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New vs Used and Preorder Incentives

New games have a great feeling with them since you can play the game you've been waiting for now. It is expensive at first but you have invested yourself into getting this game day one. Others you buy later when you can get 5 or 6 titles for the price of a new game for those rainy days. Also buying early can mean I get a cool figurine or fun weapon that I can use in the game as long as you preorder. I get the whole used game fight and I just want to give my thoughts on some ways to help developers and consumers.  Online pass is nice and a very smart idea to curb used games sales. If you buy new you'll get all the content if used you'll have to pay a little extra since your buying at a reduced price. Paying for multiplayer for a used game I'd say is worth it if you want to play online. Develoeprs have to keep up the servers and the sale of the game goes towards keeping those up so why not support them. ... Preorder incentives are a hot button issue with m...
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Currently Playing

I'm currently playing Dragon Age: Origins having missed out on it since it's release. I just got done a binge of playing a variety of games I got used. Mirror's Edge, Singularity, FEAR 3, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, and Dante's Inferno all finished in the past 2 weeks. I'm also playing a little bit of Demon's Souls. Well I'm liking Dragon Age: Origins so far after I'm about 30 hours in I found I missed a needed couple of characters in my group. So I got mad and started over. At least I know everything up to that point so getting back won't take as long but still requires a good 20+ hours to get back. I'm enjoying and loving the story and conversations. I had plenty of laughs with the random jargon from the party during my adventures. I want to say more but I'm just trying to get into a rhythm posting and this game is pretty old so I doubt others want to hear another review of an old game.
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Demo Thoughts

My thoughts on the demo of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Reckoning) are that it is what I wanted Fable to be. I like the third person view and fluid combat and in depth RPG elements. It's like Skyrim + Fable + God of War + Dragon Age = Reckoning. Traveling felt nice and didn't feel to slow or that I was walking forever with nothing to do. I can easily collect items on the run making gathering really easy. Not a lot of loading from what I can see and the loading there is it's fast and your not kept waiting for long. Looting is the most notable change that needs a little getting use to. I found myself just taking all then looking in my inventory and equip the new weapon I just got. Now you can just check to see if it's better right then and there and equip real quick. Also putting stuff in a junk slot makes it nice to just go to vendor hit sell all junk and leave, something even MMOs lack. Combat felt very nice and fluid while dodging and attacking. Melee weapons a...
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Batman: Arkham City Review

I just recently finished playing Batman: Arkham City. I found it to be very well presented and its value easily be worth more than the initial $60. After increasing the games size by around 4 times the original it helped flesh out the world and add tons more content. The side missions alone could be placed into its own game and the Riddler collectibles and challenges could be one in itself as well. The game kept me playing for more than I expected. After the game was over I did go to IGN to gather all the collectibles and finish Riddlers riddles and some side missions. Other than that the game will walk you through the main story and leave everything else to exploration all in a good way. You can easily get about half the collectibles and side missions done along side the main story line to leave you much more after it's all over. First things to notice is the size of the game. It tires to cram in so many ties to Batman lore it's really insane that this place isn...
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Recommended Podcasts

I don't know how many people listen to podcasts but I know I am only one of my friends and family that listen to them weekly. I have found a nice list of ones that interest me and keep me sane during my 40 hour work week. I suggest these if your into video games and the latest tech. Game Scoop - IGN Podcast Beyond - IGN Knockin' Boots - IGN Major Nelson's Radio The Official PlayStation Blog Rooster Teeth Podcast Buzz Out Loud - CNET If you like video check out Revision3.com and the many shows on there. I enjoyed Diggnation  for the past 2 years but it's sadly over. You can still catch older episodes if you want to watch it. Its good for just conversational news and randomness. Plenty of fun and it feels like your there sitting on a couch chatting up on random stuff to the latest tech news. Check out "The Ben Heck Show" and "Tekzilla" for some cool tech tips and/or DIY projects. "Hak5" is nice for those that are network securi...
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Starting Over

It's always on our minds. Should I start a blog and write about what I enjoy and love so much? Do I have enough time to? If they can do it so can I but do I have the motivation? The answer is yes. Do it and you got nothing to loose. If it's anything I've learned as a gamer all it takes is a spark to get up on your feet and get it done. Thanks to  Avery Lir  who runs his own blog over at  PocketChomp.com  I'm gonna give it a go and try to blog regularly. I'll start up my own site eventually if I can hash out some details later fun stuff. I already got the twitter and Kotaku account z777ik, I'm also on IGN.com as well as others like Gamasutracom. I have plenty of article ideas and such so I'll be fleshing those out in the mean time. Yes some are opinionated rants but who cares as long as they are not the mindless rants you see else where. My topics will include such things as upcoming games and new releases. Hot button issues in gaming like multiplayer do...
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Random Thoughts

Getting Battlefield 3 tonight for a nice long play session and probably break out my old game cube for some Zelda I have yet to finish. Gonna rock BF 3 multi-player after an awesome campaign so excited lol. Go through my list of games to play and play the RE 5 DLC I have yet to start. Then look into all the other games I've delayed buying and playing to pick an choose next ones to get. Waiting is nice so you can get like 3 games for $20 than one for $60. I do hate the all this exclusive DLC crap for all the games so if you want it all you have to pre-order at 5 different places talk about gay. I stopped buying collector editions well a few I will still buy but no longer attempt to try for them all. I swear my OCD towards games needs to end and I'm forcing myself not to do it anymore. I have a girl I really like so I need a healthy balance which leans more in her favor cause I really like her. I wouldn't mind a Wii and Kinect to do some more active games and also the late...
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