I am not going to be on my Ivory tower and say I do not like video games. I might not play them as much as I used to play them, but it is perhaps one of the things that got me interested in electronics and Japan. If it was not for video games, I would probably know less about computers and electronics than I do now.
Video games to me are like a double edged sword: if you want to save money they can help you do so, but if you want to buy the "latest and greatest" then be prepared to pay. I own a Playstation 2 with over 100 PS1 and PS2 games (which I am slowly selling off). When I was growing up, playing games for me was one of my passions which kept me off the streets and it kept me from getting into trouble. The problem is playing them too much is what keeps people from obtaining their goals in life. So you need a since of balance in order to save money. Obviously as games hit the market and stay there they will devalue over a period of time. But people tend to get impatient with waiting for a their next Final Fantasy, Metal Gear or God of War.
Kratos can wait and quite frankly so can Snake. For those of you that lived in a bunker since information fallout (not to be associated with the game), there are games out there which are free to play. At http://www.ijji.com there are a bunch of online multi player games such as Gunz the Duel and Soldier Front which is a first person shooter. On Facebook, there are many new applications that get released every day which promote a healthier sporatic style of game play. On there, I play Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures and Mob Wars. There are also a few puzzle games like Bejeweled Blitz which is insanely hard to get a high score. Another site, which as a little bit of spam and adware is http://www.newgrounds.com. It has Flash made video games which are free to play.
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Fallout 3 Named Game of the Year for 2008
Good evening. It is starting to warm up a little so I can make use of this post. How is everyone doing with the New Year? I was probably a little brutal in my last post, so I will return to normalcy. Anyways, has anyone seen the game Fallout 3?
This almost makes me want to pick up an X-box. Seriously the game has a long history of being put off and passed along to different companies. First Interplay said they were going to do the game, then it fell through, then some other company said they will take the Fallout Francaise over, but to no avail it gets canned again. It seemed like this game was doomed from the start. You know, kind of like Deus Ex 3 and Duke Nukem Forever. (Which I am also anticipating) There is one reason why I have not upped and bought an X-box 360 and that is the dreaded Red Ring of Death, a symptom created from bad maufacturing. I have waited a long long time for this game it has been released by Bethesda, a company I know little about. I hope it lives up to the legend when I do get around to playing it. And yes I know, I do not need an X-Box to play Fallout 3.
For those of you that do not know the series it is based on the completion of the Cold War. Everyone is wiped out and the ones who survived exist in "vaults". But these vaults are running out of recourses and it is up to the vault dweller to risk life and limb to find more vaults or a GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). Once this item is found. Everything goes hunky dory and everyone lives happily ever after. If you call surviving in nuclear fallout the happy ending.
The games are vast. You travel from anarchaic cities to areas that are plutaric filled with slave traders and those brahmin (two headed cows; no seriously I am not joking). There are also mutants that wish to enforce their dominion over the vault dweller and thrawt him from ever obtaining the kit needed to keep the vault going or to keep his tribe alive. (Depending on which one you are playing)
There is also Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which you get to play as members of the Brotherhood of Steel, paladins sworn to vanquishing the evil mutants that try to enthrall the human and converting them into mutants. Brotherhood of Steel is perhaps a bit short though. Compared to the other in the series, it only took about a day and a half to beat. The boss fights on this game, depending on the difficult though is enough to make you swear obscenities at the TV =).
There are a bunch of options you have in each game and you can give you character feats and skills just like the in Dungeons and Dragons and they gain skill point in about the same manner. So if you want to try a series that is meant for gamers and is actually a "challenge". This game series will not disappoint you. The difficulty is up there with the old school Metal Gear series.
This almost makes me want to pick up an X-box. Seriously the game has a long history of being put off and passed along to different companies. First Interplay said they were going to do the game, then it fell through, then some other company said they will take the Fallout Francaise over, but to no avail it gets canned again. It seemed like this game was doomed from the start. You know, kind of like Deus Ex 3 and Duke Nukem Forever. (Which I am also anticipating) There is one reason why I have not upped and bought an X-box 360 and that is the dreaded Red Ring of Death, a symptom created from bad maufacturing. I have waited a long long time for this game it has been released by Bethesda, a company I know little about. I hope it lives up to the legend when I do get around to playing it. And yes I know, I do not need an X-Box to play Fallout 3.
For those of you that do not know the series it is based on the completion of the Cold War. Everyone is wiped out and the ones who survived exist in "vaults". But these vaults are running out of recourses and it is up to the vault dweller to risk life and limb to find more vaults or a GECK (Garden of Eden Creation Kit). Once this item is found. Everything goes hunky dory and everyone lives happily ever after. If you call surviving in nuclear fallout the happy ending.
The games are vast. You travel from anarchaic cities to areas that are plutaric filled with slave traders and those brahmin (two headed cows; no seriously I am not joking). There are also mutants that wish to enforce their dominion over the vault dweller and thrawt him from ever obtaining the kit needed to keep the vault going or to keep his tribe alive. (Depending on which one you are playing)
There is also Fallout Tactics and Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, which you get to play as members of the Brotherhood of Steel, paladins sworn to vanquishing the evil mutants that try to enthrall the human and converting them into mutants. Brotherhood of Steel is perhaps a bit short though. Compared to the other in the series, it only took about a day and a half to beat. The boss fights on this game, depending on the difficult though is enough to make you swear obscenities at the TV =).
There are a bunch of options you have in each game and you can give you character feats and skills just like the in Dungeons and Dragons and they gain skill point in about the same manner. So if you want to try a series that is meant for gamers and is actually a "challenge". This game series will not disappoint you. The difficulty is up there with the old school Metal Gear series.
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