My gaming, TV, and movie life

• 11Oct 09

  Im back to blogging and flashback project 6

  Wow my last blog to big to post here. http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/mikeydct/blog/

  • Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:36 pm GMT
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• 11Oct 09

  E3 and flashback 5

  E3 has came and gone, this E3 got me hyped for a lot of games. The press conferences were so so, Sony and Microsoft were good and Nintendo and Ubisoft were boring. Microsoft was first and it seems they are always first. They opened up with The Beatles: Rock Band. The Beatles in the game look unfinished, has the same look as rock band 2. I believe I saw now 2 vocalist can sing in the same. It turned me off that the people playing were singing but they were lip sinking. After 20 mins of that they showed Modern Warfare 2, they part they showed off look cool as hell but I feel that bad part to show at the same time. Your person climbing a snowy mountain, you get to the top and pull out this gun with thermal vision on it and you go around shooting people using the thermal vision to help you see. OK that was cool but we cant see the action! I am going to get that game when it comes out. Then they talked about Final Fantasy XIII which looks good really dont care about it, Shadow Complex i cant remember it, Joy Ride which looks like a Wildly coyote cartoon you game to drive in and do trick with your 360 person. After that boring cramp Crackdown 2 was announced, Im hoping that there is a story this time and more to do than collecting 800 ORBS! Then Left 4 Dead 2 was announced and this proved to me that the first game has no more DLC coming for it, that is why the game of the year edition is out. There is not 5 people and now you get to use melee weapons. After that they showed Splinter Cell: Conviction, never played Splinter Cell, Forza Motorsport 3 which looks like 2, Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach. Microsoft finally showed Alan Wake, could this be the next Duke nukem forever? It seems that when I heard someone talk about this game they talk about how long it been in development. When I saw it I thought it was silent hill 5. Metal Gear Solid: Rising was the last game they showed and Hideo Kojima came out talked about it without a translator. In the Sony press Hideo Kojima talk about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker he had a translator. So can he speak English or not? And that was Microsoft
  The Nintendo press conference was a let down once again. OK they did show us four new Mario games but only one I liked was Galaxy 2. They opened up with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, to long of a name. It is a multiplayer Mario game where up to 4 people and run through 2D level. There are only 3 characters Mario, Luigi and Toad which can be different colors. They showed loads of cramp which I dont care about and talked about the numbers. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was announced, looks like the first game. They said that they had so much more they want to put in the 1st galaxy game that this was going to be 1.5 but they came up with more ideas and made it too, which mean we wanted people who bought one to also buy this so we named it two because not everyone would buy 1.5. They showed off more stuff like Dead Space: Extraction which I think will fail like the Dead raising game on the Wii. The last game was shown was Metroid: Other M made by Team ninja. Im hoping the camera in the game doesn't suck. I also wonder what will Samus look like if you 100% complete the game. The women in Team ninja have big boobies and will they make Samus rack bigger.
  Sony press conference was great, they opened up with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game looks great, the city looked amazing. I have not seen any multiplayer yet and hope to see some. After that MAG: Massive Action Game was shown, I wonder if you need a great internet hook up and lag. 256 people playing simultaneously wonder what it works. And then Gran Turismo! for the PSP, Dam it. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker aka The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. After that cramp, cramp, cramp, cramp, FFXII and cramp. God of War III has shown and this will be the reason I get a PS3. It still looks the same, it was running on 720 hd. Heavy Rain also looks great, I only saw video of a person walking around. Assassin's Creed II was shown again for everyone that fell asleep at Ubisoft press conference. Final Fantasy XIV Online was announced and I feel people are already hate the game because its online due to FFXI. Mod Nation Racers was also announced, its little big planet as a racing game. You get to make your own tracks, you get to control everything. The last game shown was Gran Turismo 5 FINALLY! Where the hell is this game? This game will be a system seller for Sony. Im betting next E3 comes GT5 will still not be out.
  Since my last update I play very little, I mostly been playing stuff for achievement point. I played and finished Wario Land: Shake It! It is a rental, beat it in 6 hours. I would have beat it in 5 but had to backtrack for more money to buy a map to unlock the next world. To much of the game is too easy, a few of the boss battles and very few level and hard. The story makes no sense , someone stole a globe and gave it to Wario. The globe it self has a world were a princess it kidnapped and a sack that has endless coins in it is stolen. Some people from that world go to Wario world and ask him to save the princess and he could get the sack that has endless coins. That game was from gamefly, a other game they sent me is The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Only play it if your a achievement whore. I am not a Lord of the Rings fan. The AI is cheap at times, if your down they will beat the cramp out of you and getting up when your down take to long. Some attaches are badly delayed. The game is mostly go here, take over this point, hold it and move on. I have start playing ghostbusters but will leave that for next time. I was very busy last week and every free time I had I was writing this blog. Next time Im hoping to finish a few games, this summer I will try and finish as much games as I can. Well Im off to go finish ghostbusters and then play Metal gear solid one through three.

  • Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:34 pm GMT
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• 11Oct 09

  Flashback project 4

  After my last blog post I got the flu, no not the swine flu just the normal flu and was not in the mood to play pretty much anything. I was sick for two weeks and also during this time my Xbox 360 died, it would not read any disk. One hundred twenty dollars and two weeks later I got a xbox 360. Before my 360 died I did get to play two games from gamefly. I got Mirror's Edge the day of my last post and bought it after playing it for a hour. I finished it after I got the 360 back and Im glad I bought this. The game about a woman named Faith and she is trying to find the real killer at a murder that her sister was found at. I wont give away the end but a part is in first person and there is a omg I cant believe she did that. I will do speed runs in this game some time soon. There is two levels which I found hard, one where your riding on top of a train and one where you climb up in inside a build. The train level is all about remembering the level, there are signs flying at you fast and you have to jump to a other train. The level where you climb up in inside a build it feels like it last forever. I finished the game with out shooting anyone with a gun and didn't find it that hard to do. Now I was playing on easy Im guessing I will need to shot on hard. The last game I played on the 360 before it was sent out was James Bond Quantum of Solace. From what little I got to play, this is one of the rare movie games that's good. The game is made with the call of duty 4 engine and it shows. The controls feel the same as call of duty 4, the guns and aims feel the same. Online you have to buy your weapons and perks. I only got to play team deathmatch and I was doing good I was 2nd or 3rd in kills on my team in the few games I played. There is a cover system and that makes me wonder if Modern warfare 2 will have cover system. With the cover in single player I found the game too easy to play. I will be playing this when I can find it for twenty dollars. almost 2 weeks break from video games I started back up with some Sonic. I finished one, two, and three all in one night. two was the most fun and I liked the ending. The end of the first Sonic made me say "that's the end? that sucked", It didn't feel like a ending. I found Sonic 3 boring, Im guess after playing one and two I was getting sick of Sonic. I played all three games on Sonic mega collection. I plan on finishing the other games sometime soon. When I got back my 360 back I bought Dead rising. I found it fun until I got to the 2nd case and could not pass it. I tried over and over I finally gave up and will start a new game and go for the 53k kills and leveling up. Gamefly sent me Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Im glad I rented it. The game only took me 7 hours to beat, it does have the replay value of the rest of the Ratchet & Clank the weapon are mostly from older games and I had to do some leveling up with the weapons. The game about Ratchet & Clank are on break, a little girl want to take some pics of them after she takes the pics she is kidnapped, Ratchet & Clank go to save her and a hole brunch of twist and turns in the story. The game still has the humor of the other games. This is a game looking PSP game, I played the port of grand theft auto: liberty city stories and it looked like crap. This look like a PS2 game, when you fall to your death you could fall through something and that's the only problem I found. A other game that gamefly sent me is Mercenaries for the PS2. This is very much like the the 2nd game but this one sound like it has a story. I didn't play that much the game sounded long and I didn't have the time to spend that much time playing it. I finally finished Condemned on the 360. I started playing it in October, I stopped playing because of the holiday game rush and my 360 would read the disk. You play as FBI agent Ethan Thomas and you must find a killer who is killing other killers. The game is mostly fight with objects, you will find a gun here and there but with little ammo. I didn't find it that scary for a horror game but in enjoyed the story. The last game gamefly sent me was Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law based on the show. It has the same humor and look of the show. You play as Harvey and most win five case. It is a short game, finished it in four hours. If your a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law fan its a rental. In the next blog I will talk about what happen during E3 and what I been playing as well.

  • Posted Oct 11, 2009 10:33 pm GMT
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