Category Archives: Games

X-Men: Destiny’s Review Scores Sadden Me

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Alright, I don’t know what I was expecting.  I guess it was because I had such a great time playing with X-Men: Legends in the original Xbox and PS2 days that I figured this would be a nice follow-up.  Granted, The Marvel Ultimate Alliance games were great in their own right, but having something purely X-Men focused was an exciting prospect for me.  Not to mention, my love for flashy, cartoony graphics is well-documented and anytime I can have candy-coated mutants running around whooping’ ass I get positive elated.  Unfortunately universal consensus seems to point to the fact that the game only looks like ass and does very little to no whoopin’ as I’d hoped.  NZGamer said it was ‘Rougher than Logan’s chin stubble.’ Ouch.

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6 Reasons I will Rampage if Arkham City Doesn’t get a Sequel

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It has been just over a month since the release of Batman: Arkham City, and I have yet to complete all of the side quests, solve all of the riddles, etc. Partially because of Skyrim, partially because Josh still has my copy, and of course there’s that whole “job” thing that tears me away from my gaming all too often.

"I'll get your prescriptions in a minute, but just listen to me talk about the genius that is Mark Hamill as the Joker"

That being said, while I have yet to finish the game I am already eagerly anticipating the day that Rocksteady announces that they are working on the third installment of the Batman: Arkham franchise. When that day comes, I will likely ruin a perfectly good pair of boxers. However, if the day should come when they announce that a third game will not be coming, there is approximately a 90% chance that I will end up in jail on some kind of homicide/involuntary manslaughter charge. Here’s why:

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How Skyrim Made me Realize I’m a Terrible Person

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I tend to think I’m a pretty nice guy. I rescued a (dirty, freeloading) poodle earlier this year, pay my taxes, and don’t even take the last piece of pizza in a social environment. Unfortunately, all of my delusions were shattered when I had to look at myself in the mirror and weep at my horrible behavior in subjugating the denizens of Skyrim with my petty villainy.  Behavior like…

1. Stealing Sh*t from Perfectly Good People

Why hello there Lucan.  What’s that?  Bandits stole your golden claw statue?  Let me take care of that for you!  You and Camilla just sit tight here in your trading outpost while I go serve up some murderous justice.

Hmm, this bloodlust-driven adventurer certainly LOOKS trustworthy…

Unfortunately though, after you go to sleep tonight I will have absolutely no reservation about lock picking my way through your front door and taking every thing you own.  I’ll leave you the golden claw just to be poetic, but beyond that I’m like the Grinch that stole Christmas; I’m taking everything that isn’t nailed down.

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60 Minute Reviews: Skyrim (and more)

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I have decided after speaking with Josh that to start a regular article in which I play a game for 60 minutes and review it based purely on that time frame. With the release of Skyrim yesterday, I figure this is as good a time to start as any.

I arrived home after the midnight release of Skyrim (the normally 15 minute drive took me about 6 minutes) right around 12:15. The game was in my Xbox about 3 minutes later. It would have been sooner, but I had to let my dog out.

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Horrific Tales from a Midnight Launch for a Game I didn’t Want

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For those of you being raised by a pack of wolves or who think that Angry Birds is a mainstream game, it may come as a shock that a major event in gaming occurred last night. Along with my good friend and founder of GeeksPodcast, Grand Master Joshua Irish, I attended the midnight release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. I will state up front that my experience with the Call of Duty franchise is limited. I have played a handful of games of Zombies, finished the Modern Warfare 2 campaign in 4 hours, and now have played Modern Warfare 3 for about and hour. Needless to say, I’m not what you would call a fanatic, and I had no intention of purchasing the game last night.

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Before Silent Hill: The Colonel’s Bequest and How to Get it for Free

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Alrighty, I’ve gone on at length since we’ve been going how much I love Silent Hill.  I’m even on the twitters about it.  However, what about before Silent Hill?  What dark and terrible video game offerings gave me the willies me back then?  I shall tell you- Sierra’s The Colonel’s Bequest that’s what.

 

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First Impressions: Arkham City

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This isn’t a full review because I still need to finish the game.  Why haven’t I finished it?  Well, that’s as good a starting point as any.

Arkham City is big.  Really big.  In fact, it almost feels more like a Grand Theft Auto game than a Batman game.  I say ‘almost’ because it’s hit a brilliant sweet spot for such a story driven game.  It doesn’t have the raw virtual miles of San Andreas, for example, but it’s also not a linear title masquerading as something bigger.  Arkham Asylum wasn’t small by any stretch of the imagination, but its linear nature definitely limited the sandbox appeal.  Not in Arkham City.

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Arkham City Midnight Launch

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So I went with my friend Kyle to pick up Arkham City at midnight last night.  I’ve been positively rabid to step back into the boots of the Caped Crusader lately, especially having already enjoyed most of his New 52 appearances.

It was a pretty good midnight launch with pizza available, people dressed up as the Dark Knight, and some swag handed out for best costume. There was some light competition involving challenge mode from the original Arkham Asylum.  I participated but alas, my training overwhelmed my ability to achieve a high score.  Unfortunately I kept knocking criminals out almost immediately instead of leaving them conscious to get beat mercilessly for higher combo scores.

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5 Things I Hate About Mass Effect (That Were Fixed in Mass Effect 2)

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Recently a friend of mine compelled me to finish Mass Effect, the hit sci-fi RPG from BioWare that made its debut way back in 2007.  I actually hadn’t touched the game in over a year and having now finished it, I feel like some purpose has been added to my life.  Ok, that’s a stretch but it did feel good to finally knock it out.

Anyways, despite my love for the story, characters, and general polish of the experience, there were a few things that bugged the ever-loving shit out of me that have been rectified in Mass Effect 2.

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