An old joke goes that after careful preparation, the Soviet Union finally invades the People's Republic of China with an overwhelming army, armed to the teeth, well trained and fanatical, and scores enormous victories against the Chinese. The first day, fifty miles of territory have been secured and a million Chinese soldiers have been taken P.O.W ( Read more... )

I was initially a PC gamer, growing into it sort of naturally from the Commodore 64 of my youth. I never much saw the point in a system that only plays games when you could have one that played games in addition to all its other uses (I still could not live without my PC now, not in the last place because of the WWW). I've had consoles over the ( Read more... )

The PS2 has been the centerpiece of my backlog since buying it for myself as a graduation gift in early 2005. I went for a premodded one, hoping to get at the games that never saw a European release, without being forced to import every title. The fact that US games turned out to be so much cheaper in general was a pleasant surprise at the time, so ( Read more... )

Another year over, a new one just begun, etc. etc. I've finished my list of game completions in ( Read more... )

Well, I haven't really been posting my gaming progress or triumphs for a while now, mostly because the last few months have been so incredibly busy.

A visit from sashanan and kirie_rsm meant, after months of behaving myself because of money issues, that I could finally splurge a bit and buy some new games.

I wound up with a large chunk of my wishlist, including: ( Here be a list! )

Finally beat Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. On Very Easy, though, since the only other game in the series that I have played is the original Metal Gear for NES (yes, the regular Nintendo ( Read more... )

In a dazzling display of gaming productivity, I finished two Castlevanias in one month's time: the two DS ones, basically the games that sold the system for me. I started with Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. It's a sequel to Aria of Sorrow, and the title is really nothing more than a pun on the DS initials (something many of the earlier DS games do), ( Read more... )

So.. I finished one game. Then I finished another. And I was on the final boss on the third, so I just held off on posting here until it was all said and done. :D So.. on to the boasting! :D

( Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney )

Or at least, it would be if I had the Japanese version ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning saw the conclusion of FFX-2, a game I've been sitting on for quite some time, but that I nonetheless finished with a mere 20 hours on the clock in the end. To say that FFX-2 is a sidequest-heavy RPG is to miss the point. FFX-2 is a game that consists of sidequests with a main plot serving only to tie them together into one title, ( Read more... )