Contender Eliminated (k3nshi)

Games I was looking forward to and considering buying, but have decided have FAILED:

Star Wars: Force Unleashed. Mixed reviews means even I am not enough of a star wars whore for this.

Little Big Planet. Played the beta version and was distinctly unimpressed. Yeah the visuals are slick. Started faffing around with the level editor stuff, but got bored. When I go to play a game, I want to be playing a game. Not designing levels.

GOW2. Another one bites the dust. Apart from mulitplayer I was never a big fan of the first GOW. And multiplayer isnt enough to make me buy the sequel when there are loads of other good games coming out.

Halo 3... (k3nshi)

...New campaign incoming!

WOO!

Tomb Raider: Legend (k3nshi)

Finally finished this tonight - its got a kind of weak assed, Halo 2 style ending.

Not entirely convinced I'll be buying the next Tomb Raider game, but we'll see.

Quake Revival (k3nshi)

The chain of events that led to the Quake Revival were:

1. Read interview with John Romero in a recent issue of Edge
2. General hype about Quakecon, specifically Quake Live
3. Bought and read "Masters of Doom"

I had Quake 2 and Quake 3 cd-roms for the PC from back in the day. Knowing that ports/forks of the open source code base of these games were available on OSX I did a bit of hunting around on the internet. Before you know it I had Quake 3 and Quake 2 installed and running in super smooth hires on the iMac. One quick purchase of Quake 1 on the id software online store meant I was able to catch the one that had gotten away.

Quake still plays awesomely well. There is a real fiendishness to the level designs and the general atmosphere which makes this a damned good and fairly unique game. I haven't played Quake 4 or Doom 3, neither really holding much interest. It will be interesting to see how Quake Live and Rage turn out though.

Nostalgia (k3nshi)

Yie Ar Kung Fu was the first beat'em'up game I owned. This was back in the 8-bit days, and I had to load the game using a tape deck on my goddamned BBC model B computer (which my parents had bought for my education, not gaming). So Yie Ar... was one of my few games, and one I really enjoyed playing. Hell, the BBC version had some totally hard opponent called Feedle, which was a bitch to get past unlike the other lamer versions for the other lamer machines of the time. Even my sister played Yie Ar... and to this day claims that it was one of the few games she was good at ('good' being a highly subjective term here, obviously).

So when I saw Yie Ar... appear in the LIVE Arcade list, I forked out however many points to play it. A pure nostalgia purchase, which probably wasn't worth the money. But for a brief moment it took me back to a more primitive gaming time, and the fun I had playing that game. So it doesn't surprise me at all to see LIVE Arcade clogged up with Retro games - it's an easy way to make a buck.

Amazing Flash Game: Cursor * 10 (k3nshi)

No idea if this is old or not, but its AMAZING.

Cursor * 10