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- Doomsan, on 01/30/2008, -21/+108Play this game high, there's nothing like it.
- xXGeechXx, on 01/30/2008, -3/+64Im definitly buying this when I get home,
I still have 4000 points left from that time I was drunk and playing rock band and bought 80$ (5000) in points to get new songs - charliekwalker, on 01/30/2008, -5/+49Wow, Rez is out on live? Sweet, I'll be following Sam's advice and picking it up of xbl dlc tonight!
- jaychuck, on 01/30/2008, -3/+42I just can't wait to play it for the first time.
And to use that Trance Vibrator everybody is talking about... - evozero, on 01/30/2008, -3/+36If you didn't play this when it came out on Dreamcast or PS2, do yourself a favor and grab this. This game is simply in a league of it's own.
- totorototoro, on 01/30/2008, -6/+39Damn, too bad that wasn't the free game.
- meez, on 01/30/2008, -4/+32They actually have some similarities... they're both worthless.
- Klarth, on 01/30/2008, -6/+33http://www.d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y.com
- NeoTEKK, on 01/30/2008, -5/+30CHECK THIS OUT! If you read my earlier comment....looks like someone else already used my very same idea. Only...it was a girl, hehe.
Sex in Games: Rez+Vibrator
rez limited edition - with trance vibrator
Soon after we got our Japanese Playstation2 in beautiful Ocean Blue, we went shopping for games. In the electronic wonderland of Akihabara we came across the game Rez. "Have you ever played it?" Justin asked me. "No," I replied, "it's like a music shooting game, right? Seems sorta boring."
Ever on the media consumer, Justin insisted, "But this one comes with a trance vibrator!"
I looked at the package curiously. "I wonder what that's for? It costs nearly 2000 yen more!"
"Let's get it!"
Excited, we inserted our very first Japanese game into our brand new console. We hooked up the trance vibrator, and I began to play the game. The game is, truly, a stunningly beautiful thing. It is a "music shooting" game, but of such elegance and coolness it's in a genre all its own. The premise places you as a futuristic hacker, avoiding security systems and navigating through databases to crack codes in a way strongly reminiscent of the trance vibratorTron. Your mission: information needs to be free. "Flying down neon corridors shooting space/machine beings in time to techno music", as Justin put it, is a pretty good description, as is "Tron on Ecstasy." The game bills itself as synesthesia - union of senses. But even that doesn't begin to relay the feeling of the game. Even without the trance vibrator, the game puts you into a trance state - it's a raver's game, a game of pure sensation. The goals are simply to progress to the next level - not so complicated. But getting there is a sublime visual and aural experience. There's also an invincible "travelling" mode, if you want to just sit back and move through the levels without worrying about your avatar's taking damage.
But god damn, the trance vibrator started thumping like crazy in time with the music.
Well, what would you have done? I moved the vibrator into my lap.
"Oh my GOD! This game rocks! Here, you play." I handed him the controller but you'd better believe I kept that vibrator right there in my lap.
the vibrator in action
Justin hadn't been paying that much attention to the exact location of the vibrator, since the game is visually quite absorbing, too. But I wanted to concentrate a little more on the, er, physical aspect of the game. I took off my pants.
Justin got the idea. "Wow."
We sat side my side on our makeshift couch, I with the trance vibrator and Justin with the controller. As the levels got more advanced, so did the vibrations... revving up to an intense pulsing throbbing...
"Oh, God!"
ooh, it feels so good
Pretty soon the levels and the images onscreen were just a faint blur to me. I knocked off my glasses and leaned back. I was in a daze. From far away, it seemed, I could hear Justin saying things like, "I made it to the next level!" and "This is cool!" but I was lost in my own little trance vibrating world.
and it looks pretty too
We drew the curtains and darkened the room. Justin played for hours. Dreamily I would once in a while say things like, "Could you do the 2nd Area again? That's my favorite."
After many of my langorous gasps and moans, we stopped playing, and tried to analyze the gameplay experience. "I don't know exactly what the game designers intended with that trance vibrator thing - but it had to be this, right?"
"It's a total stoner game," said Justin.
"But don't you think this trance vibrator extension is so your girlfriend can get off while you're playing the game? Or so a girl gamer can get off while she's playing the game?"
"It was a bit odd," said Justin, "my fingers were working the controls, but they were also kind of working you."
"Mmm. Did you like it?"
He smiled. "I wonder how it works on guys?"
Now, let me confess that this is not the first time that I've used a game component to, er, stimulate myself physically. Ever since they invented the whole rumble pack/vibrating technology in controllers, it's been on my mind, and sometimes in my practice (fellow game girls, you know what I'm talking about). The thing is, though, it's often frustrating since the vibrations are not nice and steady, but sporadic. Also I found it's tough to actually play the game and use the controller in nasty ways at the same time. I did discover that Halo was a pretty good game for this (although for not much else), because as the gunner in the Warthog, you have unlimited ammo and you can just park yourself somewhere and rat-tat-tat to your heart's content. Another issue, and one not solved by the Xbox controller, is the shape of the device - less than ideal. That's why I was so excited by Rez's trance vibrator, since it seems to have no other purpose than to act as a masturbatory aid. Its shape is pretty nice, it can slip easily under your skirt or in your panties, it comes with a protective "glove" which you can wash, and it emits a regular pulsating rhythm that gets ever more intense and thrilling the deeper you go into the game. Damn, by the end I was writhing on the floor! Synesthesia indeed.
Am I wrong? Has anyone else found a better use for it?
Direct article from: (NSFW!)
http://www.gamegirladvance.com/archives/2002/10/26 ... - aqzman, on 01/30/2008, -4/+27I owned this game for PS2, one of the most amazing games I've ever played. I might get a Xbox360 just for this game, no joke.
- Klarth, on 01/30/2008, -4/+24Oh, oh! Tell me something you know about MY life!
- nicepants, on 01/30/2008, -0/+20Doing it on LCD is way more fun than doing it on CRT.
- MacEnvy, on 01/30/2008, -1/+20Kinky.
- SEGA4life, on 01/30/2008, -5/+24Loved it on Dreamcast, can't wait to download it.
- plhearn, on 01/30/2008, -2/+20davidkeithjones you need to learn how to chill. Try smoking a joint some time.
- DigitalOmnivore, on 01/30/2008, -2/+19Use it on your girlfriend.
She'll love video games if she doesn't already! - thatonedood, on 01/30/2008, -2/+18"on shrooms or LCD."
Yeah or plasma or even XBR haha....LSD maybe? - megadan76, on 01/30/2008, -2/+16I wonder, where do you put the extra controllers...?
- scooterbaga, on 01/30/2008, -0/+13You float around and shoot stuff. You can lock onto like 8 things then release the button to fire. It's the visual/audio experience that really makes the game.
Guessing you get a free trial like most XBLA stuff? Just check it out, definitely worth a look. - logicalnoise, on 01/30/2008, -1/+14they indcluded support for not just teh trance vibrator but support to have all four act as cascading trance vibrators each one will vibrate in sync to a different piece of the music/action.
- Dylson, on 01/30/2008, -3/+16Yeah, undertoe sucked. Achievements were hard to get and the game play was *****.
- NYC10004, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Wow, you guys are creepy.
- I-Train, on 01/30/2008, -1/+13Absolutely incredible game. Turn the lights off, turn the sound up.
- dale5605, on 01/30/2008, -3/+15This game is amazing, I love it. I've got 4 controllers rumbling and the surround sound cranked up, just incredible...
- reqage, on 01/30/2008, -1/+12I agree. Screw anyone who diggs us down but Undertow did suck.
- cococrispies, on 01/30/2008, -2/+12why cant distributors focus on making FUN games like this, too many bad games get made, and good ones like this are looked over
- BingoPower, on 01/30/2008, -7/+17Any news on a PS3 version? (not starting a debate here!), my wife loves this kind of stuff. Dugg regardless.
- Entheoddity, on 01/30/2008, -0/+9Hmm dave you seem like you are in desperate need of some real social interaction. Smoke some ganj and relax.
- xxeyes, on 01/30/2008, -5/+14That's great. Someone needs to make one for "I COULDN'T care less."
- hassanchop13, on 01/30/2008, -2/+11the guy said it might happen now that dualshock 3 is out, but we'll have to see.
- mlvassallo, on 01/30/2008, -5/+14REZ with a Wiimote might be fun as well.
- XeneticXero, on 01/30/2008, -2/+10MS points are universal, so they can have a standard price(in MS points) across different regions
Also, not everyone has or wants to purchase things through a credit card, but they can buy prepaid MS point cards in stores and then use it. - NiGHTSChao, on 01/30/2008, -5/+13Doesn't matter what console its on
Rez is a very amazing game - hassanchop13, on 01/30/2008, -0/+8basically a rail shooter thats all synced up to to the music and vibrations of the controller.
- grumbel, on 01/30/2008, -1/+9Lumines was like Tetris, Rez is more like Starfox, so very different games.
- p4r4d0x, on 01/31/2008, -1/+8Hey *****, how does it feel to be buried
- vitas33, on 01/30/2008, -1/+8Excuse my ignorance, but I don't get it.
What is the game about? The video looks interesting, but I never played the original. - imbatman05, on 01/30/2008, -1/+8www.p-e-d-a-n-t-i-c.com
- xXGeechXx, on 01/30/2008, -0/+7Thanks for the link to the site but how am I supposed to remeber how to spell the name of that site when I'm looking to spell the name of that site?
- DigitalOmnivore, on 01/30/2008, -9/+16Or just come home one day, settle down for some X-Box live, and wonder why all of your buttons are sticking.
- ofenza, on 01/30/2008, -0/+7Loved it on the Dreamcast. This should be released for the Wii too!
- Zephik, on 01/30/2008, -1/+8I'm not everyone?? Man, I always get left out.. :(
- zetec, on 01/30/2008, -2/+8Wow, you're so totally awesome. Do you have a fan club I could join?
- ralphie81, on 01/31/2008, -0/+6I'm glad I'm not your neighbor
- dngermouse, on 01/30/2008, -2/+8I never had the oppurtunity to play this gem when it was first released, thank god for the wonders of digital distribution.
- Myst3r1o, on 01/30/2008, -0/+6I woke up this morning in anticipation of Rez HD's release so I quickly turned on my Xbox 360, went to the Xbox Live Arcade and downloaded the game. Everyone needs to experience this game at least once in their lifetime. It's as awesome as the original. Buy it now!
- geoken, on 01/30/2008, -2/+8That's because playing/watching stuff high is awesome.
I probably spent $50+ in one sitting on that arcade racing game RUSH because there was this round where you drove through a computer and it was so awesome high. - TecK415, on 01/30/2008, -0/+5Hmm, but is it cool when your not high? Or is it like when you go to 7 11 when your sober and nothing looks good. Then you come back faded and that burrito with the rat ***** filling you just saw an hour ago looks delicious.
- mweflen, on 01/31/2008, -0/+5Rez is what is called an "on rails shooter." You fly along a predetermined trajectory and aim your firing cursor at the enemies on screen. Pre-Loading up the cursor with up to 8 future targets multiplies the score you earn for your hits. Each hit you make on an enemy contributes to the sound of the music track playing. It also created a dazzling light display in the background. The music is generally trance-type techno. The aesthetic of the game could be described as "Tron on acid." As you progress, both the background and your character avatar evolve and become more complex. The patterns of your fire become more elaborate and visually pleasing as well. Each stage ends in a boss confrontation with a large and complicated boss.
Basically, if you like arcade style space-shooter games with scoring points as a primary motivator, you will enjoy Rez. If you like trippy sci-fi visuals, you'll like Rez. If you like games that have oodles of atmosphere and are great to chill out with, you'll like Rez. The games I would compare it to most closely in terms of "vibe" are Flow and Lumines. Mechanicaly, it is similar to any number of on rails shooters, i.e. Panzer Dragoon Orta or the aforementioned Starfox.
If you want games with "story" and "adventure", cutscenes and the like, it's not worth the $10 to you. Rez is unlike games such as Metal Gear, Gears of War, or, more applicably, Rogue Leader. It can be called short I suppose, if 40 hour story-oriented games are your standard. But it is deep if you are into the gameplay mechanic (i.e. score based shooting games) or the audio-visual vibe. - rstarr, on 01/30/2008, -1/+6http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/01/09
Edit: PA looks like it's down now...never seen that happen. -
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