After being deluged with good games last fall, there doesn’t seem to be anything really interested being released these days. I may actually have to finish some of the games that I started. Maybe I’ll start back playing Star Wars Galaxies or Final Fantasy XI.
The big Electronic Entertainment Expo is this week and all the major next generation consoles have been unveiled. Aren’t they cool looking?
Xbox 360: Microsoft needs to fire the guys that name their products.
PlayStation 3: Unoriginal name, but it works.
Nintendo Revolution: My favorite name of the 3. I wonder if it’ll be any good.
I don’t know much about that specs of the systems. I just know that I want them. Now I need to get out of school and start making real money.
What have I been doing lately?
For one I’ve been working my ass off. My Advanced Computer Graphics class has taken up a lot more time than I expected. I’m working on generating an animation for my final assignment right now. Now I can concentrate fully on getting out of here.
I don’t play video games much anymore. I finally cancelled my Everquest II account earlier today. I don’t see the need to pay for something that I don’t use. Maybe I’ll get the urge to play again in a couple of months and reactivate my account.
I got Jade Empire for the Xbox. It’s made by the same people that made Knights of the Old Republic. I haven’t had a chance to play it much it seems like a really good game so far.
I’ve been watching tons of DVD’s lately. I’m not sure many of them are worth a recommendation. I’m watching one right now in which they are arguing over who would win in a fight between Wolverine and Batman. I say Wolverine. I haven’t been to the movie theater much, but I did see Sin City. If you haven’t seen it, go see it. Now!
I hate job hunting. So far I’ve only had one company show any interest and that was earlier this week. It was from a place in Richmond, Virginia. I have a phone interview scheduled and hopefully it will go well. I’m hoping some other places will also show interest.
In case I didn’t mention it here, my ear problems went away after about a month. It’s nice to be able to hear again.
According to my web stats, people are reading coming here, and it’s not just adbots. So, I’m going to throw out a question.
Does anybody out there use Xfire or Xbox live? I’m just looking for people to game with sometime. My username on both is longklaw. Just send me an invite.
My Xbox Live games are: Halo 2, Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow, and Burnout 3: Takedown, and Ninja Gaiden. I will have Doom 3 and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory next week. They both have co-op modes that I want to try out.
You can view my Xfire profile to see what kind of PC games I play these days. Just click the image below.
I hope to see some of you on. I promise I will be on this weekend while I am avoiding my homework 🙂 Thanks.
Because of a long day of work and a trip to Tupelo that I got talked into, I didn’t get a chance to play my PSP until around 11:30 Thursday night. Unfortunately, I got one of the units with a dead pixel on the screen. It’s hard to see most of the time, but my eyes have a tendency to zone in on that kind of stuff. GameStop is directing people to Sony’s 1-800 number. Sony doesn’t consider a dead pixel to be a defect, so I’m stuck with it. I guess I just expect items that I pay a lot of money for to be nearly perfect.
In spite of the pixel, I am really enjoying the PSP. In addition to Untold Legends, I bought Lumines with money I got from trading in games. Untold Legends is an action RPG that is a lot like Champions of Norrath and the Baldur’s Gate games that came out on the consoles. Lumines has been described as the best Tetris-like game since Tetris. Both are a lot of fun and look pretty good. The movie Spider-Man 2 came with the PSP. I watched a few minutes of it and it also looks cool on that screen.
After playing for a while, my arms and shoulders start to get tired. I think that if I change my grip and rest the PSP on my lap, I can change that. I think I’m going to get back to playing. Later.
So, today I went and paid for a PSP in full. I had been telling myself over the past couple of months that I wouldn’t get one at launch and would wait until a few more interesting titles came out. But all the hype I’ve been hearing over the past few days got to me. Also, I few weeks ago I heard about a launch title that looked good. Also, I got a nice fat refund from the IRS, so I figured I could spend some of it. So, I paid for the PSP and Untold Legends. If I wanted one of the games they already had in stock, I could have come home with it today. Anyway, I’m excited and can’t wait to play it on Thursday.
So much for beating a game within a week. I just haven’t been motivated to play any games lately. I bought Gran Turismo 4 on the PS2. It’s a good looking game, but I just haven’t felt like playing it. I got my new video card installed in my computer last week and on the same day I noticed a clicking noise coming from my hard drive. I decided to go ahead and replace it immediately. The replacement came in the mail earlier this week. Last time a hard drive started clicking, I wasn’t proactive and it ended up causing me a lot of grief. Anyway, maybe now I’ll start playing Everquest II again. Or maybe I’ll play a game that I can actually finish.
I think I have ADD when it comes to video games. I have trouble staying with a game long enough to see it to completion. Sometimes I get frustrated or bored with a game and don’t want to play anymore. Other times a new game will come out before I’m finished with the one I’m currently working on. In either case I end up forgetting about the game I was playing, sometimes for years. So, my goal is to beat one of the games in my collection within a week. The unscored ones on the list are the ones I haven’t finished playing. We’ll see if that happens.
Earlier this week I finished playing my newest game, The Punisher. It was a really fun game, but it doesn’t take a lot to entertain me. In terms of graphics and gameplay, I’m sure there are plenty of third person shooters out there that are better (like Max Payne), but that doesn’t mean that this one can’t be fun. I think one of the big selling points of this game is the goriness. Even at the end it was still shocking to see some of the things you could do to the bad guys.
I really enjoyed all the cameos and references to other Marvel characters that show up throughout the game. I guess I shouldn’t spoil it anymore than that. Slaughter Mode is an interesting take on on bullet time. I didn’t use it much, but it came in handy at times. Like X-Men Legends they hinted at the end that there would be more to come. Overall, it’s a good game that’s at least worthy of a rental. I’ll probably go back and play it on a higher difficulty one of these days.
I hardly ever finish games these days, but over the break I finished two: Halo 2 and X-Men Legends.
I guess I can understand why people are upset about the ending of Halo 2. The rest of the game is fun enough to make up for it. New weapons. New vehicles. New point of view. Awesome! Jason and I went on Xbox Live to play against other real people and we got owned. The only game we did really well in was a game against a bunch of little kiddies. We figured that if we memorized the maps we could do a lot better.
X-Men Legends is another fun game. If you like hack-n-slash action RPG’s like Diablo, you’ll enjoy this one. You’ll especially like it if you are an X-Men fan. At times it suffers from the same problem that most other action RPG’s I’ve played has suffered from. Some of the missions get long and repetitive, and that usually means boring. This game actually had a real conclusion, but they also hinted that there would be more to come. Maybe not the most talked about game of the year, but definitatea fan favorite. I believe I finished it in about 33 hours.
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