E3 and flashback 5

E3 has came and gone, this E3 got me hyped for a lot of games. The press conferences were so so, Sony and Microsoft were good and Nintendo and Ubisoft were boring. Microsoft was first and it seems they are always first. They opened up with The Beatles: Rock Band. The Beatles in the game look unfinished, has the same look as rock band 2. I believe I saw now 2 vocalist can sing in the same. It turned me off that the people playing were singing but they were lip sinking. After 20 mins of that they showed Modern Warfare 2, they part they showed off look cool as hell but I feel that bad part to show at the same time. Your person climbing a snowy mountain, you get to the top and pull out this gun with thermal vision on it and you go around shooting people using the thermal vision to help you see. OK that was cool but we cant see the action! I am going to get that game when it comes out. Then they talked about Final Fantasy XIII which looks good really dont care about it, Shadow Complex i cant remember it, Joy Ride which looks like a Wildly coyote cartoon you game to drive in and do trick with your 360 person. After that boring cramp Crackdown 2 was announced, Im hoping that there is a story this time and more to do than collecting 800 ORBS! Then Left 4 Dead 2 was announced and this proved to me that the first game has no more DLC coming for it, that is why the game of the year edition is out. There is not 5 people and now you get to use melee weapons. After that they showed Splinter Cell: Conviction, never played Splinter Cell, Forza Motorsport 3 which looks like 2, Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach. Microsoft finally showed Alan Wake, could this be the next Duke nukem forever? It seems that when I heard someone talk about this game they talk about how long it been in development. When I saw it I thought it was silent hill 5. Metal Gear Solid: Rising was the last game they showed and Hideo Kojima came out talked about it without a translator. In the Sony press Hideo Kojima talk about Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker he had a translator. So can he speak English or not? And that was Microsoft
The Nintendo press conference was a let down once again. OK they did show us four new Mario games but only one I liked was Galaxy 2. They opened up with New Super Mario Bros. Wii, to long of a name. It is a multiplayer Mario game where up to 4 people and run through 2D level. There are only 3 characters Mario, Luigi and Toad which can be different colors. They showed loads of cramp which I dont care about and talked about the numbers. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was announced, looks like the first game. They said that they had so much more they want to put in the 1st galaxy game that this was going to be 1.5 but they came up with more ideas and made it too, which mean we wanted people who bought one to also buy this so we named it two because not everyone would buy 1.5. They showed off more stuff like Dead Space: Extraction which I think will fail like the Dead raising game on the Wii. The last game was shown was Metroid: Other M made by Team ninja. Im hoping the camera in the game doesn't suck. I also wonder what will Samus look like if you 100% complete the game. The women in Team ninja have big boobies and will they make Samus rack bigger.
Sony press conference was great, they opened up with Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game looks great, the city looked amazing. I have not seen any multiplayer yet and hope to see some. After that MAG: Massive Action Game was shown, I wonder if you need a great internet hook up and lag. 256 people playing simultaneously wonder what it works. And then Gran Turismo! for the PSP, Dam it. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker aka The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures. After that cramp, cramp, cramp, cramp, FFXII and cramp. God of War III has shown and this will be the reason I get a PS3. It still looks the same, it was running on 720 hd. Heavy Rain also looks great, I only saw video of a person walking around. Assassin's Creed II was shown again for everyone that fell asleep at Ubisoft press conference. Final Fantasy XIV Online was announced and I feel people are already hate the game because its online due to FFXI. Mod Nation Racers was also announced, its little big planet as a racing game. You get to make your own tracks, you get to control everything. The last game shown was Gran Turismo 5 FINALLY! Where the hell is this game? This game will be a system seller for Sony. Im betting next E3 comes GT5 will still not be out.
Since my last update I play very little, I mostly been playing stuff for achievement point. I played and finished Wario Land: Shake It! It is a rental, beat it in 6 hours. I would have beat it in 5 but had to backtrack for more money to buy a map to unlock the next world. To much of the game is too easy, a few of the boss battles and very few level and hard. The story makes no sense , someone stole a globe and gave it to Wario. The globe it self has a world were a princess it kidnapped and a sack that has endless coins in it is stolen. Some people from that world go to Wario world and ask him to save the princess and he could get the sack that has endless coins. That game was from gamefly, a other game they sent me is The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Only play it if your a achievement whore. I am not a Lord of the Rings fan. The AI is cheap at times, if your down they will beat the cramp out of you and getting up when your down take to long. Some attaches are badly delayed. The game is mostly go here, take over this point, hold it and move on. I have start playing ghostbusters but will leave that for next time. I was very busy last week and every free time I had I was writing this blog. Next time Im hoping to finish a few games, this summer I will try and finish as much games as I can. Well Im off to go finish ghostbusters and then play Metal gear solid one through three.

Flashback project 4

After my last blog post I got the flu, no not the swine flu just the normal flu and was not in the mood to play pretty much anything. I was sick for two weeks and also during this time my Xbox 360 died, it would not read any disk. One hundred twenty dollars and two weeks later I got a xbox 360. Before my 360 died I did get to play two games from gamefly. I got Mirror's Edge the day of my last post and bought it after playing it for a hour. I finished it after I got the 360 back and Im glad I bought this. The game about a woman named Faith and she is trying to find the real killer at a murder that her sister was found at. I wont give away the end but a part is in first person and there is a omg I cant believe she did that. I will do speed runs in this game some time soon. There is two levels which I found hard, one where your riding on top of a train and one where you climb up in inside a build. The train level is all about remembering the level, there are signs flying at you fast and you have to jump to a other train. The level where you climb up in inside a build it feels like it last forever. I finished the game with out shooting anyone with a gun and didn't find it that hard to do. Now I was playing on easy Im guessing I will need to shot on hard. The last game I played on the 360 before it was sent out was James Bond Quantum of Solace. From what little I got to play, this is one of the rare movie games that's good. The game is made with the call of duty 4 engine and it shows. The controls feel the same as call of duty 4, the guns and aims feel the same. Online you have to buy your weapons and perks. I only got to play team deathmatch and I was doing good I was 2nd or 3rd in kills on my team in the few games I played. There is a cover system and that makes me wonder if Modern warfare 2 will have cover system. With the cover in single player I found the game too easy to play. I will be playing this when I can find it for twenty dollars. almost 2 weeks break from video games I started back up with some Sonic. I finished one, two, and three all in one night. two was the most fun and I liked the ending. The end of the first Sonic made me say "that's the end? that sucked", It didn't feel like a ending. I found Sonic 3 boring, Im guess after playing one and two I was getting sick of Sonic. I played all three games on Sonic mega collection. I plan on finishing the other games sometime soon. When I got back my 360 back I bought Dead rising. I found it fun until I got to the 2nd case and could not pass it. I tried over and over I finally gave up and will start a new game and go for the 53k kills and leveling up. Gamefly sent me Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters and Im glad I rented it. The game only took me 7 hours to beat, it does have the replay value of the rest of the Ratchet & Clank the weapon are mostly from older games and I had to do some leveling up with the weapons. The game about Ratchet & Clank are on break, a little girl want to take some pics of them after she takes the pics she is kidnapped, Ratchet & Clank go to save her and a hole brunch of twist and turns in the story. The game still has the humor of the other games. This is a game looking PSP game, I played the port of grand theft auto: liberty city stories and it looked like crap. This look like a PS2 game, when you fall to your death you could fall through something and that's the only problem I found. A other game that gamefly sent me is Mercenaries for the PS2. This is very much like the the 2nd game but this one sound like it has a story. I didn't play that much the game sounded long and I didn't have the time to spend that much time playing it. I finally finished Condemned on the 360. I started playing it in October, I stopped playing because of the holiday game rush and my 360 would read the disk. You play as FBI agent Ethan Thomas and you must find a killer who is killing other killers. The game is mostly fight with objects, you will find a gun here and there but with little ammo. I didn't find it that scary for a horror game but in enjoyed the story. The last game gamefly sent me was Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law based on the show. It has the same humor and look of the show. You play as Harvey and most win five case. It is a short game, finished it in four hours. If your a Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law fan its a rental. In the next blog I will talk about what happen during E3 and what I been playing as well.

Flashback project 3

Since my last update I have finished quite few games. I finished Mercenaries 2 and there is no real story to the game. You are just after one guy for revenge. So the game only fun for blowing crap up. Castle Crasher is a game that I started and finished, did some level alone and the others that I was lost or needed help did co op. There a lot of poop in the game, I am guessing its trying to be funny but I didn't find it that funny. There is also a few funny things for example one of the bosses when you defeat him he falls in to lava, stinks and his hand pop out and gets a thumbs up like in Terminator 2. I finally finished Zelda II and I like it better than The Legend of Zelda. I feel that the leveling system gave the game a reason to do more than just beat the game. Super Smash Bros. Brawl finished that and the story is good the way it is. No one talks in the whole game so you have to listen to the music and read their faces like a silent movie. I will slowly go for unlocking everything in the game. A game I am no where near finishing is Far cry 2. Collecting the diamonds and looking for safe house is getting very boring. When I'm all done with that I can get to the missions. I picked put super paper Mario and been playing that this week. The story seems to go to slow for me, things get repeated over and over. Some time I don't read the text and just blow right through it. I hate that I have to read in the game, I'm a slow reader and reading just takes more time out of the game for me. The boss battles feel a bit to easy. I'm wondering if there is any replayableaty after finishing the game. I am half way through it and may have it done next blog post. I was so busy trying to get kingpin the last 2 week and that's what hold me up from writing this. I'm starting to post video game video of me on youtube. If you want to check it out www.youtube.com/mikeydct I'm up loading Gears of war 2 on insane which I did months ago. Well that's what I have been up to since the last update, I should get going. So many games and so little time.

Flashback project 2

Here is what I been playing since my last update. Play some more Zelda 2 and Mario RPG, didn't get to far in both. Game fly sent me Mario super sluggers and it's wii sports baseball with Mario characters. There a story mode which I gave a try, after 20 minutes I was lose and gave up on that and the game. You only really batting and pitching in the game. If someone hit a run in the park the AI will get the ball and then you have to throw it. You don't get to choose to who you just throw it. Pitching you can throw 3 types of pitches and you can curve the ball. There is no ball count in the game so every pitch is a strike, if it hit the ground strike, if its outside strike, if its in Strike. Batting I had a hard time with due to timing, I was ether to late or to soon. When I did hit the ball the game tells me to wave the Wii mote to run to 1st base but the character runs away without the movement. Every character have stats but every character feels the same. I have bought a few games the last 2 weeks, Super smash brothers brawl, Far cry 2, Mercenaries 2, Lego Indiana Jones, Ninja gaiden 2. Super smash brothers brawl is a good game for people who are not good at fighting games. I used the gamecube controller and got the hang of it very quickly. I play some online and gotten very little lag. Im stuck in story mode Im at a place where you stand on moving platforms and I have no idea where to go. Lego Indiana Jones thank goodness that the last Indiana Jones movie is not in the game, that movie sucked so bad! Not much to say about it you get the play the 3 Indiana Jones movies. Far cry 2 the beginning of the game is a 7 min cut scene, I been playing for 4 hours and hopefully that was the only long cut scene. Something that may bug me later in the game is collecting the 221 diamonds. collecting thing in games are not fun, it's mostly there to make the game longer. I mostly been playing Mercenaries 2 this week. I feel like like almost done with the game but I hope Im not because Im having fun with it. Blowing thing up is every fun and looks great. Beside the many glitches I seen in the game the game is great. Some of the people that join my game are not that great, they seen to just want to blow everything up and mess up my game. Those are some of the games I been playing for the last 2 weeks. I am getting animal crossing:city folk in the mail soon and will talk about that next time. I will also play more far cry 2, Mercenaries 2, Lego Indiana Jones, super Mario RPG, Zelda 2 and many more. Man I have to much time on my hands.

Flashback project 1

Its been two weeks since I my last blog talking about catching up with games from the past and keeping up with the current games. Since then here are some of the games I have been playing. I have been slowly going though Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. I have been trying not to use a guide but after a hour of wandering around I gave up and used a video guide. I am a little frustrated with it right now, I have to get a hammer and its a long way to get there. Im just about there and I die, game over. I have died and gotten game over from the same enemy 2 times. This Zelda feel more difficult than the first but in due time as I level up it will be more easy. I have also been playing on the Wii virtual console Mario RPG. I remember I rented this but played very little of it. I have played a few hours and got two of the seven. The leveling up a bit slow but not having any problems yet. I will try to play more this week. Last Tuesday I finally got Street fight 4 after a week of wait to cash a check I had. I have played only 4 hours of it since I got it. Im not much into fighting games and not good at them. I have been using mostly Ken and Zangief which I used to defeat Seth on medium. I have not done that much in the game and hoping to spend more time with it in the weeks to come. When I went to get Street fighter 4 I also got a 4000 point card. I got Lost and the dammed the DLC for Grand theft auto 4. I played it but speed run though it so I didn't get any of the story. I will play though it again and not skip the cut scenes. I also got with the points Castle crashers. I have played very little of this because every game online everyone leaves after a minute. With the help from game fly I got Nights: Journey of Dreams. After playing 30 minutes I was journeying to a dream of a better game. I almost fell a sleep playing this during the afternoon. I got as far to what Im guessing is a boss battle lose and ended up all the way back to the begging of the game. I only could focus myself to play a hour of this. That just some of the games I played others game would be for achievement points and some Mario kart trying to unlock everything and played some online.

I have some catching up to do.

I have been gaming for 20 years now. There are a great games that I have not played for many reasons. I have started to make a list of games that I should play. If you want to check it out link be at bottom. The list only have games that can be played on the Xbox 360, PS2 and Wii. Those are the only systems I have now, I do have a Nintendo 64 but its to hard for me to get games for that. PC is a maybe because I don't have a video/graphs card. Right now I have my eyes set on playing all the Zelda games that can be played on the Wii, maybe the Game boy advance with the help of game fly. I will will blogging and writing reviews of the games. Trying to think of a name for this. If you have a game that I should add let me know. http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/mikeydct/catch-up/46-10622/

Getting back to bloging

I use to blog at gamespot.com under the name Drlove064772. Since the Jeff G. got let go from there I have not blogged. Im hoping with this I will blog more.