BioWare has put out a lot of DLC for free to Cerberus Network users (as in those who either purchased a new copy of Mass Effect 2, or paid $10 to download it if they bought the game used). For 160 points, BioWare is now releasing some silly looking glasses. That’s $2.00 for some virtual shades. Reminiscent of Horse Armor, yes?
I’m not sure what the rationale behind this is. I know I’ll be passing on this piece of DLC.
With all the talk of multiplayer, I'm wondering when Bungie is going to release more details of the single-player campaign portion of their game. I'm hoping they're putting as much effort into that portion as the multiplayer as I'm much more looking forward to that aspect of the game. Here's a quote I found from Mark Lehto, the Creative Director:
“The Reach campaign has maintained a very strong vision from the beginning. We started pre-production with a very small team just after Halo3 finished. We built this massive military campaign at first, just so we could understand what all was happening on the planet and make sure we weren’t stomping on the huge back story that we created.
We were building completely independent mission ideas – things that just got us super excited – things we’ve never done before in our Halo games. As the story solidified, so did the mission progression. This was the point where we had to make some tough choices. Some of the crazy mission ideas just didn’t fit in with the overall scope of the game. It was sad to see some of these go away, but the game and story all benefited by us focusing on what we believed was the right thing to do.”
This has been a pretty diverse week in gaming for me in that I’ve loaded quite a few games into my consoles, even if just for a brief period each.
1 – Forza Motorsport 3, 360 (Turn 10, Microsoft Game Studios)
2 – Left 4 Dead, 360 (Valve/Certain Affinity, Valve/EA)
3 – Halo 3, 360 (Bungie Studios, Microsoft Game Studios)
4 – Halo 3: ODST, 360 (Bungie Studios, Microsoft Game Studios)
5 – Mass Effect 2, 360 (BioWare, EA)
6 – Rhythm Heaven, DS (Nintendo, Nintendo)
7 – Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, DS (Konami, Konami)
I’m just going to drop all pretense that this will occur on a regular schedule, so you’re just going to have to live with periodic updates! I’ll leave the title as-is because it should be relatively weekly, but I’ll just post as I can. So, here’s what’s been going on since the last update. It’s been relatively quiet as one weekend I was out of town and been busy the rest of the time.
1 – Mass Effect 2, 360 (BioWare, EA)
2 – Shadow Complex, XBLA (Chair Entertainment/Epic Games, Microsoft Game Studios)
3 – Peggle Extreme, Steam (PopCap Games)
4 – Torchlight, Steam (Runic Games)
5 – Infamous, PS3 (Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Computer Entertainment)
I've been using Goozex for a while now, and like most services, it's most effective for older items. New releases take quite some time to become available. You can't add anything to your queue until the day it's released, so first thing in the morning I get on and add the new game. More often than not, I'm number 200 in line, and later in the day the queue is up to 500+, so I feel bad for those guys.
For example, Battlefield Bad Company 2 released on 3/2, I'm still 40th in line, so it'll be two months since release before I have the game. Final Fantasy XIII, Splinter Cell, and God of War 3 are all on my list, many of which I'm still 100+ in line.
Why am I using Goozex if it's frustrating? Well, I've built up the points and I need to use them for one. Second is I'm over budget for the year so I'm trying to keep costs down. It's not so bad, and I'm learning a valuable skill: patience.
Does anyone else use Goozex for new releases? Feel the same way?
Does anyone know what time new releases are actually available to add to your queue? It's not midnight EST, so it's got to be something early in the morning.
I recently purchased a 120 GB PS3 Slim to add to the collection that already includes a 360 and a Wii. Let me share my tale of how all three consoles came to be.
Played the Wheelman demo up to the point where you drop that lady off. Official reaction is meh. I wasn't sure what to expect of the Wheelman game, but what I got was nothing special. The mechanic of ramming cars didn't appeal to me, and I'm saying that as a Burnout fan! Maybe it's that exact comparison that left Wheelman feeling so flat.
And what's with the really bad, extremely shiny, character models? The characters looked like they were ported from a PS2 game. I wasn't planning on picking up this game originally and the demo did nothing to change that opinion.
The spelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd is misspelled as Lynyrd Skynrd on the Guitar Hero Metallica box...haha.
I generated some reports in my finance software tonight to see what I spent for each of the last few years on my video game hobby (doesn't include gifts):
2007 - $812.20, 7 retail games purchased
2008 - $577.77, 20 retail games purchased
2009 - $29.97, 0 retail games purchased
The year 2007 included purchasing a 360 which is why the total is so much higher despite purchasing fewer games. I didn't buy many games in 2007 because I only had a Wii and DS and there weren't many games that interested me. Once I got the 360 in November of 2007 I started getting back into gaming a little more, which is why the '08 game purchases are so much higher. I've spent $30 so far this year which was for my Xbox Live 13 month subscription (thanks Amazon!).
How much do you guys and girls spend on gaming in a given year?
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