 Hey all, I posted earlier this week or so that I was moving my gamer blogs to a different site, while this is probably still true, I’m not sure Cheap Ass Gamers gonna be the site to host them, too many limits (no pictures, no videos, character limit, no HTML, etc.) so, I’m still looking around.. until then, I’m posting at least one more.. yay for you right?.
Anyways, With the massive wave of sequels, movie-tie in games and god awful Shovelware” coming out this year, I wanna express my excitement for a few games that I can’t wait to come out!
First off, we have an indie game… The Conduit
See More The Conduit Screenshot at IGN.com
Another one.. I know I know. It’s my passion. I’m sorry. Wait. No I’m not. Fuk you if you don’t like it!Anyways. I wanna touch on spoiled gamers for a bit. First. I have some news.
*sniffle*
sorry. It’s… Hard.. But. My xbox360 died just the another night. Poor thing had.. Ooh. I’m guessing over 7,000 hours of gameplay logged on it. Definitely my most played console right now. It was inevitable really. I had one of those “early adopter” models that had a failure rate of 33.3%. Meaning. One out of 3 of every xbox360′s sold from launch day to late 2006 WILL fail and stop functioning. It was a severe design flaw that, overtime, caused the graphics CPU (the GPU) to lose solder connection to the motherboard. The heat sink on this chip was not up to pair and is now costing Microsoft over 2billion to correct. Kudos to them though for not ignoring the issue. I was on the phone for about 25-30 minutes. Got a shipping label, my repair is free! So. Yay for that! And now on to my bitching!
With the close of 2008 came a pretty damned good year for gaming in general. In many.. MANY sectors of commerce came declines of revenue. We are in a recession after all. But the gaming sector saw a 15% increase in sales! This is both good. And bad news in my mind. And here is why. While people bought more games and consoles. They effectively shunned everything new. For years, gamers trolled on forums, blogged on facebook and botched at uninterested Gamestop employees about how stale the market has gotten with all these sequels! “Where are all the new games?!”. “I don’t want another call of duty or Madden!” “I like Boobies!” (ok, that last one was me..) I was one of them. I’m getting tired of sequels. I want a new IP (Intellectual Property). So this year was exciting because there where a few really good looking games that told different stories and changed up the game play and innovated there genre. There was, what seemed like, a lot of interested behind these titles. Which is why I’m both baffled and surprised none of them sold well at all!
I decided to revisit my ideas and predicitions that I made from my last blog. One change that lead me to this decision was that I picked up a PS3 for my birthday and wanted to give a quick rundown of what I think about it so far. I like to think of myself as having an unbiased opinion about gaming. So I’ll do my best to simply state the things that effect me and my experiences with the system and what I think is relevant to others who may be in the market to but a console and what I would suggest. In my 3rd Gaming Blog I said that although Sony’s system simply wasn’t the best out there it would become the system to own because it’s Sony. They have huge name recognition.
Whoa.. thats pretty cool looking.
Hello all. Now, I know not many read my gamer blogs. So, I think this is going to be the last one for a long while, don’t want to bore you all to death.
As I said in a blog earlier today labeled “Domo omigato” ..I’m headed to Japan next year. kick it with an ol friend and hit one of the last great video game shows left “Tokyo Game Show”. There was E3 (Electronics Entertainment Expo) but it became too massive and was discontinued in it’s past form, reformulated, striped down, and is now only held for press and business folk. There is an “E3 for All”, but as it is now, its severaly lacking. Sony, Microsoft, and many, if not most 3rd party software companies chose to completely skip it.
I originally posted this review on IGN.com on 2003
I am very knowledgable on video gaming and I know why the game industry crashed, and it was NOT solely E.T’s fault. it was many things all happening at once. But jesus it sounds better to say “E.T. destroyed Atari and video games!!” than to say “Well, it was a combination of atari’s over-production, and new compe….blah blah blah blah blah”. Besides, the game really is that bad. I have played it, I own it…I actually bought the game for 50 cents so I could say “I have played it” so there is creditablity behind my bashing.
 Yep, another one.. don’t bother unless when I ask “Have you finished the Fight?” and you know what the hell I’m talking about.
Unless you live in Tibet or Mexico… You know what “Halo” is. right?.. and unless you’re a complete non-gamer then you may also know that it’s kinda popular. Just a little bit… so much so that the last game in the Halo Trilogy (yeah..right) “Halo 3” made more money then any other Entertainment based product in a single day…Ever. beating Spiderman 3, Titanic, E.T., Star Wars, and everything else to the tune of 172 Million dollars on it’s release day.
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