Tale

Still playing Penny Arcade 4. Shadow Hearts: Covenant arrived, so I'll be hitting that up with a break for Last of Us once this is done.

Metal Gear Solid V has a red band trailer up. Just search for Metal Gear Solid V extended. Given that it is red band, I won't link it myself.

For our walking dead fans.

Wish I could have played Xenoblade.

I liked Morrigan, I think she was just saddled with the responsibility of reinforcing the choices that lacked any real reason to take them. Someone's got to say "good job" when you punch an orphan and she was the only one around to do it. Outside of her unfortunate duties in the scheme of choice reinforcement, she was an interesting and complex character. There's probably something to be said about not having petty options because they require petty reinforcements, but that's for another time. I also like the redesign. Which gives me hope that my bitterness hasn't totally overtaken me.

It's not a BLUR pre-render, but that doesn't mean anything. In-engine doesn't mean real time. Though it's a fair idea that's their intended art direction. BLUR always did bizarre revisions. No telling how close they'll get to that graphical quality, however.

And Sony spends most of their PS4 reveal talking about anything but games. I guess Microsoft's early reveal was smart. This left E3 for all games.

I think Dragon Age 3 has a very interesting trailer. The Witcher 3's trailer was very boring by comparison, but was more in-game. I fully believe Bioware is able to deliver on their promises. Functionally capable, anyway. Why they choose not to is beyond me and I'm still wary from the gross misrepresentation of Mass Effect 3's ending. There's no trust there. I doubt The Witcher will be the ultimate RPG or anything like that. I sometimes struggle to see it as an RPG at all. But it will be a solid title from capable hands that know what their audience is looking for (sex, violence, choice, moral complexity) and advance themselves with each installment.

Hopefully someone's just tossing around buzzwords.

I've been calling it. And despite being a Claudia Black and Morrigan fanboy, I can't bring myself to be excited. :/

It's one of their highest profile franchise, thinking about it. And hey, that title doesn't even really look awful (though it didn't look good either). I thought it looked fantastic. But if it has mictransactions, I won't look at it any further.

I want to see it, but I don't know if it's because I still have hope or just because I want to reinforce my negative assumptions.

They already have.

Don't ruin Killer Instinct for me. I wasted so many quarters on Sabrewolf. I would beat the entire ladder on a single quarter (or was it when 1 credit was two quarters?) at Six Flags.

Too bad it's a dumb Kinect game :/ And there dies my enthusiasm.

I'm excited for a new Killer Instinct. And Metal Gear Solid, as always.

We even have a Steam group. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SODOFF

Penny-Arcade Adventures: Episode 4 I loved 3 and thought it the best of the franchise. So far that's true, the humor in the previous was more frequent. But I still really like this one and it seems to have a more solid storyline propelling it.

Deadly Premonition I think I've said "what the ___" too many times before it even gave me control.

Modest increases. I don't like systems that increase every level. I just don't like seeing the scores bloat up to gigantic numbers. But there should be a few gains. That's not because of any systemic concern, but more of my need to feel like the character is growing in more ways, while avoiding bloated numbers.

Hah. I was excited and ready to go running yesterday, but then I looked down at my little toe. "Oh right, it's still red and purple."

Groupee's bundle had Primordia and Drakensang, so I had to grab it. Especially with the recommendations around here. No time to play it yet, but I will make some this week. At least until Deadly Premonition arrives.

Necroing threads just to try for a bite after it failed to catch on the first couple of times doesn't seem well advised.

Baldur's Gate II Neverwinter Nights 2 Dragon Age: Origins Mass Effect 2 FEAR Half-Life 2 Team Fortress 2 Tales of Monkey Island I want to add the Ace Attorney games to that list. We'll see.

With all the hype for Ace Attorney 5, I've decided to marathon the series. I'm in that good zone where it's recent enough for nostalgia, but old enough that I don't remember anything. So I'm looking forward to it.