http://www.fourhman.com/blog/ Semi daily fourhman.com newspost. en-us joe@fourhman.com 2010-01-30T10:38:40-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.fourhman.com/blog/archive/2010/01/clark-picks-fou.html The 2009 Cheapo Game Shootout ends with the four finalists facing Ultimate Judgment... who will Clark choose as the winner? Assassin's Creed II? Warioland: Shake It? Burnout Paradise? Uncharted: Drake's Fortune? Last year's winner was Harvey Birdman (Wii), but Academy history is no accurate predictor in this horse race... where box art and the dim memories of a four-year-old reign supreme. Congratulations to all of this year's entries, except Eco-Creatures and Nerf NStrike, both of which sucked. 5100@http://www.fourhman.com/blog/ Cheapo Game Shootout 2009 2010-01-30T10:38:40-05:00 http://www.fourhman.com/blog/archive/2010/01/cheap-games-sho-1.html We had one, we had two, now the inevitable Part Three. Metal Gear Solid Touch, iPhone I had an iPhone for, like, a week when I bought this. It is a strange little shooting gallery game, but wonderfully themed to Metal Gear Solid (specifically #4, Guns of the Patriots). Merely OK, but you'd probably have to be a huge MGS fan to even travel that far. I bet it's down to $1 by now. DISCOUNT VALUE: $3 on sale. Was it $8 originally? I forget. I'm bad at this. GAMEPLAY: The pinch gesture for using the sniper score is difficult to pull off. There's a bunch of nice unlockable wallpapers, but you have to play for days to accrue enough in-game points to buy any of them. PRESENTATION: A solid match with the franchise's look and feel across years of PlayStation games. SCORE: (Discount Value) 3, (Gameplay) 3, (Presentation) 5TOTAL: 11 5099@http://www.fourhman.com/blog/ Cheapo Game Shootout 2009 2010-01-29T01:06:41-05:00 http://www.fourhman.com/blog/archive/2010/01/cheapo-game-sho-1.html Continuing the competition from here, witness the second (of three) list of Cheapo Game Shootoutists! Doki Doki Majo Shinpan 2 Duo, DS Yes yes, the witch-touching game. Settle down. $20 for an imported Japanese DS game is pretty sweet, especially when it's a game as notorious as Doki Doki Majo Shinpan 2 Duo. Turns out, the game is pretty boring. I'm not sure knowing how to read Japanese would help. DISCOUNT VALUE: $20, normal import price was $48 GAMEPLAY: Lots of clicking across maps and through conversations. Eventually you get to touch a witch, which involves some simple animations of slightly risque artwork. PRESENTATION: The anime art is solid. Came with a heat-sensitive trading card. SCORE: (Discount Value) 8, (Gameplay) 2, (Presentation) 4TOTAL: 14 5094@http://www.fourhman.com/blog/ Cheapo Game Shootout 2009 2010-01-25T21:49:12-05:00 http://www.fourhman.com/blog/archive/2010/01/cheapo-game-sho.html Last year's Cheapo Game Shootout went on for far too long. So this year I'm doing it in three, four posts tops. There was math last year, and that was icky. Here's the ground rules. In order to be eligible, the game must have been purchased at a discount from the original MSRP. I'm not including temporary deals, like when Toys R Us offers Buy Two Get One Free. I'm also disqualifying the Old Navy Black Friday deal for a free LEGO Rock Band, because that was a special event. And anyway, getting a brand new release for free is so great that including it in this competition would have thrown off the entire curve. Entrants will be assessed according to Discount Value, Gameplay, and Presentation, and issued a final number for each category on a ten point scale. There are fifteen names in the running this year. Here's the first five. LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga, PS3 We were really into LEGO Batman, and Clark missed out on the two older LEGO Star Wars by virtue of not existing at the time. So when I saw that the PS3 compilation was bumped down to $20, I bought it rather than locating the two PS2 originals that have been on my shelf for five years. 5091@http://www.fourhman.com/blog/ Cheapo Game Shootout 2009 2010-01-21T23:17:40-05:00