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Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is finally out!  Looks like I have something new to play while riding the train to work.  I’ll report back in a couple of days and let everyone know how it is.

Other then my time playing Space Invaders Extreme, I haven’t been gaming all that much.  While I have played to much I have picked up a couple of games on Steam.  With all the news of Beyond Good and Evil 2 from Ubidays I decided I should probably go back and finish the first one.  Since, I lost my copy for Xbox long ago Steam was the obvious place to get it.  Of course, I haven’t made it past the point Jade recieves the mission to take pictures yet.

I also picked up a copy of Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One.  The longest video game name that I can think of is a pretty decent game.  It is a point and click adventure role playing game.  Which almost makes me wish there was a version on the DS as well, since I would love to play on the train.  I’m actually a bit glad I’m not just playing through in one sitting since, it seems to have fallen into the “kill x number of y” game play mechanic pretty early in the game - Steam reports that I’ve played for about 1.3 hours.  I have faith that it will break free of that as the time goes on - I hope.

Other games I’ve played for more then ten minutes include: Metal Gear Soild (ePSXe), Resident Evil 4 (Wii) and Shadow of the Colossus (PS2).

Finally, a free moment - moving across the USA is hard work it seems.  That’s right no more New York for me, I’m now in city of Portland in the state of Oregon.  It’s been a crazy time with the website going down just moments before I got on the plane.  I wasn’t in a position to get it fixed quickly so, down it stayed.  Of course, once that was fixed we released there were problems with all of the e-mail accounts…  Anyway, it’s all fixed up and hopefully that won’t happen again.

So, what does all this have to do with gaming?  Well, I may have been incredibly busy but I have managed to shoe horn in a bit of time playing.  I spent almost the entire plane ride playing The World Ends With You.  I’m currently on day 5 (out of 7).  Of course I haven’t played since I landed at PDX - I’m hoping to get back into it once I move into my place this weekend.  The game is strangely good.  One of the better RPGs I’ve played recently.  I’m (surprise) pressed for time so I won’t go into the entire story - check out Siliconera for that.

Aside from the DS, I’ve been lucky enough to clock some time in Steam playing a couple of games.  I even got to sit down and play Team Fortress 2 in the same room with a couple of people I know out here.  Working on the new achievements was tons of fun and Gold Rush is pretty fun.  Just remember kids drinking and gaming isn’t always a good idea.  My other Steam favorite has been Trackmania.  If you haven’t checked it out and like arcade style racers then get going…  Now, if only I can hold on until my main computer gets here - I’m dieing to play some Company of Heroes.

Was just scrolling through my RSS feeds and saw that Brinstar has taken a job as a Community Manager for Guild Wars! Congratulations Brinstar! In celebration I will stop what I’m doing and play Guild Wars for a little while.

*edit* Not sure if it was me or this new version of WordPress but, the original post somehow ended up as a “page” and not a “post” so - I’m fixing that now…

I keep finding excuses to get myself out of the house - maybe it’s because the weather is starting to get a bit nicer.  My play time has really suffered because of it.  It’s OK though, it really is - I have managed to squeeze in a bit of gaming time…

Rock Band (Xbox 360)

Mike and I finally sat down this past Friday (or was it Thursday?) and played through a bunch of Rock Band.  We hadn’t really played since St. Patrick’s day and I’m not sure you can really call that playing.  We had to start a new band because Mike, the drummer extraordinaire, managed to break one of the drum sticks.  We still have quite a way to go before finishing the Band World Tour so who knows if we’ll actually do it.  Don’t tell anyone from Activision but, Guitar Hero is terrible in comparison to Rock Band.  Especially, if Harmonix and MTV come through with the in-game music store.

Company of Heroes (PC)

I finally reinstalled CoH and started inching my way through the rest of the campaign mode.  Hopefully, by the time I finish it Opposing Fronts will be less then $29.95.  It’s a bit of a pain - only playing a few minutes at a time.  Although, I’m ending up with a ton of save games so if something goes wrong I’ve got a bunch of fall back points.

Prey (PC)

It was on sale for $4.95 through Steam last weekend and so far it’s a decent game.  The portals and gravity effects are pretty cool.  Nothing too special besides that though.

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword (NDS)

Dragon Sword is without a doubt my favorite DS game ever!  The graphics are fantastic, the controls are perfect and the story is spot on.  I’m about four and a half hours into it and hopefully will get around to finishing it some time soon.  I pretty sure that beating it unlocks hard difficulties which, for once, I’m looking forward to.

Persona (PS1)

I haven’t made it nearly as far as I wanted to but, I have been playing a little bit here and there.

I just logged into Steam to play a quick game of Audiosurf and saw that everyones favorite game publisher Atari has decided to release several of it’s titles for download.

• Act of War: Direct Action
• Act of War: High Treason
• ArmA: Combat Operations
• Atari 80 Classics in 1
• Death to Spies
• Desperados 2: Cooper’s Revenge
• Indigo Prophecy
• RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum
• Tycoon City: New York

I played Act of War: Direct Action around the time of it’s release and remember it being pretty fun.  But, the only game I think I’ll actually pick up is Indigo Prophecy well, until The Witcher is released that is.  It looks like Atari make seriously try and save themselves…

id Software appears to be gearing up toward a beta for the upcoming “browser based” Quake Live.  Get over to the site and sign up now!

Via Maxconsole

A couple of days ago Rock Paper Shotgun ran a round up of ModDB’s Mod of the Year poll. I decided that since I haven’t really been following the mod scene very closely, it was time to get reacquainted with it. Three out of the top five mods are for Half-Life 2 (lucky for me since I don’t own Battlefield 2 which covers the remaining mods). So, starting with number five on the list: MINERVA: Metastasis.

Minerva is a single player stand along side story set within the Half-Life universe. The back story is pretty vague - all you know at the beginning is your being air lifted to an island that is under the control of Combine forces. The player receives instructions from the mysterious Minerva via text messages that appear on screen. I don’t want to go into too much detail since I don’t want to give away any aspects of the story. Developed by a mod team consisting of one person, Adam Foster, Minerva should land this guy a job with Valve - it’s that good.

If you own a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode 1 I suggested trying this out - you will not be disappointed.

Finally, after all this time I’ve finally played and finished every released portion of the Half-Life series. Released as part of an Nvidia/Steam promotion a little while back I was extremely excited to get my hands on this little piece of the Half-Life universe. Released in October of 2005 Lost Coast is basically a tech demo showcasing the Source engine’s ability to render scenes using high dynamic range lighting and Valve’s new in-game commentary system. Now, I just need to wait until Half-Life 2: Episode 3 is released. Which knowing Valve is right around the corner…

Happy 2008!

Since I managed to receive cash from most people this Christmas is decided to spend a small chunk of it on games. So, I finally picked up Guild Wars: Nightfall and Eye of the North - with no purchasing issues this time around! I also picked up Company of Heroes (via Steam), a game which I had played the demo a couple of times but, never got into due to my needing to upgrade my video card before it would play decent. On the Xbox 360 side, Kris picked me up a copy of Mass Effect. I certainly could have picked up more but since they would just sit on the shelf I decided to wait until I managed to finish a couple.

On the gift giving side of things, life was made easier by Steams gift giving feature and the sale they had going on. I sent out a few of copies of Psychonauts to some people who I know haven’t played it - and probably won’t until they break the hold that Team Fortress 2 has over them.  Anyway, I need to finish some work so I can get back to Guild Wars…

Well, I did it! I bought Team Fortress 2 for the PC and I’m not even mad about spending another $30 to get it. Because, now I can easily find a game - even at 6AM eastern I was able to jump right into an almost full server and start fragging.

I spent several hours on playing on Thursday and had a great time - I forgot just how nice it is to game on PC. I didn’t have to mute other players or anything! Actually, I wish I still had a headset for my computer - it would have made it much easier to play. Stopping to type just doesn’t work and usually ended with my being killed and not getting the information out anyway.

Another nice thing about my shift back over to PC gaming, is that on Wednesday I received a Ideazon Reaper Gaming Mouse from Brinstar. She wasn’t a big fan of the mouse’s design and was willing to part ways with it. So, I spent Thursday playing with my old Dell scroll-wheel mouse and Friday with the Reaper - and it’s damn nice. The difference between the old mouse and the new one is like night and day. I guess gaming mice may actually help improve FPS gaming a bit. I’ve never been “super-hardcore” with the PC FPS games so I never bothered to pick up a mouse just for gaming - but now that I’ve got one…

Anyway, I need to go finish buying some gifts so I can get back to playing TF2.