I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1N IT!!!1 is easily the best dollar I have ever spent. It's available on the Indie Games Channel of Xbox Live right now and if you haven't played it yet, you are missing out on a genuinely funny experience that mocks the current oversaturation of zombie games. Please give Ska Studios money for this genius. It's a mere dollar. You can't go wrong!
Speaking of dollars, we played videogames this week. Most of the staff (who I now despise) were at PAX, having fun while I was sick and dying of what must obviously be a form of AIDS-cancer. While I suffered, they had loads of merriment and had sex with each other. I hate them. Hit the jump to find out what was played.
Cantler: I've been playing lots of Street Fighter Alpha 2 and Super Puzzle Fighter. I'm sure you are all quite shocked. Also some Puzzle Bobble on DS, whatever the new one is called, which doesn't matter because at the end of the day it's f*cking Puzzle Bobble. Let's see, what else ... I played the Wet demo, which I didn't like very much, some MvC2, some Espgaluda as a rain dance for more Cave games, a little Ikaruga here and there, and uh ... maybe a few episodes of Mainichi Issho. That's about it.
Razak: All I played was Metroid Prime and some Professor Layton. I also went back and played through some Flower, Sun and Rain for my review. Not much of a gaming week for me.
Chester: I finally had a chance to play Left 4 Dead 2 at PAX this weekend, and can confirm that not only is it a warranted sequel, but it's every bit as amazing as I had expected. While there aren't any major changes to the core gameplay, blowing off zombie limbs and watching them roll down hills into swamps doesn't seem like it'll get old anytime soon. The new infected are pretty surprising, particular the Jockey who thought it was my backpack the whole time.
Also played Darksiders, EyePet, 4-player split-screen Blur (awesome fun), Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, and Split/Second. Surprisingly didn't play a lot of the stuff on the show floor (a lot we had seen at E3), but had a good time nonetheless.
Sterling: I want EyePet like woah.
Anyway, I've been playing a bucketload of shit this week. People think playing games for a job is brilliant, and it often is, but on a week where you're playing Raven Squad and Darkest of Days, you realize that life isn't always peaches and cream. Sometimes it's piss and anus. Also been playing Section 8, which is good, but not worth getting out of bed for. And I have been in bed a lot this week, because I am sick as fuck.
At least one good game happened this week. I downloaded the trial of I Made A Game With Zombies In It (I cannot be bothered to do the l33t spelling) and instantly purchased it the moment the trial game expired. Best dollar anybody could ever spend on games. I love how the music reaches "Black Parade" levels of ludicrous by the end. It's worth playing just for the amazing soundtrack. Brilliant game, and everyone with a 360 should play it.
Bennett: On the PAX show floor, I played Bayonetta, Diablo 3, Borderlands, and off it I checked out Blur and Critter Crunch. Loved everything I played, really can't wait to get my hands on these games once they finally come out. On the flight to PAX, I played a lot of Puzzle Quest: Galactrix, which I find myself now kind of enjoying.
Niero: I am loving Shank on not the dreamcast.
Holmes: The big purchase for me this week the RPG-ist beat 'em up Muramasa: The Demon Blade, which has completely taken the place of the relatively disappointing RPG-ish fighter Final Fantasy:Dissidia that I got the week before. Comparing the two games made me really want for Vanillaware to take on a big name IP like Final Fantasy. Dissidia would have been so much better if it looked nad played like Muramasa. Also played some Bit.Trip Beat/Core and No More Heroes and pretended that they were Bit.Trip Void and No More Heroes 2. I'm so jealous of you sexy jerks living it up at PAX right now.
Other than that, finished up the Metroid Prime Trilogy and played my regular portions of Animal Crossing: City Folk and Game Center CX 2.
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Can I donate to help cure Aids-Cancer? It sounds like a terrible affliction I would not want to wish on anybody.
Hopefully you will not catch the H1N1 while having A-C..
Also, Demon's Souls localization (NUM NUM).
I've been on a game buying kick this week that the missus went out of town. Indigo Prophecy (looks really promising), Xenosaga (looks decent...but not what I thought), Gladius (I'm surprised by how bad Lex Luthor sounds in this), Tales of Vesperia (the missus took the mailbox key with her out of town so I can't play this), Mass Effect (still sitting in its wrapper waiting to be pillaged) and finally the Orange Box (which I've rented but haven't owned til now, also probably in mail box).
I've played only a few games sadly. Kingdom Hearts, Brass Restoration, the first 3 games I listed.
also, just read the nerd rage post on vesperia before this, and I'll wait to play through it before I yell bloody murder at Bandai Namco (they could always put it in as DLC, but noooo they won't). I'll bitch more that we don't get SD Gundam G Generation Wars (which has none of the Super Robot Wars licensing issues) but Dynasty Warriors Gundam will get 2 mediocre iterations (does Jim even like those games? they don't have Lu Bu right?).
I have been dabbling in Symphony of the Night on PSN for a couple weeks. It's my first time playing that particular title, but probably my sixth time playing the same Castlevania. Still not tired of it, but it is jarring that Iga is still using the same sprite assets he created over a decade ago. Maybe it's time for a new graphical style in the 2D Castlevania line?
That's not to detract from how good Symphony is, though. It's one of the most engrossing gaming experiences I've had in a good long while, and keeps my attention better than stuff like Valkyria Chronicles, which I've also been wading through. I think Dawn of Sorrow managed to top it, but in a series of phenomenal games, being second-most incredible is no small feat.
...aaaaaand that's about it. Add a sprinkling of Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition on there. With copious hints.
Also, Professor Layton 1, and Mike Patton.....I mean, "The Darkness".
Maybe a little BlazBlue, Street Fighter Alpha 3, and wishing I could have played all the stuff at PAX.
Transformers 2- Not bad, but just not loveable/buyable
Far Cry 2- played for about 20 minutes, not sure if I can dig it
Muramasa- might actually be one of my favorite games ever. Lets see how it finishes.
I'm actually playing Killzone 2 just because I just got a PS3 and Jim couldn't stop talking about it on Twitter when it came out. Also, I'm going to be trying to get through as much of the Metal Gear Solid: Essentials Collection as I can. Just finished the original Metal Gear Solid this afternoon for the first time ever.
Then Vampire Savior and Christmas Nights (Which I bought at PAX) at home. Aside from that, not too much aside from a bit of Rule of Rose that I played at a friend's house. Creepy as hell, that one.
Also I just beat henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure hours ago. GOD DAMMIT THAT GAME HATE ME
Anyways, mostly been playing Batman: Arkham Asylum, Monster Rancher 2 and Rock Band: The Beatles, which I'm having mixed feelings about.
Also played a bit of 'Splosion Man, Shadow Complex and I Made a Game With Zombies In It as well. A dollar well spent indeed.
I just finished Arkham Asylum a few days ago, now I'm playing Wild Arms 3 for the PS2. I've had it for a long while now, I don't even know how I came into possession of it but I'm actually really enjoying it.
You shoot Zombies. And they die. Spoilers, sometimes they explode.
And today i played Muramasa the demon blade for about an hour. Great game, right up my alley, with lots of 2D action and huge bosses.
That'll be my week.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1N IT!!!1 sounds genuinely tempting. How many MS Banana Rupees is it?
80 points!
I re-beat the first Professor Layton in a two day spread so I could unlock the bonus content that you need the sequel for. (Lost TWO copies of Layton One in the bast two years) I was incredibly sad and disappointed.
Otherwise I played a ton of Metroid Prime Trilogy (on Echoes now) and Layton 1 and 2, and GTA: Chinatown Wars.
I'm still on disability for my shitty leg. 3 weeks down, 5 left to go.
Have some ideas for how the game should have ended that might comprise my first cblog what I might do.
Play game, trial ends, "that was awesome!", buy game.
Just bought shadow complex, then my xbox rrod.......
Also am continuing my Rock Band 2 obsession, buying more songs frequently. My wife stole the Xbox to play Viva Pinata: TIP while I put Windows 7 on her laptop.
Also rented Overlord 2, but it looks like I'll have to buy it. I loved Overlord I so much and sunk hours into it, and the second one is going to to the same.
Lastly, double XP weekend on Gears sucked me in, especially with the Sire invasion of Horde mode.
Also, Shank is the shit. Even won one of those limited edition manquettes from the panel with Klei. ^_^ So happy.