Well the E3 conferences are done. Some of them sucked, one of them was fucking awesome, and here I am to give my impressions on them.

I’ll comment about both things that were announced, and my impressions about the conferences as a whole. There were 5 big conferences, and I’ll talk about all of them, though I will just skim through the less interesting ones.

And I know that E3 isn’t done yet, more could be announced, but this is just about the conferences.

So read on!
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jobocan Console, Games, Handheld, News, Opinion, PC, PSN, Rant, ds, e3, impressions, ps3, psp, wii, xbox 360

Video game movies are known to suck. Pretty much every one of them is either completely horrible and unwatchable (anything by Uwe Boll, the new Street Fighter movie, Doom… and many many more), or painfully bland and boring (the Tomb Raider films, Hitman), or “so bad it’s good” (the first Street Fighter movie, the Mario Brothers movie). Animation movies don’t count here. I’m speaking of live-action films. The only video game movie I found myself enjoying is the first OneChanbara film(I have yet to watch the sequel), as it was really fun to watch, despite the cheesyness.

Now independant film maker Eddie Lebron is taking up the task to try and prove that video game movies can be done properly, and he does so by going with one of the most cherished and popular video game series in the industry: Mega Man. You can see the movie, hosted on ScrewAttack, by clicking here.

Continue reading my review and see why I think this could be a step in the right direction in regards to video game movies!
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And finally it’s released! We’ve been seeing stuff about this game for 4 years now, and it’s probably been in development for a lot longer. So it’s definitely something to finally be playing the game.

Before it came out, I was not really hyped for it, since I knew it would take a long time to come out. But when the American release date was revealed, and that the game was released in Japan (so I could actually see peoples’ impressions on the game), I was hyped. There were strangely tons of complaints about the game, probably more than the average FF game gets, but none of those seemed like anything nearly big enough to be game-breakers, and just sounded like nitpicking, so I was still hyped.

So let’s see if those various complaints were actually detrimental to the game, or if people just like whining for no good reason. READ ON !!
In a slight change of pace, this game will have 2 sections: the actual review, and me talking about what I think of the various complaints the game has been getting… as well as a few complaints of my own. So check it out!

(NOTE: no, I’m not a Final Fantasy fanboy… if I was I would have finished more than 2 games in the series)
(OTHER NOTE: I will NEVER write a review this long again, I promise…)
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jobocan Console, Games, Rant, Review, ps3, xbox 360

Well, I got my review out for the game, but one tiny element was missing from it. And that is the characters. I thought that, instead of just having a passing mention of each, I’d talk a little bit about each of them in a seperate post.

So let’s go right at it! (The new characters are in their own section instead of being in their respective side)
(NOTE: I’m not a pro at fighting games… so if i get some thing wrong, that’s why… cheers… comment if you want to offer insight)
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jobocan Console, Games, Opinion, Rant, tips & tricks, wii

The other day I started randomly thinking about this: What are the gold standards in the gaming industry? What games best define their own genre? This is what I set out to figure out.

Let’s go right away and define what “Gold Standard” means. It’s pretty simple. It has to be:
1. A game that defines the genre it’s in.
2. It has to be a high-quality game/series.
3. It still has to be fun to play.
4. Of course, it doesn’t need to be the BEST in the genre, but it has to be the one to have set most of the genre’s standards.
5. It has to be an older game, as much as possible.

So read on and see what are the Gold Standards in the gaming industry! Of course, if I’m missing a genre(there’s some I didn’t put in because I either could think of any 1 game that defined the genre, or that were too similar to another genre that I didn’t need to include them), or if you think about a game that I might not have thought about for any of the categories, be sure to comment!
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Hello everyone. As you can guess this is not a review, just a random post. Yes, I have been on hiatus from the internets for a little bit. Mostly spending time with my significant other doing vacation like things such as play games and such. Lately we’ve been playing Final Fantasy XI more frequently. Before that I got her into D&D and we played some of that new Mario Bros. Wii. However, when she goes to bed I usually stay up a bit longer and play other things. And last week, I traded in multiple games and got enough money for 2 brand new titles. My original intent was to just get Bayonetta but I went for MW2 also. I figured I’d play it for a while since that’s what everyone seems to be playing on my friendlist when they aren’t playing Dragon Age.

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Victor Games, Random, Rant, impressions, xbox 360

Well, we’re a video game website, so obviously we’ll have a Game of the Year award thingy.

We’re going a bit differently than other sites here. Instead of choosing a number 1 for each category, we’re going for 5 games in each category(except Games of the Year), and we won’t actually rank them. Just give a handful of games for each of the categories that are all good choices.

Here are the categories:

Best PS3 Exclusives
Best 360 Exclusives
Best Wii Exclusives
Best DS games
Best PSP games
Best Multiplatform games
Best Downloadable games
Best Soundtrack
Best Singleplayer
Best Multiplayer
Biggest Letdowns/Disappointments of the Year (can be more than just games)
Biggest Surpises of the Year (can be more than just games)
Games of the Year

Yeah, no Best PC exclusives… Guess we don’t have many PC gamers on our team yet so we don’t know what exactly was good this year on PC.

So, by tonight or tomorrow we’ll start having posts for each category, finishing with our choices for Game of the Year. And in a much better format than that crap I made last year, that’s for sure. Look forward to it!

jobocan Announcements, Console, Game of the Year, Games, Handheld, Rant, impressions

While I think that a full Rock Band release for Green Day is ridiculous and really not needed(just like Guitar Hero Metallica and Guitar Hero Van Halen), and there’s tons of bands that deserve their own Rock Band game before Green Day, I’m still kinda happy about it because it might give more attention to the time when the band was actually good and respectable. So this is a wishlist for the game’s tracklist.

Without further ado, let’s see what I think should be the tracklist of Rock Band Green Day! (yeah, random short post to delay my review of Spirit Tracks >_<)
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EA and Bioware have released images of the boxart that will be plastered on all copies of Mass Effect 2. Sadly, I don’t find the boxart for the second entry in the trilogy to be as good as the first game.

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Josh T. Announcements, Console, Games, News, PC, Rant, xbox 360

Disgaea 3 is getting a patch for trophies on the PS3! But that’s not without some bad news.

Read on for details!

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