Sup Y'all

Sorry to all that I haven't been watering the blog much recently, and that no podcast went up this week; I've been working, Mark is staying at Michael's house, and life is generally getting in the way of our sorry excuse for a gaming blog. Anyways, the reason I actually started this post was to talk a little about Assassin's Creed 2, which I beat this afternoon.

To start with, a big comment on just how good this game has already been mentioned; I beat it quickly, in fact before I had beaten both Dragon Age and Borderlands (getting there guys). This second installment really does propel you through it, with much tighter pacing than the first, and a much more interesting story. I do have to say that playing the Assassin's Creed 1 will really help you understand "what.the.fuck." is going on (there's a reason I put that in quotes, you'll see).
All in all, AC2 always gives you something to do, and feels shorter than the 25 hours or so that it is(which is a good thing, to clarify).

I've already talked a bit about the mechanics that underpin the action in this here video game, and my thoughts earlier on were more or less correct; everything has been made just a little bit better, though the climbing is still occasionally unwieldy. Of the new armaments in the game, namely poison, a gun and TWO WRIST BLADES, only the one in caps is really important.

There are a stack of other improvements, but I don't need to list them; suffice to say, Assassin's Creed 2 is fantastic. On one final note, the game has one of the more cliffhanger endings you'll see in a video game, much like the first, but guess what? Assassin's Creed 2 has by far the best end game credits ever. Nothing even comes close.

This is Dennis, saying go buy that game.

PodTurtles Ep4 - Holidays Go

Yes we are lazy.
Not really, we all had exams (I still do) and thus our gaming playing abilities were severed. Alas Mark, Dennis and I have all been playing Modern Warfare 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. Dennis has also been playing Assassins Creed 2 and has tried the Left 4 Dead 2 Demo, Tropico 3 Demo and the Gyromancer demo. Due to lack of material we also talk about things that aren't games.

You can listen to the podcast here with the embedded player or alternatively download it here.
The podcast is 49 minutes and 30 seconds long, so ignore any lies to podcast puts upon you.

Podcast?

For the 18 imaginary people who listen to our podcast, PodTurtles, and the one real person who does (me), there is no PodTurtles this week. We're all in the middle of exams, and also there are a lot of games that we're playing, rather than talking about. You can expect another PodTurtles next week, with Modern Warfare 2, among other things.

Sorry guys.

PodTurtles Ep3 - Dragon Age, and nothing else.

PodTurtles Episode 3 arrives! Filled with family fun, for the whole family, and a chance to win a trip to Hawaii!

Nah I'm just fucking with y'all. We talk Dragon Age: Origins, a little bit of Borderlands, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Australia's lack of an 18+ rating.



Or Download it all here.

FYI podcast is actually 52 minutes and 48 seconds long, the embedded player lies.

Additional pwning by Michael. (Editor's note: Michael added the embedded player)

High General Exalted Chancelleor Editor Mark's Note: Nobody cares about the editor's note.

PodTurtles Ep2 - Games a'Plenty

 Second Podturtles is here! Topics from this PodTurtles include games we've been playing, previews of some big titles coming up and micro-transactions in video games.

You can listen to it right here using the DivShare embedded player or download the .mp3 from the DivShare website here
Run time is 63:36 (mins/seconds)

PodTurtles Ep 1- And So It Begins

The first podcast. We talk about games we've been playing, and Modern Warfare 2's lack of dedicated servers. I feel I should probably add that we certainly do not advocate piracy.. But we do hate Activision.


Here it is finally! You can just listen to it here using this nifty embedded player or download the whole podcast as a .mp3 file here