Vidya of 2008

Another year and another selection of great games have been released. Some will fade into a distant memory while others will live on as legends in years to come… or something. At the end of every year I’ll be posting one of these “Vidya of…” entries. However, unlike a lot of the end of year round ups on other sites, with Twilight Lynk it will be different…

Instead of telling you what has gone on throughout the year, I’m more interested in how people in the community have spent their time gaming and what they thought of 2008 through their own experiences.

This was a very interesting year for me… an extremely interesting year in fact because for the first time I have actually bought a non-Nintendo console. In years past, while I have played A LOT of games on all of the other systems from Atari, Sega, Sony and Microsoft, I hadn’t actually bought any of them but rather played games for them on consoles owned by my friends.

The first non-Nintendo console I had bought was a PS2 slim and a copy of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater… though I wish I was able to find Subsistence instead… oh well, maybe later. While I had gotten the PS2 first, I was on my way to getting a free PS3 through a deal where if I buy a HDTV, I’ll get a free PS3 from Sony. I pounced on this offer and also bought myself a second DualShock 3 controller and a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4. Later I got Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (as well as a PS3 remote) for my birthday and also bought Sid Meier’s Civilization Revolution (which was a bad idea since it would’ve been better to buy the 360 version instead) and finally Valkyria Chronicles, which as you all know, I was really excited about for a long time. Along with a few games I also got to buy a few Blu-ray movies…

Of course, it doesn’t end there, recently in November I got myself a Xbox 360 Elite which came with Halo 3, Kung Fu Panda, LEGO Indiana Jones and Mass Effect for free and for Christmas I got BioShock, Dead Space, Duke Nukem 3D for XBLA and Gears of War.

It doesn’t end there though because I also bought quite a lot of Wii games too… Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, LEGO Star Wars The Complete Saga and others I’m definitely forgetting about lol. I also go, I think, only ONE DS game (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Justice For All) which I feel very ashamed of. I’ve been neglecting the DS so much this year even though there are a TONNE of great games for it that I really want to buy.

I got lots of games this year… but still not enough. For most of the year I didn’t have the money to buy any video games so the list of games I’ve mentioned so far is pretty small for my taste. I only managed to get a lot near the end of the year. That said, a lot of the games I got this year are quality stuff and I’m very happy with pretty much everything I got. 2007 was a great year for me with Nintendo games, however aside from a few gems, Nintendo didn’t really do anything for me in 2008… luckily I was able to fill in the void with some great PS3 and 360 games.