Showing posts with label Red Dead Redemption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Dead Redemption. Show all posts

Thursday, March 17, 2011

My Top 5 Gaming Moments


What is all this commotion of TheUsualType once again trying to take over this Bl4rG I created? Well if he can talk about his top gaming moments then so can I. I choose 5 because its a nice round number, plus I want to outline that these moments is the reason why I love gaming and why its an amazing entertainment medium.


Spoiler Alert: All of these games consist of massive plot reveals these games consist of: BioShock, BioShock 2, Gears Of War 2, Limbo and Red Dead Redemption. 


So these aren't going to be in any specific order. I cant put a number on my favourite moment to be honest, they all are awesome moments in video games but I hope you'll certainly see why I love these moments.

Red Dead Redemption: The Confrontation of Dutch 
So first up was the best game I played last year Red Dead Redemption. Which is about John Marston, the main protagonist, trying to hunt down his old gang that remain threats to the west of America. The lawless land has changed with time due to the U.S. government looking to clean up the area from these psychopathic gangs. John, who is forced by government agents (Ross and Archer), finds redemption from his gang years by hunting down his old gang. However Dutch (the leader of Johns old gang) makes a defining moment in the game by making a speech that gave the whole experience of Red Dead Redemption worthwhile. John who is trying desperately to change his ways and seek redemption faces his old friend Dutch who reveals to him that you just cant fight change. What is key about this speech is that Dutch was right. 

Limbo: The End
Limbo is defiantly the best game on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Its is stunningly beautiful and has probably one of the best plots in a game. I was surprised at how bleak the game was yet when I got to the end I felt a full string of emotions. Its hard to explain and I tried to in my review but the only people who understand Limbo is the people who played it. The ending is what made the experience for me the innocence, the symbolism and the graphics is what blew me away.


BioShock: The Death of Andrew Ryan
This is the very moment that started my long addiction to BioShock. There is no better story in a game than BioShock. There is nothing better than it when it comes to storyline. This one moment proved to me that games aren't just mindless shoot em ups. Andrew Ryan proves that your either a man or a slave, and wishes to die at his own terms by the hand of his son. And just when you think all is well the shit truly hits the fan when your guiding friend proves to be the real enemy.

BioShock 2: Ending (Good) 
Another great moment in the BioShock franchise that made this game a worthy sequel of the titan BioShock. This ending just made me love the series even more than I already did. The amazing voice acting from Irish actress Sarah Bolger makes this scene. But the truly amazing thing is the what you did in the game to achieve this ending. From the beginning you are aware that your Little Sister Eleanor has been keeping a watch over you, and from the start you are setting an example for your daughter. By every act you are doing in the game you are paving the way for your daughter by example. Saving the Little Sisters and turning the cheek to the people who have wronged you brings you to this final little cut scene. This ending made the whole game worthwhile and to some is a tearjerker.

Gears Of War 2: Dominic Santiago Finds His Wife, Maria
This is why I love Gears Of War. Gears Of War 2 was the second game I played on the Xbox 360 and playing through the single player campaign with my good friend Spartan3PC proved to be an awesome experience. It was a good laugh to play through the horribly violent bits of Gears Of War 2 chainsawing people etc. But when Tai killed himself that was when the experience became much more serious, resisting to think about which character would die next we came to find that killing him was not the worst you could put these guys through. Dominic, evidently my favourite character in the series, is clearly the likeable character not the glorified war hero we would expect him to be. He is likeable because he is relatable to a certain extent, he makes a joke when appropriable and carry's a background full of horrors. What is ultimately amazing about Gears is how even though these men know that their world is completely destroyed they can still make jokes about their lives and their situation. Dominic is no glorified war hero, he is a hero because he still finds meaning in his life when there is truly nothing left. When me and Spartan 3PC watched this scene we instantly became silent, watching a tortures scene like this requires that, shivers went down my spine from the music and the amazing voice acting by Carlos Ferro.

Hope you enjoyed these scenes I put together. Defiantly nice list I put together here, some of my favorite games here. Share any of your favourite moments if you'd like. 

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

My Top 10 Moments In Gaming


Today a friend of mine asked me "What's your top 10 favourite gaming moments". Many of them springed to mind but if I was to choose only 10 on the spot i'd feel I chose wrong and a cycle would start with me changing. So I decided to put it in writing, to forever store my top 10 favourite moments...Until something else knocks a game off of it. Some of these should come as a surprise, others not. Some of these are funny, Some are deeply emotional. Some are epic, Some are just plain silly. So... On with the show.

NUMBER 10: THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS (ENDING SCENE)
This was the first Zelda game I ever owned and the majority of it, blew me away. It was a great old puzzle combat game and with an amazing trio of last boss fights the ending certainly lived up to my expectation. The one problem I had with it was the stupid scream Ganondorf does when he's delivered the final blows by Link



NUMBER 9: KINGDOM HEARTS 358/2 DAYS :XIONS DEATH
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days was a great game I picked up for the NDS one day. Being a fan of the Kingdom Hearts series I was happy to play it and found it as a great spin off to the series. This is the second last cut scene but loved how they tied up all loose ends which could've led into Kingdom Hearts 2. ( It's a prologue to it but is set immediatly after the first) Good ending, Short and sad. Messed up looking if you haven't played the game



NUMBER 8: INFAMOUS: TRISHS DEATH
This is a great game where essentially everything revolves around your choices whether you're good or evil. To bring you briefly up to speed; Evil guy name Kessler kidnaps the Hero/ Villans girlfriend and you must safe her or doctors who are attached to the rooves of buildings, However Kessler sorts it out so that she dies no matter who you save. Then she says I love you or you're a douche depending on your Karma



NUMBER 7:METAL GEAR SOLID 4: DEATH OF ZERO AND BIG BOSS
Wow very Morbid aren't we?. This wouldn't be a list without a Metal Gear. I wouldn't use Naomi because I hated her. I wouldn't use Emma Emmerich because she was a VERY minor character who dies almost straight away and Snake's death isn't confirmed at the end. I loved Zero in Metal Gear 3, mainly for his "OMFG YOU NO LIKE IN JAMES BOND 007 WAAAAA" style comments and just loved how Big Boss killed him and then died himself


NUMBER 6: GRAND THEFT AUTO 4: AVENGING KATE
There's a funny story behind this, before I played this game I hated GTA. I thought that the highlight of this story would be "YO NIGGA SNORT SOME COKE RAPE SOME BITCHES" But then I played this and realised the highlight was "YO NIGGA SNORT SOME COKE RAPE SOME BITCHES THEN AVENGE YOUR CRAZY VIRGIN IRISH GIRLFRIEND". But seriously GTA 4 does have a great story line (Mainly thanks to Little jacob speaking "English"). Felt stupid when I first watched this and noticed how Niko fires a desert eagle more times than it actually has bullets ( Ending is altered slightly depending on what gun you have equipped)

NUMBER 5: RED DEAD REDEMPTION: DEATH OF JOHN MARSTON
Originally I feared that I'd not like this game, being Rockstar and all. Once I gave it a go I was immediatly hooked. It was no surprise to me this got so many awards and it deserved every single one of them.





NUMBER 4: PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE LOST/UNWOUND FUTURE
CLARES DEATH
This was one series I never thought would truly make me show some true emotion after I finished the first game. Second one made me feel a bit happy this one however made me shed a few tears. Possibly one of the saddest death in a video game, Laytons lost love Clare is revealed to have been alive all this time as she was originally meant to be killed in a mistake caused by an attempt in creating a time machine (The explosion mentioned at the start) However the machine was a success for a split second . Clare was sent 10 years in the future. However her molecular structure was unstable and is slowly being brought back to her own time. To the moment of the blast. To those who want to see what got me all sad and gloomy go to 4:50.



NUMBER 3: METAL GEAR SOLID 3 ENDING
Truely an amazing ending. Yet another ending which brought me close to tears. Sadly enough for me it contains my favourite speech/monologue in a video game. It really is complicated so i'll just stick up the video for your viewing pleasure.

I UNDERSTAND HOW I SAID THIS WAS TO SORT OUT MY TOP 10 ONCE AND FOR ALL BUT THERE IS A TIE BETWEEN TWO GAMES AS I JUST COULDN'T CHOOSE EVEN AFTER HALF AN HOUR OF HUMMING AND HAWWING WHILE WATCHING "CHEERS".


JOINT 1ST AND SECOND (1)
FINAL FANTASY 7: THE DEATH OF AERIS

If you knew I like this Final Fantasy the most, you'd be bat fuck insane to think this wouldn't be included. There have been deaths in Final Fantasy titles past and Present but none were more powerful and well written than the death of Aeris from Final Fantasy 7. This was truly a master piece and is even more of a Master piece if you knew the story behind it. I have many saves at this point on my 5 versions of the game, Yes you read it right 5... (PC, PS1 Europe two of them, PSN version europe, Psn Version America and Psn europe on PSP. So 2 genunine hard copies and 6 versions 2 of which being the same).



JOINT FIRST AND SECOND (2)
FINAL FANTASY XIII ENDING

Well I did try and keep only one Final Fantasy title here but I just couldn't help it. This is the only Happy ending I have on this list. It's filled with as much emotion as a climax could possibly have and even after a year nearly of completing it, the joy can prove to be too much (Talk about sad...). Amazing ending and although i'm not usually a fan of R&B I loved Leona Lewis singing My Hands at the end. If you wanted to see my psychopathic obsession of the graphics and music and story in one, there's no better place than this.



To end off my countdown, I thought i'd make some honourable mentions.
  • Little Big Planet 1- Cheesy but funny.
  • Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core- Great ending but ruined by innapropriate music
  • Brutal Legend - Ending / Dark Ophelia emerging
  • Call Of Duty endings
  • God Of War 3 Opening

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Red Dead Redemption - "Far Away" by Jose Gonzalez








Its hard to believe that mister Gonzalez has not gotten a music video for his work on Red Dead Redemption, well luckily we finally have one. 

Sunday, December 12, 2010

VGA's (Video Game Awards) Round-Up




















Well the VGA's are finished and done with (thank god), and we have all the announcements and winners listed right here! 

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