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Wednesday | August 20th, 2008

Action Theater: Diplomacy

Sometimes during intense “negotiations” actions speak louder than words especially followed by excessive gunfire.  Too Human will allow you to hone your “diplomacy” skills until no further action is required or let alive.

Attention: RE Contest

Just wanted to let everyone know that our 1st Anniversary Caption Contest starts today! If you you are one of the people that places first, second, or third you will get a cool prize!

Click here to go to the contest page or look for “1st Anniversary Caption Contest” to the right of this post.

There are three comics, can you come up with something to make us laugh, cry, or hurl?

Star Wars: Force Unleashed Trailer (360)

August 20th, 2008

This trailer kicks huge Jabba butt.  Comes our 9/16.  Hmmmm.

-Wes

Yddra Union (PSP)

August 20th, 2008

PSP Fanboy has a good review of Yddra Union.  The tactical card game sounds like an interesting but touch game to get to know.  I felt that way about the first one on the Gameboy Advance.  Not sure if this game sounds like fun or frustration.

PSP Fanboy Yddra Union Review

-Wes

Too Play

August 20th, 2008

I’m all excited as I will be turning my sites from Braid to Too Human.  I can’t wait for the ton o’ loot that awaits in the game.  I have seen reviews on both sides but here’s the deal people, chances are good if you loved the demo, you will just get more of the same in the full version.  I read a lot of reviews and sometimes I wonder if people play so much that they look for perfection and miss out on the fun.   Maybe being in review mode kills that.  I just know I loved the demo and if I get more of that then I will be happy.  I play a some stuff that reviewers hate but I have a large degree of likes and interests so you never know what I find that draws me in.  Here’s a sample of what I’m playing on my 360 and it has both old and new in it.

360: Braid, Blue Dragon, Fable (getting geared up for 2) , Fable II Pub Games, FFXI, Jade Empire (missed it on original xbox..checking it out now since I finished Mass Effect)

As you can see I’m all over the place.  I even play the grind fest FFXI but I can’t help it.  I love the world and I find the extreme difficulty to be satisfying.  I play it solo even which is like being strung out on the rack for some good old medieval torture.  I like it to go against the grain sometimes.

Bottom line is play what you like and don’t always take full stock of reviews as they are all just one person’s opinion.  It doesn’t matter if it’s new, old, cool, geeky, labled suckage or anything else for that matter as long as you find it fun.

-Wes

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

August 20th, 2008

Already working on cranking out another Transformers movie so they can make a gizillion dollars.  Shia and Megan Fox are said to be returning in the second run.

Optimus Prime Posters

The Return of the Shia and Megan

First Look At Jetfire

More Megan On Set

-Wes

Too Human Video Review

August 20th, 2008

From Xplay.

Summary? They like it.

I’m picking up my copy as soon as I wake up…

- Warren

Top 20 PSP games for under $20

August 19th, 2008

Check it out here.

Good piece… The PSP has some awesome games, nice to see them at 20 dollars and under.

- Warren

Some Positive Too Human Reviews

August 19th, 2008

Too Human is getting a beating at the various game websites around the net. I thought I’d post some good reviews of the game, for those of you that might not have seen any:

From Planet Xbox 360:

After putting in nearly twenty hours with the title I have whole-heartedly decided that Too Human is a game that I really enjoy playing. Not only did the story pull me in but also the simple, yet intuitive, control scheme had me kicking ass for hours at a time. The one reason I kept coming back to it for a second and third play-through was the deep customization the game has to offer. It’s obvious that not every game journalist out there has the same glowing opinion of Too Human that I do but at the end of the day this job is about finding games that are fun to play and recommending those specific titles to our readers. For me Dyack’s masterpiece was just that game, even with all the disappointments along the way.

Click here to read the full Article.

From Total Video Games:

Individual skill trees for each character class provide a considerable spectrum for character development, unlocking new abilities and bumping attributes considerably. Beyond the standard skill tree a second tree is unlocked later in the game based around an Alignment choice between Human or Cybernetic. Although this has little bearing on the plot or other characters, it does at least provide further areas for development and harks back to an influential quote from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil along with the mocking Baldur receives from the other Gods that he shuns cybernetic technology, and is himself ‘too human’.

Click here to read the full review

And last (But not least) From Play.tm:

For those doubting Too Human’s difficulty credentials based solely on its ridiculously easy demo, challenge scales up alongside character development and helps keeps each successive battle on just the right side of testing. That being said, watching an angelic golden Valkyrie gracefully lifting Baldur’s limp corpse towards Valhalla is something players should be suitably prepared for (especially when using the Berserker). Doubts about difficulty should also be put to bed upon learning that reaching the humiliating plateau of 100 player deaths even garners its own embarrassing Achievement called ‘Valkyrie’s Folly.’

You can find the above review by clicking here. (This is my favorite of the three reviews. The article is very well worded and well written.)

I just want to say, in regards to all the controversy surrounding Too Human: If you enjoy it, go ahead and enjoy the game. Don’t worry what people have to say. I’ve even enjoyed a few lesser rated games/movies/books in my time. Who cares what people you don’t know think? As long as you like what your playing, just keep enjoying it. I say that to everyone, even those that like games I don’t particularly care about. I think we need to stop giving game critics so much reverence. In the end they are only human and what they say, no matter how many “facts” are used to support their position, are still just opinions. I figure that when the Apocolypse comes, all the game journalists will be the first ones to be fed to the zombies since we will have no other practical skills to help stem the tide of the coming darkness ;)

Well Game Journalists, regular journalists, politicians, and Lawyers…

- Warren

New Aion: Tower of Eternity Trailer

August 18th, 2008

Would like to tank the guys at Kotaku for posting this trailer. I have kept my eye on this MMO for sometime now. Being able to take flight in game is cool….no mount even.

-Wes

Infinite Undiscovery

August 18th, 2008

I was looking forward to this title but after seeing the video now I’m not so sure. I may pull my pre-order and wait to see more reviews. Having all your party yell out the power or skill they are using gets old fast and it looks a little busy to me. I’m getting FFXII DS flash backs.

-Wes

Star Wars: KOTR Launch (Hobby)

August 18th, 2008

August 19th Wizards of the Coast launches the Star Wars: KOTR rpg book and miniatures line.  I feel a tingling in my force.

Star Wars: KOTR Details

KOTR Preview 1

KOTR Preview 2

KOTR Preview 3

KOTR Preview 4

-Wes

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