Games Completed 2008:
Portal: The Orange Box (PS3)
Resistance: Fall of Man (PS3)
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Final Fantasy VII (PS)
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS)
Gears of War (X360)
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)
Me and My Katamari (PSP)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS)
Ōkami (PS2)
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (PS3)

• 29Sep 08

  Always relying on me to come save your bacon...

  It had been about a month and a half since I'd finished a game, but I'm happy to say I finally finished Mercenaries 2. When I say "I", I really mean "we" because Vix played through the whole game with me, and frankly, I don't think I would have made it by myself. Like I, and probably others, have said before the game is extremely glitchy. Not only that, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have made it through some of the missions by myself.

  After we finished the game, we leveled the PMC. Amazingly enough, Fiona was only upset about her car being destroyed, Ewan still could do pick ups in his heli (and landed on the rubble, lol) and everyone's ghost still talked to us. It didn't solve the incessant reminder problem... "If you're ever feeling a little bit lost, come talk to me in the PMC and I may be able to offer a few suggestions" bit, because you know... I always felt lost when I was destroying targets and HVTs. The ending was a huge disappointment; it lasted about 2 minutes, not that the game had that great of a story anyway. I was more amused by the characters adjusting the slides during cutscenes than what they were saying half of the time. If I didn't play this cooperatively, I would have given this a 5.0 just like GameSpot, but co-op was its one redeeming quality, therefore I'm giving it a 7.0.

  I've been playing Tales of Vesperia for the past week, and I'm really enjoying it. For the most part the voice acting is enjoyable and the skits and cut scenes are interesting and often amusing. I'm only partway into chapter 2, but I like everything I've played so far. It has inspired me to pick up Symphonia at some point, and maybe Tales of Phantasia.

  I purchased a few games over the past few weeks... Psychonauts (PS2), Dark Cloud (PS2), Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox), and Castle Crashers (X360). I did buy Dark Cloud again because I found a copy of the original game and took the greatest hits back. Castle Crashers is the only one I've played so far so I could play it with my nephew. I didn't realize the game was so gross. I laughed so many times at the animals and boss fights. Yay for crude humor!

  • Posted Sep 29, 2008 8:30 am PT
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• 16Sep 08

  Updates and such.

  I thought I was going to get more games this fall than I actually am. I just know that I won't play them all, so I'm trying to stick to my must haves. In order:

  1. LittleBigPlanet
  2. Fable II
  3. Gears of War 2
  4. Resistance 2
  5. Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
  6. Rock Band 2

  I think that's enough games to get me through the next few months, and if it's not then I'll just pick up one of the other games on my original list or pick up a new arcade or psn game. Plus, I still have a huge backlog to work through.

  I'm in the SOCOM and Home betas, and next month I'll also be in the Resistance 2 beta, so if anyone else is in those let me know. I don't think I'll be playing SOCOM unless there is someone else on my friends list who's playing it because I don't think it's my kind of game, but feel free to ask if you want to take me out for a thrashing.

  VixDiesel and I have been playing through Mercenaries 2 together for the past couple of weeks. Like most people have said, the game is fun, but it's chock full of bugs and glitches which only affects the gameplay in some areas. It's been fun to play waiting for more anticipated titles, but at this point it's definitely not worth a $60 price tag.

  • Posted Sep 16, 2008 7:41 am PT
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• 27Aug 08

  Tales of Undiscovery

  I'm geting my first current-gen RPGs this week. EDIT: the first current-gen RPGs that I'll actually play. I watched the video review of Tales of Vesperia and I loved the art style and it looks like something I would enjoy playing. Also, I've had my eye on Infinite Undiscovery for a while and here's to hoping that Square puts out another one of the quality games they're known for with this new IP.

  Mercenaries 2 is coming out just in time for a long weekend and if all goes as planned I'll be playing a bit of Mercs and Tales. Sounds like a good time.

  Here's my purchases for this past week. It's a bit slim, but I haven't seen the games I've been looking for at GameStop. I hate Greatest Hits boxes, lol.

  

  • Posted Aug 27, 2008 8:20 pm PT
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