Comments on: Bowling for Protoplasmic Soup: Galactic Bowling

By: Winterborn

Winterborn — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:50:44 +0000

Heh, it’s reading some of your recent entries Kieron that I’ve realised my own habit of referencing band names and album titles in titles for blog entries.

I imagine people find it faintly annoying, but I think I’ll keep at it anyway.

By: Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:35:33 +0000

Why not? I’ve driven trucks and shot people in the head with the mouse – bowling’s nothing!

By: Valentin Galea

Valentin Galea — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:35:49 +0000

Any bowling after the one in Wii Sports is wack! How do u bowl? with the mouse:P?

By: eyemessiah

eyemessiah — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:57:22 +0000

Cowabunga indeed. I’m sure I played this years ago on the dreamcast and it was incomprehensible.

By: Confidence Interval

Confidence Interval — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:34:43 +0000

From time to time (i.e. after I’ve just rewatched The Big Lebowski) I think that bowling would be a really fun thing to do – so I go and play, and then I remember that’s it’s really annoying and tedious. In a game, I don’t know how it’s going to be any different from Peggle: you line it up, press ‘go’, and then that’s it, because you can’t do anything to affect what happens once you’ve let go. Looks like they’ve tried to give you one or two things to do here – but then you got that in Peggle, and that always had a great big chunk of luck involved.
Still, the Dude abides…

By: phuzz

phuzz — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:30:49 +0000

Nice to see the gametrailers love again :)

By: Calabi

Calabi — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:30:15 +0000

Looks like they’ve missed the subtlety of bowling. They’ve added alot of excess ga…mechanics, and tried obscuring the shallowness with lots of fancy graphics and animations.

It’ll probably be fun for a little while, but will quickly get boring and tiresome.