Oh hey there. Remember Riddles? He doesn’t! He’s probably crying in some lost corner somewhere wondering where and who he is. That’s the absolutely only explanation I can think of why he didn’t come up with a Hey! Look! Listen! last night. But that’s okay, because there’s a wealth of news that I’m more than happy to bring you. So I, your temporary host, Ethan “Ethos the Great” Pipher, will guide you through the bizarre and depressing world of video games.
What I imagine the dude looks like
Man Completes World of Warcraft
Let’s start with the most depressing thing. Some sad sap recently “beat” World of Warcraft this week. Wow. WoW wow, even. I suppose he should be congratulated, but I just feel like crying. Especially because I feel I’m going to get the honour for Final Fantasy XIV when it comes out next year. MMOs are the games you’re not supposed to beat. (Destructoid).
White Knight Chronicles Gets North American Release Date
Took them freaking long enough. February 2. Still, with Mass Effect 2 and FFXIII, this one would need rave reviews for me to pick up. And looking at the reception in Japan, I’m not holding my breath. (IGN).
InFamous Sells Well Later and Opens Up DLC to Everyone
Infamous sold modestly when it first came out, but whether it was all the buzz, or people waiting to buy a slim, the numbers have jumped from around 200 000 at its release to 1.2 million now. To bring attention to this, Sucker Punch has dropped the price and is going to be releasing DLC that was previously only available as a pre-order incentive. It’s some “gigawatt” move or something. You power up the Delorean, I think. I don’t remember. I’m not terribly interested in that part of the story, so you can read the article if you are. (IGN).
Gran Turismo 5 Demo Coming This Year
Yessssss. This excites me, although with Forza 3 being so awesome, I have to admit that my enthusiasm is a little tamer than it would have been. Still, it’s nice to see all these games like Final Fantasy XIII and Gran Turismo 5 show that they are, in fact, going to be released before I die. Presumably anyway. Maybe Riddles is MIA because he’s come up here to kill me. (IGN).
Mass Effect 2 Discs
SEE WHAT I DID THERE?!?! I used “2″ twice! Because it’s Mass Effect 2, and it’ll be on 2 discs! WOW, I’m incredible. But it’s true. On the PC, it just means a 2 disc install. On the 360 it means you’ll have one (and only one) disc swap at one carefully chosen point in the game. I’m sure some people are grumbling, but I don’t care about the swapping one bit. Although it does likely mean that the game will be longer. I know that’ll make some happy, but I loved the length of the last game, so I’m lukewarm on that thought. Either way, that’s the story. Oh yeah, and there’ll be a 3rd disc of bonus stuff if you get the Collector’s Edition. (IGN).
Done! That’s better than Riddles’ typical pile of shit, right?
Tags: Gran Turismo 5, Hey! Look! Listen!, Infamous, Mass Effect 2, Riddles is a lazy fuck, Riddles sucks, White Knight Chronicles, World of Warcraft
- I thought inFamous was a lot of fun. I’m glad to see a game that isn’t promptly forgotten about upon release
- Am I the only one tho thinks White Knight’s getting sent to die? I mean seriously, why would you put a PS3 JRPG up against FFXIII? It doesn’t matter if the game’s jam packed with Chocobo bestiality porn (thanks for the image, Motomu), anybody interested will still pick it up before White Knight.
- I don’t particularly mind ME2 being on 2 discs, especially now that my 360’s hard drive has the space for more than one disc install at once. I put up with worse to get through Lost Odyssey.
I’d like ME2 to be at least 30 hours, only an idiot complains about a good game being too long.
-I also think WKC has been set up for failure, I would have released it a month or two after FFXIII, in order to ride the slipstream of that behemoth, though I guess Sony are aiming to sell to the people who can’t wait for FF.
-Good to see Infamous doing well.
… And what’s with yet another picture of Oliver? I didn’t even know he played WoW, let alone beat it.
Oh, that’s too bad.
@Darth – No, we all think White Knight will die.
@SN – “only an idiot complains about a good game being too long” – Erm, that’s a little silly. It’s similar to saying that I shouldn’t call a 14 hour movie too long. I understand the differences – you can save in a game, not all in one sitting, sidequests – But it doesn’t mean that a game doesn’t fall prey to when a story collapses because they’re just pulling stuff out of their ass. I thought Mass Effect was just as long as the story earned. Stretching it out would have devalued all the strength of the tale.
@Ethos: Yeah, I’m really disappointed with White Knight. They had such an awesome initial concept video, then it seems like they didn’t end up delivering on any of it :f. Oh well, at least Level 5 has something like 87 games currently in development, so hopefully one of their others will be a hit. I still need to try some of the Prof. Layton games, since I love logic puzzles (even though I suck at them).
@SN: Yeah, I’ve definitely played a few games I thought were “too long.” I agree that I’d have liked ME to be longer, but I can also understand Ethos’ point about the plot getting drug out. All in all, if they made the main plot longer in ME2, that would be awesome, but I think the side content is the area that could stand the most expansion.