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Wow, two updates in under a month – riproaring!
The links… oh the links, they’re piled up in my text file here at work.
I haven’t added any new ones as of late. I know, and it pains me. I tried to show someone a link I had found and alas, I had not posted it and thusly could not share. So I will button down and slack for a good 20 minutes and post those. It’s just dragging and dropping into QuickLINK, though I’ve still got to do minor modification. It’s meant to be used on a day to day basis. I ought to make a field that fills in the date, but allows you to modify it if necessary. Then I wouldn’t have to make any manual edits to the HTML.

In any case! The links will be there later today.

On the bright side I purchased The Godfather game with my EB Games card the other day. The default resolution is 1280 x 1600, I was very surprised. It runs, but and it’s playable, but in order to quickly squash enemies I need it down a little. So I tweaked and put it down a few notches and put the antialiasing up really high. The people are very detailed, and very rough, with dark lines and shadows in their faces and clothing. I suppose it’s stylized, but it looks a tad odd. Antialiased is better.

I am digging the story so far, and just for kicks I bought some dynamite from this guy in the alley, and went into the bank. I made quick work of the guards and threw the dynamite at the vault – explosions rock in the game – and blam, I was 10k richer. You can outfit your man, dress him up, I’d like to think mine looks like me after modifications of the cheek bones, forehead, nose, ears, hair part, and all sorts of other details that create your character. Make the guy look like whatever you want and he’s seamless in all the cut scenes. I am very impressed, but somewhat worried that it says I’m 43% done with missions. Maybe that’s just in my neighborhood. I haven’t taken over all the businesses or any warehouses yet, but I’ve robbed a bank!

In any case it’s pretty good, control is reminiscent of GTA but designed so it can be used with the gamepad. I’ve only played it in WinXP64 in which my right thumbstick has no function, so I haven’t bothered. It took a bit, and it’s not the greatest control, but I really like the way they do hand to hand combat. A little daunting at first, but you get used to it.

[link to EBGames goes here]