I was planing on writing this post about three days ago, when I suddenly realized today that I did not make that deadline. It’s a good thing I’m not dead though, lucky me.
A while ago, I wrote about an idea I had for a project which at the time was Swedish-only. I won’t link to it because it’s all in Swedish. But due mostly to poor planing and a number of other reasons, it didn’t work out the way I had hoped. However, the good thing about rainy days is that you’ll appreciate the sunny ones. There’s always a flip side to a failure. So, I started making plans of what to do next, from scratch, and a cool idea popped up in my head… at least, I’d like to think so. I’m not entirely divulging everything about it, but head over to Rawkstyle and have a quick glance of what’s to come. It went from Swedish-only to English, so everybody has a chance to enjoy it. And yes, it is about games, otherwise I wouldn’t have written about it here.
As a bonus, here’s a little tease of the artistic direction the site is heading for coming in the form of an iPhone and iPod Touch wallpaper set I like to call coloRama. Enjoy:
First month of the year has flown by and all of a sudden, we only have eleven of those left. I’ve had a great start with Army of Two: The 40th Day, Assassin’s Creed 2, The Saboteur (still playing) and the awesomeness that is Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Well, the demo that is, which is still to be considered as one of the best stuff around in videogames last month and almost for the entirety of February. But it’s not all fun and games… actually, it is all fun and games, it just comes in different shapes. Here are my January 2010 writings at TVGB:
The revelation of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 a while back didn’t exactly take me by surprise. A sequel to the first game was bound to appear at one point or another. The announcement was soon followed-up by a multiplayer trailer, which I’ve added as a bonus after the break for you to admire. Fast-forward to January 22, 2010, just a few days ago, and GTTV was on the air premiering the long awaited single player campaign on Spike. Thanks to GameTrailers, the awesomeness has been embedded above, obviously.
Having seen what the campaign has in store, and having experienced the multiplayer through the PS3 beta, I say this: as of March 5, I will no longer be exposing myself to the flaw-drenched, teen-infested multiplayer of Modern Warfare 2. I’ve coped with multiple issues long enough and have no further desire to keep that bulls*** ruining my nights of gaming any more.
Step aside Modern Warfare… Bad Company is coming, set on kicking your non-destructive ass back to where it came from!
I remember playing the first Mass Effect. In fact, I remember purchasing it day one because it really seemed like an interesting game, a different take on all the other “space” games out there. But at the same time, I have never made it passed a single RPG, unless it actually was a rocket-propelled grenade, in which case, I have. A role-playing game however, as I said, I haven’t been able to start and finish one, ever. Mass Effect was no exception. What sucked most of all was the idea I had about the story in the game being something I would’ve loved to engage and get through, but the actual gameplay bored me in the long run. Now, with that in mind, you might have figured out that I won’t be buying Mass Effect 2, for two reasons: one, everything I just said and two, I would never play a sequel without having played the original first. Principles and all that.
Having said that, I’m not one to hate everything about a game I don’t like. In fact, even though I’m not looking forward to Mass Effect 2 in the least, I won’t deny that the launch trailer was one piece to not look away from. It’s beautiful, sexy, explosive, massive and epic, all at once. BioWare sure knows how to captivate its faithful followers, especially when they release stuff like this. It’s simply put, awesome!
A while ago, I pre-ordered games on a massive scale at my local GameStop. And when I say local, I mean “it’s-an-hour-away” local. But seeing as they had some good deals going on and the fact that I was pretty much broke at the time, I didn’t have much of a choice. So when I went to pick up some of those games – at the time, Assassin’s Creed 2 and The Saboteur - I was unprecedentedly greeted by this nice guy who couldn’t have given me better service. But as I stood there, reflecting on how a human being could be so nice to another, it all went down the crapper when he suddenly sold Left 4 Dead 2, which is clearly marked with an PEGI 18 rating, to a 12 or 13-year-old boy. What made it all worse is that just a few days later, when I went to pick up my copy of Army of Two: The 40th Day, I had a déjà vu moment, in which that same guy, who was still very polite and nice, once again opted to sell an 18-rated game – Grand Theft Auto IV – to a boy about the age of 14, maybe 15. And yet he had the nerve to tell me his bosses would get sued if he sold me Army of Two: The 40th Day three days ahead of its planned release date. Little does he know of the ramification of his recent actions…
