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I remember reading somewhere that the reason the barrels act so poorly in terms of gravity and correct interaction is due to a game setting that they disable. It is an accurate physics setting, and by turning it to simple physics they can support the 10,000 barrels are a decent framerate. In the accurate physics setting was on instead, They would be lucky to get one frame a second but atleast there would unlikely be any mysterious floating barrels.

However, I also heard that all the barrel videos have been recorded at 2-3 fps and then they have the game take screenshots in a set interval, and then they just stitch the game sound and screenshots back to video at full speed.

In any case, enjoy this physics oriented video, supposedly recorded in real time.

This collection has the best… collection of re-textures I've seen, and I've looked pretty hard. Well done.

Makani is a chick, by the by. I was lucky enough to find her art when I had just started playing TF2, so the Announcer/Administrator has always had this face, in my mind. :)

I have no idea actually! That's one word I haven't encountered yet. Looks like a sort of tractor. Sorry I can't help!

These graphics are the sickest thing I have ever seen.

Can somebody tell me what the image for the vehicle category is called here:http://www.spriters-resource.com/ds/scribblenauts/index.html

Of all the Halloween-styled game portions, why not mention The Simpsons: Hit and Run. The developers changed the whole game world to be Halloween themed later in the game. (And this isn't an MMO either). Heck, you weren't even expecting it. And what can you say to Witch Broomstick cars?

Anyways, even the music was halloweeny, though with a cartoonish spin.

Enjoy!

Nightmare Before Christmas in Kingdom hearts is alright for the background music, though I'm not sure if I like the new Oogie Boogie song.

Yeah Leon, waste that magnum ammo to get that treasure!

How is the chair related to Castlevania at all?

The hardware graphics were always bonked. It didn't work on a 32bit system with a Radeon 9500 pro either, and that's much older than my 9700mgt in both structure and capability. It is even made by a different company. The Geforce 7800 OC wasn't any better. I think that the game wasn't programmed with these two hardware companies in mind when it was made in 2001.

The introduction is completely misleading. Not only are there no cars, but Presidente is some sort of ethereal gas that floats through his door into his office. Then when you exit the game you go into your closet.

The game seems to like to sap the CPU, guess because of all the things it has to keep track of. It is only single core though, so if you are on Vista and want to use all your CPU available, you can set the affinity to both CPUs under the process manager. Seems to work a little better, and haven't noticed anything wrong.

Yeah, I liked to build the farms on the green sections. Guess I was doing it wrong. I usually run out of money or have a military faction kick me out of office.

Maybe since you are running the game on a 64-bit computer, the hardware option doesn't work.

This game moves fast enough for me. Roller Coaster Tycoon is WAAAAY too slow. Sims 1 was slow, Sims 2 was decent, can't comment on Sims 3.

Tropico isn't a casual game. There are a lot of complexities like you mentioned. I don't like managing the factions. I think they force one of them to hate you all the time. It's like me playing Sim Isle, the game is too difficult for me to make money.

Building the airport is really an annoying task. My workers could never build it fast enough to for the escape the island mission.

The music is really good. The main theme is catchy and the background music does really fit.

I loved the music in that game, it's a perfect example of the importance of game music. As you mentioned, that intro music alone sets the entire mood for the game, and it's incredibly accurate. The Mario Paint video was excellent as well, I've never seen the game and wasn't aware it had the ability to make music like that, I would have enjoyed playing that had I known. Thanks for a look back at the N64 days, great post.

Graphically, they don't look all that much different. The Xbox 360's widescreen support certainly changes the feel of the game quite a bit. Also, the viewing distance looks to be increased, though in this game, it seems marginally important. Probably makes the game easier, since you'll be able to see the enemies farther away. Of course the Xbox 360's has a cleaner look, but if it didn't, I'd be ashamed in the hardware of the device.

Intro's barren beginning on the Xbox bothers me, why didn't they throw something else there, like a walking Xbox with eyes?

You no longer need to the CD to play. Very useful for people like me whom are on a laptop, so don't want to carry millions of DVDs around purely for authorization purposes. (and Don't want to be kicked for using ISOs with punkbuster etc.)

Widescreen seems to work fine, though it doesn't look all that different from what came before. Not sure how good Falcon support is. Falcon is likely the ones who paid their way into the patch. May also be a reason for the inclusion of the booster pack. (Pay for people to have the pack, so they have a reason to play the BF2/use the Falcon?)

The Booster packs were widely useless, since it was hard to find a good many people playing those maps before they did this free release anyways.

If you notice, they left the expansion out, still giving, SOME reason to go buy the complete pack.

If you do play, you'll find that there are few Noobs anymore. If you play you have to play your A game.

Yes, I shall agree that perhaps Wario was in need of inclusion. However, Yoshi's island is a valid choice here I feel.

As for Tetris, everybody has heard it already, I'd like to highlight some songs that perhaps have a little more obscurity. Besides, Tetris B is also an ingame song, and isn't even that great I feel.

You know you are running out of music choices when Yoshi Story shows up as suburb menu music. Zott, you are resisting the Tetris music as well as TimeSplitters Future Perfect. All those Mario games are crying because they haven't been included.

I need to do a post about the Mario and Wario platforming Gameboy games like Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Wario Land 2, Wario Land 3. These games are amazing. Wario Land 4 was decent but was lacking the charm. I don't acknowledge Master of Disguise as a Wario game. I haven't played the Wario Wii game yet, but I will eventually.

Anyway, there are tons of games that need to be included so there is always room for another Video Game Menu Music post. I'm going to do a Mario music post in the future that isn't constrained by the menu category.

The StarCraft campaigns were always a little challenging. My strategy was to spend around 20 minutes just amassing units and defending my base with turrets.

I really dislike the missions where they don't let you build more units. I like how you say they let you build units for an escort mission. StarCraft isn't the game where one unit can live long enough to determine the battle.

If you have a chance, you could have asked if the Blizzard team was going to put the transforming Command Center in the game as a bonus mission or a real unit. "It's morphin time"

And this is why we have friends who can cover my terrible/biased reporting.

Okay. So I was wrong about those retcons, but I was right about retconning. Nefarian being back is a retcon. It just feels kinda out there. At this rate, in the final expansion (whenever they release it), Illidan and Arthas will be back.

Onyxia IS dead, they're not actually redoing the lore to say you have some need to go kill her, its just a treat for WoW's 5th anniversary to remake the dungeon so that people can go fight her now and get neat items and have a chance to experience it. Since its a 5th anniversary thing, it'll be coming out in late November when the anniversary actually hits. The loot is Crusader's Coliseum level and I'd expect Icecrown soon afterward so the loot isn't going to be the best of the best either, its more just for fun.

Ragnaros makes sense, its not really a retcon. When you beat him in Molten Core you're fighting a weak version of him that has been only partially summoned into Azeroth. When you "kill" him, you're just banishing him back to the plane of fire and basically screwed up all his plans for materializing in Azeroth proper. Now that Deathwing has broken the seals on the elemental planes Ragnaros is free to attack Azeroth directly without worrying bout his minions botching the summoning (I don't know how much you know about the MC encounter, but basically the boss before that is the guy in charge of his summoning and when you beat him he surrenders. He summons Rag early for you afterward when you ask him to).

Now Nefarian being back in Blackrock Descent… that I'm curious about. I distinctly remember looting his head and sticking it on a pike.

The lab is the point of the side-missions to collect protoss relics/zerg bio-stuff. As you collect materials you can use them in the lab to research the zerg or the protoss. I don't know how it changes as you continue along but it showed to start that if you collected like 8 zerg samples you could gain firepower against the zerg, and researching some protoss stuff would allow you to improve the defensive stats of your own vehicles (you're like studying their own shielding systems or something).