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Recent DLCI've played several DLC's recently for games that I had and they really run the spectrum of quality. For instance, Saint's Row: The Third was an awesome game that I squeezed every drop out of and bought the season pass for the three DLC almost immediately. However, while the DLC is a little taste of the same content as the rest of the game, it is shamefully short. Especially the third DLC which I was able to polish off in about 45 minutes. If I hadn't shelled out the money months ago I definitely wouldn't have bought it. The other end of the spectrum is the Kingdoms of Amalar DLC. I put an ungodly amount of time into the game, doing most of the side missions, and while I really liked it, the dialog was nothing to write home about and the characters were forgettable. Then along comes the DLC and suddenly the people you meet, especially the ship captain are funny and interesting. It combines that with about 3 or 4 hours of content and actually improves on the game. Then theres the Mass Effect 3 DLC. It falls somewhere in between the two. While I feel like the mission is important to anyone playing the game, I also share the opinion that it should have been an included side mission in the main story line of the game. Other side missions that I've come along would have made much more sense as a DLC. But I might talk about Mass Effect 3 on my next journal.
So to wrap it up, if you have Reckoning or Mass Effect 3, buy that DLC, however if you don't have the season pass, you might want to skip the Saints Row 3 DLC.
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You Don't Know MultiplayerThe new You Don't Know Jack game just came out a couple weeks ago and its already next to impossible to get an online multiplayer game. I tried on Friday and Saturday this week with barely a bite. Today there was absolutely no games. I understand this for a game like Farcry 2, with its ungodly stack of multiplayer achievements, that no one would still be playing it, but this game is new and good, but now the few multiplayer achievements have become super difficult.
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You Don't Know MultiplayerThe new You Don't Know Jack game just came out a couple weeks ago and its already next to impossible to get an online multiplayer game. I tried on Friday and Saturday this week with barely a bite. Today there was absolutely no games. I understand this for a game like Farcry 2, with its ungodly stack of multiplayer achievements, that no one would still be playing it, but this game is new and good, but now the few multiplayer achievements have become super difficult.
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BorderlandsNo game has held my attention longer than this game. I'm still working on getting all the achievements. There's some that I don't think I'm gonna get tho. I have 66 of 80 currently. I do have a little complaint though: ROBOT REVOLUTION DROP RATE. I've killed hundreds of those buggers and still haven't gotten the oil cans, panties, 3d glasses, fish and pizza that I need to get those achievements. The pizza drop rate is so low that I think I've seen maybe one drop total. Then again, I really wish there was a place to look to see how many of each you have. I know several easy zones to get a lot of robot kills and I've done a ton without getting the totals I need. If there was an achievement for gears, it could be 1000 of them and I would have enough, but I need like 20 of the other stuff and haven't gotten them.
Other than that I love this game.
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Triple StandardI'm a video game nerd. I'm not afraid to admit it. I listen to a lot of video game podcasts(drunk tank being my favorite, not blowing smoke, its by far better then the rest). The thing that really bothers me through is the triple standard that seems to be going around video game reviews. Words like "Good for a Wii game" or "A great PS3 exclusive" really bother me.
Good for a Wii game, basically constitues an above average phone game or at best an Xbox marketplace game that would at the most go for 400 points. Its really rediculous. The Wii is in all honesty a gimmick, a toy, and its games are about as basic as you get. The only thing that makes them challenging is the wonky controls and the fact that the games are made in such a way that it will cheat if you're doing too well at them. Don't believe me? Try running an entire race of Mario Cart in the lead and see how "random" the boxes are.
The PS3 is a different kind of bad. Games like GT5 get 88/100 ratings, when if you listen to the reviewers, they can't help but go on about the game's unfinished unpolished shortcomings. This game has been in development for at least 6 years and I'm told that some of the car models are so old that they would look bad for a PS2 title. Even the crown jewel of last year, Heavy Rain, was basically a movie with terrible gameplay mixed in. Sure it was pretty and very realistic(something sorta overrated in games), but it was hardly the revolutionary game that the critics gushed about. When it comes down to it, it really just plays to what the PS3 does best, play Blue Rays.
And now with the Kinect, the Xbox has taken the niche away. Wii is obsolete, and the numbers are diving fast. PS3 is so out of touch that their periferal comes out at the same time as the Kinect, and has hardware that is basically a Wii mote with a lolipop on the end. How could that honestly pass through development? THEY KNEW WHAT WAS COMING!!
So while the Wii will continue to put out tired old arcade games for fifty dollars more than they're worth and the PS3 will put out pretty movies, the 360 doesn't have to do anything and it will continue to just grind the market into dust. Just watch as they don't release one AAA title in the first 1/4 to 1/2 of the year and still dominate the market. But for what its worth, those "revolutionary games" and glorified arcade titles will be rated very well as they sit in the bargain bins and wait for the non-gamers to get desperate enough to pick them up.
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