so yes, anyone that knows me should have a good grasp on how much i love the series Metal Gear Solid. So anything i write about it, will most definitely be biases towards it. But i cant help it, it just so happens to be my favorite story.
So the entire reason i picked up my PS3 in the first place was for this game. It was supposed to be a near launch title, but was inevitably pushed back a few times since hideo is batshit crazy anal about his work. but even though i about died from anticipation of the damned game, it was more than worth the wait.
metal gear got me into cinematic gameplay, where youre moreso playing a specific role in a story, or as another reviewer put it "Hideo has his own little world and you just so happen to be passing through for the moment" The cutscenes in mgs4 ranged from medium to ohmygod long in length, but they all hit once crucial point: i was never bored watching them. The action scenes were on par with CGI from recent films (at teh end of act 3, Erik John and myself had a hard time believing some of the scenes were real time, or even rendered at all) and the script, though a bit heavy for alot of people, was full of twists and mysteries until the very, very end.
Yahtzee brought up the fact that alot of Hideo's dialog is reitterated throughout the game and entire series, and is in dire need of an editor, but alot of this is nescessary to reinforce some ideas that he is trying to put into our heads, or to give hints to others things. There is a small clue you figure out at the end of the game that once you play through again, you find that hideo was shoving it in your face the entire time.
metal gear was never known for its gunplay, especially because you couldnt move and manually aim at the same time in the older series. they made some series leaps and bounds in the latest iteration, mostly with the OTS vew for the shooting, with an option to move into first person and walk around while staying in that view. there is still an autoaim option, which the japanese are accustomed to, but i have had no problems racking up headshots, especially online, with teh OTS crosshairs. and the guns, all 70some of the, just feel right.
in all honesty, i could go on for hours about how much i enjoyed this game, or how amazed i was when they released a fucking encyclopedia, FOR FREE, on all the information ever collected in the MG and MGS series. but this is truely a game that you have to experience. if you didnt care for the older ones, there really is nothing new here to catch your attention unless you feel like looking at some pretty graphics. but if you were in love with any of the old ones, be sure to play this.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
bringin' it back!
So ive been meaning to keep up with this, trust me i have! everyone else has been terribly busy and, well, ive been playing GTAIV while simultaneously pissing myself in anticipation of MGS4. I plan on posting here more often again. Just not right now.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Gears of War 2 Lancer concepts
So i am obviously a turncoat ever since i got my 360, because ive ben addicted to Gears of War. Plus my ps3 doesnt seem like its going to last much longer so i try to save its life for MGS4.
Not too long ago, CtrlAltDel released a webcomic about how gears could possibly improve the already amazing lancer, which incase you didnt know, is a gun with a chainsaw on it.
discussions in my classes have often led to the sweet things we could attach to the lancer. The original idea was some kind of bear, but after running the numbers, i found it to be completely impossible. Not because its too big for Marcus to carry, because thats just not true. its just too awesome to ever exist.
Our next idea was a kitten, here is my shitty artistic ability depicting what the new Cat-lancer would look like:
as you can see, the cat would probably be either A: asleep or B: dead from gunfire (from others or the lancer it's attached to) on the downtike. But once in battle, a simple tug of the tail would put it into attack mode. After some serious playtesting, it has been found that this weapon would be completely unbalanced. In the original Gears, if you got shot while revving your chainsaw, you would put it down, making you vulnerable. With the cat-lander, the wielder can actually be killed but the cat will still be in attack mode, and on multiplae occasions it broke free of the lancer and ran after the closest person and gave them some pretty nasty scratches.
Also some players were cheesing rather than playing the game.
The next concept is that the player has to actually upgrade the lancer from more primitive types of weapons to the chainsaw, such as a bonesaw and axe.
No one knew how to hold this.
Not too long ago, CtrlAltDel released a webcomic about how gears could possibly improve the already amazing lancer, which incase you didnt know, is a gun with a chainsaw on it.
discussions in my classes have often led to the sweet things we could attach to the lancer. The original idea was some kind of bear, but after running the numbers, i found it to be completely impossible. Not because its too big for Marcus to carry, because thats just not true. its just too awesome to ever exist.
Our next idea was a kitten, here is my shitty artistic ability depicting what the new Cat-lancer would look like:
as you can see, the cat would probably be either A: asleep or B: dead from gunfire (from others or the lancer it's attached to) on the downtike. But once in battle, a simple tug of the tail would put it into attack mode. After some serious playtesting, it has been found that this weapon would be completely unbalanced. In the original Gears, if you got shot while revving your chainsaw, you would put it down, making you vulnerable. With the cat-lander, the wielder can actually be killed but the cat will still be in attack mode, and on multiplae occasions it broke free of the lancer and ran after the closest person and gave them some pretty nasty scratches.
Also some players were cheesing rather than playing the game.
The next concept is that the player has to actually upgrade the lancer from more primitive types of weapons to the chainsaw, such as a bonesaw and axe.
No one knew how to hold this.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Setup Mark I and II
This is the second setup for my games that ive had. i dont have a picture of my first, because digital cameras either didnt exist, or we couldnt use one because we didnt have a computer yet. Basically it was a black and white TV that needed an RF adapter to play NES all the way up till i first got my ps2. I got the TV when i was 3. Doved "Mark I" since i cant come up with anything catchy and original.
This post is in memorial of my second setup, which is, as of around 5:00pm tonight, completely replaced.
19" TV
$50 "gaming speakers" (its what the box said)
The speakers had no treble to them at all, and the sub woofer was way to powerful for its own good. When i played socom, all i heard were the explosions and slight crackles when someone shot a gun. Not to mention i couldnt see who was firing at me either on the enormous screen.
Got this about 2 months after my first ps2, TV lasted until November, Speakers died last April or somewhere around there.
R.I.P.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Elevators.
I seemed to have forgotten about this site for the past two weeks. Please blame Mass Effect.
It only took a week to beat, a total of 10 hours of (recorded) gameplay. I say this because there were far too many times that i was KIA then forced to redo a battle. But not just the battle, also the walk TO the battle, and the elevator ride there.
Oh elevators.
Now i understand why the elevators are there. They remove any loading screens, because 360 doesnt come standard with a hard drive, so the dev's have to program around that. So bioware tricks people into thinking the game is streaming by throwing in 20425 elevators. i wouldnt mind one or two a level, but when youre racing to get from point A to point C, and the only way to get there is take an elevator from A to B, then from B to C, that breaks the action. It took me out of the game.
on top of all of this, there are still loading screens! there are still texture pop ins! The game is beautiful, dont get me wrong, but the low res textures that can be on characters for upwards of 30 seconds is distracting as hell. Uncharted was on a much greater level graphics wise, and it had texture pop ins once an hour, if that, and they were almost immediately fixed.
another point is the framerate. as soon as the action starts, you drop to sometimes 5-10 fps. That is terrible for a console game, but even worse for a platform exclusive. i have yet to see a port run this badly.
technical issues aside though, Mass Effect has a crazy deep story and tons of shit to do. I played at my leisure but didnt deviate from the main quest more than twice and i was done inside of 10 hours, which is a damn good length considering how much else is in the game. The story gets a bit predictable at times, but its nothing terrible. The best part is how interactive it is based on your decisions.
The level up system is tight, and the fact that weapon upgrades are transferable fucking rules.
got a 360. play mass effect. it will make you hate elevators.
It only took a week to beat, a total of 10 hours of (recorded) gameplay. I say this because there were far too many times that i was KIA then forced to redo a battle. But not just the battle, also the walk TO the battle, and the elevator ride there.
Oh elevators.
Now i understand why the elevators are there. They remove any loading screens, because 360 doesnt come standard with a hard drive, so the dev's have to program around that. So bioware tricks people into thinking the game is streaming by throwing in 20425 elevators. i wouldnt mind one or two a level, but when youre racing to get from point A to point C, and the only way to get there is take an elevator from A to B, then from B to C, that breaks the action. It took me out of the game.
on top of all of this, there are still loading screens! there are still texture pop ins! The game is beautiful, dont get me wrong, but the low res textures that can be on characters for upwards of 30 seconds is distracting as hell. Uncharted was on a much greater level graphics wise, and it had texture pop ins once an hour, if that, and they were almost immediately fixed.
another point is the framerate. as soon as the action starts, you drop to sometimes 5-10 fps. That is terrible for a console game, but even worse for a platform exclusive. i have yet to see a port run this badly.
technical issues aside though, Mass Effect has a crazy deep story and tons of shit to do. I played at my leisure but didnt deviate from the main quest more than twice and i was done inside of 10 hours, which is a damn good length considering how much else is in the game. The story gets a bit predictable at times, but its nothing terrible. The best part is how interactive it is based on your decisions.
The level up system is tight, and the fact that weapon upgrades are transferable fucking rules.
got a 360. play mass effect. it will make you hate elevators.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Erik's the medic of the team...
...but OH MY GOD, over 12K healing and 40 points on WELL (CTF).
A front-line medic and base-medic. Basically, if you go too far from base, I scram....
Vroom... Vroom... VVRRROOOOMMM-Crash!
There is my attempt to type in the sound of effects for Burnout Paradise for the Playstation 3.
First, let me remind you that I am a real prick about multi-platform games on my PS3. But, because it's a racing game, it haven't let me done for a second... except when I try to do a hairpin drift and end up catching a bus instead. Anyhoo, it's a racing game that no racing, or destruction fans shouldn't miss.
Oh, let's start with the bad stuff about Paradise. The song selection. Half of the game consist of tracks from previous Burnout games. The other half... Pop and old rock. First pop that comes to mind. "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavinge. And the only played "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses...
The song is STUCK in my head. Even Rambo can't get it out with his brutal, throat-ripping, stomach-slashing, and arrow-slinging kills.
Onto the good stuff. The game is very, very... long... to achieve 100%. The free-roam world of Paradise City, broken up to eight main locations on one huge map. Over 200 intersections, and each intersection is a different type of event. Whether race, stunt runs, or road rage, you do not have a reason to do nothing productive.
Even if you don't want to do races, stunt runs, or road rages... The city itself is littered with hundred of shortcuts, smashes, billboards, drive-thrus, jump ramps, and that's all I can remember... There is always something to do, there is always a reason for you to destroy, smash, an wreck everything in the city.
Gameplay is very solid. Great controls for high speed arcade racing action, and the most amazing addition for the series is the Freeburn Online, and there's little no options to set-up and you can be online with just two pushes of the right-directional button, literally, and while in-game anywhere. Jump online, set-up races, destroy each other, outdo each other, and drive hard.
100% Power Parking, by the way, in three attempts this morning.
The game is great overall for racing and destructive fans. No in-game loadings, no slow-downs, the game runs amazingly around a constant 60 FPS, no matter how much action going on. The main thing of the game, crashes, are godlike. Every scratches, bumps, dents, holes, and head-on damages is registered on every vehicle. Criterion's custom deformation really bring crashing to a whole new level.
Well, that's about it from me. Only thing that I wish it had is comparing records between friends, though there are leaderboards. Maybe I haven't found it yet, but... Who cares? I'm havin' a blast jumping all around town in a Mobster Car.
Get it, try it. Just play it and shut up.
First, let me remind you that I am a real prick about multi-platform games on my PS3. But, because it's a racing game, it haven't let me done for a second... except when I try to do a hairpin drift and end up catching a bus instead. Anyhoo, it's a racing game that no racing, or destruction fans shouldn't miss.
Oh, let's start with the bad stuff about Paradise. The song selection. Half of the game consist of tracks from previous Burnout games. The other half... Pop and old rock. First pop that comes to mind. "Girlfriend" by Avril Lavinge. And the only played "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses...
The song is STUCK in my head. Even Rambo can't get it out with his brutal, throat-ripping, stomach-slashing, and arrow-slinging kills.
Onto the good stuff. The game is very, very... long... to achieve 100%. The free-roam world of Paradise City, broken up to eight main locations on one huge map. Over 200 intersections, and each intersection is a different type of event. Whether race, stunt runs, or road rage, you do not have a reason to do nothing productive.
Even if you don't want to do races, stunt runs, or road rages... The city itself is littered with hundred of shortcuts, smashes, billboards, drive-thrus, jump ramps, and that's all I can remember... There is always something to do, there is always a reason for you to destroy, smash, an wreck everything in the city.
Gameplay is very solid. Great controls for high speed arcade racing action, and the most amazing addition for the series is the Freeburn Online, and there's little no options to set-up and you can be online with just two pushes of the right-directional button, literally, and while in-game anywhere. Jump online, set-up races, destroy each other, outdo each other, and drive hard.
100% Power Parking, by the way, in three attempts this morning.
The game is great overall for racing and destructive fans. No in-game loadings, no slow-downs, the game runs amazingly around a constant 60 FPS, no matter how much action going on. The main thing of the game, crashes, are godlike. Every scratches, bumps, dents, holes, and head-on damages is registered on every vehicle. Criterion's custom deformation really bring crashing to a whole new level.
Well, that's about it from me. Only thing that I wish it had is comparing records between friends, though there are leaderboards. Maybe I haven't found it yet, but... Who cares? I'm havin' a blast jumping all around town in a Mobster Car.
Get it, try it. Just play it and shut up.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Poor Rockstar
Now some people give these guys shit because they do soem stuff for shock factor, but lately its been blown out of proportion, the best example being the fact that Manhunt 2 was banne din UK and given AO here, so it had to be edited. But i saw the unedited bits of it, and it wasnt any worse than the original.
i got an email a few days back from Take Two Interactive, the guys who own all the of R* places. They lost a lawsuit saying that they have to replace any copies of GTA San Andreas that were purchased before the day they reissued the game with teh patch for the Hot Coffee mod. This can be done by simply getting a replacement disc, or if you have a reciept, you can actually get $35 and a new disc of you say you were offended by the fact that tehre was a potential to unlock the Hot Coffee mod if you modded your ps2 and then did some other fancy stuff to it. Im sorry, but its complete ass that they have to pay out cash for something like this. obviously not many people still have the reciept for thiers (excluding me, i keep all of mine. nerd.) but its jsut the fact that the ruling is to pay people that much money for something they A. dont have easy access to and B. probably didnt hear about until way after it happened.
now i have a scratched launch day copy of GTA SA. I will be taking advantage of getting a free disc out of this becuase i love the game, but i wont be saying i have a reciept because its bullshit for R* to pay me money for something like this.
In my opinion, of course.
i got an email a few days back from Take Two Interactive, the guys who own all the of R* places. They lost a lawsuit saying that they have to replace any copies of GTA San Andreas that were purchased before the day they reissued the game with teh patch for the Hot Coffee mod. This can be done by simply getting a replacement disc, or if you have a reciept, you can actually get $35 and a new disc of you say you were offended by the fact that tehre was a potential to unlock the Hot Coffee mod if you modded your ps2 and then did some other fancy stuff to it. Im sorry, but its complete ass that they have to pay out cash for something like this. obviously not many people still have the reciept for thiers (excluding me, i keep all of mine. nerd.) but its jsut the fact that the ruling is to pay people that much money for something they A. dont have easy access to and B. probably didnt hear about until way after it happened.
now i have a scratched launch day copy of GTA SA. I will be taking advantage of getting a free disc out of this becuase i love the game, but i wont be saying i have a reciept because its bullshit for R* to pay me money for something like this.
In my opinion, of course.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Nin-Ten-Doh.. Dee-Es!
After hours of playing classic PSOne games on the PSP, my sister decided that she wanted the DS. What for, I asked? She wanted to play "Cooking Mama", a mindless and repetitive games where you do simple motion with the pen to cook stuff.
I wouldn't mind another hand-held system and would give me more games to waste more money on like Mario or Zelda. But no... She wanted "Cooking Mama".
Ok, so I wake up to play some Call of Duty 4 Online, then here come the little twat and she blocked my view to get my attention. It was time to go buy the darn DS. She received some Best Buy gift cards from my mom as a christmas gifts, given to the fact that she only got one shirt for the season. Ok, so we head down to Best Buy. It's December 26th, either the return line is going to be packed or all the video games would be all gone. She slapped me for trying to "jinx" it. Little did she know, I already have "jinxed" it. The aisle was completely stripped from all the games, consoles, and whatnot. So I tell her to ask. She doesn't want to. It's her frickin' DS, she wanted it, why not go ask? Oh well, so I asked. I asked this blonde associate and she pointed me to the PSP. Ok... So I walked out of there.
My little twat's face was sad and I hate to see someone sad. Ruins my mood to shoot people online. So we tried Toys-R-Us. Drive all the way back to the store and there's a big accident between some minivan and shopping carts. Nothing really big, but it was inconvenient and all the other moms, yelling and trying to make they're way into the store for their bratty ankle-biters. So, we head in. First thing to hit you in the face is pink Barbie and Ken dolls. Pink, pink, pink everything thing was pink. Oh, by the way, Best Buy did have a DS, but it was pink. Sister hated pink. It's her worst enemy or something. Ok so we head in to the game section. I normally would drool, but I grew out of it. 5 year olds, 6 year olds, and 12 year olds, fighting over the same damn Pokemon game. The games were old, like 2 years old. Lots of Wiis and DS games, but unfortunately, no DS itself. Only Pink DS. What the hell.. Just get the damn DS already...
Ok, round two was a failure. She looked horrible and still holding the $150 gift cards. Last stop, GameStop. Drive all the way back to Best Buy because GameStop was right across from it. Stupid driving, have to pay for stupid gas and now we're goin' to a stupid place with lots of stupid people. I drove to GameStop, then I see a parking spot. Then it because an epic battle between me and this jeep. What the hell?! I saw that spot first. The jeep zoomed into the space and walked away happily into GameStop. So I had to settle for the spot next to the jeep. I could key his car right there, or let his dog out. But, we had to go into the GameStop first. The place was packed with little kids, the same ones from Best Buy. No new PS3 games, except for UT3, which looked tempting. But no.. Gotta focus. The place didn't have a DS, only pink ones. I was about to flip out. What's the damn difference? It plays the same games!
Ok that was it, so I thought. Then my mom called and told us about a GameStop near our house. Great. Now we have to go there. I just wanted to go home and shoot people. We get there, parking was horrible, and the walk was far from my car to the store. The same thing, packed with little kids and old people wanting Guitar Hero. But fortunately, they had two DS left, one black and one pink. Awesome! Picked that up and now... Oh wait, we have to buy a game. Cooking Mama. So there we are, looking and taking up all the space of the DS aisle, looking for Cooking Mama. I saw Zelda, Mario, and some games that looked cool on the cover, but no.. Have to buy the Cooking Mama. No Cooking Mama... but there was a Cooking Mama 2. Why not? Ok so she's happy as hell. Me, sad as hell because I had to pay for it and it's not even mine. 200 clams out of the bank.
We get home and she rips open the box and starts playing immediately. Me, now 200 clamless, is shooting people. But then I figured, since I spent 200, those gift cards should be mine now. So she gave me the gift cards and now I have 150 Best Buy money to spend whenever I come across a game. Next time we go to Carino's and decide to stop by Best Buy, I will be ready.
Oh, and the game looks ok. She won't drop the DS, but who cares... Peace and quiet for me now.
Happy Holidays and Cheers! Hope the Giants win today! They'll probably lose since I said that.. But who the hell cares..
I wouldn't mind another hand-held system and would give me more games to waste more money on like Mario or Zelda. But no... She wanted "Cooking Mama".
Ok, so I wake up to play some Call of Duty 4 Online, then here come the little twat and she blocked my view to get my attention. It was time to go buy the darn DS. She received some Best Buy gift cards from my mom as a christmas gifts, given to the fact that she only got one shirt for the season. Ok, so we head down to Best Buy. It's December 26th, either the return line is going to be packed or all the video games would be all gone. She slapped me for trying to "jinx" it. Little did she know, I already have "jinxed" it. The aisle was completely stripped from all the games, consoles, and whatnot. So I tell her to ask. She doesn't want to. It's her frickin' DS, she wanted it, why not go ask? Oh well, so I asked. I asked this blonde associate and she pointed me to the PSP. Ok... So I walked out of there.
My little twat's face was sad and I hate to see someone sad. Ruins my mood to shoot people online. So we tried Toys-R-Us. Drive all the way back to the store and there's a big accident between some minivan and shopping carts. Nothing really big, but it was inconvenient and all the other moms, yelling and trying to make they're way into the store for their bratty ankle-biters. So, we head in. First thing to hit you in the face is pink Barbie and Ken dolls. Pink, pink, pink everything thing was pink. Oh, by the way, Best Buy did have a DS, but it was pink. Sister hated pink. It's her worst enemy or something. Ok so we head in to the game section. I normally would drool, but I grew out of it. 5 year olds, 6 year olds, and 12 year olds, fighting over the same damn Pokemon game. The games were old, like 2 years old. Lots of Wiis and DS games, but unfortunately, no DS itself. Only Pink DS. What the hell.. Just get the damn DS already...
Ok, round two was a failure. She looked horrible and still holding the $150 gift cards. Last stop, GameStop. Drive all the way back to Best Buy because GameStop was right across from it. Stupid driving, have to pay for stupid gas and now we're goin' to a stupid place with lots of stupid people. I drove to GameStop, then I see a parking spot. Then it because an epic battle between me and this jeep. What the hell?! I saw that spot first. The jeep zoomed into the space and walked away happily into GameStop. So I had to settle for the spot next to the jeep. I could key his car right there, or let his dog out. But, we had to go into the GameStop first. The place was packed with little kids, the same ones from Best Buy. No new PS3 games, except for UT3, which looked tempting. But no.. Gotta focus. The place didn't have a DS, only pink ones. I was about to flip out. What's the damn difference? It plays the same games!
Ok that was it, so I thought. Then my mom called and told us about a GameStop near our house. Great. Now we have to go there. I just wanted to go home and shoot people. We get there, parking was horrible, and the walk was far from my car to the store. The same thing, packed with little kids and old people wanting Guitar Hero. But fortunately, they had two DS left, one black and one pink. Awesome! Picked that up and now... Oh wait, we have to buy a game. Cooking Mama. So there we are, looking and taking up all the space of the DS aisle, looking for Cooking Mama. I saw Zelda, Mario, and some games that looked cool on the cover, but no.. Have to buy the Cooking Mama. No Cooking Mama... but there was a Cooking Mama 2. Why not? Ok so she's happy as hell. Me, sad as hell because I had to pay for it and it's not even mine. 200 clams out of the bank.
We get home and she rips open the box and starts playing immediately. Me, now 200 clamless, is shooting people. But then I figured, since I spent 200, those gift cards should be mine now. So she gave me the gift cards and now I have 150 Best Buy money to spend whenever I come across a game. Next time we go to Carino's and decide to stop by Best Buy, I will be ready.
Oh, and the game looks ok. She won't drop the DS, but who cares... Peace and quiet for me now.
Happy Holidays and Cheers! Hope the Giants win today! They'll probably lose since I said that.. But who the hell cares..
Friday, December 28, 2007
and Epic of Money Wasted
So i finally did it. after going to Gamestop and getting almost 3x what i was figuring i would for Skate, FNR3, NHL2K7 and Resistance, i had enough cash for a 360.
im still a sony fanboy, so i didnt give mr gates the satisfaction of getting $480 or whatever the elite costs. I went with the arcade which was about $300 after tax.
so i went home and set it up. ( i was in no rush to do so, i did this maybe an hour after i got home)
First i found out it didnt come witht eh HD cables. Luckily Pat lent me some components for the ps3 that have a 360 connection on them. so i used those. Ill be damned if a 360 is taking my ps3's HDMI slot on my tv.
It took about 30 mins to get it up and runnin, the majority of the time was retrieving the gamertag i made for Gears on PC. My ps3 took like 3 minutes to set up an account.
Then i got to try the plethora of stupid minigames that came with the console. Uno? Fuck off. Pac Man? Sure its HD, but its fucking pac man, and there isnt even an arcade mode! Boom Boom Rocket is pretty sweet I must admit. Its liek Guitar Hero with fireworks and techo-classical music
so i paid $300 to play Uno in 720p with the computer.
Also, after recieving the wrong guitar in the mail for Rock Band (they sent me a 360 one even tho i sent back a ps3 one and the invoice confirmed that) i called tech support to find out they were so sorry that i could keep the 360 guitar AND theyd send me a ps3 one right away, 4-6 days shipping. Those things go for $90 online. I guess i can just say its the xbox apologizin gfor sucking so its paying back for itself. THat $90 will just go towards a HDD for the 360 anyways, its $100 for a fucking 20gig, and like $180 for a 120 gig. what price gouging asshats.
im still a sony fanboy, so i didnt give mr gates the satisfaction of getting $480 or whatever the elite costs. I went with the arcade which was about $300 after tax.
so i went home and set it up. ( i was in no rush to do so, i did this maybe an hour after i got home)
First i found out it didnt come witht eh HD cables. Luckily Pat lent me some components for the ps3 that have a 360 connection on them. so i used those. Ill be damned if a 360 is taking my ps3's HDMI slot on my tv.
It took about 30 mins to get it up and runnin, the majority of the time was retrieving the gamertag i made for Gears on PC. My ps3 took like 3 minutes to set up an account.
Then i got to try the plethora of stupid minigames that came with the console. Uno? Fuck off. Pac Man? Sure its HD, but its fucking pac man, and there isnt even an arcade mode! Boom Boom Rocket is pretty sweet I must admit. Its liek Guitar Hero with fireworks and techo-classical music
so i paid $300 to play Uno in 720p with the computer.
Also, after recieving the wrong guitar in the mail for Rock Band (they sent me a 360 one even tho i sent back a ps3 one and the invoice confirmed that) i called tech support to find out they were so sorry that i could keep the 360 guitar AND theyd send me a ps3 one right away, 4-6 days shipping. Those things go for $90 online. I guess i can just say its the xbox apologizin gfor sucking so its paying back for itself. THat $90 will just go towards a HDD for the 360 anyways, its $100 for a fucking 20gig, and like $180 for a 120 gig. what price gouging asshats.
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