Published by Jimmy February 23rd, 2010
in Gaming.
If I were to actually recommend one of the these games to play it would be Alien Vs Predator. Not saying BioShock 2 is bad, but if you want a game with variety, AvP has it. I still think any self respecting gamer should play both. I would just recommend you play AvP first. But hey what do I know. Everybody else seems to think BioShock 2 is the greatest thing ever, like Mass Effect 2. I will say ME2 is better than BioShock 2 in my book. Just look at all the comments the ME2 reviews get on my site. Anywho, on with the rantings.
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Published by Jimmy February 20th, 2010
in Gaming.
I find it extremely amusing how this spring’s gaming season is jammed packed with new releases. It is really going to make the summer drought that more prevalent. Luckily I have nearly perfected my GameFly account. Despite being one mailing day away from them one has to give them plenty of time to get a game you send back to them and anticipate them bumping a game’s release date on their site. Of course having all the free time in the world helps too. Anywho, here are some of the games I played recently.
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Published by Jimmy February 17th, 2010
in Gaming.
Keeping up with Darin week, here is his Mass Effect Review.
Written by: Darin
Just finished my first play through Mass Effect 2 and wanted to get my thoughts down as they were fresh. But to really review Mass Effect 2 I find I have to go back to the beginning so Mass Effect 1 it is.
I’ll start with this quote from my friend Kelly. “I Like that the game urges me into a character viewpoint instead of just ‘Oh, let me think what’ll get me the loot here at the end.’” In Mass Effect, you can always be assured of one thing. Sheppard is going to kick some ass. How you get there is what the game is about. Are you good, are you self-preserving, do you really care about the people you are saving or is it just a job that gives you power? I won’t go for a full Mass Effect 1 review here but I do want to label out what I liked and disliked from the first game so I can use it to compare my thoughts to the second game. (I will add that I have recently played through Mass Effect 1 again so that all of this would also be fresh in my mind for my Mass Effect 2 play through.)
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Published by Jimmy February 14th, 2010
in Gaming.
I recently got an email from an old co-worker. He listed his thoughts about the upcoming year in gaming. I thought it was nice rundown, so I decided to post it. With his permission of course. It’s worth the read just to get idea on what’s on the horizon.
Written by: Darin
So wow, what to look out for in 2010. Well let’s see, first off there are already some great games out there. Mass Effect 2 being one of them. So far it is easily the best release of 2010. Coming right on its heels, tomorrow, in fact, is Bioshock 2. When the first Mass Effect came out I thought it was hands down game of the year. Then I played Bioshock 1 and knew that Mass Effect 1 was in trouble. If you haven’t played either of the first games, go get yourself a copy. Both games have held up for the last two years, have platinum editions with extras and are two of the best games you will ever get to play.
What are you waiting for, don’t keep reading this email, you don’t have time, go get those games.
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Published by Jimmy February 8th, 2010
in Misc.
Seriously, books. Anybody that knows me knows that I am not a big reader. Reaching back I can really only recall a couple of books that I enjoyed reading. Choose your own adventure books interested me in my early years. When you think about it they served as a kind of interactive media akin to gaming. Now for actual novels, I remember starting with the Island of the Blue Dolphins and its sequel Zia. Then I remember enjoying books like Brave New World, 1984, and The Giver, which I base most of my future reasoning on. In high school I was fascinated with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and find it to be a series I reread every couple of years. In recent memory I read the first couple of Halo novels and the first Mass Effect book. Now for some reason in 2009 I was compelled to read a lot and I don’t really know why. Perhaps the lack of decent video game narratives pushed me into this old pastime. Either way I will admit that reading a book does seem to go against my personality. However, when you consider that a game’s story greatly determines how much I enjoy it, it starts to sort of makes sense. So without further ado I present my summaries of the books I read in 2009. Yes, after all these years I am willingly doing a book report.
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