Tech Review: Gravity Shmavity (iPhone app)

"The classic love story of a baroque scientist, a bushel of apples, and the addictive, quirky game that brought them together.

This stylish game will have you tilting and tapping your way through 30 challenges that bend the laws of physics. Rotate your screen to alter the direction of gravity while a whole host of hazards and power ups make things very interesting indeed.

Make use of the touch screen, as well as the accelerometer for tilit recognition. Also features remixed classical music, a silly and irreverent sense of humor, and more "awesome" than you can shake a stick at."

Taken from Apple Store.

When I first saw this game, I thought it would be a little boring... Well I was so wrong! I played the first challenge and could not stop! I was tilting my iPod touch all over. The main goal of this game is to bounce apples off Newton's head to gain points. At first, thats all you have to do, nice and easy. But as you progress it starts to get harder with flying arrows, bombs, reverse gravity and more.

Game Rating: 5/5

App Store Rating: 5/5

Buy it today!: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=309668193

Or, Try the Lite version:http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=311410771&mt=8

Geeksquisite Episode 32: Game Edition: E3 2009 awards.. It's Over

Episode 32 Game Edition: E3 2009 Awards.. It's Over

We have a long discussion about 1vs100 and a bunch of other new and old games we've been playing. Also we have the E3 2009 Awards. Woot!! so with this episode we conclude our coverage of E3 thanks everyone, it's been fun.

11 year old Genius states his view about gaming...

"I feel it's a waste of time playing video games because it's not helping humanity in any way." 

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Intelligence of people is subjective, I wave off compliments about me being intelligent sometimes. This kid definitely is intelligent for working so hard at a young age. But video games being a waste, because they don't help humanity? I guess that's one area he's completely naieve in, i'm sure idiolizers of such smart kids will hate me for saying that. But gaming helped my life.

I am a smart kid in certain areas, I'm usually too modest as some say. But does this kid know more than me about video games. I am a 21 year old gamer who got into one of the top 50 colleges in the United States. And this is my reaction to his "revered" comments on gaming in light of his advancement:

For an 11 year old Genius, I 100% guarantee he's naieve about gaming. It's one thing to form an opinion with all the knowledge he acquired, but he's stating an absolute opinion in the sense that he is correct unquestioningly. Such a bold statement is a sign of arrogance, ignorance, and subjectively incorrect. This kid is hardwired to succeed in life, great, but if he thinks he knows more than devout gamers he is one sided and mistaken. No doubt he is intelligent, but I will not endow respect upon this child who has not aged with wisdom and states such premature opinions. He's not even old enough to touch the core of gaming yet, he is naieve by law preventing him from the gaming pleasures available to my age group. He hasn't lived long enough to understand the world, and likely hasn't had hands on experience of gaming to back up his opinion.

Dragonball Evolution sequel to come

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As much as most fans will hate this, Dragonball Evolution has a confirmed sequel coming. 

I had hoped the first movie would be good, but the consensus is that it sucks. And with the recession I wasn't about to waste my money on movies like this one, i've never cared what someone else thinks about this movie. But if the reviews are bad, i'll wait till it's on TV and I can watch without supporting negative movies like this. 

Having said that, I was under the impression that the movie's budget was 100 million dollars and only made a combined 55 million in box office revenue. So I knew this movie was done for. Um apparently not because now it gets a sequel, yes the advertising for this movie was next to non existent but apparently from the mostly unknown acting crew the movie didn't cost alot to make. I guess that's true, and makes sense considering the cheeziness in the trailer. 

Chatwin and Marsters actually want 7 dragonball movies, I don't. If they want to fund the movie themselves, go right ahead. But I gotta say, for how much the first movie apparently sucks, get a new director who is more known. MAYBE they could make it better, but as is, the crew for Dragonball Evolution failed IMO. 

No matter what, this news sucks. 

Geeksquisite Gaming Diary 06/08/2009: Megaman 2

So, I've been playing a bit of Megaman 2. This is my first time playing through any of the real classic megaman games, I give you my thoughts on it so far.

What is with the flaming around Michael Bay?

Recently on IGN I found THIS article with Shia defending Michael Bay's style of filmmaking. 

Seriously, I'm getting tired of this. Michael Bay is a filmmaker, you take the plunge to specifically see his movies, or more recently you are a Transformer fan who wants to see a live action movie sequel. Michael Bay is in no way, shape or form the best director out there. 

But his success, his HUGE success with the first Transformers movie has got movie purists in a twist of hate towards him. Alot of the time these fans talk about vision, and the fact that Michael Bay likes to blow stuff up and have hot women. Oh, so we're cave men then?  *sigh* I can understand the hatred towards Friedburg and Seltzer's terrible movie parodies. I can even tolerate criticism of people like Uwe Boll who is an idiot for not taking criticism.

Michael Bay is none of these, his vision is not subdued in fear of his critics and he doesn't pour over his negative critics to discredit them. Transformers just worked for him because it was originally for kids and was adapted for all levels of people while staying true to the original series. Michael Bay is good in my book because he's not trying to be something he's not, under the executive producing guidance of Steven Speilberg and his growing record of movies, things changed for Bay. 

Blowing stuff up and his taste for action melds well for Transformers, Michael Bay hasn't made enough movies to be a visionary on the scale of names like James Cameron, or Speilberg. But he made a very enjoyable Transformers movie that wasn't all jokes, it glorified the transformers. The upcoming sequel is supposedly more darker with Michael Bay signatures, and you could be seeing worse movies than his. Trust me.

No, Michael Bay isn't one of my favorite directors by any stretch. He just happens to do Transformer's adaption well. 

A Day that earned the Geeksquisite Stamp :)

While at a car show today (OOOWW MY SUNBURN!), there was a swap meet down the road. So of course I was curious if they had classic gaming gear for me to grab. I went through so many vendors and say nothing besides PS2 stuff, which didn't interest me. So we go farther into the swap meet until a friend of mine who came with his dad (Jeff) told me he saw NES stuff way back. It was nice of him to show me where it is. 

I only grabbed a few games thinking they were a few bucks a piece, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link which looked beautiful in its Gold Cartridge. Why did only Zelda games get a gold cartridge, I know some other's did but Zelda was the only series approved on NES to have them. Whatever the reason, I feel like i'm holding a rare jewel. I also grabbed Wild Gunman and Star Wars, those games were random choices, nothing else among the 35 or so games caught my eye. Star Wars seems better than I thought, idk why I bought Wild Gunman when I don't have an NES Zapper right now >_<. 

Oh wait thats right, they were a dollar each. Yes, I paid three bucks for them all. Great Deal eh? And I know you might be thinking, why not buy every single one and sell the ones you don't like? Believe it or not, I didn't see the point. I'm a collector, i'm not much of the business type. I've got too much stuff to throw away from my house as is. 

O man, I was worried they wouldn't work. You never know, they all required a bit of blowing. Star Wars I got working first, Wild Gunman was easier, but Zelda 2 was a BIG Pain. Because i'm lazy I used my shirt at that moment to wipe clean the connection piece sticking out of the NES game. It cut two holes in my shirt! Fail. Then my sister's Boyfriend who's an avid Nintendo Fan tried to make it work, and he did.

Funny thing, the back of the Zelda game indicates it has an internal battery. Does the battery get charged by it being in the NES? Interesting idea about technology and it makes sense since it could have had a boost being inserted and removed out of the NES so much. Also, because it saves games, the cartridge says to HOLD select while turning off the NES.

Anyway, i'll be playing these over the next few days. So look for gaming diary entries soon :)