God of War: Ascension looks like something that was put together to squeeze the final few pennies out of the franchise before they make a God of War 4 for the Playstation 4. I kind of got the same impression from the new Gears of War: Judgement game, an attempt to keep the property fresh in the minds of audiences while they wait for the next "real" game. Which kind of makes sense in a way considering how long this console generation has lasted, and it makes me wonder if people would have been kinder to Crysis 3 if it had been released on the next generation of consoles.

Anyhow, I just have one more day to wait till I can play this:

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First game I've pre-ordered since 2010's Heavy Rain.

Bought and started playing Bioshock: Infinite today. I'm loving it. It's gorgeous, well-paced, and pretty intense. The action starts very abruptly, too. The story is wonderful, it does a really good job about not just starting with a large cutscene; it's got time to explore between them, and the combat is noice.

I'm going in next check so I can remember to preorder The Last of Us. I totally spaced it today, even though that and buying Bioshock: Infinite were my whole reason for trekking to the mall.

I almost bought Bioshock: infinite yesterday. Almost. I remember how I couldn't get through the 1st part, despite being a huge System Shock fan... The combat was clunky, action was chaotic, I played maybe 2 hours of it and that's it. I might come back to it one day...
Anyway, I got an almost 15$ cheaper Assassins Creed 3, and so far it's a great game. Finally a game where the plot and the way it's presented (at least in the 1st hour or so) doesn't make me feel like skipping it completely. I'll wait with my final judgment until I'm done with the game though.

The combat in Infinite is good.

I enjoyed the hell out of it for about 5 hours yesterday, well paced story, likable characters whose arcs drive the plot, and a great combat system that allows for some great combinations of vigors and guns. I really wish my PC could handle it though, because the 360 version does feature some rather ugly textures, but that's nothing a new video card can't fix so I'll probably end up buying it again on Steam during a sale sometime in the future.

All in all this is really the only AAA game I've actually been excited for since... uh.. L.A. Noire I guess and the fact that it delivers in every way where it counts has me more than content.

god damn this bioshock game is good.

where the old bioshock's felt more grounded this one is more ethereal and out-there. Subject matter has racism,neo patriotism and religous bigotry all wrapped up and its just so enticing. Few games manage to be so interpretive, a lot of the metaphors are obvious but it's a testament to the narrative that so much of it isn't explicitly told to you, if you wanna unravel more your free to do so at your discretion, and its actually rewarding.

Mechanically its a feat too. Seeing the city from various heights is really cool. I wholly expected a 5 gig install or some ish but the game runs great with few loading times. Only gripe is i miss the weapon wheel, it just feels missing.

Just got my copy of Slender: The Arrival in my email last night. Been playing it a lot today. Really well done game. The picture is from my phone.

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I got God of War: Ascension yesterday. I actually think these guys are really good at tweaking the system just enough in each game to keep it fresh while still giving people a God of War game. I always have to spend the first couple hours getting the hang of the minor tweaks, mastering it, and then feeling like a badass all over again. While I can tell the rage meter is going to produce some problems later in the game (I use the hell out of combos and not having them by getting knocked around once is kind of annoying), I think it added enough change to keep me interested and challenged. Plus, it fits...Kratos isn't exactly rage-filled just yet like in the main games so you have to get him that way. My only other problem with it is the beginning...it just kinda...started. Every GoW game has started with something freaking EPIC and this is the first one (PSP games included) that didn't. By the end of his escape with that battle with the Aegean, though, I was fully immersed. I love the scale these games have.

Also found a used copy of the Metal Gear Solid HD collection. After playing through 4, I wanted to go back and play all of them over again. Plus, I never played Peace Walker so that should be fun. I can't wait to hear more about MGS V...although I'm a little upset David Hayter won't be the voice of Snake.

Came across this XBOX Minecraft creation. Can't do anywhere near this in pocket edition but it's pretty cool.

I wouldn't worry about the rage meter. I think this game gets progressively more easy as you go through it with all of the upgrades you can get, even relative to the other games. I've nearly beaten the game (it's going to have to wait awhile as GoW has taken a backseat to Bioshock for the time being) and find that I'm just breezing through the later parts of the game, where as early on I found myself dying much more frequently. Apparently there's a part right before the end that is just brutal though, so I may have to reserve my judgement.

As for starting off with something epic, I think that's more just a by-product of the series really doing everything it can do in the previous games. This game still features awesome set pieces and cool boss fights, but it's tough to better or duplicate fighting a hydra for the first time, the Colossus of Rhodes come to life, or fighting Poseiden while on the back of a Titan scaling Mount Olympus, not to mention all of the other things that this series has done.