NOTE: This post is quite old, considering I have actually obtained several of the games within, I just wanted it to be on this site along with my other posts. So...Deal with it.
GUITAR HERO: World Tour:
I think I'm probably one of less than 48 people more interested in this than rock band. Not because I have more guitar hero guitars and therefore would have to spend less on it(I am a drummer, and I NEED the drum set.) and not because I didn't have rock band. I had rock band, and I didn't like it. I LOVED guitar hero 3. a lot of people didn't because it was too difficult or something, but I rather enjoyed the difficulty curve and the song list. Rock Band 2's song list has an almost unfairly weighted ratio of songs I don't care about to the 5 I do. Also, it looks exactly the same as the first Rock Band. Sorry guys, even Gears 2 looks and seems different from Gears 1, a genuine concern that I had with that company, and they managed to IMPROVE Gears. This is even more impressive considering I don't own an xbox, but I was definitely struck by the changes I saw on the surface level.
Little Big Planet:
I have very conflicting mixed emotions towards this game. 70% of my psyche is pervertedly turned on by the sheer amount of content at play here. Not only is there a full single player game, but they give you all of the stuff from that and more to fuck around with ON YOUR OWN. Then you can share it with people. The other 30% of my brain is paralyzingly daunted by the level of content and possibility presented here. I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to do with myself, and I would be too crippled with embarrassment to present my creations to the greater Playstation community purely because of the (very very high) chance that whatever I created would illustrate not so much what Gauguin would paint with an expert eye and a clean canvas, but more what a ferret dipped in paint and given a toxic amount of sugar would do to your living room.
Naruto: Storm:
Have you PLAYED the demo? I am very biased I suppose by the fact that occasionally, I do ENJOY Naruto, and as a youth, I REALLY enjoyed Naruto, but at it's bare bones this is a really fun fighting game! Throw in some colorful characters, ridiculously well rendered graphics and some over the top special moves, and you have what will probably be the next big game with me and my friends. Granted, we haven't really all had a chance to all sit down and play SCIV (Which has enraptured the collective rest of my brain that isn't being used to write this note.)
But I imagine it will have a similar effect. Consider the following: We had a get together and played the demo, which contains two characters and one course, for the better part of an hour and a half. Impressive, by my standards.
Mirror's Edge:
I don't know what to say here really. It's pretty. it looks like Portal.
Shiny+Portal=Something that should probably be considered an illegal drug in my case. Mafia deals will probably be largely at play here. Twisted deals and thugery. (That's right, Thugery.) It's entirely possibly that by the time I own this game I may also don a large clock against my chest and have my very own collection of "Bitches and Hos". The police will search, but they will never, ever catch me.
(Side note: I'd definitely want a jewel-encrusted cane too. Ballin'.)
Sonic Unleashed:
Sonic and I have a strange relationship. Much like that of a gorilla and a kitten, no one really understands WHY but the gorilla really LIKES that kitten. Lets also pretend the kitten killed a nun, and the general populace really LIKED that nun, and they really liked the kitten before the kitten killed the nun. The gorilla though, is not very attached to the nun, nor ever was, and wishes everyone would just leave it and the kitten alone. This is a very apt and not long-winded metaphor for my relationship with Sonic.
Let me explain: I REALLY liked Sonic Adventure. I really enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2. I didn't care for Sonic Heroes (Which was like the kitten trying to make a wooden nun to replace the nun it killed, but because I didn't like the nun in the first place, it didn't really make any difference for me, and the general public knew it wasn't the same as the OLD nun..OK I'm done with the kitten and the nun!) But everyone seems to be moaning and groaning about how Sonic Adventure "Destroyed the Sonic we all knew and loved" and that sort of thing. I have a very backwards view of sonic because I didn't really care about the old genesis sonic games. I mean don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them, much in the way I enjoy Indiana Jones movies, they're fun and enjoyable but they don't stick with my like Star Wars does. There's just nothing memorable enough for me.
Sonic Adventure had a lame story, granted, but for some reason I liked it, I liked the characters, I liked the game play. I LOVED running around the cities as Sonic and friends. it was just fun. It managed to please a very picky 11 year old me for quite a while. And this NEW sonic looks SO DAMN PRETTY is the thing, and I'm really okay with whatever Sonic Team does to Sonic. I never played the NEW sonic the hedgehog for the Xbox and PS3 but that was mostly because any friends I had that played it perished upon insertion of the disc into a billion tiny microforms of darkness. This New one looks fun though.
Prince of Persia:
I didn't play Two Thrones, purely because of how much I HATED Warrior Within, and I hated THAT purely because of how much it utterly obliterated the concept presented in Sands of Time. I know the combat was clunky and boring, but it was so god-damned fun! (baww!!! I'm done now.) This new one gives me hope though. It's pretty, I don't really like having another person following me around though. The girl's A.I. better be good or I will not be happy. Ico is the only game where I really was able to get over that, but well, that was ICO. ICO was damned amazing. Now I'm thinking about Shadow of the Colossus. Now I'm thinking about how it needs a sequel. Now I'm distracted.
FF Vs. XIII:
If you know me, you know I'm a sucker for pretty, awesome, well designed anime-looking things. Also, Kingdom Hearts. FF Vs. XIII is pretty, awesome, well-designed and very anime looking. Also it's being created by Tesuya Nomura who created Kingdom Hearts. We have a winner.
Darksiders:
Boy, THIS came out of left field. Have you SEEN the trailer? Go look at it! Right now! I can wait. Go! You're on the internet, no excuses!
...
Did you see it? Good. My work here is done then. Maybe we can compare buckets of foam that emanated from our mouths upon viewing the trailer later. Or foam from the second time. I guess I'm the only one that collects foam. Oh well, your loss.
God of War III:
IT'S F#*%ING GOD OF WAR!!!1!. JESUS!!!!1!
FFXIII
Yeah I know. The other one's on the list too. I'm gonna buy it anyway...I like pretty anime things. Sue me. (Please don't actually sue me, as I do not have the means to defend myself in court and would probably end up foaming on someone. Very embarrassing and might lead to further legal action, which I would be even LESS prepared to defend myself during, leading to a vicious endless cycle of lawsuits and foam-covered lawyers. Would you expect to be covered in foam if you were attending jury duty? No. Jury duty is unpleasant enough as it is. Let's prevent any foam-related incidents.)
Bleach: Dark Souls DS:
I never actually bought the second DS Bleach game in japanese. I did with the first one, found it largely playable and is to this day one of my favorite DS games/Fighting games. (I still pop it in occasionally on trips and car rides. Not while I'm driving of course. That would be an embarrassing way to die. Unless you were murdered by a kitten. That would be worse. I could go on, but I won't.) My patience combined with forgetfulness and just a dash of stinginess (Imports are expensive, douche bags...) has resulted in the second game being translated into our native american tongue. (English, FYI)
Wario Land: Shake It!:
I really really like hand drawn graphics. I think they're VERY pretty and this game actually looks REALLY GOOD! It's unfortunate though that there's far more to nintendo's catalogue for the rest of this year and beyond that I'm avoiding rather than looking forward too. My PS3 collection will be getting very fat, while my Wii will probably be covered in dust in a year or so. (I'll give you and your friends a moment to make any dust covered penis or lack of action and therefore leading to your penis being covered in dust jokes you need to get out of your systems. Done? Good.) Honestly nintendo's upcoming schedule looks less appealing and more like a lot of ads you'd see in nickelodeon magazine. High School Musical, Bratz, Poniez, Dolphinz, Beelzabubz, etc... It's a tad messy looking.
Animal Crossing: Wild World:
Yes, I'll be picking it up. No, I will not be happy about it. It looks the same as the god-damned last one, the logo looks photoshopped, and now your dumbass friends can yell at you while you're trying to figure out why the *%&$ing owl that runs the museum isn't taking his meds anymore. Delightful.
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World:
This is the longest game I have ever finished. I believe it took me...80 hours or so to actually finish the damned thing. I'm looking forward to another one, christ knows why.
Spore:
I'll be picking this one up at some point. Not the day it comes out mind you, not because I don't care, but because I know what it will do to my life outside, Which is to say, effectively destroy it.
Kirby Super Star Ultra DS:
Recently I've become addicted to this little pink testicle's side-scrolling adventures. This game seems to be chock-full of the little crack-filled side-scrollers. (I'll stop using dashes now.)
Maybes:
Lego Batman?
I need to look at this one a little more. I'm definitely interested, I really liked lego star wars, but I'm not sure if there's enough of a game here for me. Lego star wars 2 was a little too complicated for me. (Which is weird, because I LOVE unlocking things, especially characters.)
Force Unleashed?
I dunno about this. I don't trust star wars games. I've been burned a few times. Battlefront lured me back in though. Let's hope they don't screw it up again. (I'm looking at you, jedi council.)
Brutal Legend?
I know, I know. It's by the Psychonauts guys, therefore I should be positively ecstatic to revel in whatever cup of spit Tim Schaffer hands to the general public like it's melted gold. (I WORSHIP double fine. I LOVED psychonauts. It's in my top ten. 'Nuff said.) I just need to make sure I enjoy the concept enough. It doesn't strike me as being quite as interesting as the plot for psychonauts. Plus it's M. I'm worried...Tim Schaffer's team made some pretty messed up stuff in Psychonauts. (The meat level at the end gave me nightmares...SOOO scary.) I'm concerned what they could do with an M rating would open new levels of dark thoughts for myself, which is a pretty difficult achievement, but highly applaudable nonetheless. Also, I need to make sure the thing won't take seventeen god-damned years to load every time I walk through a *&%#ing door. (The only reason Psychonauts wasn't good, in my opnion. It's one very very tiny over-lookable flaw that was not quite game breaking. God, I loved Psychonauts. Don't get the wrong impression. I'm done now.)
In conclusion I will be very poor before the year is over. You could probably discern from this collection of thoughts and rambling is what I truly yearn for is a very immersive well-designed single player experience. I love mulitplayer stuff too, but what generally makes up the majority of my christmas haul is things like god of war, luigi's mansion, shadow of the colossus, etc. Darksiders looks ridiculously fun, and it's definitely the dark horse of my upcoming list. I didn't see it coming, and happened to find it randomly and fell in love with the choices the team had made. Little Big Planet is next I believe on my shopping list, and I'm really excited, if not a bit daunted by that one. (The level of options is downright scary for me.) I'm looking forward to a pretty good year. In addition to this list there's a couple of things I didn't write down that I might check out just because of the level of interest generated around them, and also I got kind of into shooters in the last year or so, thanks to my PS3 and the Orange Box. Fallout 3 has a lot of excitement generated around it, and I've always thought Bioshock looked REALLY interesting and terrifying. Looks like a good year for the big black box that could.
I think I'm probably one of less than 48 people more interested in this than rock band. Not because I have more guitar hero guitars and therefore would have to spend less on it(I am a drummer, and I NEED the drum set.) and not because I didn't have rock band. I had rock band, and I didn't like it. I LOVED guitar hero 3. a lot of people didn't because it was too difficult or something, but I rather enjoyed the difficulty curve and the song list. Rock Band 2's song list has an almost unfairly weighted ratio of songs I don't care about to the 5 I do. Also, it looks exactly the same as the first Rock Band. Sorry guys, even Gears 2 looks and seems different from Gears 1, a genuine concern that I had with that company, and they managed to IMPROVE Gears. This is even more impressive considering I don't own an xbox, but I was definitely struck by the changes I saw on the surface level.
Little Big Planet:
I have very conflicting mixed emotions towards this game. 70% of my psyche is pervertedly turned on by the sheer amount of content at play here. Not only is there a full single player game, but they give you all of the stuff from that and more to fuck around with ON YOUR OWN. Then you can share it with people. The other 30% of my brain is paralyzingly daunted by the level of content and possibility presented here. I'm afraid I wouldn't know what to do with myself, and I would be too crippled with embarrassment to present my creations to the greater Playstation community purely because of the (very very high) chance that whatever I created would illustrate not so much what Gauguin would paint with an expert eye and a clean canvas, but more what a ferret dipped in paint and given a toxic amount of sugar would do to your living room.
Naruto: Storm:
Have you PLAYED the demo? I am very biased I suppose by the fact that occasionally, I do ENJOY Naruto, and as a youth, I REALLY enjoyed Naruto, but at it's bare bones this is a really fun fighting game! Throw in some colorful characters, ridiculously well rendered graphics and some over the top special moves, and you have what will probably be the next big game with me and my friends. Granted, we haven't really all had a chance to all sit down and play SCIV (Which has enraptured the collective rest of my brain that isn't being used to write this note.)
But I imagine it will have a similar effect. Consider the following: We had a get together and played the demo, which contains two characters and one course, for the better part of an hour and a half. Impressive, by my standards.
Mirror's Edge:
I don't know what to say here really. It's pretty. it looks like Portal.
Shiny+Portal=Something that should probably be considered an illegal drug in my case. Mafia deals will probably be largely at play here. Twisted deals and thugery. (That's right, Thugery.) It's entirely possibly that by the time I own this game I may also don a large clock against my chest and have my very own collection of "Bitches and Hos". The police will search, but they will never, ever catch me.
(Side note: I'd definitely want a jewel-encrusted cane too. Ballin'.)
Sonic Unleashed:
Sonic and I have a strange relationship. Much like that of a gorilla and a kitten, no one really understands WHY but the gorilla really LIKES that kitten. Lets also pretend the kitten killed a nun, and the general populace really LIKED that nun, and they really liked the kitten before the kitten killed the nun. The gorilla though, is not very attached to the nun, nor ever was, and wishes everyone would just leave it and the kitten alone. This is a very apt and not long-winded metaphor for my relationship with Sonic.
Let me explain: I REALLY liked Sonic Adventure. I really enjoyed Sonic Adventure 2. I didn't care for Sonic Heroes (Which was like the kitten trying to make a wooden nun to replace the nun it killed, but because I didn't like the nun in the first place, it didn't really make any difference for me, and the general public knew it wasn't the same as the OLD nun..OK I'm done with the kitten and the nun!) But everyone seems to be moaning and groaning about how Sonic Adventure "Destroyed the Sonic we all knew and loved" and that sort of thing. I have a very backwards view of sonic because I didn't really care about the old genesis sonic games. I mean don't get me wrong, I enjoyed them, much in the way I enjoy Indiana Jones movies, they're fun and enjoyable but they don't stick with my like Star Wars does. There's just nothing memorable enough for me.
Sonic Adventure had a lame story, granted, but for some reason I liked it, I liked the characters, I liked the game play. I LOVED running around the cities as Sonic and friends. it was just fun. It managed to please a very picky 11 year old me for quite a while. And this NEW sonic looks SO DAMN PRETTY is the thing, and I'm really okay with whatever Sonic Team does to Sonic. I never played the NEW sonic the hedgehog for the Xbox and PS3 but that was mostly because any friends I had that played it perished upon insertion of the disc into a billion tiny microforms of darkness. This New one looks fun though.
Prince of Persia:
I didn't play Two Thrones, purely because of how much I HATED Warrior Within, and I hated THAT purely because of how much it utterly obliterated the concept presented in Sands of Time. I know the combat was clunky and boring, but it was so god-damned fun! (baww!!! I'm done now.) This new one gives me hope though. It's pretty, I don't really like having another person following me around though. The girl's A.I. better be good or I will not be happy. Ico is the only game where I really was able to get over that, but well, that was ICO. ICO was damned amazing. Now I'm thinking about Shadow of the Colossus. Now I'm thinking about how it needs a sequel. Now I'm distracted.
FF Vs. XIII:
If you know me, you know I'm a sucker for pretty, awesome, well designed anime-looking things. Also, Kingdom Hearts. FF Vs. XIII is pretty, awesome, well-designed and very anime looking. Also it's being created by Tesuya Nomura who created Kingdom Hearts. We have a winner.
Darksiders:
Boy, THIS came out of left field. Have you SEEN the trailer? Go look at it! Right now! I can wait. Go! You're on the internet, no excuses!
...
Did you see it? Good. My work here is done then. Maybe we can compare buckets of foam that emanated from our mouths upon viewing the trailer later. Or foam from the second time. I guess I'm the only one that collects foam. Oh well, your loss.
God of War III:
IT'S F#*%ING GOD OF WAR!!!1!. JESUS!!!!1!
FFXIII
Yeah I know. The other one's on the list too. I'm gonna buy it anyway...I like pretty anime things. Sue me. (Please don't actually sue me, as I do not have the means to defend myself in court and would probably end up foaming on someone. Very embarrassing and might lead to further legal action, which I would be even LESS prepared to defend myself during, leading to a vicious endless cycle of lawsuits and foam-covered lawyers. Would you expect to be covered in foam if you were attending jury duty? No. Jury duty is unpleasant enough as it is. Let's prevent any foam-related incidents.)
Bleach: Dark Souls DS:
I never actually bought the second DS Bleach game in japanese. I did with the first one, found it largely playable and is to this day one of my favorite DS games/Fighting games. (I still pop it in occasionally on trips and car rides. Not while I'm driving of course. That would be an embarrassing way to die. Unless you were murdered by a kitten. That would be worse. I could go on, but I won't.) My patience combined with forgetfulness and just a dash of stinginess (Imports are expensive, douche bags...) has resulted in the second game being translated into our native american tongue. (English, FYI)
Wario Land: Shake It!:
I really really like hand drawn graphics. I think they're VERY pretty and this game actually looks REALLY GOOD! It's unfortunate though that there's far more to nintendo's catalogue for the rest of this year and beyond that I'm avoiding rather than looking forward too. My PS3 collection will be getting very fat, while my Wii will probably be covered in dust in a year or so. (I'll give you and your friends a moment to make any dust covered penis or lack of action and therefore leading to your penis being covered in dust jokes you need to get out of your systems. Done? Good.) Honestly nintendo's upcoming schedule looks less appealing and more like a lot of ads you'd see in nickelodeon magazine. High School Musical, Bratz, Poniez, Dolphinz, Beelzabubz, etc... It's a tad messy looking.
Animal Crossing: Wild World:
Yes, I'll be picking it up. No, I will not be happy about it. It looks the same as the god-damned last one, the logo looks photoshopped, and now your dumbass friends can yell at you while you're trying to figure out why the *%&$ing owl that runs the museum isn't taking his meds anymore. Delightful.
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World:
This is the longest game I have ever finished. I believe it took me...80 hours or so to actually finish the damned thing. I'm looking forward to another one, christ knows why.
Spore:
I'll be picking this one up at some point. Not the day it comes out mind you, not because I don't care, but because I know what it will do to my life outside, Which is to say, effectively destroy it.
Kirby Super Star Ultra DS:
Recently I've become addicted to this little pink testicle's side-scrolling adventures. This game seems to be chock-full of the little crack-filled side-scrollers. (I'll stop using dashes now.)
Maybes:
Lego Batman?
I need to look at this one a little more. I'm definitely interested, I really liked lego star wars, but I'm not sure if there's enough of a game here for me. Lego star wars 2 was a little too complicated for me. (Which is weird, because I LOVE unlocking things, especially characters.)
Force Unleashed?
I dunno about this. I don't trust star wars games. I've been burned a few times. Battlefront lured me back in though. Let's hope they don't screw it up again. (I'm looking at you, jedi council.)
Brutal Legend?
I know, I know. It's by the Psychonauts guys, therefore I should be positively ecstatic to revel in whatever cup of spit Tim Schaffer hands to the general public like it's melted gold. (I WORSHIP double fine. I LOVED psychonauts. It's in my top ten. 'Nuff said.) I just need to make sure I enjoy the concept enough. It doesn't strike me as being quite as interesting as the plot for psychonauts. Plus it's M. I'm worried...Tim Schaffer's team made some pretty messed up stuff in Psychonauts. (The meat level at the end gave me nightmares...SOOO scary.) I'm concerned what they could do with an M rating would open new levels of dark thoughts for myself, which is a pretty difficult achievement, but highly applaudable nonetheless. Also, I need to make sure the thing won't take seventeen god-damned years to load every time I walk through a *&%#ing door. (The only reason Psychonauts wasn't good, in my opnion. It's one very very tiny over-lookable flaw that was not quite game breaking. God, I loved Psychonauts. Don't get the wrong impression. I'm done now.)
In conclusion I will be very poor before the year is over. You could probably discern from this collection of thoughts and rambling is what I truly yearn for is a very immersive well-designed single player experience. I love mulitplayer stuff too, but what generally makes up the majority of my christmas haul is things like god of war, luigi's mansion, shadow of the colossus, etc. Darksiders looks ridiculously fun, and it's definitely the dark horse of my upcoming list. I didn't see it coming, and happened to find it randomly and fell in love with the choices the team had made. Little Big Planet is next I believe on my shopping list, and I'm really excited, if not a bit daunted by that one. (The level of options is downright scary for me.) I'm looking forward to a pretty good year. In addition to this list there's a couple of things I didn't write down that I might check out just because of the level of interest generated around them, and also I got kind of into shooters in the last year or so, thanks to my PS3 and the Orange Box. Fallout 3 has a lot of excitement generated around it, and I've always thought Bioshock looked REALLY interesting and terrifying. Looks like a good year for the big black box that could.
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