I’ve had some seriously bad luck recently with games. This weekend, after getting thoroughly trounced by a revenant in Dragon Age for the sixth time, I decided to fire up the Playstation, and I played some Trine. That platinum trophy has been seeming more and more attainable. I managed to get every experience vial in the game, and I eventually got past the Tower of Sarek without dying once before I realized that I needed to do it on “very hard” in order to net the trophy.

That’s okay. I can deal with that. But on Sunday when I went to start playing Trine, my Playstation threw a 8001050F error, and Trine wouldn’t start. Looking it up online, I found that the error code meant that I won’t be able to connect to PSN (which I couldn’t) and that I very likely would have to send in the console for repair. It wasn’t until today that I’m not the only one having this problem. Sony says that they’ll have a fix soon. Looks like I’m not playing Trine tonight. Hope I don’t lose the four trophies that I never synced.

So after that on Sunday, I decided to try a disc-based game and was pleased to find that Brutal Legend still worked. But I’ve decided that the only good part of the game is the part that appeared in the demo. After you meet up with Metalheade and start playing the RTS portion of the game, the gameplay is just crap. I’m really disappointed, because I love the game’s style and humor. If I could get past the poor gameplay, I’m sure I’d enjoy it. Too bad. I’ve listed my copy of Brutal Legend on EBay.

After the disappointments with the Playstation, I jumped on the PC to play Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. It’s a lot more polished than Butcher Bay, although I can’t yet speak for the story as I’m only about an hour into the game. But while transitioning between areas, the game froze and crashed. I didn’t try to start it back up after that, but I should’ve at least tried, because now I’m nervous that my cheap Direct2Drive copy of the game is a lemon.

I guess it’s back to Dragon Age for me. It’s my second playthrough and I’m seeing how badly I can screw up the world. I’ve already aided in destroying three of the game’s main areas, which I can only imagine will vastly change the game’s storyline. I can’t wait to see where things go from here.