I Want To Play A Game!!!!

Well at the moment Flea isn't a happy fellow, you see at the moment that shitty thing called real life has swooped in and fucked up my gaming schedule. As a result I have hardly had anytime to play anything at all that I want to, and lets face it I love to play games more than a cop likes Dunkin Donuts. The worst thing is that I have got more in the last 2 weeks than I have done in about 3 months, and I am not just talking about 360 games.

I think I have purchased around 15 games, in fact what here is what I have gotten or am waiting to arrive in the next few days.

DS Games

• Disagea DS
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
• Henry Hatsworth In The Puzzling Adventure
• Final Fantasy Tactics A2

Wii Games

• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon

PS2 Games

• Burnout Domintaor
• Persona 4

PC Game

• The Last Remnant (Thanks Square Enix for sending me this even though I reviewed the 360 version already.)
  

360 Games

• Hour of Victory
• Fusion Frenzy 2
• Vampire Rain
• Alone In The Dark
• Fable II
• WarTech Senko No Ronde
• F.E.A.R. Files
• Xbox Live Arcade Compilation Disc
• Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Volume 1
• The Grid
• Final Fantasy XI Wings Of The Goddess
• Warriors Orochi (Just because I got sick of having the promo version)
• Warriors Orochi 2 (Same with this one as well)
• Overlord
• Lego Indiana Jones/Kung Fu Panda

DS Game Of The Year? It's a Contender!

You see that by not actually playing games I have ended up going insane and getting more than I would buy, as a result my overdraft will be taking a hammering to say the least for a few weeks. Some of these I got pretty good deals on with Fusion Frenzy 2 and Unplugged Arcade Vol 1 coming as part of a set of 5 games that I bought brand new and sealed for £17. (The others were PGR 3, Viva Pinata and Kameo which my son now has claimed.)

I also nearly added a few more games to the list up until I managed to stop myself from buying them. The scary thing is I haven't just left it at games either as I also picked up some Anime DVDs as well, as I just had to buy them or the world would end. I really wish I would have kept on to the money which I should have been using for other stuff like food. It would have also stopped the postman giving me evils and muttering as he carried the games to my house. (I doubt your reading this but you get paid to deliver mail so just fucking do your job wanker!)

If it says Final Fantasy I will buy it!

One thing is for certain with my 3 Ghost In The Shell movies, S.A.C. 2nd gig, other random Anime and the games I should have no problem sitting on my arse and relaxing when I get chance. Let's face it we all have to go crazy and have a splurge every now and then, it's just a shame I will be paying for mine for quite some time to come.

Oh and about the podcast were sorry we haven't done it yet to make up for the one that got screwed up, my schedule has been hectic to say the least. We will be recording one sometime Sunday this week so expect that to be available soon.

76 Xbox Live Arcade Games

The other day I decided to make an excel document of all my 360 games, as a result I found out I own about 76 arcade games. Out of these arcade games I would say I have enjoyed playing between 8-10 of them at the most, while most of these have been nothing but impulse purchases and normally leave me disappointed that I bought them.

Sure I do have some great games like Castle Crashers and er........ some others, but I think I am like most people that buy these games and play them for 10 minutes then forget about. Pushing them further and further down my last played list until they are a million miles from my mind. I guess it wouldn't be so bad if I actually had a physical box that can sit on my shelf and remind me that I own the game. At least that way when I look at my shelves for a game to play I can see one of them and think "fuck it I may as well play that", but alas they don't come boxed so I forget about them.

It's not really big, they are just midgets!

It is pretty amazing how much we 360 gamers actually spend on crappy games just because they are new without even trying the trial mode first. If we say that each of my games cost 400 points (Even though the majority of them are 800 point games) it works out that I have used 30400 points, that works out at over £260 ($500) with the real figure being probably double that. Then we have all the other crap I have bought like map packs and other DLC, all on stuff I can't hold in my hand.

I like owning games and stuff I can hold in my hand, I hate buying all this digital media bullshit. When you buy a cd you normally flick through the booklet as you listen to it for the first time, even though you know it contains nothing of interest. If I go to town to buy a new game I normally sit on the bus and look at the booklet on the way back home, it fills the time and I find some of them pretty interesting.

Two people fighting T-Hawk? Is this the IK+ Edition?

This was supposed to be a blog about buying Arcade games, yet it has turned into me realising that I hate how things are moving more and more into digital downloads. It makes me sad to think that not to far in the future all games, film and music will only be available in this form. I like shitty box art and crappy booklets and will miss them when they are no longer packaged with games. The future sucks I guess I should go and live in the past. :(

No Digidi On Podcast Heroes???

Two weeks ago we remade the podcast that we originally recorded the week before after a technical hitch,(Our recording software decided to give us a 2 fingered salute.) As a result we had talked about everything already and the redo came off rather flat and uninspired. Something that Code Digidi, Cody and myself all felt rather shitty about, and something that we didn't want to happen again.

With the podcast being a fortnightly recording (Every 2 weeks to you Americans that don't know what a fortnight is) we should have recorded the podcast on Sunday, but due to scheduling problems Code Digidi couldn't make it as he was barbecuing his dad or something. (Apparently he tastes like chicken) So me and Cody decided to record it on Monday, But unfortunately Code was working so couldn't take part. (It also meant all my jokes about him getting drilled in the mouth going to waste.)

Have you seen Code Digidi?

As a result we slightly over ran by about 5-10 minutes over the planned amount of time, as Code wasn't there to type hurry up it is nearly time to finish. On the whole though the recording went pretty well, at least I think so but I could be wrong. We did seem to cover the points we made, it is just a shame that the trio ended up being a duo for just this week only.

I got asked if we do it all on the fly and the answer is heck no, since we restarted I make a list of possible points and send them to Digidi and Cody. Then they look at them and send them back as a reply to me and the other one, adding in any stuff that they want to talk about. (Or what crap to remove) So basically that is how we do it, We cheat!

Pictured above Cody, Flea and Code Digidi

Here is this weeks cheat sheet if your really that bothered.

1. After moaning about R-Type being 1200 points, Watchmen comes out this Wednesday at 1600 points.

Thoughts on the game news like Lost Planet 2, Remake of Death to Rights, PSP games coming (Little Big Planet, Motorstorm and Buzz)

Microsoft's Deal of the week returning.
(This week its Ninja Gaiden 2's ‘Mission Mode’ which is now 560 points instead of the usual 800points)

2. What we have been playing this week.

3. Killzone 2 (is Cody really impressed with it, and does it live up to the hype?)

3.5. Dawn of War II and Windows Live Achievements.

4. Big Games due for release in the upcoming weeks
Resident Evil limited edition Red Console being ugly as fuck.

Maybe make a joke how the Mac is getting Doom 3 next week.

5. Talk about Street Fighter 4 impressions

6. GTA IV DLC

7. Tomb raider DLC (I spoke to X3no about it)

8. XBLA game trials that don't actually let you play the game to get a feel for it. (Minesweeper flags and SF" THD Remix as examples)

9. Completion races

Just started or starting...........

Halo Wars
Eat Lead: Return of Matt Hazard
Resident Evil 5
Trivial Pursuit
WWE Legends Of Wrestlemania Completion Race

Ones about to end

Sonic Genisis Collection
Shellshock 2
Onechanbara
F.E.A.R. 2

10. Why do we still have region protection on some games? (Star Ocean isn't released until the end of April)

11. Old games from our youth that we would like to see a sequel to and why. (General bullshit and banter)

12. Question for the gamers out there. (Maybe something like what year does the game stryder take place in)

14. Shout outs before Chewy does his thing.

The podcast should be up sometime Tuesday, probably mid afternoon sometime. You can find it here if you want to give it a listen, it will be Episode 10. Also apologies to Botafogo for my last comment. (Now he has to listen to see what I said :p)