My thoughts, My gaming.

• 21Dec 09

  I'm about to get a re-fill on new games to play

  I happened to notice a few days ago that a lot of the Xbox 360 games on my shelf I've already played, beat, and conquered. In other words, I'm really looking forward to Christmas so I can get some new games. I know for a fact that I'm getting COD: MW2. The rest of games I'm getting are up in the air. Just have to wait and see. I just can't wait. I feel like a little kid again. I'll find out Friday what games I get and if I can remember (or find the time, lol) I'll post my new games on here. Oh, and when I say new games, I don't mean like brand new games. My family is a bunch of cheapskates just like me, so they usually buy me used games from Gamestop. So that means I'll be getting some games that are at least a year old, if not older.

  The next part is all about Fallout 3. If you're not interested, just skip all the stuff between the bold text.

  Fallout 3 is finally complete. I beat all of main story, all the side quests, and all of the expansion packs. If I had to put in order my opinion of each expansion pack, from best to worst, here's what it would be:

  -Point Lookout - It definitely had a creepy tone to it. The environment was awesome. Quite a bit of places to see in Point Lookout too. The imbred enemies were scary as sin and just plain ugly; One of them looked like Sloth from Goonies, LOL. The story itself was entertaining. Best part was seeing the mansion blow up.

  -Mothership Zeta - I thoroughly enjoyed this one. I know that many thought this was the worst. I can understand how many didn't like the close-quarters fighting, limited V.A.T.S. usage, and the lack of story. However, I was able to look right past these flaws and found the mystery to it all to be pretty cool. The combat did have it's frustrating moments, but it also made me really feel like I was a fugitive on this space ship; i.e. I was constantly on the run because my V.A.T.S. would be drained and I was outnumbered 5 to 1. Having the space battle with the other ship at the end of this was awesome.

  -Broken Steel - Awesome story, but some forgettable parts to the overall quest. It's cool that it continues the main story even further. The last mission is awesome, feels like a true battle. The ending is pretty sweet too.

  -The Pitt - Don't get me wrong, I liked the Pitt, but it had some dull moments (like searching for those stupid ingots). While the story might have had a lot more involvement than M. Zeta, it was just too bland for me. I mean, I felt like I was playing the Sims: Slave Edition for a while. And the fights down in the pit? Com'on, totally lame and boring. However, once of the coolest weapons from the game is only available in the Pitt: The Man Eater. 'Nuff said.

  -Operation Anchorage - YAWN! The story was completely boring. Did not really enjoy much of this one. Felt more like a chore. No challenge what-so-ever. The freaking health stations were just too close together, taking away any sense of "need to stay alive" mentality. I did like playing sniper in the first part of this expansion. Plus, blowing up the tank deeper into the quests was pretty cool. But that tank was too easy. The battle against it was so simplistic. Would've been much cooler had they either given me a tank, or if the tank would've been scripted to get me pinned down and then I had to take it out somehow. But when I can easily just hide behind a wall when the tank starts shooting at me, wait for it to stop shooting, and then peek around long enough to either toss a 'nade or shoot it with rockets just made it WAY too easy. The junk you get after beating is also pretty much useless, save for a couple of things.

  END OF EXPANSION REVIEWS

  Oh, did I mention that my fiance bought Tiger Woods '10 for me? Yeah, back in June. Surprised the hell outta me. She's the same as me, meaning she doesn't think spending $60 on a game is a wise investment. Well I just came home from work one day and she had it at the house waiting for me. I'm a lucky man, LOL. So I already beat all of Tiger Woods (or should I say Cheetah Woods, LOL). Which that leads me to another subject, but more of that in a minute. As you all know, I'm somewhat of an achievement whore, so I played Tiger almost non-stop trying to get all the achievements. It was slow-going at first, wasn't getting many achievements, but then once I started getting into the thick of it, they starting pouring in. Hardest one to get wasn't really hard at all, just very time consuming: Earn $5M in online tournaments. Funny story (and hint for some of you): Once you earn $5,000,000 in the online tourneys, you'll get the achievement. Then if you want to give a friend an easy, free achievement, go ahead and log in to your profile, then have your friend turn on their controller and sign into their own profile. Start up Tiger Woods '10, then go straight to the online tourney area. BA-DUP!!! Achievement unlocked for your friend, and they didn't have to play a single match online to get the $5M achievement.

  So back to Tiger......

  I've been a huge Tiger fan ever since he started becoming the face of the PGA. His dominance is nothing short of another Michael Jordan or Nolan Ryan. I have also loved his video game ever since they got rid of the old 3-click standard swing and started using the analog sticks for the swing instead on Tiger Woods '02 for the PS2. That was the first Tiger game I bought . I've also bought Tiger Woods '04 (PS2), Tiger Woods '06 (PS2), Tiger Woods '07 (PS2), Tiger Woods '07 (Xbox 360), and Tiger Woods 10 (Xbox 360).

  As you can tell, I was a big fan. Am I still a big fan? Dunno. Tough to say. We aren't going to see him golf at all for at least another year. We're all human, even Tiger. So mistakes are something we all make. Us guys can easily get horny, especially if our wife isn't around. But seriously? 11 women (that's the last total I heard from the media). Now the media loves to make stuff up, especially the tabloids. But still, if the media is saying 11 women, I'm going to decide in my mind that at least 4 of them were most likely true. That's just too many. Com'on Tiger. I guess you could say that I'm still a fan of Tiger. I think it's obvious that I'm still a fan of Tiger when I start to wish that none of this would've ever happened to him. I guess the appropriate and most deserving thing for me to say about Tiger right now is that I'm disappointed in him.

  Anyhoo, back to video games. I'm back to playing Mass Effect...........for two reasons actually. 1. So I can get the rest of the achievements and 2. So I can have my mind refreshed of everything since the sequel comes out in about a month. Who's excited? THIS GUY ------------> JASON!

  Word of wisdom: Buy Terminator Salvation and play it once thru with a buddy on co-op on the hardest difficulty and then immediately sell the game, but only do this if you're an achievement whore. Otherwise, avoid this game completely. It's just so dull and it only takes like 4 hours to beat it. I bought it on ebay for $16.50 including shipping, got all 1000 points on it, and going to sell it as soon as the holidays are over. It is worth nothing more than that.

  Well that's enough rambling for now. Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas and hope that everyone gets some great new games too. Later!

  • Posted Dec 21, 2009 8:12 am PT
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• 29Jun 09

  What I've been up to in the last several months

  I'll start off with talking about the game I've been waiting for ever since I saw a rumored video on youtube over 3 years ago. I'm talking about GHOSTBUSTERS!!! I bought the game the same week it came out (not something I do very often, as I am a cheapskate, lol). I enjoyed every single moment of the game. However, I will say that the online play is fun at first, but loses its punch after a few hours. The story itself is great and funny, but once you play through the game once, you might not really care to play it through again. I will most likely play through it again and I'll never get rid of the game due to the fact that I'm a huge Ghostbusters fan, but I will admit that I would only give the game a 7 outta 10. Dunno if it was worth 60 hard earned dollars, but I wouldn't becomplaining one bit if it would've been only 40.

  Now lets talk about the other brand new game I bought (OMG, I bought two brand new games in one month. I might have to shake away this cheapskate title). I got Red Faction Guerilla and I have to say that even though a lot of the missions are just re-hashed from previous missions, the game is still an absolute BLAST to play. I've never had so much fun blowing stuff up and destroying entire buildings. Not to mention, you actually have to destroy the buildings the way you would have to in real life. You can't just throw a couple remote charges inside of it, hit the switch, and expect the building to crumble. In fact, setting off a couple remote charges inside the building might take out a few windows and the ceiling above, but unless it's a dinky little building, chances are that building barely has a scratch. Red Faction online is great too! If you're a COD fan (which you probably, who the hell isn't?), don't play this game online the way you would play COD. In fact, you pretty much don't have a choice, the online matches won't let you play like it's COD. Instead, this game has a nostalgic feel of the original Unreal Tournament online deathmatches, but with much, much sharper graphics. Then there is Wrecking Crew mode, which I'll leave the explanation of this mode up to the quote of Game Informer magazine (quote may not be word for word): "I haven't played a multiplayer play-and-pass mode (passing the controller) that was this much fun since Burnout's Crash mode." I would have to say that as much as I love this game, I have to give it somewhere between a 9 and a 9.5 outta 10. LOVE THIS GAME. (sorry this paragraph was so damn long, lol)

  So I've been playing Tiger Woods 07 online quite a bit again lately. I just love golf. Too bad I'm not good enough at it in real life, otherwise I'd be playing other people for real money instead of playing digitally over the net. Last Friday night, it was 2:30 in the morning and I was playing some guy who had sent me an invite to play a match. However, I didn't realize he invited me to play 18 holes on stroke play (you Tiger online golfers already know how long this can take). I will say that I was somewhat tired when I started this match. I thought it was only going to be 9 holes on stroke play. Of course I figured out it was 18 holes after we started the 10th hole. Now the meat of this story: This guy I was playing was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO terrible, he took at least 5 strokes just to get on the green on just about every hole. The last hole I remember playing was the 13th. I fell asleep somewhere during the 14th hole I think because I was getting so bored waiting on him to get on the green. I've never fallen asleep during a match before, but lemme tell ya that it sucks. So of course I got a loss for it because I had too many shot-clock violations. I woke up about 4 hours later with the results screen the only thing showing on my screen. Oh well, just take my advice: Pay attention to exactly what game you're about to join, and then assess how long you think it's going to be, ESPECIALLY if you're getting tired.

  Then there is Fallout 3. Great game, very similar to Oblivion, but I like Fallout even more because it's got guns, lol. I will admit though that I started to get a little sick of the game after 130 hours of gameplay, but that's because it was the only game I played during that whole 130 hours. I should've took a break from it for a while. For now it's just chillin' on the shelf, but I will play it more after a while.

  I would type more, but my lady is ready for me to start helping cook dinner. Yeah, I know, I'm so whipped. LOL

  • Posted Jun 29, 2009 3:43 pm PT
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• 15Sep 08

  I'm still here!!! Sorry for the hiatus

  Hello fellow bored people that have nothing better to read than my worthless little blog. LOL, just kidding.

  So where the hell do I begin. Let's see....um my 360 still hasn't RROD'd, and to give you an idea of how much I play it: I bought it December of '07 and I already have over 20,000 gamerpoints. Although there was a point in time when Prey locked up on me twice within 15 minutes. The first time it did it, I was pissed because I had played nearly two hours without saving (which is really my own fault for disabling the auto-save feature). But yeah, Prey was a pretty good game. However the makers could've put a little more effort into explaining more about the alien race and maybe an option to discover this HUGE spaceship they have (called the "Sphere") more than the game allows you to. Also, I noticed that there weren't a whole lot of bad guys in each level until near the end of the game. Still a good story though and still lots of fun to play.

  Civilization Revolution has got to be one of the most addictive games ever. I had to force myself to put it back on the shelf. The game is friggin' awesome, whether you like Civ games or not. I am one to admit that the PC versions were just a little too complex for me, but Civ Rev is like Civ-Lite, it's much easier to get into and understand. My only complaint is that in the scenario "Beta Centuri", I wish that you could still actually research technologies so that you can take out your oppenents with some AWESOME futuristic weapons. That would've been BAD @$$.

  Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a great action/RPG, especially if you're a fan of more than just the X-Men (as in the X-Men Legends games, which I totally loved). Now I'll admit, I'm not a huge no-it-all when it comes to other Marvel Comics characters, such as Dr. Strange or Iron Man, but I still had a great time playing the game. I'm now trying to beat the game on "Hard", which is turnging out to be quite the challenge, considering I'm doing it by myself this time through. The 1st time through I played with my friend Craig and we were able to easily beat it on "Normal" difficulty. Some of the achievments require you to buy some of their DLC, which I think is kinda crappy, especially since I'm kind of an achievement whore.

  Bioshock is complete too. Great game, very creepy at some times, very challenging at others. What I liked the most was taking on the Big Daddies. The end boss was a little too easy I think, but he was still imtimidating at first. Also, I loved how the story had such a HUGE twist to it. VERY AWESOME!

  Def Jam Icons up next now. The story line was really cool. I also liked how you get the option to sign certain artists and then the ones you don't sign become your enemy. The whole "spin your own beats" thing wasn't as bad as gamespot made it sound, and being able to hit the bass notes to make things explode was freakin' tight. I really enjoyed this game. I think you could probably find it for less than 20 bucks now, definitely worth it. The graphichs are absolutely amazing too. My only beef is the lack of weapons. I know that "Fight For New York" was a totally different game with a totally different style, and that EA wanted to try something different this time around, but there's just something really sweet and tender about picking up a pool stick and chasing after your enemy with it. It's down right precious.

  For about the last two years now, I've always had this thought in the back of my head that says, "If you could make your own game, what would be it's premise?" Then more thoughts follow: "where would the story lead? What era would it take place? Would it be in the future? Would it be something that changed the past? Would it be a dark game (like Devil May Cry)? Or would it be a light-hearted adventure? To this day, I still don't know those answers. So until I figure those answers out, I couldn't even answer what most common gamers would ask: Is at an RPG, FPS, 3rd person action/adventure, flight sim, etc. I guess that's why I'm not a game-maker, because it would just take me far too long to put together my masterpiece.

  -Later

  • Posted Sep 15, 2008 7:11 pm PT
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