8) Three games that ruined my life.

Well, I shit the bed this week. Forgot to post stuff. Uhhhhhh... due to not having a clue what to post for yesterday a day late, here are three reviews of games that I can't talk too much about because it would ruin everything if they get spoiled. YEAH! That'll do!

I'm a horrible person

Video games and I have been strangers for the last couple of years. It seems like I always have one on the go, but I never finish a damn thing. In the last two months, I have actually beaten three of my new favourite triple A titles. Are theses the best games of all time? No; Mass Effect 2, The Legend of Zelda, Limbo and FTL are going to stay strong in my heart for a long time, me thinks. These are just the three games that either caught me off guard with how great they really are, or they came out of nowhere and blew me away.

Far Cry 3
Never have I seen a game pull off the idea of a character loosing their sense of being so honestly as in Far Cry 3. You watch your brother die in the first twenty minuets of the game, and not even 200 paces later you are murdering some poor sod. Your character then proceeds to freak out and panic, writhing in terror over what he has just done. A lot of people claimed that the new Tomb Raider game did a better job of showing this loss of insanity, but riddle me this; did Tomb Raider have a segment where Laura was confiding in a recently saved friend that she is starting to love the power that comes with taking a life? Jason, our lead protagonist, begins explaining to a comrade how great it has begun to feel to squeeze the last breath from another human being. You hear the voice actor change his voice from terror at the idea of pulling the trigger, to laughing hardily while burning people alive with a flame thrower. Great voice cast, and even better controls. This game is a must play for any FPS fan.

Persona 4 Golden
Persona 4 is probably one of the most Japanese games I have ever played. The basic premise is that you are just some high school kid who gets lodged into some small town because your parents have taken off for a year or two to work in the states or something like that. When you arrive, you get unpacked, you go to school, and you make friends. Then you find out that someone is using an alternate world that is within the television to murder people in horrendous ways and, for some unknown reason, your misfit collective is the only humans on the planet who can stop the killings. I know this sounds terrible, BUT MY GOD IT'S SO ADDICTIVE! This is one of those games that you play when no one is around but for some reason you still feel obligated to wear headphones. It's touching, coy and surprisingly realistic. I found myself either agreeing with characters or comparing them to friends that I either have or did have at one time. There isn't much else to say about this game: so much of it is in the execution. All I can say is that if you enjoy Anime and JRPG's, please play this game. It's fantastic.

Bioshock Infinite
The hardest game to give any information on without giving something away. It was beautiful, exciting, intelligent and graceful. The characters are beautifully written and the world is brilliantly conceived. The combat is a bit clunky in its frenetic pacing, but I feel like it almost works with the bizarre animation and motion capture. The voice acting is Godly (per usual with the series) and a couple of the twists actually caught me off guard. However, through all this praise, I cannot say that this game is better than Bioshock one. Back in 2007, Bioshock literally destroyed my expectation on story delivery in both video games AND movies. Half the time I actually forgot that the main character was silent. It flowed with mostly due to its almost horror pacing mixed with very cut throat fighting. This game set the bar so high in my mind that few, if any, games could compare.