Paco’s Quickie: Batman Arkham Asylum
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Games of the Year, Quickies, Reviews
Game of the Year contender. Easily.
My favorite Batman before Arkham was The Adventures of Batman and Robin for SNES. Easily.
Arkham beats the SNES classic. Easily.
Tags: Batman, Batman Arkham Asylum, quickies, Review, SNES
Gems O’ The Bin: Legendary
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Gems O' The Bin, Quickies, Reviews, The Shit to Get
Why didn’t this game get more coverage. It’s R.A.D. (So far…) Sure, it’s not Metal Gear Solid 4 or Fallout but what it is, is fun as f**k.
Cool idea. Very cool idea. Like Gargoyles on acid. With a guitar track.
There are many times, where I think about Cloverfield mixed with Undying/Bioshock with fantastical creatures and so far, an engaging story. A steal. Grab it now, as it’s dropped below the $20 mark (and even $15 in some areas.) You won’t regret the purchase.
Tags: Gems O' The Bin, quickies, Review, Shit To Get
Paco’s Quickie Review: Magic the Gathering - Duel of the Planeswalker
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
Love. It.
Addicted to it.
Hate it. Why the hell can’t I edit my deck or at least remove some core cards? Why is there no XBox Live version of the Co-op campaign?
Can’t. Stop. Playing.
Best $10 I’ve spent. Bring on the DLC, but only if I can edit my decks and ranked quitters are penalized.
Tags: Magic the Gathering, MTG, quickies, Review
Paco’s Quickie Review: Ghostbusters
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
Ghostbusters has been a long time coming. We posted our first piece, a leaked Youtube video, way back in February of 2007. Now only 29 short months later we have Terminal Reality’s labor of love, Ghostbusters the Video Game. And it was worth the wait, minus one giant problem.
Tags: Ghostbusters, Mechanic, quickies, Review, Structure
Paco’s Quick Picks: E3 2009 H-Z
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Previews, Quickies
Having digested so much media in such little time, you begin to sift through everything and find the nuggets. These are the nuggets that I want to take a deeper look at (so far) from E3 2009 - Part Deux.
- Halo 3: ODST [Call of Duty + Master Chief-less Halo? I'm sold. This series hasn't done anything for me since the first half of Halo 2.]
- Halo: Reach [Does this announcement mean yearly Halo games? Sounds good, just keep Treyarch away.
- Joy Ride [Love this idea, I'm glad to see someone else taking a stab at MarioKart but Joy Ride has a mountain to climb. Especially with Mod Nation looking so strong. Avatar use is a cool idea, though]
- Jumpgate Evolution [I'm throwing this on the list just because I know Dreadsorrow is excited for it and I trust his MMO opinion]
- Last Guardian [My favorite PS3 announcement. I was hooked immediately and I don't know if I can stop calling that kitten dragon "Falcor"]
- Left 4 Dead 2 [WTF happened to our DLC? Will the community backlash against Valve for not supporting the original the way they said they would? Me thinks, yes.]
- Lego Rock Band [Useless and self-indulgent]
Paco’s Quick Picks: E3 2009 A-G
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Previews, Quickies
Having digested so much media in such little time, you begin to sift through everything and find the nuggets. These are the nuggets that I want to take a deeper look at (so far) from E3 2009.
GamerTalk Review: Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under GamerTalk, Quickies, Reviews
Paco: “Do you think that this is the type of game that needs more work and would benefit from greater depth? Or has this sort of franchise met its full potential?”
KP1gL37: “DAH has met its full potential. It is what it is.”
Paco: “So even with the bugs?”
KP1gL37: “Even with the bugs. The people that would like this don’t care about the bugs.”
Paco: “Yeah, I didn’t care about the bugs. Destroy All Humans was a $10 game. I feel like I got my money’s worth. It sounds stupid but, because it’s so mindless, I find it relaxing. Hard day? Play some Destroy All Humans, put it back down a half hour later. Reminds of Hulk: Ultimate Destruction in overall feeling.”
Tags: Destroy All Humans! Path fo the Furon, GamerTalk, quickies, Reviews, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie Review: Resident Evil 5
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
Even though Resident Evil 4 redefined the series and helped evolve the genre, I can’t help but where the horror in “Survival horror” has gone. I want to love RE5. I really do. I loved 4, Veronica, Resident Evil 2 and of course the genre-defining original, but somehow this fifth installment just doesn’t grab me the way the other have. I am going to try again, but I’m to the point where I am done trying to force myself to like games that I just don’t.
Tags: quickies, RE5, Resident Evil 5, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie Review: SKATE
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Uncategorized
I know I am late to the “how awesome SKATE is” party but I had a good reason. I loved Tony Hawk. Notice the past tense. Yet, I couldn’t leave the past behind and I found SKATE an unnameable creature.
Tags: quickies, Review, Xbox 360
Paco’s Quickie Review: Ace Combat 6
Posted by HCG Paco | Filed under Quickies, Reviews
In line with my person revival of racing games, I decided to try my hand at revisiting another old favorite of mine - Flight Sims. Not really sims but more like TIE Fighter and Wing Commander. Wing Commander III was the first one I played and TIE Fighter was my next. Wing Commander IV and X-Wing and X-wing vs TIE Fighter. My Gateway Pentium 120 and I spent many hours flying missions together. Back then graphics weren’t taking the technical leaps they are today and it was easier to help your imagination fill in the gaps. Now, everything needs to look so perfect and technically accurate we often lose that opportunity to connect at a deeper level. I found it hard to connect with Ace Combat 6 for a number of reasons and I’ll be moving on to HAWX. Read on to found out why.
Tags: Ace Combat, Flight Simulator, quickies, Review, Wing Commander, Xbox
HCG Dreadsorrow’s Quicke - Rise of the Argonauts
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Quickies
Rise of the Argonauts is a 3rd-person action adventure game set against the ancient Greek legends of the quest for the Golden Fleece. It is an entirely re-imagined storyline that re-interprets the original myths, so don’t quibble too much on inconsistencies. This game was developed by Liquid Entertainment, and published by Codemasters. It is available for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 platforms.
This is a game that I really wanted to like. Really. But it just falls short in a few of areas.
The basics behind the game is, you play the role of Jason from Greek Mythology. You rule over the land of Iolcus, and your queen is assasinated on your wedding day. Your must find a way to bring her back from the netherworld while unravelling the plot against you. That’s it in a nutshell.
The gameplay itself is pretty good. I liked the combat, especially how it allows you to change weapons on the fly, and gain different special attacks from each one. I absolutely loved the art in this game. The environments are simply gorgeous. The world does a great job of lending a truly epic feel to the game with rich colors and colossal environments that one would expect in the presence of the gods and great heroes of old.
Tags: Codemasters, Liquid Entertainment, quickies, Rise of the Argonauts
HCG Dreadsorrow’s Quickie - Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Posted by HCG Dreadsorrow | Filed under Quickies, Rants
Holy frakking s**t, what the hell was EA thinking? This so-called game is a giant steaming toilet curler with peanut chunks sticking out of it. Gigantic huge complete EPIC FAIL.
I understand that not every game can be Gears of War 2, Left4Dead, or Rock Band 2. I understand all too well that some games are simply better than others. This thing that EA vomited out upon the gaming public is so abysmally shitty that it not only brings disgrace to Tolkien’s Middle Earth by association, but it is a travesty of 1s and 0s that stagger even the staunchest hard core gamer. What is even more disturbing than Conquest’s mere existence, is the fact that EA had the audacity to demand $60 for it upon release. I would not even use this game’s disc as a beer coaster. I am afraid that it would make my beer taste like green tea or some other revolting hippie drink, just because of how completely terrible this game is.
I will not even begin to list all the faults I found with Conquest. It sucks so hard, that I don’t want to waste my brainpower by discussing it any more than I absolutely have to. But, do you really want to know what playing this game for even 5 minutes is like?
Imagine if you will a homeless person with mental problems that has spent the past few days eating dog s**t in an alley along with gorging himself on expired burritos from a dumpster that has a few rotting cat carcasses in it. This bum already had some sort of severe gastrointestinal disorder before this binge of dog s**t, rotting cats and super-nasty burritos, but now this bum senses that he is about to expire. So obeying the voices in his head, he makes a beeline to the nearest video game store, where you are debating with yourself whether or not you should dish out the cash for that copy of Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Once there, he throws you on the ground, vomits all over you, drops his pants, pees all over your hair and clothes. Then he sits on your face and dies, voiding his bowels most explosively with a generous portion of the discharge going straight down your throat. You dig your way out from under this mound of quivering bum-diarrhea splatter, and forget all about buying that copy of Conquest.
That bum just did you a HUGE favor.
Play something else that does not suck on quite so much an epic scale. Save your money. Avoid Lord of the Rings: Conquest at all costs.
Tags: Electronic Arts, Lord of the Rings: Conquest, quickies
