So,here we go, it's Firday, and it's time for me to get off my lazy ass and post. Or on my lazy ass and post. Whatever. Here's what I've been up to and read about this past week.
- Been playing a lot of Jeanne d'Arc on my PSP. It's very cool. I guess. I mean, the whole SRPG thing is all about Shining Force for old school Sega nerds like me. I enjoy Jeanne d'Arc plenty, to be sure, but I can't shake that longing for a real Shining Force game from Sega *sigh*. Also, it's kinda funny how one of the main characters in the game was, in real life, a child murderer. Kinda disturbing.
- Also been playing Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin a lot. Again. I bought the damn thing earlier this year and haven't finished it yet, mostly because it is so damned complicated. With that "Metroidvania" style, you put the game down for any significant amount of time and you totally forget where you are and what you were doing, tottaly frustrating.
- I want the Orange Box so bad I can taste it. I mean, that is value that you can't just sdeny. 5 games for that price? Not only that but 5 of probably the best games ever made? Sheesh. That is the video game equivalent of selling smack on the corner for a nickle. It's so good it should be illegal.
- So, EA bought Pandemic and Bioware. Ugh. I don't hate EA as much as most, simply because I respect the fact they actually act like a company at a time when so many video game companies piss and moan about the "artistic" qualities of the medium, but I can't pretend this is a good thing. It's obvious that EA is upset about losing their top developer spot to Activision and this is there response to that, but, Bioware? Why them? Why did it have to be them? And what does this mean to the future of the proposed Mass Effect trilogy? I wouldn't bet against their future installments being multi-platform, but is that really for the best? And does EA care? Ugh.
- Sonic was officially announced for Super Smash Bros Brawl....whatever. I didn't like the first game, I won't like this one. I never saw the appeal.
- The Wii won't see a price drop this holiday. Well, du. Who really thought they would?
- Puzzle Quest for the Xbox 360......I need to go download this immediately.....
With that, I am done. I hope to finish up Jeanne d'Arc over the weekend and do my first "Alex Gore's Super Duper Review!!" to mix thngs up, but I make no promises. I am hitting the home stretch on a few courses and that takes precedence.
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What I want to know, more than anything, is how the Bioware/Pandemic purchase will affect future games from the company.
Pandemic has done the Star Wars Battlefront games, while Bioware did the first Knights of the Old Republic, both for LucasArts. Granted, if there is going to be a KOTOR3, odds are it would be done by Obsidian instead of Bioware.
But, I was waiting for a "next-gen" version of Star Wars Battlefront. Now, unless some other developer steps in, or EA co-publishes the game, it won't happen. As a Star Wars fan, this purchase annoys me, as these companies created two of my favorite Star Wars video game series.
Beyond all this, however, the purchase of this "Megadeveloper" worries me, as far as EA's dominance of the industry goes. With the assimilation of Bioware/Pandemic, and EA's slow but sure attempt at taking over Ubisoft, it makes me wonder how much longer it will be until EA owns the industry.
I don't necessarily hate EA, but I think their actions are rather worrisome.
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