First of all, I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR :D

Hope everyone gets a nice share of True next gen gaming that begins this year :)

In the Previous Entry, Most of the games I mentioned were for the PS2, here you can get to see some of the multiplatform games that I played. I’ve bought and played around 30-50 games this year and remembering all of them Is next to impossible for me :P I Will try my best :D So lets get Started.

Q3 : Waking up the Sleeper Hits.

*Psychotic Exorcism.

Psychonaughts, another platformer worth playing, the game reminded me VERY much of KYA dark lineage, It(KYA) was almost the same, with a huge village instead of a summer camp, and we went to one part of the forest instead of brains. While PsyN one had different Psychic powers, KYA had the Power of EXORCISM! We could Exorcise Wolves back into their human form! KYA was very nice with many things to do in the main village even, The physics and graphics in it were also amazing. Both these games were amazing! but Psychonaughts had a lot of humour in it:D which is ofcourse a good thing :D

*"Come out and PLAY warriors..."

Next, I and My bro had some Co-op Fun we played "The Warriors", This game, IS the best Movie based game! It can stand alone as a game. Not only does it have the story of the whole movie(which itself was great) but it had Many extra hours of things which happened Before the Movie! and the co-op part of the game was great as ever with an intelligent split screen feature. The game was by Rockstar ,so, it has "Great Varied gameplay" written all over it by default :P The game also had a lot of free roam features, which were rather useless but still fun :D And the best part was.....WE FINALLY GOT TO BEAT UP THAT STUPID GUY! yeah that guy who shouts "The warriors did it"&”Come out and play Warriors”, didnt get any beating in movies end, but in the game credits! we get to beat him up to our hearts content! An awesome ending I must add :D

I also played Indigo Prophecy this year, it was a game that I was looking forward to very much, and when I finally got hands on it, I played it till 3 Am and finished it the next day :lol: It was rather short, but still a very interesting experience, it was like watching a 8 hour movie, where we get to decide things and at points, things really behave differently according to what we do!A Unique Experience, Best played on consoles.

Later I got Killer7, something that I was waiting to get my hands on since very long, The game is , simply put, WIERD! No matter how good you are at english, if you dont have subtitles on, you can Never understand anything in the game except, "the Master. This is dangerous. This is VERY dangerous" :lol: (people who played the game will get it :P) The gameplay of the game is also quite different with this "Railed" routes, Its kinda fun to have a different experience everynow and then.

Then I got some Cool Old-skool games, PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy! both unique and awesome in their own way, The Songs are some of the best I have heard in recent past, anyone with a interest in Rhythm games should get it :D "Chop! Kick!"

I shelved Ratchet Deadlocked for Quite sometime and then finally played :D it was somewhat of a breeze to play, I completed the game 100% Within no time,(and yeah, I NEVER use game guides for secrets and all that) It was definitely not as great as the others, but graphically it was stunning, and it had all its trademark humor sequences in it :D

After a LOT of pain and searching I was finally able to get my hands on KATAMARY Damacy, I had the OST of it before I could get the game :P The songs in it are amazing, and the game itself Is crazy! i've never met a king wearing Pink Stalking before :lol:

 

Q4:Adventuring in the PCs

On the PC, I got reintroduced to my fav Genre(for PC games) thanx to the Classic Adventure Games union, I Played a LOT of adventure games in the past and now again, I started playing, I enjoyed Sam and MaX a Lot, Have great memories of it implanted in my brain :D presently am playing the First episode of the next series :D I also Played Monkey Island 1 and 2 This year, I've the played the other two many years ago, but couldn't get my hands on these until recently.I started playing MI 2 at the commencement of my vacations and Finished it at its LAST DAY :lol: I enjoyed the game a lot.classic Threepwood Action at its Best! .... "Look! Theres a 3 headed monkey behind you!"

Another game I would like to mention is NEVERHOOD, As previously mentioned in another entry, we had great fun playing this game,It was So hard, but we managed to use our analyzing power and solve each and every puzzle in it, without even using a guide.The jokes in it were very nice(Even uploaded a Video) , But the puzzles were the main thing of the game, as they were all very analytical and required us to use Pen and paper I most of em :P

In July I Finally got a HUGE upgrade for my PC(after 3 years)(Click Spoiler for Full Details)[spoiler]

CORE

• Amd64 3500+
• 180(120+60) GB hard Disk
• 15" Samsung syncmaster 753DX
• 1GB mem running in Dual Channel
• NVidia 7600 GS 256 MB
• RealTek HD audio(7.1 Channel Compatible!)
• LG52/32/52 DVD combo Drive, LG DVD/CD RW(All MAX speeds)

Accesories

• Complete 5.1 Surround sound Setting
• Huge Scanner to scan everything but the Kitchen Sink
• NetGear Wifi g/b for that "special" Network
• Logitech Wireless Keyboard
• MS wireless Mouse.
• One normal Four Button Gamepad by Genius
• A Private Company Gamepad for Low Price with force feedback & Analogue Controls(USB)

[/spoiler] and Now I could finally play HiFi PC games :P I went on a Two day marathon, and on the First day I Finished CoD2(my Fav FPS series) In 11 hours ,one day, one sitting, and Quake 4 in 7 hrs the next day :D it was great coming back to the PC after so long :P Quake 4 was great graphically and all... but I dont like the fact that the enemies keep moving even if I hit them, like in CoD if you hit them, its like a bullet in fact hit them, their body moves and they slow down... but Q4 Even after a Rocket launcher pounding the thing runs towards us like a mad Dog... but hey, where would quake be if it had sissy enemies :P

Then on August 9th my Near and Dear Bro left me :cry: He went to US for his Higher Studies,Whole year I remembered him in every Festival, as it was the first Time in my life that i didnt have my caring bro beside me :(

But the best part is.... I can get games and consoles direct from the Center of Western gaming world!! U.S.A! Wohoo! and things are so cheap there :D (including the PS3 :P) He always takes pics of gaming shops and Ps3 and sends em to me :D

I just loved the concept of Guitar hero, but the thing isn’t available anywhere in my state, So what I did was get this game called FRETS on FIRE (around 3-4 months ago) and I started playing it with my wireless Keyboard :D Its almost the same, and the Best part is its FREE! Yeah FREE! You also get new songs for it every now and then. And one can also download the whole GH 1 and 2 songs set for it :D

Friends and Internet.

After that,on OCT 14th I got Brain age for the DS :D our whole family was already addicted to Sudoku and I like brain related activities :P, The game turned out to be simply amazing! I play it DAILY! Along with that I got Zelda:A link to the Past(something I was waiting for since very long :D) and Also Wario land 4. Both excellent portable games! The DS on lowest brightness gives me 12-15 hours of gameplay, and its very bright in the lowest brightness itself.I played Zelda for 4 hours straight on my DS once :P I also got an awesome DS Cover which I use to hang the DS on my Belt whenever I go out :P TRENDY :lol:

This year I was introduced to Videogamesblogger.com thanx to Astro, The site is just amazing, its a VG news site, and it covers almost every gaming news on the planet,GS only posts the News which it is 100% sure of, and for which it has First hand info, but this website being independent gets news from almost every gaming portal(one can never see GS referring to a IGN new or vice versa:P) The Website gets almost 10k Hits a day, and this Xmas they had half a million Hits!, It looks simple, but its really great, I even participated in a Competition there, and View a SIGNED(by Tetsuya Mizuguchi himself) copy of Lumines for the PSP!(more details in Link) my Name was even featured in the Video interview :D

*Two of a Kind.

Also this year, I met My friend Gagan :D his Profile was almost empty with one blog about him saying that he would get both PS3 and 360 :P, the blog even had a reply from Justin Calvert(GS staff). I Found him and many other Indian GS members using my Secret power(:P), I contacted him, made him Join IGG, and then soon, he Started blogging and now has almsot everyone I know visiting his blog :P He Just Wrote his 100th Blog recently :o An Ardent 360 player , No doubt about that :P, I was just talking to him one day and mentioned how I had to change two discs of GoW and Still had problems in the game(it didnt load after I crossed the Bridge on the TITAN) he simply said..."I'll Give you my Copy" I was thinking he was joking or something but turned out he really meant it :O he said he had the same problem but managed to get a good one as he knew a shop owner and he could exchange the game many times and got a good one :D, Within a Week I got the Game and I was Mad Crazy to find a PoP:WW Disc also in it! :o The game used to get stuck after I beat the princess, I just told him that he sent me that game too :o Great guy!

ON OCT 27th he Visited HYD(city where I live), and Called me just when I reached home from college, saying that we could meet in the mall, I without any second thoughts just started off to the mall, which took me an hour to reach due to the hectic Traffic.We had a great time talking, Finally I got to meet a guy like me :P I touched a PSP for the First time! played SVR 06 in it, saw a bunch of High Def Videos,had Iced Tea at Pizza Hut. I was planning on having fun in the arcade with him, but it seems He had some work, so he had to leave, it was a short meet, but a great one indeed :D And that day when I returned home I got my Copy of Lumines Via Courier :D I was so happy that day :D I didnt even have a PSP :lol: I and Gagan thought of meeting again so that we could play some DS MP also play My Lumines on his PSP.. but tight schedules didnt allow it :(

One fine day, I was decided to Buy Component Cables for my PS2 as I knew that I wasn't going next gen soon, and I had to use my HDTV in someway or the other(normal input is waste for the HDTV).I did Intensive Testing later, Pics and Details can be found here :D

*Mashing to the Beat!

Near the End of the Year I got Rhythm Tengoku, a game that GS made me fall in love with(Thanks to Jeff and OTS) I watched its video on OTS almost daily till I got the game :P and after getting it, even till today, I play it daily atleast once, the game is So unique, and I love Beat-ie music AND J-POP! Its a great combination of the two, I'v got medals in many remixes and stages in it :D I've shown it to many kids and they all like it :P the Ghost stage is the one everyone liked... Every music in it makes you swing your head in the rhythm :lol:

Presently on the PS2 I am playing GOD HAND,as I said I love Combotastic Games,this one definately gets an A+ in that category, there are infinite Possibilities, and the way you play it depends on the player. I like planning combos always, The version that I have is the Japanese Version :P But still Due to GS's Previews I am managing to play the game without any external help :D the Cutscenes are in english. This Will explain you Guys what happened in Detail.

*2007 : Games that'll be played.

As for Other Games, I have LOADs of them on Reserve, I had this planned when I bought my PS2 itself, that I would leave some games for the big gap when I will be stuck in old gen :P The Games that I have in reserve are.

(64Bit Version in All VERY High)

These two I will be playing FOREVER and ALWAYS

Until next time...

I think that brings this to the conclusion :D I still feel I missed something :P '06 was great for me!

ThanQ all for reading :D Hope I gave a nice insight on the games that mentioned,Try out one of em, I am sure you will have a stupendous time playing them :D

Once again I wish You All a Happy New year :D Also a big ThanX to all my GS friends who made me have nice online year :) and Hope you like the changes in my Profile :D The old banner and icon were more than a year old :P

P.S: Dont Forget to See the PART I

Here's Something I've Been Playing

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