So, I've been doing this since the soft relaunch of Ranking of Fighters earlier this year, and I think now with some minor discrepancies, I figure it's worth sharing to the world. Here's the list , current as of episode 0021 (9/10/2018). I try to keep it accurate to the show, but it seems they've made a few mistakes, such as accidentally swapping Battle Fantasia and KOF '94, as well as Sonic th...
I don't know how many read my list of conquered games , but I noticed a strange trend in the games I've beaten lately: Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, Dark Forces, Quake... Somehow I got myself into a throwback FPS kick this month. Some of these games like Doom, Wolfenstein and Quake hold special memories to me since I was a kid. Playing lots of the shareware versions of these games and having a...
Yesterday, I decided to casually watch a tournament for the humans vs monster game Evolve . I’ve watched tournaments before, many Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournaments, an International or two, but this one was different. This one was called “The CHAPPiE Challenge,” sponsored by the upcoming movie of the same name coming out in theaters this week. A standard tournament for Evolve where a...
Hey, GB community. I know we don't talk much (sorry!), but I think you guys are cool dudes. So I'm gonna try to post a bit more on here. So I've been playing games in January, most of them pretty old, but it's been a nice mix of stuff. Some of these I beat, others I poked around in, and some are strictly multiplayer affairs. Here's how I feel about them in a few paragraphs each. I'll also start...
Alternate title: Jason Brody's transformation from party animal to jungle psychopath. Man, the Far Cry games have gone through this weird identity crisis over the years. The first game was a mostly linear, extremely difficult action game with aliens, Far Cry Instincts made your character become a mutated alien with superpowers, and Far Cry 2 was a promising game with too many stupid mechanics a...
Hey GB. I don't post often, but I thought it'd be interesting to post a video I made a few weeks ago about a Mortal Kombat controller I got. For $3, hours of headache and learning how to take apart things the hard way, all culminated in this. Is there any kind of controllers you have that are bad/good/worse?
I wrote a dumb thing about Snoop Dogg in video games . Because I could. I was honestly expecting to have this done by the time Way of the Dogg came out, but things came up. I don't know if anyone really reads these blog entries. I like Giant Bomb, but I don't know if I can engage in the community, I've always had difficulty with being a part of certain communities. Props to Ryan for introducing...
Deus Ex is a pretty awesome game. The game is so good that it has a thing called the "Deus Ex Effect," in which if anyone talks about, mentions, or waxes nostalgic about the first Deus Ex, there is someone bound to grab their CDs and reinstall, or buy it off Steam. Deus Ex is great because it gives choice, and a lot of it. You can kill everything in sight. Go for the pacifist approach and avoid...
I'm gonna be honest, E3 didn't really wow me too much. Yeah, hey, the Wii U looks pretty cool and Ubisoft's Zombi U might be a cool game provided it isn't like Red Steel. Perhaps this is just me, but this year was the year of pessimism. Every game that got featured was nothing but hatred and depression, people not really getting "hyped" for anything except for maybe Watch Dogs, and just an over...
Hello, all 15 of you whom actually follow me in some way. I guess I should give you guys an update. So I started a new games-oriented blog called You Found a Secret! which talks about obscure gaming crap. My most recent article is one about budget game title WWII: Iwo Jima. I've been posting other things there, so give it a look. I mentioned this in the past and it bears repeating: There's so m...
Hello gentlemen. I am back with some random goodie buys, partially because of a recent event called the Portland Retro Gaming Expo , a small little convention for old and new school gamers alike. Most of the booths were selling old games from the 2600 to the PS1, but also some current and last-generation games, so it was more of a gaming flea market than a mini-version of PAX or anything like t...
It's real. It's an actual Quake 3 map. and I have played this and recorded it for posterity. Yes, the mapper got permission from the record company to do this and the custom models. It's not that great but it's interesting in that "wow that was a thing" sort of way. If you got Quake 3 you can grab the map here and marvel at bands and music playing together. I can't tell which is weirder: This,...
Game Room, Microsoft's fancy little way to make classic arcade games and Atari 2600 games relevant again, is now available to 360 and PC users. While I was busy with other games (and hung out with a friend visiting town for a little bit), I didn't actually get to try out Game Room until Thursday. Despite the fact that some gamers (nobody on Giant Bomb at least) out there have labeled me before...
So tomorrow, Spike TV airs their seventh annual Video Game Awards. Man, I remember about 3-4 years writing stuff like this where I was condemning the awards because of petty, but logical, reasons. You can see my ranting tirades of previous Spike VGAs here and here . For instance, at the 2005 awards, some of the games that got nominated and later won were 50 Cent: Bulletproof , a terrible third-...
Alright, folks. COD:MW2's three days away. I haven't been uber-hyped for the game, but I certainly can't wait, although playing through COD4 on Hardened is an exercise in frustration. But every time I read anything about COD:MW2 these days, it's all negative, negative, negative. "PC gets a gimped console port," "Infinity Ward makes a subtle homosexual joke in a video about grenade spam," "Infin...
Warning: The following section shows a portion of a later segment in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. If you haven't played the game yet, this is SPOILER TERRITORY . So I somehow made myself look like a colossal ass while playing singleplayer in Uncharted 2 yesterday. For those who have beaten this part (or the game itself), may know what I'm talking about here. So Nate has to stop a tank from destr...
(Parts Two , Three and Four available as well) 40 minutes of me talking about my experience at PAX. Also, SWAG BAG!
I'm gonna preface this entry with this: I am not a big Halo fan. I loved the first at the time when I played it on PC in 2003, but Halo 2's plot and constant switching between Arbiter and Master Chief was confusing more than entertaining, and Halo 3 underwhelmed me. H3 was a fun co-op experience, at least. But when I heard from Major Nelson that there was some fancy Halo 3: ODST promotional tru...
I'm probably gonna receive the ire of gamers everywhere with a subject line like that. But I have a good enough reason to slam this guy. See, GameTrailers recently hyped Dead Fantasy III, a crossover between the women of the Dead or Alive games with the girls from Final Fantasy . Sounds interesting, right? Well, I decided to watch Episode 1 again and see what I remembered was true. It was at th...
500+ comments on Jackson's death alone. That's crazy. Has there been any other GB thread that's gotten that huge?
Okay, I like GameTrailers.com. I think it is one of the most comprehensive sites for video game footage. I don't have much of a strong attachment with the editorial staff compared to Giant Bomb, Ziff-Davis era 1UP or pre-Gerstmann fiasco GameSpot, but they hold their own. I disagree with them from time to time, including Shane Satterfield's somewhat disdain for PC gaming, but it's only minor sl...
Remember World at War? Yeah, before its announcement everybody called it COD5. Even when the game was announced sans a number, people still called it COD5. WHEN IT CAME OUT, SOME PEOPLE STILL CALLED IT COD5. Playfire has it labeled as "Call of Duty 5 : World at War." And most people I know who play COD4 called it that, not "Modern Warfare." It's such a generic name that it even got Andrew Pfist...
So I tried out Unreal Tournament III on the Steam free weekend. I thought it was decent enough, but my friend Blaze made some good points on IRC: [17:18:40] It's competent. But I already own UT2004. [17:18:45] I only own the original UT [17:18:59] so some of this shit that might've been in 2003/04 is "new to me" [17:18:59] UT3's so bland that it could've literally been a content pack for UT2004...
Alright, I like the concept of Versus. It's UT's Assault meets the co-op campaign of L4D. The problem is right now... it's broken. I have seen one too many games where matches end 6,472 to 310. Those aren't fun. In fact I end up seeing loads of ragequits when matches go that way thanks to good players on one team and average-to-bad players on the other. So I have a few suggestions to improve Ve...
So I had the weird idea of thinking, "I should do an audio podcast instead of writing something." And so, I did. 43 minutes of me rambling like a crazy man. Mostly about the hot-button Killzone 2 topics, such as "why I'm not getting it right away" and why fanboys are a bunch of whiny dickholes. You can download it here . I'd like to know what you guys think. Leave feedback, if you can. I know o...
...and it sucks! Don't play it!
So recently I completed Crackdown . I felt a little underwhelmed when I finished. It was the same as the first two parts when I killed the last remaining gang members. I got a "You saved this portion of the city" message, then the big spoiler comes up (The Agency pretty much created the gangs in question to give Pacific City some degree of chaos, and it's all the equivalent of some training exe...
(This is a copypasta from my own personal blog at Livejournal , refined with new links and clarification.) Before I begin, I want to clarify what I mean by "gaming blogs." In this case, I am referring to Kotaku, Joystiq, Destructoid and others. I'd link you to them but I personally don't wanna give them hits. Go google search it if you're that curious. These type of blogs are ones I hate. The o...
I recently got Call of Duty: World at War as an early birthday gift (my birthday's tomorrow). I've been dabbling in both co-op modes and multiplayer. Today, on a snow day, where my class had been canceled, I decided to take a break from getting my ass kicked in Crackdown... ...to play Call of Duty 3 . See, COD3 was the sole COD game I had for the 360 until I got WAW. Both made by the same devel...
After hearing the semi-painful news that Ziff Davis sold off 1UP.com to UGO and fired 30 people as a result, I felt kinda bummed. Not really saddened, I had grown accustomed to staff departures from game sites I loved. It was a way for me to think, "Hey, I could now get into this business." Sadly, after hearing this news and all the issues gaming editorial sites have (GameSpot recently fired a...
Back on 12/29, I finished a video review of Left 4 Dead: I originally released it on Christmas Day, but had to pull it when people couldn't hear my narration. Then I had to re-record footage I lost due to stupidly putting the videos in the recycle bin. I also bought some more 360 games, two of which I wanted since I saw them announced: Dead Rising and Crackdown. As well as Call of Duty 3 (wante...
Peggle for $5? Ultimate Doom, Doom II/Master Levels and Bejeweled for $1 each? Hell yeah. Now I get to experience a game I haven't played in its entirety for ten+ years, and own about 3-4 console ports of. (Also, for those who were wondering about my last blog post: Gamertag is TonicBH, as it is here.)
I opened these at 3AM. Here's a picture . A wireless mouse made for notebook computers (Dad bought this to replace my Microsoft mouse, and while it works on my PC, it becomes problematic while game-playing, so I gave it to him) A pair of Reebok black Velcro-strap shoes, to replace an old, worn out, paint and glue encrusted pair Far Cry 2 (PC) Dead Space (PS3) Quantum of Solace: The Official Gam...
Quick question, GB users. Isn't this game kinda rare? Bought it at a Goodwill for $5, I wanna hear your input. Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS1, Greatest Hits edition. Not big on the whole Japan RPG thing. Less so of Tactical JRPGs. But I was standing there thinking "Isn't this game kinda rare?" and snagged it not caring if I was gonna play it. What do you think, sirs?
Hi! How's everybody doing? Man, for how long it takes me to write a blog, it takes longer for me to think of subjects to write about. Although, there are people who are even worse at this than I am, so I should be grateful. I'm gonna start enforcing a self-policy where I start taking every first impression I make with a grain of salt. Remember when I was a dick and bashed Home? Well, after maki...
Well, I did the Hollywood Video "buy $4 last-gen games and take them to GameStop for maximum profit" trick. This time with only four games: GTA: San Andreas, Juiced 2, Spider-Man Friend or Foe and Madden 08. Kept a copy of Spider-Man 2 for the GC this time. And what luck! While there I find Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations (like hell am I typing the full title) for $18 used. I had been w...
A friend of mine decided to have me a guest on his podcast. Go listen to it, I guess. I talk about stuff and stutter and people cross-talking and whatnot. It's so amateur it's AWESOME. Episode 23 - Goku has a Stick (11/16)
Damn it. Why is it so hard to post images on here? But, anyway. Brief version, then: Got Left 4 Dead. It's good. Fuck the haters. When's cs_office coming to L4D? Found some old-ass PC games: Road Rash, Nascar Road Racing, Sports Car GT (these with some F1 Racing game and Need for Speed II were part of an EA racing game pack), Tom Landry Strategy Football, D/Generation, Ultimate Domain, Metal Ma...
Alright, so right now Hollywood Video stores are selling all their PS2, Xbox and Gamecube games for $4 each. These only apply to Hollywood Video stores, and not ones with a Game Crazy next to it. So I grabbed 9 games: Call of Duty: Finest Hour (Xbox) Manhunt 2 (PS2) NBA Live 08 (PS2) Lego Batman (PS2) Driver: Parallel Lines (PS2) Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 (Xbox) Spiderman 3 (PS2) NBA 2K...
At times, words can speak louder than actions. And what you say to a company that owns you can get you in trouble. As shown with fourzerotwo's somewhat unprofessional behavior in a recent blog of his : Can you guys please stop interviewing this guy, talk to someone who actually works on the Dev Team at Treyarch and knows what the fuck they’re talking about. Not Senior Super Douche Noah Heller f...
...And it is good. Some beta footage of CTF and War, plus some TDM sessions. All in all, a good game is here. Might get it on the inevitable 360 purchase, though. I don't know... COD just feels more right on consoles now. Except COD1 and 2, which are pretty PC focused for the most part. But I enjoyed COD4 on the PS3, and I'd definitely buy World at War. Shows that Treyarch can't screw EVERYTHIN...
I understand it's coming out and it's being hyped to all hell. That's as much as I know of it. I never played the first two Fallout games, and outside of Good Old Games there is no easy way to purchase the older titles. Although I did see a "Fallout collection" with the first two and Tactics. And it was in a Fry's Electronics. At $20. And I didn't buy it. Stupid stupid stupid. Either way, I don...
So GameTrailers TV just announced something new for Call of Duty: World at War. Co-op Zombie horde. Available once you beat the game. I went from skeptical (WWII rumors), to hating it because it was back in WWII, to intrigued (first trailers), to interested (game footage, multiplayer announcements), to "I want this fucking game." That's crazy. Treyarch better deliver on both this and Quantum of...
Resistance, Stranglehold Collector's Edition and FarCry Instincts. Thanks Cheapassgamer and GameStop for giving me this opportunity to get these. Coupons make impulse buys more fun! Resistance was because of the forthcoming sequel, and I liked what I played of the demo. Outside of cheap deaths despite I was behind cover. Stranglehold was also because of the demo, and it was the collector's edit...
To those who own both a 360 and PS3: When it comes to multiplatform games, which system do you prefer your purchases? And explain why. Is it Live? The controls? I wonder this because I wonder if I go 360 that if I'll ever buy another multiplatform game on the PS3. Can't be just me...
"Because of your commitment to our community, you've been selected to participate in the Call of Duty: World at War Xbox 360™ Multiplayer Beta*!" Here's a problem: I don't have a 360 yet. Good job. Maybe that's my cue to get one. But I got GTA: San Andreas and Ratchet to finish! and 14 other games! Gyaaaaaargh, I hate the holiday season. That and I was thinking of getting a GeForce 8800GT video...
I promise that this will try to avoid too much negativity. When I went to bed around 11PM (when the Japanese conference was pretty much fresh), and when I was awake around 7AM (when the US conference was about to start), I took everything Nintendo announced with salt grains. Even once saying to myself "Not paying $250 for this crap, I'll put that towards a 360 or new PC video card, thanks." So...
Airborne is boring. It's an average Call of Duty clone with two good ideas (dropping in wherever you want, weapon upgrades), but everything else seems sub-par. And don't even get me started on the absurd concepts in a game that's supposed to be historic: To think this was a series that was something interesting for the WWII game genre, and EA decided to ride the Call of Duty horse instead of go...
Medal of Honor: Airborne for PC at $10 and Ratchet & Clank Going Commando at $15. Medal of Honor Airborne for $10 and Ratchet: Going Commando to continue the series for $15. Awesome. But I already have 19 games to finish, so I gotta get cracking. Eventually I will beat you senseless, Hitman: Blood Money! And having a way to use my PS3 controller on a PC will make playing the Tomb Raider games e...
So I realized something that I thought would've been abundantly clear when I played Warhawk last Saturday. That playing games with friends... 5 bazillion times better than soloing it with utter jackasses. Case in point, I missed tonight's (technically last night as it's 1:30AM as I write this) ranked Warhawk match that my friends were doing. It was 9:30, I thought they were still playing, and I...
Well, I got about 6-7 Wii games and a few Virtual Console games to catch up on, so to be honest I can wait. However, I would need to buy a Wii first. And sadly 3-4 of the games are lightgun games (House of the Dead 2&3 Return, Ghost Squad, RE: Umbrella Chronicles), one of them is a remake (RE4 Wii), and the others I might not play unless I play the preceding game first (Metroid Prime 3).
COD2 Veteran run going slowly but surely. British campaign's done. The Pointe Du Hoc missions are a bitch. And it's only gonna get more mind-numbing from there. Finished Jak & Daxter with about 81% complete. Not sure if I should aim for 100% or just go find the secret ending on YouTube. Started Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Jesus christ this game has a lot of enemies to throw at you. I won...
Dyack is a jerk is doesn't deserve to talk trash about message boards when they give constructive criticism. In short, Dyack acts like a baby. I feel sorry for anybody who works at Silicon Knights, I bet they have to put up with his literary rhetoric daily. I'd be looking for a new place to work if I was them. Of course, he's probably not as much of a jerk as he points out in interviews and is...
Currently: Dabbling still on my COD2 (PC) Veteran run. Almost 3/4s through the British campaign. The tank levels, surprisingly, are easy when you know what you're doing. Finished Uncharted on Normal. The last few chapters are a total bitch. After that, I've been picking at various medals/trophies. The only ones I haven't gotten are Dyno-Might! (Three enemies with one explosive), the five-in-a-r...
Yeah, I'm doing this on a Tuesday, as opposed to a Monday or any other day. Anyway. Currently doing a Veteran run of COD2 PC. When I play it, I realize it's hard in spots, but as long as you keep moving and occasionally use smoke grenades if you're in trouble, you'll do just fine. I'm currently halfway through the British campaign. I doubt I'll try going through COD4 PS3, as there's no major re...
Dear Ms. McEwen: After recently reading your editorial about Sony's upcoming game, Fat Princess, you seem to misunderstand the point of the game. You see, Fat Princess is a game concept that's getting popular due to name and concept alone. Somebody else suggested a treasure chest and gold, or a change of name, but taking either concept away results in the original vision being lost, and then re...
I do approve of Giant Bomb being able to make lists of any type. My only complaints stem from not having a simple list function (without boxart), not being able to choose the platform of the game I'm adding, and not being able to arrange by something besides "Most recent added", such as title or platform. But hey, it's in its infancy, that'll be added later. For those who wish to see: http://ww...
(Originally posted at GameTrailers.com .) So I recently registered for two game-specific community sites. Something I haven't done in a while. Probably the last time was CharlieOscarDelta or maybe SOCOM.com, I forget. It's probably a funny coincidence that the two community sites have similar structuring and are of two games being developed by the same developer: Treyarch. I have a slightly bit...
Awesome. Giant Bomb is live. I love the layout. And the wiki-esque style of editing. Now time for me to add 50 versions of Jeopardy! to the game library. Or not.