In my most recent attempt to self-medicate my titanic disillusion with American society and my many unsuccessful attempts at carving out a niche for myself within it, I went out of my way to avoid GameStop and ran by a not-quite-local Play N’ Trade to pick up a few games. What I ended up with was Assassin’s Creed 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, and, on a whim, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice (fuck me, that’s a lot of subtitles). I was fairly certain I would enjoy the first two, having loved the “religion is mind control” message in AssCreed 1 and being drawn by cyberpunk dystopia in Deus Ex, but Disgaea 3 was a gamble. Sure enough, cheesy voice acting and music, kitchy plot and anime tropes, and nearly inaccessible game play details filled my screen and ears for about four hours before the game just… Ended.
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That title is at once a rather uninspired joke and a completely real marketing strategy for the Italian label.
See, this is what I was talking about.
Frictional is, in my supremely well-informed opinion, the pinnacle of horror gaming development, and I haven’t even played Amnesia, yet!
As the title suggests, I’ve only played a few minutes of this game so far. I’m trying to take it easy on this awful little Compaq until I know how long I can play at a time without overheating the thing. I haven’t seen the first monsters yet, but they sure figured out where I am.
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If you actually read this blog when you stumble across it while looking for pictures of a sad little pony, you’ve probably seen the recent promises of a review for Project Black Sun. Well, it’s still kicking my ass so for now I give you Neverputt, a free 3D mini-golf game for Windows, Mac, and Linux available on Desura.
If you’re not too young to remember when CD’s were hip and new and only the best, most cutting-edge games came on those shiny pieces of technological magic, you might remember playing games like this as a kid, but those games were much more flashy.
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So! If you read the rant I posted earlier today, you’re aware of my upcoming review for Project Black Sun for Windows and Linux. I have not yet completed the game, and I don’t expect to for a week or two, but here’s what I think so far as a teaser….
Here’s a group of men who, I’m convinced, honestly don’t have enough blood for their brains and their cocks to work at the same time.
Apparently the revolutionary “laptop with a few screen buttons and misplaced touchpad” idea wasn’t enough, so Razer felt the need to throw out a solution for the mobile gamer. It’s still in the concept stage, but their giggling excitement couldn’t be contained longer than it took to make up the webpage here.
So, are there any possible benefits to using this thing instead of a laptop? I can name a few, but I’m not sure if they’re worth the cost of a new, less-portable tablet…
Recently, I’ve taken an interest in the Occupy movement; interest enough that I wonder why gamers don’t seem to be into it as much as I imagine they would be. Where’s all the hate and fervor that drove people to write angry blog posts about Sony during the multiple hacking debacles? What happened to the outrage over DRM? Why are complaints about activation codes and launch-day DLC relegated to gaming forums and Reddit? It seems like a lot of people are upset, but no one is doing anything about it. Maybe it’s the nature of gamer culture to sit on one’s ass, but I’m interested in getting into what will really get big developers’ attention.
Naturally, before writing this post, I did a search for “occupy gaming” to see what I could find. The only concrete thing Google came up with was a very short, 8-page wiki simply called Occupy Gaming. I don’t know how old this wiki is, but I suspect that it isn’t any older than the Occupy Movement’s move into the public eye. I hesitate to criticize something for being so devoid of content because it is so new, but whoever it was who made the site seems really passionate about what it stands for. Where’s the content?
Yes, I know. You’re all thinking it: “Who the fuck are you, Mr. Hasn’t-written-anything-tangible-since-October-sixth? What do you suggest they do?”
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