Welcome to the first weekly/bi-weekly/whenever the hell I want Video Game Roundup!  Yay!  Because it’s the first, it’ll be a little longer.

Dead Space

So, I beat Dead Space on Saturday.  Awesome game.  The first run through took me a little over 10 hours.  After I beat it, I immediately started the new game, so I’m going through it again.  The white military suit is sweet.  I’ve got the majority of my weapons upgraded fully.  I think only the Ripper and Contact Beam needs work.  I might go for the game only using the first gun, it sounds like it might be fun   I’m already on chapter 10 on my second run through.  Once you know what’s going on, where to go, who’s going to jump out where, it’s cake.  The first time through you’re walking a lot, always turning corners cautiously, constantly aiming your gun.  The second time you’re using the run button a lot, and your guns are more powerful, so you can just keep moving really.

Star Ocean: The First Departure

I got really mad at this game.  I was loving it, a lot, but it does stupid bullshit to you.  Let me explain.  I was about level 35-40, going through this treasury in a castle that the king or whoever wanted me to clear out because of monsters.  So, I get near the end, I’m two steps away from a save point.  Battle.  I go into the battle, stunned.  Enemy gets first strike.  There’s two magi.  They both cast a big ass spell.  The first one kills two members of the party, and severely injures the other two.  Right after the first spell is done, here comes the second, wiping me out.  Again, 3 steps away from a save point.  I probably lost 20 minutes of game play.  This happens all the time too, but usually in the field where you can save all the time.  I got really mad and punched my PSP (Jenny was laying on me watching TV, it was an awkward punch).  I immediately took the game out of my PSP, put it back in the Gamefly packaging, and sent it away.  I really wanted to beat it too

Resident Evil 5

Justin and I have been playing this together, and it’s a lot of fun.  The writing is kind of weak, every other scene somebody says “What is that!?”, but the gameplay is fun.  You can’t aim and move, but you get used to it.  It looks to have a ton of replay value, probably more than Dead Space.  Also some of the battles are super weird to figure out, like the battle with the “Masked person” after she becomes unmasked was really annoying.  She’s beating your ass but you can’t kill her.  I might buy this, but we’ll see if I get it from Gamefly next.

Guitar Hero: World Tour

The drums for GH:WT are way better than Rock Band.  Rock Band’s was kind of confusing, especially if you’re used to the guitar.  I’ve been playing career mode for guitar on Expert and it’s going along smoothly.  I bought both the Queen songs from the DLC, and I sung them while Jenny played the drums.  These games are always fun to play with other people, because even if they suck they still have fun.  That’s just a general statement though, I’m not implying that Jenny sucks at it, she’s actually pretty good at the singing and drums.

WoW

I started playing WoW again.  I had a level 5 Orc Rogue, named Ii (That’s two i’s) that I picked back up.  Got him to level 9, then sent him packing for the Blood Elf starting area for an easier time.  Which it is.  I started getting all of the quests that are level 5 and over, which gave me a lot of free XP because it was super easy.  Now I’m in Tranqueillen (omg, did I spell that right?  I might have.  *google* Nope, the E doesn’t belong after the U, but other than that I got it.  +1 Nerd points!) and level 15.  Things are still pretty smooth, but I’ve had some close calls.  The only death has been me jumping off a cliff.  You think you’re going to land in water, but nope, splat!  There was a Gnome DK killing all the NPC’s in Tranq, and like 6 or 7 of us lowbies hanging around trying to turn in quests or fly away.  Thankfully another 80 DK showed up to tell him who’s boss.  There were plenty of /salute and /thankyou’s for him.  It’s pretty annoying to rogue without the Distract ability.  I won’t get it until level 22, but it leads to a lot of me not stealthing at all.