Video Game Reviews

Playing a fair share of video games in my free time it seems appropriate that I should post reviews of what I am playing in case others like me are hopelessly behind on the current offerings and just want to play the good stuff.  Unfortunately I even find that some of the good stuff has its bad points that are worth mentioning.

I've decided that my format will be to post a first-impressions post regarding the first few hours spent with the game and later a conclusions post.  This would have been interesting in hindsight for Ninja Gaiden 2, which I was initially frustrated with but by the end couldn't get enough of.

The one unfortunate aspect of being a cost conscious consumer is that I have signed up for Gamefly, the Netflix-for-video-games alternative to buying.  It has afforded me the ability to play many more games than I normally would, their shipping times are pretty good, but not netflix good since they only have 4 shipping locations, but one of them is in LA so it gets to me fast.  The other negative is that unlike Netflix's almost instant availability to all games, new releases are difficult to get, which has me playing a lot of stuff that's a few months old.  But from what I can tell most grown-ups who still play video games are in the same boat of catching up so my late reviews might come in handy.  But if anyone wants to send me review copies of games I'll be sure to make that my #1 priority (like that's ever gonna happen!).