Category: Gaming

Metroid Prime auf Deutsch spielen

Viele meiner Freunde, wie auch ich, haben English aus Videospiele gelernt. Die Kindheit ist die beste Zeit fürs Lernen, und Kinder spielen viel und gern. Deshalb ist sie eine Gute Idee, lernen und Unterhaltung zu kombinieren. Obwohl ich nicht mehr ein Kind bin, ich habe noch die Lust auf spielen und lernen. Ich hoffe dass ich nie diese Lust darauf verlieren, ich glaube sie sind große Teile von was uns Kinder bleiben hilft, und Kinder sind immer so begeistert über der Welt und dem Leben. Natürliche Weise sind sie im Jetzt und wir Erwachsene haben viel von ihnnen zu lernen.

Also, spiele ich nun Metroid Prime auf meinem Wii, ein von meinen Lieblingsspielen, obwohl es ist eine lange Zeit, nicht viel weniger als 10 Jahre, seit ich es für letztes Mal gespielt habe. Es gibt viele schwierige und wissenschaftliche Wörter drinnen, deshalb muss ich immer ein Notizbuch daneben haben, um die unbekannten Wörter darauf zu schreiben. Außerdem und deswegen muss ich sehr langsam spielen – was würde normalerweise z.B. eine Stunde dauern jetzt dauert zwei oder noch mehr. Trotzdem dieser Weg macht viel Spaß und ich kann das Spiel auch viel besser genießen. Laß uns sehen wie es geht!

Ich schliesse dieses erstes Post auf Deutsch mit dem Intro und dem Menübild von dem Spiel. Was kann ich ja sagen? Es ist ein Meisterwerk von Ton und Bild Design (wie das ganzes Spiel auch, natürlich).

Instruments of Robot Repair FTW!

No idea what the concept is (apart from “let’s sample aaaall of our musical instruments in a single montage — how neat!”), but I still like it! It’s addictive, actually.

While we’re at it… (no, I haven’t completed Portal 2’s co-op yet*hi-fives Mordread*… still addicted to this track from the OST though!)

Another Blue Moon

Remember the last blue moon? Woo boy, wasn’t that a special period?

Well, this time the blue moon just happened to be in August. Everyone started going bananas over how that one was going to be this August’s large moon, nevermind all the talk over whether it would actually be blue or not.

Just to make things clear at this point: August full moons aren’t larger than the rest of the year’s full moons, contrary to the widely believed fact (no less by yours truly until fairly recently) — the proximity cycle doesn’t coincide with the luminosity/phase cycle. In fact, it was only this May that the full moon happened to be the same day as that month’s perigee. Anyway, I digress.

Museums and archaeological sites were open for the night, couples everywhere were enjoying their romantic night out, people were outside cherishing their last days of summer wondering what was so special about this moon in particular.

In another realm, a digital one, the Scythian discovered the five sylvan sprites, fought with the Bright Moon Trigon, jammed along with Jim Guthrie, all the while feeling a hand guiding her actions. A hand belonging to a person who hadn’t had a gaming experience so moving and intense in quite some time.

If you ask me years from now what I was doing on this day of the blue moon, I’ll probably remember the Scythian’s adventures in the world of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP under the bright moon of ambiguous actuality.

I find that this experience speaks tons about how much and how quickly our digital and our physical lives have already blended… and beyond a shadow of doubt will continue to do so to spectacular, terrible, unimaginable levels.

Spoilers ahead:

Jamming with Jim Guthrie, the game’s composer:

Battling the unimaginable geometry of the Bright Moon Trigon:

Bastion – The Singer (Zia’s Song) Remastered

Also known as: “Build that Wall”.

Playing Bastion these slow, hot summer days nights. The day I was waiting for finally came, that is, the game to be on a ridiculous sale on the Steam summer sales: €5+ for the game and the soundtrack. What a steal. Almost as big of a steal as this song’s picking of my insides. Truly a great moment when it is first heard in-game.

Bittersweet music from Civilization V

Discovered from the Civilization V soundtrack. The Civ series, apart from it probably being my favourite game series (definitely the one I’ve thrown the most hours into, hands down), has some of the greatest music ever, original pieces as well as licensed/older works such as as the above.

I will deliberately not comment on the fact that I would probably only learn about the existence of these pieces from playing the game. Oops.

Every day the same dream (indie 5-minute game)

We need way more games like this. Thanks Garret for linking me to this little tidbit.

Play it. If you don’t manage to see the ending, don’t worry — I didn’t and had no problem with having the impression that there was no ending. To be frank, I was even a little disappointed. You’ll see why.

And enjoy the music.

European border change timelapse (1000AD-2003AD)


European time lapse map από stefanelonikitelo

Awesome! Reminds me of all the hours I’ve spent playing Civilization, Europa Universalis, Victoria and Crusader Kings. 🙂 I had a similar idea for a time lapse but more interactive… I guess that’s not needed now.

Also: the music is EPIC!

Highlights:

0:00-0:30 Muslim Spain… <3 0:16 Breakup of Byzantine Empire into Latin duchies. 0:25+ THE GOLDEN HORDE! 1:05 Constantinople/Istanbul changes colour. 1:25+ Poland-Lithuania. Will you look at that! 2:35 Wild Greece appears! 2:45 Unificiation of Italy and Germany 2:50+ Greece, Balkan Wars and Asia Minor campaign. Around 2:50 the change is almost poetic, in its fashion...