The Video Game Revue

Video Games Live, LBP Day 2

The Video Games Live concert last night was excellent--better than I expected, even. One thing that I wasn't prepared for was the PAX-like atmosphere of the event; it was crowded with the same kind of gamer mentality. In hindsight I should have expected that, but I was anticipating a more typical concert experience. Sunny and I were glad that we went.

Now that the Little Big Planet servers are back online, Sunny and I got to experience some of the community content. One particularly impressive level was a God of War themed one that Sunny played. It was so high quality that it could have been a level that shipped with the game, and there's no way that somebody created that since LBP's release unless they were in the beta or they're somehow professionally involved with LBP.

Sunny found online play to be too high latency for her taste, and I don't know if the bottleneck is more on the server side or if it's my wireless network at home that's the culprit. Sunny has obviously been spoiled by the high quality online experience of WoW. :)

I did find that downloading levels goes quickly, and it's nice that when one gets stuck in the single player Story mode (which is likely to happen), one can jump online and explore the user submitted content.

On a different note, I've been reading a bit about Fallout 3 and have decided that I need to pick up a copy at some point, however I'm pretty swamped with other stuff so that might not be anytime soon. I haven't decided yet whether it will be an Xbox 360 copy or a PC copy, but I'm leaning towards PC--perhaps even Steam. Speaking of Steam, I've already pre-ordered Left 4 Dead and I've been tempted to order Empire Total War. Steam is hotter than usual lately.

posted by Parappa @ 3:35 PM