This may only interest the few people who like reading people talk to each other. Months ago, Adam and I were conversing in GChat, when I mentioned to him, me: so. i has house. Adam: All by your lonesome? me: YEP! ^_^ Adam: I’m watching house. does that count? Adam: so, where is it? how [...]

Welcome to My Music Mondays. Each week I will be delving into my music collection and looking at a new artist going somewhat randomly currently but eventually from A to Z. I’ll examine why I first started listening to them, my favorite album and my top 10 songs for the artist. As my music collection [...]

I am going to come right out and say it, I never finished Resistance: Fall of Man. I liked it well enough I guess, The story seemed interesting enough and at the time I got it, there really wasn’t all that much else to play on the PS3 but I got bored with it somewhere around half-way through and then got distracted by games that did the genre better, like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. It came as somewhat of a surprise to me that I was interested in playing Resistance 2.

However Insomniac, one of my favorite developers, seemed to have really upgraded everything that I had complaints about in Resistance: Fall of Man so I caved and bought it. This time though I didn’t even get the chance to get bored with the game as I purchased it but let it sit on my shelf so I could spend time with some other high profile games, like Mirror’s Edge, Gears 2, Call of Duty: World at War, Prince of Persia, etc… Eventually, enough became enough and I forced myself to sit down and play the game.

What I found was a mixture of some really good gameplay, some refinements and additions to the formula over the previous title, and a weaker overall narrative, which I took exceptionally hard. When I play games by myself, I generally prefer to have a strong narrative, something with some reach and tied together well through intermittent cutscenes. I felt the strongest point for Resistance: Fall of Man was its story, that’s unfortunately not the case with Resistance 2. The story is still interesting but the way its told is very hacked together, and lets just say the ending to the game, while dramatic and fittingly appropriate, was a pure letdown.

One of my favorite things about music from the early 80′s was their reliance on synthesizers to create the melodies, rhythms, the everything. To me, nothing beats the sound when you’re looking for nostalgia. I never go on Obscure Sound‘s website, but when I did today, I was treated to feeling like I was four [...]

Jay V and Brady pull in Chris and Nicholas for nearly an hour of talking about the latest comic book-based film, Watchmen. Consider it making up for lost time. Also mentioned: the graphic novel, Watcher in the Woods, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, lack of squids in the movie, Night Man, [...]