May 13
JasonGames, Warhammer Fantasy Games, Total War, warhammer
Napoleon Total War
I have always been a fan of the Total War franchise, but in my opinion none of them have been all that great. Good and fun in most cases, sure.. but great? Eh not really.. All of them have had their share of issues of which Napoleon TW shares some of them.. NTW is by far the most refined version so far and a lot of fun but, I’m not quite sure it peeks the “great” meter just yet.. I will say its pretty darn good and a lot of fun though..
Totally worth the price as it’s clear to me that Creative Assembly (the developers) are getting better at their craft but the game has one staggering short fall that it shares with all it’s siblings; Horrible AI.
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May 01
JasonGames Games, review
Splintercell Conviction
I really like a good first person shooter.. But most FPS games these days aren’t about thinking or planning your way out, they are just run and gun, “zerg-fests” where you run in shoot a few.. die, respawn, run in shoot a few, die, respawn.. wash, rinse, repeat.. Boring..
The new Splintercell game isn’t this.. I would call it more of a first person sneaker. In that it’s entirely conceivable to play through large swaths of the game without firing a shot, and that’s just cool..
As with any game it has it’s ups and downs, but over all its up and I think UBISoft has set themselves up with a game that they can kick out a lot of downloadable content for, if they leverage this correctly..
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Apr 05
JasonGames Games, music, playstation, rock band
So I haven’t updated my blog in a while because all my spare time has been spent playing Rockband 2.. It’s like crack.. They put subliminal messages in the video’s to make you want to play it day and night!!
The best part is that my wife has been playing it too.. And even more surprising is she likes playing drums!! That actually came as a shock to me.. I expected her to enjoy guitar or bass.. I never thought she’d like the drums because frankly they are the hardest part..
But she loves it so we play together and do fairly well..Good times!!
Now they just need to add a lot more Journey songs.. They only have 2?! TWO!!! *sigh* More! I want more damnit.. hehe
Good game.. I highly recommend it..
Jan 04
JasonChampions Online, City of Heroes, Games Champions, Games, Online, Star Trek, STO
I have to admit that one of the games I am looking forward to in 2010 is Cryptic’s, Star Trek Online.
Some might wonder why the single most popular science fiction franchise in the history of media has taken so long to be turned into an MMO, myself included — But I think it’s a better use of our efforts to instead not speculate too much on the why of it but rather to channel that raw emotion and energy into the heart felt desire for STO to not suck.
Let’s be honest here, Cryptic Studios is very good at bringing out games that look kinda keen, but have zero long term playability. City of Heroes and City of Villains suffered from this, and the successor Champions Online (City of Champions?) was even worse. They looked great, but for whatever reason they just didn’t have the sticking power to keep players interested.
Will STO be the same thing? Look good initially and maybe be fun for a week or two, but rapidly drag down into a grind-tastic mess? God I hope not..
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Nov 14
JasonGames bioware, game review, Games
Dragon Age Logo
I ask you — can Bioware do no wrong? Every game of theirs that I have played, I have loved. Neverwinter Nights was kinda “Feh” but the concept was excellent even though the editor was horrible. Mass Effect was fantastic forcing me to play it through like 4 times.. And of course the Baldur’s Gate franchise was awesome.. I played that game until my eyes bled, sought healing and then played it some more..
So when Dragon Age was announced at E3 way back in 2004 I was stoked.. Finally a spiritual successor to Baldur’s Gate done in a completely new style with modern graphics, fully voice acted and by the same developer.. *Gleeeee* I anticipated more costly eye healing.. As I was sure to play that game as much as I played Baldur’s Gate..
And then we waited.. and waited.. and waited.. Set the way forward machine now to 5 fricken years later… And FINALLY we have the game to play..
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Aug 12
JasonChampions Online Champions, Games
Champions Online
Okay I know I’m not supposed to talk about this yet, but it’s near enough to open beta that I feel I can safely talk about the game without giving anything important away — or at the very least I think I’m safe from being sued.. (Please don’t sue me..)
I have been in the Champions Online closed beta pretty much since day one and I can say without much hesitation that the game is not horrible. In fact I would go as far as to say its pretty good and appears to be getting better with each patch..
I certainly can say that as the beta has progressed the game has gotten Waaaaayy better and will very likely continue to do so for a good while yet.. And I can further say that it’s good enough for me to actually purchase and play the game after release, but there are issues I hope get solved..
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