It's a bit of both in this case. The Modern Warfare games are very similar, but better in every regard. Not much more to it, really. I know this has been bargain binned hardcore, so if you can find it for $5 - $10 it wouldn't be the worst investment.
Absolutely true. It's a shame too (about Shadows of the Damned), it's in my top 5 games of the year.
Yeah, I agree, this is really weird. Also, what's wrong with Nomura's character designs? I always thought they were pretty good, not that I'm any connoisseur of art or anything.
This would be cool if I didn't already have a cable box hooked up to the same TV I play my Xbox on.
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs was a totally awesome game. I've gone back to it a few times - it holds up far better than the original. Still tough as nails though.
I'd love to see a modern iteration of the series on XBLA, but I doubt it's something that Rare of today would do :(.
Fun story: I questioned where Julian's abstract was from when I read it, to which Chessa promptly responded, "it's from Star Wars you loser!" This of course brought an enormous smile to my face. Sweet, sweet irony.
I've never had a problem with Uncharted taking control as it always manages to do it so seamlessly. It's a very cinematic and directed experience and if you play it, you should understand that's what you're in for.
3 was very similar to 2, but I didn't think the game was worse for it either. Honestly, I don't care where they go with the fourth, I just know I want it.
The article has been updated to include this information. Thanks Luke.
I'm not quite sure the collecting ever happened consciously. Going back about 8-9 years ago I was in high school and had a pretty small selection of games. Maybe a collective 50 or so stretching across the NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Gameboy, GBA, and Xbox. Most of these were picked up over the course of my whole life for birthdays, Christmas, etc. The GBA, GameCube, and Xbox were the first systems I bought on my own and I did start buying games at a more frequent basis, but that didn't really start the collecting.
When Chessa and I had gotten together we really started to get into collecting. But it didn't start as collecting. We both missed a bunch of games as kids - she missed out on the SNES and N64 and I missed out on all the non-Nintendo stuff. So we started picking up older games so we could catch up on everything we missed. There was a story in the area, Game Crazy, which was a part of Hollywood Video, and they stocked games of all generations. They had lots of great deals, so we had grabbed a bunch of stuff that way.
I think things really started to take off into collecting territory when Game Crazy stopped having things we were looking for and eBay was our only choice to get stuff. So we started looking for huge lots of stuff with a wide variety of games that way we could knock out multiple birds with one stone. Turns out we really enjoyed having such a wide selection, so we kept picking stuff up. Eventually it snowballed into the conscious effort that's there today.
Now it's just a way of life and the both of us are always on the look out for good deals on classic games. For a long time, Chessa would buy me a bunch of games on my wishlist for Christmas. We got lots of stuff via her concerted efforts during the holiday times. The rest of the more modern stuff was picked up at Gamestop when they dropped the prices to extremely low levels. Of course review copies have helped as well.
I feel like there's a mission now to pick up the best games of past generations to have a really robust and encompassing collection. I think we're well on our way, but there's still plenty to go. I really look forward to bringing Nick up on all of these classic games and experiencing them with him. It should be something really awesome and unique that most kids his age will never get to experience.
First answer: You already know where I live. Follow-up answer: At the bottom of my pool, seriously. Thing is you have to wait down there 10 minutes before it appears. Now you'll need to find my scuba equipment...
