http://savingprogress.com Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:43:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a hunger, too rarely sated by the current generation of consoles. Born of the late 1980s, I have a deep, unquenchable thirst for video games that offer a character who jumps from one object to another, slightly higher object. I adore platformers, and the satisfaction I draw from ... http://savingprogress.com/infamous/ Most every game, like it or not, falls into one of several well-established genres. There isn’t anything necessarily wrong with this, either. Sometimes I want a shooter, sometimes I want to race, sometimes I want to grind for meaningless stats while listening to spiky haired protagonists say ‘…’ With few ... http://savingprogress.com/velvet-assassin/ A doozy as far as first impressions go, the above image of hero Gene kicking a punk in the nuts, accompanied by the ring of a tiny bell, provides a lot of information about God Hand's nature. There's a story, but it doesn't matter. What's important is that you will ... http://savingprogress.com/god-hand/ Digital distribution is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand it is very nice to be able to purchase games without exposing myself to the general public. On the other hand, it is very easy to purchase games on a whim or out of boredom or because they ... http://savingprogress.com/penumbra-overture/ Most people have a very limited idea about what fantasy, as a genre, can be. Peter Jackson and the late Gary Gygax hold most of the blame, for even as they were mainstreaming gigantic pretend worlds and tying them to humid basements full of neckbearded dice rollers, they also pin-holed ... http://savingprogress.com/zeno-clash/ I know, I know. You didn't buy it. But if you fancy yourself a gamer, you're very likely already aware of Valkyria Chronicles. You know there's a manga and animated series based on it in Japan (neither of which, funnily enough, manage to recapture the aesthetic of a game that ... http://savingprogress.com/valkyria-chronicles-dlc/ Of all the characters Vin Diesel has played, Riddick is the most fun to play as in a video game. A few of his action movie roles did some cool stunts and used decent weapons, drove decent cars, but from our recent review of the Wheelman, it's easy to see ... http://savingprogress.com/the-chronicles-of-riddick-assault-on-dark-athena/ I had the opportunity to play the original Guitar Hero several months before it came out. Trying to explain the concept to someone who hadn’t seen it was never easy, often boiling down to DDR with a plastic guitar, but when it finally arrived it clicked with a lot of ... http://savingprogress.com/guitar-hero-metallica/ The Wheelman is a title that promises to deliver the thrill of summer action movies to a video game. This goal isn’t extremely lofty, but with Vin Diesel backing it, The Wheelman had the potential to be another Escape From Butcher Bay. Unfortunately, this seems too much to expect from ... http://savingprogress.com/the-wheelman/ Let's get this out of the way: I love Okami. Since its release in 2006, I find myself returning to it two or three times a year for thirty hours of light-hearted relaxation and simple, old-school adventure. The majority of my gaming diet consists of very messy, high-action mature-rated pursuits ... http://savingprogress.com/wwww-okami/