O Kid tava falando de jogos velhos essa semana, e por acaso, eu estava revivendo um jogo velho pra jogar, também. O bom e velho Doom. Sim, aquela carnificina desmedida que todo mundo já deve ter jogado :D

Fireball!
Mas jogar o originalzão é mais difícil hoje em dia, rodar DOS precisa de DOSBOX ou coisa semelhante no Linux e tal, então eu peguei o Doomsday, que também já tinha usado antes.

Hmmm. Baldinho de ácido :)

O Doomsday é o seguinte, há uns anos atrás a engine do Doom teve o código lançado. Aí o pessoal pegou e resolveu reescrever ela com as tecnologias que apareceram ao longo dos anos desde que Doom foi terminado. Daí aproveitaram e fizeram modelos 3D pro jogo, já que originalmente, era tudo em sprites(sim, isso mesmo. os sprites giravam pra dar a impressão de 3D). E mesmo com os gráficos sendo de alguns anos atrás, são bons o suficiente pra mim, já que lembram dos originais, mas melhores o suficiente.

Veja o detalhe na shotgun.

Dei um Emerge no meu Gentoo, botei o jogo pra rodar e me deliciei com o velho doom de roupa nova. ?? muito bom essa nostalgia :)

Então fica aí a dica, pra quem quiser. Doomsday tem pra Linux, Mac e Windows. Infelizmente, o desenvolvimento parece estar parado no momento. O que é triste, mas ainda assim, tem versões estáveis e funcionais que dão pra jogar bem :)

I don’t usually make reviews in here. Mostly because I’m not a very good writer, and when I try to review things, to me it looks a little artificial. However, this game has really captivated me. So here we go.

To those of you who don’t know, The World Ends With You (previously known as It’s a Wonderful World) is a game from Square-Enix, from the same team as Kingdom Hearts. Well, that has not made me want to play it at first. Why? I don’t really like Videogame Classic RPG’s, like Final Fantasy. To me, fighting in a game must be something made by me, not by an AI when I click on a button. And also, Kingdom Hearts don’t really made me want more, I played the first one until the end, but it didn’t made me want the second one. But when I knew it was an Action RPG, I decided to give it a chance. Mostly because it was a new kind.

Let me explain, in The World Ends With You, you play in both DS screens simultaneously. The upper is not a map or anything, but a fight, just like the bottom one. How this works? Well, the upper screen is controlled by directional or buttons (A,B,X,Y), while bottom one is controlled with the stylus. One character in each screen, the two characters sharing the same Health Bar. While the upper one use combos and mostly body attacks, the bottom one uses something we could call “magic”, each one being triggered by a different move with the stylus.

“Okay, so what? Square made an impossible game, playing in both screen at the same time? My eyes don’t go two fucking different directions!”. No, you are wrong. The upper screen, in fact, have an AI that can be turned on to control it. Then, you only get the bottom one, and while you get used to the system, you can make the AI get less control, until you are comfortable with manual control, or you can let the AI do it’s job and focus in the bottom screen.

When I played the first time this new fighting system, I finally found a RPG that captivated me. Well, Square-Enix just had to do a good history and we would be good to go.

And they did. Instead of medieval castles, magical powers, wizards, you are in modern-day Tokyo. It is crowded, you have a cell phone. The game artwork is really good, for that matter. It makes you really feel in a big city.

I really don’t know what else to say. The game is very good. It takes you through learning, without rushing, and the history is unveiled meanwhile.

Whether or not you are a RPG fan, this game is a must. You must at least check it out.

Depois de anos, saltando de hospedagem em hospedagem, desde sei lá, 2000, 2001. Finalmente agora tenho um .com.br ;)

Demorou, mas aconteceu. Does it worth it? Veremos. ^^

He was a John Doe. His name was Peter, but he had no friends to call him Pete. He lived a boring life, in a boring place, meant to be unnoticed. And many people wonder ’till this day what really happened. How he got his powers. Why.
During some time after The Event he volunteered to be studied, he wished to be someone more than anything else, and this was his chance. According to some log files, he said he was walking between job and home or something, and then, all of sudden, he was struck by some kind of lightning. But was no ordinary lightning. He felt pleasure and yet, pain. He felt warmth. He felt really alive, the first time in his life.
In the next moment he was lying on the ground, with an excruciating pain, but he felt something had changed. He was to the hospital and the doctors found nothing out of ordinary. Lightning would have burned him, but he didn’t have any marks. He was discharged as if he had a nervous breakdown. He was upset. In fact, he was angry. They have said it again. They have done it again. “You are OK, couldn’t be more /normal/.”.
It was two or three days later that he discovered he had more strength, much more. He joined a gym so he could try it out, and all people there were impressed as no exercise was difficult to him. He still looked normal, but his strength was overwhelming. In fact, it was not until two weeks later that his body started to look more powerful also. Some witness said that he was looking like he had exercised all his life. His bodywork was perfect.
He finally started to get what he wanted: Friends. Girls. Fame. And with this he also got lies, deceive, envy. They didn’t want him. They wanted his body. His strength.
The other people annoyed him. Humans annoyed him. It was around this time he decided it was time to purge the earth. Also, was around this time he discovered that his body was virtually Indestructible. He enjoyed the fact that no one could really stop him.
He started by his building. He killed everyone. In the most cruel form he could find. The authorities said that had never seen something like that. CIA taken over the case, and some veterans later said that have only saw that kind of cruelty in wars. They tried to bring him to their side. They were out of luck. Firearms, Missiles, Tanks. He really have became unstoppable. His madness had already taken countless lives, two cities lied in ruins. It was then that they sent the bomb. All countries agreed, there was nothing else to do. He had to die, he was a threat.
But it didn’t work. He created wings. Black, feathered wings. His eyes became dark. It was a scary vision. Some said the apocalypse had arrived. Many took their own lives. People prayed night and day in churches. You could feel the fear sparkling in the air.
Until one day, he disappeared, just as he came. It was the end. Or was it?