Give a Quick shout out.....

I just wanted to give a Quick shout out to Road Runner for being amazingly quick.. I'm currently rocking a steady 12.6mb/s. Big step up from the not even 1.5mb/s I was getting from AT&T.. I'll think of Road Runner during the 4min it takes to download a 150MB video from the Playstation Store..

EYE Can See!!

Also on my trip to get NG:DS I seen a PS EYE, eyeing me up... get it... ehh never mind. Anyway I bought it and its surprisingly big and a lot better build quality than the Xbox Live camera...



So far I bought Trials Of Topoq ( 2 pac?).. No its not to see who killed 2 pac.. But you guide a ball through stairs like levels where when you move your hands and little squares pop up that move the ball.. Its hard to explain. The game isn't to bad its not going to win game of the year but what do you expect for $5.. So far its ok and with more games out and more hopefully coming it will not go the way of the Xbox cam.

The Dragon Sword is Back and Going Right Through My DS

Thats right..... Today is the start of major damage to my DS. I just went and got Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for the Nintendo DS. Many of you might of thought I didn't have a DS since I don't really talk about it. Well I have had one since launch and the last game I bought for it was Wario Ware DS which came out the following February after the DS's launch. In case your counting thats not a single game for it since February 2005, 3 years ago!.. Now I'm finally getting some use out of it. But anyway back to the game.. This game takes place 6 months after the events of the first Ninja Gaiden (SIGMA). The game looks very good for a DS game as you can see from the screen shot above. I was very curious on how Ninja Gaiden would handle on the DS, more specifically on how attacking with the touch screen would work. With some getting used to it works surprisingly well, EX: you slash the stylus on your enemies very smiler to the Zelda game on the DS, and to throw shurikans(?) ninja stars by tapping the enemy. You also hold the DS like a book, which you get used to very quick.. Also on another note when holding the DS like this it looks more appropriate while your on the shitter. Just my 2 cents... So I've only played the first 2 chapters and I don't have much to talk about but what I do have to say is its a lot easier than Sigma.. Long story short if you have a DS and like the Ninja Gaiden games eg games that make you go nuts then you should go get it..
Review coming in like 4 months when I beat it, maybe longer if I have to go through multiple DS's..

Gran Turismo 5: Prologue 6gb install?

Yeah thats right Gran Turismo fans, GT5: Prologue has a 6GB install this is more than the download all together. I'm not really sure why I guess to keep load times to a minimal. In case you didn't hear the download version weighs in at a little more than 1GB, but the catch is you have to download each video individually. I'm not really sure how that works either, do you not get a opening video if you don't download it? Or is it the video from when you unlock a vehicle. No ones really sure but this must suck for you 20GB PS3 owners, you already have your hard drive full from DMC4, Lost Planet , and now GT 5.... Well its not all bad news, the cars look nice and I hear newegg.com is having a sale on hard drives.. So get to it you have about 50 min to order a new hard drive.......

Xbox Live's Main Plan..

So as you may or may not know in the Fall Update for Xbox Live, Microsoft banned all GOLD and silver members under the age of 18 from downloading "M" rated content. When asking Microsoft about this Microsoft replied something like, we want to protect our underage users from playing or seeing "M" rated content as followed by the E.S.R.B. and Nintendo and Sony should do the same.. Thats not the exact quote but its very similar to what they said. Now I can see where there going with this.. but why are the parental controls there if Microsoft is going to tell you what you can and can not play or watch! I don't know anyone above 18 that has parents that would block them from playing "M" rated content. Now imagine how mad I am, when I pay the same $50 a year as everyone else but get 1/4 of the downloads. If I wanted to play games where you pet bunnies and dumb shit like that I would own a Wii, what I want are demos and videos of games that have people blowing into a million pieces and getting chainsawed in the face! So.... after numerous calls to India... I mean Xbox customer support the response I get is to make a new silver account but lie about my age... WOW! Really thinking of the kids there huh Microsoft? So after thinking a lot I have come to the conclusion.... this is a way for Microsoft to get more Xbox Live users! Think about it.. They ban 65% of there users and trust me its 65% I have played Halo 3 online, from downloading 3/4 of the content released and if say 40% of those users call customer support and get told to make a new account to download "M" rated items they get 40% more Xbox Live users. So Microsoft out of 8million users how many have 2 accounts to download the demos you blocked them from? I believe this was there plan on how to get more subscribers. This is just coming from someone that was told they cant download "M" rated or "RP" rated content. I dont know maybe ill go play 36/53 "M" rated original Xbox games or my 14/20 "M" rated Xbox 360 games that I own! By the way I'm going to be 17 in 19 days and still not old enough to get a fucking demo that I pay $50 a year for!

Wheel Or No Wheel

So in 24 days it will be my Birthday and I've been thinking about what to get. In case you didn't want to count that means my Birthday is on April 17th. I'm going to be turning 17 and in one more year I'll be able to download "M"stuff off of Xbox Live (BASTARDS), but any who, on my Birthday Gran Turismo 5: Prologue comes out and I was wondering about the wheel. The wheel (pictured above^) costs a stiff $150. This would be a big step up from the wheels that I had on the Dreamcast which were cheap plastic and didnt even turn more than 90*. Just a f.y.i. the GT wheel turns 900*, which is all the way around + a 1/2, like in a real car. So if anyone can comment or recommend on why I should or shouldn't get I would appreciate it.

Why Pioneer? Why?

Today is a sad day. Pioneer, makers of the best televisions as of right now has announced that it will stop making plasma flat panels and move on to using Sharp LCD panels. This is to cut costs and help bring Pioneer back into the green. This doesn't bode well for Project Kuro which is Pioneer's tv that boasts a infinite contrast ratio for true blacks and is only 9mm thick. This is one millimeter thicker than a iPod Touch and I believe is thinner than a iPhone. Pioneer says they will begin selling Kuro (Kuro means Black in Japanese) LCDs in the later half of 2008. Hopefully they can do to LCDs that they did to plasmas. These TVs will remain in my most wanted list for awhile. Now where did I put that extra $6,000? ;-)

***Update Pioneer isn't canceling there plasmas there going to start to use the same panels that are in Panasonic tv's!***

Just a Heads Up

Just a quick note on whats going on. First of all I'm moving so I've been pretty busy to update the blog. I just wanted to make every one aware of whats going on. But second I bought a few games off of the PSN like Pixel Junk Monsters, Go! Sports Skydiving, Syphon Filter, and the original Warhawk. I'm not going to give a review of these games, but will give a quick insight on whether or not you should buy them. First up Pixel Junk Monsters. This is kind of expensive at $10 but at launch was $6.99 which was when I bought it. This game is good but hard its kind of like a puzzle game where you set up your towers of weapons and creatures walk through and you hope your guns kill them before they reach you base. Overall its good but cant really recommend it.

Go! Sports Skydiving is one of the most anticipated Go! games and at $5 you really cant complain. The game only uses the SixaxiS just like Go! Sports Ski but worse. You have to get in certin positions and this requires goofy as hell controller movements. First of all the controller is supposed to be flat in your hands where R1 and L1 face your T.V. then to rotate your character your supposed to be able to just rotate it (counter) clockwise, but to my frusration you have to flick it and hold so it gets in the position. I cant even tell you how many times I go into a spinning frenzy. Then you have to pull the controller toward you air plane style and your guy goes up or down. This game is ok if your a fan of the ski game, but if your not then I wouldn't check this out other than that has lots of modes and could be worth it if you can handle the controls.

Syphon Filter and (PSX) Warhawk. Syphon Filter is a awesome the game, graphics, sound, and gameplay are very well done and with the Type 4 controls works extremely well on the PSP. If you were looking for a game to buy off the PSN thats a PSX game then Syphon Filter Should be it! On the other hand warhawk is not so good. The game looks like poo (PSX launch title) and the real life people doing the cut scenes its not worth it. Also to add insult to injury it doesn't use a memory card it uses the codes that we all know and hate (ahh Zombies ate my neighbors comes to mind). This is not a game you want for PSP especially since the codes you have to remember are 8 buttons long. In the end check out Syphon Filter and avoid (PSX) Warhawk like the plague!

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Like W.T.F.

So last night as I was playing C.O.D.4 I was getting very frustrated, getting killed by the over powered and crazy accurate M16 and the over accurate RPD. I decided its time to put COD on the shelf until things get fixed. COD is going the way of Socom 2 quick, with people hacking there saved file (PS3) and changing the color of there name and putting button icons in there clan tag. This is how Socom 2 went down hill but COD is getting there much faster! With Infinity Ward working on a patch, I was thinking of every thing they need to fix to get me and many others to play COD4 again.
So heres a LIST.......

~ M16 Assault Rifle: Accuracy, Power, and Recoil, are extremely unrealistic. No gun is going to kill you across the map in three shots like that, it almost takes more sniper bullets to kill someone than it takes the M16 to kill someone and the M16 can be more accurate at most times, since you don't have to worry about holding your breath.

~ Barrett .50 Sniper Rifle: Not accurate enough and not powerful enough. Lets talk about accuracy first, the Barrett has a stand on the front which should make, most if not all movement in the scope go away, if your in the prone position. The Barrett in COD shouldn't move the same in the standing position as in the prone position. Second the power is garbage in the game. The Barrett can kill some one as far away as 5 miles in one shot in the appropriate place (head, torso) and it should the bullet it uses is almost the size of the Xbox 360 controller (from "B" to the Left Stick) its huge, it should kill you in one hit. Unlike in COD 4 it take on average 2 shots torso area with stopping power.
~Other Semi Automatic Sniper Rifles(M21): if a gun is suppose to be powerful and shoots fast like that the recoil would be insane.

Heavy Machine Guns (RPD, M60): A gun as big and powerful as a RPD or a M60 are going to have recoil I don't think putting a Red dot scope on a heavy machine gun is going to make it recoil less and be as accurate as a M16, its just not going to happen.

Other Complaints I don't agree with

~P90- too strong . Yes its strong but you have to be such a high level to get it and it doesn't have the range so it balances out.

Other things that need Fixed. At least in PS3 version

~Connecting back to Party after game ends, or host leaves.

~Be able to Mute annoying people or over excessive breathers.

~ More respawn areas! I Hate spawning in front of a group of people, or a person I kill spawns right near me.

~ In game Friends list (One thats on XMB)

~ In game messaging. If I can see my friends list or partial friends list why cant I send messages to them.

**I Guess thats it! If Infinity Ward Implements these features I'll be one happy person.**

Blooper Awards

GAME OF THE YEAR...

Uncharted is the best game I played all year. The graphics, sound, and game play are the best I've experienced all year. The game is a bit on the short side, around 8-10 hours but there pure bliss. This game really shows what the Playstation 3 is capable of. The bright colors, tropical forests, and gorgeous vistas, really show off your HDTV (720p-1080i). If you don't have this game and have a PS3 your nuts by not buying it. Uncharted is the Gears of War for PS3, it shows that the PS3 is truly the power-house Sony said it was. Uncharted is a really great game and its a shame it didn't sell as many copies as it should of.

Runner up
The Orange Box
Call of Duty 4
Ratchet and Clank Future: TOD

Best Shooter

Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4 is the Best Shooter of the Year. The is single player is awesome, from sneaking missions, to sniping missions, to guns blazing. The single player is one of the best in a shooter, and I believe all gullied up is the best mission in any single player game, but where the game shines is multiplayer. COD4 rivals the likes of Socom for best multiplayer. The ranking system is the coolest part of COD online, every time you go up you get something like a gun or new challenges, so it keeps the experience fresh. Overall great game for any system. But wait until the patch to pick this one up!

Hardest Game of the Year

Ninja Gaiden Sigma

Ninja Gaiden Sigma was truly the hardest game of the year. The challenging bosses, distant save points, and low health potions will stretch your patience to the limit. This game was also gorgeous and at the time showed why the Playstation 3 was going to be a graphical powerhouse! Ninja Gaiden runs at 1920x1080 60fps (1080p). This game is hard, beautiful, and a great reason to get a Playstation 3!

Riskiest but a good change to the series

Socom US. Navy Seals
Tactical Strike

Socom Tactical Strike is a awesome game for the PSP! This is the first Socom game that is made by Slant Six. Instead of going the way that Zipper was heading Slant Six made Socom Tactical Strike a Strategy game much like Full Spectrum Warrior. This game has amazing graphics for a PSP game and rivals the graphics found in Socom 2 (PS2). Socom TS is a great game but isn't really a portable game,with long missions its not very good to play on the bus to school or in study hall, since you cant play a little and shut it off, unless you want to put the PSP into sleep mode, which is a nice feature but I wouldn't do that since the PSP is one hot piece of hardware. Kidding aside if your a PSP owner and liked Full Spectrum Warrior you should do yourself a favor and pick this one up, or at least try the demo over here.

Best Long Running Series


Half Life Series

With the Orange Box coming out recently I noticed how awesome and realistic the Half Life series is. Half Life Games are beautiful in a realistic way, unlike in Gears of War where everything is bumpy and shiny, the Half life series takes everything realistically instead of huge monuments and stuff like that there are brick houses, instead of some crazy assault vehicle you get a beat up car or a junky dune buggy. Also the voice acting and story line are top notch and deserve more credit. These are nice touches that make the game enjoyable. So check out the Orange Box and find out for your self if you haven't done so yet!

Best Voice Acting


Heavenly Sword

Heavenly Sword is the first game of the trilogy to appear on the PS3 and it was a sight for sore eyes. Basically pulling the PS3 from the slump it was experiencing and pretty much fulfilled the hype it had unlike Lair which should be getting better here soon. Heavenly Sword was short but it was great, the voice acting was phenomenal . The voice actors were very believable and passionate about what they were saying. The game overall was very good and was different that what was currently available. This is a game you should most defiantly check out!

Holloween, opps I mean Halloween Reveiw

Since this Blog is things I like and Dislike I think I should do a review of the new Halloween movie by Rob Zombie. When the movie starts you can immediately tell this is made by Rob Zombie. In the first 2min there is more swear words then in the entire first one. This movie isn't really a Halloween movie to me. It just follows a similar plot, there is a kid in Illinois that kills his family and goes nuts. This movie doesn't have the scaryness of the original ones, or the coolness factor. He doesnt seem like as much of a bad ass in this one. No one dies in a cool way, by cool I mean stuff I couldnt do myself or anyone else could do. I want more people going through walls and Michael jamming shotguns through people, or sticking a scalpel through people and sticking them up on the wall, thats what a true bad ass killer does. Halloween by Rob Zombie makes Michael Myers seem like an average killer. Before this movie I thought if Michael was to fight Jason, Michael would win. But after this Movie I'm not sure he could. I would say Jason X caught more classic Jason than this remake did of Michael Myers . I liked that there was more blood but did every person he killed have to be naked? I think two people he killed wasn't naked and one was taking a crap so he was half naked. Overall an ok movie but doesn't size up to any other Halloween movies.
Sorry Micheal this
gonna have to be a
RENTAL

High Velocity Bowling Reveiw

Review incoming for High Velocity Bowling!!!! First thoughts, very good!

Review: High Velocity Bowling is a very well done bowling simulator. The highest score I ever got in real bowling was a 153 and in this game my highest I got was a 158. I'm not much of a good bowler so the game is a bit tough, not much tougher than regular bowling. High Velocity Bowling uses the Sixaxis to move your guy and through the ball etc... You hold the controller vertically placing your index finger and middle finger in between R1 and L1, and with your thumb in between the analog sticks. You tilt the Sixaxis right or left to move your guy, then you press X to keep him there, next you will see an arrow showing what angle you want, then press X to keep that angle, finally you pull the controller back and swing it forward to through the ball. Just like a real bowling. This game is one of the first, if not the first to support in game soundtracks. you just press select and you can access all of the music on your Playstation 3. High Velocity Bowling can output a resolution of 1080p and as far as I can tell has no multiplayer, it has leader boards which is nice to have. High Velocity Bowling is $10. For $10 you would think there would at least be splitscreen multiplayer but there isn't. They have mny characters to unlock some of them are very annoying, like Berry who always says "Hurry up I gotta pick up the mini-van from the shop" well thats great I really don't care. while there is 4 modes ( Practice, Head 2 Head, Tournament, and Trick Shots). By completing theses you unlock Characters, Bowling balls, and cloths. The game is very good even though its missing multiplayer and your custom soundtrack music isn't very loud, its still a solid BUY.
8.8

Will you feel the the Pain? (Review)

Last Thursday I bought a couple things from the Playstation Store. One of them being PAiN. PAiN is basically Burnouts Crash Mode where you have to cause as much damage as possible, except with a person. The game costs $10 and comes with 1 level and two playable characters, one is a guy named Jarvis with 3 costumes, "Regular", "Gangster", and "Hippie". PAiN uses the HAVOK physics engine for realistic rag doll and environment physics. Also the game supports DualShock 3, so you can experience PAiN in its full glory. The game gets kinda boring luckily the multiplayer and heavy downloadable content support keeps the game fresh. PAiN has two downloadable characters right off the bat a Santa Clause and a sexy Elf (?) type lady. Both are $1 which isn't bad but makes you wonder why they couldn't include them with the game. I would buy the game again since Idol Minds (developer) says to expect downloadable content monthly.
8/10

Fall Update! Be Easy....

Tomorrow the Xbox Live fall update goes live, you should be able to get it at 3:00a.m. est. The update doesnt really do to much except for enable DivX support, make the Dashboard/Guide (2x) faster and allow people under 18 to use Windows Live Messenger, and allows your friends to see your other friends. You can see the full list at xbox.com. Now a few reminders; make sure your not playing an online game around 3:00am est or you'll get kicked off and be asked to update. Another this is the update may not go live right away or you might have problems connecting to Live. If anything we've learned from past updates is they don't (always) go as planed. So chill out and everything will work its self out!

Every Days shooter? I think Not!

Today I bought Everyday Shooter for the PS3 off of the Playstation Store. The game cost $10 and it has around 8 levels. The game has a really cool art style and the back grounds are really cool because they shift by where you are and change colors. The game is really for its music, every time you hit something it plays a note that goes along with the background music. With the cool style and lots of unlockables make this as good if not better than Geometry Wars. When I saw the game was $10 I was like is it worth it, the game is like 38MB, GO! Sports Ski is around 300MB and its $3. Well I bought it, and so should you!
9/10

Halo 3 Reveiw

Last week October 5, after many problems I had with my Xbox and 5+ hours of Microsoft's "good'' customer support and all of my game saves getting deleted, I beat Halo 3! Halo 3 has a great single player game, the graphics are really good, even though the game runs a 640p and gets upscaled to 720p, 1080i, 1080p. The sound is well done and when you blow up stuff the explosions look amazing. The multiplayer is basically Halo 2 with crisper graphics, new vehicles, and new weapons. Halo 3 is much better than halo 2 and I would argue that Halo 3 is better than the first Halo. I went at midnight to wait for Halo 3 and it was really worth it! If you have a 360 and you don't have Halo 3 you are probably the only one and needs to go pick it up right now!
9.8/10

The Loco Wannabe... Reveiw

Today on the Playstation Store Sony released LocoRoco Cocoreccho! I guess you suppose to scream when you say the title, but after buying it for $7 there isn't really anything to scream about. The game is about a hour, hour and a half max. The game is really complicated you can have up to 200 loco's following you at one time. Unlike the PSP version where you use R1 and L1, which would of been a perfect fit for the sixaxis but instead someone thought it would of been a good idea for you to be a butterfly and have the loco's follow you. This is aggravating on a whole new level. When you want them to jump they don't, so you have to go all the way back around and try again. You can use the sixaxis to control certain platforms, flowers and levers like the one in the picture. Unless you really want it because you enjoyed the music and the funky graphics from the PSP version, I wouldn't pick this one up until the price drops.
7/10

Warhawk Soars.....

Finally some good news for a Playstation 3 game. According to vgchartz.com Warhawk has sold around 100 thousand copies a week after its release. I'm thinking that this is the retail versions since no one really knows about PSN sales except Sony. That goes to show you that people will buy "Online Only Games" as long as its good. This Game is a lot more fun and is selling faster than Shadowrun which is only at 210 thousand units almost a year after its release. Its about time us Playstation 3 owners have something to play other than Resistance. This game is a lot of fun and if you have a Playstation and your online I recommend you pick it up! See you in the skies.

The World Can End I Have Won!

Tuesday September 4 I beat Ninja Gaiden Sigma. It took me a lot longer than expected, around 21 hours to beat. This was the first time I played through a Ninja Gaiden game and I was very pleased with it and I'm excited for the sequel. Hopefully the sequel will be announced at T.G.S. later this month. If you haven't played Ninja Gaiden yet i would pick up Sigma! The game is Cheap at times but still enjoyable! For some this might not seem like a big deal but for the people that have beat it know how much of an accomplishment it is!