Damn!

I have a lot of different games I'm working on at this point, it's difficult to work on so many great games at one time. Currently I am working on Dragon Age : Origins, Borderlands, and Modern Warfare 2.

While having so many games to play at once, it is also difficult to beat a game you've lost touch with or are lost in the story if I haven't played for a while. It's not just that, but I'm also working on games that I will only play in co-op. These games include Resident Evil 5, Saints Row 2, and Rainbow Six Vegas 2. When your co-op buddy is never available to play any of these games it is even more difficult.

Also being difficult, there are games in my library that I've been wanting to play for a long time. These include Bioshock, Farcry 2, Prey, Prototype, Battlefield : Bad Company, Bionic Commando, Dark Sector, and Little Big Planet. Some of those games have been sitting on my shelf for almost a year and I still haven't even put more than 45 minutes into most of them. One thing that may make this easier is having my current roommate ;) He is playing a lot of games on my systems, while this can and will take play time away from me, it will also create a better gamer to play co-op with if any of those games support split screen. Looking forward to those Matt!

Next year is going to make this very difficult with a plethura of amazing games being released. Two off the top of my head are Mass Effect 2 and God of War 3. That's not even counting the countless games that were pushed back for spring release of 2010!

To all my gamer buddies, good luck next year! It's going to be an expensive, time consuming one.

Quality difficulties

So, I recently picked up a game that wasn't Uncharted 2. For those of you that have actually played the game, you can understand this issue. I popped Dragon Age: Origins into my PS3 after playing well over 20 hours of Uncharted 2 and I can definitely notice the production value of Naughty Dog's finest game to date. Yes, both games are completely different but when you go from playing through a movie; back to playing a game it can be kinda weird. I found myself taking a couple of hours of the gameplay trying to forget about the amazing textures and water effects to decent textures and water not reacting when you walk through it =P
Though now I've been playing Dragon Age: Origins for about six hours now, I'm growing to like the game quite a bit. So far the characters have a lot of personality, this is something very important to me because I like to find some type of connection to a character. The battle system (to me anyway) seems to be pretty fresh for a console RPG, but honestly I haven't been playing too many RPGs for a while.
Something I find very nice about buying this game early is the fact that they are including downloadable content for people that actually go out and buy the game brand new, I believe this offer expires in April some time. But for the people that sit and wait for that very first copy of the game in the used section to save five bucks are losing out on over $15 in DLC. If these companies keep doing offers like this, I'll start buying more new games.... I like free stuff!!!

Honorable Mention

I thought I'd type something this morning for a game that I like to sit down and play whenever I get a chance. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!1



Just starting on my voyage into purchasing and playing Indie Games, I thought it would be a good start being that the game is only $1 on Xbox Live Arcade. I can tell you this is the best buck I have ever spent on a game. It's not the graphics, that's not important. But what Jamezila (the developer) did with the style in I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!1 is top notch. While playing this masterpiece it is playing one single song in the background over and over. While that sounds boring, it's not, other visual stimulation destroys your retinas whilst playing. Being hard to explain the coolness of all this, I've also added a video you have to check out.

Video Games | I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1 | Launch Gameplay

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

I feel this will be a game I visit very often as a single player. Though when I have friends join me, this game is even more amazing with four players. Some of the weapons kind of suck, like the shotgun, but there are plenty of great weapons that make up for the slow and underpowered. If you have an Xbox, you need this game for the small price of $1.

Get off your ass!!

Well It's been a while since I've done any updating. To tell you the truth, I'm just lazy ;) I've accepted this fact. But I will be trying to post more often on here, maybe not very detailed or long since I'm likely going to use a few different blogging tools.

But as of late it's kind of weird what I've been doing. Yes, Uncharted 2 has been abused pretty badly. But It seems I've been trying to find as many games as I can for as cheap as I can and am building up my collection. Since purchasing Uncharted 2 I've also added four new games to my library. (Dead Space, Prototype, Battlefield: Bad Company, and Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword) I've been keeping my collection updated on raptr.com which also tracks my Xbox play time and achievements.

Tomorrow I'm picking up Dragon Age: Origins created by BioWare so maybe I'll start blogging my trials through this one. Either way, I've updated my blog. Even with a new name with a different spin on my Xbox LIve Gamertag.