Ah, good old Adam Buxton. Here is a victory speech from your newly elected President that kicks ten shades of sh*t out of whatever he actually said.
In other news, videogames happened, which is far more important than some silly election. I feel sorry for Obama, becoming America’s first black President the same week that Gears of War 2 launches. There’s not really any competition. Besides, everybody knows that the Cole Train would make a superior black Prez.
Anyway, after such senseless rambling, let’s check out our games of the week.
Nick: I’m playing a lot of games this week, but the one game I’m not playing is Left 4 Dead. God damn it.
Chad: While everyone is playing all these triple-A, high profile games, I am having fun with LEGO Batman.
This is what a ridiculously long backlog of games does to you.
Jim: This week I played Dead Space (solid game but got sick of it after the mid-point), Fable 2 (the game equivalent of smoke-and-mirrors), Saint’s Row 2 (great title but I’m bored of it for now). I have decided I am done with all of those, so I traded them in and got a double-whammy of Fallout 3 and Gears of War 2. I am not having fun with Fallout 3. The random difficulty and the complete lack of ammo is bad enough, but an autosave wiping my main file and fucking me over is not cool. Nor is getting stuck in a piece of scenery. I mean, really, scenery? Is this 1998?
As for Gears, I love it. Only had minimal time with the online, but I do love me some Annex. I’ll save my main thoughts for our upcoming Destructoid review though.
Conrad: Fallout 3 continues its reign of terror over my attentions. The further I get in, the more I become fascinated with it (the Dunwich building is win on multiple levels). I dragged the instruments out of my closet to play some Rock Band 2 with peeps on Friday, which was pretty refreshing. Catan and Carcassone saw some action as well.
Finally, I do not have Gears of War 2. I will not have Gears of War 2 until sometime over the summer when I would have the time or inclination to play it. While my request will no doubt result in doubling the efforts of many users, no, I do not want to play a game I do not own with you.
So, stop asking.
Colette: I played some more of the remarkably addictive Ninjatown and the usual helping of My Japanese Coach, gave Fallout 3 a spin, but the thing to really dazzle me this week is Valkyria Chronicles, a game I originally thought I was going to pass on because I thought it was going to be more an SRPG. Turns out it’s not quite the case, as the game is unique in just about every way, has some of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful graphics I’ve seen in some time, and has already intrigued me in the first hour of play with some unusual depth that makes me hungry for more. I can’t wait to get some more play time in with it.
Niero: I’m not a strategy game fan. Actually, I stay the hell away from them most of the time but I am FLIPPING OUT over Valkyria Chronicles. It is a completely fresh experience, not to mention as gorgeous as a hand-drawn Disney classic. I hadn’t heard much about the game and the demo completely sold me. I’m actually enjoying it more than Fallout 3 (ducks) which is also interesting. Why the hell did they leave out head bobbing? I feel like my character is sitting on a post-apocalyptic magic carpet. When I’m not on a console I am glued to Ninjatown, which is epic. Speaking of turret defense, Colette and I are also teaming up for Pixeljunk Monsters; probably the most fun casual co-op experience we’ve had since EDF. Goozex also just sent us Dynasty Warriors 6 which shall eat my Sunday.
DMV: I’ve been playing WRITE OR DIE, where I get to write 30 pages every week ’till the end of the semester. It’s a fun game, I can assure you. But, in between that, I’ve slipped in some Valkyria Chronicles here and there — I wish I could spend more time with it, since I’m really enjoying it. Plus, y’know, doing the review on it is also something that’s part of those 30 pages this week.
Samit: I got Rock Band 2 this week, so I’ve been playing around with that on guitar and drums. I hadn’t played the Band World Tour mode in the first game — just the Solo Tour — so I had no idea you lost fans if you restarted or quit a song. Of course, I was informed that that had also been the case in the original game by about 7 different people on Twitter, so…yeah. I often restart songs if I miss notes at the beginning (especially notes that I know I should be hitting), so I guess I’m going to have to get used to…not doing that.
I also started playing through The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon for review yesterday. I’m about two hours in, and I’ll just say that it’s relatively fun so far.
Published: Nov 9, 2008 08:03 pm