I read a whole bunch on this:

Books > games.

I am such a nerd.

I just started Resident Evil: Revelations. And of course I played some Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny. Not too much of that though. I was traveling this weekend, visiting my wife's family in north Florida and that pretty much limited me to a little time with the 3DS and that's about it.

Huh? Me? Nah, I haven't played PvZ in a while now, I'd say I played it for about 20 hours or so. The other 350 hours belong to my wife. o_O

I just watched a gameplay video of SoS. Seems a tad complex, but could be interesting.

Playing Devil's Advocate (about the EGM socre of Xenoblade) : he might be more familiar with the genre than many of the "me-too" crowd currently reviewing the game.

Playing this weekend:

Final Fantasy 9 and Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth.  I was counting up my VP games and was mildly surprised to see that five game were released in the series.

Anyway, enjoying both. Valkyrie Profile is a turn-based RPG with Metroidvania levels. These days I could imagine it being made by the Maramusa guys rather than Tri-Ace. Unique combat too, they map each of your party to one of the four face buttons, and you can use them one at a time or in combination.

Lenneth is the PSP remake of the original, which I was able to pick up quite by accident when it was released. I went to Wal*Mart looking for Vagrant Story, and by the time I got there I forgot the name, so I got Valkyrie Profile instead. Which was a good turn of fate given how few of them were available (about 70,000) and how much the grey market price went up.

So geeking out with two simultaneous JRPG's. Groan.

Emerging from my self-imposed message board exile, I've been playing Final Fantasy XIII, Crysis 2 and trying (*TRYING*) to play Silent Hill 2 HD, but it's not connecting with me. I never played SH2 back in the day and it's frustrating the shit out of me. Bad combat, loading between rooms that reminds me of Resident Evil, BGM and sound effect that remind me of RE2, the list goes on. It's only a GameFly rental and as such I can just send it back, but as much as I hate to admit it I don't wanna give up on SH2 because I hate seeing a big "0%" on my trophy list. Heck, I've got numerous games in the low single-digits but not a single zero, and as frustrating as Silent Hill 2 can be I want to finish it at least once.

The SH HD collection goes beyond not outdoing the original. It's an inferior product in every possible sense. A halfassed hack job handled by what seems to be a clearly incompetent developer. It's like the dev team in charge of the port went out of its way to actively fuck up the games they were working with.

@SteelAttack: So I guess I should be really glad I wasn't a fan back then, eh? I'd be even worse off right now.

@aspro: Just by looking at the trophy list there are things like "Acquire the book of Lost Memories" and "Acquire the Chainsaw" which made me think those are items I'd just find, but turns out a lot of trophies are for NG+. I may just beat the game once and be done with it, 'cause according to both trophy guides I've read the Platinum requires 6 playthroughs to get all the endings.

@Dvader: I concur on SH3's awesomeness! I've yet to play that HD version, but back on PS2 it was my first (and up to now, only) Silent Hill. The early scene with the train scared me pretty badly back then. I can't remember much more, but I was psyched when I heard about the HD collection because of 3, not 2.