• 6Jul 09

  LittleBigPlanet is much better than I thought.

  I remember renting this game about 4 or 5 months ago, I played only 30% of the levels, and returned it. I thought it was too childish and that I will never see it again, until my kid suggested that I buy it again. I don't know why it appealed to me that day, but it just did. I graped it and brought it home.

  That was two weeks ago, I still play this game. Designing useless objects, playing story levels over and over, hooking up with random people, and playing user made levels has given me a joy i haven't seen in my whole life. I love this game, and I think will stick with it for a while.

  What did you think about LittleBigPlanet ?

  • Posted Jul 6, 2009 9:03 am GMT
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• 17Jun 09

  My dog fetches :)

  I submitted about a month ago a thread complaining about how my dog, half lab and half german, would not fetch for me. It used to fetch for my step-kids, wife, or strangers for 3 or 4 times in a row but never for me. That was really frustrating for me, it made feel like I failed at training this dog especially that I am the one who took it upon myself to train that dog. I tought it how to shake hands, jump, walk on a leash go to the "bathroom" upon order, etc, but fetch has always been a pain for me.

  Wife and kids left to Illinois to visit family and I was left with the dog for 3 weeks and I decided that it was the best time for me to work on it. After lots of treats, endless frustration, and tons of patience, I got he freakin dog to fetch. She now fetch from short or long distances, catches the ball from the air, and can do it for many many times.

  The key to that was "graduality". I first got her to hold the ball in her mouth, and whenever she does that successfully I gave her a treat. That was harder than it sounds since she would drop the ball after like half a second to get her treat. After I got that done, it took me about 3 hours a day over 5 days, I started putting the ball on the floor, then she would pick it up and give me to me to get her treat. Again, that took me a while. But one day , i was on doing my business in the kitchen, she brought the ball to me on her own, I threw it away, and she brought it back I was so happy to see that. It seems like she finally understood what I wanted. I kept my cool and kept throwing the ball over small distances and gradually increasing until she started fetching from long distances.

  I am very happy about that right now. The whole process took about 17 days of work, but I finally got it done

  That's my dog when she was 2 months old...

  thats her when she was about 9 months old

  

  Thanks for reading

  • Posted Jun 17, 2009 11:11 am GMT
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• 12May 09

  My thoughts of "inFamous"

  It took me about 30 minutes to finish all 4 or 5 missions, which is pretty long comparing with other demos.

  The game looks very promising, controls look very smooth, the main character looks like a badass, and the story line seems very catchy. My only problem with the infamous was the enemies, they can pop out from anywhere at any time, and they keep shooting the crap out of you until you figure out where they were.

  The good about Infamous was that climbing and sliding made very easy, you don't need to be so precise about where you jump to hold on to the nearest pilar or pole. Also the shooting mechanism does not need constant recharging. You consume your electric charge only when you throw the electrical bombs thingys. Regular shots do not consume anything. You only recharge when you need to speed up the regeneration process. What got my attention the most was the effects. Electricity running through objects, opponents, and trains is unbelievably awesome. Not mentioning the destructible objects, which are pretty much all over the place.

  My only take on Infamous is that they made it so difficult to locate enemies. You can see them on the map, but you don't know how high or low they are especially if you were surrounded by multiple enemies. I think it needs some getting used to.

  Other than that the game was absolutely awesome. I played through it twice already and I am gonna go through it for the third time tomorrow. It is one of the best open world games I've ever seen. Again, unless there are bad surprises, the game should get at about 8.5/10 in my opinion.

  • Posted May 12, 2009 9:25 am GMT
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