notes from the cape foo

[prog]

I originally thought I'd be here only for Saturday, but I ended up staying through Sunday; time flies and all.

Currently playing Axis & Allies for the first time. Will probably continue to do so through the early evening. I'm the UK. Thankfully, temvald is on my side, as the USSR. JG is the USA, though JH, as Japan, just managed to take Hawaii on her first turn, prompting our representative of the Greatest Generation to say "Forget this war; I'm gonna sit here and do nuthin'". Fortunately MS is consistently blowing all his German die rolls so far, so it balances out. I guess.

A lot of attention that would have gone into epic board games has instead gone into playing or watching Katamary Damacy and Burnout 3 that I brought, even though neither is really a party game. I dunno whether this is good or bad.

Comments

BURNOUT 3 IS TOTALLY A PARTY GAME

[(Anonymous)]

Be sure to check out the different crash modes. One has you go through and play a certain stage round robin, seeing who can rack up the most damage. Much, much fun.

Shawn

Re: BURNOUT 3 IS TOTALLY A PARTY GAME

[prog.livejournal.com]

haven't checked out the crash modes, other than the basic one. In experimentation so far, the "Party Crash" mode was only semi-fun because of all the loading time... it spent 10 seconds or so loading between each player's attempt, presenting a black screen in the meantime, and that's kind of lame.

I also suspect that multi-player split-screen racing is problematic due to peculiarities of the game's rendering engine (which frequently wants to render details finer than a NTSC TV can handle), but I'm not yet convinced.