. The game was unlike anything else I’d played up to that point, and I loved it. Like everyone else, I was mesmerised by the jungle, the story and the music. And like everyone else, I found Raikov...
This year, the PSP turns 16 years old. Indeed, the PSP was a landmark in handheld gaming; it was the first handheld console that was capable of a truly console-quality 3D experience, one which Nintendo couldn't match for years to come. The PSP wields a mighty 333MHz CPU with a 166MHz GPU and...
(The example game in question I'll be examining is The Last Story, composed by Nobuo Uematsu - a famous composer responsible for scoring much of the Final Fantasy series, Chrono Trigger and an assortment of other games)
Music is always a tricky thing to talk about since the ability of people who...
Yeah so things are gonna be pretty laid back for the Christmas break and I’ll have time for some more writing, and I have a lot in mind that I can’t decide on. Here are a few ideas if anyone wants to vote on them but I’m open to suggestions:
- Analysing a game from a tech perspective
- Overview...
Ah, Garfield Kart. Where do I begin? I could give you any number of hollow, ironic comments about it - you could really write a book from the Steam reviews alone - but instead, I'm going to do something more interesting. I'm going to argue, to the best of my ability, that Garfield Kart is a...
I decided to write this up because things have really been heating up on the PSP development server (see bottom) and I hope to inspire some people to become interested by writing about everything. So without further ado, enjoy.
An Update
I'll kick off with some updates to the existing...
This is a quick guide I wrote for my Discord server dedicated to the game, which I have published on GBAtemp on request. People are unsure about how to play the game online or whether it still works at all, so I'm posting this to alleviate any doubts and answer a few questions.
Before I get...
(Foreword: I decided to write this article because of the recent announcement of the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. Many people have dismissed this and even compared it to the Vectrex, a "GameBoy Micro Mini" and other derisive comparisons - so I thought I would make a post about this often-overlooked...
The Cell processor is probably the most mythical chip in console history. Many say the Cell had buckets of untapped potential, citing complex hardware design as the primary reason the system was never fully tapped. But do these claims hold water in any scenarios, practical or not? The truth...
So I decided to make this a series. I'll be covering the compositional techniques used in Deus Ex, including what makes Deus Ex and its successors so musically solid -- and I'll provide my own piano cover of the main theme song too, plus chords. So without further ado, let's cover Deus Ex's...
As the title says. Considering starting a series about the composition of game music and analysing game tracks, noting particular examples and perhaps suggesting tips if anyone is interested in the composition process too. Thoughts?
BLACK was a 2006 first-person shooter by Criterion, who were well known for games such as Burnout and their flagship engine RenderWare was used across many different 6th gen games, including AAA titles such as Grand Theft Auto, Persona and even Call of Duty. Criterion's own games had focused on...
A movement called Operation Rainfall was responsible for the worldwide release of three Japanese games; the revered Xenoblade Chronicles, sleeper hit Pandora's Tower and The Last Story. Often overlooked as Xenoblade's little brother, The Last Story is an action-RPG by the creator of the Final...
To clarify, my intention here is not to write a review of this game. This is a summary of the game, if anything. I've looked all over Discord for players to play this game online, to no avail - and this game is an absolute gem for anyone interested in action games, RPG games or story-driven...
[Reviewed on Xbox One/N64]
Rare have made many blockbuster video games over the past 30 years or so. Among the first to come to mind would be GoldenEye 007, Banjo Kazooie, Conker's Bad Fur Day, Battletoads... but one important game is sometimes overlooked, released for the N64 at the turn of...
[DISCLAIMER: This is not a rickroll. He does make actual music, which may come as a shock to millions of oblivious rickroll victims.]
So I decided to try something different as tech blog upon tech blog was becoming monotonous for me to write up. I've decided to try something more musical, a...
So before I do another Tech Talks post, this is something I've been wanting to do for a while, and now that I've at least used all PSP models I think I'm in a good position to talk about all of them. I'll detail the pros and cons of each model with a summary paragraph about each.
PSP 1000...
The very first games consoles did not think very much of resolutions. Indeed, unlike our modern displays, CRT TVs were not fixed resolution and the "standards" for resolutions varied and were sometimes arbitrary. At the time, this wasn't really an issue; developers were more concerned about how...
The PlayStation 2 is the best selling console ever. But what people forget, and what people often give it unfair criticism for, is what it had underneath the hood. The PS2 had, in some ways, some of the most advanced hardware of its generation - but it is often slammed for being “weaker” than...
The PSP was Sony's first - and most successful - foray into the world of portable gaming. It amassed about 80 million sales and offered a convincingly console-quality experience for much of its lifetime. This post will have a look at what the PSP did right, what it tried and what games showed...
