Monday, June 6, 2011
Quick thoughts on Playstation Press Conference 2011
Sly Cooper: Thieves in time- Never played any Sly but I did pick up Sly cooper 1 and 2 a month ago and have not played them yet.
Resistance 3- looks the same as 1 and 2, I dont care for this game.
God of War: Origins Collection- both PSP games coming to the PS3, 2 less reasons I want a PSP.
NBA 2K12- Like the Heat joke at Kobe and that Kobe sucked at the game when they say wasy to pick up and play
Medieval Moves: -deadmens Quest- looks like the move demo we saw last year was turned in to a game.
Showed a InFamous 2 trailer which is out tomorrow, review coming soon.
PlayStation Vita- $250-300 ok good. games look almost like a PS3 game. Showed off Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Ruin, ModNation Racers and Street Fighter X Tekken which Cole from InFamous 2 will be in the game.
Over all alittle boring, no new big titles, PlayStation Vita was linked a few days ago. Most of the show was move and Vita, two things I dont care for. Also no twisted metal?
Quick thoughts on Ubisoft Press Conference 2011
Driver: San Francisco- nothing new that I didnt see or hear from last year
Far cry 3- looks alittle better than 2. I hope the guns for break down, I hated that in 2. Watching the trailer on TV most of it was beeeeeeeep.
Tin Tin game really?
Tom Clancy's Future soldier- 4 player co op, seems more Call of duty than Ghost recon. From twitter: hilarygoldstein - "Ghost Recon makes me want to play Modern Warfare 3, which is saying something." and he is right
Just dance 3 WHY!!!!!!!??????
Rocksmith- help you learn to play the guitar, it will fail other games have tried this and none have been good.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations- cant beleve that its coming out with year, demo looks great fire looks nice. Wonder if that will have multiplayer too, Brotherhood multiplay looked fun but its already dead from what I saw on the 360.
Trackmania 2- wanted to hear about shooter mania and quest mania but nothing.
Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking- oh god a kinect game, mini game where you fill in the shape looks like a fun party game... for 5 mins.
Over all I wanted this to end I couldnt stand watching this press conference. I hate Mr. Caffeine, all his jokes got dead silence, please bring back Joel. Only two games I enjoyed watching were Far cry 3 and Assassin's Creed: Revelations. This is worst then Konami press conference, that was taped and I could pass the boring parts.
Quick thoughts on Microsoft Press Conference 2011
Tomb Raider- revamp game? play as a 21 year old Lara Croft. Demo shown had Lara in a tied up in a cave and needed to escape. Music sounded great and went well with the game. Like the camera look, it had parts in 3rd person view and place cam views like in god of war. This look like the best Tomb Raider game i seen.
Mass effect 3- will use Kinect, looks the same as 2. Didn't show much
Tom Clancy's Future soldier- will use Kinect as well, showed off gun customs very detailed and many options. Showed off play with Kinect and it looked dumb, holding out his fist like he was going to fist and opening is hands to shoot. trailer looked boring with the whole Matrixs frozen time this.
Showed off new dash board- I dont like it, just looks like they want to show you what you can waste your points on. Youtube on xbox? I will use that like i do with facebook and twitter and thats never. Xbox is so much full of shit it needs Bing to help you find it, Bing is being added to live. Live TV coming to xbox, didnt say much about it. No price given. If its cheaper then the sitalite I'd which. Smart way to sell more 360s to people who already have 1.
Gears of war 3- Gears added mechs to the game. Ice T making a song for horde mode. Looks a touch better than 2.
Ryse- 1st person fighting game in Romen times using Kinect, this is what the hardcore gamers need.
Halo 1 being remade for 360, will have online co op and multiplayer. Hope they are not asking for full price.
Forza 4- I think they should slow down on making these alittle. uses kinect, didnt show much of it.
Fable the journey or the on rail shooter, mah. uses Kinect, on rails and you shoot magic zzz. Wonder how broken with game will be like Fable 3 was.
Minecraft coming to the 360 woo? online?
Disney mini game collection with a virtual disneyland in it. Sorry kids we cant go to real Disneyland so here play this. The first 2 kid actors were good and the next 2 one I think was saying the others lines.
Kinect star wars more then lightsaber, has driving in it too. Looks great aother game thats needed for hardcore gamers
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster - kinect game getting bored with all the kinect games now next. The kid who was saying the other kids lines returns and reads the lines for dad now.
Kinect labs- FUCK, get to play with tools out now
Kinect sports 2- wii sports > this
Dance central 2- now 2 people can dance at once. online?
Halo 4 the fight continues starts where Halo 3 left off
Over all a lot of kinect like last year but most of the games and normal games with kinect suport. No price drop, cheap ass gamer kept guessing at a $50 drop due to $50 gift cards system packs always on sale. Would of like to have a drop on the price of Kinect. do I want a kinect now, alittle before it was a no.
Quick thoughts on EA Press Conference 2011
Need for speed: the run- not just racing cars also be on foot. looks like Need for speed meets mirrors edge. looks greats like the last need for speed game.
SSX- never played a snowboarding game, may rent it when it comes out. uses satellite pic to form the maps, cool.
FIFA12- boring break time
Star Wars: The Old Republic- Trailer and no game play again come on two years now with no game play.
Madden 12- at the start of the press conference it was said that they didnt need celebs for the press conference but three football players, that count as celeb?
Sims social- Sims facebook game that people will spam invite to me and make me hate facebook even more.
Overstrike- class base shooter, looks nice, trailer is funny hope the game is too.
Battlefield 3- Beta finally happening in September. Frostbite 2 was shown, the engine for the game. levels are more bigger due to it. Looks and sounds so real. Cant wait to play the beta.
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning- Looks like Dragon age but you get to fight not just press a button and wait while the game fights for you. Even though a pitcher of the Red Sox Curt Schilling is the owner of the Studio I still want to get this game.
Over all quite a few jokes about paid membership and what other press conferences do. Wish to see more Over strike 9, want to see some game play of The Old Republic and learn more about the on foot parts on the new Need for speed game.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
My thoughts and prediction on Playstation network
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Games I beat Q1 of 2011
A fun educational game, got alittle lost where you flying with a jetpack on what to do.
Castlevania
This game is hard until you use the holy water, it is so over powered. Holy water pwns all
Dragon Age: Origins
This game needs a arrow, most of the time in the game I was lost. I did enjoy it and want to play it again as a different class. Still need to play some of the DLC.
The Simpsons Arcade
Game I think I may beaten this in the arcades. Its a fun game and if it came out on the xbla I would get it.
Super Mario Galaxy 2
This game is so much fun but also hard at times. Love all the new things they added like yoshi. I do wish there was more voice acting in the game.
Mega Man X
I had with as a kid but never beat it, never wrote down the passwords. This game feels very easy, I did get most of the power ups.(no Hadouken)
Mega Man
I dont think I played this as a kid. The robot masters are not hard but Dr. Willie my god. The first boss you fight the one eye that break in to pieces and goes side to side, I hate that boss, in the anniversary collection you cant do the pause glitch so I did it on rom. At first I thought I couldnt do it on the rom too but found out that I have to hit select button not the start which I was hitting. Derp
3D dot game hero
I would say I enjoy this more than Link to the past but then I enter the flame temple. In the flame temple if you die you have to do almost every thing you just did again due to the walls raising up, because of this I dead... a lot. This temple took me two days to complete. It feel just like Link to the past but the game tells and shows you where to go so you will never get lost.
Dead to Rights: Retribution
This feels like a cookie cutter game, mostly everything feels like it's from a other great game. The only thing that feel different is when your playing as a dog, and it is boring. All you do is run at someone hit the attack button and the dog kills him. The story feels like I heard this over and over again from other games and movies. The game feels like Max Payne also looks like a last gen game with touched up graphs. The game only 6-7 hours long and I dont see why anyone would have paid the full $60 for it, there is no multiplayer just single player.
Super Mario Bros.
I may have beaten this as a kid but I dont remember ever beaten this game.
Dark Cloud 2
http://www.giantbomb.com/dark-cloud-2/61-10007/user-reviews/?review_id=18830
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I got half way through the last level, restarted with cheat and beat it. How can anyone beat this without cheating? The last level has non stop barrels and bomber guys, it is insane.
Super Mario Bros. 3
I know that I never beat this game as a kid. I would always get the the 8th world and give up after a few deaths.
Killzone 2
I found this game so boring, with one i found it boring at first then enjoyed it at the end. With this one I didnt like it. What I hate about this game the most is cant use L2 to aim, I'm use to using the left trigger to aim. Most of the time I go to aim I would melee. I just found shooting hard in this game, at the end of the game I was just running at everyone and knifing them. Im passing on killzone 3.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Never knew of a power rangers game until a year ago where I saw a video about it. Everything is great but Zack in the game I mean wtf?

Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
Rented this after watching someone play the NES Rygar and they said that there was a PS2 version. It like a god of war game years before god of war came out. The camera sucks at times and there are not that many types of enemies. Got lost a few times but after looking at a walk through alway felt dumb that I didnt see the way to go. The story is weird,
Milon's Secret Castle
This is one of those game I played as a kid and liked it, now I dont like it but I dont hate it as well. I cant believe how far I got in this game when I was a kid. On 1 life due to the fact I didnt know how to countiue got to the 3rd level of the castle, almost beaten the game. Plus I did this with out any help like Nintendo power.
Where's Waldo?
Who thought to make a video game about the where's Waldo books? Played it on easy and beat it in 30 mins only hard part to the game is the slot machine where you need to get 3 Waldo heads to launch a rocketship to the moon.
Barbie
I played and beat this all beacause Craig ( http://twitter.com/TheHeroOfGaming ) said he beat this game. yeah that is why I beat it. The jumping in the game sucks and that is all that sucks with the game. You play as Barbie in her dreams, you use bows and gems to solve puzzles to go foward in the level.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
I was going for 100k gamerscore and this game is easy points. Game is boring, Ben Stiller didn't do voice work for the game but why cant the person look like him more, I don't know why but to me that didn't look like Ben Stiller.
Singularity
This is a ok game, besides getting lost a few times there are no problems with this game. The story is ok but lost my interst after some time. The multiplayer is fun but dead, takes 8 people to start a game and no one ever on. After playing this makes me want to try time shift.
Mass Effect 2
My new pick for best game in 2010. It feels less RPGish that one and one is the game that got me in to RPGs. Even though it took me 60+ hours I feel that I still missed some things and want to play through it again. One part of the game where you meet up with Ashley kinda bugs me, SPOILERS! when the mission starts you see Ashley and people running from the hive. Ashley gets caught by the hive and shes a goner right? well at the end of the mission Ashley shows up fine and we get no explanation on how she is fine or what happened.
Sesame Street: Countdown
I was bored and half a sleep when I wonder how clear was the voice in this game was. That night I was watching Angry video game nerd videos. I cant believe how crasp and clear the voice is in it.You play as the count finding number or objects of the number you are searching for in 8, 8 level ah ah ah.
Mario is Missing!
Luigi has not had any good games with just him in it and this started it. I do remember renting this as a kid and not knowing that its a edution game.
Tiny Toon Adventures
This game is great but switch to a other person like dizzy is hard you need to find this ball with a star on it. It plays mostly like SMB 3. Out of the other Tiny toon games I seen and played this one the best.
Sonic Blast
Sonic on the Game gear doesnt work sonic is slow on them. With this sonic game sonic take up half the screen and its hard to see whats coming up. This game does have good graphs and a good legth.
Bible Buffet
Board game with no real bible game feel to it. You can play alone but its boring to do so, it would have been nice if there was a AI player.
Anticipation
Boring board game cant remember that much about it.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Best RPG I have played on the PS2
Almost two years after the first Dark Cloud Level 5 releast Dark cloud 2. When I found this out after playing through the first game I had my douts that they improved the game in any way, boy was I wrong. They have fixed every that (I can think of) was problem of Dark cloud, fix and inproved it in two. One of the big problems in the first game was weapons breaking and losing them, weapons still break but you do not lose them when you do. So that weapon that you been using for the whole game if it broke in one it was gone forever and you would break the game in half but in two after a weapon break at stay. You dont lose it, you dont even lose any stats or EXP that the weapon has. Now I know what your saying "well if your weapon is about to break fix it" well to do that you need repair powder. In one you need to hopefully find everything you need, food, other weapons, and repair powder. If you could not find any repair powder before your weapon broke your screwed. In 2 you can buy repair powder in shops, you can buy almost everything in a shop and money is not hard to come by. One other problem they fix was in the game you have to rebuild the towns, in one everything had to be a the right place. I found myself looking at walkthoughs that the maps people made to get through these parts. In two for most of the game you can place anything anywhere in the town and it will counts, I say most times because there are a few spots where a house need this near it and one part of the game has you build a place with everything in the right place but they give you photos of what it should look like making it easy. Now that I talk about what they fixed let get to the rest.
Story
You play as Max (Maximillian) a kid that lives with his father and your mother left some time ago. The town is under lockdown and has been since Max's mom has left due to the dangers of the outside world. One day some men are looking for the gem that Max wears around his neck. He runs off to the sewers, the town is opened and Max leave is search of his mother. Soon after you meet Monica who is from the future and need to fix the past to save her future. That is the mean story. With each new chapter you do to a new town to restore and a new short story starts. The short stories give a reason besides saving the future to restore the town. For exmaple a little kid is sick and no medison from curent time can help him but there something in the future that can. So basicly it a problem and the only way to solve it is to rebuild the town and go in to the future.
Game play
Game play is very much the same from 1. Max has a robot his can ride on (Ridepod) called Steve. The robot can be upgraded with different weapons, body and feet. Monica can tranform in to monsters, I didnt use this at all and only tranform in to a plant monster but I believe she can tranform in to others. With rebuilding towns there is a list of what the town needs. Finding people and getting them to live in the restored town I found it hard and a headache.
Graphs & sound
The game looks more coloriful and briter than 1. Few of the monsters that were in 1 look the same and the new monsters looks great and detailed. I'm glad that voice acting has been added to this game. One didnt have much talking in it and was all text to tell the story. The voice acting is great and matches every person. Max and Monica sound like real kids not adults trying to sound like kids. Also the translation is good, I didnt see any Engrish in the game.
Overall
This is a great RPG and I wish that the Dark cloud franchise comes back. I want to try Rogue Galaxy and White Knight Chronicles, both from Level 5. If you love RPG or just getting in to them Dark cloud 2 is a great game to pick up. The game is easy for new comers to RPG's, there may be a few spots where you may get lost but the internet can help you with that.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Games I beat in 2010: 2009 or older
BioShock 2
I forgot this came out 2010. The story is ok but weird at the end. Multiplayer is good but laggy for me.
Now here are the games I beat in 2010 that didnt come out last year.
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
People say this is better than 1 but I didnt enjoy it. Most of the time I was lost and confused with the story. Will play though the game again hope that helps.
Real Heroes: Firefighter
This game surprised me its not that bad. The game also surprised me by having a boss at the end of the game. Graphs are ok but the fire looks bland, you can see it in squared off. There is no story your just a rookie, there is some small chat during missions and going to the fire.
Fable
I played mostly the mean missions and beating it in less then 10 hours. I enjoyed the story and the game looks great.
Shadow Complex
Great game, love everything about it. Only hate that my game glitched I think, I cant find the last key card or what ever to unlock the boots.
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Rock, paper, scissor the game. If this is the bad Alex the kid game then why is it on the sega collection? It is not very good, hated that there is a boos you have to beat him at rock, paper, scissor. Really?
Final Fantasy X
I started playing this almost 3 years ago and was playing off and on. I would get stuck at a boss and stop playing for a few months. I did enjoy the story, only hate Waka.
Rogue Warrior
Rock and roll mother fucker rock and roll. This game is the worst, the game trys to make this guy look all rogue and tough but it makes him annoying.
Borderlands
My choose for 2010 2009 game of the year. After I beat it the first time I thought I was going to put it on the shelf for a month or two and come back to it but few days later I was playing it again. Dr. Ned zobie island and secret armory are great DLC add ons but Underdome is long and usless really and claptrap's new robot revolution just has too much collecting in it and all the items to collect and random. I was hoping to face the boss at the end of the game again in that DLC, you see and cut out of it and that just let my hope up.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Never seen the movie and after playing this I dont want to. The graphs are ok but the sound with the mean guy voice would not shut up.
Prototype
Not as good as inFamous, the story was mahh. It is more fun running around in that world then inFamous because of what you can do.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
I love Victor Sullivan. He has that Bruce Campbell fell to him which I love. I love the story and would go to see this if it was a movie.
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
They nailed the game play but the story and voice acting is the worst. Dont kid down the games please.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
I loved everything, the story was great starting with present time then flashing back. The game has less Sullivan and I hope three has way more of him.
Braid
Found this game boring and after 10 mins looked up a video guide just so I could beat it
Assassin's Creed II
I wish I got to finish this the time it came out and my game save and 360 didnt get messed up. They improved everything that was wrong with one, I am so happy that you can swim in the game now and alot less collecting.
Little Red Hood
I was very bored when I played this. What the angry video game nerd says is true the game is so random.
Demon's Souls
What makes this game hard is not the AI enemies but the people who invade. The last level I could not make it up the last stairs so I join others so I can be alive again and have people to join my game so they can pass and kill the dragon so I can get up the stairs. Every minute I or the person I joined would get invade. If you play this play it offline, unhook the internet to the PS3.
Devil May Cry 2
I thought this game was not that bad then I played disk two. Its all the same your just playing the game as Lucia thats all. Disk two is a waste of time
Fable II
Feels like a remake of the 1st game. Online co op sucks your stuck in a the same screen like in a local co op game. I still had fun playing this.
Max Payne
I found the game hard at first due to the fact that its been some time since I played a shooter on the PS2. The story is great and I like the way they do cut scenes. The graphs could have been better for the people, everyone looks blocky.
Comix Zone
This game is hard, I cant even beat the 1st level. I use a cheat to beat this game just like everyone else has and if you beat it without cheats you are a video game god.
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
This game is way to easy, its so easy to beat bosses, earn extra lifes and the level are some what easy. There are a few where you will die a few times but by then you will have lifes to spare.
Altered Beast
The sega version is hard few lifes, at best I would make it to the 2nd level. I beat the arcade version on the Sega collection for the 360, unlimited continues.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
I didnt care for the story, didnt care for the story in one as well. I like the online co op thats in the game.
Far Cry 2
All the missions in the game start to feel the same and the game is a bit to big takes to long to get from one point the the other just by driving. I hate that you need to get and take pills, at the start of the game if you dont go get the pills you can rome around for hours and you wont need any pills. Also hate the weapons breaking over time. Multiplayer is fun but takes way to long to level up and up lock new weapons.
Dead Space
I really liked this game, even that I saw most of this on a stream the game still scared me. I did find the game easy but the parts where you have to shoot meters I hate that part so much. I dont like the controlls, I am always missing them and I hate that if they go off screen they still hit you. I hope two doesnt have that part, cant wait to play that.
Kingdom Hearts
I kinda wished I played this when I was younger, I would have enjoyed it more. I need to get my hands on KH2 now.
Here is a list of games I started but didnt finish in 2010
Dark Could 2- got to a point in the game where I dont know what to do, the game doesnt give me any clues of what to do and even two guides I looked up say two diffirent things to do and both didnt work.
Final Fantasy X-2 - Opening my god
Fallout: New Vegas- taking my time with it, started after getting guide book and waiting for all the DLC to come out before finishing it.
Metal Gear Solid- I am at Metal Gear, I'm finding it hard to beat it
Ninja Gaiden 2 (360)- at the last boss and damn hard.
There are more but with them I just really didnt like them or just forgot about them.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Games I beat in 2010: 2010 games
Story was ok but but you dont get a to know anyone in the game. Multi is the same still get my ass handed to me. Fire fight matchmaking is great but with they had a made with a death limit like in ODST.
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
The story was good but not great. There was very little to do and only a few of the side missions were fun to play. I miss the open world from 1.
Just Cause 2
Besides the story is dumb and boring and the voice acting bad yet funny for a few Just Cause 2 is a fun game. It feels like what Mercenaries 2 should have been with a grapple hook. Feels great to be able to hook on to anything and use the grapple hook on enemies. I wish I could have more cars, boats, planes and choopers to buy from the black market.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Story was great love the twist ending. Multiplayer i hate I have to unlock it then I have to buy it, just give me my stuff when I unlock it. I know Halo Reach does this but its all arror that just for look not guns and perks you need to get kills. Zombie mode (the reason I rented this) is ok but makes me want to play left 4 dead instead.
Donkey Kong Country Returns
This game is hard, feels like the first Donkey Kong Country game. Controlls were great but shaking the wii mote some times didnt work well. I tryed not to use the super guide alot but I did a few times I dont like that you can let the super guide beat bosses for you even the final boss.
X-Men
I never saw this in the arcades around here. It was fun playing but there is no challenge to the game because there is unless continues. I would have added this to best of 2010 but its not new.
Dead Rising 2
Story was touching gave me a reason to make it to the end. Hope co op got fix, suck getting kicked every time the host saved the game. Terror Is Reality is useless, you dont need money for anything unless you want the cars. It was dead the week it came out, had a hard time finding a game.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
The story was great but it was missing the funny small talk between Terrence and George. I know if you wait at points you will hear it but I guess I was waiting at the wrong points because I didn't get any. Multiplayer is better now that I dont have to worry about shooting a teammate killing them and dont have to worry about dicks joining my team and team killing everyone. Its my game of the year.
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero
It does feel like a demo but I enjoyed it. There is very little back story, you just find out who bit Katey.
Crackdown 2
This is one of the three sequels that were a let down. I was hoping that they learn that a game needs a story or then kill these people game over. The game is too easy, there are only a few enemies at the points you need to actavate. A small group of cops could have done this but no they waste money and send you. They did fix the problem of finding orbs where we had to find about 800 of them but what they do next? THEY ADD MORE! WHY? It is fun running around the city when your all leveled up. when crackdown 3 comes out and I pick it up and play it I'm going to hate my self.
Lost Planet 2
This game was also I let down. Story is crap having 4 stories about 4 group of people meeting at the end sucked. Playing co op is fun but it sucks if you are playing on hard and someone sucks at the game. Multiplayer I dont know when the game came out I was ending up 3rd or 4th in kills and points 2 weeks later I cant kill anyone, I dont know why.
Fable III
Flat out the worst game of the year. The story is shit, the main plot is told to us late in the game and rushed. The game is very glitchy, frame rate will drop down to where the game is in slow mo for no reason, the golden path disappears randomly and many others. I had to restart the game after 10 hours due to a mission glitching and would not end. Due to the auto save switch cant be turned off I had to restart. after catching back up to where I was in the game I wanted to make a copy of the save so that if it happen again I could use that save but it would not let me. The only good thing in the game is there is more freedom in co op then in Fable 2.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Xbox live rant
Thursday, July 29, 2010
games I beat since my last blog
Sony
Sorcery- looks like there was a sec delay between the move and shot
portal 2- coming to the ps3
twisted metal- never played any of the games but want to, 1st time for choppers will buy
Infamous 2- new person has ice powers Buy the day it comes out love 1
Heroes on the Move- sound cool but does it have to be on move
Motor Storm: Apocalypse- dont care for
LittleBigPlanet 2- looks great but dont want to pay $60 for it
was so bored during this I left and got food.
Nintendo
kirby epic yarn- lol epic yarn, I dont like the look really wish kirby was full color, game play looks fun.
DKC returns- gameplay is mostly the SNES version with a few new things like wall climbing, being able to go to the back
Golden Eye 007- hope it has gamecube controller in it, never played the 64 version.
Wii Party- what the wii need more party games
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword - looks like abit of links crossbow training made it in the game, not thrilled that it has more motion controll, colors look bolder than the last zelda game
Kid Icarus: Uprising- about dam time but not for the wii sad face
Just Dance 2- dear god why!
Mario Sports Mix- hockey and dodgeball look fun
Quick thoughts on Ubisoft press conference
AC: brotherhood- need to get AC2 and finish it, want to play this
Shaun white skateboarding game = fail Im calling it, tony hawk meets getting up
Lazertag game- sound cool then saw it played and sucked
Innergy- dumb, cant believe they will try to sell it
motionsports trailer was weird
show Your fitness again bathroom break
Rabbits travel in time- cool need to play the last 1 still
Ghost Recon- backpack rockets :o and you can go invisable I want! 4 person co op I need to change my pants
Driver: SF- sound cool until Shift Instantaneously between any car your person in a coma? what?
project duct the people look like they have paper plates on there head
rayman coming back, game looks fun. only 5 people work on it wow
maniaplant- want to try shooter and quest
Quick thoughts on EA press conference
Dead space 2- Need to get Dead space, looks very much like 1, cliffhanger end but see end at sony tomorrow.
Metal of honor- never played any of the games. live 24 player multiplayer demo on stage has the look like Killzone with alittle MW2 and BC2 in it. want to give it a try
MMA- dont care for it, live broadcast looks like a good way to bet UFC game
Active 2- no PS3 move support?
Madden- zzzzzzz
Sims 3- coming to consoles dont care
crysis 2- looks great, will be in 3D for 360, PS3 and PC but trailer not in 3D? I had 3D glasses on and didnt see anything. still want to know if you need to play 1 for 2
Bulletstorm- holy shit it looks sweet, want to see more, may get it.
Star wars- every player gets a ship cool if you use it more than just a save point. trailer was awsome.
way better than 360
Quick thoughts on 360 press conference
Rising- Not a big fan of metal gear but the slice up the enemies in slow mo makes me want to at least rent it.
GoW3- Looks like 2, Like the spatter from the enemies and the charge move you can do now. Be sweet if thats added with a new chainsaw move.
Reach- The ship battling you can do? looks like it would be great.
Everything else was for Kinect and it was boring, the dance game looks fun to watch someone play that but I wouldnt enjoy playing it
Slim- looks cool in black. wonder what the fail rate for it will be. wondering how much more quiter is it than the normal 360.
Microsoft forgot about us the gamers only having a half hour of real games. The reaction to everyone who was not at the event getting a 360 slim is funny.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Flashback 8
Two weeks have passed by already, feel like I just wrote up my last blog yesterday. Well I stopped myself from playing more Fallout 3 to finish up some more games. The first game I finished is one of the launch titles for the PS3, Resistance: Fall of Man. This is a game that most people Im guessing picked when the PS3 launch. The story is about this one man Nathan Hale that survived a attack from the Chimera. The Chimera is some virus that changes humans in to Chimera. I was thinking I was going to fight aliens but Im fighting humans, sounds like Blacksite. The graphs suck, it has that look like a low budget 360 game, reminds me of Hour of victory. Most of the cut senses are just pics, news papers and maps like a slide show. All the enemies look the same and there are very few different types of enemies. The 1st level is the hardest part in the game, after that part you gain the ability to regain health. In the first level there is no healing pack or anything to heal you. In all the game is not that good and I wish I didn’t buy it, I hope Resistance 2 is not like this. I say pass on this game, there are better shoots on the PS3 like Killzone.
After finishing a PS3 game I went down a number and played on my PS2. In the Devil May Cry series I only played the 3rd game, I finally played and beaten the 1st Devil May Cry. The different between one and three are very little. Most of the sound has not changed. Game plays are the same, fighting move and a shooting button. Spending XP to get new moves and upgrade weapons are the same. The look of the game as improved; there are very few different kinds of enemies in one. You are mostly fighting off joker looking enemies, fighting them made me wonder where Jester is from three. The enemies look like him just with longer arms. The story is just basically an intro to Danta and his family history. It is a buy for any PS2 owner, now I just need to play two which I hear is the worst out of the three.
After I beat Devil may cry Game fly sent me X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Now movie video games are mostly always bad but not this one. The game is like god of war with RPG leveling system in it. The is about Wolverine before he joins the X men, how he got the claws and what made him not remember anything from his past is answered in this game. The game looks great, very bloody and the locations look fine. Wolverine healing looks cool but are some time his shirt start to appears out of no where. When Wolverine gets hurt and has big wounds on him his white shirt is tear off from it. Over all if you are a X men fan this is a rent, a harder difficulty is unlocked after you beat the game but I didn’t want to play through it again at that time. The game took me only 11 hours to beat, if you want to buy it wait until its $20 or less.
Well it was a slow two week but the next two weeks will be crazy. Modern Warfare 2, Left for dead 2 and The Ballad of Gay Tony (
Note: I wrote this last Monday and forgot to post it until now.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
flashback project 7 shorter than the last bog
This blog will be shorter than my last one. For the last two weeks I have been playing mostly fallout 3, 70 plus hours played and still not done. When I am finished with everything in the game I will talk about it more. For now I will talk about the only two games finished since last, Red faction 2 and Fat Princess. I have played Red faction 2 a few months ago but the game would not let me save. It seems I didn't make a profile so the 5 hours I played and enjoyed would have to be repeated. That is what made me shelf the game and not touch it until I was bored after I posted the last blog. I needed a quick game to play and finish, the game only took me 7 hours to beat. The starts 5 years after the first Red faction game. You play as a demo expert of a elite force for the Red faction and you need to stop Ultor from making super soldiers. There is more to the story but I dont want to spoil it. The game looks better then one, your in other places then a cave and offices this time. This is a buy if you can find it, its cheap and fun. Fat Princess is a fun game but I wish it was on the Xbox 360. The game is mostly multiplayer and the PS3 doesn't come with a headset but uses blue tooth headset. People with headset are more rare on the PS3 then 360. Even though the 360 does come with a headset not everyone has it on. I played two of the of the five game modes, rescue the princess and Team deathmatch. For rescue the princess is where voice chat would be very helpful, beside everyone doing what they think they should do one person could take control and guide the team. For team death match just dont go anywhere alone, travel in packs. The game does take time to understand how to play and when you do, you will have some fun. Im going to try and play other game the next two weeks that is not Fallout 3. I have started to play Devil may cry and Resistance: fall of man, will talk about that next time. This is Three dog wahoooooooo, I mean bye.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Im back to blogging and flashback project 6
The next game I finished was Madworld, sent by gamefly. You play as Jack, who is new to the TV game show Death Watch, you fight your way to be number one. There is more to the story; but, after every level there is more twist and turns in the game. After some time I just didn't care anymore. The game feels like No more heroes but without the open world. In it you kill off enemy upon enemy and score points (every level has a point score) you must reach until a boss battle. Graphs are mostly black, white and red. Sega did a great job using just black and white for the levels. The sound is ok. I like that the sound of the chainsaw come out of the wii mote every time you use it. The commentators are good too, but after time you hear them repeating the same thing. They even commentate the credits. The game is short and has no real replay value. You can play it on hard and that's it. It is a rental if you have a wii and liked No More Heroes.
There is not much to say about Lego Indiana Jones. I finished it and I liked it. It tells the movie very well for not saying a single word. If your a Indiana Jones fan, or looking for a game that you and the kids can play, I say buy this. Another game that I don't have much to say about is King Kong. I really only played it for the points. This was one of the launch game with the Xbox 360. The graphs look like a last gen game. The other launch game I played way back was Perfect Dark Zero. It looks like a last gen as well. You play as one of the humans and you play as Kong, It is a few levels. The game is short and has no replay value at all, no unlocks or anything. Rent this if you are a achievement whore like me. In less then 6 hours you will have all the points.
Another crappy game that I finished over the summer is Alone in the Dark. What makes it crappy is two things: bad controls and making collectibles part of the main missions. First, with the bad controls, one of the problems with the controls is the A button does to many things (picking up items, opening and closing doors, and other things that I can't remember right now.) That is just to much for one button. One other problem with the controls is turning to 3rd person view. This game has both first person and 3rd person view. Walking and turning in 3rd person view feels slow and hard to control. Now, with the other problem, making collectibles part of the main missions. This happens towards the end of the game. You need to go around and burn a number of roofs to gain a power, but, not just once. Two times! After the first episode, (the game set up like a TV show with episodes) you say 'thank goodness Im done with that' and get back to the game. In the next episode, they want you to burn more roofs so you can gain a power so you can see an invisible force field. Now, you do not need this power. I went to the invisible force, and saw it with out the power. The story is not that great at all. You play as a man that woke up and has no clue who he is. Later, you find out you were under control by the devil. The devil is on the loose in New York City and you need to stop the devil. Pass on this game. It looked and sounded fun when I played the demo a year ago.
Another game that look and sounded fun when I played the demo is BlackSite: Area 51. The demo and the name makes if feel like aliens have invaded and you need to stop them. Well that's wrong! there are no aliens from other planets in the game or in the story. The U.S. was testing some odd crappy on humans and it turned them into these weird looking things and you need to stop them. You find this out early in the game and that just left me with the feeling of WTF?!!! Area 51 with no aliens? The game is very boring, due to the story and placement of the enemies. Enemies are in a group together and there are big areas with nothing in it. For example you come to a group of a enemies, you kill them all, and move on the an empty area, then you come to a group of enemies. It is like this for the most of the game. There are parts where you are in a jeep or a helicopter and you need to shoot down enemies, this feels great to play but they are short and only happen twice. The graphs in the game look unfinished. Online looks awful compared to single player. I was thinking before I played this, that the game didn't do that well due to the time it was released; but after playing it, I think it should have not have been released at all.
Army of Two came out March 4, 2008. I got this game in July and it is dead online. Co-op and VS are dead. That is the problem with online co-op games after a two months or so it is hard to find anyone that want to do co-op. I enjoyed playing it and want to play it again on the hardest difficult some time before 40th day comes out. Control is good, but, if there is any lag, your aim is sliding all over the place. This game is not very good to play by yourself. The AI is dumb and you basically have to control him. You play as one of the two guys that is the best of the best. You are sent to locations to clean the out or to get info. during one mission, Elliot Salem, one of the two people you play as, is not sure who to trust anymore, so there's more than one front to the storyline. Cut scenes look good and makes the rest of the game look crappy. If you are thinking of picking this up, look for a friend to play it with before you do.
If you like to destroy sh!t, then you should ply Red faction: Guerrilla. Before I say anything else about this game, I have a question: Where are the Guerrillas? They are nowhere to be found in the game or the DLC. Red Faction: Guerrilla is set on the planet Mars 50 years after the events of the first Red Faction. In the game, you play as Alec Mason, a new coming to Mars, (that is a miner), you meet with your brother and go to do a job. After you are done with the job EDF, or Earth Defense Force finds you and your brother and kills your brother as you and him are trying to escape. You find out that your brother was part of the Red faction, you tag along with the red faction just to get revenge of the death of your brother. At first I did not know that the game was open world, this made me love it even more. With the help of the red faction you have to go from area to area and weaking the EDF in that area and take control of it. You do this by completing missions, like House Arrest, where you must rescue hostages from the EDF and return them to base. Guerrilla Raid where you must help the Red Faction clear an area of EDF soldiers and destroy a building. There is EDF Assault, given over the radio, you must help the Red Faction protect an area by killing all the EDF that attack. There are much more I could tell you about; but, if you like what you heard so far, you should pick this up. The game looks very much like saints row 2, but on Mars. The multiplayer is fun, but, has the same problem as saints row 2, which has with pubic matches. If you play alone, most likely, the other team is a group of friends playing together, and they will kick your ass. I would put this game in game of the year running it that good.
Another game that is in game of the year running for me is Batman: Arkham Asylum. This is the best batman game that I have ever played. Best Batman since Batman on the NES. The game looks great. Batman, the Joker, Bane. But not Harley Quinn. In the cartoon, she looks like she belongs next to the Joker in that red and white suit. She looks like she should be on a playing card; and playing cards are Joker's deal, so its a good contention. In the game, she looks like a Dominatrix nurse. They only did this for eye candy for the guys. Batman looks great and threw out the game costume rips and tares. Everyone from the cartoon lends their voice in the game. It is great and I love it. Kevin Conroy is the best voice for Batman. Also, Mark Hamill is the best voice for the Joker. The only thing I didn't like is the ending.
SPOILER: go to the next paragraph if you don't want to read it. At the end, you fight the Joker, except, he is not normal. He injected himself with a liquid that made him like Bain. So, the boss battle started and Joker starts chasing you. You run away from him until he stops and then the Joker jumps up to a high place and makes his goons attack you. I don't want to fight the goons. I want a one on one with Joker. So, you fight the goons off, Joker turns his back, you pull him down, punch him a few times and repeat three times and that's it. I spent some time thinking of a way to make the ending boss battle better and could not come out with anything. If you have a PS3 its a buy at $60. 360, wait until you can get it for $40 or lower.
Gamefly sent me Legendary. I didn't like the demo but Cloud8745 said the good was good so I put it on my Q. The game sucks. It is about Pandora's Box being opened and Werewolves, Fire Drakes, Griffins and Minotaurs are let loose all over the world. You play the guy who open the box and didn't know that would happen and now you are trying to stop all the mythical creatures. You are mostly fighting Werewolves, Griffins and Minotaurs are meanly bosses. There is no boss at the end of the game; you are just turning off switches. The ending is different then the other game, it is not a happily ever after. The look is okay nothing too amazing. It looks like the other bad games made with the unreal three engine.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled for the 360 is a remake of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time for the SNES. The SNES version is way better than this. This game was made by Ubisoft Entertainment. They also made TNMT and that game was also bad. The game is too easy. The different difficulties don't help. It just gives you less life. The 3D look messes with you and its hard to hit bosses and some enemies. The music is the worst, I don't like any of it. The voice work is okay; but, they repeat the same line over and over. Don't waste your 800 points on this game!
With Super Mario galaxy 2 coming out next year, I decided to finish up the first game. I have heard some say that Super Mario galaxy is the best Mario game ever. I will say it is the 2nd best. You just cant beat Super Mario 64. Everyone knows the story to Mario games: Princess Peach is kidnapped by Bowser and Mario needs to save her. This is one of the best looking Wii games I have ever played or seen. All the worlds are colorful and bright. The gravity in the game is confusing at first. A few times, I fell off thinking I could walk to the other side of the floor. The gravity and cameras made me a little woozy in some spots. I not have any problems with the camera for the whole game. I really enjoyed playing this and when I have some time, I will go for the 120 stars in the game. This is a must have if you have a Wii.
I beat Fear and Fear 2, but I can't remember both stories at all as of now. I will write more about this when I play through it again. I will just say that one is scarier than two. In one, if Alma touches you, you die. In two, Alma is grabbing you and you don't die from it. That just makes her less scary. I enjoyed playing one more than two. For multiplayer, you can find people in one, but rarely find a game in two. Buy Fear and if you really enjoy it, get Fear 2 for cheap.
Halo 3: ODST: a game that I feel didn't get that much hype. I didn't even want to get this game. I put this in my gamefly Q and they sent it the day it came out. The story is good; but I always get lost with the Halo game's story and I don't understand how this fixes in. In the game, you play as all the male members of ODST. Yes, there is a female member. Maybe you will play as her in DLC later? Your team get sent down to earth and during the drop, your team gets hit and scattered. Rookie (the new guy) wakes up 6 hours later and goes to look for the rest of the team. When you play as Rookie, you are in a open world; this part of the game is good. If you see a enemy, you can go in and kill or sneak and go around the enemy. You go around and look for items from the teammates that will bring you to a level where you play as them. During the search for these items, you could also look for audio logs of some black woman at a train station and an attack happens. I didn't find a lot of these in my play through and would like to find them. Making collectibles like this is a great idea. It makes you want to find them to find out what happens next. If you have not played any Halo games, pass if you have buy.
I beat Killzone and it is a good shooter for the PS2. I have not played that many on the PS2. The story is good with action and twist. The Helghast (the enemy in the game) are not told were they come from. Maybe I missed a cut scene, but I didn't hear anything about who they are and where they came from. All I know is you and your squad are trying to take them down. The cut scenes in the game are the best looking I have ever seen in a PS2 game and the rest of the game looks great too. My only complaint about the game is the ai partners and enemy tend to repeat the same thing over and over again. Also, your partners comment mostly every time you make a kill. It starts to get annoying after some time. Other than that, Killzone is a must have for shooter fans. There is a reason I finished this game. It's not because it was good.
On September 8th (my birthday), I got myself a gift. It was a PS3 slim. For the first time in my gaming history, I have all the current consoles. It feels so different to walk in to a Game stop or Best buy and go "Oh my can go see if they have this for the 360, wii, or PS3".I got two games with the system, Killzone 2 and inFAMOUS. I have not touched Killzone 2 yet, but, I have already finished two games for the system one great game and one no one should ever play.
inFAMOUS is one of the two games I picked up with the PS3. In the game, you play as a guy named Cole who is a delivery person. A package that you are delivering explodes and wipes out six city blocks. You awake after the blast and find out you have turned in to a human battery and now have electricity powers. Now, the best thing about the game is you get to choose to save the city from gangs and become a hero or have everyone fear you. I played as the hero. I would like to play this again and play as everyone fears you. The way the good guy or bad guy thing works is: there are parts in the game where you will have to choose to do the good thing or bad thing. The game does not tell you what is good or bad, you pretty much would know. The game runs smooth. It looks and sounds great. Im glad I picked this game up and I'm glad I got a PS3. This game came out the same time as Prototype. They look the same is what I can tell you right now. I would like to play that soon. If you have a PS3, you should get inFAMOUS, its a great game and I would say, as of now, the greatest PS3 game this year.
Now on to a game on one with a PS3 should ever play, touch, or even look at. Im talking about Haze. The game is very confusing, I was lost about what was going on the first 5 minutes of the game. You play as a guy who joins this group that's like an army, you and the group use this drug called Nectar. You then get talked into fight against the group and find out that Nectar is slowly killing the group. It took me 5 hours to beat the game and I'm lucky that there is co-op and there are people playing it. I almost fell asleep a few times during the game. Graphics look like a low budget 360 game that was made back in 2005. Just stay away from this game, please.
Played:
Im going to run through a few games that I played during the four months that ether doesn't have a story or I didn't finish for some reason. Wolfenstein 3D: I finished this. You play as a prisoner in a Nazi camp and are trying to escape. It's a good game, but, not as good as Duke nukem. Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes: its fun but 'Im not a fighting game person. It took some time to find the right fighter to use. Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad: its a dumb boring game that's only good for 30 mins. Fallout 3: played 23 hours of it, loved it and will be playing more in the next few weeks. Im getting the game of the year edition. If you have not played this yet, get the game of the year edition. Boom Blox: looks like a demo for a physics engine, you throw a ball at blocks and that fall down. Battlefield 1943: is a great shooter for a download game, after over 100 games, it did get boring. Worms: it is ok for 400 points, feel that the computer cheats some times. Rock band 2: I suck at drums and hope to get better.I have not sing yet but will do that soon. Little big planet: must have for all PS3 owners. I made a level for Giantbomb question of the week and got it in the video. It was the first time I sent in a video to them. I can't believe what people can do in that game and how they do it. I want to unlock more things and learn more about making levels.
Demos:
I played a lot of demos since the last post and I will run through them real quick: Lost planet: 2 looks great, feels the same as 1, wondering where did all the snow go. Shadow Complex I: will buy this later, feels like super metriod and castlevania. Trials HD: is like N+ on a bike, the level edit sounds cool and have seen some cool tracks, will buy this later as well. Splosion Man: also feels like N+ and want to get this later as well. I wish I could get those xbox arcade games now; but I have so many games I have not finished. Dirt 2: looks not as good compared to dirt. I was sliding everywhere, I didn't like it. Motor storm: Pacific Rift: is like dirt 2. 1 looks better and will rent that. Fuel made by the same people of dirt 2 code-masters, maybe the biggest open world in consoles but there is nothing in it but trees and a sign here and there and that makes it boring. Worms 2: feels like the first worms, buy the first worms. Monkey Island was good, but I don't see myself buying it. Not that funny and story sounds dumb. Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood: was ok, but I don't see myself buying this as well. Nice bullet time action in the game. Super star dust HD: is like Geometry Wars, I want to get Geometry Wars 2 now. Echochrome: is a great puzzle game, will buy it later. Wipeout HD: I downloaded the demo then had to download a patch that took a half hour to download, there is only one track. I got bored with it quickly. Forza 3: didn't like it that much, may get if it gets great reviews. Brutal Legend: I loved it and may get it this week or before the end of the year. Need for speed: shift like it better than Forza 3, felt I had more control with the car.
Well as you can see I had a busy summer and the fall looks to be busy as well with new games. As of now Left for dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2 are on my list to get but that list may grow with other games. I will now start writing about the games I have finish or played right after I did it, not just wait two week and then start writing. I now have someone helping me with spelling and grammar and hope she helps me become a better writer. My fingers are start to get tired and they are going to get a work out this week with Fallout 3 and the other two games I will pick up at Toys r us sale on Tuesday. As of now I dont know what I will get, Demon's soul for the PS3 looks good and it has been getting get rating but it is hard. I am off to rest my hand to clean my room. Later.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
E3 and flashback 5
The Nintendo press conference was a let down once again. OK they did show us four new Mario games but only one I liked was Galaxy 2. They opened up with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, to long of a name. It is a multiplayer Mario game where up to 4 people and run through 2D level. There are only 3 characters Mario, Luigi and Toad which can be different colors. They showed loads of cramp which I dont care about and talked about the numbers. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was announced, looks like the first game. They said that they had so much more they want to put in the 1st galaxy game that this was going to be 1.5 but they came up with more ideas and made it too, which mean we wanted people who bought one to also buy this so we named it two because not everyone would buy 1.5. They showed off more stuff like Dead Space: Extraction which I think will fail like the Dead raising game on the Wii. The last game was shown was Metroid: Other M made by Team ninja. Im hoping the camera in the game doesn't suck. I also wonder what will Samus look like if you 100% complete the game. The women in Team ninja have big boobies and will they make Samus rack bigger.
Sony press conference was great, they opened up with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game looks great, the city looked amazing. I have not seen any multiplayer yet and hope to see some. After that MAG: Massive Action Game was shown, I wonder if you need a great internet hook up and lag. 256 people playing simultaneously wonder what it works. And then Gran Turismo! for the PSP, Dam it. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker aka The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. After that cramp, cramp, cramp, cramp, FFXII and cramp. God of War III has shown and this will be the reason I get a PS3. It still looks the same, it was running on 720 hd. Heavy Rain also looks great, I only saw video of a person walking around. Assassin's Creed II was shown again for everyone that fell asleep at Ubisoft press conference. Final Fantasy XIV Online was announced and I feel people are already hate the game because its online due to FFXI. Mod Nation Racers was also announced, its little big planet as a racing game. You get to make your own tracks, you get to control everything. The last game shown was Gran Turismo 5 FINALLY! Where the hell is this game? This game will be a system seller for Sony. Im betting next E3 comes GT5 will still not be out.
Since my last update I play very little, I mostly been playing stuff for achievement point. I played and finished Wario Land: Shake It! It is a rental, beat it in 6 hours. I would have beat it in 5 but had to backtrack for more money to buy a map to unlock the next world. To much of the game is too easy, a few of the boss battles and very few level and hard. The story makes no sense , someone stole a globe and gave it to Wario. The globe it self has a world were a princess it kidnapped and a sack that has endless coins in it is stolen. Some people from that world go to Wario world and ask him to save the princess and he could get the sack that has endless coins. That game was from gamefly, a other game they sent me is The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Only play it if your a achievement whore. I am not a Lord of the Rings fan. The AI is cheap at times, if your down they will beat the cramp out of you and getting up when your down take to long. Some attaches are badly delayed. The game is mostly go here, take over this point, hold it and move on. I have start playing ghostbusters but will leave that for next time. I was very busy last week and every free time I had I was writing this blog. Next time Im hoping to finish a few games, this summer I will try and finish as much games as I can. Well Im off to go finish ghostbusters and then play Metal gear solid one through three.