http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com Games, Cars, Movies and Life .......... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:33:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since Justin has admitted to thinking about picking up GT on the PSP and there's so much buzz about the--currently available--Forza 3 and the upcoming release of GT5 I think some ground rules are in order. In fact, we need to eliminate bad habits before new rules can take place. ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/11/11/introduction-to-sim-racing/ I'll get back to talking about game difficulty soon enough (I'm sure you're all so disappointed). In fact, I'll need to internalize Forza 3 and it's infinite retry button before I start talking about it again. I'm fully immersed in car-topia as I get that once in a while chance to fuse ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/10/28/cars-3-the-car-enning/ Game difficulty is a tricky thing to talk about. I want to look back at my formative years and think to myself that I had it harder than those that followed me. That the games I played were tough and a symbol of how much better I am than the ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/10/22/on-difficulty/ Waltzing into the Cleveland Hts. Gamestop, the one I'd frequented so much in my time at college and subsequently living in the area, I found a glaring error. Not an error that really bothered me. After all I personally knew one of the managers of the store, they seem a responsible ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/08/26/gamestop-cares/ I thought I'd give people a look behind the scenes here at The Rumble Pack. I edit it out a lot of the times or sometimes append it to the end of the cast, but we record our planning session before the podcast every week. I think the coordination and ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/08/18/behind-the-scenes-episode-101/ I recently rented the Korg DS-10 from GameFly, which I didn't mention much on the show, well, because it really isn't a game. but I was awfully surprised by the suggested games on the email confirming my return:Not only was there an option to rate the DS-10 (which I'm supposed ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/08/18/gamefly-suggestions/ I'm going to actually post something right after I edit ep101. http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/08/18/post-coming/ One of the latest non-video gaming crazes that has blown through the Cleveland based Rumble Pack crew has been the quasi-board game: Race for the Galaxy. Designed by: Tom LehmannPublisher: Rio Grande Games Players: 2-4 (1-5 with expansion)Play time: 30 minutes Style: Card game, Civilization Building. ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/02/22/where-no-man-has-gone-before/ I almost stole Chrono Trigger. Well.Not literally, but figurative stealing is still a crime I suppose.Let me backtrack. I was a Genesis supporter, stalwartly so. As much as I regret it today, I never owned an SNES. Which I now surmise is the greatest crime a self-proclaimed video game enthusiast can commit. If ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2009/01/19/triggering-a-memory/ As of late, some members of The Rumble Pack crew have become hopeless addicts. No I'm not talking about The Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft. I'm talking about our obsession with games that harken back to simpler times--before pixelshaders, bumpmapping and poly-counts. We have become boardgamers. Which ... http://www.kaz.therumblepack.com/2008/11/18/the-new-obsession-on-the-block/