One of the best collections of gaming reviews is on The Escapist by a guy whose name is Yahtzee. I don't know if being named this made him a cynical bastard and infused him with the spirit of Old Man Murray, but his reviews are awesome. His reviews are under Zero Punctuation.
If I could write gaming reviews... if you are a constant reader you will notice I have stopped... this is how I would love to have enough humor to do something similar.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation/
Right! Well I have finished Overlord and I am on to bigger things - even though I am kind of cheesed off at the game since it didn't give me a lousy 20 achievement points when I beat a particularly hard boss because I skipped a cinema and didn't watch the guy die.
Another game that got thrown in the corner for being bad was The Simpsons Game by EA. I thought "Man... I really must be getting old when I can't make timed jumps." Then I figured out I was using logic and someone at EA thought the rules of physics in games should be altered since logical physics just weren't fun.
I compared my frustrations with co-workers who also played the game about making timed jumps and the randomess of floating/hangliding that you do in the game as Bartman or Homer and we all had the same frustrations. We also put (or threw) the game down after not being able to complete the Natural History level (level 2).
The witty dialogue wasn't enough for me to make the same jump for the 17th time... only to miss... oh, so slightly.
Other games... DiRT < what is with the lower case "i"? Anyhow, lots of fun and I'm enjoying it. I won't finish it... but it hasn't gotten the Mielke Corner Toss.
I've seen COD4 in the office and watched people play the intro level and it does look good. I will be getting it shortly in the mail and I can give my opinions on it. If it's like Call of Duty 2 and I have an escort mission with snipers all around... and mortars are shelling me... it's getting tossed not in the corner - but into the street.
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Glad to see you liked Overlord... at least, I take finishing it as a thumbs up? I thought it sounded like it was right up my alley, but was hesitant to buy another full priced game right now, so I joined Gamefly - that and Orange Box are my first two, expecting them in the next couple days.
Too bad you hated Simpsons. I have a lot of friends on that team, I was hoping for it to be awesome.
The Simpsons is out of the corner and back at work where some other soul will be engaged and then saddened in the space of 20 minutes.
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