Exclusive

Last night on the Playstation store they put out the exclusive time trial runs for mirrors edge FREE. I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, but from the videos that I’ve seen they look pretty sweet. From what I can tell they don’t take place ini the city, but in a virtual training camp (I might have made that up) where the ledges and gaps are just cubes floating in space. I’m looking forward to trying it out later tonight. I’ll update after I play.

 

[update] Okay so I played it and… I dunno it was pretty wacky looking and even more disorienting then the game itself. I mean it’s just brightly colored blocks floating in the air.

 

we’re here

I know it’s been awhile and I don’t know if anybody still comes here, but I’m ready to dust this place off and get back to work. Since the holidays not to many games have come out out. I played some of the big titles like Fable 2 (awesome), Little big planet (awesome), mirrors edge (awesome), and of course Left 4 Dead (super awesome) but since that I went back into my library of games and tarted to play some of the older titles that I didn’t get to play when all those other games were coming out. I’ve been playing Infinite Undiscovery. Now I know this game aren’t exactly old but I’ pretty sure it came out earlier in the year. I wonder what other games have I left to the side while more shiny games caught my ADD eye and I wander towards it.

 

The state of Next Gen RPGs

Everyone is always crying foul when it comes to RPGS. For me, I’ve noticed that the industry has been flooded with RPGs, for a while now, from the consoles to the portable systems. And the future is only looking brighter. There is a great deal of selection for the fan of the genre to choose from. On every system. Even still the PS2 (P4).Another thing is, if funds allow so, there is reason to own every system. If funds prevent such an expense, the RPG genre is becoming the one exclusivity that might help your system decision choice, outside of price.

Already, there is Mistwalker with their fine, unique editions to the mix with the titles: Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and from Namco Trusty Bell err… I mean Eternal Sonata (soon to be released in Japan on the PS3). Not to mention the news that Tri-Ace will be making an exclusive new Star Ocean game, and another exclusive title called Infinite Undiscovery. Plus there is another exclusive title from the Namco Tales group, and more to come from Mistwalker. All exclusively, for now, on the 360.

Nintendo has always supplied us with challenging and fun games from Intelligent Designs. The Fire Emblem games have always been top notch, and the Advance War games are always a a worthy purchase. And of course the 2-D Paper Mario games are a fun run though. Outside of the always classic Zelda games. Also, it seems Square Enix has jumped back on the Nintendo wagon with their Dragon Quest series.

Sony, well, there’s a game called FF XIII and it’s many spin-offs, which is an exclusive that I’m sure many people are highly anticipating. And the PSP is dishing out a fair amount of selection. Every thing from re-releases to new often over-looked titles from X-Seed. The PSP has more RPGs than it’s console counterpart. Of course, for nostalgia purposes, the PS network is re-releasing old RPGs for a low price that people might have missed out on. Playable on the PS3 and transferable to the PSP.

So it seems the RPG genre is entering a new phase. Full of innovation, new stories, and who knows what else for gamers of all sorts and ages. Of course, there is news that has been missed, and all which has yet to be discovered.

Check the links for info on some of the upcoming RPG titles:

Infinite Undiscovery

Star Ocean 4

Tales of Vespia

Fragile

 

Alone in the Dark hands on game impressions

This is what i wanted to do to myself after playing 20 minutes of this game…I just have a few words about my time with this game. DO NOT BUY!!! i repeat,

DO   NOT   BUY !!!

That’s it for my review, tune in next week for a…..lol nah putting all jokes aside, this game is just…awful. I played probably about 20 minutes of this and had to take it back to EB. First let me say that ive been following this game for a long while and EVERYTHING about whats been shown so far had me open about getting it until i actually got it. BOY was i wrong.

Visuals aside this game is almost unplayable. There is a standard that ALL games roll with be it platformers, shooters, racers,  rpgs etc… This game for one is a mix between 1st person and 3rd person meaning they let you go back n forth as you like but the BIGGEST issue i had with this was that, in 1st person mode it had a certain button config and on third it had another……WHO DOES THAT!!! i sat there almost the full 20 minutes trying to figure out if i had changed a setting by mistake or if i had done something wrong….phenomenally STUPID!

Then even worse, once in third person, the control setup/actions are those of a game from the early playstation 1 days where movement from left to right up and down are all done on the left analog….WHO DOES THIS!!!! I dont even want to talk about how BIG of a let down this game was/is. Then you cant even turn in place, its like hes stuck on a circular rail path and can only move on full 360 circular angles….half the time i wanted to turn around id end up running into a wall and staying there…..

I bought it yesterday and today its GONE! sold it to EB and spent the cash i got back on Heavenly Sword. I got the full hook up on this so i got my 65 bucks back even though it was opened but if you cant get the same love i got, then im afraid i have one more bit of bad news… they’ll ONLY give you 20$ back….ABSURD! id rather BURN this GARBAGE.

 

Soul Eater episode 12

Finally Soul Eater episode 12 is out and ready for download. This episode wasnt action packed but showed a bit more story than the past few episodes which is good because, it shows that the first 10 were more of introduction episodes and NOW finally the story arc is starting to kick in.

On a side note…who ever is watching this, what FanSub group are you going with? Mines pretty decent but always looking for better. I swear this anime is stealing ALL my attention right now lol. Since Naruto is going with fillers yet AGAIN…oh and so is bleach… then Sould Eater is filling that void QUITE nicely.

 

Firefox 3 Available for download.

Well, Firefox 3 is now available for download and apparently, they’re attempting to set a Guinness World Record with most downloads in a day. i dont think theres a record of that type at the moment so theyll win either way lol. In any case, heres the official link to their homepage. Ive downloaded the new and “improved” browser and um…seems ok. Its been trimmed up and its ” faster ” than before so im happy. Get your free Firefox download here.

Oh and P.S…if you scroll down a lil bit on this page, youll see what the improvements are over the old one plus advantages firefox has over Internet Explorer.

 

Soul Eater episode 11

Is out and ready to be downloaded. Again, this anime so far has been a blast. So far its up to the 11th episode and its definitely held up past the ‘if in 5 episodes nothing has happened dump the anime and move on rule’ lol. In this episode Tsubaki takes a dive into the evil muramasa sword to fight her sibling in a weapon vs weapon fashion.

If you want a quick impression about this anime click here

 

Playstation Needs this!!! we do too… update 2.40

Finally drawing closer to update 2.4!!! I as well as many of us have been spoiled so much by XBOX Lives’ interface that when on the PS3, sometimes its unbearable. Dont get me wrong, every system does what it does good but when it comes to the online component (amongst other things), Sonys PS3 needs work, hopefully 2.40 does the trick.

Heres the latest entry from the PS blog:

A new PLAYSTATION 3 firmware update (v2.36) will be launching soon, improving system stability when playing select PlayStation format software titles. We’re also happy to officially report that the 2.40 system software update for PS3 will include “XMB” access in-game. The update will also include “trophies,” an exciting new feature that we’ll be providing more details on soon, as well as some other new enhancements. We’ve talked about some of this on the blog previously and know that many of you can’t wait to get your hands on these features. You can expect us to share all of the official details shortly.

Lets hope they dont take too long. Nowadays it seems EVERYONE is biting off of everyone but THIS is something id GLADLY keep my mouth shut about. BITE all you want sony…we NEED this!

check them out here

 

PS3 trophies… so close.

if you turned on your PS3 today you probably saw the update notice, to update your software to 2.36. The update itself doesn’t do much other then some performance stability. The reason I mentioned trophies in the title is because Sony say that with the next update 2.4 they will FINALLY be adding the trphy system which is said o be similar the achievements system used in XBOX LIVE. Also in 2.4 the ability to access your XMB in a game.

Hopefully they will look as good as in does in the above picture. Sony hasn’t given an exact date for 2.4, but I’m guessing it’ll be around the same time as E3. 

 

D+Pad magazine vol 8

Issue 8 is out now. oh and again, did i mention its completely FREE!!!

Jam-packed with previews of upcoming hits such as DEAD SPACE, FAR CRY 2 and PRINCE OF PERSIA, as well as reviews of all the latest games including METAL GEAR SOLID 4: GUNS OF THE PATRIOTS, NINJA GAIDEN II, SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL and BUZZ! QUIZ TV, issue 8 of D+PAD is an essential read!

I must say im LOVING this mag lol..first and foremost, like i said before, its free and the video feature they add into the pages is pretty cool. Your reading about something and as u scroll down, you see the video RIGHT there embeded into the page..good stuff.

check them out HERE for your download.