And she's done... again

Yep, finished playing Legacy of Kain: Defiance again. I was actually able to find all of Raziel's health medalions this time (but I missed one of Kain's... how did that happen?).

I really need something new to play. I'm in a serious mood funk. My knitting is irritating me (I seem to be making a lot of mistakes) so I think I may take a little break. None of the games I have are fitting my bill, so I'm off to EB Games tomorrow. I'm going to pick up The Suffering (I think that should lift my mood) and see what they have in stock for used games (I'm hoping Finding Nemo... that should help lift my mood, right?)

So, just how many times can she play Defiance?

The game lull is still on. I went thru a bunch of old games and nothing was working for me. So what's a girl to do? Well, play Legacy of Kain: Defiance. Again. I think this is my eleventh time thru it.

The only game that I've played more often is Halo. I'm beginning to think that may not be so true. Since Halo has level select, I've played thru certain levels many times, but I think I've only run thru the game front to back 3 or 4 times. (I really hate the Library level).

I love Defiance. It's just the almost perfect game (hey, there are some issues... I actually fell out of frame this time thru... twice.) Yes the camera can be irritating and there's a lot of levels (especially with Raziel) that you do a lot of backtracking, but it's fun to play. That's what a game should be. Fun. It's not so hard that you throw the controller down in frustration, but its not so easy that you can finish it in 5 hours.

Please let there be more in the LOK games!!! (tho' that's looking doubtful).

62 days until Halo 2. I wonder if I need to run thru Halo one more time start to finish (maybe on Heroic?... )

Ho-Hum

Ya, I'm bored with my games right now. I'll do a Medal of Honor: Frontline level for a while, but I'm not motivated to keep on playing it. I pulled out some of the OXM demo disks and played a couple of demos (and I'm annoyed that my Silent Hill 4 demo is fucked. Oh well, if I really feel obligated to play it, I can always pull out Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams). I also downloaded a couple of things from one of the demos. I couldn't get the uber-jedi to work with KOTR, so screw it.

I've been eyeing up some games at EB Games, but I'm just kind of biding time until BloodRayne 2 is released (and if I hadn't loaded my BloodRayne out, I would play thru it again in anticipation).

There just haven't been any games lately that have really appealed to me (or have come down in price enough for me... as Roddick is on my list, but I'm not paying full price for it).

I just installed Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus on my laptop, and it looks like it's playable... even if I don't love platform games, the Oddworld games are funny enough that it's worth it. So that's something at least, eh?

missing the days of master chiefs and soul reavers

I'm definitely in a game funk. Why is it so hard to make a good freaking game?? I guess because I have really high expectations. Not only do I expect good, smooth gameplay, but a good story as well.

There are so many games that have good gameplay with no story (Brute Force, for example) that just don't keep my interest. Other games have good stories, but truely crappy gameplay (Blood Omen 2 or Fatal Frame) that it's so hard to find games that have a good balance of both.

I start playing something and it just doesn't suck me in. Medal Of Honor: Frontline is a fine FPS, but I don't care enough to keep trying to get thru a level over and over(as it's also a go back to the beginning of the level and start over if you die) as I know that I'm not going to learn anything at the end of the it all. All I do is kill everyone and go onto the next level.

I think part of my disappointment with games is I just saw a Filter episode about funniest games. Two great Lucas Arts games were mentioned: the Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango. They didn't mention Full Throttle (too old, perhaps?). These were great games. Interesting puzzles, well written, funny and challenging. Now I feel that all games need to do is put you in a well rendered room with a bunch of enemies and you shoot the shit out everything. Which is fine and dandy, but I need motivation: that's why it's still funny to land a plasma gernade on the head of a Grunt and listen to it run around screaming "get it off me, get it off me".

I think that's why most women seem to prefer RPG games over the FPS. I don't really like the gameplay of RPG's, as I prefer to land plasma gernades on Grunt's heads. I like gratitious violence in videogames and I like shooting the shit out of a room of enemies. Just give me a freakin' story.

Is that too much to ask? Lucas Arts: do you hear me? We need more great (non-Star Wars games!!!!