Okay, big post incoming.
Yakuza 3 - I pretty much just dropped my life and went nuts playing this game since Friday. I am already very close to the end and have been loving it to death. There is not too much to say about the game that you guys do not already know, it is almost everything I want in a game, and it has more than enough to satisfy me for a very long time after I beat it. There were some things I was worried about the story early on, but everything so far has been great in that regard. They really REALLY want you to hate the bad guys in this game.
3D Dot Game Heroes - Enjoying it, not really loving it. Nothing about it is really wrong, and I really love how I can play through the game as Opa-Opa, but nothing is really spectacular. Good game though, and follows the 2D Zelda form better than Nintendo can now, but I think they could have added more content. The character creator disappointed me based on how difficult it is to use. I wish it was designed similarly to Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts' creator. That was really easy to get into.
My biggest real complaint though is how the game is designed to be played in widescreen when I have a standard definition set, with no options letting you change this. For the most part it is fine, but in the dungeons the very bottom left and bottom right of each section does not appear on my screen because the play field is at an angle, meaning I can miss stuff or not know an enemy is there. This does not kill the game, but is especially annoying.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - I am not too far in and it might be one of the strangest games I have ever played. I have played and beaten most of the series, but so much of the stuff in this game is just really going over my head. To all of the names of places and organizations they drop, to just generally sneaking around. I have a hard time being undetected, so I almost always have to resort to going in guns blazing. Not that I consider that a bad thing, I am just not entirely sure how to play the game normally.
I love the detail and design of almost every section so far. You can really tell an immense amount of love was put into this game, but for anyone who has not played the rest of the series... Good luck figuring out anything.
Banjo-Kazooie - I beat it for the first time in 2008 and loved it, but I recently started it up again and now consider it one of the best platformers I have ever played, 3D or 2D. I feel so bad about it too, I did not play it for years because from what I saw of the art I did not think I would like it.
Others: Downloaded a bunch of PSN demos, hated most of them, but there were some that surprised me. I bought
Crash Team Racing and
Bloody Road II from the PlayStation Classics section because I loved those games like 12 years ago, and for $6 each? Practically a steal.
Also got
Epic Dungeon on the Xbox Live Indies, absolutely great game! It is literally the best game I have ever played that was sold for one dollar. I know that does not seem like a big thing, but yeah!
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