• 19Jul 07

  Let's Play Together!

  The conversion is almost complete. Yesterday night my girlfriend went out with her co-workers, for some reason they all wanted to play the Wii at a friends house as it was getting late and they did not want to spend an exorbant amount of money. Things started off slow with boxing, then we switched to bowling, tennis, and finally golf. This was all fine until I swapped the game for Brain Age. It just turned into mayhem once we split up into teams and started the mind sprint. It was hilarious as we all started to scream out names, numbers, where to point and to try to mess up the other team by screaming out the wrong answer. It was a riot and I would recommend this game to anyone who are on an outing. A little bit about the group of players, they are in their late 20s, most of them do not play video games but had a blast. There were several females and they were the ones screaming the most. I've never seen so many people scream so loud at the tv screen if there wasn't a sporting event. All in all a good time and more importantly showed my girlfriend that games can be an interactive medium even with non-gamers. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy fragging my roommates on xboxlive and split screen, but this was a great investment in trying to get my girlfriend to play. Now if there are first person shooters....I'm looking at you Wii Zapper with DUCK HUNT!!!
  • Posted Jul 19, 2007 1:13 pm PT
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• 12Jul 07

  Exciting Times

  Its E3 and everyone is busy in the game industry, I've been having a blast checking everything out on the forums, previews, news and events. This is a great time to be looking into the industry. The only weird thing is that most of the games look so similar, Haze, Infamous, Call of Duty 4, Stronghold and many others, most FPS look really similar. I was more interested in Mass Effect since it seems to have a decent story line. I miss the games that had an intricate story line and besides the gameplay, the plot development was driving me to finish the game. That's why I love the Max Payne series, it was definitely plot driven with great gameplay mechanics. I'm also totally excited about the casual games, I'm trying to convert my girlfriend and I'm slowly winning the fight with the Wii but I need more titles like Wii Academy and Sports. I want to get a DS but she said she won't touch the thing and thinks Nintendo dogs is just plain weird but really cute. Oh well, hopefully there will be a ton of casual games coming out for the Wii. I'm especially excited about the word and spelling one, I'm not sure if they'll have a Wii version but I know the DS version might convince my girlfriend into playing it.

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  • Posted Jul 12, 2007 12:59 pm PT
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• 6Jul 07

  Procrastination.

  Why do we procrastinate? I have a freaking midterm tomorrow and all I can think about is how to waste time. Everyone does this, do we work better under pressure cursing ourselves under our breathe as we frantically swill red bull and other energy drinks down our throats? I dunno, but I always procrastinate regardless of how much I studied before hand. With the internet, it just gets worst as Youtube can just suck away an endless amount of time. Its not like we don't know what's going on, we constantly look at the clock and count down the hours reminding ourselves we have to study, but we don't. My guess is because we're a bunch of self loathing students who doesn't want to acknowledge that we're not smart enough and subconsciously this makes us feel better if we do bad. Well, no more, I will start studying, NOW....well maybe after checking the news on-line. Procrastination prevails, as always.

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  • Posted Jul 6, 2007 3:58 pm PT
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