I recently signed up for the month trial of Netflicks on my Nook. I've been spending my time catching up on missed episode of The Walking Dead. I started watching that series at the beginning of season 3. I missed a few episode at the end of that season but caught a few more at the start and end of season 4. I really thought it would be a good idea to start watching from the beginning so I know who to cheer for and who should just go kill themselves.
That led me to another good idea. I was wondering how many zombie video games I could name in one minute. I got 20.5 (more on that half one later). So I propose this challenge to you. Set a timer, an alarm or a clock and give yourself 1 minute to list as many zombie games as you can. These are games with zombies figuring in prominently. So for you Minecraft fans out there that game doesn't count. Yes, there's Creepers but they're not the point of the game.
So why don't you take a minute and give it a go. I'll start your time right . . . . NOW.
Yep got that one.
And that one too.
Oh, didn't think of that one.
You're missing an obvious one.
If you got that one you should get the other one.
Is that all you can come up with?
And your time stops now. I said now. No cheating to get that one you just thought of down. If you didn't make a list and want to see which ones I came up with before you try it on your own than you can't use any of the ones I thought of. My game. My rules.
My list was:
Hunter: The Reckoning
Hunter: The Reckoning Wayward
Hunter: The Reckoning: Redeemer
Dead Island 1-3
Resident Evil 1-6 (?)
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Deadlight
The Walking Dead
The Last of Us
Call of Duty (W@W; BO, BOII): Zombies
and the one that I couldn't remember the name but I could picture the whole part of the beginning of the game. I later realized it was State of Decay. I remembered the game, but not the title, so I'm only giving myself a half point for that one.
Here are some that I missed that if I had given myself more time I would have eventually gotten around to remembering them.
Plants vs. Zombies
Zombie Apocalypse
Borderland (DLC): Zombie Island of Dr. Ned
I can't remember how many Resident Evil games there have been. My memory seems to stop at 6 but I'm sure there's more but I'm only counting what I know. The Hunter: The Reckoning games were listed first on my list before they are the first zombie games I played. They creeped me out and still do to this day. But I loved them enough that I got them all when they came out, even if Wayward was on the PS2 and didn't seem to play the same way.
I also started thinking about the Dead Space games. Yes, you kill humans made zombies by the head crab thingies but for me the jest of the story is fighting monsters which are different than zombies. When I was looking up the name for the State of Decay game I came across a reference to Half-Life zombies. While I haven't played much of that game I'm lumping it in with Dead Space and that it's aliens you are fighting not zombies, in the traditional sense of course.
So, how many zombie games can you name in 1 minute? Put your responses in the comments and let's see how many more I should have known but missed. And I don't know about you but I thought this was fun. Maybe I'll do it again next time with something else. Maybe vampires. Or dragons. Wait and see.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Finally . . . and finally again!
I"m a completionist at heart. I know I've mentioned that before but it needs to be repeated. If I can pick up every item in a game; I'll look for it. If it mean exploring every nook and cranny; I'll be there. If it means getting every achievement in a game; by golly I'll do it.
There have been 2 games that have an achievement in them that has alluded me for many months. The first game was Battlefield 1942. When the arcade game came out my friends and I played it a bunch. I wasn't very good and wasn't enjoying the game, but I still played because I enjoyed the time spent with friends. There's an achievement for playing 100 matches and my friends seemed to get this one pretty easily. Remember when I said I was a completionist? That's where the nagging feeling of not having earned everything I could in the game comes in. I needed to play a bunch of matches but I didn't know how many.
The problem with playing that game is it's not that fun without my friends. But they had moved on. I was left to get this achievement on my own. So, whenever I couldn't concentrate on other games and I had no one else to play with I would start this game and try to play a couple of matches before calling it a night. I did this for months. And then FINALLY I finished a match and I hear that wonderful little beep that told me I had a message . . . or a friend just came online . . . or heaven help me AN ACHIEVEMENT!
I think it was almost 4 years after my previous achievement before I finally got the one for playing 100 matches. Now I can say I've done everything in that game and I could move one.
And what I decided to move on to was Borderlands.
Maybe the feeling of euphoria at having finally completed a game I decided that tackle an achievement (and a mission) that has dogged me for several months. The Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnsss achievement (or whatever it's called).
When I started playing Jacob's Cove DLC in Borderlands I was forewarned about this mission and the achievement that goes with it. Get head shots. Collect their brains. I was doing that throughout the area only to find out that I had to accept the mission first in order for all those brains to count. But silly me I left that mission to the very end before accepting it and going for the head shots. With no other missions to do I was left to wander around all those dark and dreary places looking for zombies to kill. Not very exciting. And not very fun when I discovered how many levels there were to the mission and how many head shots I had to get.
When the final 250count level was unlocked I couldn't do it any more. I was tired of the game and I never wanted to see Pandora again. But . . . energized by completing Battlefield 1942 I put this game back in and started roaming the paths of Jacob's Cove. Grand Theft Auto has nothing on one pissed off vault hunter looking form 250 brains.
I was able to get a lot of brains in fits and spurts. When I got to 170ish all of a sudden I couldn't get a head shot of there was a string tied from my bullet to their brains. And I wiped out everybody in so many areas that it was taking forever for zombies to respawn. So close and yet so far.
I stuck with it and FINALLY got that last head shot, picked up that last squishy brain and made a beeline to turn the mission in. I thought it was the most tedious mission (partly because I didn't get it right away) but I could finally say I have completed the Jacob's Cove DLC for Borderlands.
I love playing games. They are an escape from the drudgery of life and a fertile ground for my imagination. But when trying achieve things in a game turns into something similar to the drudgery of life it ceases to be fun any more. Unfortunately for me my Completionist Devil rears his ugly head and says "YOU MUST FINISH THIS!" And who am I to argue with the only real man in my life.
There have been 2 games that have an achievement in them that has alluded me for many months. The first game was Battlefield 1942. When the arcade game came out my friends and I played it a bunch. I wasn't very good and wasn't enjoying the game, but I still played because I enjoyed the time spent with friends. There's an achievement for playing 100 matches and my friends seemed to get this one pretty easily. Remember when I said I was a completionist? That's where the nagging feeling of not having earned everything I could in the game comes in. I needed to play a bunch of matches but I didn't know how many.
The problem with playing that game is it's not that fun without my friends. But they had moved on. I was left to get this achievement on my own. So, whenever I couldn't concentrate on other games and I had no one else to play with I would start this game and try to play a couple of matches before calling it a night. I did this for months. And then FINALLY I finished a match and I hear that wonderful little beep that told me I had a message . . . or a friend just came online . . . or heaven help me AN ACHIEVEMENT!
I think it was almost 4 years after my previous achievement before I finally got the one for playing 100 matches. Now I can say I've done everything in that game and I could move one.
And what I decided to move on to was Borderlands.
Maybe the feeling of euphoria at having finally completed a game I decided that tackle an achievement (and a mission) that has dogged me for several months. The Braaaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnsss achievement (or whatever it's called).
When I started playing Jacob's Cove DLC in Borderlands I was forewarned about this mission and the achievement that goes with it. Get head shots. Collect their brains. I was doing that throughout the area only to find out that I had to accept the mission first in order for all those brains to count. But silly me I left that mission to the very end before accepting it and going for the head shots. With no other missions to do I was left to wander around all those dark and dreary places looking for zombies to kill. Not very exciting. And not very fun when I discovered how many levels there were to the mission and how many head shots I had to get.
When the final 250count level was unlocked I couldn't do it any more. I was tired of the game and I never wanted to see Pandora again. But . . . energized by completing Battlefield 1942 I put this game back in and started roaming the paths of Jacob's Cove. Grand Theft Auto has nothing on one pissed off vault hunter looking form 250 brains.
I was able to get a lot of brains in fits and spurts. When I got to 170ish all of a sudden I couldn't get a head shot of there was a string tied from my bullet to their brains. And I wiped out everybody in so many areas that it was taking forever for zombies to respawn. So close and yet so far.
I stuck with it and FINALLY got that last head shot, picked up that last squishy brain and made a beeline to turn the mission in. I thought it was the most tedious mission (partly because I didn't get it right away) but I could finally say I have completed the Jacob's Cove DLC for Borderlands.
I love playing games. They are an escape from the drudgery of life and a fertile ground for my imagination. But when trying achieve things in a game turns into something similar to the drudgery of life it ceases to be fun any more. Unfortunately for me my Completionist Devil rears his ugly head and says "YOU MUST FINISH THIS!" And who am I to argue with the only real man in my life.
Monday, November 12, 2012
A little bit of this, a little bit of that and whole lot of boredom
I've been playing a bunch of things lately. I got bored trying to learn things in FFTactics so I switched to Final Fantasy II. I finished the first one on the PSP but I honestly can't remember anything about the game. FF2 is different and I'm having a hard time getting the hang of it. If you attack physically those stats go up (but magical stats go down) and the reverse is true. My problem is I get into dungeons and I don't want to use up my magic points because Ether is so damn expensive so I use a lot of physical attacks. I know I'm going to be screwed later on in the game when I need that powerful mage and I don't have one.
I also dusted off the old Xbox system and hooked it up for awhile. I restarted Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It was one of the games dain and I decided to "finished" a long time ago. Actually since 7/16/2006 to be exact. I could have played it on the 360 but I didn't want to. I know the exact date that started all this because I printed the email and apparently I've been using it as a page marker for the strategy guide. I stopped playing because I got lost in the game and the guide was no help. Strategy guides have come a long way since then. I figured the best thing to do was start over (with the cheat code BUBBLE entered - - I don't take any damage). I played for awhile . . . and got bored.
So, I reconnected my PS2 and put in Summoner. That's another one of those "let's finish them this year [2006] games. This time the guide helped and I feel better about how to play the game. But I got bored because I'm just replaying the stuff I had already done since my stuff was stolen.
So, I went back to my 360. I tired some zombies in the Dr. Ned DLC for Borderlands since I've finished the game (I'll do a review of it later). But the zombies don't make any noises when they come up on you and I got tired of being jumped when I'm trying to do something. Although those flying things are more annoying.
So, I decided to play some online stuff by myself. It's really hard to find friends to play with these days. But that's okay I play better without them. It's true. It doesn't matter what game we play but when I play with friends I end up sub 500 on my kill/death ratio. I'll die 2x at least for every kill I get. I don't know why this happens but it does. Because I've been playing solo mostly (except when Natra sends me an invite) I've noticed that my skills are getting better. I've only had one match with a 1/2 kill/death ratio; everything else has been much better than that. I've even gone positive once or twice. I'll usually finish with about 10 kills to 12 deaths or something like that. Just over this weekend alone my kill/death ratio went from .551 to .571. Not bad considering I've got a lot of deaths under my belt in that game. I'm also finding the game more fun to play now that I'm doing better. I don't get frustrated as much and I don't let a death discourage me. I do have moments of panic when I'm under that .500 threshold but I always seem to find a way to do better before the match is over. And I'm finally getting some of those maps. I guess I now need to try playing with friends to see if I can translate this success when I play with them. Any volunteers?
So that's about it. A little PSP, Xbox, PS2, and 360 gaming all in the same week or two. I've even been tempted to pull out my GameCube to work on that "let's finish" game (Super Mario Sunshine). And I've got an itch to play my old N64 as well. I've either got too little of an attention span or too much boredom. You decide.
I also dusted off the old Xbox system and hooked it up for awhile. I restarted Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. It was one of the games dain and I decided to "finished" a long time ago. Actually since 7/16/2006 to be exact. I could have played it on the 360 but I didn't want to. I know the exact date that started all this because I printed the email and apparently I've been using it as a page marker for the strategy guide. I stopped playing because I got lost in the game and the guide was no help. Strategy guides have come a long way since then. I figured the best thing to do was start over (with the cheat code BUBBLE entered - - I don't take any damage). I played for awhile . . . and got bored.
So, I reconnected my PS2 and put in Summoner. That's another one of those "let's finish them this year [2006] games. This time the guide helped and I feel better about how to play the game. But I got bored because I'm just replaying the stuff I had already done since my stuff was stolen.
So, I went back to my 360. I tired some zombies in the Dr. Ned DLC for Borderlands since I've finished the game (I'll do a review of it later). But the zombies don't make any noises when they come up on you and I got tired of being jumped when I'm trying to do something. Although those flying things are more annoying.
So, I decided to play some online stuff by myself. It's really hard to find friends to play with these days. But that's okay I play better without them. It's true. It doesn't matter what game we play but when I play with friends I end up sub 500 on my kill/death ratio. I'll die 2x at least for every kill I get. I don't know why this happens but it does. Because I've been playing solo mostly (except when Natra sends me an invite) I've noticed that my skills are getting better. I've only had one match with a 1/2 kill/death ratio; everything else has been much better than that. I've even gone positive once or twice. I'll usually finish with about 10 kills to 12 deaths or something like that. Just over this weekend alone my kill/death ratio went from .551 to .571. Not bad considering I've got a lot of deaths under my belt in that game. I'm also finding the game more fun to play now that I'm doing better. I don't get frustrated as much and I don't let a death discourage me. I do have moments of panic when I'm under that .500 threshold but I always seem to find a way to do better before the match is over. And I'm finally getting some of those maps. I guess I now need to try playing with friends to see if I can translate this success when I play with them. Any volunteers?
So that's about it. A little PSP, Xbox, PS2, and 360 gaming all in the same week or two. I've even been tempted to pull out my GameCube to work on that "let's finish" game (Super Mario Sunshine). And I've got an itch to play my old N64 as well. I've either got too little of an attention span or too much boredom. You decide.
Monday, February 7, 2011
12 Games in 12 Months
So my friends tease me and give me a hard time because I can't seem to finish games that I start . . . at least not in a reasonable time frame. And although I've decided not to set specific New Year Resolutions for myself (they always lead to disappointment) I couldn't get the idea of "12 games in 12 months" out of my head.
What that idea is, is for me to finish the story lines of 12 games within a 12 month period. That doesn't mean I get all the achievements for those games that have them, but that I actually get to the end credits of the story so I can now talk about it with my friends. By saying "12 games in 12 months" I'm also giving myself a whole year to work on all games. I'm not limiting myself to 1 game a month. If the end of February comes along and I'm not close to finishing a game I don't want to get down on myself.
I got this idea when I finally finished the story in Gears of War 2 in December. I was at the start of Chapter 5 when my stuff was stolen so I had to spend some time retracing my steps before I could get to things I hadn't seen yet. The good news was this allowed me to work on several achievements that I hadn't gotten before. The bad news was by the time I finished the game and wanted to talk about it my friends couldn't remember what exactly had happened when in the story any more.
I plan on finishing games over several consoles and hand-helds. I keep throwing around a list every week or so but I'll let fate and my current mood decide which games I'll work on at the moment.
One game that I know I want to finish is Puzzle Quest 2. I think I'm getting very close too. I hope so any way. I love playing this game but I get bored of the battles rather quickly. After I've won my third battle I just want to play something else. It doesn't help that 3 battles might only get me to the other side of the room and not very far in the story. I've played that game so much that I've dreamed of it at night and heard that little beep that indicates your turn everywhere. I can't wait to finish the game.
Some other games I'm considering are:
Eternal Sonata
Final Fantasy Tactics (for PSP)
Ratchet and Clank
Dark Cloud
Lost Odyssey
Obviously I'm going to need more games and those games listed might not even be ones I try to finish either. It's just a list of the games I'm interested in playing right now. I could throw in the story modes for some of those online shooters I'm always playing. I hear those stories are kind of short. I could throw in a long game like Fallout 3, Blue Dragon or Borderlands and work on it over the entire 12 months.
I guess that really is only 11 months now because I got this idea in January and decided to go for it then. Yes, I know I'm a little behind in posting about it. I just hope I'm not behind in finishing games and have 10 or so to finish once December rolls around. If you have any suggestions for those "must play" games that you think I should play, let me know. I make no promises but if I do finish them we'll have one more thing to talk about.
What that idea is, is for me to finish the story lines of 12 games within a 12 month period. That doesn't mean I get all the achievements for those games that have them, but that I actually get to the end credits of the story so I can now talk about it with my friends. By saying "12 games in 12 months" I'm also giving myself a whole year to work on all games. I'm not limiting myself to 1 game a month. If the end of February comes along and I'm not close to finishing a game I don't want to get down on myself.
I got this idea when I finally finished the story in Gears of War 2 in December. I was at the start of Chapter 5 when my stuff was stolen so I had to spend some time retracing my steps before I could get to things I hadn't seen yet. The good news was this allowed me to work on several achievements that I hadn't gotten before. The bad news was by the time I finished the game and wanted to talk about it my friends couldn't remember what exactly had happened when in the story any more.
I plan on finishing games over several consoles and hand-helds. I keep throwing around a list every week or so but I'll let fate and my current mood decide which games I'll work on at the moment.
One game that I know I want to finish is Puzzle Quest 2. I think I'm getting very close too. I hope so any way. I love playing this game but I get bored of the battles rather quickly. After I've won my third battle I just want to play something else. It doesn't help that 3 battles might only get me to the other side of the room and not very far in the story. I've played that game so much that I've dreamed of it at night and heard that little beep that indicates your turn everywhere. I can't wait to finish the game.
Some other games I'm considering are:
Eternal Sonata
Final Fantasy Tactics (for PSP)
Ratchet and Clank
Dark Cloud
Lost Odyssey
Obviously I'm going to need more games and those games listed might not even be ones I try to finish either. It's just a list of the games I'm interested in playing right now. I could throw in the story modes for some of those online shooters I'm always playing. I hear those stories are kind of short. I could throw in a long game like Fallout 3, Blue Dragon or Borderlands and work on it over the entire 12 months.
I guess that really is only 11 months now because I got this idea in January and decided to go for it then. Yes, I know I'm a little behind in posting about it. I just hope I'm not behind in finishing games and have 10 or so to finish once December rolls around. If you have any suggestions for those "must play" games that you think I should play, let me know. I make no promises but if I do finish them we'll have one more thing to talk about.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Poll Results - One week to live/gaming story
Busy, busy, busy. Here's are the poll results:
I don't think I've ever seen the poll have such a wide spread before. Some of the results are surprising to me. Let's take it game by game.
Modern Warfare 2
I love playing the multiplayer stuff (although all my group will play is Team Deathmatch, can't we try something else every now and then?) and I haven't gotten very far in the story (hiding out on a snowy mountain tarmac). But usually these types of games are made for the online multiplayer content than a story line. The story line in almost any shooter game is just to give the player an objective when they start shooting. "Kill this guy". "Survive and make it to the rendezvous spot". That kind of stuff. I don't really pay too much attention to those "stories" which might be why I'm having a hard time making it across the snowy mountain without being seen.
Borderlands
With how much my friends have played this game and how excited they get when new content comes out I'm very surprised that didn't get any votes at all. I thought for sure it would get several. I think this is also a game that friends who don't care about gamerscore and achievements are playing this game and working really hard to actually get all the achievements in the game. The first couple of missions I accepted I really didn't read the description. You want me to do a job for ya? Okay, where do I need to go and what do I need to do? I really wasn't in it for the "why" of what I was doing. Is there an overall story to Borderlands? I don't know. Eventually I'll find out . . . I hope.
Gears of War 2
The story in the first Gears was great. Maybe not Pulitzer prize winning but I was engaged and wanted to know what was happening. I always felt the firefights in Gears were part of the story and not THE story, if you know what I mean. So I voted for Gears 2. If I only had a week to live I would want to know what happens next in that world. I want to know more about Marcus's father. How Dom reacts to losing Maria. And whether or not there are more Carmine siblings to join the war. I'm intrigued and I don't think I'd want to die without knowing.
BioShock 2
If I didn't vote for Gears I might have voted for BioShock 2. I say might because I loved the first game and was happy how it ended. On the other hand I love the world of Rapture and would love to have one more chance to explore it again. My only concern would be that some Big Daddy or Big Momma would jump out at me and then my week would be cut short.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
I mentioned I was very surprised that Borderlands didn't get any votes, but I'm even more surprised that Batman got 2 votes. Why? A lot of people said this was a good game but it's more about the game play than the story. They say there's not much story there to begin with. So why two votes people? I don't know what it is about this game but there are so many moves and commands that I can't keep them all straight. I'm doing the same button combinations in combat and I have to pull up the help menu to figure out how to grapple to things. I had to search for awhile before I could find a strategy guide for this game (since I'm late to the party) and this is the first game in a long time where I felt I HAD to have the guide while I played. I'm not so sure that's a good thing for this game based on how I'm playing.
Mass Effect
I am also a little surprised that this game didn't get more votes. I'm surprised that you didn't consider how many times you could play this story (I haven't finished, I'm trying to drive up a mountain in a vehicle, peak 15 I think) or have sex. Yes, there is sex in this game. And the sequel (which wasn't a poll option because I haven't finished the first one yet). And with the amount of time my friends have talked about how to have sex, who to have sex with, and the actual act of having sex you would think they've never had sex before (despite having children of their own). I've always heard great things about the story for this game. Was the reason that some of you didn't vote for it was because the game came out so long ago that you can't remember? I know some of you went back and replayed it prior to the sequel coming out. Are you going to do the same thing when the third one comes out?
So you might be wondering why I asked this poll. Well, it's all a mute point now but I started this poll a week before Final Fantasy XIII came out. I figured that once I have that game I wouldn't want to play anything else. If you check my games played history you'll see that I haven't actually play FF13 yet. Why? I got so caught up in the excitement that I didn't want to put the game in and be disappointed. I wanted to let some time pass, cool down, and then play the game (also because I keep playing MW2 with my friends online). So that "week to live" has actually turned turned into a couple more. Eventually I want to start it, but I have so many other games (all of those listed and many more) that I'm in the middle of (and hoping to finish) that I wonder if starting a new game a wise thing to do?
I either need to spend more time playing video games and less time working, eating, sleep, etc. or I need to spend less time playing with my friends and more time by myself. And I don't see either one of those things happening any time soon.
If you have one week to live what game would you play for the story?
Modern Warfare 2 = 1 vote
Borderlands = 0 votes
Gears of War 2 = 1 vote
BioShock 2 = 2 votes
Batman Arkham Asylum = 2 votes
Mass Effect = 1 vote
I don't think I've ever seen the poll have such a wide spread before. Some of the results are surprising to me. Let's take it game by game.
Modern Warfare 2
I love playing the multiplayer stuff (although all my group will play is Team Deathmatch, can't we try something else every now and then?) and I haven't gotten very far in the story (hiding out on a snowy mountain tarmac). But usually these types of games are made for the online multiplayer content than a story line. The story line in almost any shooter game is just to give the player an objective when they start shooting. "Kill this guy". "Survive and make it to the rendezvous spot". That kind of stuff. I don't really pay too much attention to those "stories" which might be why I'm having a hard time making it across the snowy mountain without being seen.
Borderlands
With how much my friends have played this game and how excited they get when new content comes out I'm very surprised that didn't get any votes at all. I thought for sure it would get several. I think this is also a game that friends who don't care about gamerscore and achievements are playing this game and working really hard to actually get all the achievements in the game. The first couple of missions I accepted I really didn't read the description. You want me to do a job for ya? Okay, where do I need to go and what do I need to do? I really wasn't in it for the "why" of what I was doing. Is there an overall story to Borderlands? I don't know. Eventually I'll find out . . . I hope.
Gears of War 2
The story in the first Gears was great. Maybe not Pulitzer prize winning but I was engaged and wanted to know what was happening. I always felt the firefights in Gears were part of the story and not THE story, if you know what I mean. So I voted for Gears 2. If I only had a week to live I would want to know what happens next in that world. I want to know more about Marcus's father. How Dom reacts to losing Maria. And whether or not there are more Carmine siblings to join the war. I'm intrigued and I don't think I'd want to die without knowing.
BioShock 2
If I didn't vote for Gears I might have voted for BioShock 2. I say might because I loved the first game and was happy how it ended. On the other hand I love the world of Rapture and would love to have one more chance to explore it again. My only concern would be that some Big Daddy or Big Momma would jump out at me and then my week would be cut short.
Batman: Arkham Asylum
I mentioned I was very surprised that Borderlands didn't get any votes, but I'm even more surprised that Batman got 2 votes. Why? A lot of people said this was a good game but it's more about the game play than the story. They say there's not much story there to begin with. So why two votes people? I don't know what it is about this game but there are so many moves and commands that I can't keep them all straight. I'm doing the same button combinations in combat and I have to pull up the help menu to figure out how to grapple to things. I had to search for awhile before I could find a strategy guide for this game (since I'm late to the party) and this is the first game in a long time where I felt I HAD to have the guide while I played. I'm not so sure that's a good thing for this game based on how I'm playing.
Mass Effect
I am also a little surprised that this game didn't get more votes. I'm surprised that you didn't consider how many times you could play this story (I haven't finished, I'm trying to drive up a mountain in a vehicle, peak 15 I think) or have sex. Yes, there is sex in this game. And the sequel (which wasn't a poll option because I haven't finished the first one yet). And with the amount of time my friends have talked about how to have sex, who to have sex with, and the actual act of having sex you would think they've never had sex before (despite having children of their own). I've always heard great things about the story for this game. Was the reason that some of you didn't vote for it was because the game came out so long ago that you can't remember? I know some of you went back and replayed it prior to the sequel coming out. Are you going to do the same thing when the third one comes out?
So you might be wondering why I asked this poll. Well, it's all a mute point now but I started this poll a week before Final Fantasy XIII came out. I figured that once I have that game I wouldn't want to play anything else. If you check my games played history you'll see that I haven't actually play FF13 yet. Why? I got so caught up in the excitement that I didn't want to put the game in and be disappointed. I wanted to let some time pass, cool down, and then play the game (also because I keep playing MW2 with my friends online). So that "week to live" has actually turned turned into a couple more. Eventually I want to start it, but I have so many other games (all of those listed and many more) that I'm in the middle of (and hoping to finish) that I wonder if starting a new game a wise thing to do?
I either need to spend more time playing video games and less time working, eating, sleep, etc. or I need to spend less time playing with my friends and more time by myself. And I don't see either one of those things happening any time soon.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
New Poll - One week to live...what story do you play?
Here's my new poll.
Okay, the doc tells you that you have less than one week to live. You only have time to play one video game before "game over" becomes permanent. Of those choices listed what game do you play FOR THE STORY! Yes, I know you like the multiplayer options on a couple of those games, but do you really want to spend the last week of your life listening to those idiots on Xbox Live? And what's the point of ranking up or moving up the leaderboards if someone is going to replace you once you kick the bucket? And yes, there's a reason why Mass Effect 2 isn't listed (as well as Assassin's Creed 1 or 2) but I'll get into that when the poll results are posted.
You have 1 week to live. What game do you play for the story?
Modern Warfare 2
Borderlands
Gears of War 2
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bioshock 2
Mass Effect
Okay, the doc tells you that you have less than one week to live. You only have time to play one video game before "game over" becomes permanent. Of those choices listed what game do you play FOR THE STORY! Yes, I know you like the multiplayer options on a couple of those games, but do you really want to spend the last week of your life listening to those idiots on Xbox Live? And what's the point of ranking up or moving up the leaderboards if someone is going to replace you once you kick the bucket? And yes, there's a reason why Mass Effect 2 isn't listed (as well as Assassin's Creed 1 or 2) but I'll get into that when the poll results are posted.
Friday, January 22, 2010
Poll Results - Best game of 2009
Okay, either my polls suck or you guys have gotten bored reading my blog. Either way I lose. Here are the (pathetic) results from the last poll:
Maybe the reason why some of you didn't vote was because of the economy and you couldn't afford to get some of the latest games. Maybe you just don't care anymore about what the latest/greatest game is. Or, like I said, maybe I'm getting boring in my old age.
I was just getting into Dragon Age when I was robbed so I don't know if the rest of the game is just as exciting as the first part. And while I owned (past tense, another victim of the robbery) Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 I hadn't played it yet (because I hadn't finished the first game). I played the demo for Left 4 Dead 2 and realized that it would be nearly impossible to play single player. That's a game best played with friends. Borderlands is a cool game but I haven't come across anything in the game that says "Whoa! this is unlike anything I've seen before". Maybe that's just me. I'd love to play Halo 3:ODST but I didn't have the money to buy it when it came out AND I wouldn't play it until I had played the earlier games AND those earlier games got stolen so I just don't see the point of buying it now to see what it's like. And seriously Nintendo? How many times are you going to "port" your original Mario Bros. game and call it "super" or "new" or both? As for Modern Warfare 2 it's got some problems.
I hate the fact that you can't jump into your friends party lobby. No can do. You've got to wait for an invite if you want to play with friends. And if your friend is already in the middle of a match you've got to send him a message saying you want in. If he stops to read it he might get killed. And do you want that on your conscience? And what happens if your party jumps out of a pre-game lobby to pick up a friend only to find out they want to play something else? Do you know how many "easy" rooms we've left only to find ourselves in those rooms where nothing goes right and everybody on the other team is glitching?
So that leaves Assassin's Creed 2. And that's the one I voted for. Even though I haven't played it (haven't finished the first game - another robbery victim). So how can I know it's the best game of 2009 if I haven't played it? I've read a lot about this game. And I've listened to what my friends have been saying. It's the game that the first one promised to be. It's the game that changes how you move and play through a game. It's also the game that opens up the game industry to approach their games differently than a standard hack-n-slash or FPS. Much like what BioShock did when it came out. And since I love BioShock why wouldn't I love Assassin's Creed 2 even if I haven't played it?
What was the best game of 2009?
Assassin's Creed 2 = 2 votes
Halo 3:ODST = 0 votes
Modern Warfare 2 = 1 vote
Left 4 Dead 2 = 0 votes
Dragon Age Origin = 0 votes
Borderlands = 0 votes
New Super Mario Bros. Wii = 0 votes
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 = 0 votes
Maybe the reason why some of you didn't vote was because of the economy and you couldn't afford to get some of the latest games. Maybe you just don't care anymore about what the latest/greatest game is. Or, like I said, maybe I'm getting boring in my old age.
I was just getting into Dragon Age when I was robbed so I don't know if the rest of the game is just as exciting as the first part. And while I owned (past tense, another victim of the robbery) Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 I hadn't played it yet (because I hadn't finished the first game). I played the demo for Left 4 Dead 2 and realized that it would be nearly impossible to play single player. That's a game best played with friends. Borderlands is a cool game but I haven't come across anything in the game that says "Whoa! this is unlike anything I've seen before". Maybe that's just me. I'd love to play Halo 3:ODST but I didn't have the money to buy it when it came out AND I wouldn't play it until I had played the earlier games AND those earlier games got stolen so I just don't see the point of buying it now to see what it's like. And seriously Nintendo? How many times are you going to "port" your original Mario Bros. game and call it "super" or "new" or both? As for Modern Warfare 2 it's got some problems.
I hate the fact that you can't jump into your friends party lobby. No can do. You've got to wait for an invite if you want to play with friends. And if your friend is already in the middle of a match you've got to send him a message saying you want in. If he stops to read it he might get killed. And do you want that on your conscience? And what happens if your party jumps out of a pre-game lobby to pick up a friend only to find out they want to play something else? Do you know how many "easy" rooms we've left only to find ourselves in those rooms where nothing goes right and everybody on the other team is glitching?
So that leaves Assassin's Creed 2. And that's the one I voted for. Even though I haven't played it (haven't finished the first game - another robbery victim). So how can I know it's the best game of 2009 if I haven't played it? I've read a lot about this game. And I've listened to what my friends have been saying. It's the game that the first one promised to be. It's the game that changes how you move and play through a game. It's also the game that opens up the game industry to approach their games differently than a standard hack-n-slash or FPS. Much like what BioShock did when it came out. And since I love BioShock why wouldn't I love Assassin's Creed 2 even if I haven't played it?
Friday, January 8, 2010
New Poll - Best game of 2009 was . . .
Here's a new poll for you. I've limited the choices to those games that are playable on systems I owned . . . or use to own. That leaves any PS3 and Nintendo DS games out.
Vote for your favorite and feel free to tell me what you think in the comments section. Especially if your favorite isn't on my list.
Best game of 2009 was . . .
Assassin's Creed II
Halo 3: ODST
Call of Duty: Modern Warefare 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Dragon Age: Origin
Borderlands
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Vote for your favorite and feel free to tell me what you think in the comments section. Especially if your favorite isn't on my list.
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