I've recently been getting myself a pretty crowded backlog on my shelves, though none of them new releases or even anything from this gen. With me usually only having enough cash for one full price game per month, the rest otherwise goes towards classic DVDs or PS2 games. With Dead Space 2 being the only full time purchase for me until, well, March for my eagerly anticipated Dragon Age 2 it's left a lot of spare change. Heaven Forbid I decide to save all that up instead!
The most notable PS2 game I've finally caught up with Rockstar's own heralded tribute to the movie, The Warriors. I haven't seen the movie, yet, but since the game's mostly set up as a prequel there's no harm done.
Despite that, though, I've only put in about 4 hours and it's going to stay that way until I do watch the movie. The game holds up surprisingly well and is a ton of fun, but I want to be able to watch and listen to these characters in all of their originality back in 1979. Not to mention that the game will eventually play through the movies plot points, and I'd rather witness the story unfold in the movie - Bluray of course 8D
Before There Was Mass Effect, There Was The Suffering!
The Mass Effect and The Suffering franchises: they have little in common with one another. Mass Effect is a sci-fi epic; a, sometimes, RPG built around a massive fictional Galaxy influenced by your decisions. The Suffering is a 3rd person/first person shooter, centred on criminal psychology, with morality choices forced upon you, but nothing that'll change the fate of Galaxy. So again, they're completely different games, but the one thing they do happen to share is the save import ability.As this point it's hardly ground breaking with such a mechanic being made very mainstream by the Mass Effect franchise, but back in the early decade of last, The Suffering was already allowing such incredible transitions between games.
Now I only recently found out myself, since I never owned the sequel, though I did still enjoy the original very much. So much that I decided to buy the sequel, but with the incentive of having my own decisions cross over--while obviously no in the same league as the Mass Effect series, I've decided to also put that on hold until my copy of the original arrives along side it. (I've gone through a lot of PS2 casualties, and The Suffering was one of them back in the day, hence why I need to buy it again).
The Lord of The Rings AKA The Master of The Fucked Up Hit Detection.
The Lord of The Ring games based on the movie are some of my most precious (LAUGH WITH ME!) PS2 games from back in the days of when practically anything could hold my attention to the TV screen. I only played The Two Towers and The Return of The King, though I absolutely adored both of them, playing for them hours on end. Games didn't need replay value for me to still enjoy playing them over and over.. I miss those days..In any case, they too were added into my Amazonian cart, but unfortunately haven't aged nearly as well as the previous gems of the PS2 era. The Two Tower's specifically is almost downright broken, with your light attacks seeming to ever hit, and with some levels bombarding you with a non stop array of fire arrows. Your only dodge manoeuvre limited to a small hop back with the lack of a targeting function meant trying to avoid attacks was meaningless as well. Fuck, that game is tough!
Game would of been so much better if it had a PO-TA-TO QTE minigame, too.
Fortunately, The Return of The King managed to improve upon its predeccesor incredibly. My attacks could actually hit my enemies, and that alone made the game seem completely refreshed. Some of the same issues applied, and the enemies themselves would have attacks that would register before the animation was finished. But on the other hand: playable Gandalf. Overall, though, it's a much more tolerable game, and one I still enjoyed playing. The neat extras you get fitted well as a quick diversion, and for when I was waiting for the movies through these games, I ate that shite up with a spoon!
The Two Towers, however.. if only I could of just kept that as a distantly fond memory.
R.I.P
Good News Everyone!
I completed Dead Space 2! on Survivalist! First Playthrough! Who Wants to Touch me!Now I'm not going to spill my keyboards guts and repeat what everyone has already said about this months hottest game, so in short; it's pretty great. Not as good as the original, though, as it seemed to focus far too much on loud and brash action set pieces than I would of liked.
I missed the creepy allure and mystery that the original gave me so much of. And as for Isaac; just because he now has a voice doesn't make him much more of an interesting character. Matter O fact the entire story and its cast was a complete wash for me, personally.
It's a great game, no doubt about it, but I don't hold the same love I have for Dead Space 2 that I do with the Isaac's original, non-spoken ventures into the Ishimura.
And Then There's Also My 9,999 Posts!
What a great number: 9. The one number before 10, which can signify launchs, explosions, hide and seek countdowns and so much more! The number 9 can potentially be one of the most terrifying numbers out there, and the transition from 9 to 10 can feel like a lifetime with the right circumstances. As such, I kinda sorta maybe done a dumb lil tribute to actually keep my post count at that state, just for a little while until I could actually make the effort with this here blog!And thus, here's to another 10,000 pointless posts on the only forum I'd care to post so much stupid rubbish. <3
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