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Delayed…
So everyday when I load up a gaming news site, another anticipated game is officially delayed. Today it was Capcom’s turn to announce Dark Void is now a 2010 game. So now we’re onto announcing games that no-one is anticipating. Word on the street is next week Ubisoft will announce a delay for “Imagine: Gold Diggers.” The eagerly anticipated Fall 09 game will be pushed back for “better exploitation purposes.”
So these games are going back for two reasons. 1- extra polish time and 2- Publishers have finally realised that if they throw everything at November- that they will end up with some high profile sales casualties. So Splinter Cell Conviction won’t compete with Assassin’s Creed 2 and Modern Warfare 2 and ODST.
I’m down to four games coming out in November that I want (because, like many, I was burned by the first AC game). Super Mario Wii, Modern Warfare 2, Left 4 Dead 2 (which i wasn’t planning on rushing out to get) and Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time (Uncharted 2 is September). It looks as though I will be banging away at MW2 multiplayer for a few months without a feeling of guilt at all of the other games I have sitting around (as happened in late 2005 when I was glued to CoD2 for four months solid). I’m sure you driving enthusiasts will least least be sated this year.
So 2010 is looking crowded with the games that were coming out then anyway now competing with the delayed titles. This will be interesting
Crackdown 2
APB
Splinter Cell Conviction
Mass Effect 2
Red Steel 2
Army of Two 2 (maybe not that interesting)
Alan Wake
Bayonetta
Bioshock 2
Dark Void
There’s more of course. I Am Alive and the next ghost Recon are so delayed they’re now going from march 2010 to march 2011.
Anyone else’s wallet breathing easier?
IT WAS GREAT UNTIL THAT BITCH OF A LAST BOSS
Have you ever asked someone about a game and their answer is something along the lines of “It was great but the last boss was a bitch of a last boss?” A similar question on a popular videogaming forums led me to consider games where the last bit coloured their overall enjoyment of the game. The more I thought about it, the more I realised there were multiple games where I liked it apart from the last encounter. Sometimes it made me hate the game an other times, it was juts one of those things where the worst bit happened to be the last bit. Here’s my list.
FAR CRY: INSTINCTS. This was the original Xbox version of Far Cry. Its not really a port, more of a re imagining of the PC version. I had both versions and found the Xbox game that much more fun to play, so much so that I tried to finish it. Then suddenly the last boss ramped up the difficulty on a game that wasn’t particularly easy to begin with. I tried for about an hour and a half to beat him and just when it looked as though I was finally going to beat him, he got stuck on some terrain and wasn’t responding to my shots. After wasting an hour or so trying to beat this prick I gave up. I mostly enjoyed the game, but I remembered that bastard with a hate-filled heart.
KILLZONE 2. I mostly liked this game. I won’t say loved but it was mostly very good, just not very innovative or varied. I enjoyed playing it even though it felt a little familiar. But then I got to the final encounter. I won’t describe it too much except its one of those instances where the game decides to pull the rug out from underneath you and be a puck-ass bitch. It ignores everything its taught you to date, then pads out the encounter with cheating AI and general bullshit. I find it hard to not have my overall experience coloured by this encounter and its the single biggest reason why I’d never play KZ2 again.
GEARS OF WAR: The encounter on the train was fairly brutal for me (and I played Gears 1 on Casual mode). It went on and on and the Krill kept killing me or the boss kept owning me faster than a Mexican jumping been who’s really gotta go. I managed to find the right weapon and beat the bastard but… blimey!
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: One of Ubisoft’s alltime great games, this short and rather sweet Zelda cum sneaking game decides to have a difficulty spike that looks like Mt Everest after an injection of growth hormones. It wasn’t just hard, it was bitchingly hard. On Mohs scale its just above Corundum.
UNCHARTED: Still one of the best PS3 games, its also got an insanely hard final encounter. You will cuss, you will throw your controller around like a petulant child and you will swear bloody revenge on Naughty Dog.
GRAND THEFT AUTO III: As its the only GTA game I’ve even gotten to the end of, I can’t say whether subsequent games were any better but, Jesus, this one was a doozie.
METAL GEAR SOLID 2/ 4 (tie) For some odd reason, when I played through MGS2 originally, I don’t remember the last boss being particularly hard, but when I replayed it, I was sweating bullets trying to beat this. MGS4 is different. It makes you fighth a boss with a completely new combat system. And its hard. But that’s not thie bad bit. Then you have to watch OVER AN HOUR of cutscenes.
What about you?
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WHY BUY THE SAME CONSOLE TWICE?
Have you ever bought the same piece of hardware twice? Ok, if you owned a Gamecube and then bought a Wii, then yes, you technically have 2.5 Wii’s. We all know about PSX’s needing to be stood on its side to work, PS2 drives dying and of course RROD’ing 360’s. But under what circumstances would you rebuy a console you already have?
If you’re giant Xbox 360 fan, and you don’t want to buy a PS3, what do you do when your launch 360 breaks and there’s no warranty to cover repairs? Do you shell out for a new Arcade unit? Do you pay for repairs? I have yet to have a completely dead console that wasn’t covered by warranty. My PSP 1000 is completely dead though.
I have one game on it I wouldn’t mind playing at some point- God of War: Chains of Olympus. My PSP is now dead dead. I can’t see why I’d drop AU$300 to replace it when I would only be doing so for one game. If my Wii were die, I’d have just as much of a choice. IE, I wouldn’t bother. If my PS3 died, I would have to replace it IMMEDIATELY. Last weekend I enjoyed the following movies on Blu Ray: Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s End, LA Confidential, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Awesome times. Apparently I can play games on it at some point.
My 360 has RRODed twice, but the last fix seems to have taken as the machine has nearly gone 18 months since its 2nd failure. Its working now. There’s currently no reason to replace my launch 360 apart from the fact I’d like HDMI, a quieter DVD drive and a much bigger HDD drive. Reason enough, but I’ve decided to wait until I can be guaranteed to get a ‘Jasper’- the latest hardware revision with supposedly quieter and more reliable hardware.
I have a DS Phat. I haven’t really played it for ages but I entertained the thought of getting a Lite, but by the time the DSi turned up, the DS was dead to me. Considering Nintendo haven’t released a game for me on the DS in years, I think I’ll pass.
How about you? Have you ever bought a console twice and WHAT THE HELL WHERE YOU THINKING? 
Children’s Letters To…
Children write letters to Santa, The Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and, in the case of kids whose folks work at EA, John Riccitello. Sometimes they get a response and sometimes their parents get laid off. This week, the Post Office breaks all privacy laws and ignores any sense of common human decency to show us kids’ letters to their favorite videogame characters.
Metal Gear’s Solid Snake is one such recipient of children’s adulation, exemplified by nine-year old Mary-Marie Ryan
“Dear Snake,
I have played all of the Metal Gear games ever since the debut of the series on the MSX computers. I recently got Metal Gear 4 and noticed you look quite old. Maybe you should stop smoking before you die? Also, I like cats. Do you like cats?
Mary-Marie”
Solid Snake’s curt response really says it all
“Metal Gear?”
Six- year old Simon Greenblatt wrote to Toad from the Mario games
“Sup Toad?
Dude, what up with you and Peach man? She be some fine honey, why ain’t you hit that yet? You scared of Mario? That fat pipe jockey? Sheeeeeet son, you got gallons of suave on that spaghetti slurper. I’ve seen the way she looks at you man, you’re in. Don’t trip, you and her should rock it with Daisy and I sometime.
Peace!
-Simon B”
Mabel, aged 11 emailed her favourite Street Fight character
“Dear Miss Li
My mum has thighs just like yours. They are very big and muscular. My mom says the doctors says its a thyroid problem and she’s receiving treatment for this condition. I thought you might like to see a doctor in case your Thyroid has a problem like my mom’s big thighs. My dad, who has mysteriously broken his pelvis several times, says its like being with Xenia Onatopp, but I don’t get what he means by that.”
Eight year old Jerry send a letter to his favourite character Vault Boy
“Dear VB,
I very much enjoyed your appearance in Fallout 3. Can I also get Fallout 1 and 2 on my playstation 3? Your adventures have inspired me and every night, I say a prayer hoping a nuclear holocaust will devastate the globe so that I might one day live in a bomb shelter. Either that or join an Emo band and sing songs about death.”
12 year old Tina H writes to Faith from Mirror’s Edge
‘Heya Faith,
I really like that tatoo you’ve got on your face. Its just so stylish and fasionable and I know after having seen my big brother play your game that I want just that look when I go back to school. My mom’s being a real cunt about me getting a tattoo like you’ve got so I put a hot iron on my face, giving myself first degree burns. Do you like Fallout Boy? When I get out of these pressure bandages, I’d like to go see them in concert.
XOXO Tina’
Faith writes back
“Hey, Tina. Its actually just black makeup and I don’t listen to much Fallout Boy. Hope you’re face heals soon
F.”
Video: THE PWN WARS continues…
RETURN OF THE JUDI, the prequel to THE EMO STRIKES BACK
We hark back to a time when Jude and Wade were friends…
Wii-fucking-fit
So someone bought my parents wii-fucking-fit. Truth be told, they kinda need it. But I don’t need to be tech support.
Like thousands of older folk on Christmas, they turned to their tech-savvy kids to set up their new Wii and show them how to use their balance boards. It is of course a fun distraction for actual gamers- for a short time- and far more fun than assembling a barbecue or a lamp. But it’s a lot of money for something I know will be set aside very shortly. My parents aren’t particularly interested in technology so their interest in Wiifit is more down the fact is an excercise gadget.
I found the balance board games to be the most fun, heading a football whilst avoiding shoes and panda heads. Running with a wiimote is pretty cool but overall this isn’t going to make you go down a shirt size. It will if you keep up with it, the same way WoW will make you fat as you head towards 80. For the oldies who do keep up their Wiifit regimen, it will suck them in just as much as a MMORPG will to a Korean student.
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