I can't seem to find my draft of this blog right now, so I'm rewriting it hastily and with much less content due to time limitations. In any case, this is 2012, the stuff I played during Console Generation 7 and mostly not later, because a lot on the Metacritic list I played years later or literally in 2026. Let's go.
First, some new stuff, then the old stuff. Eight more down and less than a dozen left. I'm chomping at the bit to start into my DS collection.
What if I could return to 2012 and do it all over again? What one game would I buy each month of the year? Here's what I came up with.
I... didn't get a new Bicycle. I just have the the Queen song stuck in my head.
Sometimes I want to play games where I can summon Ifrit and fight enemies on the sides of buildings. Other times I want to leap across moving platforms, flatten enemies with my butt, and collect shiny stuff. But then there’re times when I want to play a game where I get dysentery and have to crawl through the woods inch by inch following the sound of buzzing flies to a dead body so I can loot it for supplies.
Exceptionally bored today. My gaming buddy got himself a girlfriend, my other friend was busy doing maintenance on his car, and my girlfriend was busy with chores, so I spent the day in Starbucks writing and thinking about games. After starting to freeze from the air conditioning after about three hours, I left to do some shopping. I had $20 left after buying the Season Pass to Bioshock Infinite, so I went to Best Buy and priced some of the games I mentioned in my previous blog about 2012 stuff I still needed to play. Not finiding anything for $20 or less, I went to Walmart and found Far Cry 3 at $20. (They had Assassin's Creed III for $20 too but I had to stay with my budget and leave it be for now).
You know those trippy sequences in movies that come out of nowhere with no real explanation or warning? Like the pink elephants in Dumbo or the weird tunnel sequence in Willy Wonka? Far Cry 3 is basically filled with stuff like that. Want a lap dance from a tribeswoman with painted breasts? You got it. Want to walk around on TV monitors while your adversary Vaas is doing a pole dance one minute and pushing you to shoot him the next? Here you go. Insanity is the reoccurring theme in Far Cry 3 and if it's successful, we'll all be in for a psychological thrill ride.
I hate it when this happens. I'm looking to pick up a few new games for my upcoming birthday but I don't think I can afford it. There are eight games in total to consider: Far Cry 2, Sonic Generations, Rayman Origins, BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, Tales of Vesperia, Mass Effect, Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, and Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition.
Earlier, Xbox360Achievements.org showed a list of achievements for an XBLA version of The Simpsons Arcade game. Since then PlayStationBlog.com has published an official release revealing that both it and Final Fantasy V will be free for PS Plus subscribers in February.
