New Games Added V2: Expensive Boogaloo

So today was... expensive. 3 of my most anticipated games came out and I foolishly used my hard earned wages to buy them, I refuse to look at my wallet in disgust.

The software I frittered my cash away on is:

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes (PS4)

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This should be an interesting one; a prelude to The Phantom Pain that's arriving late 2015, possible 2016, it apparently clocks in at a meagre 2-3 hours in length, even with extras. Sound disappointing on the surface, however it's supposed to be great. Since I've been loving the MGS series so far, I think it'll be a worthy edition to the backlog.

Infamous: Second Son

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This has been a much anticipated entry to one of my favourite series on the PS3, I've deliberately shoved my head under the sand to learn as little as possible about this title, so when I get around to playing it I can experience it with a blank slate.

Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster

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These were THE games that made me such a huge RPG fan. Words can't describe how excited I am to join Tidus and Yuna again in their quest against Sin. What's more, the visuals look incredible and the rearranged music sounds fantastic; it pains me to have to wait to play it. I just hope it won't be a case of "don't meet your heroes".

So those were the games added this time, all bought in one day and all equally as hyped up. Will they disappoint? Will they be great? Only time will tell. 

What do you think though? Please feel free to comment and tell me how good/bad you think they are or will be!

New Week, New Games! Volume 2

Now that The Last of Us has been dealt with and my co-op play-through of Borderlands 2 is nearing towards an end, I've decided that today I'll be embarking on a couple of new journeys.

The universes I'll be exploring this week are:

Brutal Legend

Genre: Action

Platform: PC

Length: 12 Hours

Literally all that I know about this game is that it's made by Tim Schafer and has Jack Black as the protagonist. Other than that I'm clueless. From the cover I expect it to be a story about a mystic guitar and it's quest to overshadow medieval war axe archetypes.

I'm hoping for plenty of 'School of Rock' references.

Catherine

Genre: Puzzle

Platform: PS3

Length: 17 Hours

Once again; no idea about this title. All I know is that it's about a man's guilt after having a one night stand with a woman called Katherine (with a K). Rather optimistically, I'm hoping for it to be a nice change of pace from the action based games I've been enjoying lately.

I'll be sure to write my first impressions if they're anything unusual!

It's That Time of the Month... New Games Added!

As I'm a PS+ subscriber in the EU, at the end or very start of each month, I get given a handful of free and full titles from the Playstation Store. I'll sum up the games that I've added to my database from March's selection:

Dead Nation: Apocalypse Edition

Console: PS4

Genre: Action

Length: 7 Hours

Tomb Raider

Console: PS3

Genre: Adventure

Length: 15 Hours

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Console: PS3

Genre: Adventure

Length: 3 Hours

There are a few others that you get for Vita: "Are You Smarter Than...?" (Quiz Game) and "Pixeljunk Monsters Ultimate" (Tower Defence) but they aren't technically completable games or anything I'd like to sink my time into.

THE LIST JUST GET'S BIGGER AND BIGGER!

New Week, New Games!

So now I've finished Deus Ex and forcefully abandoned Kingdom Hearts, It's time I picked some new games to replace them!

My Choices are:

Mad World

This highly stylised hack-and-slash-'em-up looks like great fun; clocking an average playtime of 5 hours, even with finding everything. It's the first Wii game I'm tackling on my list, so I'm hoping using a wand and nunchuck will give a bit more variety than the game pads I've been using thus far.

The Last of Us

To be honest, I tried playing this game a few months back and hated it. The story was great don't get me wrong; I just felt that when you were given freedom to play the game after the amazing cutscenes, it was a repetitive game where the mechanics were as such:

1. Try to sneak past enemy (infected or human)
2. Successfully sneak past enemy
3. Get caught due to a scripted event
4. Rinse and repeat until you leave the area

Now I think it's an unpopular opinion, but I believe that is only due to all the hype around the game when it first came out. Not a terrible game by any definition of the word, but just not as great as people make it out to be. I only got to the High School area which I'm told isn't very far at all, so will be continuing from there!

Every game deserves a second chance.

It's going to be a good week!

New Games Added

So today I added the last of the Steam games I wanted to go through; even the really obscure, old and awful looking ones.

After I get through Deus Ex: Human Revolution Directors Cut, I'll be tackling them one by one.

Welp.