Holy shit d00dz, its been how long since I've had internets? Right. Gravity broke my usb modem thing. I was without the precious datanets for er a while. But thankfully I was hanging with my friends for like two of those days and had such a blast that for two days I did not mourn for the nets.

We currently have three running campaigns going on: The London Magi,Vampires in Rome in 300 ACE and a new one in Crescent City. Absolutely fascinating so far. Its a different kind of Mage game starting as mortals and the player characters are all neighbors in this honkey tonk town.

Crescent City is a real city in Northern California with the Redwoods nearby and a lake called Dead Lake. Its right on the beach as well. The nearest city is Eureka. My character's name is Jason Heathrowe. He's a firefighter with a hot temper. He's also a red head, get my running motif? Besides that he's built like a brick house. He's got mad parkour skills out the ass to boot. Also: He's been in a calender and quite popular with the ladies and fans. Going the next layer down, he's got a younger bro and an absent father that he wants to murder. He's all patricidal considering what he's done to him and his mother back in the day. Interesting to play with. The ST plays it all out beautifully.

Before we start the Crescent City campaign, we have been playing Silent Hill 2 together. Man oh man was this game crazy. I've lost it a few times. Tweaking out crazy cradling myself action. Yeah. The game affected me that much. Yes I know its a game and all but its such an interesting fascinating psychological fuck up its hard not to be temporarily affected by it. I feel like I played through hell and strangely, I think I've worked something out between the loss of my mother and myself. Its so strange to say that a game made me work through something like that but there it is in all of its weirdness. I'm not going to credit Silent Hill 2 for 'changing my life' even thats just over the top for me.

If you're curious, I got the good ending. Here's the vid of it.

Alex Mercer is badass. I effing love him. I'd do him. As long as he didn't have his whipping chain black slimy tentacle thing out but then again, I could get into it. Sexual innuendos aside, Prototype while managing to pull a reference from comic books manages to execute the game fairly well without too much repeating tasks. Well, there's some of that but its not as bad as Assassins Creed 1 or sometimes inFamous.

I like both inFamous and Prototype. I don't prefer one over the other. They're separate entities that have their upsides and downsides. That I can dig. Might seem noncommittal to you to chose one side or the other but to me its not one or the other, I win because I get to play through these stories and enjoyed them both.

Speaking about PS3 games, I'm making sweet sweet love to the PS3 breaking its internet virginity tonight. Its like trying a new candy and finding something you love. I've never played playstation home or seen how well the awesome Stanford folding@home project is going. Holy shit dude! News while I'm Folding! I can dig it, yo!

I know it'll eventually wear off but right now its shiny and pretty and I like my shinies!

I'm just one hellova horny mofo tonight, aren't I? Must be still channeling that sexually frustrated character of mine. Oh woe is Jason Heathrowe.

Dante's Inferno: The great, the horrible and the down right weird.

While a good game that gives tribute to the great poem. Some of the gameplay gets stale after a while. Sure, its fun killing evil baddies while they use something questionable out of their private parts as a weapon. But after playing and beating Dante's Inferno I'm left disappointed. Was it the tiring same thing in every single level? The visuals blend into each other sure, the crying screaming grabbing hands you climb to get places get kinda strange when they are in spots that doesn't have it anywhere else. Using brute force to slay enemy after enemy---it gets tiring. Sure, thats the point, its a hack 'n slash. Buuuuuut the plot is predictable oh and as usual the main character just has to save his sweetheart from Lucifer. The plot leaves something to be desired.

I have to say though that one fat man that takes a shit on you, thats epic. +10 win points. There are some great abilities and combos one can use to slice these baddies into two or four pieces. You get 'good' and 'evil' sides of abilities that one gets point from either condemning or saving individuals throughout history that make appearances within the different circles of hell. It is an unexpected interesting aspect of the game that keeps my interest going anyways.

Although I have to say I was freaked out in the beginning, the beginning was made very well. But the farther you go into the game the less freaky it gets. Maybe I'm just too jaded or I just got used to the freakiness.

There are some great parts to this game though despite my cynicism.


Pros:
Interesting abilities and combos
If you love hack 'n slash --- this is the game for you!
Unique monsters
Challenging
Epic pwning of bitches You beat a lot of cool looking big dudes.


Cons:

Plot leaves something to be desired
Same jumping, swinging, 'get to next level' stuff
Visuals blend together, uninspiring the further you get in

Rating: *** / *****

If you have a craving of owning some bitches in the confines of hell then you will have fun with this game.

Pirate, Buy or Rent? Rent or borrow. Its a quick game but its not worth the new price tag. I have to say that its worth a play through.

PS. This game does diss paganism, gay people and the misappropriation of pagan symbols as evil --- it irked me. One has to keep in mind that the game was made as an interpretation of The Inferno and of course these things were totally not OK back when. Keeping that in perspective as long as this stuff is done within the confines of a historical intent then its alright. Its important to keep telling the works of the masters.

My awesome little private tracker, underground gamer is currently going through a week-long golden free leech a-thon.

And, yes, I've got plenty of materials to play with for many months. A couple of things I'm looking forward to play is: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy IX, RPG Maker and Grandia and a visual novel called Policenauts.

Speaking about games, its backloggery that I have been interested in for the last couple of days. Not only do I have a work in progress list of all the games I have played/beaten but it also keeps track of the games I've got *coughs* you know where and when I feel down saying "damn, I haven't done much in playing J-gaaames" I can go back and pick up a game that I need to finish.


GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I want to get Final Fantasy 13 badly but I can't justify spending so much money on a single game.

/uberfangirling

Of course I'm interested in non-RPGs that I'm obtaining, I'm curious what Crash Bandicoot will be like in Japanese. Oh, I've wanted to play the PSX Evangelion dating sim for a long time after seeing part of a playthrough of it on nicovideo.

Once I get done playing all that I want to play on the PSX, I'm sure I'll head on over to what the mega drive has, considering I heard there's plenty of visual novels on there from what I hear.


Then, after that, I would love to set things up *coughs* so *coughs* I would be be in an optimal set-up for PS2 game-pwnage *coughs* Damn, this cold! :P

PS3 wise, I still need to beat Assassin's Creed 2. Not sure how long that will take but I do want to stretch it out as long as possible.