Monday, December 7, 2009

One comes in, two go out

I'm more of a game collector than a game player. I have more video, card, and board games that I can ever possibly play in a lifetime. For video games, I made a rule: for every new game that comes in my house, 2 games have to go. After a quick flurry of getting rid of old stuff, my rule has had the desired affect: I'm finishing game before I buy new ones. Case in point: Bioshock. After 2 years, I finally finished the game this weekend. While the game had some brilliant style and gameplay, the overall theme I found disturbing. Harvesting little girls for personal power won't win the company any humanitarian awards. It got better at the end and I'm glad it ended happily.
One of the other things that prevented me from finishing Bioshock was the difficulty level. I hate having to repeat a sequence in a game multiple times. I remember the second to last boss in Resident Evil 4 I had to fight 15 times before I beat him. That sucks. So near the end, I switched the difficulty in Bioshock to easy. Sure, I blew through the rest of the game easily, but I was able to enjoy it more from a story standpoint.
Now that I finished Bioshock, I was looking to finish Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (GRAW). I liked GRAW 1, but it was so hard (even on normal) that I had to put it down. I think the develops knew that too because I finished GRAW 2 much quicker. I was hoping to go back to GRAW 1 but now I know I may never finish it.
So I turned to Lost Planet. Fighting bugs in the snow was fun so hopefully I can finish it this time.

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