As the title suggests, this is a blog about video games. A bunch of them. I bought a PS3 near the end of October and since then I've bought a whole ton of games for it - probably too many. Just to demonstrate how many "too many" actually is, here's a photo of them plonked on my desk (a few new PC and DS games as well).
I really like to finish a game, so I can put it on my shelf and forget about it, but that's rarely the case. See, I don't feel the need to complete a game before moving on to another but now and again I like to go back and tie up all the loose ends on games I've half-played. For example, I just finished Uncharted 2 two days ago (having got it with the PS3 in October), and I've gone back to playing Phantom Hourglass on the DS so I can finish it up before starting Spirit Tracks. I reckon I'll crack on to Devil Survivor first, of the two new DS games, though I have no idea how long each of those games are. I'll take a guess, being a Shin Megami Tensei game, it's probably going to require quite a bit of time.
I still have to go back and finish up Chrono Trigger, Chinatown Wars and Henry Hatsworth on the DS. Well, maybe not HH, because, fuck that game. Maybe I'm getting old, but that game gets mad hard for me in the latter half. Also need to play FFXII: Revenant Wings - bought that months ago on sale and only played it for about five minutes.
Same kinda goes for Killzone 2. I'm a little over halfway through and getting really pissed off with the controls and AI. I'm not that great with a controller in FPS games, and the slow movement in KZ2 is really bugging the bejesus out of me when I'm trying to aim at dudes who, at a distance, seem smart enough to evade my reticule. I have to say though that I did really enjoy the earlier, more enclosed missions, getting up in the enemy's faces and mowing them down the SMG. So yeah, I like the game enough to want to finish it and get it out of the way, I just hate feeling like I'm trudging through it for the sake of it.
I also played a fair amount of Demon's Souls and really like it. It's lived up to the hype a lot of people have given that game, but man, the tone of that game is so damn depressing that I just had to take a break from it! Stopped playing it a few weeks ago, but can't wait to get back into it in the new year.
I actually only got the majority of those games this morning in the mail, so most of them I've yet to play. I tried a little bit of MX vs ATV Reflex and it seems pretty cool so far, but has one of the weirdest narrator/announcer voice over guys I've ever heard in a game - just the way he emphasizes random words and sounds like he's reading the script for the first time and isn't quite sure where the full stops and commas are going to appear. I also downloaded the GoW 3 Demo using a voucher that came with the collection and absolutely loved it. For that reason I'll probably try burn through GoW 1 & 2 first, before any of the other games. Loved the Valkyria Chronicles demo, so I'm looking forward to playing that. As for Eternal Sonata, to be honest it was a bit of an impulse buy, but it looks interesting - if anyone can offer up any insight into the game, I'd appreciate hearing it!
As for the PC games above, I sank about 30 hours into Borderlands and then suddently got incredibly bored of it. I'll probably never finish my first playthrough, though I think I was actually on the final stretch when I stopped playing. Played over 100 hours of Dragon Age, completing nearly every side quest I could and I'm now about half way through the "Final Onslaught" before fighting the archdemon which I'll get round to doing before Christmas I hope! As for MW2, there are a lot of things I despise about that game, yet I keep playing it (I'm at level 58 or 59 I think). It's not really my kind of multiplayer FPS, CoD4 did a better job meeting my needs. The problems I have with it are the more camper-friendly and poorly designed maps (Underpass, Estate and Wasteland spring to mind), and the often-dreadful PC matchmaking system.
So there you have it, please accept my apologies for the somewhat dull wall of text :P If you have any opinions or experiences you'd like to share on the game's I've bought, please post them!
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