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First off, I’m not going to do a full write up of Sony’s conference because, quite frankly, it was boring. The only thing there that I liked was Portal 2, and that’ll be on PC anyway.
Microsoft, with the Kinect, is at least trying to bring something new to motion control. The Wii and Kinect each have their own separate Pros and Cons, but Sony’s Move looks like it’s trying to hard to copy and 1-up the Wii.

Now for Nintendo: Holy crap! Nintendo wins E3 2010!

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
We all knew it was coming, Zelda with Wii Motion Plus control. I am a little disappointed that I can’t play with a control pad anymore. I didn’t like Twilight Princess on the Wii because I could never get the sword to swing the correct way and ended up reverting back to the Gamecube version. If what I’ve experienced with the swordplay games in Wii Sports Resort is any indication, then this new Zelda will have that problem fixed with it’s 1:1-ish sword swinging. The new art style looks perfect to me. It sits somewhere in between Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. I would compare it more to Super Mario Galaxy, cartoon candy but still beautiful. Read the rest of this entry »

Joel McHale was funny at least.

Child of Eden
Purdy. Not much else to say about it. I wonder if the shooting it automatic after you lock on to targets or if they guy was actually doing something to tell it to shoot.

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
Hell yes. Assassin’s Creed II was my game of the year for the 2009. This direct sequel/spin-off is looking to be just as good, if not better.

Shaun White Skateboarding
If it controls like Tony Hawk, I might give it a try. I tried EA’s Skate a few times, but I couldn’t get used to the controls because I played the hell out of the Tony Hawk games to the point that their controls felt natural to me and I kept trying to play Skate that way without even thinking about it. Read the rest of this entry »

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
I never played the originals much, but this doesn’t look much different aside from the updated graphics. However, having the game turn your friends in to cops and criminals is pretty cool.

Dead Space 2
I still haven’t finished the first one, but the new looks the same to me. And the guy demoing it looked like he was getting his ass kicked.

Medal of Honor, Battlefield Bad Company 2 Vietnam Expansion, and Gun Club
Blah. Blah. Military shooters. Call of Duty competitors. Whatever.
And I’m tired of having to sign up to developers stupid services after I’m already signed up on XBox Live or PSN. With EA its Gun Club, uPlay for Ubisoft, Social Club for Rockstar, etc. Read the rest of this entry »

Another year, another E3. Time to rant.

Halo Reach, Call of Duty Black OPs, Gears of War 3:
Meh, meh, and meh. Neither of these over hyped franchises is the reason I own a 360.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising
The bullet-time slicing is pretty cool, but I hope there’s more to the game than that. Otherwise the hack-n-slash with occasional bullet time is gonna get old fast. But in typical Kojima fashion, the trailer didn’t reveal much detail about the gameplay or the insane story that likely goes along with it.

Fable III
Fable and Fable II has been excellent games that I’ve gone back and played again several times. One of my gripes about Fable II was that your choices didn’t seem to affect the main story much, unlike the first Fable. I hope we’ll see that improved in the new game. The trailer puts emphasis in the story of the 2 brothers, the one who inherited the throne, and the one who the player will be controlling to lead the revolution. But it raises a question to me: did they remove the ability to play as a girl? In games wiith a good/evil system, I typically play through with a good guy first, then an evil bitch second, just to see how the games plays in contrast. Read the rest of this entry »

I must the the only Borderlands PC player in the world not experiencing Borderlands glitches. Whether it’s gaming blogs like Kotaku or Joystiq, or forums like Steam or Gearbox, all I ever see is bitching and moaning about the glitches, or the game not working, or the game needing a patch.

The game is running great for me on Windows 7 via Steam.

Another silly random project I came up with.

You can find it here: http://www.samutz.com/blargh/articles/borderlands-custom-starter-saves/

Am I the only one who sees this in the Left 4 Dead 2 poster?

(I couldn’t really decide what do use for the little girl as there are no girls in TF2.)

It’s that time of year again. Time for me to rant about games even though almost no one is going to read it.

Last year I ranted about games I didn’t really care for, so this time I’ll focus on what I’m looking forward too.

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So I’m going to write a bit about games.

So today I packed up my Wii and PS2 in to their original boxes, not because I’m moving, not because I’m shipping them, and not because I’m selling them, but because I just don’t play them anymore. Read the rest of this entry »

Pros:

• You can play with your friends.
• Gold and experience you gain as a guest will be transfered to your real hero.

Cons:

• The guest is stuck using a pre-made generic hero, with the same abilities as the host. Lionhead could have done better. I can understand them doing this for the local co-op since there’s only one hero (one save file), but if they can send the hosts’s hero data to the guest online, then they should be able to send the guest’s hero data to the host to allow both unique heroes.
• The camera tries to keep both heroes on screen, but fails horribly. Again, this make sense for local co-op since you only have one screen to use, but not for online co-op.
• Game freezes when one player pauses. I had to sit and wait while the host played with his dyes and clothing in the pause screen. You can’t even see what the other player is doing in the pause menu. You just see a “<Player Name> has paused the game.” message.
• Loading screens seem to last much longer than in single player.
• If you’re not playing with someone online, but see their orb in the game, you can hear them chatting over XBL, even when they’re chatting with someone else that’s not on your friends list. This could be a pro because its easy to quickly communicate with them, “hey, wanna join me?”, but it’s a con beause it’s annoying having to hear them talk to someone else while you’re trying to play on your own.
• The guest can’t just kill anyone at any time. Only the host can turn safety off. So yes, you can kill your friend’s wife, but only if they allow it by turning the safety off.

So basically, they took the Local Co-op, which is crap, then copy and pasted it for Online Co-op, so it’s still crap.