Okay so the few of you who were able to play games over the Thanksgiving weekend, sucks to your assmar. I packed my handhelds as planned (too bad I forgot Final Fantasy III), but I was only able to take out my PSP once. And when I did, I got the look from the family. I had no idea my undivided attention meant so much to them, but eh, whatever. I’ll finish Ys Seven eventually.

The big topic of this week is Epic Mickey. I have preordered the game (Best Buy is going to give me a bonus 500 points on my Reward Zone account!), but I’m saving the guide for when I finish Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Final Fantasy XIII. So yeah, sad to say, I may not get to it by the end of 2010. Blame ACB for being so great I don’t want to hurry up and finish and my making a promise to my friend to finish FFXIII by the end of the year. So while yes, I am a big yes for EM, thanks to the demo at E3, I’m not going to drop everything to play it.

So how many of you are interested in Mickey’s new game? It’s been hyped like crazy all year long, so here’s hoping it’s not an epic flop. I’d love to see a decent third-party game to the Wii. There have been a ton of fantastic first-party games lately, but sad to say, none of them appeal to me, and none of them will until Skyward Sword releases next year. So come onnnnnn, Epic Mickey! Don’t let me down!

So wow, no love for Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood among most of you? You’re missing out. No really, you are, especially if you played Assassin’s Creed 2. ACB won’t appeal to those who did not, because, as one of my friends put it, ACB is really more AC2. It’s a continuation of the story, and there is no real tutorial on how to play except for on Ezio’s new tricks, which makes the combat ten times more manageable and fun than AC2.

As for the guide, I don’t want to jinx myself, but this could be the first guide written by Piggyback Interactive that doesn’t make me want to hurl it across the room in frustration. So far I have had zero issues and plenty of help, particularly when it comes to achieving 100% synchronization in those memories with the pesky timers. (Curious what 100% synchronization means? Well, I guess you’re going to have to play the game to find out!)

I’ve had a home alone weekend this past weekend, and I’ve used it to play quite a bit of ACB. I’m trying to do as much as I can now, because as of Wednesday, I won’t be able to play any of it for 4-5 days. We’re heading down to see my family for Thanksgiving this year, and my parents are not gamers in the slightest. They kind of think of games as pointless and a big waste of time. So, I won’t have a PS3 to borrow during naptime or late at night. I am going to try to get some gaming accomplished though in the form of handheld gaming. I’m going to back both my DS and PSP so I can play either Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light or Ys Seven, which I’m so close to finishing.

Are you going to be able to get your gaming fix at all over the Thanksgiving holiday? If so, what are you going to be able to play?

So we have more Movers than Kinecters in the audience. Is this because more of us have a PS3 than an Xbox? Or is it because of Yuki’s astute (and I believe accurate) observation that the Kinect is most likely going to appeal to the casual, family gamers and the Move will appeal more to the hardcore gamers. (I really hate differentiating between casual and hardcore with such labels, but at this point, I really have no idea how to better separate them.)

I sadly have not used my Move at all. I fired up Star Wars: The Force Unleashed this afternoon, and I really hoped that it would have Move support just because, well, just because. I guess it would have helped if I actually turned on my Move controller when I was playing, but the patch update I had to download immediately seemed to be only for Trophy support. (Yay for Trophies!) [Read more…]