Contra Game Nintendo
Fancy some Contra? If you owned an NES back in 1988, you’re probably getting misty-eyed from the nostalgia. Since its original release, Contra has occasionally returned to punish/entertain the hardcore fan. Machinima recently came out with a different kind of Contra—a Half-Life 2 mod, to be exact. The result: You get to see the entire jungle stage in 3D, but instead of the machine-gun toting Billy or Lance, you get Gordon Freeman, the Half-Life protagonist.
It sure is impressive to see a faithful recreation of the level (you’ll forgive the absence of the one-hit kill), but I had to ask—where is the Spread gun? Sure, the creator placed in a machine gun (which is actually the HL2 submachine gun) and a Fire rifle, but not every weapon is in there. In fact, even the Laser is noticeably absent.
Look, I’m glad to see a 3D version of Contra’s first level, but would it be too much to ask to see the appropriate weapons? These weapons made Contra enjoyable. Let’s face it; it’s not entertaining to repeatedly get killed as a result of getting shot by a hard-to-see bullet or being touched by a random alien.
Tags: contra, half life 2, Miscellaneous, mods, nes
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» SAD ;-;I ALWAYS saw piracy as a open form of Protest, and more than anything, something that shouldn't be mentioned! who cares if people pirate stuff, in the end who really loses?
enough people still buy, where the number difference makes almost no difference! most of the TOP selling games are NINTENDO's OWN, which enough people pirate or nonpirate are buying! in addition look at the PSP, how many more psp's do you think sold, just because you could softmod it to run emulators.... Piracy makes the main companies more money!
now lets look at what people are "Stealing" in this case ill use the WII
Virtual Console games: guess what, i own most Sega titles, from my gen NEW, when they were 30 - 40 usd, im not paying for them again! same with most of those games... how many times do i need to buy, sonic 3, or Mario brothers 3, before they just give me it +\ its just their lazy way to keep better games making them money, because i got news, SMB 3 probly took a few hours to code, and costs like 7 usd from the online shop.... how fair -.-
Wiiware: I like the theory behind it, but for the most part... its just the big names, making games for us all to play just from the wii, all of the 3rd party companies just trying are simply, making nice tries or crap *world of goo excluded*
Channels: the US, gets shafted on them, and for the most part their a scam... look at the Japanese media channel, you pay like 10 bucks for a channel, to pay more money for media... yeah -.- great... but the US doesnt get any special channels! just Japan +\ and even then their kinda crap Y_Y
Games: a great number of this is in my book, based off out of region games, i personally like Pa*****o games, and those games arnt comming over, but guess what the ONLY way for me to "legally" play them is to buy a jap wii, buy a 70 usd game, pay shipping and in all and all thats like 120 just to play A game, or 40+ to mod and play them all +\ maybe if they tried harder this wouldnt exist, in addition a lot of importing becomes Illegal anyways, like Tatsunoko VS Capcom, since a lot of companies own Tatsunoko props it was illegal to import it, so why does it matter how i obtain it its illegal anyways...
and finally on this subject, ive played 150 or so wii games, and they were 1 of 4 things....
a remake or another of a good series *animal crossing, Mario, Mario kart, Brawl, pikman, etc*
fun but amazingly short like 2 - 3 hours, for 50+ usd -.- come on.... *house of the dead overkill to get 100% took me 4 hours... come on thats just sad +\*
Was fun, but bothersome to complete *like galaxy, where you had to beat everything twice to 100% it -.- get real...*
and finally, fan driven crap... like Sonic Unleashed, playing that game was a total joke....
but i digress they dont care about us, they just know we will pay, and pirates are wrong Y_Y
