Interesting discoveries from my first day in Liberty City
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Here’s a short list of notable discoveries from the beginnings of my mayhem-filled journey through Broker:
You can actually drive legally without much trouble — It seems that the weight of the vehicles is enough that driving feels a hell of a lot more realistic. I’ve heard some complaint about [...]
Tags: grand theft auto, gta iv, liberty city, niko bellic, Rockstar Games
Posted in First Impression, New Game | No Comments »>Swarm Racer: if Bangai-O was made of bees
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Well here’s an interesting one. Swarm Racer is a racing game by Lexaloffle where you race the clock to collect all of the gems on a maze-like map. Simple sounding game, but the interesting thing is that you control a whole swarm of bees, rather than a single space ship or something. [...]
Tags: bangai-o, free games, indie games, lexaloffle, swarm racer
Posted in Indie Scene | No Comments »>I love Noitu Love 2
Monday, April 28th, 2008Indie games have been getting a decent amount of press these days. I guess ever since Portal’s success last year, games like Audiosurf being distributed through Steam, and the hype surrounding games like Fez at the IGF festival, indie games are a lot easier to find and play through the interwebs. I just [...]
Tags: indie games, joakim sandberg, konjak, noitu love 2, platformer
Posted in Indie Scene | No Comments »>Gaming Log - April 21st, 2008
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Wow, I’ve been playing some serious variety during the last week:
I got into GTA San Andreas Multiplayer, a mod created for the PC version that turns SA into a multiplayer game (SA:MP as it’s known in the community). After listening to last weeks 1UP Yours podcast (podtrac beware!), Shawn Elliott’s recommendation to check it [...]
Tags: bully, burnout paradise, criterion, Fallout, interplay, Rockstar Games, sa:mp
Posted in Gaming Log, New Game, Oldies but Goodies | 1 Comment »>The RPG Syllabus
Sunday, April 20th, 2008In a recent post over at Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott has asked for reader input as to what RPGs really define the genre, and would be best to use as study pieces for his new course on the history of role-playing games. Abbott currently serves as a liberal arts professor at Wabash College in [...]
Tags: deus ex, double fine, Fallout, favorites, rpgs, sierra, space quest, telltale, ultima VII
Posted in Oldies but Goodies, Retrospection | No Comments »>Gaming Log - April 14th, 2008
Monday, April 14th, 2008Wow, I played almost no games through the end of last week. I think I turned on Crackdown on Thursday or Friday, and Corey and I played for a few minutes, but that’s it.
Over the weekend, however, I played a decent amount of stuff. Friday I installed Diablo II and have already finished [...]
Tags: BioWare, blizzard, burnout paradise, Crackdown, criterion, diablo 2, level-5, Mass Effect, professor layton
Posted in Gaming Log, New Game | No Comments »>Adventuring with the Professor
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008So I received my copy of Professor Layton from Amazon today, I ordered it last week sometime. Before I picked it up, each new preview then review of the game made me want it more and more. I love good brain teasers, but so much of the DS market has now been saturated [...]
Tags: ds, level-5, Nintendo, professor layton, puzzle
Posted in New Game | No Comments »>Portal, now with less Orange Box
Monday, April 7th, 2008For those of you who’ve been not playing games for the last 6 months, you can now pick up Portal as a stand alone box copy off the shelf. Maybe you don’t feel like dropping the full price on the whole Orange Box? Who knows? All I know is as a gamer, [...]
Tags: goty, orange box, portal, STEAM, valve software
Posted in Launch Party | No Comments »>Gaming Log - April 6, 2008
Monday, April 7th, 2008I’ve played, I think, most of the way through the first chapter (of 4?) in Apollo Justice. It’s the perfect type of DS game for me, at least with the way I’ve been playing mobile games lately. It’s more or less just tapping through conversations, listening to testimony, then once in a while [...]
Tags: ace attorney, apollo justice, ds, Nintendo
Posted in Gaming Log | No Comments »>Gaming Log - April 2, 2008
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I didn’t play much in the way of games yesterday. Colette and I team-smashed a little in Brawl. Colette’s a SOLDIER with Kirby now. Ever since the original Super Smash Bros., I didn’t know anyone could use Kirby like that anymore. She’s proven me wrong.
I started the first case in Apollo [...]
Tags: apollo justice, colette, kirby, smash bros brawl
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