I've been rather quiet recently, I apologise.
Though to be fair there's a reason to it all, well several.
It started with Reckoning: Kingdoms of Amalur. The only way I can explain this game is taking World of Warcraft, making it a single player and giving it a more interactive combat. This game is huge, I played hours on it and still found myself on the first continent.
Sadly I had to take a break, Mass Effect 3 was coming, and I still had to finish off Mass Effect 2 (note I'd finished it before and at some point I've deleted all my old saves in a "OH GOD I HATE WHAT I'VE DONE AND I'M STARTING OVER FROM SCRATCH")
Unfortunately this means playing Mass Effect 1 again, which is a fantastic game but so dated compared to it's successors, especially in the UI and control department. That said I still had my old Spectre achievement, Spec guns make everything better, except the guy you're shooting.
I was midway through Mass Effect 2 though going at great pace with a week till ME3's launch. I'd stocked up on snacks, gotten time off work and would have everything ready, with the plan being I'd finish by playing Arrival the night before launch.
Then my PC died, and I got it back Wednesday this week. Much rage has been had.
At this point I'd just quickly like to thank my tired old beat up laptop for playing a vanilla version of ME3 with no imported save data, just so I wasn't sat staring at my Collector's Edition going stir crazy.
So that's the main reason for a lack of updates, I've really not been able to do much gaming. I'm playing through MY version of ME3 now though with my PC back. I'll be withholding opinion on the game (and the ending) till I've done my story of it.
The other reason I've not been around is because with no PC to play on, I picked up my 3DS, bashed my head at a few Sonic levels, played a bit of Mario 3DS and then bought Metal Gear Solid 3DS.
Now I loved Metal Gear Solid, to the point I already knew the game and still bought Twin Snakes on the Gamecube. I saw MGS2 on a friend's PS2 and hated it (seriously, fuck Raiden) and I never picked up the series after that. I got MGS3DS purely on an old friend's recommendation, I owe him a drink for it.
The camera controls take a while to get use to, and you'll be frustrated at the end with EVA's utterly horrible driving (insert women drivers joke here) But this is a measurement as to how much I enjoyed the game.
As soon as I completed it, I hit "Start new game" to do it all again and try different approaches. The story will be exactly the same but the combat and means to an end ranges vastly, it's an absolutely brilliant game that only has the flaw of being shorter than MGS1. However I will have to pick up Guns of the Patriots at some point and just forget MGS2 ever existed.
Anyway back to Mass Effect 3, at some point I'll finish it, get back to Amalur and Skyrim, do those achievements I meant to do in DX:HR and probably buy Kid Icarus for the 3DS.
Oh and there's been a ton of drama in EVE, but there are many many better blogs that cover all that if you want an educated appraisal of the situation. I suggest starting here. Though on EVE related news, there are things on the horizon which I shall talk about at greater length in a future blog, for now. Put Missiles on the Ships...
ALL OF THE SHIPS.
NG.
Monday 2 April 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Stabbing, Speeding, Spam Clicking and Shooting. Gaming so far in 2012
So Mass Effect 3 has a release date.
I really should get on with that save plan I wanted to do.. I think I'm about to meet the Council for the first time in ME1... so I've not THAT far to go (oh who am I kidding?)
Reason I haven't been touching it recently is work, I upped my shifts after the new year and it's kicked the shite out of me, so I'm backing down and taking it easy for a while. Which will mean more time for gaming (yay!)
Recently I've been playing through Assassin's Creed, after completing the first game (by that I mean the storyline, because bollocks to hunting all those flags) I'm what I'm guessing is halfway through 2. For those who haven't played Assassin's Creed, the second game is huge. The first game felt pretty big but this is stunning, with so many side quests and mini plot stories to fill in the background there's days of content here.
It's not Skyrim big, but then again few things are.
Other than that I picked up Sonic Generations for the 3DS over the New Year, as a fan of the classic Mega Drive (that's Sega Genesis for you US types.) I've been curious to see what the new Generation Sonic fuss is about. I had Sonic 3D for the MD but utterly hated it, and never touched any subsequent Sonic titles, except for a 2d game they did for the GBA a few years back (I forgot I even had that until I just wrote this... I must have the cartridge somewhere!)
For those who haven't played it, or looked into it, they've taken a level from every major Sonic game (though they've mixed 3 and Knuckles together, those devious bastards! I wanted my Angel Island zone) and split it over 2 stages. The first is a classic 2D layout, even of the newer games, the second is the more up to date 3D style gameplay. Yes a 3D version of Green Hill, it takes some getting use to if you've never done the newer games.
However what I don't like is after a while, they're throwing new Sonic's moves into old Sonic's abilities, that just confused the hell out of me. I'll also say for the record, this game is HARD. I picked up Super Mario 3DS in November and bar a couple of the Bowser fights that game was pretty easy, this has had Game Over screens popping up more times than I can grind my teeth in frustration. I haven't had a single player challenge this good since Ikaruga.
Which reminds me, I should play that again...
Other than that I've been playing Rise of Immortals (yes I know I know Myrhial, I should just download LoL..) and spending some time in EVE, recently getting the opportunity to run with one of the elite private networks when it comes to Incursions. However that's a completely whole separate post in itself, and something for another time.
Apologies if this seems more like a diary feel than an actual blog on something relevant, I've been dry for topic ideas for a while. Suggestions welcome.
NG.
I really should get on with that save plan I wanted to do.. I think I'm about to meet the Council for the first time in ME1... so I've not THAT far to go (oh who am I kidding?)
Reason I haven't been touching it recently is work, I upped my shifts after the new year and it's kicked the shite out of me, so I'm backing down and taking it easy for a while. Which will mean more time for gaming (yay!)
Recently I've been playing through Assassin's Creed, after completing the first game (by that I mean the storyline, because bollocks to hunting all those flags) I'm what I'm guessing is halfway through 2. For those who haven't played Assassin's Creed, the second game is huge. The first game felt pretty big but this is stunning, with so many side quests and mini plot stories to fill in the background there's days of content here.
It's not Skyrim big, but then again few things are.
Other than that I picked up Sonic Generations for the 3DS over the New Year, as a fan of the classic Mega Drive (that's Sega Genesis for you US types.) I've been curious to see what the new Generation Sonic fuss is about. I had Sonic 3D for the MD but utterly hated it, and never touched any subsequent Sonic titles, except for a 2d game they did for the GBA a few years back (I forgot I even had that until I just wrote this... I must have the cartridge somewhere!)
For those who haven't played it, or looked into it, they've taken a level from every major Sonic game (though they've mixed 3 and Knuckles together, those devious bastards! I wanted my Angel Island zone) and split it over 2 stages. The first is a classic 2D layout, even of the newer games, the second is the more up to date 3D style gameplay. Yes a 3D version of Green Hill, it takes some getting use to if you've never done the newer games.
However what I don't like is after a while, they're throwing new Sonic's moves into old Sonic's abilities, that just confused the hell out of me. I'll also say for the record, this game is HARD. I picked up Super Mario 3DS in November and bar a couple of the Bowser fights that game was pretty easy, this has had Game Over screens popping up more times than I can grind my teeth in frustration. I haven't had a single player challenge this good since Ikaruga.
Which reminds me, I should play that again...
Other than that I've been playing Rise of Immortals (yes I know I know Myrhial, I should just download LoL..) and spending some time in EVE, recently getting the opportunity to run with one of the elite private networks when it comes to Incursions. However that's a completely whole separate post in itself, and something for another time.
Apologies if this seems more like a diary feel than an actual blog on something relevant, I've been dry for topic ideas for a while. Suggestions welcome.
NG.
Friday 6 January 2012
Happy new year, and what 2012 brings to the cave.
Late to the party with my wellwishes, but I hope you all had a great holiday.
2012 has a fair amount in gaming interests for me, with Diablo and Mass Effect 3 coming up, as well as constant developments in the world of EVE Online.
On top of that I've a couple of things to finish off in the world of Skyrim, I plan to go back and finish off a few Human Revolution builds I had planned, and over the winter break I discovered Petroglyph's Rise of Immortals (which reminds me, "Bioware" is doing C&C Generals 2, I'll be popping my thoughts up at some point) This prompted my partner to nag me into trying LoL, which I will when the installation client actually works.
And on top of all of that she finally got me around to playing the Assassin's Creed series, why did I abstain for so long.
As well as all of that I'm still playing a back log of old Gamecube games and picking up some interesting titles on my 3DS, with plenty more to come in the next year. So there should be plenty of content on that front, as well as my continuation of thoughts relating to non title specific elements of gaming.
But first, gotta go back to work, someone hand me a coffee.
NG
2012 has a fair amount in gaming interests for me, with Diablo and Mass Effect 3 coming up, as well as constant developments in the world of EVE Online.
On top of that I've a couple of things to finish off in the world of Skyrim, I plan to go back and finish off a few Human Revolution builds I had planned, and over the winter break I discovered Petroglyph's Rise of Immortals (which reminds me, "Bioware" is doing C&C Generals 2, I'll be popping my thoughts up at some point) This prompted my partner to nag me into trying LoL, which I will when the installation client actually works.
And on top of all of that she finally got me around to playing the Assassin's Creed series, why did I abstain for so long.
As well as all of that I'm still playing a back log of old Gamecube games and picking up some interesting titles on my 3DS, with plenty more to come in the next year. So there should be plenty of content on that front, as well as my continuation of thoughts relating to non title specific elements of gaming.
But first, gotta go back to work, someone hand me a coffee.
NG
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