9 posts tagged “gaming”
Well I just completed Gears of War for the second time now. Both on Casual mode. I am thinking that I will need to have a real person with me when I run through it on hardcore and insane difficulty mode. I wanted to play with someone today, but no one was around. Can’t blame them, why sit inside infront of a screen on the weekend! Oh well, I managed. I did at one point break out my players guide from BradyGames. I knew I needed some advice on killing Raam. I think I played through that scenario 10 times and I finally killed him. At first I saw an exploding body, and though it was me, *grumble, grumble, I get to play through that again…* I was wrong though! Raam fell to the ground and I won! The ending movie is absolutely excellent, especially when the Locust goes off on his Brumak.
The reason I purchased an xBox360 was because of this game. I am glad I did because this is probably one of my all time favorite games, maybe it’s the amount of detail, maybe it’s the badass weapons in they game or how you can play co-op mode over xBox Live! I’ve completed the game once with a friend over live and once by myself. I must say, doing it by yourself isn’t nearly as fun as doing it with someone. Dom acts like an idiot half the time and is completely useless. He tends to get in the way more often then not.
Multi-player deathmatch is another reason why this game kicks ass. That and Epics already released a new map pack, both new maps are excellent. Something that I thought would be really would be to have even more people (4) in co-op mode. The more the merrier.
Well if anyone wants to play Gears online let me know! It’s a wonderful game and I can’t wait for Gears of War II!
- Jimmy
Well, I've been playing a lot of decent video games lately; Burnout Revenge, Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Cooking Mama, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade! It's been great, I don't think I've had any poor games! My friend Keith was telling me the demo of Farcry for xBox 360 was no good, so I think I'll be staying clear of that one! I did get the demo for the Sonic the Hedgehog game, I'll have to give that a go sometime this week.
The new game I got was Wario Ware. A co-worker was telling me how amazing it was and that I needed to get it. So I did, and I think it's a 8/10. I am not really sure why but it feels like it was made cheaply. The mini-games are really fun, but I am not sure the game has a point. There doesn't really seem to be a strong story, and you just go from building to building doing these mini-games. I thought it was going to be a multi-player game but it's not yet, apparently you have to unlock that. I can't wait to try that part out though! I've unlocked 7-8 buildings so far, not sure how much is accomplished but it's definitely a fun game! I really wish it was multi-player from the start though!
The next game I picked up this weekend is one that I've had my eye on for a while! Mario Hoops 3-on-3 is so much fun! I just wish I had gotten it sooner! The controls a little odd at first. I felt a little overwhelmed with learning them all but I think I have them down now. I've been running through the tournaments and they get progressively harder. I've mashed my way through the Flower Cup and now I am on the last cup. It seems they only have 3 cups, but maybe more are unlockable. They also have challenges, exhibition modes and a multi-player mode. Emilie and I will have to try that out sometime this week. The courts are fun and original, my favorite one is the one where piranha plants are the hoops! There are unlockable characters, so far I've only unlocked a couple, but I am sure there's lots. I heard that there are characters from Final Fantasy in there too! I seem to have made up a good team too. Yoshi, Baby Bowser and Mario seem to be doing the trick for me. I have yet to loose a match!
Well I'm off to go work on some Burnout Revenge, I can't let Kat beat me!
- Jimmy
We both ended up getting the collectors edition. Why not spend an extra $10 and get a bunch of cool things?! Emilie was opening hers even before we got home and looking through all the extra goodies. The art book is absolutely amazing. It's very nice, hard cover and loaded with outstanding art.
We finally got enough cards to play the card game. I am going to have to read through the instruction booklet so we know how to play, but I am sure we could have some fun with that. Emilie's already started to use the mouse pad. I will eventually when my current one dies.
I also picked up the Burning Crusade Z-Board keyset last night. It's much more PvP and RAID oriented then the original keyset. It's still very cool though, I'll use it on my own server.
Emilie and I both started Blood Elves last night. I am on Thrall and she is on Turylon. Before we got that far through we were bothhaving some issues when we were trying to upgrade our accounts to "TBC accounts". The issue wasfixed quite shortly
I just wish it was free or cheaper to play this game. I don't think getting the expansion will make me renew my account so come February 2nd or 3rd it's game over for me. At least for the time being. Emilie will continue to play, probably level up her new Blood Elf and get to level 70 with her main. It's a lot of fun, I just don't feel like dedicating so much time to it when I have so many other games to be playing.
So how's everyone else Burning Crusade experience coming along, roll any new characters or going to level your others to 70? Other thoughts?
Upon turning the game on I wasn't that impressed. The graphics were clunky and blocky and the controls were a little odd at first. After playing through a couple levels I started to get the hang of it all. Something that I find to be very annoying is the fact that you don't get a real HUD so you're clueless as to how much ammo you really have.
A neat feature (or not so good) is that when you're using a spear, the end of it will start to split apart just as it would in real life after being used a lot.
Fighting enemies is a bit difficult because of the controls. I ended up dying multiple times because I couldn't move fast enough or have good enough aiming control to stab or throw my spear at them.
I am only on the 3rd level but I am not so sure about the game. I think it definitely needs some improvement but it's an okay game as-is. The voices sound authentic and some of the graphics are note-worthy. The controls and UI do need improvement. I did notice this game works on Live! but I have to see what elements they are. Maybe I should just stick to Cars and Gears of War.
- Jimmy
The second time around I think I really had an idea of how it all worked. I managed to hold onto first place through the first lap, lost it most of the 2nd and 3rd but managed to come back and just barely win the race!
Something that kind of annoys me about this game is that you cannot go off the track for more then 3 seconds. I did find an advantage to this because at one point if you go off you can get placed back on the track ahead of everyone else. Other then that, I find it pretty annoying. The shortcuts are seemingly a pain in the butt to use. They're hidden but also semi-difficult to get too, especially when you're going 140 MPH.
Now that I've accomplished that I can move onto the second mission of the demo. I won't go into much since my last post covered it. I think I just need to go a couple more rounds to get the hang of it.
- Jimmy
This game reminds me of Super Smash Brothers on the Nintendo systems. Basically you just smash and bash your opponent until their remaining lives is none. It's a lot more mature then SSB though. The weapons are less childish (and fun).
You run through about 10 stages just like SSB. I only made it to stage 2. One of the things I didn't like at all was how fast I was running out of ammo. The levels don't seem to be original nor does the game.
I would probably give this a 4 out of 10 stars. Sorry. The demo was fun, but I doubt I would purchase this game. I'd love to hear anyone elses thoughts about Small Arms.
- Jimmy
I felt it was time that I branch out and play one of the hundreds of other games that couldn't be played because I was busy leveling up in Warcraft.
Emilie is still playing and well on her way to level 60. She's going to be a little WoW correspondent! Of course I still run my own server but there are so many bugs that I spend more time fixing it and patching it over playing on it. Good thing I got some new GMs!
Anyways, I absolutely love World of Warcraft so I am sure I'll come back and play again. I just have so many other things and games to work on. Most important is Gears of War night with Keith. We kind of started last night but it's scheduled for every Wednesday night. I just activated my xBox Live! Gold membership (3 month last night). Of course if you play GoW please do invite me, I'm up for it!!
So that's that, no more World of Warcraft (at least for now). I ended with a level 52 Orc Hunter on Thrall.
- Jimmy
I was just skimming the forums to see if there was any post worth replying to. I don't think I found one but I found this funny post.
"It was a brutal fight folks, but in the end, BigMeanCow
triumphed over the roving menace that is the Fleeting Plainstrider. It
took a lot of work too, he almost had me, but I prevailed.
He dropped [Cracked Bill]. which is currently in Neutral AH for 2500g.
And I hope everyone in Ogr enjoyed the Server Reset Buff
For anyone else daring enough to attempt this feat, here was my strategy...
FreezeTrap, /moo, FD, run back, /silly, Flare, drank a pot, FD
(hella aggro by now), run back, went out for smoke break, got a drink,
talked to my gf on the phone a bit, by now it had crit hit me for 1 dmg
I thought that was gonna be it....but I FD again, drank another pot,
and finally hit him with a /slap for 4025 dmg. Breathless and sweating
now, I made the trip back to TB and logged out.
For my next feat, Im gonna attempt to kite a Roach to Stormwind and watch the chaos ensue =)"
A little bit silly! I do love a good laugh like this once in a while. Anyone else have something funny to share, please do!
- Jimmy
I didn't. I did get to play with the new LFG tool though. It's pretty easy to use and I think I like it. I've noticed there is 99% less spam in the chat channels which is really nice. No more Steve Irwin or Chuck Norris every 2 seconds. The matchmaking works pretty well, although I found people to be queuing for 5-6 things and blowing off the party I had joined.
I myself queued up for Uldaman since I had 1 quest there ([41d] Necklace Recovery). I ended up getting the necklace about 2 minutes into the thing but we went all the way to the room with the 4 stone bosses. It sure was a lot of fun, and I am glad I will have some more time for questing since school is out for winter break. I do miss being an Orc!
Something I noticed was there seems to be more audible effects in-game. Characters make different sounds and say different things when casting, or calling up minions. I think that's really cool, one sound clip sounded like the death-knights from Warcraft II.
I just finished getting most of my mods last night, the only one left is Auctioneer and they said it would be about 2 weeks until they were ready. Blizzard seems to have done some stupid (yet justifiable) modifications to how mods can work. I use a mod called All In One Inventory so all my bags (and quiver if I want) appear as one giant bag. I can no longer use potions (by right clicking on them), food, drink, hearthstone from the bag which really sucks. I dragged my hearthstone onto a hot bar, but that still leaves the things that give me life. I hope something gets done about that because that's ridiculous.
So how is everyone else "WoW: Life After 2.0" going?!
- Jimmy
