Yesterday, after getting all of the trophies for Assassin’s Creed II I had a hankering to stab some more people in the throat and run over rooftops. I downloaded the DLC currently available: The Battle of Forli and The Bonfire of the Vanities: Black Edition with 3 Templar Lairs. All of this cost me $10.98.
The DLC was not all that.
Continue reading Assassin’s Creed II – Downloadable Mal-Content
There’s no two ways about it: this experiment with Shadow of the Colossus is not going well. I sit down to decide what to do with my evening, and as my glance strays towards the PS2, SotC disc slumbering away in its tray, I remember that I have Space Marines to paint. Episodes of Glee to watch. Dishes to wash. The catbox could use cleaning.
Apparently I don’t want to play this game anymore.
There’s a lot to like about Colossus, and I touched on some of it in the last podcast. It’s beautifully atmospheric. The designs of the colossi are interesting, and the puzzles are interesting to figure out and solve. I’m just looking for a bit more, I suppose.
Continue reading Make Me Play Videogames: What’s Going Wrong Here
Sonic Rob: oh fuck, we watched New Moon last night
Sonic Rob: we thought it would be stupid, mindless laugh-at-the-movie fun
Sonic Rob: it was fucking pain rendered in photons
FyreHaar: dude
FyreHaar: were you drunk?
FyreHaar: I think you need to be drunk
Bioshock, complete. I saved all of the Little Sisters and got the “Family” ending. So nice, so pretty. Do I go back and slaughter them wholesale to see the alternate ending?
Probably not, Bioshock 2 awaits!
New Moon, Eclipse & Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer, the second, third and fourth books of the Twilight Series.
If you call it a saga, I will cut you. Spoilers abound. Continue reading New Moon, Eclipse & Breaking Dawn- Cannonball Read #6, #7 & #9
I dedicate my completion of Assassin’s Creed II to our mom.
I now know tons about renaissance Florence and Venice. Mom actually went to those cities, saw the landmarks, lived in Italy. She spent more than a month in Rome in the late 60’s studying in the Vatican.
Spoiler: I giggled my head off when I attacked the pope in the Sistine Chapel. She would have loved it!
I spent that whole game thinking about how much she would have liked it and wanting to ask her how accurate it was.
Miss ya ma!
-fh
What’s My Name: Game Studio Edition
New Game Studio Name 1: Square Enix Extreme Edges
FyreHaar: oh god
Sonic Rob: or Squeeeeeee, I guess
FyreHaar: ok that’s pretty good
Sonic Rob: no seriously, that’s the name of their new label for mature rated titles
Sonic Rob: which is hilarious, cause that’s one of the most immature names ever
FyreHaar: Squee for mature audiences
Sonic Rob: They should have called it Square Enix Black Steel Unleashed Riding a Sweet Dragon, Yo
Continue reading What’s My Name: Game Studio Edition
A podcast recorded, edited and published in less time than it takes to gestate an elephant. Rejoice!!
>> 00:00 Intro and Game Demo Reviews. We tried out Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter, Supreme Commander 2 and Just Cause 2.
>> 16:00 Fyre completed her first run through of God of War III. Get ready for the love!
>> 26:00 SonicRob gives an update on Shadow of the Colossus, the current selection for Make Me Play Videogames and JRPG weirdfest Persona 4.
>> 36:58 A digression regarding amphibians and Fyre adds to the list of forbidden handles for What’s My Name?
>> 39:15 SonicRob speaks to The Girl Who Played with Fire and the movie of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
>> 45:14 Rob continues hogging the mic to talk about KickAss. We talk about HitGirl and what’s wrong with her.
>> 54:48 Fyre reviews Clash of the Titans and notes an odd similarity between two previews.
>> 1:08:25 We talk about Snow Crash and wind up the show!
SonicFyre Episode 5 MP3 1:12:36 66.4MB
How to Knit a Love Song by Rachael Herron. A fantastic, smart romance. Lots of super accurate knitting and fiber detail.
Full disclosure. I have been reading Rachael’s blog for several years. This in no way obliges me to like her book. The fact that her book was awesome obliges me to like it.
Continue reading How to Knit a Love Song – Cannonball Read #11
Surely I can’t have been the only who, hearing that a downloadable survival horror game called Hydrophobia has been announced for later in the year, immediately assumed that it was a gritty reboot of Paperboy that followed the harrowing tale of a young cyclist bitten by an improperly restrained Rottweiler and his subsequent descent into rabies-induced madness? I mean, that’s the first thing that springs to mind, right?
After all, as we all know, the fear of water is called aquaphobia, so if the game was about scary things happening in water, they’d have called it that.
-ssr