Hooooly Crap! While I have been home, I've been playing one game and one game ONLY!

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I have put 50 hours into it so far. I have found 90 out of 160 Fragments. I have gotten to One of Eight Paradox Endings. I have attempted to fight the last Boss(es) a few times, failed and went back to play ten hours more after that. I have spent the last hour and a half playing Time Anomaly mini-games in an effort to release one time period from a Paradox and find Mog's home. This morning I discovered the addictiveness of Chocobo Racing, trying in vain to save 15,000 Casino Coins to purchase a Chaos Crystal and a Wild Artefact I sooo desperately need to open more areas on the Historia Crux... One thing this game certainly isn't lacking in is content!

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How about you Moogles?

MMOs. o_O

Dvader said:

Started my Mass Effect 2 playthrough, what an improvement over ME1, so night and day. I cannot get enough of these games. ME3 needs to get here now.

More streamlined, yes, but from an RPG standpoint, that's hardly an improvement. To be frank the only thing I didn't like of the first ME game were its atrocious menus.

SteelAttack said:

More streamlined, yes, but from an RPG standpoint, that's hardly an improvement. To be frank the only thing I didn't like of the first ME game were its atrocious menus.

I dont get what ME1 did that was so great. Leveling up involved raising stats by tiny percentages which is pointless until you reach a skill point which is all that matters so ME2 focused on that. It gave you 5 million useless weapons and upgrades so ME2 did away with that. And that is it, the rest of the game is the same except ME2 plays much much better. Most importantly since ME is a shooter, it plays like a shooter.

GI reviews

The Darkness II (PS3/Xbox 360, 2K Games): 7,5

Soul Calibur V (PS3/Xbox 360, Namco Bandai): 8,5

Jak and Daxter Collection (PS3, Sony): 9,25

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 8,0

NeverDead (PS3/Xbox 360, Konami): 4,0

All Zombies Must Die! (PS3 PSN/Xbox 360 XBLA, Doublesix): 7,75

Amy (PS3 PSN/Xbox 360 XBLA, Lexis Numerique): 3,0

Army Corps of Hell (PS Vita, Square Enix): 4,5

WipEout 2048 (PS Vita, Sony): 7,75

Pushmo (3DS, Nintendo): 8,25

ZEN Pinball 3D (3DS, Zen Studios): 7,75

VVVVVV (3DS, Nicalis): 7,75

NFL Blitz (PS3 PSN/Xbox 360 XBLA, EA): 8,0

I have been playing 2 games over the past week.

Haven't put a ton of time into it yet, but I've liked what I have played of Final Fantasy 13.5 as it reminds me quite a bit of the contrast between FF 10 and FF10.5. The gameplay seems very similar to the last game, but tightened up a bit here and there. I gotta get into it to give a more full impression, but I'm into it so far. Its also one of the prettiest games out there, just like its predecessor.

I've been putting most of my gaming time into this game, and really liking it. Its a cross between a game like GTA and Mafia with something more interactive-movie like, as a game like Heavy Rain is. Its a nice change of pace, and quite addicting trying to solve the cases without making too many mistakes. I could also see necrophiliacs loving this game. I'm about halfway done. Good shit.

I may actually replay the Mass Effect games again before Mass Effect 3 comes out just to freshen my memory and make sure all my choices are going the direction I want them to.

NGamer said:

Is Nintendo doomed? Not likely. Just take a look at how much money it's got in the bank

Fiscal projections. Capital budgeting. Shareholder investment. Yadda yadda yadda. Unless you like accounts and annual reports and stock markets and banks and all that, the world of corporate finance is really boring. But not today. Check this out for a completely not boring financial fact about Nintendo: Nintendo has £6.7 ($10.5) billion in the bank and, even if making big losses every year, that considerable nest egg would keep the company going until 2052. That's, like, 40 years away.



Here's the exact quote taken from a feature in the latest issue of the UK's Nintendo Gamer magazine: "Buried in reams of financial data is the revelation that Nintendo have 812.8 billion Yen (£6.7/$10.5 billion) in the bank - enough for it to take a 20 billion Yen loss (£163/$257 million) every year until 2052. Then there's almost 469 billion Yen (£3.8/$6.0 billion) held in premises, equipment and investments. When that runs out - we're in the year 2075 by this point - they've got some of the most valuable intellectual property in gaming to sell off before the company goes out of business."


Taking all of those exciting numbers into account, even if the worse case scenario happens and assuming Nintendo continues to release, on average, three new Mario games a year - we've still got... 189 new Mario games ahead of us. Also, there's a pretty good chance that we'll get another F-Zero at some point within that timeframe.


So Wii sales may be plummeting like a lemming, 3DS needed a hefty price cut to counter sluggish sales and generally things have been looking a bit bleak for some time, but don't be hasty predicting the end for Nintendo. Even if it all goes properly down the toilet for the Japanese behemoth, it's got more than enough stashed away for a rainy day. In fact, it's got enough for 22,995 rainy days.

gamingeek said:

Can you guys think of any other game where they tried to sell a game in advertising using the producer like a celeb?

Sure. Don't you remember the line "John Romero is going to make you his bitch"? Not saying the end result was good mind you...

A new Uncharted 3 co-op mission released today, if you bought the pass you can get it. Should be fun, get it guys so we can play.