More VG, Monop and Metroid

On 07/31/2018 at 11:23 PM by KnightDriver

I'm going to the Franklin Institute later in August to see their video game show. That museum has a lot of interactive displays so it should be fun. I may go with my mom and my niece and nephew too. I'll take some pics and do a blog on it. But what I did today follows.

Pickups: Driver San Francisco, Top Spin 2-4:

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I really liked Links 2004 a little while ago. It was a Microsoft first party sports game and so I wanted to try some others they made back then. I got Top Spin for original Xbox and I want to play it. I have high hopes for it after how good Links was. Then I saw there were three Top Spin sequels for Xbox 360. They are super cheap at Gamestop so I picked them all up all together for under $10. Then a Gamestop salesman convinced me to buy Driver San Francisco for PS3 as well. I think I'll like that. Those devs did one of my favorite games, Destruction Derby 2 on PS, way back when and the way the sales guys described it made me think of a cross between the open world driving in Crackdown and the mayhem of Burnout. A match made in heaven. Hopefully I'll get to my PS3 this month to try it out.

Monopoly Plus: Mark and I both got all the achievements for this today. Monopoly finally plays perfectly smooth and fully online, and lots of people are still playing it. I did a six real person round, and won, and then one with Mark, I won again, and then another with a full complement of AI bots, easy win. I used some custom rules too to speed up the gameplay. Monopoly can take a while to finish.

Metroid Zero Mission: I bounced to my Gamecube's Game Boy Player to play this GBA game. What a fantastic remake of, I think, the first Metroid game. Love the graphics. The music is moodly and great. The gameplay is fun. I like shooting with my platformers. It makes the frustration go away. I love turning into a ball and dropping bombs. You keep getting more equipment as you play that adds new gameplay elements like the freeze ray that creates new platforms when you freeze an enemy. Why isn't there a movie (not Aliens which I know it's based on) of this. It would be like a creepy scifi Tomb Raider. Man that would be good.

Super Step Contributing Writer

08/01/2018 at 12:15 AM

Yeah, Zero Mission is way more fun than the original. That game is too damn obtuse.

KnightDriver

08/02/2018 at 10:56 PM

I lasted about five minutes on Metroid I played on Virtual Console. This one I didn't want to stop playing.

Homelessrook

08/01/2018 at 06:35 AM

I think I see a sports trend, lol. I got those football games the other day and Tennis yesterday. Here you are with TopSpin, lol.

As for a Metroid movie, they would just screw it up, Doom comes to mind. Oh and Blood Rayne, we walked out of the theater for that one.

08/02/2018 at 10:51 PM

Good thing about sports games is they are usually very cheap used.

Cary Woodham

08/01/2018 at 10:15 AM

Yeah, Zero Mission is one of the better game remakes period. If you enjoy it, I can give you some other Metroid game recommendations.

Probably best that we don't have a Metroid movie. Video game movies don't seem to do well most of the time.

08/02/2018 at 10:50 PM

I have Metroid Fusion on GBA too. I need to get to that. Also, I have Metroid Prime 1 + 2. I might try them again next week when I play some Gamecube games.

Casey Curran Staff Writer

08/01/2018 at 06:47 PM

I'd only want a Metroid movie if we could get the guys behind Mad Max: Fury Road to do it. They'd be able to make something compelling without having dialog drive the plot like the games do. Alternatively a Metroid cartoon done by the Samurai Jack guys.

08/02/2018 at 10:07 AM

Wow. Great ideas. The lack of dialog is interesting. I recall the Resident Evil movies are done that way. It's more about style. I like that sort of thing a lot. MM: Fury Road was a favorite of mine. And Samurai Jack. Oh yes. I'm actually planning on watching more of that this month.

goaztecs

08/02/2018 at 02:04 PM

Hey I think I have all those games on the same consoles. I wasn't a fan of Driver San Francisco but there is a lot to do in that game. I should hook up my 360 and play some Top Spin.

08/02/2018 at 10:32 PM

I'm going to check out Top Spin 1 first when I set up my orginal Xbox later this month. I really hope it's great.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

08/02/2018 at 05:29 PM

I think I played that Driver game. Can't remember. They're alright.

08/02/2018 at 10:26 PM

I only got interested when I heard one of them was done by the Destruction Derby 2 guys. I'll give it a spin.

PixlBit