• 16Dec 09

  Broken games and Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

  What did you get on Black Friday? I heard about Left 4 Dead 2 being $35 at Best Buy. I was even more happy when Amazon had it for the same price, free shipping and no tax. I planned on not getting L4D2 since it was going to be more of the same and more like an epansion. I enjoyed the first one, but I had some issues with the way Valve treated the 360 gamers. But for $35 I would give it a shot. I should have saved my money. It was like they sat around on chairs made from the piles of money from the first game thinking about what made the game fun. Then they took those ideas and threw them out of the game. Online is still broken. I love laggy games when only 2 people are playing CPU characters. Gears 2 had some lag issues on Horde Mode, but at least the game looked good. Hey lets gather 13 cans of gas to get out of the Mall where they just so happened to leave 13 cans of gas laying around. Seriously, the experience was just rather bad and I didn't enjoy myself one bit. I am glad I am getting $37.50 trade-in credit for it from Amazon.

  Call of Duty:Modern Warfare 2(For the rest of this article and beyond it will be called CoD4 2) is no doubt a good game. When it works. I am already a level 70 and have put a ton of time into the game. But the match making is still borked. The Javlin glitch is fixed, or so I hear. But now we have unlimited ammo Ground War matches. It takes forever to get in a match some night and don't ever plan on playing with 6 people and not get dropped during lobby merges. I love this game, but it is broken. Amozarte you are awesome!

  Why do we put up with games like this? In the case of CoD4 2 for me is that when it works, it usually is a lot of fun. I have no excuse for L4D2. That was just a terrible game in my mind.

  I got the new Legend of Zelda for the DS. Yes I know it is more of the same. But the puzzles are different and I like tooling around in the train a lot more than the boat. There is something so charming about going around Hyrule and blowing that whistle and taking people all over the map and finding those rabbits. The music is great and the HUD clean up is a vast improvement. I would say the best update is that Link will roll with a quick double tap than the broken draw a circle from Phantom Hourglass. I am almost done with the first four dungeons and have only scratched the surface with all the sidequests. It is up there with Mario and Luigi 3 for game of the year for me. Not handheld, but all consoles.

  Great year for gaming. Borderlands is one of the best 360 games I have played this year.

  • Posted Dec 16, 2009 9:02 pm PT
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• 6Sep 09

  Blast from the past!

  This weekend I went across Michigan and visited the beautiful St. Joesph and Benton Harbor area. My aunt and uncle live there and have for many years. This was the first time my wife and them have been around each other and it no been a family emergency. It was nice. We played a board game called Stop Thief. it is old than I am and tons of fun. Basically you and up to three others chase around a computer controlled invisible thief.

  I got my replica Lancer back from my uncle. He made a gun rack for it. It is awesome and I will be posting pictures hopefully soon. He painted a couple pieces of wood black and then bloodied it all up and bolted an arm underneath where the gun mounts. It is slick.

  He also gave me an Atari 2600 and 27 games. Sadly, no paddles or joysticks. I am on the hunt for some cheap controllers. This is a personal item I have wanted for many years. My uncle and late father used to play it all the time. Now with my dad gone, it is one more piece to hold on to him with. I don't care if this thing doesn't even work. The memories it brings back are priceless.

  Anyway, I had an awesome weekend. Tons of fun all around.

  • Posted Sep 6, 2009 6:48 pm PT
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• 22Aug 09

  Chicago again.

  The wife and I are back in Chicago. We are about to leave for Blue Man Group. It is so much fun here. I don't want to go back home Wednesday. Tomorrow is the boat tour of the book we read. That should be neat. For breakfast tomorrow, I am going to bacon my sausage. Thank you Simpsons for the awesome idea!

  • Posted Aug 22, 2009 3:44 pm PT
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