But, as for 2010, I've come to the realization that there's really just not that much coming out that I care about. And I'm trying to figure out if it's just a slow year/season or if it's just me becoming more jaded than I already was. For September, all I planned to buy was Halo Reach. I don't really even like Halo all that much, but it's one of those games that is increased in value by the number of friends I know playing it. Then I fell into the life-siphoning trap that is Civilization V. I've never even played Civ before, and now I truly have no idea why. Anyway, what do we have in October through December?
There's still a sizable amount of games that publishers and retailers are trying to tell me are must have games, but I'm just not interested in the majority of them. Through the rest of the year I think there's four games that spike the Care-O-Meter.
Is Guitar Hero still a thing? After two years, it's certainly time for a full-on sequel. I was never really worth much on guitar, so when the first Rock Band came out, I dedicated myself to the drums. So I'm looking forward to see how many of the new songs I can clear on expert on the first try. But I'm really excited about trying to learn pro keyboards. I can't really explain why. I never learned to play an instrument as a kid, and I never wanted to honestly. My only problem with RB3 is that it comes out on the same day as the second game on my list.
I wasn't a huge fan of the first Fable when it released. I played it, but I didn't finish it. Then, a few Summers ago I got an urge to play an adventure game. And rather than going out to buy something new, I inexplicably threw Fable into the 360 and fell in love with the world of Albion. Fable II was my favorite game of 2008, so clearly I'm pretty excited about Fable III. I've been trying to stay in the dark in regards to much of the game, but I did give in to the temptation at PAX Prime 2010.
AC:Brotherhood @ PAX Like pretty much everyone else, I was pretty skeptical about the idea of AC multiplayer. But if you watched the Friday night members only show a couple weeks ago or got to see it at PAX, you know that the guys at Ubisoft have come up with something special. I think MattBodega said it best when he compared it to Burnout. Even when you get killed, it happens in such an awesome manner that you're still having fun regardless. And some more Ezio storyline can't hurt.
Now that we're (presumably) getting the same content from the Wii version plus online play on PS3 and 360, this has become a must have. I played it at PAX with random strangers and it was amazing fun. And that's always been my true test of fun multiplayer ever since playing Mario Tennis 64 at E3 one year with people that couldn't speak English.
So, am I crazy? What's out there that I should be excited about? All I know is that Q1 2011 is gonna be crazy.
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And the final group of videos is from the expo hall. Clearly I can't compete with Vinny and Drew's montage, but here's a solid twenty minutes of simply wandering back and forth down each aisle of the entire expo hall. You can get a sense of how large the show has become. Oh... and there's some Mortal Kombat as well.
This video got cut short because I got called to the front of the line to play.
I don't actually make an effort to see anything other than the final round of the Omegathon since it's basically a closing ceremony of the show. But Round 4 is usually the opening act of the Saturday night concert, so I generally see that round too. I filmed the second half of Round 4, where the "Telekinetic Sweaters" defeated "Omegadeth" in Rock Band 3 by performing Foreigner's "Cold as Ice."
It's ancient. It's turn-based. It consists of resource gathering. What could the final game possibly be?
Precision skills required!
As is tradition, after the final round, Mike and Jerry compete against each other to close out the show.
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You may not even be aware that PAX offers concerts, but it does! On Friday and Saturday night there are several hours of music in the main theater, which was at Benaroya Hall this year. The hall was several blocks down the street, but being a symphony hall, the acoustics were miles ahead of the cement warehouse that was previously the main theater in the convention center. If you've never heard MC Frontalot, Paul & Storm, or Jonathan Coulton... shame on you. And if you ever go to PAX, don't miss out on this.
About two thirds of the way into this song it suddenly turns into a Double Rainbow tribute. Don't miss this!
The sea of lights created by DS's, PSP's, and cell phones is always a cool moment.
So I'm a week late on posting these here, but I've been pretty busy. We flew back from Seattle to Georgia on virtually no sleep last Monday, then I had to work two 9.5 hour days Tue/Wed. Then I got up early to drive 5 hours to Panama City Beach for my sister's wedding. Spending some time with family I don't get to see very often can be pretty fun. Spending time with someone else's family I don't know, eh...not so much. So, Saturday morning it was another five hour drive back to the hell hole known as Macon, GA. And here, a week late, I present to you a series of videos I poorly shot using my iPhone 4 at PAX 2010.
So not to overload one page with a ton of video, I'm going to split these up. So here's some general PAX experience videos to start out.
So, my badge just came in the mail today and it hit me that PAX 2010 is only two weeks away. I ran into a few Giant Bomb users at PAX East, but I'm curious to see who's headed to Seattle this year. What panels are you planning on going to (other than Giant Bomb's)? What booth at the expo hall are you running for first?
For me, I'm probably running to either Rock Band 3 or Mortal Kombat first. Both are pretty close to where the queue room feeds into the expo hall. And for panels, I'm currently looking at Mega64, Weekend Confirmed, and Feedback Live. I gotta find some weird ones to go to. Seems like an overabundance of community manager and journalism panels this year.
So, it took a couple weeks, but I finally got all my new furniture delivered. I think it turned out pretty good. I had to rearrange a bunch of stuff and of course there's the new TV I got a couple months ago. So, yeah, that's what 700+ games looks like I guess. The only stuff in storage are the older consoles and probably 5 printer paper boxes full of accessories and demo discs.
at Street Fighter. Honestly, I'm not sure why I keep buying fighting games other than Tekken and Mortal Kombat. I'm just really bad. For the most part though, I enjoy playing it. I'm not expecting to be good, nor am I expecting to be able to compete online. I guess I just like the challenge even though it can get pretty frustrating sometimes.
Anyone else have any games that they really like, but completely suck at?
Well, I'd planned on playing it, but I log on to the site tonight and you guys have over 200 things in the wiki queue. I can't NOT work on that you know. So, I've been catching up on podcasts, Endurance Runs, and House while I trudge through these things. There's some good stuff going up on the site tonight. But there's also been half a dozen plagiarists slowing me down. So maybe I'll get onto SSF4 tomorrow.
And by the way, I mentioned the other day about Amazon being awesome. Today I got my email about my $10 bonus credit for buying SSF4. I immediately used it on Dragon Age Awakenings. It'll be at my apartment Thursday. Total cost? $18.99
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