I’ve come to realize that this section has had a distinct lack of Mitchell & Webb. Luckily, this is soon to be rectified. This week’s not-game-related video presents proof that there is no God. Enjoy that, why don’t you?
As usual, the Destructoid staff played some videogames. How about that? Hit the jump to see which ones they were, because you totally give a crap about that kind of thing and aren’t just chomping at the bit to tell everybody what you played as if anyone gives a stuff.
Thanks.
Chester: ModNation Racers, a bit of Iron Man 2, Skate 3, and I put a DVD Disney sent me labeled “Split/Second” into my Xbox 360 debug but it didn’t work. And then I cried. Reviews of all of those games coming within the next two weeks.
Ross: Street Fighter IV and Picross 3D
Sterling: Finally finished Nier (review tomorrow, maybe). I am totally conflicted about that game. Amazing story, great characters, solid combat, but absolutely drenched in awful everything else. Been replaying Borderlands too, this time on PC, since all the DLC came my way free of charge. Zombie Island is fun, but the map design is kind of shitty. Also rocked a little Left 4 Dead 2, as usual, and of course finished up Alan Wake for the review that you can see on Destructoid right now!
Loads of stuff on the iPod Touch again, but too much to name. Highlights include Super Turbo Action Pig and Rhythm Tap. So there.
PerLee: I just finished Alan Wake, and hooboy, that was a game I really enjoyed. Didn’t like the ending 100 percent, but I play through it again to see what’s what.
Also, been rocking some SSFIV. Switched from a main of Zangief to Dudley, and haven’t looked back. It’s a fun game.
Grim: Penumbra, Aquaria, Glover, and Banjo-Tooie. What a bizarre week it’s been.
Razak: Finally finished The Whispered World after struggling for a good while to get it to run on my crappy computer. Review coming this week. Otherwise it’s been pretty dead. I didn’t even get to play Diabolical Box that much because of my lack of using public transportation this week.
Tolentino: Whispering Eye sounds like some kind of Lord of the Rings spinoff where you play as Sauron.
Anyway, I’ve got something along the lines of half a dozen games absolutely worth playing, but besides Sakura Wars all I can think of is playing the Starcraft 2 beta and getting my build order down. Such is the power of Blizzard’s baby.
North: Agarest War? What is going on here
Concelmo: @Jordan,
Glover? I love you. <3
I finished up my second Luigi playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy in preparation for the OMGONLYTWOWEEKS arrival of SMG2. Yup, still can’t get that Luigi’s Purple Coins star. As some of you so politely pointed out in my last feature, I must be bad at videogames. Haha. 😉
Also playing some more of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth before starting up Alan Wake and 3D Dot Game Heroes later this week. I really love Miles Edgeworth. Such a great game.
Sarkar: I continued to play the Halo: Reach beta this week, and got better and better at the game. I like Team SWAT, because it really forces you to go for headshots, and the new mode — Invasion — is cool. However, Invasion Slayer seems terribly unbalanced: every time I’ve played it, the Elites have slaughtered the Spartans. But I was playing with a group of 11 other Dtoiders on Friday night, and we discovered a really fun mode that we designed ourselves: Team Slayer on Powerhouse… where everyone’s playing with the Airborne loadout. Jetpacks make everything better!
On Friday, I went to a 2K Sports event at Citi Field, where I met the guy who won $1 million by throwing a perfect game in MLB 2K10. I played against him in the game — check back tomorrow for details on how that turned out!
Holmes: Have some sort of virus that’s playing havoc with my attention span, so I haven’t always been able to play the games I want to. When I was really feeling bad, I focused on Treasure games like Sin and Punishment, Advance Guardian Heroes and Gunstar Super Heroes. Though these games take work to play, they also electrify you pretty much non-stop. The effort vs stimulation ratio is defintiely heavy on the stimulation side for those games.
When I was feeling better, I got back into the Bit.Trip games, Super Street Fighter 4 and Monster Hunter Tri, which also stimulate, but require a lot more effort. The final test of my health was last night, when I managed to concentrate through another case in Ace Attorney Miles Edgeworth and the first hour of Clock Tower on the SNES. The battle against frontal lobe impairment has been won!
