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Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars – Character Impressions

January 31st, 2010

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

Video Gaming – What are the Gold Standards?

January 15th, 2010

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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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer thoughts

January 11th, 2010

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.

So why am I posting about MW2? Find out after the break! Read more…

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The Save Points! Game of the Year Awards 2009: Starting soon

December 18th, 2009

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!

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My hopes for Rock Band Green Day (track list wishlist)

December 14th, 2009

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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Mass Effect 2 Boxart

July 30th, 2009

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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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Disgaea 3 Trophy list and details

July 9th, 2009

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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Mass Effect 2 Will Not Have a New Game+

June 27th, 2009

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New Game Plus, or New Game +, is a mode that is common in over 154 games as seen over at giantbomb.com. Recently, it has been said that Mass Effect 2 will not feature this mode.

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Games coming out in July 2009

June 19th, 2009

As of now June has been a pretty good month, with a few heavy hitters to come in the remaining days of the month.

July is the month when the gaming industry usually slows down a bit, and a lot fewer games come out.

As per usual, July is not a big month this year either. I actually had trouble getting more than 10 games on the list of “good games coming out”. Actually, I didn’t even manage that, since some are doubles that will go in the multi-platform section, and I got a good part of the releases for the list from Japan.

Needless to say, the list this month is a bit lackluster.

As always, games with (JAPAN) next to their names are japanese games, and we’ll start with the multi-platform games this time.
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What Project Natal will do for gaming

June 2nd, 2009


If you’ve been following E3… at least for today… well, you’ve without a doubt learned about Natal(if you don’t, click this link), Microsoft’s new technology that might change the way games are played, or the home entertainment industry in general.

It features a bunch of motion sensors, a camera and microphone. It captures your movements to instantly translate them in-game, using both the camera and motion detectors. It also features a bunch of fun little features like voice and face recognition and a bunch of other random stuff. And all of that without having to use a controller. At all.

Basically, it has a ton of features and things it can do. So, I was basically wondering how it will really influence the gaming world.

So, read on to see what I think about this.
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