No More Heroes?

[prog]

Anyone I know played No More Heroes yet? All the reviews I find are basically "OMG WII GIBS LOL boo texture pop". I wish to pat the reviewers on the head, they are so cute, but it doesn't really express whether it's worth an L-note to someone who wants a fun adventure game. Also how come nobody says "L-note"? Is it because it sounds a little dirty somehow?

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Speaking of fanboys, if you aren't reading the Gameshelf Blog yet you should. A buncha Gameshelf folks answered the call to register accounts on it, and so far three of us are have made a handful of posts. If the blog averages one post a day over time I'll call it a win. For my part, I'm planning on posting future gamey thoughts to it instead of to this LJ, unless they're not Gameshelfy enough. (Such as my asking whether a super-new-hotness Wii game is worth playing.)

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I want to play No More Heroes but haven't yet. Nintendo really need to get their act together and have a proper demo download service like on the Xbox.

re the gameshelf blog, I put it in my RSS reader and I'm seeing the formatting missing from some, but not all, entries. WEIRD. It looks like it's spitting out the source text rather than the html-ified stuff. Zarf's most recent post looks like this:

Speaking as [Uru](http://mystonline.com/)'s premier blogger... (...he said, lying blatantly...) The truth is, I've been [writing notes](http://eblong.com/zarf/uru/rj/index.html) about Uru Live...

[prog.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that too. (As has dougo but I am slow and lazy.) The thing is that MT offers many different ways for authors to input posts, including the "Markdown" style that Zarf likes. They all get transformed into the main HTML pages just fine, but they're transcribed literally into the RSS feeds, so everything except raw HTML looks crappy.

I will seek a fix.

[prog.livejournal.com]

Also why can't anyone except Microsoft do online correctly? Does Japanese-based video game culture just not care about it?

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

I've heard a few theories, I dunno enough about it myself.

Online gaming in Asia is tied very closely to the internet cafe culture, especially in Korea. People don't really play online games at home so much, so it's been largely irrelevant to console makers.

I think it's also partly because doing online properly means having an operating system running on the console and that's unfamiliar territory for console manufacturers. Not to mention requiring a certain amount of spare oomph in the hardware, which the Wii really doesn't have.

[prog.livejournal.com]

When you get a chance, could you see if the feed looks any better now?

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

D'oh, I just installed Firefox 3 Beta 3 and my RSS reader plugin stopped working. HOWEVER, I just looked at gameshelf and that looks just peachy, so I think you fixed it.