Uninteresting $#!% #5
By jakob187 16 Comments
- Mass Effect 2
- Dark Void
- Bayonetta
- Fuel
- My repurchasing of Dragon Age: Origins
Howdy folks. My willingness to blog has been kind of dead lately, but today I realized that a LOT of shit has gone down in the past week or so!!! Leaving that all just hanging would be rather asinine, wouldn't it? A week ago, I happened to hit up Game Crazy over in Hewitt, who were having their "going out of business liquidation sale". Basically, everything in the store was 50-60% off. Usually, those sales have a ton of bad games for dirt cheap, and there were some of those. For the most part, though, the Hewitt store rarely had customers...so they had a ton of games in stock for dirt cheap. Sadly, I missed the first day of the sale, so a lot of those games were already sold. However, I happened to walk in with $60 and walk out with Bayonetta ($30), Dark Void ($12), Fuel ($10), and a Mass Effect 2 strategy guide ($8). Not a bad deal at all...except for Fuel.
This past Friday, I cancelled my Xbox 360 Slim pre-order the other day, namely because I was sick of how Gamestop never seemed to have the fuckers in stock but Best Buy and Wal-Mart have not sold out once on them. Waiting three weeks due to the supposed "Microsoft is delaying shipments" excuse just wasn't cutting it anymore. As I was in the store cancelling that pre-order, however...the Xbox 360 Slim I had pre-ordered was rolled in on a cart by UPS. I didn't buy it. It's the fucking principle of it, ya know? Therefore, I'll wait until the hardware has had some time to evolve just a little more and get a little cheaper.
And now, GAMES!!!
I Finally Played Mass Effect 2
...Nothing Has Impressed Me More In 2010 Than Bayonetta!
I had played Bayonetta shortly after its initial release, and I was flabbergasted with the game. The combat was precise and smooth, the general feel of the game was tight, the frame rate was solid as fuck, and the general "this game is overly Japanese and we know it" vibe gave it an immense amount of charm. Having recently purchased it, I decided to jump in on the Hard difficulty for some achievement whoring. I found myself focusing less on achievement whoring and more on how goddamn awesome that game is! When my Game of the Year blog comes around later this year, I seriously doubt anything will take the top spot from Bayonetta. It has me incredibly excited for Vanquish, as that game looks like it is shaping up for something unique and fun.I Digress - You Really Wanna Hear About Dark Void
I Cannot Make A Header Big Enough That Says "Don't Ever Buy Fuel...Ever"
Fuel, on the other hand, isn't worth any amount of money. I had confidence that I was going to enjoy the game in SOME manner as the Codemasters name was on the front of a racing game with a four-letter title. Sadly, that game just has nothing at all that I could find compelling. There's a massive open world...filled with nothing but pretty grass and some desolate trees...some mountains...and yeah, you can find all these challenges to undertake, but everything you do in the game is generally just too contrived and the rewards of doing so don't really matter. Oh, some new cars that aren't much better than previous ones until MUCH later in the game? Awesome. The races have a giant series of arrows pointing over your head and the AI isn't really good enough to win even at the highest difficulty settings? Great. Getting to all of these Vista Points to see a huge pretty scene are dragged down by a lackluster draw distance? Perfect. Codies, you guys failed me on this one. You had a ton of potential, and you squandered it on nothing. If you get a chance to buy the game, don't do it...even for free.________________________________________________________________________
With that said, my ending statement is simply this: since I cancelled my pre-order on an Xbox 360 Slim, I decided to give Dragon Age: Origins another damn chance. Hopefully, I don't get the Redcliffe glitch this time around and can thoroughly enjoy that game. If it does glitch again, you'll see a picture of a cracked, burnt, warped disc in my blog at some point.
Until next time, piece.
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