My Gamingesque Blogtard

Wow, end of April already! This makes a little over 2 months until I tie the knot, eep! Not eep for the boy scout hobby, just eep 'cause 2 months! I need to get stuff done, but I digress! Recently aquired the wondeful Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War for my aging PS2. While I wasn't filled with the same sense of awe and wonder as I was with the first two Ace Combat games on this console, it is quite fun all the same, especially when I got my X-02! You play the roll of an unkown mercenary pilot, call sign: Cipher, who's undefeated streak climbs higher and higher throught the war, filling all enemy pilots with fear and hatred. The good part, is you have three ways you can play the game: as a mercenary, a solider, or a knight. The difference is as follows. There are three types of targets on every mission, the red essential targets that will almost always result in a Mission Accomplished once destroyed, the optional green targets that you don't necessarily have to destroy, ...

So, once again money is deducted from my bank account as two new members join my gaming collection: Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow , and Trauma Center: Under the Kinfe . I have yet to try Castlevania, however those fair are always good. Trauma Center is very engrossing, I've saved many a life, and am on my way to wooing my fair nurse! Black and White 2 is like three games in one. Think Command & Conquer meets Sim City meets Tamagochi. Your roll: Ancient god resureteced by the power of prayer. Your goal: Save the Greek people from extinction by either impressing or destroying all the other civilization from the world. How you go about this determines if you are a good god or an evil god! It is a lot harder to be evil then you would think. I take that back. It's easy to be evil, but since you need the support of the people to keep you going, it's hard to be evil, and productive. More to come!

Well, here we are a week later. Have more to add to my gaming "To Do" pile. Chibi-Robo for the GameCube, Black & White 2 for PC, Oblivion for PC, and the Sims 2: Family Fun Stuff for PC. Chibi-Robo is simply awesome! You are a little robot, and your job is to clean the house. That's pretty much it from what I've played so far. Cleaning said house earns you happiness points, the more happiness points you get from the family you are cleaning for, the higher your rank goes! I guess your ultimate goal is to be the #1 Chibi-Robo in all the world! Definitely worth checking out. The other 3 games I will get to at a later date, but for now, back to Egypt!

Let's see. I got me some new games this last week: Age of Empires III and Comand & Conquer: The First Decade . Age of Empires is what you have come to expect from the AoE series, build lots of little settlers to rape the land around you, and build lots of units to crush your foes, although, it's prettier than the last incarnation, and the story is pretty good too, if you like knights and stuff. C&C: TFD is where it's at though. I had previously played all the other C&C games before, save the first one and the 1st person shooter, and only owned two of the others, so it was a good deal. This is what I've been needing for the longest time! I've been craving some good old fashioned RTS action for the last months and this fits the bill quite nicely. The only thing that could do better, would be some sort of Star Trek: Armada III, if such a glorious thing exsisted. Alas, this is the best we have in that area.

So the other day, I was out and about with the family, and I mentioned that I had recently gotten Tetris for the DS, and how good it was. My youngest, who is an excellent gamer in her own right, asked innocently "Who's Tetris?" Yeah, I know. To answer the question, go here .