I meant to post this yesterday, but I was too caught up in college basketball to notice anything else.
That being said, what will you be playing this weekend? I’ve been alternating my time between Mass Effect 2 and Bioshock 2. Like I mentioned when I first got Bioshock 2, I played through a a large [...]
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Weekend Gaming
March 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gaming
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Final Fantasy XIII and the platform philosophy
March 10th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Gaming
I could simply do an “In my hands” post like we usually do, but purchasing Final Fantasy XIII is a special milestone for me. You see, I hate Japanese RPG’s. I hate them with a passion. The why’s and wherefore’s are worthy of their own topic and I won’t belabor them here, but the end result is I don’t play JRPG’s. I attempted to play Lost Odyssey late last year. I bought the game for my Dad, which he loved immensely and played through it twice. With his passing I felt like it was an easy way to connect with him. I essentially inherited a game that I bought for him as a gift. I have tried, unsuccessfully, to get into the game but it feels too much like a JRPG in all the wrong ways.
I am, for the first time, buying a JRPG for the story.
Tags:final fantasy XIII·JRPG·PS3
Details of Spelunky XBLA Emerge
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Gaming, Previews
Spelunky is a Game You Should Play.
Kotkau has got some screenies up and a little more detail for the XBLA version of the title. This is a Day One purchase for me.
When It Rains, It Pours [Heavy Rain Review]
March 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Gaming, Reviews
Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain for the Playstation 3 is a title that tends to have a polarizing effect on gamers. Love it or hate it, it has generated a lot of discussion. Some deride it as a waste of time–a game that holds your hands with a long cutscene advanced by button presses. Others consider [...]
March Releases
March 1st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Gaming, News
Yay, it’s the monthly releases! The year has started out strong and March continues the streak with a few strong titles interspersed with some games of questionable quality. All in a month of game releases:
Week of March 1st
Heist
Battlefield: Bad Company 2- I’m watching from the sidelines to see how this games matches up with Modern [...]
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Hundreds of hours?
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Asides, Gaming
As I was perusing my daily inbox of gaming news when I came across this snippet from IGN regarding Fallout: New Vegas:
The area to explore is roughly the same size as what you got in Fallout 3 and Bethesda is promising that it will take hundreds of hours to explore.
Now, I don’t know what [...]
In my Weekend Gaming Hands
February 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Gaming
I screwed up how I played through the first Bioshock. I played through about 90% of the game when it first came and then dropped it cold turkey (for Halo 3 I think). I loved exploring Rapture, fighting the Splicers and being immersed in the Bioshock setting but I left the game unfinished for a [...]
Tags:Bioshock 2
The BioWare Effect
February 10th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
In my opinion, no company is sacred. A proven track record of good products is likely to attract me to a day one purchase but it only takes a single misstep to lose that trust. I’m not asking for spectacular games, just games that don’t make me regret paying full price. BioWare gets a lot [...]
Tags:Baldur's Gate·Bioware·Dragon Age: Origins·Knights of the Old Republic·KoToR·Mass Effect 2
Trimming the Fat
March 11th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Commentary, Gaming
As I mentioned before and I promise to go into detail later, I am no fan of Japanese RPG’s. Yet I am not alien to the format. Two of my favorite JRPG’s are MS Saga and Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. The first game is essentially Final Fantasy: Gundam. The second game might [...]
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Tags:final fantasy XIII·Japan·JRPG