Games Money

I regret Mini-Ninjas. It was a very impulse buy, and the game wasn't worth the $30 at all. It was a neat experience, but had shallow story and no replayability. ;_; I like my games to last!

L4D2 is available for Pre-Order. L4D1 came about when I was starved for a good co-op game. I've played a few since then, and it seems there are now many options out in the market for co-op games (of the 4-player variety). I have the feeling the Borderlands should have basically everything covered that L4D2 has to offer, other than awesome voice acting.

Killing Floor was a similar concept that was put together with far less resources than Valve had for L4D, but at its core, the game play appealed to me more. Borderlands will most likely have everything KF has to offer and yet more.

-- of course, this is discounting L4D's competitive Versus mode. But if your Co-op game makes a better Versus game than it does a Co-op game, then you've missed a mark somewhere.

GRID was a pretty neat game, though it wasn't a Gran Turismo replacement like I had hoped. Still, if I wanted to speed down roads with a semblance of a car that had weight, it was okay. Graphics were beautiful! (if not all nuked yellow). Need for Speed: Shift is out now. I'm curious to see how it stacks up against GRID.

Street Fighter 4 is basically the other "big purchase" I made this year. My original plan was to wait until the price dropped from $40 to pick it up, but I kept thinking about the game day and night, and eventually bought it anyway. I did play the game a lot, even though I didn't like it -- I want to like Street Fighter 4 because it's the newest Street Fighter game that's not 10 years old. I hope the future (Super Street Fighter 4) sees improvements.

Street Fighter 4 is just Street Fighter 4. I've been playing SF3 some more recently, and the flow of that game just draws me back to it every time.

But... that's okay. Hopefully Borderlands is good. Should be fun stuff-- other than that, I'm looking forward to Dragon Age: Origins, and.... uh. Resident Evil 5's price to drop, or go on sale.