No Lives Left

Hey all,     Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood comes out next week (or next, next week? whatever week Nov. 16 falls on)! I can't wait to be the most horrible assassin in the world...ONLINE! Yes, many of you probably have no idea how I play Assassin's Creed. But, from what my friends say, I play absolutely horribly. I never really do a silent kill. It's more of a "alert-everyone-about-my-presence-cuz-I-am-so-damn-awesome" style. I run in, find the dude, let all the guards chase me, and then find the target in the pack of bloodthirsty guards, and kill the target. I'd say it's the game's fault for letting me be able to get away with such a thing!     Not to mention my devilish horse riding escapades. Guards chasing me you say? Well I have my trusty steed who can run over you unless you are a pack of five...apparently my horse can't handle more (his feet get tangled in all the intestines). I wouldn't even care about civilians. Eizo was pretty muc...

     As far as I have known video games, I have never seen a video game that was "a mistake" and a success at the same time. Video games, unlike art, cannot be critically acclaimed if there is no effort involved. I am sorry to say, but all Duchamp did was stick a toilet in some plaster and called it art. It may have transformed the art world as we know it, but a game cannot do the same thing. You cannot stick a character in an open world with nothing to do and call it a "self-reflecting" video game. It's just plain boring. Allocating controls to random buttons on a controller isn't a Pollack, it's just an absurd mess. Video games are limited in their creativity because they must work on a logical level. Part of the art of a video game is in the way it flows and how intuitive it can be. The variability seems limited to the user input, story, the graphics, the combat and the genres that the game claims to be. Fortunately, this is enough to giv...

"Hello World!" (I hope a few people get this joke) For the most part, many of you won't. Let me formally welcome anyone and everyone to my blog. This is No Lives Left. A blog about video gaming in terms of reviews, opinions, and random thoughts. The desire to do so was based on impulse about a few days ago. I really, really, really love video games ever since I was three years old playing duck hunt with my brother. I could never get away from it. And as I kept playing video games, I kind of threw myself into the realm of virtual reality. The ideas, the graphics, the interactivity; all of these things really kept me glued to the screen for so many years. The fact is, video games are what you make of them. They obviously can turn into an obsession (*ahem* I am in full control!) and ruin your life. The games themselves can equally be just as bad and ruin your life (been there, done that). If you don't choose wisely, video games can also be a huge waste of time (Playin...