Back to school busy busy

Classes have started, exciting fourth year of college and all (and it should be the last) has kept me from updates. In the time since my last post I trudged through Bioshock but that was about it. Doing a review of the game would be a bit of a moot point since it's been so widely reviewed and scrutinized. To sum it up I thoroughly enjoyed the game, loved the atmosphere and art direction but there were some things that irked me. First and foremost the benefits of fully exploring areas did not seem to actually be worth it, I would find my way into some random-obscurely-placed-rooms and it would reward me with random ammo that I already had too much of. Next, I played through the game on the normal difficulty and the only reasons I died was from being intent on killing a big daddy using some crappy ammo instead of my good electric element or armor piercing (aka I conserved ammo for some future use that never occurred). I have to be honest, this game was definitely up there in amazing factor and a great play, it deserves a good amount of the praise it has received. I just think that the level of immersion the game reached in terms of atmosphere and interaction with the inhabitants of rapture was really hurt in the fact that you as a player were as detached from it as possible. Because I never actually felt in danger, lost, or worried then I was more compelled to play stupidly and without caution. I look forward to playing through it on hard difficulty so that I have to be extra cautious to progress through it hopefully (increased difficulty in a game tends to bring out the most creative sides of people in order to progress past obstacles).

So the game DJ Max Fever is coming to the US. While this is old news I was reminded of it from Kotaku's recent post of art and screen captures from the game and while I am not the heaviest into rhythm games I tend to like particularly challenging ones with spectacular song selections (Amplitude will always be superior to Guitar Hero/Rock Band in my mind, Harmonix please make a current gen iteration of Amplitude).

On another random related note Ladytron has released (for free) a great remix of Ghosts, Ghosts (Blestenation Mix). I think it sounds great, then again I am biased in that I have been obsessed with them for the past year...