Hey what is up guys? Welcome back to the final show before the ultimate after-Christmas show. We continue to pump it out this week, and feature a bunch of stuff on todays show. Check it out!
I don’t know about you, but there are a handful of games that I haven’t had nearly enough time to play. Some games are just too long for me to finish while moving on to new games for review and coverage here. I know, it’s a burden and everyone should pity me. Yeah… right. But the next week and a half will be full on catch-up time for me.
Games on the docket include finally finishing Uncharted 2‘s single player campaign (I’m on chapter 24), finishing the Red Dead Redemption single player (I still haven’t gotten to Mexico) and rolling through Mass Effect 2 (I’m roughly 15-16 hours into the game). Yes, two of these won our previoustwo Game of the Year awards. Yes, I probably should have finished Uncharted 2 a year ago. Oh well, things happen.
Are you in the same boat with me? Will you be playing new games next week, spending all your time online with Halo: Reach or Black Ops, or maybe catching up on old titles? We want to hear from you. Drop us a line in the comments!
Mother of God there are a ton of demos this week! Whether you’re an Xbox 360, PS3 or PC gamer, there are more demos this week than you can possibly have the time to play, even with Christmas break coming up next week.
Dead Space 2, Mass Effect 2 on PS3, LittleBigPlanet 2 and StarCraft II all saw demo releases yesterday. And those are only the major players. Other smaller demos were released, so I hope your internet pipe is thick and your hard drives have plenty of free space.
I downloaded the three console game demos last night and plan on firing them up just as soon as I get back from Christmas travels. Since I already have StarCraft II, I didn’t need to download that one.
If you need something to play on your mini vacation this Holiday season, why not grab some of these demos and save some cash? Your wallet is going to need the break before the big game releases in January, February and March 2011.
We’ve had an amazing year in video games. Between the big announcements, motion gaming revolutions, and huge titles that dominated our lives for months on end, we all here at Loot Ninja enjoyed bringing you coverage on a daily basis. It’s our pleasure to drop knowledge and opinions and we’re thankful for every single one of you readers out there!
I’m sure by now you’ve poured over our Game of the Year nominees list multiple times, wondering just what we’d pick. After tallying the votes, we have a winner. Without further ado, here’s our pick for 2010 Game of the Year!
The Mass Effect series is one of the greatest shooter-RPG franchises of the last couple of years. With the upcoming release of Mass Effect 2 on the PS3 in January, BioWare has started releasing details about the game to the press to gain buzz. Little did we know, they would start a fanboy war.
It’s been one hell of a year. The games of 2010 will go down in memory as some of the best of the 21st century. Massive titles dropped on our systems over the past twelve months that have kept up coming back for me. While plenty of games were great, only one can win the coveted title of Loot Ninja’s 2010 Game of the Year.
We’re doing things a bit differently this year. Instead of breaking it out into multiple awards, we’re only giving a single Game of the Year award to the game we all feel is the best of the bunch. So, without further ado, here are the nominees for Loot Ninja’s 2010 Game of the Year! The winner will be announced early next week, so stay tuned!
Is anyone there? Hello? Candy Corn malfunction. Shutting down.
One thing I hate about Halloween is I keep getting interrupted by those damn kids while I’m trying to play video games! I mean seriously, just as I sit back down and hit the start button to un-pause the game I have to get back up again. Seriously? Just consider me the Halloween Scrooge I guess. I just want to set out a whole bowl of candy and be done with it. Then again, you know those first few kids are gonna be little bastards and take handfuls. I just can’t win.
It’s our weekly musing into the busy lives of our very loyal (and scary) Loot Ninja readers. For most of us out there it’s the end of another shitty work week. For gamers our week is just getting started (Halloween time). We want you all to sound off on all of the great games you are playing at the moment.
I recently bought God Of War III and Mass Effect 2 from GameFly to add to my backlog. I swear, after this I’m not adding any more games to my backlog. But, then again, these are must play games for me, so picking them up on the cheap and having them is a bonus and even bigger win. I know I’ll get to them eventually.
I did however pop in God of War III and play for about an hour. Holy shit! This game is completely epic. Right off the bat I was running up and down this huge, Sears tower type tall rock guy (probably from The Never Ending Story), battling this horse-crab looking thing on it’s arm. Absolutely jaw-dropping right out of the gate. I definitely got the girlfriend hooked (that’s always a good thing) because now she wants to know what or who is next and whats going to happen. I guess I’ll be asked later when I’m going to play it again so she can watch.
Other than that it’s going to be a party filled Halloween weekend. I’ve got my skull beer bong ready, and I’ve got some big syringes to go as Seymour Bush, Gynecologist, M.D. Have a great weekend!
Be sure to let us know what you’re gaming on in the comments.
Right now across the pond (or in your neck of the woods if you live over there) Gamescom 2010 in Germany is going on. During the EA press conference, BioWare has teamed up to reveal that Mass Effect 2 will be coming out on the PS3 platform in 2011.
No word yet on if we’ll eventually see a port of the original Mass Effect game, but Mass Effect 2 for the PS3 will be loaded down with “hours of bonus content, making this the perfect introduction to BioWare’s award-winning action RPG franchise.” It’s kind of stupid to include the second game in the series and not the first, but BioWare has stated that all they want to do is to continue to put Mass Effect into as many gamers hands as they can.
A definitive release date for the game hasn’t been set at this time, but be on the look out for Mass Effect 2 in January of 2011.
I still haven’t bought Mass Effect 2 yet (I need to do that), so this might be a great way for me to pick up the game and get added content and materials compared to the Xbox 360 version. Or, I could still go the Xbox route and just pick up the game for cheap (if they release the game on the PS3 for the normal $60 dollar price tag). I guess it all boils down to how much you want that added content and if it’s worth it to you?
Since I haven’t finished Mass Effect 2 yet, I don’t know exactly what happens at the end (although I have a good idea). I’m almost there, but need to play Alan Wake and Red Dead Redemption first. But for those of you who know the ending, EA wants to sell you some content to bridge the gap between one of 2010′s Game of the Year candidates and the third game in the series. BioWare’s Casey Hudson told VideoGamer.com:
So, for the time being there’s going to be a continued stream of DLC for people. We’ll start to have packs that’ll tell the story between Mass Effect 2 and 3. But beyond that we kind of have to see how people are responding to what we have and go from there.
The DLC to this point has been pretty good for Mass Effect 2. I give BioWare a ton of credit for the amount of additional content and support they’re pouring into the game. The prices have been right and people have been happy. I’m looking forward to finishing the game and picking up some of this content.
With God of War 3 still on the brain and MLB games on my desk, I’ve had to put Mass Effect 2 on hold. With new DLC right around the corner, I think it’s time to get back to BioWare’s epic adventure. Take a gander at some solid gameplay footage featuring the new Hammerhead vehicle. I need to get back to saving the galaxy from the Collectors.
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