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When? 2010


On 11/18/2015 at 03:11 AM by KnightDriver

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It was pretty much all about games and films this year for me. I got so into games, I started blogging at 1UP. I wasn't sure how it was going to go, but clearly I got hooked. Five years later, and I haven't stopped. I guess I'll do another five. 

MUSIC:

Honestly, not much for me this year, but I could mention a few musical things. First was the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. I came out of that movie in such a high. It was basically a movie-musical. I got the soundtrack later and got turned on to several new bands like Blood Red Shoes. Then there was the musical pair, Paul & Storm. They do accoustic songs that are humerous and often about geeky stuff. I hadn't listened to their first album that came out this year, but I was listening to their podcast. Now I'd like to get some of their albums and see what I missed. Finally there's the obligatory Halo soundtrack. This one for Halo: Reach. For some reason, I don't have it, and so maybe I didn't listen to it outside of the game. I'll have to remedy that along with the Bioshock 2 soundtrack. 

GAMES

Some memories from this year in games: Some disappointment in Crackdown 2 on Xbox 360, although I still liked it a lot. Swimming and taking photos in the ocean in Endless Ocean: Blue World on Wii. Excitment over Epic Mickey and its promise, and then hideous disappointment over its wonky camera. Liking Fable III, but wondering if it was really a RPG anymore. Surprise over the fun remake of Goldeneye 007 on Wii. Enjoying renting Lunar Silver Star Harmony on PSP and beating it. Getting Okami sequel Okamiden on DS day-one, but wishing it was a full console game. Getting to play Plants Vs. Zombies on console when it came to Xbox Live Arcade. It was on PC at least a year before and I couldn't wait to play it. Crying over the ending to Professor Layton and the Unwound Future on DS. It's amazing the impact a story has after you've been in its world for 25 hours or so. Finally, getting so excited for the release of Valkyria Chronicles II on PSP, and much like Okamiden, wishing it was a console game. 

BOOKS

I was reading a lot of stuff then, but not anything that was released in 2010. I didn't see anything from this year I'd really like to read either except for Mary Holland's Naturally Curious, a book about nature Rangergirl mentioned once. 

FILM

I saw a lot of movies in the theater this year. Some more memorable ones were: How to Train Your Dragon. I saw that in 3D and was really impressed with it. Later, my nephew was really into the TV show, and I was interested in hearing him get all excited over the different dragons and their powers. Jonah Hex. Not a great movie at all, but I was really into the comics at the time and got very excited about the movie. I still enjoyed it though. Kick-Ass was a lot of fun. I didn't enjoy the sequel years later though. Machete, a Rodriguez film, was silly but a lot of fun. It started as just a jokey trailer for one of his other movies. It got a sequel years later that was also fun. Scott Pilgrim Vs the World, I've already mentioned. I loved The A-Team. It was just the right amount of over-the-top action and humor. I really dug it. The Wolfman and True Grit both got my vote for being some seriously beautiful looking films. True Grit had a much better story to go with it, but visuals usually trump everything for me. 

And that be 2010, mateys. Yar!


 

Comments

Ranger1

11/18/2015 at 09:52 AM

I don't think I bought any music that was released in 2010. I was listening to tracks off The Drpkick Murphys Live at Lansdowne on the radio, though.

I honestly don't pay a lot of attention to when books are published unless I'm waiting for something to come out. I did read Mockingjay and Changes (Dresden Files), and since Mockingjay was still in hardcover, I'm sure I must have read it then. Same with Changes.

Movies...I rarely go to the movies anymore, mostly because I can't afford it. Jason and I went to see Spectre at the matinee last week and with the two tickets and a small popcorn, it cost us $20. I think we did see Toy Story 3 and Hereafter in the theater, though.

Games: Bought a bunch, but I was working year-round at the previous park at that point and Jason was actually still working, so we had expendable income. White Kinght Chronicles and Alan Wake were preorders that I have still yet to play. Rocket Knight, Dragon Quest IX, Limbo, Lara Croft & The Guardian of the Light, Pinball FX 2, and Golden Sun Dark Dawn were all day one purchases that got played right away. The only two that I finished were DQ IX and Golden Sun, though. But then again, Pinball FX2 isn't exactly a game with an ending :)

KnightDriver

11/19/2015 at 02:12 AM

I usually don't care about book release dates either. Just in retrospec, it's kind of neat to see when things came out. Sometimes, like with games, I think about trying to get current releases, but it has to be something really special. I was looking at the Halo books that came out 2015, but there are too many of them this time. It's like three novels and several online novellas. Too much!

I've been interested in playing Alan Wake lately. It didn't interest me back then though. All the others you mentioned are definitely on my list to play. 

SanAndreas

11/18/2015 at 10:13 AM

Fallout: New Vegas and Yakuza 4 were right along with Valkyria Chronicles and Lunar: SSH on my list of 2010 must-plays. I had a good time gaming overall.

P.S. Sega has decided to revisit Valkyria Chronicles in the form of a PS4 remaster of the first game and Valkyria: Azure Revolution, which looks to be a traditional turn-based RPG (not a SRPG) prequel to the first game. Knowing Sega and their track record for localizations, the new game is kind of iffy for a US release, but I hope they'll make use of Atlus USA for a localization. We may have a decent enough chance of seeing the remaster of the first game since it's already localized and Sega was apparently pleased with the sales numbers of the Steam re-release.

KnightDriver

11/19/2015 at 02:15 AM

Oh that's sweet about Valkyria Chronicles. I'll be on that stuff for sure. I need me a PS4 soon though. I already pre-ordered Earth Defense Force 4.1 out in December. That'll be two PS4 games I'll have before getting the system (other one is Killzone Shadowfall).

I'd like to try Yakuza and Fallout New Vegas sometime. 

goaztecs

11/18/2015 at 10:43 AM

Looking at a list of CDs released in 2010 the only ones I remember buying that year was Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, and Sara Bareilles' Kaleidoscope Heart. Everything else I got years later but probably listened to a bunch of during that time. I think I was still playing a bunch of PS3, and PSP with a little original X-Box thrown in. I remember how everyone loved Crackdown 2. As for Plants vs Zombies this might have been the time I followed steps online where you turn a Barnes & Noble Nook into a full on Android Tablet by rooting so I might have been playing Plants vs Zombies on it. 

KnightDriver

11/19/2015 at 02:19 AM

I remember a lot of criticism of Crackdown 2 then and now. It's a fine game, just not so different from the first game. 

I was a huge PopCap fan when I was still playing on PC, but got away from that just when Plants vs. Zombies came out. I waited a good long time for it to come to consoles. PvZ 2 never did make it to consoles. I'm mad about that. 

Cary Woodham

11/18/2015 at 01:44 PM

One cool game in 2010 was WarioWare: D.I.Y. on the DS.  It let you create your own WarioWare mini-games!  This was my Game of the Year in 2010 because I won one of the creation contests and got my game featured by Nintendo!

http://www.gamerdad.com/blog/2010/06/12/its-official-im-developing-nintendo-games-now/

KnightDriver

11/19/2015 at 02:41 AM

Whoa! That's pretty cool. I like your game. "Now he’s ready to make some catgirls swoon and teach some dog bullies a lesson!" LOL

Super Step Contributing Writer

11/18/2015 at 06:38 PM

I wasn't as hyped on Scott Pilgrim as other people, cause while I caught the references, the humor just didn't do it for me for some reason. Action was great though and they had a good band in The Bob-Bombs. I remember Paul & Storm now. I need to start really listening to their stuff. Always liked the orchestral Halo music. My friend Mikel LOVES Halo and I think a lot of it has to do with the score. He loves that stuff.

I forgot about the WiiMake of Goldeneye. I really need to finish Okamiden.

I had a HOT date to see How to Train Your Dragon, but it didn't end up going anywhere. Maybe if I was the assertive me I am now, something would have happened, but I was still too nervous about work conflicts at the time (I was a CA (RA) in college and it was a resident). I wound up joking about how it cost me $22 for nothing, though really I liked the movie and date. Was just pissed only 3D was available. I remember seeing trailers for Jonah Hex and thinking even those looked bad and were supposed to sell the movie, so I stayed away. Megan Fox was in that, wasn't she? Where's she gone? Kick Ass was my favorite movie that year. Still-camera action and the only shaky cam scene is a reference to FPS? Oh hell yeah! Never saw the sequel, just remember the Jim Carey drama. I've heard similar things about Machete and its sequel, first was really fun but not so much second. A friend and I watched A-Team and Expendables at her desk job. We LOVED the A-Team and laughed at the literally 30-minute opening credits sequence. We were not overfond of the Expendables, minus Jet Li who was awesome and funny. The whole love interest thing was pointless though and it took itself too seriously, whereas A-Team knew what it was. I wanted to see The Wolfman, but True Grit was awesome. Coen Brothers, yeah?

KnightDriver

11/19/2015 at 02:52 AM

One of the trailers for Destiny early on had the O'Donnell music and it made my hair stand up, I got so into it. Seemed like it was a new great Halo game. It was something different, but that music got me going. 

Yea, Megan Fox was in Jonah Hex. It didn't help it at all. 

Expendables was pretty bad. I liked Dolph Lundgren's character. They didn't develop him much though. The second one was awesome in the first ten mintues, then proceeded to bore me the rest of the movie. 

Matt Snee Staff Writer

11/20/2015 at 05:03 AM

Kick Ass was fun.  I love the part where it's like a 1st person video game when Hit Girl is taking out the gangsters and it shows her point of view aiming the gun.  That shit is brilliant. 

KnightDriver

11/20/2015 at 02:51 PM

Yeah, that was a fun movie. I saw the second one with my friend, and he loved it, but I didn't so much. 

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