Look at All of the Space!

Yesterday I went to Circuit City and bought a new hard drive for my Playstation 3. We really didn't want to order online so C.C. is really the only place around that has 2.5" SATA hard drives. I got the last one and the only size they had was 160GB which was kinda disappointing but I guess 100GB is quite a bit for awhile. So we bought the hard drive and a external hard drive to back up my Playstation. So I get home kinda excited and run upstairs plug in my external hard drive and hit back up and it said 1hour and 44minutes! what!?!? Noooo. So I go downstairs to see whats good on demand and see they put Halloween II up (woot!) So I see the lot of stoop touchers get slashed and go back upstairs to see the back up is done (!). So I unplug everything and open the hard drive enclosure on the Playstation and grab a screw driver and to my surprise none of my 14 screwdrivers work! I have ones too big too small and one that would of worked was missing half of the head (WTF) who the hell breaks a screw driver. So when I run to the store today I'll get a screw driver to get this damn thing in. Ill update when I get it in.
***Update*** I got it in was a little harder than expected with the last screw being stripped. Then I put everything back on took over 2 hours which I guess isn't to bad for 45GB. All of my paid content like games and the new videos all work the same as they used to. When I first turned it on all of my trophies were gone but I loaded up the game then exited and they were back so that was great. Overall easy not as easy as it could of been but hell at least everything works and I'm not dead so all in all a good day.

Bringing Xbox Back

So I got my Xbox back after 16 days (Thanks Zak) and I think I got a good one. It's pretty much dead silent and so is the DVD drive overall its not much louder than my Playstation 3. I still can't download any "M" or "RP" rated content! I think I got a brand new Xbox like old HDMI less but new as in never used. I'm very pleased on how fast Microsoft got it back to me even though it took 4x longer to get back than when it was shipped. Anyway I'm going to play some more Siren then restart Bioshock since I think I messed up. So good job to everyone and I'm glad to have my Xbox 360 back.

PS.. I hope I never have to talk to Maxx again cause he is a jackass and peep one of my favorite videos from when the 360 came out above and Yes the PS3 is still big as a SUV and the Wii is still wii wii wack! :)

Kaz Hirai Scoffs At Your Exclusives

Well some pretty strong words coming from Kaz Hirai in a interview on how many used-to-be Playstation Exclusives are going to the Xbox 360. Where the interviewer asked him to pick a 360 exclusive that he would want and he said "none of them". Here's the inter view:

Aftonbladet: If you had to choose ONE exclusive Xbox 360 title and launch it for the PS3 instead, which game would it be?
Hirai: I don't think I have to choose any.....
Aftonbladet: You have to pick one.
Hirai: Again, I don't think I have to pick one because we have such a fantastic lineup of games.
Aftonbladet: But if someone is holding a gun to your head and you have to choose one. Which game would it be?
Hirai: Okay.. then they have to shoot me, because I really don't think we need any.

Some pretty bold words but I was thinking really there isn't any that I would want exclusive on the PS3 , or atleast I dont think any are neccesary for the PS3 to do well. To quote a comment I read once it said " It's funny that all of the Xbox 360 fanboys are down on the Playstation 3 but yet all of the games they want are PS3 exclusives and where the opposite is not true." Which I read right before E3 on a N4G post and it seems to prove Kaz's point.

Do You Hear It?

So last night I bought Siren: Blood Curse and it is a massive game coming in at a whopping 9GB! So I deleted my GTA IV install and my Metal Gear 4 install which were both around 4 GB and I have 2GB left after I bought Siren so it's time to get a new hard drive I can't delete anything else but any who back to Siren, I downloaded it and it took a good amount of time then I played the first episode which was extremely short and I started to get worried when they said it takes about 2 hours per episode and the first one was probably 25 minutes. It seems they get longer as you go, the second episode was around the hour mark and the third which I just completed was around the hour-2hour mark and made me really feel like this $40 purchase was worth it. The character models are some of the best looking around and when you attack someone enough your character does a vicious finisher which sends blood through the air onto the wall which really surprised me. I give big ^UPs^ to the talented Japan Studio, who seems to be really cranking out the good games this generation.

Alienware On The Down low

I was looking over on the Voodoo website to see what I could dream about tonight and I started looking at there community Blog The Next Bench. Then I started to wonder if Alienware had a community Blog I mean there bigger more known than Voodooo so you think they would but they don't. So I was looking around on there site and I seen they have wallpapers to download so I checked those out. They had a really cool looking one ^^ so I downloaded it and I found they only have ones at extremely low resolutions and only in 4x3. I mean they have expensive computers don't you think the gamer that bought them would have a high resolution 16X10 display. The highest they had was 1600x1200 which is high for a 4x3 monitor and then the others were 1024x768 and 800x600 both pretty low. That was just a thing I seen and found funny.
***My Xbox will be here on Tuesday

Playstation Video Store

Sony put up the Video Store last night and I decided to check it out. They have a great movie collection lots of new mixed with some old. You can have new movies like Drillbit Taylor, Walk Hard, and Cloverfield. On the old side they have classics like Rocky, Die Hard, and Rambo. From what I can tell an average SD movie is around 2GB the biggest I seen was Spanglish (2500MB)since that movie is like 3 hours long. The SD movies are in 720x480 which is DVD resolution and recorded at 2Mb/s which is ok still looks nice (Avg. DVD is around 8Mb/s). I far as I have seen you can't buy as in keep HD movies but there pretty good quality for a download at around 6Mb/s. Really you cant make the bitrate that high or the movies will just be so huge Cloverfield in HD is 6GB as is, so I'm happy with the quality. I bought "the Bank Job" last night looks nice I didn't check if it had 5.1 surround sound but it should. It was around 12:30 when I got it so I didn't feel like watching it. All in all it was very quick to download it was around 1.8GB and it downloaded in a half hour which was very quick in my opinion. This is something I always wanted a place that I can buy and keep movies smiler to iTunes but with out there horrible pricing and quality! *** Update: I just finished "the Bank Job" and I guess the movies don't support 5.1 surround sound which is disapointing but "the Bank Job" was a great movie based off a true story and was worth the $15! Also you can't watch the movies through remote play which sucks I guess there is some form of copyright reason preventing them from doing that.***Update***

Sony's Press Conference

So Sony's Press Conference just finished. Every ones cards are on the table and again this year Sony took the cake for best Press Conference. They announced feature after feature game after game, everything everyone wanted to hear! The 80GB PS3 basically got a price drop cutting out the 40GB at just $399. Sony announced the Video Marketplace goes Live tonight with the most popular movie and TV show providers. You can buy or rent Movies available in both SD and HD and TV shows are available to buy in SD or HD. Movies are $6 for a rental from $10 to $15 to purchase. TV shows are $2 which is inline with every other provider. One thing Jack Tretton who directed the whole Conference was wrong about is that this is the year of the PS3 he was wrong it is the year of Playstation. With huge games coming to PSP, PS2, and PS3 the Playstation brand is alive and kicking. PSP games include the likes of portable versions of Resistance: Retributions and Super Stardust Portable. Plus all of the other games Loccorocco 2 and Patapon 2. The PS2 is getting more games like a new Singstar, Mercenaries 2, and all of the sports games from EA. Sony's Flagship console the Playstation 3 is getting newly annouonced heavy hitters like God of War 3, MAG (Massive Action Game) plus the usual Resistance 2, Killzone 2, Infamous, and the Ratchet and Clank expansion Quest for Booty. Sony announced that "Life with Playsation" will be out by the end of the month. Sony truly has the Systems to beat this holiday season and beyond. Also with the creators of Mirrors Edge, Farcry 2, and Fallout 3 saying how the PS3 is better suited for there games means third party game makers are finally seeing that the PS3 is the Powerhouse Sony intended it to be!

Nintendo Press Conference

So another one down and I must say I recorded this Press Conference. I will have no problem going to sleep from here on out! This was such a boring Press Conference, there was not to many games announced. Wii Sports: Resort which has some more mini-games but set out side by the beach like Jet Skiing, Frisbee Throwing, Sword Fighting you know the usual stuff you do at the beach. They also announced Wii Music which is basically Rock Band but with out the instruments. The most shocking thing they announced that I'm interested in is Grand Theft Auto: China Town Wars, they didn't show anything about it but said it takes place in Liberty City and it is coming for the DS. They also showed a new Animal Crossing which is titled Animal Crossing: City Folk. This gme has the same city as the Gamecube one plus a new City which is like New York, plus they added this game will have Voice Chat with the new microphone thing that sits on your motion sensor. It seems like a bad idea the voices come through your tv so I'm sure that there will be some voice and sound ecco. I feel Nintendo really blew it not announcing a harddrive or anything. I bet they held alot back for Tokyo Game Show. The real show begins in 30minutes so lets see what Sony has to offer!

Microsoft's E3 Press Conference

Well one down 2 to go and I must say I'm not that impressed. Really it was more of the same Gears was there some Fable 2 a failed Xbox nothing real surprising. No real game announcements besides Portal 2 coming to XBLA and the known about Lips. It seems there really going to go head to head against the Wii with there new family/party games. I did to my surprise like Lips (Karaoke) and the Scene it did look cool especially with the new Avatars. Out of the video with Fable 2 I don't see why there is hype for this game really at all and when they cut Resident Evil 5 short for it, I got kinda mad especially when Peter Molyneux basically wasted everyone's time just saying it was done and that you can get drunk with your friend in co-op oh great must have feature right there you dumb fuck mook! Another thig that kinda made me mad is the fact they copied Sony's E3 press conference from last year but made it more boring, basically take Sony's Press conference replace Home with Avatars and Lips with Sing Star and add some hardware failures you get Microsoft's E3 2008 Press Conference. They even copied off the "There is one more thing" that Sony did with Killzone 2! Couple more things the redesigned dashboard looks goofy and more confusing I hope it's not as bad as it looks and I'm glad when Billy G stepped down from Microsoft he made one last contribution from his check book. **Update** Obviously not a big enough contribution since SquareEnix said they will get to the Xbox 360 when the PS3 one is done.

Look Some Games

2008 is turning out to be even better than 2007 gaming wise and these are the games I'am most looking forward to.
*** Games added after E3 are in a blueish color
*** Exclusives are in red

Xbox 360

Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise
Tom Clancy's Endwar**
Too Human
Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts
Gears of War 2
Left 4 Dead
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway**
Lips
Fallout 3**
Scene It: Box office Smash
Portal: Still Alive
Banjo and Kazooie
Resident Evil 5 **
Farcry 2**
Tom Clancy's Hawx**
Geometry Wars 2

Playstation 3
Resistance 2
Socom Confrontation
Wipeout: HD
Siren: Blood Curse
Ratchet and Clank: The Quest for Booty
Tom Clancy's Endwar**
Little Big Planet
Call of Duty: World at War
The Last Guy
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Pixel Junk: Eden
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway**
Mirrors Edge
Fl0wer
Resident Evil 5**
Fallout 3**
Farcry 2**
Tom Clancy's Hawx**
God of War 3
M.A.G.

E3 2008! I Can Only Hope..

Well on Monday, E3 2008 begins with Microsoft's Press Conference. As I was watching Resident Evil Apocalypse I started think on what I would really like to see from the big three. So here is what I think all 3 companies should do to be the best they possibly can and how to put a damper on there rivals plans.



First up Microsoft Since there Press Conference is the first I feel I should start with them.

First: They need to announce a price drop! Everyone knows one is coming Sunday to the Premium version, but that isn't good enough. They need to lower the Price of the Elite to $400, keep the Premium at $349 but include a 60GB or 80GB hard drive, finally keep the Arcade at $279 but include a 20GB hard drive. They need to faze out hard drive less 360s.

Second: They need to re-design the Dashboard. Until you use the XMB you will never realize how clunky the blades are.

Third: Drop the price of Xbox Live to $30! With the PS3 really catching up in terms of performance and subscribers ( PSN=9million Xbox Live=12 million) they need to pull away. Plus stop nickle and diming the consumer. $2 for a theme or gamer pictures is ridicules especially since there is no preview!

Fourth: I cant express this enough GAMES! GAMES! AND MORE GAMES! Not this crap they pulled last year where they had like 5 exclusives all year and that's counting the Xbox and PC games (Bioshock and Masseffect). Plus with Bioware going to EA and Bioshock not being exclusive there hurting for games and the stuff Rare has been pumping out isn't going to cut it!

Fifth: FIX your damn HARDWARE!! Well that's all I have to say about that.

Sixth: Have Zune tie into Xbox Live and bring out the games. Plus announce the Zune will work with the videos you have downloaded on your Xbox

Final Thoughts: Don't introduce a motion controller! You guys brought out the camera and there is one game that uses it. So don't screw your self releasing a motion controller that will only be used in 2 games. Also don't copy shoddy features from competitors. Your supposed to be the leader and introduce new things everyone wants to copy.


Next Up the Big "N"
Well here is Nintendo a Company that sells a ass load of hardware each month, what more can you want? I think I have an idea..

First: Some FUCKING GAMES! They need to reveal what ever Retro is working on and bring out Animal Crossing. They need some new IPs! Mario Party 85 better not be shown or announced, if anything say your canceling it! Thats what I would want to hear. If there going to bring out some more old IPs they need to be Pikman and Luigies Mansion, two games that would work great with the Wii mote. Also wouldn't be surprised to see a new Wario Land game.

Second: A Price Drop to everything. There making Pure profit on the Wii and DS and its time to spread it with the consumers, bring the Wii to $200 and the DS to $100! They will FLY off of the shelves at such a crazy rate it wouldn't be funny. Also drop the price of first party games at least $10. I mean "New Super Mario Bros." has been $34 for 2 years! Come on guys its not Halo your just hurting your self.

Third: Pimp out the Online a bit. On the Wii atleast add a real friends list and voice chat. The Wii has built in bluetooth there isn't a reason they cant have you be able to hook up a headset.

Fourth: If the DS price drop doesn't happen bring out a new DS same price with some form of Multimedia features and maybe internal storage for downloadable games from the Wii. Also make it Aluminum so I can chuck it at someone and it will be ok. Plus to everyone that thinks there going to drop the GBA slot, its not going to happen.

Final Thoughts: Stop nickle and diming the consumer! 90 year old shit games shouldn't be $10. Plus the web browser for $5 isn't that good. For five bones I expect it to have up to date flash plug-ins.


At last Sony2008 is supposed to be the year of the Playstation 3 and so far it has. With Huge games and cool applications Sony has really stepped up there game. With firmware 2.4 out, Sony has addressed the Playstation 3's two weak points against the Xbox 360 ( Trophies and Cross game Messaging). Sony did a good job at bringing the Playstaion 3 back from an almost imminant death, but there still not perfect.

First: Sony needs to announce that all of there games are on track and there will not be many (any) more delays. Thus ending the Delaystation era.

Second: Update us on Home! Show us more of its features in better depth. Tell us Home is on track for fall release and there won't be another delay.

Third: I understand the PS3 has some RAM constrictions but bring in private chat during a game and make the In game XMB load faster or get rid of all of the icons! If I cant look at pictures in game why let me see them! The same goes for everything else get rid of the useless icons it would make it load faster and use less memory.

Fourth: Show us more Life with Playstation Stuff and possibly a release date hopefully soon!

Fifth: Add more PS3 to PSP functionality! This truly is Sony's secret weapon against everyone else! Let me stream DVDs or let me copy Videos, games, and pictures through remoteplay to my PSPs memorystick. Also let me use my PSP as a remote to controle Videos also if you could let us use our PSPs to view the XMB while were in a PS3 game.

Sixth: Announce PSP2! If not fix the current PSP announce firmware 5.0 thus pretty much skip 4.0, and add more functionality as in Divx and DLNA support, update the flash player in the web browser if the Mylo can do it so can PSP and at last tie PSP with the PSN let me see my friends and messages on my PSP.

Seventh: Announce that the video store is ready and will launch with TV shows and Movies that you can buy or rent and have a choice of SD or HD and allow us to veiw/copy them on PSP. Oh yea have it come out at the end of the month!

Eighth: If Microsoft and Nintendo do a price drop you have to follow suit. Plus it will really boost your sales!!

Final Thoughts: Don't bring a new controller unless it's the boomerang (I want something new) and stick to your promises!

A New Shade

At 1:00 July 9, 2008 I sent my Xbox 360 in for repair. The lady said 4-6 weeks until I would get it back. So the final count down (up?) begins hopefully its the last count down! As you can see on the right I put a counter to see exactly how long. So the wait begins!

What a Pretty Shade

You should be able to tell what that is but, if you've never seen a RROD expressed through stained glass well there you go. Today I fired up my Xbox to play some Bioshock it flashed a pretty blue screen at me I guess that shows it has something in common with Windows then I shut it off and then I could see the light. This will be the second time Im sending in my Xbox 360 first was because of the DVD drive. Well Xbox I tried to play with you but with the controlers battery not holding charge you not liking my gamesaves it just wasnt meant to be.

The Whores are Abound

So with Sony introducing Trophies I see it going the same way as Achievements, as in people wanting to cheat or do something they would never EVER do just to get those points or trophy. Now I've decided to write this article because I was on a website talking about Firmware 2.40 and this guy was righting comments saying how Trophies are dumb and so are Achievements. While I would not say there dumb but, I will say the have ruined gaming all together. So as this guy was going on and on I looked at his Gamercard (this was on a blogger and if you click there name it takes you to there blog) and for someone to say they don't matter and have a 50,000 Gamerscore, it got me really mad to say the least. Now in the picture to the right is basically his Gamercard with a few things changed but, what isn't changed is the games he has played. Looking at his games played he had 1000/1000 out of about 8 games he has played 6 of them are: CSI, Lost the game, Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, TMNT. If your aware those are the easiest games to get 1000/1000 on, that really you wouldn't play. So this got me thinking about Achievements and Trophies its all bullshit. I say the only way you should get Achievements and Trophies are by going one time through doing what you would normally do. Not shoot 50 birds or something stupid like that, what you would of done before Achievements, would of been to go from point A to point B and finish the game best you can and that is basically how I have been playing it! I don't search for documents I dont want to have to camp to stay alive for 30 seconds in multiplayer to get 10 Achievement points my teammates need me. I say if your running around getting involved and you happen to stay alive I say more power to you! Now with people using sites like xbox360achievements.org, ps3trophies.org, and sites like Gamefaqs or gametrailers to figure out where or how to do something and that takes the skill out of being a true gamer. I used 1 of those sites since the 360 launched and that was gametrailers, I used it to see how to beat a boss in Ninja Gaiden Sigma and I still feel guilty for doing it, but what it showed was I was doing the right thing just had to do it faster. So I wrote this article to express my anger toward how Achievements and Trophies really are ruining games and gamers today. I didn't write this to be directed toward any particular person it is directed toward the community as a whole. I started to noticed my self doing things I wouldn't normally do and it kinda bugs me. I would say they are a good idea if every single Achievement and Trophy was received with out cheating of some sort. I consider sites that tell you what to do, how to do, and where to look CHEATING! You shouldn't go buy Avatar the Last Airbender unless your a fan or liked it and by the reveiws not many liked it. So I guess that's it I've been pretty mad about this for awhile but with the introduction of Trophies and to see it going the same way I just had to express my anger somewhere and good thing I have a Blog :-) But anywho keep it fair out there and see you online!