Last Week "Turok" and Today "Resistance: Fall of Man"
Ok, yes. I've been pathetic so far this year about
blogging. What can I say? I've been busy -- or is that
lazy? At any rate I have been doing something!
Last year my wonderful wife gave me a couple of presents out of the blue and for no reason (other than that she knew I was pining for them). So in January of 2007 I received 2 -- count them TWO -- hard to obtain (at the time anyway) game consoles. A Playstation 3 and a Wii. Some might ask "What about an XBox 360?" and to that I will simply answer "No thanks." Why? Ley's just say I have one big reason and that's Microsoft. Now let's move along.
Tops for me of course is the PS3. Mmmmmm PS3. Anyway, I've been into video games and computer games for about as long as common folk have known about such things. I was one of those kids saving and blowing my lunch money at the arcade in the early '80s. Let's also not forget these games were the main reason I NEEDED to get a computer in the first place. Probably also why I simply HAD to have an Atari micro computer -- an Atari 400 for christmas 1981. But I digress.
So I haven't really done much in the way of gaming since the mid '90s and even then it was sparse. I played a lot of Tomb Raider in that period but not much else. Really my gaming dropped off in the early '90s when my computer game company startup died in '91. Sure I've had a PS2 since '01 but I never really got addicted to any of the games and for some reason I never really found the time to spend on playing the thing so It's pretty low mileage.
That brings us current. Well over the last year my game libido has really kicked in. I'm not sure what the key factor is with this latest generation of consoles. But one HUGE factor is "Warhawk" for the PS3. I'm hooked. Another one that really hooked me is "Resistance: Fall of Man" -- this is one of the first games I bought for the PS3 and I played it a lot in the early days I had the PS3. It just pulled me in with the story. Oddly I'm not a first-person shooter player really. Partly because I'm not a very good player (I'm pretty much a spaz) and also because they typically either lack an interesting story or have none at all. Anyway, at first Resistance seemed too damn hard for me so I put it on the bottom of the stack whilst I played other games -- hours upon hours of "Motor Storm" and "Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom" to name a few. OBTW these two are simply awesome IMHO.
Well, today -- in fact just a few hours ago -- I finally completed Resistance (on medium) after it became the game I've played almost exclusively for the last week. Well what can I say, it didn't disappoint! I now can't wait for the sequel! Oddly enough what brought me back to Resistance was the new Turok game for the PS3 and my 5 year-old son. While I have been ignoring my PS2 my son has been addicted to "Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary" for the PSOne, "Frogger: The Great Quest", and "Turok: Evolution". He's big-time into dinosaurs so Turok for the PS2 is right up his alley. He's the one that alerted me to "Turok" for the PS3. I came home one evening to "DAD!!! Guess what is coming out for the Playstation 3! THE NEW TUROK!!!"
So I just had to pick it up a couple of weeks ago because my son doesn't let stuff like this go. Asking me every evening when I got home if I got the new Turok game. I have to admit, I'd looked at the stills and movies on Sony's PS3 site and I was excited too. So, we started playing it the Friday evening I brought it home -- by "we" I mean I worked the control and my son watched and gave input and sometimes worked the control while I had to take care of things like bathroom breaks and food for the family. We then played Turok exclusively every evening over the next week and completed it the following Saturday morning. Turok changed my mind a bit about FPS games and also jarred my memory about Resistance that I had put back on the stack about a year before. So my son and I began playing it over the last week and completed it today.
It's amazing what a feeling of accomplishment one can get out of completing a game. It's something I had forgotten about. It took me back to those late nights that seem like a thousand years ago now. Tearing my way though Jumpman, Jumpman Jr., Shamus, Fort Apocalypse, Pharos Curse, Ultima I, II, III, and IV and other greats on the old Atari 8-bits. Later, being obsessed with Sun Dog, Dungeon Master, and beta-testing the sequel Chaos' Revenge on the Atari ST. This is the feeling that spurred me to learn to design and program computer games and make an attempt at starting my own game software company -- we were "this" close. Then, things changed drastically in the early '90s. While we were exploiting the wonders of the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and Apple Macintosh the world went the other way for the most part. But that's a rant for another day.
Last year my wonderful wife gave me a couple of presents out of the blue and for no reason (other than that she knew I was pining for them). So in January of 2007 I received 2 -- count them TWO -- hard to obtain (at the time anyway) game consoles. A Playstation 3 and a Wii. Some might ask "What about an XBox 360?" and to that I will simply answer "No thanks." Why? Ley's just say I have one big reason and that's Microsoft. Now let's move along.
Tops for me of course is the PS3. Mmmmmm PS3. Anyway, I've been into video games and computer games for about as long as common folk have known about such things. I was one of those kids saving and blowing my lunch money at the arcade in the early '80s. Let's also not forget these games were the main reason I NEEDED to get a computer in the first place. Probably also why I simply HAD to have an Atari micro computer -- an Atari 400 for christmas 1981. But I digress.
So I haven't really done much in the way of gaming since the mid '90s and even then it was sparse. I played a lot of Tomb Raider in that period but not much else. Really my gaming dropped off in the early '90s when my computer game company startup died in '91. Sure I've had a PS2 since '01 but I never really got addicted to any of the games and for some reason I never really found the time to spend on playing the thing so It's pretty low mileage.
That brings us current. Well over the last year my game libido has really kicked in. I'm not sure what the key factor is with this latest generation of consoles. But one HUGE factor is "Warhawk" for the PS3. I'm hooked. Another one that really hooked me is "Resistance: Fall of Man" -- this is one of the first games I bought for the PS3 and I played it a lot in the early days I had the PS3. It just pulled me in with the story. Oddly I'm not a first-person shooter player really. Partly because I'm not a very good player (I'm pretty much a spaz) and also because they typically either lack an interesting story or have none at all. Anyway, at first Resistance seemed too damn hard for me so I put it on the bottom of the stack whilst I played other games -- hours upon hours of "Motor Storm" and "Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom" to name a few. OBTW these two are simply awesome IMHO.
Well, today -- in fact just a few hours ago -- I finally completed Resistance (on medium) after it became the game I've played almost exclusively for the last week. Well what can I say, it didn't disappoint! I now can't wait for the sequel! Oddly enough what brought me back to Resistance was the new Turok game for the PS3 and my 5 year-old son. While I have been ignoring my PS2 my son has been addicted to "Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary" for the PSOne, "Frogger: The Great Quest", and "Turok: Evolution". He's big-time into dinosaurs so Turok for the PS2 is right up his alley. He's the one that alerted me to "Turok" for the PS3. I came home one evening to "DAD!!! Guess what is coming out for the Playstation 3! THE NEW TUROK!!!"
So I just had to pick it up a couple of weeks ago because my son doesn't let stuff like this go. Asking me every evening when I got home if I got the new Turok game. I have to admit, I'd looked at the stills and movies on Sony's PS3 site and I was excited too. So, we started playing it the Friday evening I brought it home -- by "we" I mean I worked the control and my son watched and gave input and sometimes worked the control while I had to take care of things like bathroom breaks and food for the family. We then played Turok exclusively every evening over the next week and completed it the following Saturday morning. Turok changed my mind a bit about FPS games and also jarred my memory about Resistance that I had put back on the stack about a year before. So my son and I began playing it over the last week and completed it today.
It's amazing what a feeling of accomplishment one can get out of completing a game. It's something I had forgotten about. It took me back to those late nights that seem like a thousand years ago now. Tearing my way though Jumpman, Jumpman Jr., Shamus, Fort Apocalypse, Pharos Curse, Ultima I, II, III, and IV and other greats on the old Atari 8-bits. Later, being obsessed with Sun Dog, Dungeon Master, and beta-testing the sequel Chaos' Revenge on the Atari ST. This is the feeling that spurred me to learn to design and program computer games and make an attempt at starting my own game software company -- we were "this" close. Then, things changed drastically in the early '90s. While we were exploiting the wonders of the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and Apple Macintosh the world went the other way for the most part. But that's a rant for another day.
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