Hello! I am Aaron. I am seventeen years-old and currently a junior in high school. I reside in a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. Never considered myself a fanboy. But I would would align myself with Microsoft, just because the Xbox 360 is the main console I use at the moment. I like a lot of other things besides games, such as movies, music, and the occasional sunshine. But the games are what count!
I read over at Xbox 360Fanboy that the Star Wars the Force Unleashed demo will hit PSN and Xbox Live Thursday, August 21. That is great because I have been waiting for this
I'm ready to unleash the force
demo ever since the game was announced and since Xplay did a show the other day talking about it, but no date for the demo was announced. I can't wait to test the demo out, I heard all force power will be made available for the demo as well. If that is true this should be one hell of a demo.
I also start school this week. I will be starting my junior year at my high school. It should be a great year, I have a friend returning, who left over 6 years ago and well I dunno. But I feel excited for some reason. My schedule for the first semester isn't bad either. It looks like this:
AP US Government and Politics
French 301
Chemistry II
Algebra II/Trig
Classic Literature
Church History
Christian Doctrine
Not to bad. Two religion classes in a row. Fun. Oh, I go to a Catholic High School by the way. ;)
For those that guess it, yes, I am doing a video blog for your enjoyment on GiantBomb. I made that teaser trailer yesterday, I also made a new one today that I think I will use as my intro for the blog. Let me know if you like the other or the new one in this blog post. I will start making this videos soon and I will try to make it a weekly thing, but no guarantees. Instead of doing what I want to do, I want to know what you guys would like to see out of a video blog, either that be questions or well, think of something gaming, movie related. I should say as well I made these clips if you saw the ad at the end at Animoto.com it allows you to make free 30 second clips with music and photos. It is neat and I have been using it for awhile for family photos and what not.
I have some interesting ideas for this vblog and hope to make it a success and fun with your help. :)
Fable is a game where you control your character personality, looks, and whether or not he will be good or evil.
The game begins when you are a young child, and you are set on the duty to get your little sister a gift for her birthday. This is where the game first introduces you into the system of choosing whether or not you will be good or evil. You can earn the money helping others and being the good lad or you can be the village bully by beating kids up and helping others not so nice. Once you have completed your task they story deepens and you discover basically the main story of Fable.
As you progress through the game you character ages, turning into a young child to an older man. This is first seen at the Hero’s Guild, when you skip into your teenage years and learn to master your techniques. You learn to use your sword, bow and will power. Controlling the powers is easy and not hard to learn. Its best you learn to master these skills for you will need them when you battle the diverse creatures you do in Fable. The enemies you battle are smart and seem to learn your moves. It’s best you learn theirs as well. The task and missions you do in Fable are based on you being good or evil. Sometimes depending on your status in changes the outcome of the mission and how it plays out. There are also side missions in Fable where you help the common villager and what not. You can even marry and shin your wife with gifts. Taking this is the Middle Ages you can have more then one wife in each town or village.
The sound in Fable is well done. The music changes throughout the towns and the Hero’s Guild and they voiceovers are nicely done also. The graphics are not to amazing but they do the job. Fable's graphics do not focus on being realistic but more cartoony. This is not a problem, but actually helps the game feel more like a fantasy and not something in the real world. Controlling your character in the game is to hard either. Anyone familiar with The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time should have no problem playing the game. Fable plays pretty much the same way. Except you have magic you can use against your foes.
Value, high. This game is not to long so you can go through this game a couple times. Each time through are sure to see something new, whether or not you chose to be good or evil this time round. Every time you play this game you are bound to look different and go down a different path in completing the game. This element makes the game fun and a new experience each time.
Lets not forget this game is an RPG. So if you are not an RPG fan you will have problems with this game. But to those you enjoy a good, but not overly complicated RPG this is a game you should be able to enjoy.
The Legend of Zelda has stood the test of time, and continues to be on the greatest games ever to come to a gaming console. The Legend of Zelda is a perfect game and that is with no doubt. The Legend of Zelda started off on the NES and was a huge immersing world even without the 3-D realm. But now Nintendo has expanded the game and the legend into a game that cannot be surpassed by anyone else. The game begins with a boy dreaming in a small room. He then is awoken by a small fairy name Navi. The young boy is no other then Link, and he is about to embark on a journey that will lead him across the lands of Hyrule and across time itself. His ultimate goal is to help Zelda defeat the man of Evil, Ganondorf.
The Legend of Zelda is an immerse world that will have you doing many things. The game requires you to think and judge yourself on what you do. The game offers many side quest and things to do to increase your hearts or rupee bag. Any way you look at Ocarina of Time offers so much to do, and it even has the massive story line that you need to complete in order to save Hyrule.
The game was released in 1998. For being at that time this game is one of the first 3-D games that controlled well and has nothing wrong with it. The game has several controls to control you weapons, zoom, and to move around. All are done perfectly. The control scheme in this game has no faults and would be hard to find any. You could not get away with out telling about the story of this game. The story is deep and compelling. The Legend of Zelda has the best story ever written for a game or anything ever written. There are numbers of monsters and beast to fight in Hyrule each with its own attacks and power. Link himself can get new weapons and upgrade several of them by getting stronger weapons of the type. The Ocarina of Time has the Water Temple in it also, known to be the hardest dungeon to man. If you get stuck there, go out and explore the lands and upgrade your life or start a new temple. The weapons in this game are weapons seen in Zelda games in the past, but are used in news ways compared to the original Zelda games. Adult Link has his weapons and Young Link has his, while you his as a child. If you didn’t get the title of the game time plays an important role in the game. In the temple of time is the chamber where the Master Sword is kept. The Master Sword acts a key to time. If you remove the sword you will be sent seven years into the future, and if you put the sword back you will be sent back seven years in the past as Young Link. Several times you will have to travel between times to affect things that blocking your way as an adult. So you will be required to travel seven years back to change what is in the future.
Wow, the graphics. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has beautiful graphics. This game continues to be the focus of what Zelda fans want Link to look like. The game has several effects that can be seen from parts of the game, like Death Mountains smoke effect. The clouds in the sky move, the sun makes reflections and moves as the day passes along. The music is amazing, every beat is not off a tune and has the mysterious beat to it. Every sound to Link’s yells, rain, monsters, and your ocarina are perfect.
Basically, if you appreciate the Zelda series, you will fall in love with this game. Ocarina of Time is the best game ever to be released and will always be remembered as the legend that took the series to a new level and really brought the gaming world into 3D gaming and should that it could be done.
Bully arrived almost two years ago on Sony's PlayStation 2. At that
moment we saw Rockstar could make a game that didn't have guns, car
driving, or blood. Bully follows the story of Jimmy Hawkins, a teenage
boy, left behind at Bullworth Academy as his mother and new step-father
drive away for the Honeymoon, which will be a year long. You are now
left alone at Bullworth, to make your own path, by fitting into new
groups such as the nerds or greasers, go to class, or even get a
girlfriend (kissing scenes included.
First off, the game's graphics have been toned up for the Xbox 360
version of Bully: Scholarship Edition. Character's faces appear to have
more detail this time around. Even the school and surrounding community
has been toned up for Jimmy's Scholarship edition. Note though that the
graphics are not something truly amazing. This is not running of what
GTA IV is going to run on or even anything impressive we have seen on
the Xbox 360.
The story remains the same, but with some new mini games and a
Christmas story that was added into this version of Bully. If you
played the game before you are going to remember the story, so it could
be boring if you play through again. Even so, the story is a good story
that give you a chance to experiment with the different groups and pull
pranks on all the other students at Bullworth. You have the chance to
attend classes at school, such as Gym, Chemistry, Music, Art, Biology,
etc. These classes are simple mini-games that you either pass or fail.
Passing classes help you unlock new items and such. Classes are only
optional, except when you are caught by a prefect during class hours,
which you are then forced to attend class.
For being a game about a school you are allowed to leave the school and
walk, ride a bike, or skate board around the surrounding community.
Bully is a sand box game which give you more freedom. In the community
around Bullworth you can get a haircut to customize Jimmy or buy items
for your use. In school and around the community you may get side
missions by students to escort them somewhere or put something in a
locker for them. All these things could possibly get you into trouble
with the authorities if caught,.
In Bully: Scholarship Edition one of the games new features is the
ability to play with a friend. But not how you would want to play it.
You can only play games with the friend, which is fun, but not
something that would be fun for a long time. It would have been more
interesting to see Rockstar allow co-op play for Bully this time around.
In closing, if you were disappointed to see Bully canceled for the Xbox
and never got a PS2 to play it now is your chance, with some new
content included. If you did play the PS2 version, buying it again
probably isn't worth because the new content is not that great. Also,
if you don't like bugs Bully: Scholarship Edition is full of them on
the Xbox 360. These bugs can cause your game to freeze and even crash.
These bugs can cause you to save a lot and when it happens to become
frustrated when it does.
I do recommend Bully: Scholarship Edition, but a buyer beware.
Note: At the time I reviewed the bugs in the 360 version still had not been fixed.
Rock Band is developed by Harmonix the guys behind Guitar Hero. This
year the guys took it one step forward and introduced not only the
guitar, but also drums and singing into the mix. This leads to one of
the best family and friends experiences I have ever had playing a video
game.
Rock Band's set up is very nice. It is set-up well and plays out well.
First lets talk about the instruments themselves. The guitar control,
which can also be a bass, is very much the same as the Guitar Hero
controller. It has five buttons that are all color coordinated with the
button you are supposed to press. The drums work the very much the same
way, but you have to hit the drum set according to color as well, and
use the foot-petal too. Singing is very much like a karaoke game. The
words scroll across and you have to match the pitch. Playing all these
together you can become a great band.
Rock Band features two playing modes: a solo tour and Band World Tour.
Solo tour is essentially Guitar Hero. You can play this mode with any
of the instruments. Solo tour is nice, but you really want to play Rock
Band with someone else. Band World Tour is what Rock Band is all about.
You and up three other friends can create a band and start touring the
world. You each can create a custom character and even name your band.
You start out as a little band playing in your home city, which you
select. As you play more and more you unlock new cities. Eventually you
will be prompted to play in a concert to unlock new traveling means
such as a van or bus. This allows to play in even more cities and more
places. World Tour does have it's problems. You can not play World Tour
online with anyone. A major setback. You also have to move up in
difficulty as you progress through World Tour. (Note: As I went through
Band World Tour this was still a problem, but I believe a new patch
fixed this.)
Rock Band does feature a "battle mode" called Tug-of-War, where you can
face off against someone playing the same instrument. When doing this
you each play a part of song and push each meter down. Once the song is
over and the person who has the other person pushed all the way down is
the winner. It is an interesting battle thing, but more would be nice.
You can't help but to talk about the track list in Rock Band. Rock Band
features a lot of great songs already included with the game. The does
feature a in game music store that allows you to buy more songs to play
in Rock Band. Many great songs are available for download at reasonable
prices.
Fans of Guitar Hero will find themselves at home with this one. But
Rock Band does have limitations. As I mentioned no online World Tour is
possible at the moment of this review. Rock Band's imitation
instruments do have their limitations. The drums do not always respond
and the foot petal is frail, so people with lead feet be warned.
These are only minor problems, all of which can be fixed. I recommend this to all.
GTA IV is probably one of the greatest games this decade.
Rockstar brought back Liberty City for Grand Theft Auto IV. This time
Liberty City has been changed and made more realistic and more fun for
the player. Rockstar has also fixed all of the problems in past GTA IV
games, from irritating glitches and the weapon system to make a more
rounded game.
This time round we follow Niko Bellic. He has come to the United States
to start a new life, a better one that he had in the "old country". He
comes on behalf of his cousin Roman, who tells him stories of his
success. Niko finds most of this untrue, but still will try to make a
living.
The game begins and plays like any GTA game. You are first driving
people around and doing little tasks for people. This task all feel
familiar but also new because many of the mechanics of previous games
have been re-worked for this game to more enjoyable to play. This first
thing you will notice that Niko walks like he would, not just a normal
walk. The driving in the game is also different and will take some use
to get used too.
Things are also missing or have been taking out of this game that we
present most notably in the last GTA game, San Andreas. Plans are not
flyable in this game, helicopters are though. A stats system is gone
too. You don't need to worry about eating, only to restore health.
Don't worry about hitting the gym either for there isn't one and that
has also been removed. Dual wielding is also gone.
Mission wise, many that you do feel like GTA missions. Some feel new
where you will kidnap someone and they will try to wreck the car, and
feel more real. In the game there are also the side mission for the
police, fire truck, and drug runs. These have been revamped and, in my
opinion, present much better. For example the police mission are from
the police computer and you can choose which one you want to do and so
fourth. Much better than the jump-in and do it style presented in the
previous games.
Multi-player is available for you as well. You can jump into a game
write from your cell phone in the game. You can play with other people
or people from you friends list. No matter how you play it can be
really fun. Rockstar did a good job with multi-player.
One of the best part of any GTA game is the free play you can do inside
the game. As in the past it is still fun as ever. Getting in trouble
with the cops and causing the most destruction you can in Liberty City
is great. The affects of explosions and the colors and weather affects
are amazing and if you are not careful can distract you.
The strongest aspect of the game is the story. Rockstar has developed
character that you care about and that show emotion and that you
connect too. In this game, unlike previous ones, you have at some
points in the game to affect the story by making a choice. This really
intensifies the game because what you do has repercussions on the
people around you. Some of these choices are hard to make, some you
even have to think about. GTA IV is one of the few games that I felt
the story was very compelling and actually playing to complete that
story and see what would happen next.
Rockstar was really able to hit home with Grand Theft Auto IV. Fans of
the series will see this as Rockstar's greatest achievement in the
franchise. People who like to see a good story develop will also see
this as a great game, even thought it can be violent. I recomend this
game 100% to anyone looking for a good time with a great game.
Rezzolution
is really looking forward to Thursday. Force Unleashed Demo, Quest for Booty, and i'm moving into my dorm. Big day, baby. 3 days, 16 hours ago
snake6phw
hates how people got so many points from submitting fucking screenshots and didnt really submit anything useful AT ALL 3 days ago
Homes
beat MGS4 for the 2nd time...credits are long. 13 hours, 29 minutes ago
Last time I looked at my points (last night) they were at 800. I come on today to see them over a 1000! Very happy that I can get edits live now rather than wait for moderation. :P
Yeah, I listened to the Bombcast earlier (I don't usually listen as soon as they go up). It was quite a surprise to see my username mentioned. Apparently there is a T but nobody has registered that yet. I think he must have recognised me since I did leave a message on his wall.
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