That reminds me, I need to get batteries for my lazer pointer, Henry's getting fat. Shiba could use the workout as well.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow E3 2009 Trailer
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow E3 2009 Trailer
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This is only one of the many reasons I wish I was at E3. It's kinda sad seeing it switch from Kogi Igarashi to Kojima, but it looks like Kojima is going to present a great Castlevania game. I mean come on, they have Patrick Stewart! Anything with Patrick Stewarts smooth voice in it should sell well, in my opinion.
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This is only one of the many reasons I wish I was at E3. It's kinda sad seeing it switch from Kogi Igarashi to Kojima, but it looks like Kojima is going to present a great Castlevania game. I mean come on, they have Patrick Stewart! Anything with Patrick Stewarts smooth voice in it should sell well, in my opinion.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Game Review
I just got done playing the X-Men Origins: Wolverine demo on my Playstation 3, and I thought I would write a review about it. First off, I really enjoyed the demo. It had a lot of meat to it, unlike other demos (cough, cough, Marvel Vs. Capcom 2). The in game cinematics looked good. Thought it was kind of weird how the game started in the not so distant future, but whatever. After watching the first cinematic, then looking at the in-game menu, I started hacking and slashing my way through typical machete wielding, gun totting mercenaries. After a while, I felt like I was playing God of War, which in any way isn't bad. After a while, I come up to a scene where Logan lunges onto a helicopter, pulls the pilot out, and shoves him up into the propeller so just his head gets sliced. I was kind of amazed at that, I didn't think that their would be so much gore in this game, seeing as the movie is PG-13. The game moves on a linear path, which is kind of upsetting. I tried to jump onto a cliff to look around, but couldn't because of an invisible wall. I'm not to crazy about invisible walls, especially if they implement a path finding mechanic, such as feral mode. When you activate feral mode, your vision changes and you see a blue sort of wave pointing you in the direction of the next check point. Why do I need something to point me in the direction of the next checkpoint, if the path is linear to begin with?
A little later I came across a machete wielding man who was on fire, sort of. He kind of had lava skin, so he was a machete wielding lava man...I guess. Anyways, that character is tougher to beat the the regular bad guys, but all I did was lung and hit heavy attack until he died. A little later Logan has to fight his way across a rope bridge with enemies coming at him both ways, and enemies cutting the ropes to the bridge behind him. So, you plow on ahead and the bridge breaks, and Logan holds on to the bridge, and that bridge comes to rest on the face of a cliff. So you begin to wall climb, hacking up at enemies that held on, or grabbing and throwing them off the side of the cliff. After that, you kill some more bad guys, grab a Jeep and send it crashing through a big King Kong like gate, kill some more bad guys, learn about berserk rage orbs, then see a gigantic lava creature come storming through another huge gate, and then the demo ends.
Hmm...maybe I'm bad and writing reviews. Oh well, guess I need to practice my writing skills. I liked the demo, it was fun, but not really original. I guess it's tough to say that because what is original these days. Every new game, or new movie, or new comic book takes various bits from other games, movies, comics or what have you that inspire the creators and writers who make whatever that new thing is. X-Men Origins: Wolverine may feel like God of War, but I don't think I'd want it any other way. That type of fighting mechanic just works. I'll probably rent this game, maybe buy it. If I had to rate it, I'd say a solid B.
If anyone reads this, leave me some comments and tell me what you think.
A little later I came across a machete wielding man who was on fire, sort of. He kind of had lava skin, so he was a machete wielding lava man...I guess. Anyways, that character is tougher to beat the the regular bad guys, but all I did was lung and hit heavy attack until he died. A little later Logan has to fight his way across a rope bridge with enemies coming at him both ways, and enemies cutting the ropes to the bridge behind him. So, you plow on ahead and the bridge breaks, and Logan holds on to the bridge, and that bridge comes to rest on the face of a cliff. So you begin to wall climb, hacking up at enemies that held on, or grabbing and throwing them off the side of the cliff. After that, you kill some more bad guys, grab a Jeep and send it crashing through a big King Kong like gate, kill some more bad guys, learn about berserk rage orbs, then see a gigantic lava creature come storming through another huge gate, and then the demo ends.
Hmm...maybe I'm bad and writing reviews. Oh well, guess I need to practice my writing skills. I liked the demo, it was fun, but not really original. I guess it's tough to say that because what is original these days. Every new game, or new movie, or new comic book takes various bits from other games, movies, comics or what have you that inspire the creators and writers who make whatever that new thing is. X-Men Origins: Wolverine may feel like God of War, but I don't think I'd want it any other way. That type of fighting mechanic just works. I'll probably rent this game, maybe buy it. If I had to rate it, I'd say a solid B.
If anyone reads this, leave me some comments and tell me what you think.
Friday, May 1, 2009
My feet just got cold...
I think hell itself just froze over. My Mom and I where just texting. What is this world coming too? A couple of weekends ago I talked my sister into upgrading her ancient Motorola Razr to a BlackBerry Storm. Since Verizon was having a buy one, get one free deal on Blackberry's, my Mom got the other Storm that came with the deal. She's wanted a Blackberry for a while, lord knows why. She can't even operate XP or Vista, and she now has a Blackberry Storm. I swear to god, if she buys a mac book, I'm done (she wants one because the commercials are cool...seriously). I tried teaching her some things, but I can't keep my cool long enough to get anything through to her, so I give up. Some guy where she works has a Storm and has been teaching her how to use it. You know what I have to say to that, thank god! More power to you man! Now we'll see how long she uses it until she gives up on it, like the desktop, the laptop, the Wii, and countless other electronics my parents buy. It's kinda nice sometimes actually, because what they don't use sometimes trickles down to me. Now if I can only talk them into buying a 360 Elite...
Speaking of Microsoft, they have a new Elite bundle coming out (should be out now actually). I'm sure you've read about it. They're calling it the Game of the Year bundle. It's an Elite with Halo 3, and Fable 2.
I planned on picking it up this month some how, but think I'll have to wait. Microsoft says that their will be a limited supply of these bundles, so I have to figure out quick how to get $400 for the bundle, and an extra $60 for Left 4 Dead. I've really been wanting to play that game, and with my low end PC, I can't get the PC version. I'd rather play a game like that on console anyways. Just sucks that Valve hates the Playstation 3. Oh well, there are other reasons I want a 360 anyways. The 2 games bundled with it are a couple, streaming Netflix would be nice, and just having the other major console would be nice. I'd like to be well diverse in my gaming.
I picked up Motor Storm: Pacific Rift today. I turned in my Best Buy awards to get it. It was either that, or Killzone 2, but I'm still trying to get through the 6 FPS' I already have. The arcade racer feeling of Motor Storm I think is a nice change from the other racing games I have. I haven't really found anything I don't like about it yet, but after racing through 2 tracks, I found myself wanting to put in Burnout Paradise. I don't really think it has anything to do with Motor Storm, it's just I'm having fun with Burnout. I got my Burnout license a couple of nights ago, and I am 70 wins away from getting my Elite license. I just want to keep playing, unlocking the 15 cars left in the game, and getting enough wins to get that final license. After all that is said and done, it's on to the expansion packs. The cops and robbers expansion just came out yesterday, and Big Surf Island should be coming soon.
I haven't really been playing anything else. I play Little Big Planet, and GH:Metallica sometimes on my PS3, Professor Layton (the first one), and Pokemon Diamond on my DSi, Scott took the Wii, and my PSP hasn't really been touched. Besides playing some games, I've still been looking for a good job, and I've enrolled at my local community college to start my Bachelors in Computer Science up again. We'll see how that goes, more on that later. I have to find a new place to live soon. Moving means I also have to buy a new TV and surround sound system, since Scott will be taking his. Hey, once you have experienced playing games on a 37" LCD with surround sound, you can't go back.
Speaking of Microsoft, they have a new Elite bundle coming out (should be out now actually). I'm sure you've read about it. They're calling it the Game of the Year bundle. It's an Elite with Halo 3, and Fable 2.
I planned on picking it up this month some how, but think I'll have to wait. Microsoft says that their will be a limited supply of these bundles, so I have to figure out quick how to get $400 for the bundle, and an extra $60 for Left 4 Dead. I've really been wanting to play that game, and with my low end PC, I can't get the PC version. I'd rather play a game like that on console anyways. Just sucks that Valve hates the Playstation 3. Oh well, there are other reasons I want a 360 anyways. The 2 games bundled with it are a couple, streaming Netflix would be nice, and just having the other major console would be nice. I'd like to be well diverse in my gaming.
I picked up Motor Storm: Pacific Rift today. I turned in my Best Buy awards to get it. It was either that, or Killzone 2, but I'm still trying to get through the 6 FPS' I already have. The arcade racer feeling of Motor Storm I think is a nice change from the other racing games I have. I haven't really found anything I don't like about it yet, but after racing through 2 tracks, I found myself wanting to put in Burnout Paradise. I don't really think it has anything to do with Motor Storm, it's just I'm having fun with Burnout. I got my Burnout license a couple of nights ago, and I am 70 wins away from getting my Elite license. I just want to keep playing, unlocking the 15 cars left in the game, and getting enough wins to get that final license. After all that is said and done, it's on to the expansion packs. The cops and robbers expansion just came out yesterday, and Big Surf Island should be coming soon.
I haven't really been playing anything else. I play Little Big Planet, and GH:Metallica sometimes on my PS3, Professor Layton (the first one), and Pokemon Diamond on my DSi, Scott took the Wii, and my PSP hasn't really been touched. Besides playing some games, I've still been looking for a good job, and I've enrolled at my local community college to start my Bachelors in Computer Science up again. We'll see how that goes, more on that later. I have to find a new place to live soon. Moving means I also have to buy a new TV and surround sound system, since Scott will be taking his. Hey, once you have experienced playing games on a 37" LCD with surround sound, you can't go back.
Friday, April 10, 2009
New things, old things
So it's now week 4 of being unemployed. Awesome. Well, at least I'm getting unemployment. Wait, no, I'm not yet. I did call and manage to get through to someone who isn't a computer yesterday and discovered that I had some old claim open, and that's why I wasn't getting paid. So I got that cleared up, but did not get paid today, which I was hoping I would. Here's hoping for Monday.
I beat the new Prince of Persia last week on my PS3. I really liked the game, it had a good story and was sometimes relaxing to play. What I didn't like about the game, where some of the boss battles. Not the whole of the boss battles, some where really interesting, but the quick time button press actions of some of the boss battles ala God of War. Man, did some of those stupid quick time events piss me off. No matter how many times I did them, and memorized the pattern, I could never press the button fast enough. That, or the game was being a jew and just wanted to piss me off. All in all, loved the story, loved the art form, the acrobatics where fun to pull off (when you could get it lined up), and some of the fighting was fun. I wish I could have found more combos threw the game, but mainly stuck with one combo that seamed to work. But now I don't know what to do with the game, it really has no replay value, unless I want to spend $10 for the DLC epilogue. Problem with that is I heard it wasn't that great. You're still fighting the same boss over and over, and the quick time events are even harder, like taking a shotgun to the nut sack vs. a kick to the dick that was in the disc based game. Sorry, but I don't think I'm going to pay $10 for something that is going to frustrate and piss me off. Next up to finish, Dead Space.
Well, hopefully I'll play some Dead Space, if Guitar Hero:Metallica doesn't get in the way. Picked it up right when it came out, been having a lot of fun with it, besides the fact that my GH:WT guitar sucks. Some days it will act up, and some days it won't. When I strum down on the strum bar, it will sometimes register it as 2 strums and screw me up, especially on long notes. I've changed the batteries and re-synced it, but I found that if I strum up it doesn't do it. It's just unnatural for me to strum up, so I have to think about it, and then I miss notes. I was using my GH3 guitar for a little while, but I never like the way that guitar felt, so I stopped using it. The set list in the game is great, but short, and no Iron Maiden. Also, I don't see why they couldn't have put whole albums in the set list vs. just a couple tracks from their albums. I'd love to just have a library of Metallica albums to play through. That would be cool.
I got sick of my HTC Touch Pro, so I upgraded to a Blackberry Curve 8330.
Man, I need to get a better camera. Anyways, I never got what everyone saw in having a Blackberry. I just didn't get it, until I got one. Love it. It's light weight, nice size, nice resolution screen, the keys feel nice to type with, and the Blackberry OS is a lot faster than a Windows Mobile OS. There are some things I miss about not having a Windows OS, but there are also things I don't miss about it. I can't wait until Sprint gets the Blackberry Bold.
Tomorrow I'm heading to Lowell to fix my sisters boyfriends car. Should be fun, busted tie-rod (hopefully outer) on his Cougar. Should be like a mini-vacation. Get me out of Lansing for the night. Then Sunday on to Ionia for Easter Dinner. Should be fun.
I'm going to try for 1 to 2 blogs a week, since I have nothing better to do. I know I've said that before, but I'm gonna try and stick to it.
I beat the new Prince of Persia last week on my PS3. I really liked the game, it had a good story and was sometimes relaxing to play. What I didn't like about the game, where some of the boss battles. Not the whole of the boss battles, some where really interesting, but the quick time button press actions of some of the boss battles ala God of War. Man, did some of those stupid quick time events piss me off. No matter how many times I did them, and memorized the pattern, I could never press the button fast enough. That, or the game was being a jew and just wanted to piss me off. All in all, loved the story, loved the art form, the acrobatics where fun to pull off (when you could get it lined up), and some of the fighting was fun. I wish I could have found more combos threw the game, but mainly stuck with one combo that seamed to work. But now I don't know what to do with the game, it really has no replay value, unless I want to spend $10 for the DLC epilogue. Problem with that is I heard it wasn't that great. You're still fighting the same boss over and over, and the quick time events are even harder, like taking a shotgun to the nut sack vs. a kick to the dick that was in the disc based game. Sorry, but I don't think I'm going to pay $10 for something that is going to frustrate and piss me off. Next up to finish, Dead Space.
Well, hopefully I'll play some Dead Space, if Guitar Hero:Metallica doesn't get in the way. Picked it up right when it came out, been having a lot of fun with it, besides the fact that my GH:WT guitar sucks. Some days it will act up, and some days it won't. When I strum down on the strum bar, it will sometimes register it as 2 strums and screw me up, especially on long notes. I've changed the batteries and re-synced it, but I found that if I strum up it doesn't do it. It's just unnatural for me to strum up, so I have to think about it, and then I miss notes. I was using my GH3 guitar for a little while, but I never like the way that guitar felt, so I stopped using it. The set list in the game is great, but short, and no Iron Maiden. Also, I don't see why they couldn't have put whole albums in the set list vs. just a couple tracks from their albums. I'd love to just have a library of Metallica albums to play through. That would be cool.
I got sick of my HTC Touch Pro, so I upgraded to a Blackberry Curve 8330.
Man, I need to get a better camera. Anyways, I never got what everyone saw in having a Blackberry. I just didn't get it, until I got one. Love it. It's light weight, nice size, nice resolution screen, the keys feel nice to type with, and the Blackberry OS is a lot faster than a Windows Mobile OS. There are some things I miss about not having a Windows OS, but there are also things I don't miss about it. I can't wait until Sprint gets the Blackberry Bold.
Tomorrow I'm heading to Lowell to fix my sisters boyfriends car. Should be fun, busted tie-rod (hopefully outer) on his Cougar. Should be like a mini-vacation. Get me out of Lansing for the night. Then Sunday on to Ionia for Easter Dinner. Should be fun.
I'm going to try for 1 to 2 blogs a week, since I have nothing better to do. I know I've said that before, but I'm gonna try and stick to it.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Maybe it's because of Friday the 13th???
I'm at work right now looking around wondering what I'm going to do with myself after tomorrow. I'm still sick, so I will probably just rest and try and get better. Almost wish I wouldn't have called in sick yesterday and left early on Tuesday because I didn't feel good, but I don't think I could have sat at my desk feeling the way I did. I still feel like crap, light headed and nauseated, but it's not as bad as it was. What a crappy week. Do you want to know why?
Monday, my co-worker and friend Eric and I where called into a conference room with out boss'. I figured something was up. They told us what we pretty much already knew. There's no work anymore in our department, we have to let you guys go since you're contract. It's nothing personal, or it has nothing to do with your work performance, it's just business.
They're letting us finish off the week, which is good, but I've already lost time so it kinda sucks because I can't make it up. So, after Friday I'll be unemployed, filling for unemployment, and looking for a good job. I've been looking on careerbuilder.com, and found a couple of jobs that may be good, but I'm not certain. Figures this would happen after I finally get caught up on all of my bills.
Ok, so besides my crappy week this week, last Friday I went and saw Watchmen at the IMAX with my friends Drew and Kyle. So, to start off, $12.50 is WAY to much money for 1 ticket just to see a movie in a theatre with a huge screen and cramped seating. About an hour into the movie, I had to pee, and I was sitting in the very back row in the very center. I'd say at least 30 pe0ple to a row, so yeah...I stepped on 15 peoples feet just to get out and pee. They didn't like that. The movie was great, until the ending. I don't understand why you stay true to the book for mainly the whole movie, except for the ending, which was the best part of the book. Other than that, I really liked the movie, but still like the book better. The acting was good, the fight scenes where great, and even though it was 2 1/2 hours long, it flowed well together. The sex scene between Night Owl and Silk Spectre was awkward though, more awkward that seeing Dr. Manhattan's wang through the whole movie, but still a very good movie.
Well, that's about it for right now. I'll keep everyone posted about what's going on. Maybe now I'll be able to write about what I'm playing, what anime/manga I'm watching/reading, or what movies I'm watching. I just got Zack and Miri Make a Porno in from Netflix, so that should be fun. I've had The Strangers sitting on my table for about a month. Everyone says I'm going to hate it, but I still want to watch it. Anyways, I'll write some more later.
Monday, my co-worker and friend Eric and I where called into a conference room with out boss'. I figured something was up. They told us what we pretty much already knew. There's no work anymore in our department, we have to let you guys go since you're contract. It's nothing personal, or it has nothing to do with your work performance, it's just business.
They're letting us finish off the week, which is good, but I've already lost time so it kinda sucks because I can't make it up. So, after Friday I'll be unemployed, filling for unemployment, and looking for a good job. I've been looking on careerbuilder.com, and found a couple of jobs that may be good, but I'm not certain. Figures this would happen after I finally get caught up on all of my bills.
Ok, so besides my crappy week this week, last Friday I went and saw Watchmen at the IMAX with my friends Drew and Kyle. So, to start off, $12.50 is WAY to much money for 1 ticket just to see a movie in a theatre with a huge screen and cramped seating. About an hour into the movie, I had to pee, and I was sitting in the very back row in the very center. I'd say at least 30 pe0ple to a row, so yeah...I stepped on 15 peoples feet just to get out and pee. They didn't like that. The movie was great, until the ending. I don't understand why you stay true to the book for mainly the whole movie, except for the ending, which was the best part of the book. Other than that, I really liked the movie, but still like the book better. The acting was good, the fight scenes where great, and even though it was 2 1/2 hours long, it flowed well together. The sex scene between Night Owl and Silk Spectre was awkward though, more awkward that seeing Dr. Manhattan's wang through the whole movie, but still a very good movie.
Well, that's about it for right now. I'll keep everyone posted about what's going on. Maybe now I'll be able to write about what I'm playing, what anime/manga I'm watching/reading, or what movies I'm watching. I just got Zack and Miri Make a Porno in from Netflix, so that should be fun. I've had The Strangers sitting on my table for about a month. Everyone says I'm going to hate it, but I still want to watch it. Anyways, I'll write some more later.
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