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A blog which features a monthly summary about the games I played each month, including thoughts and wishes.
Gaming Activities November 2011
Gaming Activities? Where did I left off last time? Ah, yeah. Welcome to my monthly gaming activity summary. I’m Joey and I gonna tell you what great video games I’ve played last month.
Let’s talk about the Tomb Raider HD collection first.
Some trophs were challenging, while other weren’t. I still have to go for some specific trophs, but I have all the time I wish to take to unlock these. Tomb Raider Anniversary belongs to the best TR games that got developed by Crystal Dynamics and SquareEnix. It maybe even is the best Tomb Raider game too. The levels are great expressions from the retro looking ones of the very first Tomb Raider from ’95. It’s amazing how much details you encounter while you play it. The original levels got remade pretty well. Everything is there: The legendary T-Rex and Raptor fight, the amazing puzzle rooms in the greek levels, the outstanding and atmospheric egyptian dungeons and of course the mysterious Atlantis levels. TR: Legend and TR: Underworld are OK, but the first one is too short, the second one is too glitchy if you take a close eye on Lara’s animations. Never played a TR game before? Ever played Uncharted? Then I suggest you to give the TR HD collection a go!
Let’s talk about the game purchase: Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition.
The savegames of my UK Resident Evil 5 work well with the EU Gold Edition and so I didn’t needed to play through the entire game again.
The Versus Mode just kicks arse if you make it to join a game. But to finish a Versus game seems pretty complicated. Simply because most hosts end the game session if they’re about to lose it, which throws you out of the session and kills your score and chance to win. This especially sucks if you made the needed score for your trophy, but then get kicked out before the game ends. Stupid Bastards on the other end of the line. But I am still playing until that trophies drop!
The main reason for me to get the Gold Edition still was the fact that I could play the Two DLC’s. Lost in Nightmares is just amazing once you unlocked the original Resident Evil Camera Mode that allows you to move your character like in the original RE from ’95 through different preset camera angels. It felt so freaking retro that I couldn’t resist to play through it multiple times at once.
Let’s talk about The Elder Scrolls.
Like I said, I don’t have Skyrim. But I have Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion. I played much Morrowind this month, but I got as always lost in side-quests and exploring the game world instead of taking on the main quests. What can I say? Every The Elder Scrolls game is a masterpiece of western RPGs. You either like it or not. For my part? I like it!
Let’s come to an end. What to expect in my gaming activity summary for the month december? I guess that I write up my expressions of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and maybe some impressions of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Until then…
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latest gaming activities ;october 2011
“More and more I find myself being warped back to a time in which I came home from school and played video games.”
Another month of gaming and passed new game releases is over and all I did was to play some old games for myself. The most anticipated release for october is definitely Batman: Arkham City. I remember the release of its predecessor Arkham Asylum and the hype given to it by gamers I know all around youtube, gameanyone or twitter. People just loved the game and praised it to heaven, while I just played the demo on my PS3 and left it with many question marks over my head. The little tiny demo didn’t showed me the greatness of Arkham Asylum and I still wondered why so many people couldn’t stop playing it. As you know, I’m always broke and purchasing new games is one of my secondary priorities. I didn’t play Arkham Asylum until last month, when the release of Arkham City made me get the first Batman game in GOTY-Edition for 20 EUR. Guess what? I played through it during one single weekend and finished it, together with all Riddler Challenges solved in less than 20 hours. It was an immersive experience! A hyped and amazing experience that made me understand why it deserved all the hyped reviews of gamers like me.
But Batman: Arkham Asylum is the only old new game release I played. With my new job and the Thief Let’s Play being done and ready to upload in my back, I focused on playing games that collected dust in my gamer shelf. More and more I find myself being warped back to a time in which I came home from school and played videos games for myself. Without being connected to the online world, to social gamer networks or without headset and online play. I mentioned that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings got to be my game of the month. I played it everyday after I came back from work for several hours since I left it untouched three months ago, ended by a rage quit. It was worth my time, since it’s one of the less good role-playing games out there below the highly overrated Dragon Age or Mass Effect.
The Witcher 2 is simplified and more mass appealing like its predecessor. Once you get your hands on the controls, you realize they were developed to fit perfectly on a console, without being simplified to the extreme. It still features a deep and perfect combat system, one fantastic mature plotline, mixed up with the game worlds politics, sex and strong language. Especially characters like mercenary Vernon Rouche or the traitorous sorceress Phillipa Eilhart stand out from the other crowd around the Witcher Gerald from Rivia. A big plus is the matter of choise during the game. The player can decide if he wishes to help Vernon Rouche or the Elven Rebellion Leader Ioweth and finds himself again in two completely different plotlines, completely different areas, different quests and different outcome of the game.
Some people would say that playing the prequel to a sequel is just stupid, but not to me. As I finished both of The Witcher 2′s plotlines, I decided to finally finish the first game of the series. That even allowed me to compare both games better. I’m still not through with part 1, but all I can tell is that both games are a must play for every role-playing game fan out there without excuse.
The promissed reviews for Dead Space 2 and The Witcher 2 are cancelled, because I think that posting a summary of my gaming activities is enough to share thoughts of my gaming life. And with that line in mind, let me tease you with some short info about my next month’s gaming activity summary: My new job allows me to buy at least one game or game collection per month, simply because of more money that I have at my disposal. During a little visit in the multimedia corner of the nearby s-mart, I dug out a sweet HD collection for the latest three Tomb Raider games developed by SquareEnix CrystalDynamics. And guess what? I gonna play through all three over the month november and declare them to be my game(s) of the just started month of november 2011. Read my thoughts next month. Until then…
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latest gaming activities ;september 2011
One of the bad things as a dedicated gamer, especially if you’re broke, is that you just can’t buy every new game release. Already spend my money for Deus Ex 3 one month ago, which I bought instead of Warhammer: Space Marine. Several months earlier I had this dilemma with Alice: Madness Returns and The Witcher 2, that concluded into me buying The Witcher 2. And now this madness returns as I need to wait again until I got a little bit more overflow of money again in my pockets for the next big purchase. Now I have once again two more games left behind that I wished to buy straight at release date. And the horror continues in the next months, which will make my life literally hell on earth again. With RAGE, Uncharted3 and The Elder Scrolls 5 get three new top titles in my book of “worthy games” released I just can’t buy yet. I’m just glad that I am not one of these gamers that need to buy every little mini or indy game released multiple times a month on steam or other networks or else I would be more broken than broke on money. Even though I purchased many games at GOGcom.
Anyways, it’s great to be a ’90s game enthusiast, simply because I have the chance to play a lot of good old video games from my childhood. To open my wall cabined that holds all my games and to browse through the almost endless old CD-cases is just amazing! Most of the games did I played already, some never or just for a short period. Others I began but never finished in my life. Especially the last kind of games in my cabined are my beloved ones, since several years later I have the chance to play these again and this time through to the end. This even applies to all the next generation games I bought and put into the cabinet. In some years I gonna start playing them and enjoying them more as I would today. I’m no fan of playing multiple hours of always the same boring online shooters like Call of Duty or Battlefield, neither of playing online co-op with people I met on youtube or twitter. I love to be nostalgic and to give old games a chance. Games I can play alone and games that can deliver a immerse storyline and gaming experience.
Well, what exactly did I play in the last months and weeks? I got finished and loved Deus Ex 3 and Dead Space 2 and if you seen my articles, my raptr tweets or some special uploads on my youtube channel, then you know that I was pretty addicted to the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. I played the first game, one of the many I never finished in my life and loved it. I played the second game, the only one I finished years ago and then the third one. I got so hyped that I straight decided to capture a let’s play of Thief The Dark Projects, which will be uploaded as soon as my Diablo LP series is complete. Maybe I even decide to allow my youtube followers to pick the next LP with a poll, because I even play and capture StarWars Jedi Knight at the moment.
Lately, to be more specific yesterday, I just downloaded the Patch 2.0 for The Witcher 2 and I’m looking forward to see how much the game has changed with it to give it another go, because the game first felt wrong compared to the first part. This leads me to the last thought that I wish to put on this “short” article: It’s pretty silent on my blog lately after some reviews and new added video entries and I wish to write some more indept thoughts on Dead Space 2 and Witcher 2 in next weeks. So keep your eyes open for any update on my Twitter or Youtube.
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