I’ve been semi-offline over Christmas because I invited Darren to come on up to hang out, game, and shoot. I did enough gaming for the two of us, of course, but we managed to take some time to head down to the Lakeshore and shoot the latest episode of Hak5. Darren asked where we could get a good shot of the city and I knew just the place since I used to live just down the street from here. For the Torontonians in the crowd, you can step on those same rocks down at the Humber Lakeshore campus by the Yacht club.
It’s on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, iPhone, WiiWare. Demos available for everything if you haven’t played it yet. Like me. Even though I had heard tons of praise for the game I just wasn’t sure about it and had my own backlog to worry about. Finally, with the very very sweet Steam sale going on now until January 3rd (and Darren lurking over my shoulder) I went for it. And the Monkey Island remake, and Loom, and AudioSurf, and Torchlight. Seriously, check it out if you aren’t against Steam as a service. I even almost bought Ghostbusters again just so I could own it for every platform save the DS and PS2. Did I mention I love Egon?
Ok, World of Goo. Very clever and fun. And it has already taught me that no one should ever hire me to build a bridge. I’m awful. Horrendous. Horrific. Horrible. And it’s still fun. I’m not sure if I’ll ever finish the game due to my utter lack of skill but it was worth the tiny cash to support a small developer. We’re going to look at the GooTool from GooFans.com soon but first, well, I can’t help it. Every time I hear or say ‘GOO’ I have to think of Ghostbusters II and the scene at the end with Peter MacNicol and “Why am I drippings with goo?” Good times.
The GooTool lets you mod World of Goo with new levels, changing the appearance of the goo balls, and themes. Now you cannot create these mods WITHIN the GooTool but it’s necessary to run them. The WOG editor, go ahead and guess what that stands for, does the heavy lifting there. There are a few tutorials to find your way around with. Goo forth and build!
… yeah, that was horrible. I hope you forgive me for it.
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Speaking from experience I cannot say enough negative things about Ghostbusters on the PC. I absolutely could not make it run in Vista64 and I have my doubts about it in Win7. I didn’t try it on my XP drive because I don’t want to have to deal with SecuROM on my main OS. An infuriatingly shoddy port.*end rant*
So does this mean you have it on PS3 as well, and if so do you notice much difference?
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