Music, gaming, comedy, and friends (and family) my four main hobbies.

• 4Nov 08

  Computers need split screen gaming or multiplayer on one console.

  The computer as a gaming platform has the ability to grow unbelievably. I wish Microsoft would make the 720 a program where developers can't pass certain technical specs. If you want that stamp of mainstream approval (the 720 stamp), you'd have to abide by the specs of the system.

  They would then have to address one other problem, multiplayer gaming on one console. Which is really the only thing keeping me from becoming strictly a computer gamer. I've got the USB ports, technical specs, broadband, good sound output, etc. on my computer that would make it comparable to a 360 yet it's all solo gaming or one person per computer.

  It's a farfetched idea, I guess, but how simple would it be to go to the store and buy a 720 game or better yet buy them online on a new downloadable service Microsoft could make. Similar to XBLA.

  To me that makes too much sense. If I could get rid of all of this clutter with TVs, game consoles, DVD/CD cases, and maybe even books I would. Compile it all onto my computer. That's an ideal world for me. But it'd be an ideal world for entertainment as well: One device that gives you access to everything electronic besides light bulbs. (monitors do provide a light source.)

  BTW I pre-ordered Mirror's Edge last week after playing the demo. Since then I've played through the demo probably 5 more times, watched it another 5 times, and tried setting high scores on the time trials for hours. The concept is really good for everyone.

  I also bought EXIT for XBLA and it seems wicked cool though I haven't gotten far enough into it yet to really say.

  Wishlist:

  BUY:

  -Beautiful Katamari

  -Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix

  I don't really care to look into Gears of War 2 anymore. But I will play it at friends' houses.

  • Posted Nov 4, 2008 7:05 am PT
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• 22Oct 08

  Got Portal and it's tight.

  I hadn't played it previously just seen videos. the textures are a little amateurish but the lighting effects and art style even that out. The game has great quirkiness to it too. "I don't blame you." Says a turret-bot in a polite computer generated voice after you destroy it, even though it was just shooting a machine gun at you.

  The game really messes with your sense of reality in some ways though. After I finish playing it I think about portals in my room and stuff flying around through them, just because I'm so dizzy. The optical illusions in this game justify buying it but there's a great, simple game with solid personality to it.

  Christmas wishlist:

  BUY:

  -Super Street Fighter 2 HD Remix

  -Beautiful Katamari

  RENT:

  -Mirror's Edge

  -Far Cry 2

  NEXT YEAR:

  -Street Fighter 4

  Currently playing:

  -Schizoid

  -Portal

  -Halo 3

  -Smash Brawl

  -Halo 3 (gotta go back through the campaign)

  -F-Zero GX

  -Killer 7

  -Mega Man 9

  -Mario Galaxy

  -Madden 09

  -World of Goo

  • Posted Oct 22, 2008 11:56 pm PT
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• 18Oct 08

  Console manufacturer's simple solution to the world

  I have an Xbox 360 and a MacBookPro and a 19" LCD HDTV (I live in a dorm room). I'm totally for downsizing or cutting down on all the gadgets. My next phone will be an iPhone for example (or whatever the best all in one phone is at that point) because I'm putting sprinkles that are from the garbage in my pocket with all of these extra things. An iPod, a phone, even books... I would love to have all my notes from class on one device that also carries my music, videos, phone and contacts, has internet capability, and plays games. I'll be out of school before schools adopt that idea but it'd save space.

  So that's my whole life compacting and simplifying I do literally nothing else. WHY NOT MAKE AN XBOX LAPTOP THAT RUNS VISTA AND FUNCTIONS AS A REGULAR COMPUTER PLUS CAN FUNCTION LIKE A 360? That'd simplify Microsoft's business all into one machine that'd play through a TV when put in a docking station or it'd play the same in laptop mode. I guess there could be the more kid friendly version that's the machine the way it is now that parents could buy for them for Christmas wateves. But there, that's 2 models and Microsoft's entire business. They should mandate all the Dell and HP and whatever other companies that make systems be capable of playing 360 games.

  I understand tons of regulations would have to be set in place but this is just my ideal world I guess. I have one portable device and one home/travel system that carry everything. Add on that everything should be digitally downloaded and it'd be a perfect world for me where games are cheap because of the material and shipping cost being erased and I wouldn't have to keep extra crap around my house that can get lost.

  I look around me in my dorm and I wish all my books, games, dvds, and everything else was condensed into this computer I'm typing from.

  • Posted Oct 18, 2008 10:47 pm PT
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