Gaming Update #10: A Milestone

by natetodamax

Well, another week has passed, and I would like to welcome every to October! Yay....? If you haven't noticed already, I've decided to start putting up these blogs on Sunday rather than Monday. It's a bit more convenient for me to do so, because I can focus on schoolwork the following day instead of writing about video games. What I've Been Playing My new favorite vehicle Something extraordinary...

What I've Been Playing

My new favorite vehicle Something extraordinary happened the last few days. I played Halo 3, and enjoyed it. I'm sure most of you know me as a chronic Halo-hater. Yes, believe it or not, but I actually like Halo 3. It's when I get angry at it that I start badmouthing it. I mostly played around in Team Slayer, but crunchUK recently suggested that I play Big Team. I did so, and I have to say that it is so much better than regular Team Slayer. Much more action, vehicles everywhere, and the maps are huge and fun to play on. And, holy crap, a short while ago I was playing Big Team Slayer on Avalanche, and I went 36-0. I stayed in the Tank the whole match, and ended up with a plethora of medals and a Perfection. Awesome.

I also played a LOT of Left 4 Dead. I downloaded Crash Course, which is, well, kinda meh. You can check out my review here. I'm still about 20,000 kills or so from the Zombie Genocidest achievement, so if anyone here has been playing L4D recently, hit me up so we can kill together.

A few days ago I downloaded Runes Of Magic, which is a free role playing game from Frogster Interactive Pictures. I was itching to play a good RPG, and wanted to play something that was free and not craptacular like Runescape. (On a side note, the wiki for Runescape on this site is absurdly detailed). Many people have said that Runes Of Magic is basically a World Of Warcraft clone, except it's free. I've never actually played WoW, so I can't confirm whether or not that statement is valid. But hey, it's a free game, and it's pretty fun. I was a bit overwhelmed at the start. They basically drop you into this town, and nearly every person you talk to will give you a quest. It's crazy.

What I Want To Play

BORDERLANDS COMES OUT THIS MONTH
It's October, which means BORDERLANDS COMES OUT THIS MONTH! WOO! I cannot wait to get my hands on that game. Modern Warfare 2 continues to hold my interest, and that comes out in November. I'm also excited for Final Fantasy, despite the fact that I've never played a single game from that franchise. I think the Endurance Run kinda got me hooked onto JRPGs. We'll see.

Threads You Should Check Out

Al3xand3r recently posted an interesting thread about Jack Thompson suing Facebook for a large sum of cash. You can find it here.
Hamz constructed a lovely thread for new users to check out here.
Bwast threw up a thread asking you to nominate the Giant Bombcast for the 2009 Podcast Awards. Vote now!
I posted a thread near the beginning of the week about Obama's plan to lengthen the American school year. Is it a good decision? Discuss it here.

Site Shenanigans

I'm not sure what's up, but things have been weird here on Giant Bomb. First of all, there are bugs everywhere that have yet to be fixed. I'm not putting blame on the staff or anyone here, but it is a bit crazy how we've had to deal with time traveling demons making our posts appear before others for a week now. I've also noticed an increase in the amount of questionable threads that deserve to be locked, but took forever to reach that fate. Again, not blaming anyone here, but there never seems to be enough mods online to deal with everything that occurs. I suppose one could argue that the community is partially to blame for idiotic threads remaining on the site, because we constantly bump them. But hey, you can't stop people from posting in a thread.

I also forgot about the Batman: Arkham Asylum review I was writing. I'll have to get back on that.

And that concludes this weeks Gaming Update. I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll see you next Sunday.

Until next time, children.