Wednesday, December 10, 2008
I really do enjoy the xbox 360. To be honest, it’s one of the better things to come out of Redmond, Washington. When given the choice, it’s my console of choice when it comes to titles that appear on more than one console. Mainly for multiplayer, but sometimes because I am an achievement whore seeker.
It [...]
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Persistence. I’m going to call it a feature. Three really excellent titles feature persistence this year:
The World Ends With You, by Square Enix for the Nintendo DS
City of Heroes, by NCSoft, for the PC (and MAC!)
Fable 2, by Lionhead studios for the xbox 360
The World Ends With You had a great system of [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
In what may be my most public display of nerditry yet, I have just come back from spending part of my lunch break shaking boxes of the Halo 3 Limited Edition box (themselves, encased in plastic boxes) in order to determine whether or not discs have gotten loose in shipping.
Verdict: All of them are [...]
BioShock is the best anti objectivist essay I have ever played through.
Ultimately, that’s not a good one sentence review.
Let me try again.
“BioShock is one of the few games in my collection that has compelled me to its completion.”
In fact, I’m playing through it again, and that should tell you something else. I’m doing it for [...]
Now that my 360 is in a box on its way to the Microsoft repair depot in Texas, of course there are games I would love to be able to play. Case in point, BioShock. I think it has everything I’m looking for in a video game.
Giant Robot Man Monster Thing? Check.
Creepy [...]
So, right after how I mention how cool it is to have a board game cheaper digitally than in meatspace, my 360 dies. If I had bought a real copy of Carcassonne, I could have been playing it later tonight, regardless. Scoring still would have been a bitch, though.
On the 360 front, I’ve [...]
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Yesterday was a bad day if you were an electronic device owned by me.
Total casualties:
Logitech PlayStation2 USB Headset
This headset just will not be recognized, no matter which USB port I plug it into. Other headsets work fine. Thankfully, I had a spare, so impromptu City of Heroes / City of Villains session [...]