Is simply awesome!! Don, Sammy and I had a great time playing today.
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Gears of War 2
Category: Video Games
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I found this bizarre…
I’m installing MGS4 on my PS3 which takes about 8 minutes and Solid Snake is chain smoking during the install.
I know this is supposed to be an adult targeted game but thought this wasn’t the best use of an install animation.
I must be getting old to care about this 🙂
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I’m loving Mario Kart!
I have been through the 50cc and 100cc circuits. This game has been a lot of fun and I actually enjoy using the wheel. The online play has worked flawlessly so far. I just need some more friend to play the battle modes with. On a Wii note, my parents are actually looking for a Wii now, I can’t believe it!
I started playing this game tonight and I must say, for a PSP game it is top notch.
I’m only about 40 minutes in but the action is non-stop and a lot of fun. I’m usually not a ‘slasher’ game type fan but I do like the mystic history of the Spartans and the Persians.
One interesting encounter was a room with two women, you could ‘take care’ of them and get more XP. I was pretty surprised by the detail in the initial scene although they don’t show any of the deed taking place.
My timing of the buttons in sequence is really horrible at this point so I’m riding it out in easy mode right now. I look forward to finishing this soon and raising the difficulty for a bigger challenge.
Later!
**I finished this game on Saturday. I really had fun with this one, I don’t play many single player off-line games so for me to go through this and finish it says something. It has a nice setup for GOW 3 for the PS3 at the end 🙂 I will look forward to the new high-def version.
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Get your wires under control
I found this to be a great article
Here’s a summary:
10. ID Your Plugs with Labels
9. Shorten Lengthy Cords with DIY Wrappers
8. Tie ‘Em Up with Reusable Millepede Cable Ties
7. Build Your Own Cable-Hiding Charging Station
6. Hide Cables with Foam Pipe Insulation
5. Store Extension Cords Tangle-Free in a Paper Towel Tube
4. Master the Art of Earbud Cord-Wrapping
3. Catch Plugs with a Binder Clip
2. Get Under-Desk Cables Off the Floor with a Wire Basket
1. Mount Your Gadgets to a Pegboard
See all the images and detail descriptions, including some video here.
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SSB looks like a lot of fun!
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What a battle!
Eric and I played a couple of games of EOJ tonight. The first game was pretty casual, nothing too special and I managed to win.
The second game would be a different story though. It started out pretty normal but we were unusually taking each others guys out. Our ‘burn piles’ were stacking up quickly. Eric ended up having me in check twice. I ended up getting out of that mess by laying down the “Seer Vizak’s Calamity” card which flipped every element on the board. This killed a guy for each of us and really weakened the guys that he had me in check with. I was able to wipe out a couple more of his characters and then he laid down two water element cards which were very elusive. I couldn’t hit them with a normal attack and needed some magic.
So, I saved up my Mana and with a smirk on my face I placed down the “Sciondar Fire God” for 9 Mana. Well, I learned tonight that a comment on the card “Destroy Sciondar Fire God if he is on a Biolith Field” was bad news!! I placed him on the Biolith field thinking there was some sort of bonus if he killed this guy but soon found that I died right away!! All that Mana and a stud card down the drain 🙁
I found myself without anymore magic in my deck. I managed to drag out the game for another 8 turns or so until Eric put the finishing moves on me.
I was left with two cards in my hand and only six cards left in my deck if that gives you an idea of the length of this game. After one hour and ten minutes it was over. Eric won.
Nice job Eric!! Notice in the picture that we went 40 turns!! Wow!!
If you have a PS3 I would highly suggest this game. I’ve never been a card game type besides poker but this is a lot of fun!!
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My guitar hero…
What a stud! He can already beat my horrible play in this game 🙂
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Rock Band at Best Buy Eagan
Sammy and I play the game in this video. Pretty boring to watch as we’re not too emotional but it’s pretty fun. I don’t like the design of the ‘bars’ to play with as the ‘circles’ that are used in Guitar Hero seem bigger and more friendly. I found myself really trying to time it more with the bars because they are so small. As for the drums, they are a lot of fun. I don’t like the noise they make when you hit them. I think it could have been a little less noisy. Nobody was willing to sing for us. We had a little crowd of BBY employees watching us suck it up 🙂
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A mini review of the hardware. The neck is pretty flimsy. I don’t know what caused it but there was vibration in the guitar at one point. There is a switch on the guitar which switches modes on the “whammy bar”. It looks nicer than the GH guitars but I like the build of my GH3 better than this one. The strumming switch has no click to it, it’s very smooth. We both liked the thought of it before we played but after playing we agree that we didn’t like the feel.
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Having fun with Halo 3
A few of us grown up kids went and got our Legendary Halo 3 on the midnight release 🙂 The campaign was fun at times with the multiplayer mode, the ending was lame though. Online I’ve been having a blast. I played some custom games the other night with my bro and his buddies. That was a lot of fun.
The really cool feature and probably really ignored by many is the online community at Bungie.net. You can take screen shots of your games, take videos of your games (this is limited to viewing on the 360) and share them with friends online or their 360. My friends and I will usually send each other pictures of each other getting blown up, etc. It adds to the trash talking which is always fun!
I think between Halo 3, Gears and GH3 coming soon I should be set for the winter!
Click on any of these below pictures for the full 1080 res. The pictures look great.
Here is one where a guy and I traded grenades. This was on a custom game that was a lot of fun. The only way to score points was to “stick” someone with a grenade. You would lose points if you killed yourself with your grenade though. Whomever got to 25 points first won.
A great shot of my character 🙂
I was proudly smiling from the grave here. I’m the one on the ground but he’s got a little something stuck in his head from before I went down 🙂
