Size DOES matter.

Normally when you see a large blade the first thing to come to mind would be Cloud and the Buster Sword but "3D Dot Game Heroes" is far beyond that, as confirmed in the newest trailer, when going into the nearest blacksmith you can now be given the option to "upgrade" you're sword although in all honesty I get the feeling this isn't the idea but to up size the sword you possess. But with all this insanity occuring my decision to love this game is never going to waver and I will still probably find myself buying this on it's release and this is not just because it's published by the ever wonderful "ATLUS" but that could be reason, i'll leave that up to you lot to guess whether it is.

Has Silent Hill got lost in the fog?

It's been a long time since I last played an original Silent Hill game and I found my perfect chance when I found it in a second-hand store, so I bought the game with the last remaining pounds I had stuffed in my pockets and took the closest bus home. Now I bet you're wondering what this has to do with the title of this post?

Well, as I slipped the disc into my slowly aging ps2 and selected my way through the menu, I was hit with an intro scene of "James Sunderland" staring into a lake, I was hit with many memories as I had previously played this game before selling it many years ago. As the cutscene met it's end, I met the beginning of a long journey and every journey needs good music, and Silent Hill was perfect at providing such tone and sound to its games, this was mainly due to the sound artist, "Akira Yamaoka" who has been providing his expertise to Konami for almost every Silent Hill which has currently been released, but as you all know, he recently left Konami for something different and to someone like me, the eerie music of Silent Hill was one of it's main attractions to the public so where will the series go, if anymore are to be made? Is there really anyone who could exceed Akira? these questions are all that pop into my head as I replay Silent Hill 2, lets just hope they get someone good for the next game.

P.S. Is it me or are these posts getting later and later? hopefully I will be able to sort this out when I can persuade the rest of the team to post something and to post more myself.

A New Year and new expectations

Seeing as these were the fabled Christmas holidays I and the rest of the team decided to watch Avatar and since that day i've been speechless when it comes to conversations on the film not just due to the effects and the 3D but also because of the story and the characters involved, this then led me to thinking about the latest Final Fantasy game and how this will change the gaming atmosphere for years to come, but it also got me wondering as to whether games will be able to live up to the cgi cutscenes used to advertise them, will they ever reach that much detail?

Maybe, but the time for such a console would have a long way to go. After days of thinking, it also brought me onto the topic of story and characters, we all know games can provide a detailed adventure with a fantastic story and character detail as there are already few examples of this in the market today (e.g. Dragon Age or Uncharted 2) but will it ever reach a day where I will be brought to such a point of emotion that I could burst out laughing or begin to cry, or at least shed a single tear, yes there have been moments of sadness after watching a loved character die or leave the group but I wonder if it will get to a point where im truly immersed into the scene?

For now I will continue to think on how these topics will outcome but if there is anyone who can provide their own thoughts, please do, we would be happy to hear them.

Trailers Galore!

Just as the title says, its been a great month for gaming trailers due to the many releases and the much loved news which has been spread worldwide. We'll start off with news that the award winning company of Bethesda has finally spread some light on their new product which had been officially named as "Brink" although this game shows as a Killzone 2 clone, I can honestly say that it has succesfully... no, exceeded Killzone and although this is just early demo footage I can honestly say that this game will probably also exceed my expectations I mean who doesn't love Bethesda's games?


While on the topic, Rockstar Games has finally released one of its first trailers featuring its newest game "Red Dead Redemption" which has revealed just a small portion of the games and gameplay, yet with just a small hint to the game I believe this will be a much more interesting game compared to Rockstar's earlier game, "Grand Theft Auto 4" which I believe was somewhat lacking what the earlier games had presented. After all this, I believe that the game will offer much more than what GTA 4 had to give as well as a polished story to submerge the player within the world of the West.

P.S. we are considering on bringing "The top of the week" posts as a full feature to the blog.

And I thought Halo 3 was big...

Its only been a few days and the Modern Warfare 2 sales have soared up to over 4.7 million copies! Its been said that this is the biggest launch in gaming history, and if you thought that was big, the total cost for all these copies reaches up to around $310 million. It may be ridiculous but it sure is a good amount of cash, who knows what you could do with that. Well all we know is that Infinity Ward has a good future ahead of them.

Beowulf replaced by a frying pan?

Out of all the strange games ive seen and played (and yes I have played psychonauts) this is truly the strangest, its a game called "78641" by GZ storm who are known because of their earlier game "Beowulf: the movie". Although from this video I believe they've changed their idea's drastically, but in my opinion: for the better, as this game may look insanely random but it looks like something I would certainly like to get my hands on when released, tell me you're opinions on the comments to the post.

Eurogamer Thoughts

Sad to think its over and the footage recorded was terrible because of the camera I was using. But never fear, no matter how bad the footage is, it will be posted up on our Youtube account and up on the site. Sadly because of the age restriction I was unable to see some of my most anticipated games although I have a reasonable idea on some of the games there, hopefully I will be able to arrange a podcast this Tuesday or Monday to go into more detail on this but for now I think its best just to list off my top 5:

1) Bayonetta
2) Tekken 6
3) Mass Effect 2
4) Left 4 Dead 2
5) Assassin's Creed 2

Thanks, Delta_03.