• 7Dec 09

  A busy bee

  Holy cow it's been nearly a month already. I'm not going to throw down the usual "Didn't have much to talk about" because frankly, it's been busy!

  Firstly, reviews. I've knocked out a trio of reviews since my last blog: Rachet and Clank, Dragon Age, New Super Mario Bros Wii and shortly I hope to have one finished for The Saboteur so that alone has taken up a heck of a lot of time, but time well spent . SMB and Rachet and Clank have a lot in common with their legacy and sometimes I wonder if a four star review for NSMB is too lenient or too harsh. The game is a lot of fun and on multiplayer it can be a total blast, it also hits all the right nostalgia buttons and brings back in all the stuff you'd want from a 2d Mario games, but then there is its flaws. A new Mario game brings certain expectations, especially on the system that brought us Super Mario Galaxy which really brought the 3d games forward but NSMBwii feels like a step backwards from Super Mario World, at least to me. Perhaps it's wrong to judge a game on expectations, but is it's also wrong to review one just because the game has a long history? I've been going backwards and forwards on it for a while but four stars seems fair, but they could have achieved so much more.

  One game I do have no doubts about is Dragon Age: Origins. For the longest time I believed KOTOR to perhaps be my favorite game of all time but I believe that DA:O has dethroned it, it really is that good. It has such a fantastic blend of of old style RPG with out feeling old in a bad way, it also tells such a fantastic story. Sure the game isn't for everyone and I'm sure the constant dialog will put off some players, in my opinion, those people are missing out.

  There's a fair bit else to say but it's mostly to do with non game stuff but just getting through Dragon Age and writing the review was perhaps 60 hours of time and heck I could write for ages about it along, but I'd be too tempted to dip into spoiler territory.

  I'll leave you for now, I've more PHP training and reviews to write over the next week and I'm hoping to play and perhaps review Zelda: Sprit Tracks and try out this Assisins Creed 2 that I'm hearing so much about. In the mean time be sure to check out Citizen Game, my reviews on GameSpot and my Twitter page @madelk (be sure to introduce yourself)

  Stay Warm!

  Elk

  • Posted Dec 7, 2009 9:56 pm PT
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• 9Nov 09

  I got spreadsheets on my bedsheets.

  I talk a lot on here about stuffs, but not a whole lot about games, such as what I've been playing what I've completed and such. Well recently I started to get back into listening to podcasts and I was hearing a lot of major gamers talking about how they need to finish X or they never got a chance to play Y. All this talk got me wondering and I think I may have exceeded myself this year and broken my record for games played / completed.

  Everyone likes lists right? Well here's all the games that I have completed this year:

  1. Chrono Trigger
  2. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
  3. Pokemon Platinum
  4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
  5. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
  6. Plants vs. Zombies
  7. Sam and Max episode 101 - 202
  8. The Sims 3
  9. Gran Turismo 5: Prologue
  10. Heavenly Sword
  11. inFamous
  12. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
  13. MotorStorm
  14. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
  15. Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
  16. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
  17. Resistance 2
  18. Resistance: Fall of Man
  19. SingStar Queen
  20. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
  21. Batman: Arkham Asylum
  22. Borderlands
  23. Brutal Legend
  24. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
  25. Dirt 2
  26. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
  27. Fight Night Round 4
  28. Ghostbusters
  29. Godfather 2
  30. Guitar Hero: Smash Hits
  31. H.A.W.X.
  32. Halo 3: ODST
  33. Halo Wars
  34. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2
  35. Mass Effect
  36. Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
  37. Mirror's Edge
  38. NBA Live 06
  39. Ninja Blade
  40. Prince of Persia
  41. Prototype
  42. Red Faction: Guerrilla
  43. Street Fighter IV
  44. Terminator: Salvation
  45. The Beatles: Rock Band
  46. Up
  47. Wet
  48. Wolfenstein
  49. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009
  50. WWE: Legends of Wrestlemania
  51. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Uncaged Edition
  52. Braid
  53. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
  54. Shadow Complex

  Holy game completeinage Batman!

  It's really closer to 63 games completed if you split the Sam and Max up and I'm sure I'm forgetting some. I've also played well over a hundred games this year which may not seem like a whole tonne, but it does mean a new game every three days.

  Now I'm not claiming this to be the best year for gaming ever or anything, but I will say that coming up with any kind of top ten list is going to be crazy tough for me this year, there's been a lot of greats (DRAGON AGE!!!111one) and many disappointments(Gran Tourismo)

  Now you know what I completed, what did I miss? (http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tNjzLggSueUQdIBs60u2Adw&output=html) are there any great games that came out this year that I should be embarrassed to have missed? Let me know

  • Posted Nov 9, 2009 1:36 pm PT
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• 20Oct 09

  It's back!

  

  Danny has put together a great site and it just went live a few minutes ago!

  • Posted Oct 20, 2009 12:59 pm PT
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