Starting Out Rough

The title about says how life has been going for me these past few weeks. I just have been a mess in the brains. I mean with a recent passing in the family and with work and everything, it has just be madness! I am hoping that this insanity has run its course and there will be peace for at least a couple of months! I would hope for the rest of the year, but a part of me knows better.

Anyway, games have sort of taken a backseat as all of this crazy was going on. Honestly though, Dragon Age has gotten me a little irritated. I was very much looking forward to their DLC "Return to Ostagar." I was pretty thrilled to have read that it did finally see release, but then it was pulled. Now apparently its stuck in a state of limbo and details have been slim pickings to say the least.

I remember reading how BioWare promises full DLC support for Dragon Age, as well as Mass Effect 2. But with how they've botched up this DLC release with so many delays, even I am beginning to wonder how they'll ever manage to work out content for two games. Hopefully they are learning their lessons well and this sort of chaos can be avoided in the future.

Speaking of Mass Effect 2, I just recently threw in my pre-order for it last night. Late huh? I am looking forward to it and I am ever so curious to find out what happened to Shepherd's previous ship and crew.

Remember how I wrote last year about having doubts about Final Fantasy XIII? Well those days have come and gone and even the music I am sold on. What did it take? It was a simple fix really. All it took (for me) was to watch the International trailer for the game (which included My Hands by Leona Lewis) and I was sold.

Needless to say I can't wait for March 9th!

Oh and there is the little tidbit about Dragon Age getting a real expansion, which should be arriving in March as well. Am I looking forward to that one? Yes and maybe. Yes in that I am kind of sad to have found out that once you finish the main game, you can't revisit cities and such, so it'll be nice to be able to take the characters I have left and move forward.

What gets me wondering is this though: I chose to kill the Darkspawn myself and in turn, killing off my character in the process. And apparently this expansion happens after the events of the main game. How will this work out I wonder? Hmm...

One final thought: I just recently rented Darksiders and truth be told I am glad I did not buy it. The story does seem a little interesting, but overall the gameplay wasn't all that fun to me. It felt bland and a little boring, like there have been a ton of games to have done what this one was trying to do. Then again, truthfully I never really got into games like this, so maybe this isn't my cup of tea?

While I do enjoy trying out different types of games, I have to believe that this year is the year RPGs make their return to the forefront. Well, at least that is how it is looking for this portion of the 2010. I mean with Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII and even Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (and a number of others as well) seeing the light of day, I hope this year will help me forget a lot of the bad ones that have come out during the last few years.

One last thought, for sure this time!: I wonder when Final Fantasy Versus XIII will be released...?

RE-THINKING OF THE MIND

Well it certainly has been ages since I've gotten on here and felt like doing some serious writing! I think I just needed to take a short break and just let the thoughts me my head recollect themselves. Would that be considered like a mental reorganization? Well whatever it was, it was exactly what the doctor ordered.

But this writing will easily be a test of wills, in thanks to a little game called Wii Play. After playing several rounds (each) of boxing, tennis, bowling and baseball, my right arm is killing me! I'm having a less then thrilling time trying to move it around. But what the hell, writing is the game and I intend on playing it up tonight!

To kick things off, games! Gotta mention games here, because man there are a few things floating around out there that have caught my eye. Just take a look down below at the list of labels for this post and you will see the number of titles I am talking about.

For starters, Darksiders: Wrath of War looks like it potentially can be a fun game. I mean playing as one of the Four Horsemen? What's not to like? OK, OK... so it is set in yet another post apocalyptic world, but as the Horsemen named War, you battle through legions of demons in a quest to regain your lost powers.

I can say the same thing for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed too. While you aren't playing one of the Horsemen, you do assume the role of Darth Vader's apprentice which screams awesome already. But what gets me just a little giddy is the fact that you start the damn game off as the Vader himself. Dark side? Where do I sign up?

Tales of Vesperia looks interesting, both in it's appearance and from how the game was described. Then again, words and actual reality can end up being two completely different things. But I still hold hope, hope that this will be a better RPG then those that came to the next generation consoles before it. But considering how few RPGs there are for the XBox 360 and how "fun" those have been, hope isn't easily held I'm afraid.

What I am hoping for is that the game doesn't fall flat and hollow like so many have done over the years. Yes, expecting an RPG to be rich in story, having addictive game play and all that other good stuff, in this day and age, is just crazy. But a player can hope, can he not?

Rise of the Argonauts caught my eye a while back, but I've only begun to actually read into it recently. It looks to me like a hack-n-slash (a damn fine looking hacker in my opinion) type game, but I am hoping there is more story then meets the eye.

Changing gears, Guitar Hero 4 looks and sounds promising. More customization and the ability to put together your own music? Sounds interesting enough to me. But then, it isn't like I've gotten any better at those types of games and anything exceeding three buttons will having me scrambling like a headless chicken. Still, I can honestly say that I am excited nonetheless.

Last, but definitely not least, there is that new Prince of Persia game in the works (pictured above). While I admit that I've never had much feeling towards the series (although the story with the Sands of Time does intrigue me), this new game somehow got me curious. Maybe Assassin's Creed helped cultivate my interests in this type of game. Hmmm...

One last thing to say before I scurry off into the sunset, I just finished watching Trinity Blood (finally!). I thought I liked it, then I thought I didn't and what was the final verdict? Well, after riding the rollercoaster of uncertainty, I can firmly say I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it a whole lot more then a few other series that I saw through in the past few years *cough*Ranma1/2*cough*Inu-Yasha*cough*TenchiMuyo*cough*Youallsucked*cough*.

Wow, I guess I'd better be a little more mindful of my health with such a nasty cough like that. Of course I blame it all on that damn Vog from Kona. Damn it! Damn it all I say! Even with vog or smog or whatever we've got in the air these days, Kona still is home for me. At least I can cross the road over there without having to play human Frogger! Slow down peeps!