Calendar Man – Week of 9/10

By on September 10, 2012 with 9 Comments

Hey, it’s a week until Borderlands 2! Hooray! Things are coming out this week, but none of them are Borderlands 2, so they don’t interest me. If you like hockey, you may feel differently, as NHL 13 comes out. NBA Baller Beats also releases, but I’m not sure anyone would admit to wanting to play that game. If it had nothing but jump shots, we may have been able to convince Bill to play, but alas, nary a long bomb to be found. Bill Abner’s relatively Kinect-free existence continues to this day.

New Releases

I played on my fraternity’s D-league, non-checking hockey team when I was in college. I scored one goal. It was pretty cool. I stopped playing because it was hard, I sucked and the games were pretty dang late in the evening. The competitive spirit only goes so far. NHL 13 (360, PS3) comes out this week for those that can stomach being up past 9:30.

Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (PS3, 360) is where those of us down with the D-O-Double G, first heard of his name change to Snoop Lion. I’m sorry Snoop, but that doesn’t roll off of the tongue nearly as well. The Snoop Lizzle is missing some pizzazz. Some pizzazzizzle, if you will. Oh, I guess it’s a fighting game, too.

I’m glad to see that NBA Baller Beats comes with a basketball. I wonder if it also comes with a listing of nearby apartments for when you get kicked out of your place for playing NBA Baller Beats at one in the morning.

WayForward loves themselves some 2D side scrollers, so Double Dragon Neon is right up their alley. The Majesco site still has it listed as releasing in summer of 2012. Way to stay up with your own marketing, Majesco.

In other downloadable news, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron gets a dinosaur MP pack, Ghost Recon Future Soldier gets the Raven Strike Pack, XBLA, PSN and PC gets Red Johnson’s Chronicles – One Against All and XBLA gets Joe Danger 2: The Movie.

On the PC side, I Am Alive comes alive, Tryst gets a release and War of the Human Tanks bring war to humans and tanks alike. Also, Steam drops the beta for Big Picture Mode today, for people like me who want to play PC games but are too lazy to get off of the couch to do so.

Deals

Toys R Us – Get a free $10 gift card with purchase of NHL 13 or get a $30 gift card with purchase of NHL 13 and any of the following games: Sleeping Dogs, Madden 13, LEGO Batman 2, Transformers: FoC. Buy a 3DS or 3DS XL and New Super Mario Bros 2 and get a $20 gift card. Get a free $25 gift card with purchase of 4GB Kinect 360.

Target – Get Madden 13 or the Skylanders Starter Pack for $49.99. Get Ghost Recon Future Soldier for $39.99. Get a free $20 gift card with purchase of original 3DS.

Best Buy – Get Darksiders II, Sleeping Dogs or NCAA Football 13 for $49.99 ($39.99 for Darksiders II PC). Get a free Bluetooth headset with purchase of a 160 GB PS3.

 

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9 Responses to “Calendar Man – Week of 9/10”

  1. Mark E September 10, 2012 at 10:09 am #

    Thick into Darksiders 2 here. Dying to level up so I can take on some of these bugger hard side quests.

    Otherwise not much this week, though rumor has it Double Dragon Neon is gonna be free to PS+ users.

    Really I am just waiting for XCOM. That game is sitting on my dreams.

    I feel the quality of saying what I am doing each week has gone down since I took a JRPG respite ;)

    • Brandon September 10, 2012 at 1:08 pm #

      Yep, Double Dragon Neon is free for PS+ users.

  2. rhamorim September 10, 2012 at 10:45 am #

    For me so far, it’s 90% Guild Wars 2 and 10% Dark Souls. That ratio may change in the next few days.

    I’m going to pass on Borderlands 2 for the time being (I’ll probably buy it sometime later – maybe in the Winter sale on Steam), but I’m really curious about XCOM. I might preorder it after all. We’ll see.

    • Mark E September 10, 2012 at 11:40 am #

      Hmm, can I get your MMO background?

      I am debating GW2, but I am burnt out on MMOs.

      You seem dead on into GW2; if our tastes line up I might take the plunge :)

      • rhamorim September 10, 2012 at 1:48 pm #

        My MMO background is Guild Wars 1. And I don’t think Guild Wars 1 is a “true” MMO, since most of it is instance-based.

        I tried a bit of Runes of Magic (a free-to-play WoW clone) back in the day, and I didn’t like it. The whole “wait for a resource node/boss/something to respawn, praying someone doesn’t come and take it from you” is not a fun thing at all in my opinion. I’m glad Guild Wars 2 isn’t like that. ;)

        If you’re burnt out on MMOs… I’m not sure Guild Wars 2 will “win” you back to the MMO world. As a game, it does so many things right that it definitely had that effect on some people, but I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t enough for a different set of people, and I can’t say which of those you’d be.

        Try taking a look at the official wiki, and check Youtube for videos to see if you see something that makes you consider it. I really, really like it, but it’s the first true MMO I play, so take that into consideration.

      • Jonathan September 10, 2012 at 3:29 pm #

        My MMO background includes 4 years of playing Dark Age of Camelot and no other games during that time period, and then 5 years of casually playing World of Warcraft.

        Guild Wars 2 so far seems to have the World v World v World combat that I loved from Dark Age of Camelot. While that was the biggest draw for me, I am really into the PvE side of the game. I really dig that your player level determines what new areas you can go into(You probably shouldn’t wander into a level 40 zone at level 15), but it doesn’t prevent you from going back and still gaining experience and having the content being fun and challenging in lower level areas since your level gets scaled down to the area you are in.

        This is the first MMO where I feel like I am gaining levels by playing the game rather than playing the game to gain levels and get to the end content. Getting substantial experience from exploration, crafting, and World v World has completely taken the grind out of the game for me. I can do what I want at level 2 (after the tutorial), so there isn’t a rush to get to the end game and experience exclusive content.

        Also, because the game has no monthly fee, they have taken the deliberate time sinks out of the game. A few examples: you can fast travel anywhere you have discovered, your bank is account wide, you can toss all your crafting materials in this separate Collection bank and have access to them at each crafting station, and each item you craft takes roughly 1/2 the time of the previous item if you are crafting a stack of the same items.

        I could go on and on about things that I feel this game does right, but you are probably better heading over to QuarterToThree and listening to the last two weeks podcast as Tom Chick and Jason McMaster salivate over the game. They do a much better job explaining their love of Guild Wars 2 than I could ever hope to do.

        It is still definitely an MMO, but I’ll go as far to say that it seems as big of a step forward from WoW as WoW was from previous MMO’s. That is my non-expert opinion :-)

        • Mark E September 11, 2012 at 10:01 am #

          I caved and will be giving it a go.

          Being able to balance it with Secret World because of no fees was a bit of a draw.

          So far so good, thanks for the feedback though :)

          • rhamorim September 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm #

            Send me an email in-game (to “Wolfox”) and I’ll invite you to join the NHS guild. See you there!

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