Well thanks to all of your answers last week, I now know that I’m not alone in the multi-game insanity. I’m both comforted and forced to wonder about how short our attention spans as gamers truly are.
As for this week’s poll, I know that I’m talking about Halo far more than I normally would. I’ve never played the games, so all I know about them is that they are sci-fi first-person shooters that suck up many college students’ nights on multiplayer. I was always told that the single-player campaigns are horrible, and multiplayer is where the good stuff is. Considering that I don’t play multiplayer anything and FPSes aren’t my style, you can see why I’ve never picked up a game.
But I cannot deny that the fanboyism and excitement for the final Halo game is rampant. It really reminds me of all the trailers and countdowns and hype for Final Fantasy XIII. Halo fans hated that back then, and we FFXIII are paying for it now. Those who love both franchises are just giddy all over. Lucky dogs.
So all this has led me to ask if my readers or Twitter followers are excited about the newest Halo game coming out on Tuesday. The responses won’t convince me to review the strategy guide, but it will satisfy my odd curiosity.
This week I’m taking a trip back to earlier this decade when the PlayStation 2 released, and not too far behind it came the release of Final Fantasy X. Despite personal opinions about the game, one cannot ignore how much it opened everyone’s eyes to what the new PlayStation could do graphics-wise, and really, few few other PS2 games pushed its capabilities to the limits like Squaresoft did. The cover of the guide–which conveniently matches the boxart for the game–while not that creative, splashes the gorgeous graphics on a larger scale and screams out to everyone to not ignore this game. It’s just so darn pretty.
