Hi Peeps....

I just wanted to share this little nugget of gold that got me out of a super Crysis jam...If you struggling with lock ups at checkpoints and sick wait times to load your saved games try this: http://www.philoking.com/2008/02/26/crysis-crisis-fix-your-crashes-freezes-and-long-load-times/

Kiss Kiss,

Dawngrrl Gametart

11-18-2007

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If you could hear my thoughts during gameplay, it would sound something like this:

What the hell is wrong with everybody? Why is there a weird corpse chopping butcher in the middle of the game? Why are peoples arms missing, and why do all the baddies look like they've been soaked in acid? Ewww, that's gross, I don't want to reach in there. Why does the serial killer keep letting me live? Maybe he isn't the serial killer. Damn he's ugly.Who is the killer? What's that flashback? Is that me? Who is that? Am I the killer? Ohhhhh that would be exciting if I was the killer! Maybe I am the killer! Oh I'm not the killer, damn. Why does that guy have nails in his head? Oh he's the evil. Is this Hellraiser? Who am I? Where's the last damn bird carcass? What? I don't understand. That was really gross. What the **** is that ninja doing in the game? Who's the killer? The killer is killing killers. Am I a killer? No, I am not the killer, damn. I wanna be a Ninja.

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Kiss Kiss,

Dawngrrl Gametart

Here I am in the land of Oz, the world of the free, the Zion of Master Chiefs and I'm having withdrawls. I have yet totrip over a lobby with a 360, though I plan to correct that today.

I decided when I miss playing video games I can officially call myself a hobbyist (addict?),even though my world of warcraft is attached to my hip via my laptop. There is something to be said for regularly shooting baddies, like stress management or something.

Kiss Kiss

Dawngrrl Gametart

I love Halo3 and enjoyed every minute blasting my through the beatsies in the solo, and recently began it on legendary. Here I am a shooter master! I can snipe or mow my through fairly comfortable while finding perfect places on the grid to stealthly planmy moves. When I play coop, I spend more time coming back to time then I do living. *sigh*

There is a 360 in the lobby at my office along with a delightful selection of games, the most played of course is Halo 3. More often then not, you can find all 4 controllers occupied by one of the 10 regular Master Chiefs in the office, myself included. I have YET to win a match! In fact I super suck! First of all, when the screen is split into 4 I get so easily offtrack, misguided, or totally convinced thats me when looking at any other part of the screen (oppps!! I just fragged myself!) not to mention the sneaky bastards creeping up behind me and snarkin me with a grenade launcher to the temple. Owe!

Notes to self

* Do not stand still

* Run frompink bullets

*Don't throw grenades againts walls

*For the love, don't look at anyone elses screen!!!!

Kiss Kiss,

Dawngrrl Gametart

WOW! After being immersed entirely in graphically stellar titles such as Halo 3 and Bioshock, the demos for Jericho and Conan were more then disappointing.

Conan first: I won't be able to give you a very detailed description of the game because it only had the ability to garner my attention for about 4 minutes of actually play time. The graphics are terrible: Conan, an embarassing insult to Arnie,looks like a 90 year old and the whole feel has more of a bad graphic novel experiment tone to it.

Even if the game play could compensate for the choppy miscolored visuals, (which they can't) the audio and story (at least in the demo) are lacking in the ability to get you interested enough to play anyway.

I was excited to see this one because I had heard previous attempts at bringing the epic Conan story to game time had been well done and ultimately successful.

Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed.

Cliver Barkers Jericho: Clive Barker is everyone's horror maker hero, so I have to say shame onMercurySteam for themuted representation of such imagination.

The story is super playable;a mysterious reappearance of a lost city in a remote desert, a form of evil that goes right back to the dawn of days, a Special Forces squad trained in both conventional warfare and the arcane arts, their mission: hunt down and destroy the evil that lurks at the heart of the city before it destroys humanity.

Again, the graphics are muted and lacking in background detail that really puts a game in your face. The character swapping while a great game play option, is too much too soon and confusing at best. It appears to be very hack and slash, chaotic in movement and certainly not an example of what the PS3 can do graphically. If your rushing to the store on the 23rd to get it, I hope for the sake of your 60 bucks that the demo was ultra dumbed down!

Let me know if you think these guys deserve a second chance.

Kiss Kiss,

Dawngrrl Gametart