Saturday, January 22

Enough Plumbers is a flash game made by Glen Forrester and Arthur Lee. It is hosted on various websites for free. If you want to play Enough Plumbers, Click Here.

Enough Plumbers is essentially a puzzle game in the Mario world. It uses many similar sounds and even has a character very similar to Mario and somewhat similar to goombas. What makes this puzzle game unique is that instead of gaining points for every coin gathered, you instead gain new plumbers that appear instantly on screen.

The presentation of the game is actually pretty darn good. You are literally playing on a tv screen, much like the old Marios games and have the sound option in the top left and the channel (level) in the top right. Also when you die or switch between menus the screen goes to static and then returns.

For many of the beginning puzzles most of your clones just move where you do and they are not necessarily difficult. The game eases into the difficult stages where you must have multiple clones on separate levels trying to do two things at once, sometimes even moving in different directions.

With this game it won’t get old fast, but it will eventually get to the point that it will be so frustrating you just have to take a break or go to a walkthrough (yes… there are walkthroughs for flash games). But even after being frustrated you will still come back fore because the game just has a certain charm and is fun.

Play Rating

-         Must Play

 

Friday, January 7

I am writing this right after “finishing” a multiplayer session of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for the PC. And this is actually being written because of that multiplayer session.

I was playing a game of conquest and I joined it at the start of the round, pretty sure tickets were set to 500, if that doesn’t mean anything to you then oh well it isn’t that important. I was playing as an Engineer and kicking some butt, trust me I was definitely the top player. And the game was reaching the end. We were losing and only had about 50 or so tickets until the end of the game. I was sitting at roughly 60 to 70 kills and about 30 to 40 deaths with about 7000 score prior to post game awards. Well right when I running to one of the three points on the map my screen blinked black and then blinked again and was sitting and the main menu…

Imagine this but with more sad feelings... and different info in the box.

I was apparently kicked to make room for another player, a VIP. Now I just want to point out that when a round finishes the best player is given the VIP award, which gives you an extra 200 points that goes toward your player level. That isn’t the only reason being kicked made me sad, but also the fact that the game lasted maybe a good 40 minutes and it was possibly the best game I had and definitely one of the most fun; and it was cut short to make room for someone else. Not only that but to make room for someone that would only be playing for maybe a total of 5 to 10 minutes before that match finished.

Anyway all I can really say is that it made me sad. And actually this outcome made me sadder that another one. Normally when my screen blinks when playing Bad Company 2 it usually means my game decided to crash back to the desktop. But alas what happened made me sadder than that because had I went back to the desktop I would have known it was just some random fault then kicked me from the game. 

The left one is the true BSOD to me.

Now that I am finished ranting about how that made me sad I want to get more onto the bigger picture. What has, and I am sure something has, made you sad whilst playing games? 360 go all RROD on you while you were playing? PC got a BSOD while you were doing anything? PS3 get the YLOD while you using it?

Really Microsoft? Why are your failures such common knowledge? Two different systems both with failure acronyms... shame on you... or... congrats?

Not sure if there are anymore acronyms I can use without making any up (and yes YLOD does exist)… But what I want to know is has anything happened to you while your were playing games or going to play a game that has made you sad. For example someone turning off the console while you away even though you paused it during one of the hardest boss battles ever? Or your really late game save files got corrupted or deleted?

Because I can definitely remember those awesome moments from my gaming past, but who cares about those?