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Video Games tagged Borderlands 2, PC, Review, video games
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Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 10:07AM | IrishPride Borderlands 2 Review
Shoot. Loot. Repeat.After playing the crap out of the original Borderlands, I have been anxiously waiting to get back to the world of Pandora. Gearbox and 2K Games have created a sequel in a way sequel's are supposed to be made, it's better. Borderlands 2 improves in every aspect over its predecessor making it a truly enjoyable experience. Fans of the original will no doubt want to check out the sequel. If you never played the original Borderlands, that is okay, you can still jump in with two feet. If you are a fan of shooters and loot driven games, do yourself a favor and buy Borderlands 2, you will not be disappointed.
Saturday, July 14, 2012 at 3:05PM | IrishPride Conversations with IrishPride Episode 23
Curse the Steam Summer Sale!
After cranking out two CwIP's in less than a week, I seem to have taken a brief hiatus, but now return with episode 23 of Conversations with IrishPride! Today I'm going to talk about Steam and more specifically the Summer Sale that Steam is currently running.tagged Conversations with IrishPride, CwIP, Sale, Steam, random, summer, video games
Conversations with IrishPride, CwIP, Sale, Steam, random, summer, video games Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at 8:51PM | Chris "Assimilator" McLerran This Weeks Geek - The First
A few months ago I got out of a long relationship. It had been pretty exclusive for about 5 years when I started to waiver. The relationship started going on and off and I started seeing others. Finally, after 7 years I broke it off and canceled my World of Warcraft subscription. WoW was my first MMO, and as such I was a bit infatuated with it. That has now passed and I am with SWTOR, and while I am enjoying it, it is not the same as my first.
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Random tagged Anime, Firsts, The Weeks Geek, comics, video games Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 12:14AM | Chris "Assimilator" McLerran This Weeks Geek - Hobby Overload
Image © Wizards of the CoastEveryone has a hobby or two that they enjoy working on in their spare time. But what happens when you start taking on several time intensive hobbies all at once? That is when you reach hobby overload my friends, and that is the focus of This Weeks Geek.
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Random tagged Anime, Dungeons and Dragons, This Weeks Geek, Warhammer 40K, hobby, video games Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 3:20PM | IrishPride Conversations with IrishPride Episode 7
Ouch, My Wallet Hurts!
Hello everyone and welcome to Episode 7 of Conversations with IrishPride! I hope you have had a good week and have a safe and wonderful Labor Day Weekend! No three day weekend for me since I work every Saturday. Yes, I would like some cheese with this wine. Anyway, today I'm going to talk about how it's a great time to be a gamer but on the flipside, why it's a horrible time to be a gamer.
It seems like every year that once the new iteration of Madden is released; there are a bunch of excellent titles on the horizon. The dull summer video game releases are over and the fall/holiday portion of the calendar will release a multitude of strong titles. Just for fun, I was checking week by week for what new releases were coming out. I was stunned that from this week all the way to the week of November 20th, there is at least one game I would like to have. That doesn't make my wallet happy; nor my financial responsibilities. But as a gamer, I'm ecstatic! Well, without further ado, here is a list of video games that I want to own, broken down by week. And just for shits and giggles, I decided to post how much these games would cost me and at the very end of the post I totaled the final price if I were to but all the games on release date.
Week of August 28, Week Total: $59.99
- Madden 12, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
Week of September 4, Week Total: $199.96
- Dead Island, PC ($49.99)
- Resistance 3, PS3 ($59.99)
- Warhammer 40k: Space Marine, PC ($49.99)
- Star Fox 64 3D, 3DS ($39.99)
Week of September 11, Week Total: $99.98
- NHL 12, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
- God of War: Origins Collection, PS3 ($39.99)
Week of September 18, Week Total: $94.98
- Gears of War 3, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
- Kirby: Mass Attack, DS ($34.99)
Week of September 25, Week Total: $59.99
- Fifa Soccer 12, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
Week of October 2, Week Total: $119.98
- Rage, PC ($59.99)
- Dark Souls, PS3 ($59.99)
Week of October 9, Week Total: $99.98
- Forza Motorsport 4, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
- Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, 3DS ($39.99)
Week of October 16, Week Total: $59.99
- Batman: Arkham City, PS3 ($59.99)
Week of October 23, Week Total: $109.98
- Battlefield 3, PC ($59.99)
- Kirby's Return to Dreamland, Wii ($49.99)
Week of October 30, Week Total: $119.98
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, PS3 ($59.99)
- Lord of the Rings: War in the North, XBOX 360 ($59.99)
Week of November 6, Week Total: $209.96
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, PC ($59.99)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, PC ($59.99)
- Metal Gear Solid HD Collection, PS3 ($49.99)
- Cave Story 3D, 3DS ($39.99)
Week of November 13, Week Total: $139.97
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations, PC ($49.99)
- Saint's Row: The Third, PC ($49.99)
- Super Mario 3D Land, 3DS ($39.99)
Week of November 20, Week Total: $49.99
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Wii ($49.99)
Grand Total: $1,424.73
Yikes! That's a lot of video games and a lot of Benjamin's! Why can't we have some of these games be released during the summer! Obviously, I'm going to have to pick and choose what games I really want, because there is no way I'm going to spend over 1400 dollars. So like I said: it's a great time to be a gamer and it's the worst time to be a gamer, unless you're independently wealthy, which I am not.That does it for episode 7 of CwIP. Enjoy the holiday weekend and until next time, you can send me money to buy these game :)
~IrishPride
Friday, July 29, 2011 at 2:13PM | IrishPride Conversations with IrishPride Episode 3
Insanity is Insane!
Hello everybody and welcome to episode 3 of Conversations with IrishPride where today I'm going to be talking about a game that I love, beat and now am playing it again and enjoying it just as much, maybe even more. I talk non other than the one of the greatest games evah, Mass Effect 2.
About a week ago, I got the undeniable itch to play Mass Effect 2. I, however, wanted to play the first 
Greatest game ever? I think so...one so I could change some story line issues I had with my main Commander Shephard. My original Shephard that I beat Mass Effect 2 with the first time around was not exactly how I wanted him to finish in the original. Wrex was dead (one of the coolest characters in the Mass Effect universe), had a relationship with Ashley (Tali wasn't an option in the original) and I didn't want to play Mass Effect 3 without Wrex being in the story nor did I want to have a crazy love triangle, not until my second playthrough of course :)
Greatest game ever? I think so...one so I could change some story line issues I had with my main Commander Shephard. My original Shephard that I beat Mass Effect 2 with the first time around was not exactly how I wanted him to finish in the original. Wrex was dead (one of the coolest characters in the Mass Effect universe), had a relationship with Ashley (Tali wasn't an option in the original) and I didn't want to play Mass Effect 3 without Wrex being in the story nor did I want to have a crazy love triangle, not until my second playthrough of course :) As a result, I booted up Mass Effect and started out on my journey to fix my mistakes the first time around. As I was playing; the more I realized how better Mass Effect 2 was and was really getting the itch to play it. I didn't simply want to make a new character in Mass Effect 2, I wanted a Commander Shephard who made all the important decisions in the original transferred over to the sequel. But, I didn't want to play the entire Mass Effect story to do this. I thought I was in a bit of a pickle and figured I would bite the bullet and do a speed run of Mass Effect and have everything like I wanted and then transfer it over to ME2.
Luckily, I didn't have to do this because I never realized that there is a dlc where Dark Horse created an interactive Mass Effect comic where you go through it and make all the important decisions of the original and it will impact the story in ME2 and later in ME3. Huzzah! I don't have to play the entire ME again and can have Wrex alive and have no open relationships to worry about.
Wrex. Yes, he is a badass.Starting up ME2 I didn't know which class I wanted to play as this time around. In my original completion, I was the soldier and enjoyed it immensely. I wanted to try something new and I literally went through all the classes and still couldn't decide. I almost selected the soldier class again, but went ahead and stuck with the infiltrator class (I do enjoy sniping), set the difficulty to Insanity (figured might as well beat it on the hardest difficulty) and started my new Shephard with the way I wanted to end it in the original ME.
Boy, when there is a difficult setting that is called Insanity, it is truly insane. But after I got the hang of things with my new class and how enemies act, I have found that the Insanity difficulty level is a much more enjoyable experience than Normal. I have to actually stop and think about a strategy for those tricky encounters instead of just running in there and let my squad do what they want. I have to tell my squad where I want them stationed and tell them what powers I want them to use and at what times, a very worthwhile experience.
So here we go again. Getting hooked into a game I have already beat and am enjoying it even more than the first time. I've already sunk 60+ hours into ME2 and have a feeling there are many more hours that are going to be devoted to it. Besides, I still have to create a renegade player.
Well that does it for Episode 3 of Conversations with IrishPride. Be on the look out for episode 4 coming in the near future. Until then, my name is IrishPride and I'm addicted to Mass Effect.
~IrishPride
Me playing Mass Effect 2, I am an addict.
Me playing Mass Effect 2, I am an addict.Friday, July 22, 2011 at 2:03PM | IrishPride Conversations with IrishPride Episode 2
Now with 3D grass!!!
I'm back after just a week and not a year, score! The randomness I will be talking about today is EA Sports newest entry to their college football franchise, NCAA Football 12.
With current consoles having a longer life span than of years past, it's becoming harder and harder for sports franchises to release their sporting games with clear cut improvements over previous iterations. No longer can video game developers back on having improved graphics like years past.
Good game, just not a huge improvement over NCAA Football 11.Being a huge football fan and getting pissed off that this NFL lockout still hasn't been resolved, I decided to take a look at NCAA Football 12 to get my football fix. Before rushing out and dropping $60 on the game, I downloaded the demo on XBOX Live and gave it a go. I wanted to see if there were vast improvements over NCAA Football 11, which I own, that would warrant the cost.
After getting the demo downloaded, I was happy to see that one of the demo teams to play was my favorite real life college football team, the Florida State Seminoles. The first thing I noticed was the extra pageantry of the game introductions. Anybody that watches college football knows that every school as their own traditions and pageantry's; so this gave the game a lot more flair and passion. Even though it was cool to see the Florida State mascot ride out onto the field and perform the normal pre-game ceremony, it definitely was not a selling point. When I play sports games, I want to get into the action and start playing. I would probably watch the different intros for the first time when I saw them, but would undoubtedly skip over them on the next go around.
Speaking of getting into the game, the action on the field was almost identical to that of NCAA 11. EA Sports claim there are new blocking mechanics and a new tackling system, but I didn't see anything new "under the hood" that changed my overall gameplay experience.
A couple of new features that were apparent; however, were players now had dreadlocks and the grass was in 3D. When reading up on NCAA Football 12, EA was pretty thrilled that players now could have dreadlocks fly through the air and that the grass was in 3D. ZOMG, 3D grass, I'm sold! 
Oooh, 3D grass... umm, yeah.Except not. While I am not an EA basher, like many "gamers" out there, I own a multitude of EA games. 
Keep on eye out for this game, it looks fantastic. Go download the demo now, on either XBOX Live or PlayStation Network for a taste.I just was not convinced that these "new" features warrant the $60 price tag. Don't get me wrong, if you like college football and don't own last years version, by all means pick up 12, you will not be disappointed. If you're in my boat and already own NCAA 11, I recommend you do what I am going to do, save your $60 and go pick up Atlus' new title Catherine which comes out next week, July 26. That game looks amazing and unique, something that games have been lacking lately.
Well, this will conclude our nice fireside chat for today. Stay tuned for what randomness I will talk about next time in Episode 3 of Conversations with IrishPride. Until then, go outside and check out some 3D grass!
~IrishPride