I haven't updated since March! I've been occupied rocking the full-time job, plus the part-time university courses (and homework), plus being a contributing father and husband. Somehow, I've managed to play through and Platinum InFamous 2 in there as well. But my blog has been neglected.

InFamous 2 was a great, fun superhero ride, but still suffers from the no-brainer moral choice system of the first game. If you want to be good, do the clearly good things. If you want to be evil, do the evil things. It's great for telling two different stories, and offering two sets of powers, but it rarely left me second-guessing my choices or pausing to ask myself what I should do.

I'm surprised that more hasn't been made out of the choices you need to make in StarCraft II's single-player campaign, for instance. Rather than stark good vs. evil choices, Jim Raynor has to decide, several times throughout the game, which ally's advice to go with. He has something to gain and something to lose in each case, and there is no 100% clear "good" or "bad" choice. Now, I felt making choices in this case was hard. And the choices had an impact on the subsequent mission, and the story. And I loved StarCraft II for that.

Now, I'm on to Batman: Arkham City. (I was hoping to finish it before the GOTY edition comes out, to justify having bought it way back in January...). It's off to a good, but overwhelming start. I'm used to Cole McGrath! Now I have to get used to Batman again, who doesn't have a jump button! There are so many things to do. So many gadgets and buttons for each one. And a whole other character to control with Catwoman. (And Robin and Nightwing, should I be persuaded to buy their DLC packs.) I need to retreat to the Batcave and do some Bat-practice so I can Bat-catch-up and clean up Arkham City.

But this has been interrupted by a starter edition code for Diablo III. Nice. Arkham City and Diablo III will be wrestling for my time until June 5, 2012: the day that Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown comes out. (Go, Lei Fei!) It is also the day E3 starts.

This summer is going to be awesome for gaming.

Happy GameSpotting!

aerobie