The Backlog Review: Condemned: Criminal Origins
Have you ever wondered through an abandoned school and beat the crap out of homeless people with a rusty pipe?
Have you ever wondered through an abandoned school and beat the crap out of homeless people with a rusty pipe?
Far Cry 3 is a must have for fans of the open world or shooter genres. The gunplay is great, the world is one of the best weāve seen in years, and the game as a whole, even if you were to discount multiplayer entirely, is well worth the purchase price.
Back in 2004, Gravity Corp. announced at KAMEX (Korea Amuse World Expo) that they were working on Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World, a sequel to the ever popular Ragnarok Online. Ragnarok Online 2: The Gate of the World then proceeded to enter closed beta from 2006 to 2010. However, due to poor reception, the game was ultimately scrapped and a new version, Ragnarok Online 2: Legend of the Second would be developed instead.
In today’s gaming world, there’s a lot happening. Titles are fired onto shelves at light-speed and bought, played, and forgotten about just as quickly. This fast-paced consumption and barrage of releases can often cause a lot of great titles to go by unnoticed. I’d like to talk about one specifically: Tenchu Z.
A great video showing all the games and their box art: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdCY9d0s48o 1. Jan 8 Anarchy Reigns2. Jan 15. DMC New Devil May Cry3. Jan 15. Sniper ghost Warrior 24. Jan 17. New Borderlands 2 DLC5. Jan 22. Ni No Komi Wrath of the White Witch6. Feb 5. Dead Space 37. Feb 5. Sly 4: Thieves in Time8. Feb 5. Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 29. Feb 12. Aliens: Colonial Marines10.Feb 21. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance11.Feb 26. Dynasty Warriors 7 Empires12.March 5. New Simcity13.March 5. Tomb Raider – New installment14.March 12. God of War Ascension15.March 12. Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm16.March 19. Gears of War: Judgement17.March 26. Bioshock Infinite18.March 31. Star Trek19.April 23. Dead Island Riptide20.May 7. The Last of Us Missed one: * Feb 19 Crysis 3 arrives [signoff1]
Happy New Year! With a whole year of gaming ahead of us, I thought that maybe we should take a look at some of the upcoming games that are coming out. So here they are, the 8 games to watch out for in 2013.
[sonaar_audioplayer artwork_id=”” feed=”https://popgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/the-paranoid-gamer-podcast-episode-11.mp3″ feed_title=”The Paranoid Gamer Podcast Episode 11″ player_layout=”skin_boxed_tracklist” hide_progressbar=”false” display_control_artwork=”false” hide_artwork=”false” show_playlist=”false” show_track_market=”false” show_album_market=”false” hide_timeline=”false”][/sonaar_audioplayer] In Episode 11 of TheParanoidGamer podcast, Taylor, Robert, Jimmy and Phoenix take a look at how 2012 impacted them as gamers, along with making sure to get a few jabs toward some developers and titles. Intro song: The Submarines – 1940 End song: Journey Soundtrack – Apotheosis As always feel free to give us your feedback in the comment section, and please take the time to rate us on iTunes.
[pullquote_right]Which awards you give is as important as the selection process of giving awards. The Philosophy behind award categories is essential for Video Game Award committees to understand[/pullquote_right] The mission of this column has always been to analyze gaming culture and the gaming industry and a great topic around this time is end of the year awards for Games. There are a ton of questions that come to mind and forums filled with flame wars as to which games deserve which awards but there’s very little discussion on what categories there should be to begin with. Are we missing any important categories? Do we have any now that are too general that need to be removed? Besides the issues of categories, can you have two games win the same award, or not give an award because no games earned it? There are a lot of tough questions surrounding these end of the year gaming awards, and a lot of them that simply haven’t been addressed. It’s important to
(So yea, Gaming hasn’t improved, it has simply gotten simpler so we imbeciles can enjoy it. Right? Wrong!) Commonly in Video Game culture there comes a discussion of how games today are just far too easy and they’ve developed this way to make it easier for the masses to play games. This idea perpetuates the notion that gaming has only gotten bigger because it has dumbed down so that non-gamers(Whoever they are) can get excited about playing games. There are two main reasons why these types of ideas are just plain stupid. Firstly it’s actually offensive to gamers to say that more people play now because games have gotten “stupid” enough for the majority of “stupid” society to play along. Believe it or not, Pokemon, Paperboy, and Super Street fighter were never hard games. It’s true that there are a number of series early on in gaming that were extremely challenging but looking at the “Golden” era of gaming shows a plethora of games you could consider laughably easy. IF
(When you enter the virtual world you want as much of the real you as you can to take part. Asymmetrical gameplay is a way of playing to your strengths and taking advantage of your enemy’s weaknesses.) Everyone has an intrinsic way they love to fight or compete. Asymmetrical Gameplay takes advantage of that. People that love weapons or magical powers that give them faster attack will gladly play that way even if it means having to play with less health. Game designers often take advantage of this fact and allow complex arrangements of play to take place each giving one player a distinct advantage and weakness over the others. Although one player may be able to quickly kill the other, his speed may be directly affected. People that love to play those slow tanks, will still gladly do so and slowly trug along, knowing if they can get their hands on the opponent, they will easily make up their lost time and mow through the enemy lines. Asymmetrical
Developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda, few people knew what to expect from Dishonored. Was it a stealthy action game? Did it feature an open world? With Bethesda in the mix there were even questions as to its technical quality and just how much of a hand the giant publisher had in its creation and development. Thankfully for us, most of these questions have been answered with Dishonored’s release and I’m here to say that overall it’s a fantastic game.
PlayStation’s answer to Smash Brothers has arrived. Do Sackboy, Kratos and the gang stand-up to the likes of Mario and Pikachu? The answer may surprise you.