My first experiences were with the myriad Batman games. They weren’t good ones. I posted about them.

My first experiences were with the myriad Batman games. They weren’t good ones. I posted about them.

Anyway, in typical going too far fashion, I downloaded a Genesis emulator and Gunstar Heroes…and 93 other roms. Some were games I know I like (Genghis Khan 2, PTO), but a lot were based solely on the awesomeness of the title. Having tried a few, I see many, many future posts based on these amusing piles of dung.

And did you know that Best of the Best, Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero had GAMES based on them? I didn’t…but soon I shall experience them, as well. I’m sure they’re simply ‘great’…

Anyway, in typical going too far fashion, I downloaded a Genesis emulator and Gunstar Heroes…and 93 other roms. Some were games I know I like (Genghis Khan 2, PTO), but a lot were based solely on the awesomeness of the title. Having tried a few, I see many, many future posts based on these amusing piles of dung.

And did you know that Best of the Best, Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero had GAMES based on them? I didn’t…but soon I shall experience them, as well. I’m sure they’re simply ‘great’…

Probably it would be better if the mortar people just kept lobbing in the same direction but that is awesome.

Probably it would be better if the mortar people just kept lobbing in the same direction but that is awesome.

In other news, I have started a new franchise in Front Office Football…I will lead the ’91- New Orleans Saints to the promised land! I wanted a team that wasn’t completely garbage, but that also hasn’t had much go right in it’s history. After a shocking 15-1 season, the team got STOMPED in the first playoff game. Now, I’m stuck with a squad that, frankly, is not as good as it played, the 3rd draft pick from the bottom of every round, and a Bobby Hebert who had a career season, but now, based on his holdout demands, who seems to think he’s Pigskin Jesus.

I’ve also been playing a bit more Company of Heroes. I’d still rate it a pretty solid game, though I’ve discovered another flaw…normally, the troop AI is exceptional. Guys will switch to new cover if their existing one is being blasted apart, they’ll dive away from grenades, and, when you move a squad, half will hang back and lay down cover fire for the runners, then the runners fire to pin down the enemy while the other half catch up. Very good! Unfortunately, there is the occasional flaw. For example…I gave my mortar teams a fire mission…apparently, the location I wanted them to hit was beyond their range…rather than having the game TELL me that, the game just has them pack up their gear and move close…to the point they were then trying to set up a mortar while TWO German heavy machine gun nests began filling them with speed holes (Those holes probably saved the lives of the one survivor, actually, as when I found out what was happening and gave the retreat order, he ran like Carl Lewis would if it was 1953 Alabama, and he just got caught holding the hand of a white woman).

Oh, and the books post IS coming, I just want to polish off the final 50 or so pages of my current read first.

In other news, I have started a new franchise in Front Office Football…I will lead the ’91- New Orleans Saints to the promised land! I wanted a team that wasn’t completely garbage, but that also hasn’t had much go right in it’s history. After a shocking 15-1 season, the team got STOMPED in the first playoff game. Now, I’m stuck with a squad that, frankly, is not as good as it played, the 3rd draft pick from the bottom of every round, and a Bobby Hebert who had a career season, but now, based on his holdout demands, who seems to think he’s Pigskin Jesus.

I’ve also been playing a bit more Company of Heroes. I’d still rate it a pretty solid game, though I’ve discovered another flaw…normally, the troop AI is exceptional. Guys will switch to new cover if their existing one is being blasted apart, they’ll dive away from grenades, and, when you move a squad, half will hang back and lay down cover fire for the runners, then the runners fire to pin down the enemy while the other half catch up. Very good! Unfortunately, there is the occasional flaw. For example…I gave my mortar teams a fire mission…apparently, the location I wanted them to hit was beyond their range…rather than having the game TELL me that, the game just has them pack up their gear and move close…to the point they were then trying to set up a mortar while TWO German heavy machine gun nests began filling them with speed holes (Those holes probably saved the lives of the one survivor, actually, as when I found out what was happening and gave the retreat order, he ran like Carl Lewis would if it was 1953 Alabama, and he just got caught holding the hand of a white woman).

Oh, and the books post IS coming, I just want to polish off the final 50 or so pages of my current read first.