I return; really wanted to keep a blog on here but it seems I failed after only two blogs. Well here is another, and it's not entirely just so I can get the GiantBomb quest. Really love that feature on here though. This website really is made by people that know how much people like me like seeing a bar go up.
Anyway, the topic of this post is Borderlands. It was evident that Jeff really loved the game. He gave it four stars due to the fact that it wasn't entirely a complete package. I am about 8 hours in (playing pretty thoroughly and so not going to finish it too quickly) and I really like it. My previous blog entry was on Fallout 3 and there are some obvious similarities. As I said, I haven't finished Borderlands, but it is very unlikely that I will like it more than Fallout 3. It doesn't really hit you with the coolness of exploring a world that Fallout 3 did so effectively.
However, the main thing Borderlands does do so well is the guns. The firing is so massively satisfying. I am predictably playing a soldier mostly using a combat rifle. Will try being a siren when I start a new character I think.
So I picked up Fallout 3 on the PC shortly after it came out. I stuck it in, installed it and started the game. Firstly, how come whatever you do to the character creater you pretty much look the same. Oh well it's irrelevant because you rarely see your character. I enjoyed the bit about an hour after I left the vault but then I just got.. bored, How come it tops my list for best games I played in 2009 then?
Basically, I have no idea what happened. I played it and wasn't enjoying it. I told my friends this and went on and on about how I found Fallout 3 boring. Well I take this all back... utterly.
So about 2 months ago, after installing Windows 7, I decided I felt like playing a PC game. So as to not let a highly heralded game go to waste I reinstalled Fallout 3 on a whim. Should I continue my old character I thought? No, there was no love with that character, also I will look at an achievement guide and make sure I haven't missed any. So I started a new character. Again I went through the kind of "set piece" leading up to exiting the vault. After this is where things changed.
I started focusing my efforts for a start. By going to a place and staying there until things were done (well nearly). Megaton is the obvious first stop and there is quite a bit to do. Getting the house in Megaton really brought the game together for me. Just having that place to go back to and heal and store things helped so much. Once I had this done it allowed me to get on with the game and a many of you will know... the real game lies in the side quests. The main quest is fun, but the amusing and bizarre side quests are where the fun really lies. My special favourites are "Oasis" and "Stealing Independence". One involves a talking tree and the other involves a robot who thinks he is attending the US Declaration of Independence. Without having played the other Fallout games, these crazy, fun characters were quite unexpected!
Well I finished the game recently and in conclusion I loved it... except for the crashing.. and my experience in the weird alternate reality I played it first time.
Well I wanted to write a blog on games for a while. After starting my F1 blog http://ifbackwardsisf1.blogspot.com/ I was thinking about starting a video games blog on blogspot. However, since Giant Bomb is my first go to for games news and comments I thought I might as well do it here.
It's nearly Christmas and so naturally people work out what their favourite (note by my spelling of 'favourite' yes I am English) games of 2009. For the record, here are mine:
Disclaimer: I haven't played MW2 or Dragon Age yet... I am getting these for Christmas...
For yearly review lists to make any sense the games of course have to be released in 2009, however, I think a lot of people would agree that it also makes a lot of sense to list the games you have most enjoyed that year. So I thought I would make that list. The two lists will not be mutually exclusive. The top three positions are very close and I had to think for a fair while before deciding. Find it here:
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