Brutal Legend-Impressions

I recently bought Brutal Legend, and I am pleasantly surprised at its charm and wit as you lead roadie Eddie Riggs on a journey through the metal-verse. The soundtrack is surprisingly good, with Judas Priest, Motley Crue, and Ozzy Osbourne leading the way.

The missions are fun, with a great variety between racing, combat, and countless other side missions keeping you busy. You have a car, called The Druid Plow. No, I’m not joking. I’m expecting it to become one of Tim Schafer’s many masterpieces, so check in later in the week for a review, complete with sexy pictures.

Even sexier than this one.

Julio Lawrence (Tim Schafer Fan)

Artificial Stupidity

So, I was at work today, and one of my co-workers mentioned that she was playing Resident Evil 5. Eventually, she told us about how she hated how her computer controlled partner was constantly getting herself killed. This made me think. Do the developers intentionally make your AI counterparts stupid? Or is it just another unsolvable problem of the game industry?

Please, leave comments with your opinion on the matter. If you don’t, then we’ll realize that you don’t care, and our little project will be sucked out of existence.

P.S. Sorry for the short length. I’m working on a pretty big feature for next week. Check in next Thursday.

Julio Lawrence (Xbox 360 Editor)

Celebrity Endorsement-Pros and Cons

I was watching TV the other day, and i saw an ad for Brutal Legend. I have no problems with game, but it seems to irk me when i see “FEATURING JACK BLACK!!!” on the advertisement. This of course led me to think of Nintendo’s advertisement campaign with Naomi Watts, Beyonce, and the like. Is this drawing away from our hobby? Or am I just being picky about who gets involved in my little cranny of the world.

I do believe to some extent that it helps make our hobby less frowned upon. I mean, what adult doesn’t look at us without thinking we’re lazy people looking to escape our “miserable” excuse for a life. I suppose having respectable celebrities showcase DSs to the world doesn’t really hurt us, but it only serves to make people think games are simple toys, rather than works of art like books, movies, and music, which is a huge problem the industry faces today; but I’ll get to that in a later column.

On the other hand having celebrities as voice actors is a great idea. With their talents, it makes a game that much more believable. However, using that as a way to earn sales is not needed at all. If a person likes games enough, they’ll have known about Brutal Legend featuring Jack Black long before they see advertisements. This, and the fact that it only serves to make less careful consumers believe that accomplished actors make a game great. Who wants Halloween: Part II featuring whatever dumb actor they choose to be a best seller?

Like it or not, we have to be careful about who markets games, but only because of quality control. The market is already too flooded with Wii party games.

-Julio (Xbox 360 Editor)

100 Hits!!!

In case you haven’t noticed, we have 100hits. While this may not seem like a lot, considering the fact that we had one view a day for a while now, this is a HUGE improvement. Please remember to comment and give feedback, we want to give our readers the best possible experience.

P.S. We will eventually have reviews and the like going up, but our budgets are limited, so they will be scarce. Thanks for reading.

-Julio (Xbox 360 Editor)

Column Rules

These are for our authors only.

1. No titles such as The Super Column:I Like games, nix the first part, leaving only I Like Games.

2. Always put your header during your column, but never during spontaneous news posts, etc.

3. Try to keep your column at five paragraphs, and hit “Enter” after each paragraph.

4. Finally, don’t sound pretentious or biased, it may be an opinion piece, but that doesn’t mean you have to be a douche about it.

Julio (Xbox 360 Editor)

About 8-Bit Prodigy

8-Bit Prodigy is a daily updated blog ran by a group of high-school students in California. Because of this, I expect our readers to not be a bunch of assholes and give us some slack for our spelling and grammatical mistakes. Be nice to us, and we won’t run away and cry. You have been forewarned.