Ah, a quote from the wise Dirty Harry.  It’s appropriate for how I feel right now. We’re getting ready to sell the house, so that meant last week was filled with activities designed to make the house “presentable,” and also moving stuff out to make it look “spacious.”  I can handle the manual labor well [...]

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I mentioned previously that I was hoping to make my first computer game similar to something you might play in the RPG Top Secret.  When I was 11-12 years, I played a lot of pen and paper RPG’s.  It was back when TSR was really becoming popular, and there were a bunch of great games, [...]

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Alas, no game is perfect… I’ve been playing more and more of the “Road to the Show” over the last few days, between chunks of home improvement work, that is.  I’m still enjoying this immensely, but a few minor imperfections are starting to show.  I left off as the setup man for the Pirates AA [...]

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I finally got my MLB The Show 08 (PS2) review copy last night.  Now THIS is baseball.  I’ve had to forgive the many shortcomings of MLB 2K8 in both the Wii and 360 versions in order to find the good stuff.  Right off the bat (pun intended), The Show is easy to appreciate for its [...]

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As about everyone in the world knows, today marks the start of “March Madness.”  Since I really don’t have a rooting interest this year, I’m just not that into it.  The Buckeyes are in the NIT, where they belong.  That’s also where my Zips landed.  I’m actually more excited about the NIT, because both of [...]

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I’m still plugging away at the programming, but not as much as I was a couple of months ago.  Life and work gets in the way sometimes.  Anyway, the kids have made multiple games with the Game Maker software, in really no time at all.  Although I haven’t played much with Game Maker, I had [...]

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This really IS the last Wii MLB 2K8 post; for now… My review has been posted at Gameshark.  Bill Abner, my boss and personal sports game reviewing hero (seriously!), said that it was a “very good review.”  I believe that’s the first time I’ve gotten that kind of endorsement for my work at Gameshark, so [...]

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I tooled around with it some more last night, and other than one major bug, found nothing to change my opinion.  The major bug occurs in Franchise mode.  If you play a few games, and then sim to the end of season, and save (I think this might be a trigger), the rest of your seasons [...]

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The Good: I had two homeruns robbed, and the animations were fantastic. I also had a string of three extra-base hits in a row, which rattled the pitcher.  He threw two wild pitches to the next batter, and was replaced shortly after that. I drew two walks after adjusting one of the sliders (still tweaking this, [...]

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Uh oh.  After starting a franchise last night, I’m starting to flashback to the state of baseball video gaming in 2003 or so.  Some not-so-good stuff was happening on and off the field.  For example, Jake Westbrook, one of my starting pitchers (Indians), has a one-year contract worth 11 million (according to the game; I [...]

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