Heya, I haven't really been in the mood to write about myself lately, but I noticed my last post was almost two months ago, so here's a quick update.
Managed to get some new games a couple of weeks ago, and have already finished Assassin's Creed 2 and its two DLCs for review. I really enjoyed the game, and only got annoyed at a couple of things, mainly the dumb glyph puzzles for subject 16's video and the Leonardo flying machine segment. The flying machine was just plain annoying, it felt so random how I'd run out of air and not, in two separate runs, when I was following EXACTLY the same path and using the same button presses. It literally took me twenty tries to finish that. Anyway, I finished the last memory block yesterday, and even though it got kinda of overly sci-fi for my tastes, I'm anxious to see where they'll take Assassin's Creed 3. The two DLCs will have reviews going for them in the coming weeks, both are already written and sent. Won't comment much about them!
Among other 360 games I got, was Mass Effect 2. I broke that open yesterday night a few minutes before going to bed. I decided to import my second Mass Effect character, Elliott, who I played as an engineer and as a mix between paragon and renegade. He's a tad more of a renegade (I did shoot the scientist back in Vermire, but saved the rachni), and I plan to play accordingly in the second game. I made him yet again an engineer, even though I was torn between that and sentinel. Sentinel sounds awesome and it'll probably be the other archetype I pick. I only got to play the starting section of the game, and boy, it was pretty good, I stopped right before getting to talk to the Elusive Man or whatever his name is. I can, however, already gripe about how small the text is in the game, and how it'll be a pain reading through the codex like that. I can't imagine why developers insist on making small fonts in games. I played games in HD before and the text is still small on them, it stinks, text should be readable, people took time writing stuff that deserves to be read. Please stop being so much like annoying designers who only value the picture and not the text smudge! Gotta mention I played through the original a few times over last month in order to close that one up and see all the story alternatives. Sadly, not once did I choose Udina over Anderson, I can't imagine anyone doing so, the guy is such a pain.
For the Wii, I got Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, and luckily for me, it'll be my actual first payed review. Game's pretty fun, it's totally fit to playing with the ****c controller, the wiimote option is awful. Unlocking characters is kind of a pain since the end boss (the final boss from Okami) is so cheap. Ah well, Capcom is following tradition with their platformer-like end bosses. Online's been great so far, losing as always, but it's totally a fault on my skills. I should have the review ready for next week, hopefully, since I already knocked three reviews out of the desk this week, two for the Assassin's Creed 2 DLC and another for P.B Winterbottom.
I terms of actual work, I finished a quick entry to CGHUB's contest on making busts. I only got a late word on it so I had a couple of days to work on it, even though I liked what I ended up with. Of course, I'll keep working on it for personal reasons. Had a lot of fun, and will probably stop shying away from these things, and put my work out there for industry types to see. I hope to follow through with what I'm saying here, and go beyond words!
That's what I got so far...
Oh yeah, I got a PS3 too, almost forgot to say. That thing is slow online. Haven't played much at all, but so far I really dislike the interface and the internet features. Patching takes forever, and logging into PSN is a coin toss for me, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Anyway, I hope to get a chance to play around with it more, and maybe buy MGS4, it's actually affordable at a store near my place, might go there eventually after finishing these new games.