Finished High School and looking forward to uni, but between then and now there are lots of games and so much time.
I can't remember the last time I was so excited for the beginning of a year, at least as far as games are concerned. With so many of the truly fantastic (looking) games that were supposed to e released this year being let loose between january and april, I'm having difficulty containing myself.
What am I looking forward to most? probably Mass Effect 2, Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy XIII and Bioshock 2 I'm a sucker for good writing and enticed by great characters and plot. Next I'd probably say God of War 3 and AVP, simply for the stress relief that killing vast quantities of grunts provides, well that and the two games looking bad arse (strangely saying bad arse doesn't sound quite as good as the American version: bad ass).
Anyway, in other news I acheived Platinum trophy status in AC2 (feathers, so many feathers). Special thanks to Roosterteeth.com for providing the handy maps and to IGN for helping to solve the 3rd last and 2nd last glyph puzzles (if you haven't solved em all DO IT IT'S WORTH IT). I would urge anyone to check out Roosterteeth if they haven't already.
As far as non-gaming goes, I've seen Avatar twice within three days, first normally then in 3D, I can honestly find no fault with it and will probably see it more times until I do find one. If I could I would force everyone to see it. If you can't make up your mind over wether to see it in #D or not, I would pick 3D. Normally 3D looks tacky and childish (Beowulf anyone?) but this is so well done and is about as close to total immersion as possible (at times I forgot that I was in a theatre). Sam Worthington is great as Jake Sully, he doesn't go overboard or anything he is just a very real and naturalistic actor making it easy to create an emotional and mental connection to his character. The star of the show though is Pandora, Cameron hasn't created a setting he has actually constructed an entire planet complete with it's own thriving eco-system. I would also like to give special mention to Zoe Saldana who played Neytiri, the cheif Na'vi love interest, she was also very naturalistic yet powerful when emotional. Also the bad-ass of the year award goes to Colonel Quaritch played by Stephen Lang, his bad-assness was one of the highlights of the film, which was impressive considering how everything else was so amazing. Long story short if you haven't seen it see it and then see it again, the 300 million dollar budget is justafied.
Well thats all I can think of at the moment. Enjoy Chirstmas and every other holiday you may have this year, I'm agnostic which is basically the religious equivelant of a man saying "I'll do it later" so I enjoy all holidays. Happy new year and happy gaming.
Woot, first ever platinum trophy a few days ago thanks to Batman: Arkham Asylum.
With the final exams coming up in the next two months it's nlikely that I'll be getting any games until November 17 at least.
Pray for me...
woohoo, got the 100% trophy for Batman Arkham Asylum, not long to go before I get my first platinum trophy
With the fury that is the christmas release period I may start posting reviews again and more blogs, heres hoping I have the time to do so
