Dilly Dally, Shilly Shally. I am everything and nothing at the same time. I am the knight in shining armor, here to save the damsel in distress. The distressing part? Underneath my helm, I'm the dragon, too. President and CEO of The Free Big Tits Movement.
Ty Bradley, Bioshock Infinite
I’m almost 6 years late, but I can honestly say that the original Bioshock has one of, if not the best twist of the seventh generation of video game consoles.
Spoilers obviously follow. (Hell, to be honest, I don’t know how I survived 6 years of using the Internet, playing video games, and talking to like-minded people and NOT had the twist spoiled for me, yet within 2 hours of the release of some popular movies, I’ve had the entire plot spoiled for me. I’m looking at you, Iron Man 3. Go figure.)
I really don’t buy myself shit.
And so, with that, I’m about to spend about $100 on video games.
Injustice: Gods Among Us is only $34.99 at Toys ‘R’ Us. (Here’s to hoping Best Buy can Price Match it.) I need the season pass to Bioshock Infinite, which is another $20. Also, while Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is on sale for 320 MS Points and I already own it, the Knives Chau add on is only 80 MS Points. I need that. I also need NFL Blitz for 600 MS Points.
Finally, I’m on the fence for getting Playstation’s All Star Battle Royal, which is on sale for $19.59 (and I get a free copy for my PS Vita). And then, Twisted Metal Black is on sale for less than $5.
Any other suggestions on what to get? I don’t own anything Nintendo related, but everything else current generation is fair game.
…and most of you aren’t brave enough to come at me.
The ones that did (April, Dawn, Dionne, Eyan) got their ass handed to them in a orderly fashion.
Now, I would LOVE to stay and talk about it all, but I’d rather BE about it. My Xbox Gamertag is EdotBrock and my PSN ID is Instant__Vintage (That’s two underscores.)
You want some? Come get some.
If you play this video and don’t sing along to it, you’re too young and probably should see yourself out from my Tumblr. Thanks. Also, you should probably leave if you are old enough to sing along, but not interested in this. Thanks again.
(Oh yeah, and this is a Day 1 purchase for me. Period. *waits for Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers Remake*)
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2013)
So, I read this article on Kotaku where they discussed gamer’s backlog.
You know what I’m talking about: games you were excited for, purchased, got a third of the way through and bought something else, leaving that game unfinished.
My shame is great. I have a list of games that I proudly own and have yet to finish. (More on that later.) Some were because something new came out and I had to play it. Others were because my attention was elsewhere (like imagining a beaver eating macaroni and cheese, but that’s neither here nor there). Others still were because I just couldn’t bring myself to play it a moment longer because that was all I was playing for a while.
So I decided to follow their advice and do Four In February. I’m going to finish 4 games in February. (Maybe more if I can help it.) Now, finish doesn’t mean 100% completion, it just means I saw the ending credits from finishing the last level. The four games I have on my list are:
This is going to be easy for the first 2; I’m already through most of Uncharted 2 and I’m loving DmC. However the last two are going to give me problems because I’m also playing Ni No Kuni: Wrath of The White Witch… and even if I played that exclusively, I don’t think I can make it through the month and finish it… so yeah.
Remember my shame I was talking about? Yeah… I never finished Diablo 3, Torchlight 2, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2, Hitman: Absolution, Dishonored, Red Dead Redemption. L.A. Noire, Max Payne 3, The Witcher 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Halo 4, Farcry 3, Assassin’s Creed 3, Zone Of Enders 2, and the biggest shame of them all… Grand Theft Auto 4.
I know… I know.
But I’m working on it. I promise.
So, last week, I bought myself my Christmas present. (Yes, finally.)
I bought a PS3. (I bought it “new” for $60 from a dude who said it “fell off the back of the truck”. Right.) For the past week, I’ve been playing it nonstop. I got 3 games for it (the Uncharted series) and I joined the Playstation Plus online club for 3 months.
Here’s my opinion so far:
As a 360 owner for 7 years, I’ve grown accustomed to certain things. System updates typically happen twice a year and it’s a pretty painless process. Downloads are quick, and you’re usually playing right when the download is done. There’s a immediate online presence with Xbox; Live offers me the chance to play with all my friends and chat with them across games. I’m used to arcade titles dropping every Wednesday morning, and I’m used to using Microsoft points. I’ve grown accustomed to Microsoft’s perambulation, so much so that entering Sony’s domain has been jarring, to say the least.
The first thing that I didn’t like was no installing games. With the 360, all I have to do is have enough room and about 5-7 minutes and I can install a game fully. The only time the game reads the disc drive is to authenticate the game. Once that’s done, the 360 reads the rest from my hard drive. On the PS3, it’s completely different. All this hard drive space, and the only way to install a game and cut down on power consumption and constant disc spinning and reading is to buy the game digitally, which I also don’t like. (More on that in a second.) If I buy a game from Amazon/Gamestop/Wal-Mart, I have to understand that read times are going to be a bit longer and that I’m going to constantly hear my PS3’s disc drive spinning. Buying the game from Sony in a digital format is the only way to circumvent that issue, which brings me to my second fault.
Buying a game digitally equals more waiting. On the 360, once you downloaded a game, that was it. Select ‘Play Now’ and you’re in business. Not so much on Sony’s system. Not only do I have to wait longer times to download a game, but then once it’s downloaded, I have to install it. Why is it not installing as I download it? That’s what Xbox does. I’m not understanding. And then, as if that’s not bad enough, if you have an update, you have to wait as the update installs… and that takes almost as long as installing it. I ran a test on both of my systems with the same game. (I already owned Mega Man 10 on my 360, and Playstation Plus is letting it’s members play for free, which is something I’ll go into detail more later. SPOILER ALERT: It’s one of the areas I LOVE Sony for and it kicks the 360’s ass on it.) I downloaded them both and timed it. 143 MB on the PS3 took 6 minutes and 17 seconds. (I’m on Verizon’s FiOS Internet service.) The install took another 4 minutes and 2 seconds. THEN I had to wait another 70 seconds for the update to come down, only to wait AGAIN for another 2 minutes even for the update to install. 13 1/2 minutes total for the complete download and starting time for MM10 on the PS3. On the Xbox on the other hand… Same internet connection, same game, same size. It took less than 3 minutes (actually 2 minutes and 10 seconds) for the download of MM10. It took me another 10 seconds of waiting for the update to install. And… that’s it. From the purchase of the game to the start screen, it took me a little over 2 minutes to start playing MM10 on my Xbox. That’s simply soul crushing to Sony. I can only imagine trying to download and play a full sized AAA title like Skyrim on the PS3.
There’s a whole litany of things I disagree with on the PS3 from it’s weird way of having an online account to the wait process of downloading and installing a game to the fact that you can’t install a game on the HDD. But PS Plus is the saving grace. The fact that I only pay less than $4 a month for access (versus a little over $5 on Xbox Live if I don’t get it on sale) and not only do I get demos ahead of everyone else, beta access, and discounts on games to purchase… but I also get free games as long as I have the service is amazing. Do you know how awesome that is? I’m currently downloading Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition for FREE. (Even though it’s 18GB and it’s going to take forever to download and install.) This is the area that Microsoft is lacking sorely in, and in the next generation, I hope that Xbox Live can catch up in this one area. Forcing me to pay $60 a year for multiplayer and demos and Netflix access isn’t cutting it anymore. Not when Sony is practically GIVING away games for you to keep as long as you’re a PS Plus member.
Sorry for the long wall of text, but I had to get this out. Also, it’s only been one week. I’ve spent 7 YEARS with my Xbox. I’m used to her. I got to get used to Sony’s system. I’ll do another review in 3 months time. Right now, though… as attractive as PS Plus is, it really isn’t enough to sway me over to Sony’s camp.
Oh well. Gotta keep playing, right?
Between Hitman: Absolution, Mr. Torgue’s Campaign Of Carnage for Borderlands 2, and the demo for DmC, I could be knee deep in headshots, dismemberment, and cursing.
Especially cursing.
I’ve got some looting to do.
Listen, be good to each other. Seriously.
And send me some titties, man. I haven’t had any sent to me in MONTHS. Well, except for that one person, but she’s a special mood swing. And then there was this video…
But other than that, it’s been drier than the Sahara in my inbox. So… yeah.
Love y’all.
