List of upcoming/possible videos.

I've been compiling a list of games I'd like to review, this will likely be changed and updated as I go along. For now though here it is. I don't own all of these games, so if you would like to donate anything,  or want to see certain game reviews, contact me via email at the_big_bad_onion@yahoo.co.uk

Master System

Wonder Boy 3 <FINISHED>

Wonder Boy in Monster Land

Thunderblade

Choplifter

Hang on

Action Fighter

Lucky Dime Caper

Mega Drive

Wonder Boy in Monster World

Monster World 4 (from psn)

Streets of Rage

Golden Axe

Desert Strike

Road Rash 1 ,2 ,3

Super Monaco GP

Buck Rogers: Count Down to Doomsday

Aladdin

Shadow Dancer

PS1

Tomb Raider 1, 2, 3

Destruction Derby <working on>

F1 97

gta

GTA london

GTA 2

resident evil 1, 2, 3

Nuclear Strike

Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, Warped

Army Men: Sarg's Heroes

Army Men 3d

Spyro
Metal Gear Solid
Thunderhawk
Tenchu

G-Police

GTA

F1 97

Metal Gear

Medal Of Honor

Smack Down 2

Wipeout, 2097

Soul Reaver

Colony wars

Die hard

Syphon Filter 1, 2

Odd World

Driver

Silent Hill

Dino Crisis

Test Drive 4

Xbox

Fable

gta san andreas

Ninja Gaiden

Halo 2
Max Payne 2

Ps2

Kingdom Hearts

Kingdom Hearts 2 (possibly)

Prince Of Persia Sands Of Time

driv3r

driver parallel lines

gta 3

gta vice city

metal gear 2

metal gear 3

Halo

Halo 2

Army Men Green Rouge

Destruction Derby Arenas

Dropship
Max Payne

NES

Super Mario Bros

Super Mario Bros 2

Super Mario Bros 3

Zelda

Zelda 2

Metroid

Kid Icirus

Mega Man

Top Gun

Turtles

Castlevania

SNES

Mario World

Zelda

Super Metroid

Turtles in Time

Xbox 360/ps3
Max Payne 3 <Finished>

Red Dead Redemption

LA Noire

GTA 4

Saints Row 2

Star Wars Force Unleashed/2

X-Men: The Official Game

Mercenaries 2

Assassins Creed 2, BH, Rev

F1 2011

Darksiders

Hawx

Mass Effect 3

Oblivion
Any upcoming releases that may look interesting.

N64

Mario 64

Zelda Ocarina of time/Majoras Mask

Golden Eye

Perfect Dark

  

Gamecube

Zelda twilight princess

Rouge Squadron

Super Metroid

Remakes

Assassins Creed (possibly)

Gollvelius

Destruction Derby 2

Road Rash 64

Random

Para IVE, this is a vectrex emulator.

Top 10's

top 10 Playstation games

top 10 ps2 games

top 10 seventh Generation games

worse 10  Seventh Gen Games

top 10 most annoying games ever

top 10 n64 games

top 10 SNES games

top 10 NES games

top 10 xbox games 

Gaming Legends (retrospective style show based around game series that have been around since atleast the 90's, and are still going today)

Prince Of Persia
GTA (formally Grandtheftathon)
Tomb Raider
Resident Evil
Sonic
Mario
Metal Gear
Final Fantasy
Zelda

Update 7/01/13

Well Onion's Game Corner is back, I hope you all had a good Christmas and such. The next Video should be uploaded by tomorrow morning. Prototype 2.

I've cancelled my Love Film subscription, because, I wasn't getting the games I wanted to review, and most of those video's were pretty uninteresting. I've decided to scrap, or atleast postpone for a very long time Darksiders II. That video just wasn't turning out all that well, I also didn't have enough time to finish it, before all the games had to be back. I also never got around to finishing the first game, so I should probably do that before going to the second one. Expect that, eventually.

Upcoming Videos

I've been trying to come up with a new series to go alongside the Retro, and Modern reviews. As I previously mentioned the magazine show, while I've not been able to get the support, and help I needed to produce this, as it was going to be a large task, that actually had a budget, I've decided to make a cut down version of this. I'll be commenting on gaming news, and quickly talking about games I've been playing but not bothered to do full reviews of. It should last around half an hour, I'll also try to think of other things to add to this. Each episode should last around half an hour, I still need to come up with a name for it though, which I've been unable to do yet. Any suggestions would be ideal.

Grandtheftathon, and Gaming legends is also still on the cards, although the latter may be incorporated in to Gaming Legends. I may also try to get Matt from Retro review to lend a hand with that one, but we'll see what happens. I feel I'm getting good enough at producing the videos now, to not make too much of a mess of this one, so we'll see in the coming months where this takes us

Upcoming Modern Reviews

Prototype 2

Of course this should be up by the time most people read this blog, but I found this quite an enjoyable game, and I guess the video really shows that.

Max Payne 3

This is going to be the video after. The footage is already recorded, and review basically written, although I still need to make changes to it. I actually finished this one on new years eve, exactly at 12am, How great was that? Another fantastic game from Rockstar, It should be online next week.

Upcoming Retro Reviews

Wonder Boy 3

The classic Master System gem, is still totally on the cards, this is also partly written/recorded (I've been busy) Expect this one in the next two weeks as well. I'll finish work on it once the Max Payne 3 video is done.

Vectrex Emulator

I'm sure anyone who follows Classic Game Room, or has seen the Ashens video knows what this obscure 80s console was. I stumbled across this over the holiday's. I'm yet undecided how best to approach this review. The Emulator is called ParaIVE. It also comes with most of the commercially available Vectex games (their wasn't many) So this is a really interesting one. Expect to see this video by February.

Onions Game Corner Website

Last but not least, I've also been partially looking in to making a full website for the channel, Hopefully this will get us more views. I also want to start writing proper articles on it, which I intended to do on this blog, but never really gotten around to them. I'd also like other people to help out with article writing, if you fancy your hand at writing game reviews, or any other ideas you may have, that may be interesting. submit them to thebigbadonion@yahoo.co.uk I'll publish any good ones, and give you credit etc. Of course, I've no idea when the website will actually be up and running, but it should be in the next 3 - 4 months depending on how busy I get. I may have to make videos less frequently in order to get it read. There's a lot of work in building a website.

Whew that's it. Thanks for reading, again I hope you had a great Christmas, and keep an eye on this blog for more upcoming video's, new, and eventually the website.

~Onion

Update 21/12/12

Well this is likely going to be the last update of the year, and also an announcement of the last video of the year,

Daze Before Christmas.

Since Christmas is almost upon us, and I was pretty bored, I decided to make quite a short review. Of course it's a christmas game, A side scrolling platformer, and you play as Santa, The video will be up, probably by tomorrow (22/12/12)

 Prototype 2

Darksiders 2

Of course, just because of the retro review partnership, On top of the reviews mentioned in the last video, I also have two other planned, I've not stopped reviewing newer games. These is likely the next video reviews, but won't be up until the new year. I've yet to play either of them, but I did enjoy the first prototype for a while, until later in the game. I spoil too much of my opinion of that, we'll wait until the review, to talk more on that. As for the original darksiders, I always struggled to really get in to it. 



Thanks for reading, and I hope you all have a great Christmas

-Onion

Desert Bus Simulator, 8 hour challenge.

Ok, I think this may amuse a lot of viewers, if any of you read this. But if you view this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTm4MqfARw4&lcor=1&feature=em-comment_reply_received&lch=email_reply&lc=SgJrIJZugCQJo-9_6nnV1M03bLFqN0hCGFNKGFGQjTA Stan Burdmans review of some crappy desert bus sim game, I drunkenly, and openly accepted his challenge to play this monstrosity for 8 bloody hours. This was certainly not my finest hour, I could have done better. ie not accepting this. But we shall see. Either way, expect a video when I'm done putting it off. What better way to spend Christmas eh? Expect cursing and anger, although its more than likely just going to be utter boredom soon. I'll have to think of a way of authenticating it though with the footage and such... To see how long I can actually put up with it :)

News 17/12/2012

It's been a while since I've written one of these. I have tonnes of news regarding the channel, and the future. So let's get right in to it.

Retrogamereviews.co.uk partnership 

I'd like to officially announce, a partnership with with Retro Game Reviews. They're a website dedicated to reviewing retro video games. Of course, name pretty much speaks for its self, and were looking to move in to doing video reviews.  I sent them an email, suggesting the partnership, and we partnered with them, to help supply video reviews for their vastly growing site. It helps everyone out really. Them with video reviews, us with a new audience... SO HURRAY FOR ALL!

NEW DESIGN 

I'm sure by now, you've notice that I've totally re-branded the channel. I'd like to thank Matt at Retro Game Reviews for providing the new logos, and further giving me inspiration to create other things out of them, such as the background. I'm not going to go as far as re-branding the old videos, that would be too much work, and I'd rather concentrate on the future.

Upcoming reviews

Today I finished the first video under the... newness It's The Story Of Thor. A game I talked abotu a while ago on the top 10 mega drive video. Check it out here.  http://youtu.be/g4NLKdIM0E4

I have a few retro reviews in mind at the moment. Including Resident Evil 2, Die Hard Trilogy, and a NES, or SNES Mario game. Of course this new partnership doesn't mean that we won't be reviewing newer games anymore. Prototype 2, and the Darkness 2 are both on the cards, and should be up within the next few weeks.

As always thanks for reading, and don't forget to checkout www.Retrogamereviews.co.uk

Rating System Explained

I've been getting a few messages of late from viewers asking why I give such low scores "this game doesn't deserve this blah blah blah"

Let me explain. I'm not IGN, Gamespot, or some large magazine, with advertising deals and sponsors to upset. I know gamers have become accustomed to games that are absolute crap, unless it scores atleast 7, and if it's atleast slightly decent scores at least 8., and actually worth buying (or its advertised all over the site scores 9, or 10.

But that's not how it works with me. I see less than 5 being a negative score, ie I didn't enjoy it. 5 being absolutely average, it wasn't a bad game at all (if you notice, quite a few games are scoring around here. above 5 being a positive score, if it got more than 5 I liked it quite a lot. Games that score 8 and 9 are very special games. To put it in to perspective  Grand Theft auto and the Elder Scrolls games are my two favourite game series. Skyrim, possibly the best game I've played would probably just about score 9. GTA San Andreas, and GTA 4, would also get around 8.5/9 So anything that's scoring 7, I like quite a lot. 8 is an absolutely stunning game to me.But I'm not starting the .2 and .3 shit I can't be bothered. )

It's unlikely any game will ever score 10. That would be a game that would have absolutely no negative aspects. Does such a game exist? No it doesn't.

So to sum it up

0/10 Likely won't happen, not many games have no redeeming features at all But any game that scores this. Even My Hero, which was my most hated game of all time, gets more than this... not much though.

1/10 Bloody awful, complete waste of plastic, ink, paper, and ware on your console/computer, and TV no one could possibly enjoy this apart from the clinically insane.

2/10 It might have some appeal to big fans of the genre, not many admittedly, but I absolutely couldn't stand it, and couldn't take it, I've defecated more enjoyable things than this MAKE IT STOP!

3/10 ehhh what happened!? Why did you do this to us!? You could have had something here, then screwed it all up, and instead ended up with dog vomit. IDIOTS!!!

4/10 It's playable... not enjoyable, probably a total borefest I didn't find much enjoyment from it, I probably stopped playing quite early on, but whatever, you might like it, if you like the genre.

5/10 Absolutely down the line average. These are the types of games that don't particularly do anything too badly, but likely have no originality whatsoever, probably a bit of a borefest at times, but not unpleasant, and perfectly playable.

6/10 not bad, pretty damn good in fact  not great, let's not get carried away here, but it's definitely a pretty. solid game. Just has a few niggles that stops it being great.

7/10 WOW! Now we're talking. Games that score 7 are great games, not quite genre defining, there's likely better games in the genre... not many, but if you like the genre you have to play it.

8/10 One word. AWESOME! PLAY IT!, WHY YOU NOT PLAYING IT? PLAY IT NOW!!!

9/10 How could such a game be possible, how could mere men have created this? SIR's You are not men... you must be gods!

10/10 Perfect, absolutely no faults, not even the tiniest of fault, nothing could ever improve on it. This is the pinnacle of gaming. It's a sad day for us all, because nothing will be better than this, anything else will seem hollow afterwards.

Anything that scores .5 is just simply better than the lower score, but not quite good enough for the higher one.

Thanks for reading. Hope I cleared that up a little

-Onion

Update 02/11/12

Well the Silent hill video is up, what a pile of crap that was, but nevermind moving on!

Upcoming videos

Assassins Creed Revelations.

This is one I've actually owned for ages, and couldn't really be bothered to play, I've been a little burned out on the series. But before I play Assassins Creed 3, I want to play this one, so this is probably going to be the next video

Uncharted 3

Of course, I've already mentioned this one in previous posts. I know I said, it was going to be the next modern game, but I had a change of plan. I've spent a small amount of time with this game so far, it's been quite impressive. I'll have a full lowdown soon enough

The Amazing Spider Man

This one, I like the look of a lot, not played it yet though, it also looks a lot of fun on move. Shame I don't have move. But we'll see just how amazing it is soon enough.

Classic Review

Before those two though, I'm likely going to make a classic review, I still have wonder boy 3 for the master system in mind for this. I used to adore that game as a child, and can't wait to get my teeth in to it again!

I'll also be working on movie reviews during this time, I have a few in mind to start making soon. But until I'm sure, I'll keep that information close to my chest.

Thanks for reading.

=Onion