And this just in... looks like Fallout 3: Broken Steel is due for release on the 5th of May!
THAT'S LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY!!!!
I'd better get my backside in gear and finish Oblivion... I wonder how many days holiday I've got left at work :-S
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
It's all fun and games till someone loses an eye...
So... in my quest to find a replacement for Fallout 3 to fill the gap before the next DLC is released, I've ended up (quite logically) playing a lot of Oblivion again. Thought I'd start again from scratch but my character is fairly similar to my previous one (and pretty much any other RPG-like characters I have) with a healthy dose of sneaking, sniping and a little bit of magic.
While I hadn't really forgotten just how good Oblivion is, it is only after having played Fallout 3 for so long that I can see just how detailed and complex it can be. Fallout 3, though it is slightly odd to admit it, isn't as good. The setting is, obviously, completely different and the voice acting is significantly better... but the stories, characters, world and the mechanics of the game all, in my opinion, pale in comparison to Oblivion. This doesn't make Fallout 3 a bad game by any stretch of the imagination... it's still an amazing game... it's just not quite as good as Oblivion.
Inevitably, whenever I'm looking for something else to play, I've spent a fair amount of time on the Xbox. Saints Row 2 being the main attraction, though I've also spent a rather unhealthy amount of my time playing... Kingdom for Keflings.
If you've not come across this, it is an Xbox Arcade title. A very simple 'world builder' game. No combat or conflict... just you (as your Xbox avatar) resource gathering and building a kingdom, while directing the inhabitants of this world, the Keflings, to assist you with this task. Very simple, and very addictive.
Other than the games, I've been spending a bit of time messing around with a couple of new web-based toys. The first is GamerDNA. A site that monitors my Xbox Live, Xfire and Steam profiles and tracks what games I've been playing and the achievements I've racked up. The other is 360voice... which gives my Xbox 360 it's very own blog! It's a fairly simple idea; the site monitors my Xbox Live profile and uses the information to generate blog posts (the latest of which you will find on the right-hand side of my blog page). All just a bit of fun.
You'll find my profiles for these sites here:
GamerDNA - http://naiboss.gamerdna.com/
Xbox 360 Blog - http://360voice.gamerdna.com/tag/Naiboss
While I hadn't really forgotten just how good Oblivion is, it is only after having played Fallout 3 for so long that I can see just how detailed and complex it can be. Fallout 3, though it is slightly odd to admit it, isn't as good. The setting is, obviously, completely different and the voice acting is significantly better... but the stories, characters, world and the mechanics of the game all, in my opinion, pale in comparison to Oblivion. This doesn't make Fallout 3 a bad game by any stretch of the imagination... it's still an amazing game... it's just not quite as good as Oblivion.
Inevitably, whenever I'm looking for something else to play, I've spent a fair amount of time on the Xbox. Saints Row 2 being the main attraction, though I've also spent a rather unhealthy amount of my time playing... Kingdom for Keflings.
If you've not come across this, it is an Xbox Arcade title. A very simple 'world builder' game. No combat or conflict... just you (as your Xbox avatar) resource gathering and building a kingdom, while directing the inhabitants of this world, the Keflings, to assist you with this task. Very simple, and very addictive.
Other than the games, I've been spending a bit of time messing around with a couple of new web-based toys. The first is GamerDNA. A site that monitors my Xbox Live, Xfire and Steam profiles and tracks what games I've been playing and the achievements I've racked up. The other is 360voice... which gives my Xbox 360 it's very own blog! It's a fairly simple idea; the site monitors my Xbox Live profile and uses the information to generate blog posts (the latest of which you will find on the right-hand side of my blog page). All just a bit of fun.
You'll find my profiles for these sites here:
GamerDNA - http://naiboss.gamerdna.com/
Xbox 360 Blog - http://360voice.gamerdna.com/tag/Naiboss
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