I love "adventure racing" games like Diddy Kong Racing. The music, environments, and variety of vehicles were especially appealing to me. Why aren't there more games like this? You mentioned the "Rush" series. I've have to check that out.
This formula of lousy old school RPG and sexy characters has invaded the Indie section of Xbox Live as well.
OMG! My parents would watch TV endlessly and it bugged me so much, that when I left home for school, I stopped watching TV for years. I still don't watch live TV and only get a weekly movie or TV show from Netflix to watch on Sunday nights. And whenever I go over for visits, I think of bringing my 3DS and always decide not to because it would be viewed as immature.
Games never bore me but unless I have a friend to play with (and I mean in the room with me, not online), I don't play during daylight hours. I got to be out and about and not sitting at home in front of a TV or portable system.
Reading is great. I'm always reading several books at a time. One audio book for the car and one in my backpack to read at lunch. I'm a book worm and a game owl. Ha!
My friend was going to download it on 360 but it was $20 there, so I ran out and got it for him for $10 at Gamestop. Maybe it's even cheaper through ebay or Amazon?
I'm trying to go through all the movie liscenced games on 360 eventually, so I'll definitely try Madagascar.
The good thing about the delay is that now I can preorder a different game for March. I went out today and put some money down on Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon for 3DS.
I might be overstating it a little bit. I do know kids who are pretty much ignoring life because they're so much into gaming.
It's fun for what it is.
That it wasn't full of bugs and bad controls was a real surprise to me. It's one solid kids game.
I've preordered Pandora's Tower and just noticed the release date change on GameStop's website. It's now April 16th and not March 26th. Damn!
I kinda skimmed your review because I'm afraid of spoilers but it seems like a good game. It was the game that most interested me of the three Operation Rainfall games. It seemed to me like a Japanese style God of War. Now it makes me think more of Rygar: Battle of Argus on the Wii. Which is like saying the same thing really.
I could mention some people that are revered by higher learning who played games avidly when they weren't being geniuses such as: Marcel Duchamp, who played so much Chess that he started making a living at it; Igor Stravinsky, who used to love Spaghetti Westerns (I know that's not gaming but he might have played Call of Juarez or Red Dead Redemption if he lived today); Joseph Haydn, who played cards regularly with the staff of his employer's estate; and Wolfgang Mozart, who was obsessed with Billiards and played daily.
I've also heard theortical physicists talk about "gaming", meaning a way to test ideas by setting up a simulation. It makes me think that the act of gaming is just another way of thinking about things. So then maybe, if you don't game, you don't think. How about that for an insult to said schoolastic?
