In my opinion this was the biggest and most surprising thing out of e3 2009. Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy 14 (before the release of Final Fantasy 13 mind you). Final Fantasy 14 will be the successor to Final Fantasy XI Online. From the trailer, it looks like it may remain in Vana’diel. Ironically, I began to play Final Fantasy XI once again. I must say the game has improved a great deal and I’m enjoing it. My jaw dropped to the floor when I heard about the next MMO follow up. So far, the game will be released on the PS3 and the PC. I am absolutly thrilled with this news. The official site is here.
For those that don’t know, the upcoming Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers is getting a major makeover. The look and feel is more what we’ve seen in Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 10. Really beautiful!
Below is a really nice trip-hoppy/electronica track from the game.
The success of the Wii may have been a big shocker to the gaming industry, but the success of Nintendo as a whole company shocks even me. Kudos to Nintendo for making such a nice rebound from the N64 sorrows.
For those that don’t know already, Wii MotionPlus will allow the Wii to have true 1:1 motion. The hardware attachement will be shipped with the sequal to Wii Sports. However, the hardware will also ship with various EA games.
An additional surprise to me is that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 will include disc golf. Please view the video below to get a quick look at how Wii MotionPlus is used in disc golf.
There comes times when unique games pop up out of no where such as Portal, Braid, Darwinia, or Audio Surf. I stumbled across a video for Crayon Physics. It just may join those ranks. I admit I havent tried it yet but here is a video that makes me think I may like it. I wonder if the fact that the person in the video is using the same laptop I own has anything to do with it. It’s nice to see games play nice with tablet PCs.
I’ve been playing de Blob for the Wii. There is an interesting addiction about the game. Playing the game has the same temptation you get when looking out to winter’s first snow in the morning and seeing pure white snow untouched by anything. It’s that drive to run out and mess it all up. It’s has the same drive you get when getting a package in the mail and pulling out the large bubble wrap. After popping one, you just must pop another. Or maybe I’m just crazy.
In de Blob you must color a black and white world with bright paint. It’s a similar genre to the Katamari series I guess. I find myself unable to leave a spot uncolored. I find myself at the end of a level and noticing a white spot. I’ll go out of my way to go all the way back to the beginning to get that missed spot. If you are obsessive like me when it comes to these things, de Blob is the perfect treatment game for you. It’s also soo gratifying to roll paint all over the place making an absolute mess. I felt the same way when I played Elebits for the first time. I could care less about actually playing for score in Elebits. I just loved going into a perfectly clean and organized room and tossing, lifting, tilting slamming everything all over the place making an absolute mess! Knocking over a shelf of china and watching it smash to the ground is sooo refreshing after a hard day of work. The sound of glass smashing. Games like this really cater to my issues gaming needs.
I guess most gamers enjoy destruction by explosion. Destruction doesn’t always have to be explosions. Don’t get me wrong I love them but they are kind of overdone at this point. I mean come on, we are at a point where we are creating superheros, who’s are to explode. However, Blast Corp was a very nice game that embraced this same idea with explosions.
My site isn’t a game review site. I simply blog about games I’m playing or news I’m interesting in. Personally, I have an issue with game reviews. I want to just spit this out, do not let anything I say on my site affect your decision to purchase a game! When I talk about a game I’m only letting the world know my feelings toward it. Even if I can’t stand a game, I will never tell anyone to not buy it because of how I feel about it. I believe this is very wrong and is doing more damage to the game industry than helping it.
However, you will hear me say do not buy a game if the game is in fact broken or bugged. There have been a few games that come to mind that were released broken. For instance a certain DS game was released and only 30 out of the 100 levels were functioning. Also, a certain Wii music game was released without being Dolby stereo even though the packaging stated it was.
When I write about a game I tag them as pReviews meaning preview, not review. It is simply my impressing. So why am I saying all this. I want to make sure people do NOT drop my site in the same category as game review sites. That is a very incorrect assumption. 2-bit Blogger is simply a 2-bit blogger who plays games and lets the world how they feel about it.
Unfortunately, our economy is hurting many things. Blu-ray may have won the fight against HD, but can it withstand the battle in our threatened economy?
I spent all day yesterday playing Spore and I must say it’s one of the best games I’ve played in a while. However, I feel like the game should be patched already. I literally played the game about 10 hours straight. I received the achievement for playing the game from a single cell organism to a space civilization. However, when I quit the game, everything was lost and I had to start over!
It’s not too clear how to save in the game. I was creating buildings, creatures and vehicles though out my game. There is a save button you can click on as you did in the Spore Creature Creator. This was the only way I ever saw to save. When you are a space faring race you can NOT save on the planet. The save function is grayed out. I had no idea what to do so I went into a building creation mode and click the save there, since it’s the only way I could save. Well that wasn’t the right save after all. When I quit the game, all my game history was lost. What happened to “Would you like to save and exit?” Apparently, you can only save the game while in the solar intersteller view (this is very inconsistant with the rest of the game).
This makes zero sense since I can view all the saved versions of my creature from a cell organism up to civilization. Additionally, and vehicles I built are still in “My creations”. Yet, when I load up my game to continue, I’m still a very early form of myself just out of the primordial soup. Talk about frustration. Well I’m not going to bother playing the same species all over again after that. I guess I’ll start another. But talk about a complete waste of time. If you played spore already, you know how it records a complete timeline of everything your species has done and accomplished. My sporelings were literally erased from the history of time. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, so I took a long time to really come back from vacation… So much has really happened. I eventually got my replacement Xbox 360. Aside from popular belief, I got it back relatively fast, Like under 8 business days! I’ve been playing Too Human, Mario Kart Wii, Final Fantasy Tactics A2, Braid, and Bionic Commando for the 360. Spore is just around the corner to add to that list.
