Game of the Year 2009
Without further adieu, I present my top two games (plus two other games) of 2009:
(Warning, there are some minor spoilers within)
Jan
4
Dec
1
My iPhone Murdered my DS
I got home from work to find my iPhone standing over the bloody remains of my Nintendo DS, a sharpened dagger clasped firmly in its hand.
Ok, so maybe it wasn’t quite as dramatic as that, but the end result is certainly the same; I’ve used my DS for the grand total of one full battery charge since I bought my iPhone.
How do I know this? I can’t find my DS charger and I haven’t had any real desire to look for it….
Nov
19
An Open Letter to Infinity Ward
Infinity Ward,
I don’t have a copy of Modern Warfare 2 and there’s a good reason for that; I haven’t gotten around to downloading it yet. The only reason I’m bothering to even download it is because the singleplayer sounds good as always…. for the whole 5 hours it lasts. However, having tried it on someone else’s machine, the multiplayer is unplayable, and I wouldn’t pay anything close to full retail price for a 5 hour game not named Portal, let alone pay the higher than normal price you’re asking.
But it didn’t have to be this way.
Just 6 months ago I was a day one sale; I even considered pre-ordering it which something I almost never do, and now I’m glad I didn’t. I spent hours playing Call of Duty 4, and regard it is as probably my favorite multiplayer FPS game not produced by Valve. I skipped Treyarch’s World at War imposter, a game which was only really notable for its Nazi Zombie game mode, and waited with anticipation for your next masterpiece.
Then shit hit the fan.
Nov
14
Dragon Age Thoughts
Note: The majority of this was written late last week, look for some newer impressions after the weekend.
Bioware’s latest RPG masterpiece is finally upon us, and it’s obvious that they’ve made the most of the 6 years they’ve spent developing it (that’s right, for those unaware, Dragon Age was announced well before Mass Effect yet has only beaten Mass Effect’s sequel to stores by a couple of months).
Obviously a game with such a long development time has some huge expectations… expectations I stayed away from by distancing myself from as much of the previews and trailers as possible so that I could stay out of the hype and just enjoy the game, rather than being concerned with whether it met my expectations. But you know what; I don’t think it would have mattered as the game is, in a word, “brilliant”, though far from perfect. In fact, perhaps “difficult” is more appropriate as it seems to be the first thing that pops into mind when I talk to people about Dragon Age.
More after the jump.
Jun
17
Best games you’ve never heard of: Escape Velocity Nova
Welcome to the first of what will eventually become a regular series of mine: The best games you’ve (probably) never heard of. In this series of articles I’ll look at some awesome games, both old and new alike, that very few people seem to know of. Note that this isnt necessarily intended to be a review of the game in question, just a description of the game from my point of view.
The first game in this series is Ambrosia Software’s little known space combat game; Escape Velocity Nova.
Read the full article after the jump.
Jun
11
E3 – Thoughts, Opinions and (way too early) Excitement
So, E3 was back to its old tricks, stepping out of the shadow of itself that it’s been for the past few years and reverting back into the far more exciting behemoth it should be.
Quick satire of major announcements and my thoughts on some games from E3 after the jump.