WeallrememberBangers & Mash, and nobody can pretend that they don’t. Let us all bask in the nostalgia that we all have for those cheeky apes and their madcap shenanigans. It really doesn’t get anymore zany than this, and you can cram it all up the inside of your winking spicehole if you disagree.
Anyway, videogames. We played them. This week, in fact. What fun. Hit the jump for seeing it all about what is inside of it in the it that we have done playing with it and games on the in of it and that.
Chester:Finished upGod of War III, so expect a review on Monday (noon Eastern time). Popped inMass Effect 2and, while I already played for about an hour, can already tell it’s a much better game than the first one. And that’s about it really. Mostly preparing for our GDC coverage next week, which is going to be crazy. I already need a nap.
Sterling:PlayingCallingfor review and it’s not very fun. Stopped being scary thirty minutes in and is now just tedious walking and pathetic puzzles. Also been playingNo More Heroesbecause I want to beat that before getting the sequel. It’s testing my patience though. I like the main ranking stages, but literallyeverythingelse is dogshit. That’s about all I’ve been doing. Gotta clear my plate beforeFinal Fantasy XIIIdestroys the rest of my month.
H. Bennett:After waking up from a very weird dream I felt completely compelled to re-playFinal Fantasy X, so I dusted down the old fat PS2 and did just that. Really forgot how much I loved that game. In my books onlyFFVIIIis better, the game is visually stunning, brilliant story, great characters and the music is so beautiful. Shiva is the sex.
Otherwise these last few days have seen me playingSonic and Sega All-Stars Racingfor review, which I have to admit I have really enjoyed. Yes, it is a Mario Kart cookie-cutter but its cute, colourful, fun and is appealing to my inner nerd. God damn I love Ulala…”Spaaaaaace channel 5!”
PerLee:I started playingPersona 3, and I’m at the part where the dog joins my team. I dunno, but coming back after almost a year of not playing was hard. However, I think as soon as Atlus announcesPersona 5, I’m all over that.
Devore:Tons ofBattlefield: Bad Company 2with Brad and Tdiddy. I’m also a few hours intoDeadly Premonition, which has me laughing hysterically every five minutes. Once I figured out you could run through doors rather than taking ten seconds to open them, my only real complaint is that those damn dirty QTEs are easy to mess up.
Tolentino:Lots ofBad Company 2on this end. Like pretty much everyone else, I am practically enraptured by that game’s sound design. There’s an incredible sense ofscaleto the whole affair.
Also, being a medic is a very feel-good job.
Other than that it’s beenDragon AgeandAssassin’s Creed II, both to be dethroned byFinal Fantasy XIIIandResonance of Fatein the coming weeks.
North:I’m playingHeavy Rain…and get this: I like it. All y’all haters can suck it. Sure, I may hate it when it’s all over, but right now I dig it.I would have named itHeavy Speech Impediment, though.
Tolentino:Play it in French, Dale. We’re used to subs anyway!
Aziz:Lots and lots of Modern Warfare 2. I’m only using the Intervention andPPO90 Machine Pistol. Deadly combo!
Concelmo:Still playingPersona 3 FES, which — given the game’s epic length — I will probably be saying in this post for weeks and weeks to come.
Also,Mega Man 10! AHHHHHH! Loved every second of it. The first Dr. Wily stage is so, so awesome. I really hope Capcom keeps releasing these 8-bit Mega Man games. They really are glorious in every way.
Even though I will be San Francisco next week, I am going to play as muchFinal Fantasy XIIIas I can before I go. And then I get to come back toGod of War III. Good times.
Razak:I beatGod of War 2(holy crap) andUncharted(good, but I like Tomb Raider’s puzzles better). Jumped intoUncharted 2now and if the first 20 minutes say anything it is amazingly more awesome than the original, though I’m a bit put off my Nathan Drake’s lack of character development. Hopefully that will change.
Probably going to getMega Man 10soon.
Sarkar:I went to an EA event in Manhattan on Wednesday and playedBattlefield: Bad Company 2in 3D, on three monitors. It was pretty insane, though I don’t think I’d pay hundreds of dollars just to have that experience in my house — it didn’t add all that much to the game. There was a bunch of other stuff there, but (A) much of it wasn’t playable, and (B) I can’t talk about it yet.
Wednesday was also the day I received my review copy ofMLB 10 The Show, though I didn’t really get to start playing it until Friday. I’ve already started up Road to the Show as a catcher, and it’s pretty fun to call games behind the plate. I need to get better at hitting, though. Unfortunately, the game has some strange loading glitches — upon loading a new screen (for example, the main menu), it’ll often freeze for a few seconds, leading me to wonder if the game crashed. Never seen that before inThe Show.
Holmes:Mega Man 10, Mass Effect 2, and theMonster Hunter 3demo.
Leray:I’ve been playing the Secret Armory DLC forBorderlands(and enjoying it very much), but I’ve been spending most of time playingRisenfor the Xbox 360. I’ve put in, probably, 10 hours without so much as scratching the surface of the world or even really getting much stronger. Part of the reason is thatRisenis a huge, immersive world; the other part is that it’s unintuitive to the point that I’ve been walking in circles for days now.
I’ve also been playingFIFA 10Ultimate Team DLC rounds out the week (also for review). It’s, y’know, kind of like regularFIFA 10, but more convoluted. I don’t think I “get it.”
