Day 5: A game you desperately want to play

Brandon


Dragon Age: Origins

Hello again, to all my friends. Together, we can play some rock and roll.




While being someone who does not own a single ‘Next-Gen’ console, there are an awful lot of games I am missing out on. Sure there are plenty that I’ll get to play a few fleeting hours of at a friend’s house on occasion, but for me the majority is experiences only through trailers and hilarious references that I will never understand. My knowledge of Dragon Age Origins is similarly limited. Apparently there’s some chick named Morgan or something and she’s a total bitch who fucks everything up. This is what I know from a few conversations I’ve heard, and is pretty much all I know about the series as a whole. Although with Origins I had the opportunity of watching a friend of mine play through the last few missions of the game and then the final boss fight. He sided with the mages (Though I’m not sure why, seeing how unbearable the main mage sidekick was) and the Templar chick was a bitch. He had been playing as a primarily good guy knight sort of player, but once he finished he started a new game almost immediately, this time as a mage who was probably the biggest douche in the entire game. We got up to meeting the narrator (whose name escapes me) for the first time and that is all I remember. So from what I can tell it’s your basic morality sandbox type of game (Fallout, Mass Effect, Etc.) set in a fantasy world with some very blatant racism and religious overtones. Looks like fun.


Kam


Radiant Silvergun



I'm pretty happy with the games I've played. When you play 600 or so, you tend to notice trends, design choices of certain eras of gaming, all that kind of stuff. That being said, I still really, really, really want to play Radiant Silivergun.

Most of this stems from my unhealthy-fanboy devotion to developer Treasure, but none the less I feel like I need to honor them by playing their “magnum opus.”

Plus, it looks like an awesome take on some of the stuff that kind bugs me about shmups. Having six weapons instead of like, two or three, in a maniac shooter seems to be an awesome way to make a ship have the tools to deal with bullet hell. Plus, one of them is a badass looking sword that absorbs bullets.

So yeah, Silvergun, it's probably not going to be exactly what the hype sells it as, but Treasure's had a good thing going. Now I gotta find an Xbox 360 to kidnap.

(Stares at all friends who have Xbox 360.)