Hello everyone! Late again. I’m just going to stop writing that at the start of my posts, as it appears that 2am is prime blogging time in my stupid world. Oh well. I could have worse vices at 2am. Or indeed at any time.
Few fun things to report. Well, one really, and one I can’t talk about yet until I know a bit more. First up, I’m going to be writing for an upcoming retro-gaming site called B4HD, which specialises in games from the pre-HD era. (B4 HD. Geddit?) It was brought to my attention by the lovely and talented Jennifer Allen, who is also partaking in this One A Day nonsense (one of the few people who are still left) and also happens to be the deputy editor of the site. So thanks, Jen, for pointing it out. It’s right up my alley. Now I just need to write something ready for its launch.
I also have several potential freelancing irons in the fire, so we’ll have to wait and see if those come to anything. I’m being more proactive about it now, though, and badgering people I haven’t heard from for a while. It’s not really in my nature to act like that, but I’m learning. Assertiveness and all that. Plus journalism can be pretty cut-throat, so I better toughen up, right?
For the remainder of this post, I think I may just be lazy and list my current Pile of Shame – in this case, games I haven’t finished – since it was Jen’s post I linked to that inspired this one. So here goes. Starred games indicate games that I have at least started and played a reasonably significant amount of in the past. Non-starred ones have either not been played at all or very little. Some of these I will probably never get around to ever. But they’re still there, mocking me.
PS1
- Final Fantasy V
- Final Fantasy VI
PS2
- Final Fantasy XII*
- ICO
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Resident Evil 4
- killer7
- Persona 3 FES*
- Odin Sphere
- Project Zero/Fatal Frame*
- Psi-Ops
- Shadow of the Colossus*
GameCube
- Resident Evil Zero*
- Resident Evil Remake
Xbox 360/XBLA
- Borderlands*
- Numerous titles in the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (particularly the Phantasy Star series, Story of Thor, Shining Force II and Shining in the Darkness)
- Alien Hominid*
- Braid*
- Castle Crashers*
- Forza 3*
- Lode Runner*
- Perfect Dark*
- Puzzle Quest*
- Shadow Complex*
- Splosion Man*
PS3/PSN
- Matt Hazard: Blood, Bath and Beyond
- Final Fantasy XIII*
- Disgaea 3
- Shatter’s last two Trophies
- Uncharted 2 multiplayer
- Building a level in LittleBigPlanet
PC – god-damn Steam sale in early January saw to this one.
- King’s Bounty
- King’s Bounty: Armored Princess
- Mount & Blade
- Uplink*
- Jade Empire
- KOTOR as Dark Side
- Neverwinter Nights: Hordes of the Underdark
- Neverwinter Nights 2
- Baldur’s Gate 2*
- Baldur’s Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal
- Icewind Dale
- Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter
- Morrowind* (played EXTENSIVELY, never got anywhere NEAR finishing)
- Homeworld 2
- Dungeon Siege 2
- The entire Myst series
- Gabriel Knight 3*
- The Police Quest series
- King’s Quest IV
- The Witcher*
- Freelancer*
- Startopia*
- Ghost Master
- Martian Memorandum/Mean Streets
- Realms of Arkania
- Relams of Arkania 2
- No-One Lives Forever 2
- Unreal Tournament 3
Yeah, that’s right. Kicking it old-school with some of those PC games. It’s actually quite fortunate I have little-to-no money coming in right now as I clearly have a backlog to last me until the end of time. Couple that with the fact that I’m in a World of Warcraft phase right now (halfway to level 75 with my best character now) and there’s clearly plenty to be getting on with. So a big middle finger to all the triple-A games that have come out since Assassin’s Creed 2.
Of course, when Blur and Split/Second come out soon, this will all go to pot. Still, never mind.
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