January Complete: The Final Push

Finishing Dragon Age turned out to be a chore. I talked about it a little bit before, the game overall is good. It's a Bioware game in every way, compelling characters that you want to know everything about, interesting story that gives you meaningful choices, and some rough technical edges. I played the PC version and found it to be far superior to the Xbox 360 version, which I spent a little bit of time with. Even with the higher end graphics the game still looks like ass at many points, it doesn't look like a game that should come out in 2009.

Regardless of the hate, the characters and story got a hold on me pretty quickly. I really had to push myself to finish the game, given my compulsion to do everything. I found the Dwarven area to be the biggest offender of taking too much time. I greatly enjoyed the end sequence landsmeet and the choices you can make there. I think I reloaded and tried over four times to see all the things that could be done. Anyway if you have lots of time and love getting to know bisexual elves, self-serving mages, and hot rogues this game might be for you!

Surprisingly the highpoint of January's gaming was the RE5 professional run with Razorburn. I was expecting our 5th run-through to be a trudging grind for an achievement. Something about RE5's story is like watching Friday or Venture Brothers for me, it gets better every time. Things that are awkward or dumb transform into endearing moments.

I gave Razonburn a ton of crap for wanting to use infinite ammo cheats because I like to roll alpha... I must concede that killing major bosses with a few rockets before they can even really finish their intro was pretty awesome. Some how we were able to push though in two awesome nights.

I'm really excited for the Gold Edition/DLC, I can't wait to play as Josh during the story and as Excela in Mercs mode, should be goodtimes.

So Febuaray is here... My goal is a simple one, to finish two games in one short month. I am going to finish Bayonetta, and probably Brutal Legend or Assassin's Creed II.

Our goal is going to be to hit some ModernWarfare 2 coop, which I am really looking forward to.