Army of Two

Hey Guys and Gals!
 
I had some extra cash and gift cards kicking around from my birthday so I went out and made some side purchases at Future Shop.
 
- Dragon Age: Origins Collector's Edition  (XBOX 360)
- Army of Two  (XBOX 360)
 
- Transformers (Blu-Ray)
- Transformers Revenge of the Fallen (Blu-Ray)
- American Psycho (Blu-Ray)
 
Don't have any time for achievement updates, but there has been a few! Will post back soon!
 
Happy Gaming :)
 
Ice

First!

Today I went out with a girl to see Terminator Salvation (She was excited to see it and really like it too, which was awesome) and eat some Pho (Vietnamese soup dish, which is also awesome). She's pretty awesome too. She goes to UMass Boston and is learning Sciences so she could be one of those docs who discovers the cure for the Cancer or the common cold, which is really awesome. Smart, cute, fun, and is totally willing to watch action movies she knows nothing about. That's Fucking Awesome!

Working in public schools I've seen and heard about my fair share of idiotic school rules. I've seen students expelled for turning in a boyscout knife they accidentally left in their jacket pocket, large swaths of the color wheel and the entire alphabet banned from student clothing, and the elimination of all forms of competition and celebration in the classroom, but this rule just issued by the administration at East Shore Middle School in Connecticut takes the cake. After a series of rampant groin kickings at their school the principal decided that the obvious solution was to BAN ALL FORMS OF PHYSICAL CONTACT. That includes shaking hands, high fives, pats on the back, hugging, kissing, virtually all forms of horse play, and, of coarse, the fist bump! Now I could lists a whole host of reasons why this rule is not only ludicrous on its face but also virtually unenforceable, but I think this rule speaks for itself. Congratulations East Shore administraition, your school finally made the news! You really showed the world just how well you can handle regular school discipline problems. Hope you're proud of yourselves!

As some of you might have seen I have been playing some new games. To be exact three new games. Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box, Army of Two, and one of my favorites so far Deadspace. I have bought all these in Japan and haven't ordered them so I was sort of scared that some of them might be in Japanese. Luckily Burnout, and Deadspace have full english support and Army of Two has Japanese menus and subtitles but english voice work which is what matters most.

I bought a new copy of Burnout Paradise for about 25 bucks which I'm really happy about since well, its an awesome game and it was new IN english and cheap. I'm really happy with this buy and have played around 12 or 13 hours in about a week and a half. Online I thought I would never play but I have actually had a lota

 fun, the photo thing when getting taken down is pretty cool and has snapped a few photos of me when I wasn't paying attention. Online isn't laggy at all which I'm pretty surprised about and happy, I have only lagged twice but only for a few seconds while the challenges loaded up. I have bought all the DLC cars and really enjoy the variety. The ones I have had the most fun with is the Toy Car set. Its really unique and funny made me laugh while taking down huge cars with this miniature toy car. Its a lot of fun and recommend this game for anyone.

Army of Two, I haven't really had much time on this game since I have had online problems. I also realized that I can only play online with people who have the Asia copy of the game which sucks since I was planning to play with a few friends in the states. So far its been enjoyable since I'm not looking at it at a technical point of view. Its just fun to run around shooting people with a pimped out gun. I will be getting back to this later on hopefully with some friends.

Deadspace I am really happy to find, it is a game that hasn't actually been released in Japan although I did buy it here. So I'm guessing that there is a foreigner somewhere who sells his games to the store I go to, I also realized that the copy of this game was ordered from Play-Asia. Who cares though? I have Deadspace, haha I have been waiting to play this game forever. Its a lot of fun and has a few point where I will jump and scream. The scares so far have been alright but a bit predictable a few times I have really got freaked out but its a really good game. Its a lot of fun calling up your girlfriend while playing, I was talking to her and then I would randomly scream. Pretty funny and fun. The game is actually really good, probably the best game I have played for a while. I was actually really amazed at that first in-game cut scene. The cut scene looks amazing, its when your in the space ship gliding towards the Drilling station and the suns blaring into your vision. It looked amazing. A lot of fun and I'm about 3 hours into that now.

So update, my brother has been lazy and hasn't sent the capture card yet and my dad is being lazy and hasn't sent my brother any money. So I won't be getting that for a while. Um I will see if I can get that as soon as possible since I'm dying to record some footage. 

I have been thinking of buying RESIDENT EVIL 5, and I just found out that the Japanese version of the game has full english support so I might just buy that next week. Can't wait to play that game and I will probably play it co-op or something. I also have to finish a lot of games. I have a huge pile of games that I need to get through. Heres the start of the list...

 - Deadspace

 - Viva Pinata

 - Forza Motorsports 2

 - Burnout Paradise

 - Army of Two

 - Far Cry 2 

 - Mass Effect

 - God of War

 - God of War II

 - Black

I think that is all I have left to finish but I'm still not sure. I still really want to get my hands on Persona 4, and a few other PS2 games. So I'm considering buying a US PS2 so I can play a lot of the PS2 games I missed out on. I also really wanna get a good JRPG and I'm looking at Star Ocean, and Eternal Sonata at the moment. If you have any suggestions for some good JRPG games feel free to tell me. 

My friend has just bought a nice PC for gaming and I was actually considering saving up for a PC for gaming. I was looking at Dawn of War II and some other PC games and really would like to play some PC games as well. Oh and I found out that the achievements contribute to your Xbox 360 achievements which is really cool so it would help with my goal to beat my friend. Im at 15,560 Or something like that. My goal is to get up to 20,000 soon. Alright well thats about it, thanks for reading.

To celebrate the birth of 2009, I will make a simple bulletpoint list of games that I beat in 2008. There is no real order here but still.

• Army of Two
• Mercenaries 2
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2
• Fallout 3
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Castle Crashers
• Doom
• Wall-E
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
• Crackdown
• Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe
• Call of Duty 3
• Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway
• Soldier of Fortune Payback
• Gears of War
• BioShock
• Quantum of Solace
• Battlefield: Bad Company
• Smash TV (I guess)

Not the biggest list in the world but still, it made me realise that I still have loads of games to finish. Never got around to the first Saints Row again for example. Condemned 2 and Far Cry 2 get honorable mentions for being games that I got far in and the save corrupted. It will still take a few more months to go back to Far Cry 2, all that driving to do again!

But still have a Happy New Year and stay safe.

The question is somewhat misleading, does it mean the worst game that I played from 2008 or just worst game I played in 2008 overall. Hmm, I have to say 2008 has been a kind year towards my hunger to play and enjoy videogames. There were definitely some disappointing games they do appear every year unfortunately, but none of those games such as Army of Two or Call of Duty: World at War were too shitty, just a general disappointment.

But a game that I did play in 2008 that was actually released at the tailend of 2007 was the monstrosity of a game that was Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Thankfully, I actually didn't buy this or even rent it, my friend had the game and he knew that I was a fan of the first two games on the PC and that I should try the game out. The first Soldier of Fortune for the PC is an underrated classic in my view, it was fun, exciting and stayed fresh enough throughout. The second game went into a new direction simply because the first game was largely criticised for being unrealistic both in gameplay and story terms. All I have to say is fuck the critics! While many of you know Counter-Strike is one of my favourite games of all time but I didn't think that game needed to go towards realism, it was awesome as it was. Don't get me wrong though SOFII was a damn fine sequel and many prefer it over the original but beware, the Xbox version is a piece of shit. I didn't really go into SOF Payback with much anticipation since there was much uproar over fans that Raven Software wasn't making the game and it was announced that it was being released by Activision Value which are infamous for releasing piss-poor PC games for a cheap price. However, the game did end up being released on normal Activision but still, it felt like a budget game through and through. The game was actually released by Cauldron who made a shooter called Chaser for the PC, never played it personally but it garnered a fanbase so these guys must be decent game developers right?

Not really. The game itself actually sounds pretty pleasing to people like me who prefered the first Soldier of Fortune game but liked that the game at least had realistic guns to shoot. Payback throws a bucketload of enemies at you and you just have a gun to kill them. This would actually be decent if the controls were decent but they were some of the worst aiming controls I have ever used and that is saying something. I am playing the 360 version but I even heard the PC version aims poorly. The aiming was slow and stiffer than a badger's arse and the lock-on made it stick to enemies and it was just a pain. I tried messing around with the different options but it did fuck all, it was awful. The standard button layout was decent and it was a bit of a shame the game came out about a month after Call of Duty 4, where the controls, graphics and just overall gameplay shit all over this. When the game has down on the D-Pad to crouch, then you know there is a problem. The Soldier of Fortune games were well talked about because of the gore and Payback tries to do the series justice but it failed because the gore just looked shit and cartoonish. No one would ever look at this gore and consider it to be shocking because it looked too fake and rubbish. Believe it or not, I actually beat the game on the hardest difficulty but not only that but I beat the last too bosses in the game by just stabbing them over and over with the knife. Yes, after you stab them, they stumble and that gives you another chance to stab them again and again until they fall over dead. Pro tip there but I didn't even look that up, I tried it myself because the game became very difficult on the last level because you literally walked around a corner and died. What a load of shit, they clearly didn't playtest the hardest difficulty, arseholes!

So yeah Soldier of Fortune Payback was the worst game I played in 2008. Rubbish.

Best monkey smoking a cigarette -  Metal gear solid 4

Most annoying advice giver that gives the same useless advice right up until the final mission - Fiona Mercs 2

Best strings and trumpets and other big noisy instruments to make awesome soundzzzz - Tomb Raider: Underworld

Best use of a pikachu being pikachu and doing generally pikachuish things -  pikachu... Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Most amazing stomping on a body and watching someones head pop off -  Dead Space

Game what is as pretty as a nice pretty french girl in a nice pretty dress looking all pretty - Gears of war 2

Best radiostation to feature bands wot isnt T.A.T.u but sounds like them - Vladivostok FM GTAIV

Favourite uses of the word "Fucko" - Clyde , Army of two

Best Hitler who isn't Hitlers face getting exploded and all that -  Bionic Commando ReArmed

Best Lizard wot gotz stuck vertically in the scenery and then glitched about a bit -  Tomb Raider: Underworld

Best use of the words "FIVE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!" that come from bender in futuramas mouth- Marcus fenix, Gears of war 2

Game what has the best use of Mr. Bones and lions what is liek aslan from narnia -  Beautiful Katamari

Best Game I boight for my 360 that won't run on my console so I had to give it away to a friend  - Bully: scholarship edition