I recently purchased CoDBlOps on Steam because I had a coupon from the Holiday sale for %50 off of it. So, as someone who played a ton of CoD4 and MW2, I felt that $20 was finally cheap enough that I felt justified in getting the game. It has been a while, and I am a different person than I once was. I haven't touched the single player yet as that is being saved for another day, but I have play...
So, the Steam Treasure Hunt is pretty awesome. They get you buying games and playing them for just a bit to make you like them, ad give you contest entries for it. I have loved it thus far, but today's Shatter challenge has me angry. So, I'm supposed to get 11.2 million points in Bonus Mode. That seems reasonable given how the contest has worked so far. I had to play the first 3 worlds in Story...
So, I just started really going on Wiki edits here on the site. I got a bag of old instruction booklets and stuff from my parents' house and I wanted to do my part to fill out some of the more obscure stuff on the site. I love finding some really nice pages. Seeing that people loved an old game is really awesome, but damn. Filling out some of these sets of credits is going to be the death of me...
Finished it on GB, then started on Screened and Anime Vice. ugh...
(Note: Please excuse the shoddy picture quality. I had to use my iPhone 3G to take these pictures. Motion and iPhones don't get along.) I got to play the Kinect at the Mall of America today. They have a nice booth set up there with plenty of games to try and plenty of fun to be had. They have four Xbox Consoles set up each playing a different Kinect game. All in all, they have Kinect Advenures...
So, my girlfriend played Kinect (specifically Ubisoft's Your Shape) at the Mall of America yesterday and she really liked it. She said she might invest in the Kinect stuff, which excites me as I won't have to buy one then. :) So, I'm gonna head to the Mall of America today to get some hands on time with the Kinect and see how it feels. My girlfriend and I agree that the prospect of Kinect bring...
So Bioshock Infinite looks completely awesome. Whatever that game is or becomes is beside the point right now. All that matters is that that trailer makes me want to play that game. It reminds me of Bioshock's trailer back in the day. For the record, I thought Bioshock 2 was pretty good. Its focus was different than Bioshock (1), but it was a pretty darn good game. If Infinite has the playabili...
Achievements have done a lot of good for video games in the last few years. I know some people would disagree with that, but I guess I'll argue both ways real fast. For achievements, I like having them on my games as it gives me something to shoot for. I have squeezed more life out of games than I probably would otherwise because of achievements. I love giantbomb.com's averaging system so that...
I'm back from Africa now, and I might be moving into an apartment soon... That was kind of expected, but not really. I need to make a list of games I should play in the stead of buying all these new ones. Maybe soon. Sad that SC2's Beta is winding down, that is what I'll be doing on Monday when I get back from the field. *SIgh*
Playing Starcraft 2 last night was not a good night. I lost about 20 ranks in my silver tier. I have some replays to watch. Aside from that, WET is an alright game, but I just got stuck somewhere and gave up when my 5th attempt ended with my xbox freezing. *sigh* Today I get the new Deftones album, and Picross 3D. That is my plan for today.
Yup. Everyone on SSFIV barely lets me land a punch, much less actually win a round, much less win a game. Least on Starcraft 2 I have a chance against about... maybe a third of the players. So, hello Starcraft 2! I am excited to play you, get stressed out, and then get mad at you as well. At least this way I won't get a blister on my thumb. That's right. I use a Xbox Controller when I play SSFI...
Afterburner Climax: Been playing a lot of this recently. I love it. It is chaotic and stupid in all the right ways. The EX Options expand the game in a lot of weird ways. Some make it broken and some make it awesome. I'm excited to hit 200/200 gs in that and then probably keep playing for the frantic action. Borderlands: I've played most of the Knoxx and Zombie Island expansions. Knoxx is HUGE...
So, my girlfriend hooked me up with a link a couple days ago to an event for Starcraft: The Board Game. At said event, all players had to do was play the game and they were awarded with a SC2 Beta Key. I was completely pumped. 5 bucks to go somewhere and play a game, all to get a beta key for Starcraft 2? Count me in. So far, the game is totally sweet. Graphically better than SC1 by a landslide...
So, having bought a PS3 earlier this week, I am starting to play the lineup of Sony exclusives that have eluded me as an Xbox and Wii owner. I bought a handful of games (more than I should) so I am trying to play them one at a time, rather than start playing Resistance 1 & 2, Uncharted, and Killzone 2 all at the same time. Resistance was first. That game was not so good. It obviously didn't age...
So today I finally snapped and bought a PS3. Apparently Sony is putting an end to the 250gb consoles that they brought out during the holiday seasons to combat the bigger 360s (the MW2 bundles). So this morning at Target the 250gb PS3's went on clearance. I paid $245 USD for a system that used to fly for $350 USD. I mistakenly bought the first Transformers game (not so good) for $7 with it also...
With today's video for the games of the year picks, I would like to point out how awesome it is that the Giantbomb guys and the Giantbomb community have not spoiled Assassin's Creed for me yet. Being halfway through the game now, I feel I keep toeing the line on stumbling on spoilers but I have not yet. So thanks, Giantbomb staff, for not spoiling that game for me, no matter how much you may wa...
God damn. Don't get that game. Please people. I got mine free and don't like it. It is simply depressing to know that Activision thought that they could release a "NEW" Guitar Hero game on an engine and feature set that they stopped using in late June earlier this year. Therefore, Guitar Hero: Van Halen is a game that has been deliberately released over six months after it should have been. If...
Totally just got my copy of Guitar Hero Van Halen in the mail today. Yeah, came in a little cardboard sleeve like Wii Sports and stuff like that. Gives you a website for the game manual and such like that. Now, my true question as to if it has the neat features of GH5 is about to be answered. *pops it in* It doesn't have the Party Play option that GH5 has, but it has a neat little intro like Gu...
So, I have a copy of Supreme Commander from that distant past Best Buy blowout, and I want to try it out and at least give it a chance before I never play it again. However, my Red Elite console refuses to read the disk properly. So, I thought I was getting all wily and went and used my old white Xbox to install the game to the 120gb hard drive from my Elite. Apparently the other box has no dif...
I've gotten through a significant portion of RE5 over the past day or so and I totally love the game. It is almost exactly like RE4 for how the progression of craziness blends throughout the game. Every boss fight or random room situation you come across always seems harder or more ridiculous than the last. It is that intense difficulty curve that fit RE4 so well and it is back in RE5. What els...
I love street fighter 4. It is the awesome, simple, fast-paced, fighting game I have needed to give me faith in that genre of game. At first, I spent that $60 and regretted it when I realized how much I still sucked at Street Fighter, but now that I'm getting pretty decent at SFIV I keep wanting to play it. Capcom did it right to have simple move lists. Fighting games in general now are too dee...
As a random update. I recently finished God of War: Chains of Olympus. Pretty good game overall. I'll put up a review sometime when i have time. Other things I am working on include: FFVII: Crisis Core - Almost done with it I am sure Untold Legends: Warrior's Code - Long time consuming game. I'll finish it someday, but it is dragging out. Patapon - I suck at this game, I just can't keep the rhy...
I am totally excited to see what this new XBOX update has in store for us. However my flight to California leaves tonight and I will not have access to an XBOX until Thanksgiving at the very earliest. Until then, I will be the noob without a new avatar and all that stupid junk. While I am away, I will be reviewing God of War: Chains of Olympus, FFVII:Crisis Core, Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP), an...
Ah, the Giantbomb.com blog is born. I am Nukesniper. I'm from Minnesota and I have been following the adventures of the Giantbomb crew for quite some time now. I look up to them and greatly respect their video game knowledge. (Duh.) I have been working on a personal blog, but I will probably be copying most of its content to giantbomb.com for ease of access. My blog has some major gaps in it be...