The Playstation 2 has been regarded as one of the best video game systems of all time, mostly due to its extensive and well-balanced library of games. More well known for its impressive amount of wonderful RPGs then anything else, the PS2 more often then not, delivered the goods. However, amongst all the gems, some were a thorough disappoint. Unlimited Saga falls under this category.

Square Enix has had its difficulties with game series in the past. Receiving both unbridled popularity and a mass of shameful moments, it is hard to predict just which of these two categories their next release will fall under. Most of the time fans give the long time “RPG King” the benefit of the doubt, though those fans turned quick to harshly judge the company after the release of Unlimited Saga.
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Last week I told you how to go about making a great character for your future video game masterpiece. If your character is the sword, it is the story is the sheath which makes him (or her) shine.

A good story is practically always about conflict. Conflict comes in many forms. It can be an obvious conflict (humans against undead) or a subtle conflict (son wants to achieve independence, mother wants to keep him a child).

For the most part, your conflict will be born out of your characters situation and motivations. A soldier at odds with his officers will not be suited to a story about teen romance, and a young girl won’t necessarily be the best protagonist to take on zombies. Having said that, sometimes the best stories use characters in unexpected ways and defy conventions. The best heroes can often be the most ordinary people.
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Everyone knows Bomberman, the cute little guy most recognized for blowing up his friends and going on random adventures. However, Bomberman Act Zero was an adventure to see just how far they could push the franchise and is known around the world as the worst Bomberman game ever made. Evidently combining a Halo type environment with Bomberman wasn’t exactly the best idea.
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With the DS being such a success, it is hard to imagine that during its first few months on the market there were many crappy games released. The worst of which has to be Ping Pals. Released almost as soon as the DS came out, Ping Pals is essentially PictoChat, but boring.

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With as popular and innovative as the Wii is there are a few games out there that just make it look just no fun to play, Ninjabread Man and Anubis II are far the worst offenders on the list. Surely though one of these is worse then the other and you’d be right, Ninjabread Man takes the title of worst Wii game. Some may disagree and say that Anubis II is much worse, but there is something that Ninjabread Man has that Anubis II lacks, a sequel! Now you may be wondering how that’s possible, with a name like Anubis II there must be an Anubis I, right? Wrong, despite all logic there was no Anubis I.

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So GTA IV has been released, and both the critics and the fans are out in force. In today’s link round up I’m going to send you a variety of posts on the release of this controversial game - and you can decide if it’s fun, the coming apocalypse, great art, or just good business.

Why Critics Want Grand Theft Auto IV to Be the ‘Godfather’ of Video Games

People are Playing GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto: Blatant Violence Towards Women

Grand Theft Auto IV Review

Regarding GTA IV and the Morality Patrol

Some GTA IV Questions

Sex, Violence and Video Games

Oh, Right… Grand Theft Auto is coming out…

If nothing else, GTA IV should be commended for generating such a lot of debate and insight amongst gamers and non-gamers alike.

This is the beginning of a ten part series on the ten worst games in video game history. The problem with lists like this though is not everyone will agree with the games listed here, but quoting another batch of reviewers out there “that’s why it’s a good list”. With that said we now take a look at the number ten worst game of all time!

I talked about it before, but it bears repeating because of just how awful this game really is, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600. It is, without a doubt, the most painful game to play in the history of video games, but then why is it only #10? There is a method to my madness I assure you, but that will be explained a bit later.
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If you’ve seen the commercials and paid attention to the news, Mario Kart Wii has finally been released in the states, meaning that the racing has finally commenced world wide! Looking at the other recently released Mario games (Mario & Sonic at the Olympics, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, Mario Party 8, and Mario Strikers Charged) on their opening weeks; Mario Kart Wii’s sales blew them all out of the water combined. Within the first four days in Japan the new Mario Kart game had already broken five hundred thousand copies sold. Proving that Nintendo’s kart series is by far one of it’s most successful endevours to date.
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Last Monday I told you how to go about writing a video game script. That post explained how to turn your idea into a workable design, something that could be made into a game if you found a team willing to take it on.

What it didn’t tell you was how to make a good script. A story-line that will make the player laugh, cry, or scream, characters that will inspire countless fanfics, twists that will make the critics splurge praise like “most innovative game ever of all time!” and “the game that proves video games can have stories too!”

In order to make a good script you need two things. An unfettered imagination, and a solid understanding of how stories and characters work. I can’t give you the first one, but I can help you a little bit with the second.

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A topic that makes most gamers blood boil, games based on movies. These games are generally made and rushed out the door to coincide with a movie release or simply have the movie’s title slapped on. So why make them, why bother with something only half done, and why do something only to get in while it’s popular? The answer is obvious, money.

Most movie games, as most should know by now, are terrible. The first of them was the worst by far, many of us who played ET on the Atari still feel it’s horror today. It seems that as time has moved on since then movie games have become more prevalent. The problem is with the constant influx of these games quality begins to suffer more and more leaving us all with half developed games that look and play terribly. Another thing movie games suffer from is being poorly executed clones of other games, which just enrages gamers more.

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