So I am currently working in a sales organization for pharmaceutical things. It sounds a lot more interesting than it is, I would much rather be playing 360 anytime. My job is a grind, nuff said!
If you have played Call of Duty 5 you are aware of one of it’s more popular maps called Makin, this is the stage where there is a giant straw hut in the center of the board. I am sure many of you have thought how great it would be to get to the top of the hut and just camp your little heart away, don’t lie. Well here is what happens if you do get to the top of the hut, seems like the developers programmed in hot fiery death for you for trying to exploit the map. Enjoy and kudos to the devs for thinking ahead,
It has been quite some time since I had experienced lag so bad that it made me want to stop playing my video game, but it has happened again. Seems that my old nemesis LAG hit me yesterday and he was quite a fierce adversary. He first popped up after I downloaded the NXE on my Xbox 360 and tried to play some COD 5, the stutter and constant death was horrible. The LAG would make me teleport all over the screen and made shooting anyone or even shanking them with the knife difficult.
I had almost forgotten how terrible LAG can be, it made trying to play online like trying to run a race with your ankles tied together. I spent about 20 minutes during a match in Halo 3 in a re-spawn screen staring at the floor as the rest of the players had a good time and shot my non-moving body. The score would stay stuck at 0 - 0 and I would just be lying on the ground listening to others complain about getting shot in the face and in COD 5 I would continually get a “Connection Interrupted” message. The lag would consistently put me in the last spot and lost me a rank in Team Slayer and did not help my cause to try and get more perks.
Time to try and figure out what is going on, I can only hope that this experience has nothing to do with the new NXE and the avatars, I blame avatars for my lag. Do you have any good lag stories to share?
South Park takes on hard hitting up to date issues and makes them funny, but it looks like Call of Duty 5 has popped up on their radar screen and the kids of South Park are killing the Japanese and bringing the funny. I like how one of the kids complains about the Flak Jacket perk and the girl tells him that it isn’t a cheat if you rank up.
This brings back so many memories of playing Diablo, Counter Strike and Starcraft during my computer labs in college, you could look down the back aisles and see absolutely no one working on C++ but instead gaming away. Good memories.
This group of gamers took the idea of Guitar Hero mixed it with a BMX bike and a lot of paint on the ground and the outcome is sheer awesomeness. Watch as they play an entire song and don’t miss a beat, the buttons on the handle bars actually mimic the button presses on the guitar and match the notes on the ground. They even go the extra mile and have small details like the note streak and star power as well. There is one part where the guy rides by a runner and you can see a confused look on her face, classic.
This is a pretty lengthy clip of Left 4 Dead, but it gives you a good idea of what to expect out of the game. I like the shadow effects in the game where zombies seem to appear out of no where, but there are some small issues I see already. I noticed while watching this that you can not control the computer AI partners, which will become difficult, you can see this during one scene where the player wants to move forward, but his three partners are stuck behind battling in a building. Also the shotgun seems to be very overpowered and can get one shot kills almost every time, making your teammates useless. I also do not see much team work being displayed during this clip, I would much rather prefer survival to be dependent on being smart and resourceful rather than just blasting through stages.
I knew that Kiefer Sutherland was casting his voice to the new Call of Duty game but I have to admit that I was surprised to hear that Gary Oldman was in it also. So it looks like Call of Duty 5 will have Jack Bauer and Syrius Black, not a bad duo to have yelling during your gaming experience. I may get this game just to hear Kiefer yell at me during battles while blowing things up, watch as both actors put their all into these lines and really deliver some fierce dialogue.
I just want Gary Oldman to yell out “Bring Everyone!”. Name what movie that line is from for bonus points.
I recently had a Gears of War 2 marathon and managed to finish the game in under ten hours on the day it launched. When I told some people they laughed and thought I was nuts, some were even upset saying that I had cheapened the experience of playing through the title. I do not think I cheapened the experience, I played through and listened to the story and looked for COGs and extras, but still managed to finish the game in coop with a friend in the first day.
I will admit that once I beat it there was a sense of being tired of course, but also a sense of being lost and wondering what to do next. Now that the core campaign had been used and abused, was I relinquished to treating Gears like a multiplayer game and just grinding out games on-line or was there more for me to do?
This brings to mind a few things like why are games so short now a days? I do not think I cheapened the experience, but the game developers created a game that can be beat in a relatively short time frame. Yes there are multiplayer modes and different difficulties to play on if you want to run through again, but that is not the point. Playing through on different difficulties to me is not a different experience, just one that tends to frustrate the player more. The increasing of difficulty typically changes nothing in the game except for making the AI near god like and decreasing your ability to kill enemies. Unless the new difficulty provides new maps or a different game mechanic, this should not be considered as extra gameplay or extra content.
I had brought you word that I was working on a Loot Ninja Mighty Mugg a while back and I was so busy that I never really got around to it, but now I have finished one prototype. I colored him similar to the ninja that shows up on our homepage, but the colors are a bit off.
I started by penciling in my design concept and then going out and buying paint and supplies at the local hobby shop. The figure is 100% hand painted with acrylic paint, which gives it a glossy finish. This was my first attempt at the figure and I have three more blanks to work on and try to refine my design. I hadn’t painted something since grade school so this was a bit of a challenge and took me a couple of hours to work through.
What do you think?
Hit the jump for some different shots of the Loot Ninja Muggs.
Little Big Planet gives users man opportunities to create levels, but the fun does not just stop there, check out what some users made Sack Boy look like.
Which is your favorite?
I think I am leaning toward Sack Batman and Sack Hogan, although if someone makes a Sack Loot Ninja that will easily be my favorite. Get to work!
I have not had a good old-fashioned video gaming marathon in quite some time and I decided that the launch of Gears of War 2 would be my call to arms. I shuffled over to my local Best Buy and picked up a regular copy of the game, no limited edition gold lancer for me, then went home to get in some good old-fashioned chainsaw fun. My marathon embarked at 6 PM and did not reach its end until 5 AM, so a solid 11 hours devoted to Gears 2 to get me into the game and the result was a full play through on normal.
In a way I was both happy and sad that my marathon culminated in the completion of the game. I realized this would be another short game, similar to the first Gears, when I saw that a few hours in I was already into Act 3 of the game, but I was pleased that my marathon ended in something fruitful instead of just saying I didn’t sleep and played video games. I played with a couple of different coop partners as some of them would drop from time to time and my game actually froze twice during the 11 hour sit-down, which forced me to power my Xbox 360 down and restart again.
I did take some breaks to play Horde, which is probably my favorite game type in the game, if not possibly my favorite thing in the game period. So the way I figure it, I paid $65 and finished the game in 11 hours so I am averaging $6 per hour of entertainment, pretty decent. I know there are many things to go back and do like collect all the COGs and play in the harder difficulties, but these are side notes for me and will probably only give me a couple of extra hours of game time. Where I may spend some more time is the new online modes and matches, especially since I unlocked all the different multiplayer skins already.
We're like Spaceballs... we're making Loot Ninja everything. Coming soon we'll have hats, shirts, hoodies, possibly banana hammocks if one Editor has his way...
Check out the shirt prototypes here and the hats here
