The Marathon Update 1

Bonjour ladies and gents. I know I mentioned last week that I was going to rant about Piracy... at the same time, I feel like I already said a lot of what I felt in my rant about emulation, so the Piracy rant is put on hold for now unless I'm really feeling up to it later... or better yet, to add to a podcast, whenever we get around to actually doing that.

Instead, I'll just post an update on my marathons, IE Ubisoft and Alphabet marathons for that wonderful Backloggery Site. It's a shame that they aren't accepting new users, but considering how sometimes the site randomly crashes, it's not a huge surprise. Besides, the crashing isn't even close to being horribly often, so why risk making it worse?

Starting with the Ubithon, Drakengard 2 is holding my interest pretty well. While the first game had disturbing themes involving incest, cannibalism, insanity, and a touch of bestiality, this one instead features a whiny little brat who can't make up his mind and is totally oblivious to reality and intelligence. Gameplay wise everything is awesome, but still, the main character is a moron. If it weren't for that, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more.

Prince of Persia is on the shelf until I beat Drakengard... so probably in a day or two I'll tackle that one again. It started off awesomely, but I dunno... actually, I do know. I suck at it >_>.

And finally, Red Steel is something I probably should be playing right about now, since I've been in a shooter-ish mood, but... well, the controls could use a lot of work, and in a sword fight, precision is necessary.

Alphabethon has kinda got ignored slightly here, mostly because I want to beat the games I chose in alphabetical order (duh!), but unfortunately I'm stuck at the Temple of Flame in 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's an awesome Zelda style game, but I'm the kinda guy that hates getting stuck. I'm also the kinda guy that gets stuck WAY too often. Maybe gaming isn't for me...? Alone in the Dark isn't as bad as I originally thought... although still not great, and Bioshock was an instant classic. Sadly, I'm almost never in a shooter mood, but the story is good enough that I'm going to hit that pretty soon. Probably after Drakengard, or the PS3 Zelda.

Until next time, a pleasant Gammage to all.

Holy Cow!!?! Chris has played games this week!

... But not many. Again, with a busy work schedule, and with the creativity juices flowing like Niagara Falls, not much game time has been had.

I did spend a few more hours in the 360 resetting of Prince of Persia. The storyline is really what's keeping me into the game, as is the platforming. There isn't a whole lot of combat there to really stick with, but as a whole, the game is fun, and isn't that the whole point of playing games to begin with?

I've also been playing more of Loco Roco 2, and I'm hoping to beat that in the next few days... If I ever play my PSP instead of using it as a glorified MP3 Player. There is just something about listening to music that keeps me actually using my PSP.

Jeff has been kind enough to show me what Eternal Darkness on Gamecube is like. I've had the game in my collection for a while now (lucky for me, when I worked at EB games I got it for like ten bucks) but never really worked up the drive to play it, mostly because me and my gamecube have a neglecting relationship. I never use the gamecube, and it accepts that. We've tried couples therapy and everything, but it's just not working.

Regardless, Jeff should be in the second half of the game by now... I think, and I'll put forth my thoughts on it when he has finished it. Until next time, may the tidings of the gaming gods never leave your controller hands empty.