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Halo 3: Recon Announced

tycage — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:08:18 +0000

Microsoft announce Halo 3: Recon today. I’m pretty phsyced about it. It has a lot of potential to be good. I’m looking for good game play, of course, but I live to the story in Halo also. I’m among those rare few who liked the ending of Halo 2 though. I’ve read a lot of the extended world of books for it and have enojyed them all very much, so I’m looking forward to the story in Recon about as much as the game itself.

Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories and Final Fantasy

tycage — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:59:30 +0000

Square Enix has announced that is will be releasing the PS2 version of Chain of Memories here in the States this December. It’s Final Mix+ minus the Kingdom Hearts II stuff. The box art looks pretty nice. Xander and I will no doubt get quite a bit of enjoyment out of this release. Kingdom Hearts is one of our favorite series.

He’s started in on Final Fantasy now too. He’s currently working his way through Final Fantasy IV on his DS and seems the be enjoying it a lot.

Gaming Update

tycage — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:58:08 +0000

So Puzzle Quest hasn’t been played much yet, due to time constraints with work and the fact that I try to play that when Xander and enjoy it with me. I play so many games that aren’t child friendly, that I tend to hoard the ones that are for playing with/in front of them.

Picked up Rainbow Six Vegas 2 today for multiplayer fun this weekend with the group I play with. Played through a little bit this evening and they’ve done a really great job improving on the game. The first one was great, but from what I’ve played so far, this one looks to be even better.

I also picked up the new Gears of War set, which includes all the downloadable content available so far. I’m going to try to get around to playing it before Gears of War 2 comes out.

In order to do that, I need to finish my way through GTA IV. There is just so much to do in that game though, I keep getting distracted from the main plot.

Revenge of the Plague Lord

tycage — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:00:55 +0000

The Puzzle Quest expansion comes out today, so the fact that I’m writing this from work is pretty impressive, I’d say. Xander and I are both looking forward to the new content. More info after I’ve had a change to play it some tonight.

WiiFit

tycage — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:17:25 +0000

Point one, WiiFit isn’t kidding around.

Point two, I’m out of shape.

Hopefully WiiFit will be able to help encourage me in that regard. It is a lot of fun. Some of the exercises are quite challenging for a sedate software engineer such as myself. If i can keep up with it though, it should make a big difference. The game is a lot of fun, and all four of us really enjoyed playing it.

Rock Band

tycage — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:03:53 +0000

We picked up Rock Band today, and it is awesome! Kate, Xander and I all had a great time playing. Kate was on vocals, Xander played guitar, and I tried my hand on drums. We all had a really good time and we are looking forward to playing a lot more in the future!

NASCAR 09 Preview

tycage — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:58:28 +0000

Gamespot has up a preview for NASCAR 09, which looks fairly encouraging. I’ve skipped the last few versions, since they didn’t offer much of an improvement over the version I own. This one looks like it might be a nice graphics upgrade, as well as some interesting game play.

Head Tracking using the WiiRemote

tycage — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:05:12 +0000

This is just amazing, and this is a guy doing it in his home using the Wii and his PC. I can’t imagine it will be much longer before game developers start doing something like this.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw[/youtube]

Guitar Hero 3 Progress

tycage — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:17:24 +0000

I finally managed to get 5 stars on all the songs for Guitar Hero 3 on Medium. Knight of Cydonia and Raining Blood were the two that took me a lot of practice before I could do them. That’s done now and I’ve moved on to playing through career on Hard. I made it through the first stage already, but boy is my hand tired. Not all 5 stars of course, at this point, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to manage that. I guess it’s just a matter of practice though.

WRGPT Hand

tycage — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:28:13 +0000

You know when you are watching poker on TV and some idiot stays in a pot he should really get out of because he really has nothing and is just playing to a draw, and then he pretty much goes all-in with said nothing, and you are yelling at the TV that he’s an idiot and is going to lose all his money, and then on the river card he gets the card he needs and wins the whole pot?

I am that idiot!

Assassin’s Creed

tycage — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 20:38:01 +0000

I finished Assassin’s Creed last night (mostly, I still have some achievements to finish, but I finished the main part of the game). It was quite an amazing game. The only complaints I have about it are that it was a little repetitive at times. I would have like more variety in the information gathering parts of the missions. Also, I would have liked the guard to have been a bit smarter. I could do some pretty extreme stuff right in from of them and they would only make snarky comments about it. Still, those things aside, the game was amazing. It had a great feel and the controls worked very well most of the time. The combat system, while starting out a little simple, does develop a little depth as the game goes on.

It is also a game that is what you make of it. You don’t have to be super stealthy with your kills if you don’t want to. I chose to go the stealthy/planning route, and I think the game was more fun because of it, but you don’t have to play it that way. I also took a lot of time to explore the story of the game. The game has a very strong plot and an ending that provides lots of fuel for speculation for the hoped for Assassin’s Creed 2. I had a great time playing it. Now I just need to finish finding all the flags so that I can get all my achievements for it.

Guitar Hero Update

tycage — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:52:56 +0000

I went back down a level to finish Guitar Hero on Easy to get the achievements involved. I finished that on the 16th and finished them all with 5 stars a couple days later. Now I’m trying to get all the songs with 5 stars on Medium before I make a serious effort on trying Hard, which in my experiments has been an ego crushing experience. Hopefully I’ll get better with practice. Xander is starting up trying the Medium difficulty today.

In other Guitar Hero related news, today the Halo Theme was released for free on Xbox Live. A very nice surprise for those of us that are fans of both games. It’s a lot of fun to be able to play.

GH3 Medium Done!

tycage — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:07:16 +0000

Just finished Guitar Hero 3 on medium. It was a ton of fun. I’ve still got to try to get 5 stars on all the songs, which is easier said than done. Then I’ve got to ramp up for Hard. I might go ahead and play Easy first just to get it out of the way for the achievement.

My Aching Wrist

tycage — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:56:15 +0000

I broke down and picked up Guitar Hero 3 yesterday (for the 360, of course). I had a ton of fun with it last night. The only down side of it is that my left wrist and fingers are a little bit sore today from all the playing I did last night. It is a tough game, and I’m only playing on the Medium settings so far, which uses 4 of the 5 frets on the guitar. When I finally decide to go to Hard, that’s going to be a huge adjustment. The game is a lot of fun though, and the kids are enjoying it quite a bit as well. I’ll likely let Xander give it a try this weekend, and see if he likes it.

Finished the Fight (Again)!

tycage — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:28:16 +0000

Three friends and I finished the fight on Legendary last night! It was a lot of fun to play through the game at that hard level with a group of friends. I highly recommend the experience to anyone who has finished the campaign on their own. It really gave a different feel to the game. Great job Bungie on finally giving us this awesome feature!