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What can I say that hasn't already been said about this game? Persona 3: The Journey concludes in a way that I expected and yet, I'm completely stunned by this game. The narrative develops in a way that I haven't truly experienced on this level in a long time, if ever. The S-Link system seemed like charming little game mechanic that was meant purely for the fusion side of the game, but as the g...

This month can only be summed up as being the month of Persona 3. I am now up to 78 hours in game time (having started it in early June) and I really don't think I have at any point in my life put that much time into a single playthrough of any game ever. It says something about the narrative scope and tiny elements of that game that make it a truly compelling adventure to complete. The sum of...

Hi Nick, Remember when we used to play games and enjoyed life? Well, school has sort of ruined that so we don't have all that much time for that kind of stuff right now. I mean, we finally cracked open that copy of Beyond Good and Evil that's been sitting around since the summer. It's pretty rad, but Mass Effect 2's DLC only last us like a week? Too bad, Mass Effect 2 ruined games for us, becau...

So, clearly I am not going to be able to consistently blog every week on what I've been playing. I've run out of time, but still want to log what I've been doing when I do play games. As it goes, a monthly log seems to be best route here, so I'll stick with that for time being, intermittently writing down my thoughts periodically. So, since my last post two weeks ago I've completed RDR and ME2....

Well, things really got off the wagon in the middle portion of December until now. Exams, the holiday break and dealing with early semester troubles didn't lend to me logging in what I've been playing, but I've played quite a few games over the last month until completion. Among VVVVVV, Machinarium, Read Dead Redemption, Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 (which I just started this morning) VVVVVVV an...

This week has not had too much going on given that I've been spending the majority of my time studying for finals. As a result, this will probably be brief as I really don't have a thing to say. Persona 3: I've continued working my way to the 40 hour mark in Persona, which was my goal 2 weeks ago when I decided to pick it up again. I've hit a lull in the story and there does not seem to be anyt...

Not too much was done in the way of gaming this week as finals near. I did play through the entirety of Enslaved, but I wrote a review for it so all of my thoughts are enclosed in that space. Other than that I got way into Red Dead but made the conscious decision to not play anymore of it until after exams have been completed as it will surely suck way more of time up than I need to. Instead, I...

Today marks an odd day in gaming for me where the Action/Adventure has taken over my love of the FPS once again. Blops started off great, the story was engaging, the multiplayer was different and the experience I was missing in my life was b(l)ack. Fast forward two weeks and that joy is gone. The campaign was lackluster after the first couple of missions, the multiplayer is solid, but the maps...

I just noticed in my last forum post that I currently sit at number 499. I generally never hang around a community long enough to even consider racking up that much time on a forum or site for that matter. I got this account day one of the site going up and have loved every moment every of it. This 500th post will mark that seems extremely large and daunting and took a long time to get to, but...

I'm procrastinating like made at the moment and figured I'd start a new blog series (that probably only I will read) detailing what I've been playing and what I've thought about it. I kind of don't like the blog posts in the forums and how they are centred around quests, so I'm keeping this private. So, here goes nothing: FABLE 3: I finally completed this game and I really have to admit all the...

I've been really hampered lately by what it is I really want. Clearly, I've made it this far so all of my decision's have not been wrong, but a lot of them have not been right. It seems that the further I go along the more it seems that I have to change things and start over again even with the overwhelming possibility of knowing that I can't. I feel like I've climbed up these stairs for so lon...

While I procrastinate from studying a little more all I want to do is go home and start playing same games. I've missed out on GoW 3, Heavy Rain and a couple little thing i've wanted to check out for a while now. Not to mention that fact that I haven't stepped into a movie theatre since last year, which isn't the worst thing in the world seeing as only crap has really come out in the last coupl...

Honestly, I think the only reason the majority of gamers have a Wii is for three things. Mario, Zelda and nostalgia. I haven't touched my Wii since I finished SMG last year and have no intention of playing anything on it until another one of those games get announced. I guess since Nintendo is technically serving the purposes of my Wii experience, I'll hang on to it because the worst thing that...