Hey guys!

I have a small rant. It will not take as long as some of my others, but upsets me equally.

I have been playing video games for over 20 years. I love all styles of gaming. One style that I really like are the fighting games. There is nothing better than beating an S-talker to a bloody pixeled pulp while he whines that you were just mashing buttons. I LOVE IT!

So when I got my hands on Tekken 6I was excited! I could not wait to use the wireless fight stick to whip some ass!

Well, I have been really busy this week and was not able to touch it, until last night. So I open the box with a couple of friends and we were all ready to play! I popped it in and grabbed the rechargeable battery pack for the fight stick. Oh, wait, what? It only allows for 2-AA batteries?! Oh well. I get two batteries and get it set up and start to play. I am selecting characters and I am finding it difficult to move left and right. Like I move the selector left, but instead it moved down. I think nothing of it at the moment and begin to play.

The first couple of fights I kicked major ass. Lei is one of my favorite fighters, and I am pretty damn good with him. But I begin to notice that somethings really wrong with the game. It looks like crap! The graphics are cheap and disapointing! I mean, I play MP with my buds, and I am Jack and ones the Robot assassin chick, I notice that the wings on her back just grow out. It doesn't sound so bad, but looks like effing crap! Then Jack wins, and he flies off, but there is no animation! Its like he just floats away! Wheres the rockets? Wheres the animation? WHAT THE HELL AM I PLAYING?!

Now, I realize that its not that huge of a deal, but it is to me. I paid $150 bucks for this thing, and they can't even allow for the battery pack on the controller? WTFF?!? Then, the graphics actually look WORSE than Tekken 5 (we compared them to the PS3 DL Tekken 5 Online)?!?! I will not be buying a Tekken game in the future for sure!

So that took a little longer than I wanted. Oh well.

So I beat Borderlands. The game is SICK! Its such a fun game to play! BUT, the ending is crap. I mean its like they ran out of time, and just finished it. Whatever tho, I quit playing games for the stories a long time ago. I am still playing it and still having a blast!

Uncharted 2 is awesome. Big game, not too far yet. Will work on it later. Also been playing A Crack in Time. I love the Ratchet games, and this is just another exellent addition to the franchise! Great game! Check it out for sure!

Heard about this game called Torchlight?! I played it at PAX and thought it was a solid game. Sad that its a sinlge playing dungeon crawler, but I am still gonna get it.

Can't wait till Dragon Age: Origins comes out! Watched a trailer for it, and it was AWESOME!

Well, I gotta go, I hope you all have a SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN! DON'T EAT TOO MUCH CANDY, AND DON'T PARTY TOO HARD, BUT DO PARTY!

Later!

Oh yeah, I am hoping to get my gorilla suit today for Halloween, I will post pics.

As you can see from my blog title, I am stoked about this season! I love this time of year! Lets see why shall we:

SNOW! And that equals SNOWBOARDING!

New games. This is when the "good" ones come out.

All the holidays! Halloween, THanksgiving, and Christmas/New Years!

I love Christmas. I love putting up a tree and turning on the lights for the first time. I love giving my wife gifts. She has been playing Professor Layton and The Diabolical Boxand she loves it. So I am getting her a DS for Christmas. She needs her own, cause I like mine, and have not been able to play it for a while now!

Halloween is always fun. I usually dress up and go out to several parties. This year however, I am just going to one. We are throwing a house party, and my friends that have a band are going to play at it. Its gonna be awesome!

I picked up my copy of Tekken 6 last night, as well as the new Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time.

I have not played either one, but I did get the LE Tekken 6 with the wireless fight stick. I opened it and it was surprisingly light, but its very well built! I can't wait to use it!

I am still pricing cameras. I want a camera/camcorder combo.

Well, off to school.

Oh yeah, in case you do did not know, BORDERLANDS IS AWESOME!

Very short blog. Just a heads up.

So yeah, I got home last night after the midnight launch of both Brutal Legend and Uncharted 2 and immediately fired up Brutal Legend.

At around 4 a.m. I realized how late it was, and that I had a Dr's Appt. at 8 a.m. Yeah I loved the game that much.

So much that I decided to write a quick review of what I experienced.

If you want, you can check it out below. If you do not want to scroll down, you can check it HERE.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks guys.

So I got up on Saturday with a vision. This vision was to have another picture blog be as much enjoyed, if not more, as the last. So with determination I focused on the story and how the camera would angle and all, and got after it. I spent at least 4 hours just getting the pictures, but then there wasa problem.....

With my digital camera, I used to take a picture, and then look in the window to see how it looked. But I have been using this camera for a while now (3+ years) so I don't ever look at the pics. I set the preview window to like 1 second, so that I can take more pictures faster. I will take like 5 pics of one scene, then when I am done I will look at all the pics of each scene and pic the best one. Standard stuff.

Well, I did all this and went to the computer and loaded the pics, and to my surprise, they were all distorted and scattered. I think that my digital camera has taken its last pic **tears up**. I loved that camera, its been all over the country with me. It's taken thousands of pictures and always been very reliable, but I think that something in the digital process in the camera has pooped out......

So, I will regretably have to redo the whole thing, since it happened with every picture I took. So there will be a short wait.

Sorry guys. Don't be mad, go play.

So, I am really busy with school. Making a working demo game in 10 weeks, by yourself, is very tedious, but you need to take a break every once in a while, so I thought that I would use my break time to conduct a follow-up to a blog that I did that I guess was pretty popular.

So with that said, I figured that I would repost the old blog, so that the newer one would make sense.

Here it is:

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The rain was comforting today.

Xbox 360 the Fourths funeral was held yesterday, November 20th in our home.

It was a lovely funeral.

Master Chief did the Eulogy. He did a great job.

Many systems showed up for the funeral. Some couldn't make it, but sent their condolences.

Some took the passing harder than others. Echochrome was having a hard time keeping his composure.

When the service was over, everyone lined up to give their final goodbyes. Master Chief was there to give support.

Even though the system wars rage on, when a system passes, for a moment the wars stop, and soldiers give peace to even their most sworn enemies. It's all about respect.

Master Chief was strong and supportive the entire funeral, but when all systems said their final goodbyes and left, Master Chief couldn't keep his composure any longer.

For a moment he felt alone. Who would comfort him? Then he felt a pat on his shoulder. It was Echochrome there to help him.

Master Chief gave his goodbyes and pulled himself together. As they were about to leave, they were surprised with an unexpected guest. It was Xbox 360's biological father, Xbox.

Master Chief and Echochrome stuck around as Xbox gave his respects to his son.

The body of Xbox 360 was sent to his maker today at 9:24 a.m. He will be missed.

It was a very nice funeral. Thanks to all the attendees including R.O.B, Neo-Geo Pocket, Gameboy, Virtuaboy, PS3 and Wii to name a few.

Thanks to my wife, who let me use her wilted flowers.

Thanks for reading and I hope that you all enjoyed!

Expect the follow-up soon!

I know that I am complaining too much lately, but I have to get this off my chest.

I got up this morning and was in a very good mood. I was thinking about all the good things that were going to happen today. For instance I was thinking how glad I am that I am staying caught up in a class that last term, out of 15 people, 3 passed. Theres a reason that its called Advanced Game Design....

But that all changed when I went to check my email.

On the front of the Yahoo! page there was an article posted that some colors on the Empire State Building were causing an uproar. I did not know why so I went to the page to check it out.

Man, sometimes we Americans seem so egotistical.

People are mad because we are paying tribute to the 60 years that China has been a communist country. Well, I guess it was worse before but heres the thing.

I do not agree with how communism works, butI know that just because I am a US citizen that I should go overseas and tell them how to run their country. Dammit this pisses me off! Who the hell do we think we are?! Unless the citizens are begging for help (like in the first gulf war) then we should try and help them, but if everything is fine, then we should not run around bullying other countries just because we do not agree with what they are doing, like this war we are in now!

I see this tribute on the Empire State Building as a good thing. What we Americans need most in this world right now are allies. If you guys have not noticed, we do not have many friends right now, and being in the military and seeing what goes on all over the world, that little fact scares the hell out of me!

Okay enough of that.

Also, I got a chuckle out of something that Gamespot did. So this is the quote that Gamespot gave for Ninja Gaiden Sigma II:

"This enhanced version of Ninja Gaiden II is bigger, better, and more exhilarating."

Hehe, thats fine. But then I did a little research and this is what I saw;

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Review Score = 9.0

Ninja Gaiden Sigma II score = 8.5

Well, if it is "bigger, better, and more exhilarating" then why did it get a lower score?

I thought it was funny.

Okay, I am done.

BTW, just in case you wanted to read the story on the Building debacle, you can see it HERE.

Hey guys!

Man, this school quarter has been fun, but HARD! I have been working diligently on my 3D model. This quarter I have to create, animate, and demo a game demo. MAKE A GAME DEMO IN 10 WEEKS?!?! Yeah its that hard......

Oh yeah, and the main character has to be realistic, which is no easy task, AND it has to be a Shadow Complex style game. Damn.....

Aion.

I was talking to a buddy while I was working the ODST launch party and he was talking about this game. So, being a MMORPG fan, I decided to go ahead and pick it up. The collectors edition of course.

When I installed it and began playing it, I thought it looked a bit like the Lord of The Rings MMO, which I liked but it was a bit slow. But soon after playing it I realized that I was really engrossed in the story and gameplay! It's a lot like WoW, and some stuffcould be questionable,such as an enemy called Kobalds (sp?), and they have a strip mine. Please, if that is not a ripoff, then nothing is! It's little subtle things such as that I chuckle about. Overall, if you are a WoW enjoyer and do not mind grinding levels and questing (which is what I like to do) then try this game out. It doesnt require a super computer to play, but if you want it to be full specs, then you will need a decent rig, since it is powered by the Crytek engine.

Man, some people in this world just piss me off!

**BEGIN RANT MODE**

So I have been going to a friends apartment to study with him. I live about half an hour away, and every day on my way to his house I am greated with very offensive drivers that live life to screw with me. Example: on the highway between my house and his there is a spot that is 70 mph. I usually set the cruise control to 75, and I still have people riding my ass, instead of just going around me (its a freaking 6 lane highway!). There will also be 75-100 feet behind me at an exit, and maybe 5-10 feet in front of me at the exit to his house. Instead of merging in the HUGE space right behind me, stupid D-Bag will cut me off and swerve into the 10 feet of space in front of my car, usually followed by a hard brake and slow speed, that I now have to sit behind!!!

Damn you to hell. I hope you go to hell and DIE!

Since when did it become cool to not care about anyone other than yourself?! Did I not get the email about this? I have also noticed signs of this while we are studying. I will explain.

So my friend doesnt have internets at his house (how can one live?!?) and so we have to go to the Mall thats right across the street from his apartment. In the mall there is a library where you can use the Wi-Fi. Its range unfortunately does not reach his house, so we muct go there. Well, I hate sitting in the Library. Mainly because I feel that I am not allowed to talk, and I love to talk. I am a regular chatter box.

Well, instead we sit in the food court, which is right outside the Library. There are a lot of tables and chairs there. These are the mindless things that I have noticed in the Mall while studying. Some of them are pretty disturbing.

1. One day it was busy and there were lots of people in the food court. There were, however, plenty of places to sit. Infortunately there were only a couple of four-person tables. The two person tables are two small for both of our laptops, so we require a four person table. We go to sit at the clean four person table and then some guy (one guy) swoops in and takes the table. He was by himself with his food. RIGHT NEXT TO HIM WAS A CLEAN TWO PERSON TABLE! I go up and ask him if we could have the table because of our computer and such and he looks at me with a puzzled look and proceds to look around the room, like he was looking for somewhere for us to sit. He then looks at me and says "I'll be done in a minute." I stared at him with a glare that I think made him eat a leave a little faster. I mean, how hard would it be to get your fat ass up and move 3 feet to the two person table right next door.Stupid jerk......

2. about 3 weeks ago it was pretty hot outside. Well, for us in the Seattle area it was hot (85 degrees) and we were inside studying. These two girls walked by, probably 17 or so (highschool) and they were wearing nothing but a bikini. I swear. Well my friend was looking at them and was like "Dude, what parent lets their kid walk around like that?" As I turned to look, their mom walked up to them, noticed us looking at them, and just gave us the dirtiest look. What the hell?! If you don't want people staring at your daughter, make them put some damn clothes on them! Stupid jerk.....

3. We were in there just the other day, and there was a woman sittingnext to us. She was on the phone. Since it is the food court, and its pretty loud, we didn't mind. What we did mind was the extremely foul language that she was YELLING WHILE SHE WAS ON THE PHONE. IT WAS NOT LIKE SHE WAS MAD OR UPSET AND YELLING, SHE WAS JUST A LOUD TALKER WITH A VERY BAD MOUTH. THERE WERE PARENTS THAT WERE GIVING HER LOOKS, AND SHE SAW ONE WOMAN LOOKING AT HER AND THE LOUD TALKER TURNED TO HER AND SAID "WHAT THE **** ARE YOU STARING AT *****?" REALLY LOUD! SHE WAS SAYING THIS TO A MOM THAT WAS FEEDING HER TODDLER SOME FOOD. STUPID JERK.....

It was like she was talking with the damn CAPS Lock on. Yeah it was that annoying.

Look, I could go on all day about instances like this, because it happens everytime we are there, but I think that I have made my point, and that is that if we do not change how we treat eachother, the entire world is going to look at the US like we are a bunch of immature, careless, unintelligent fools with no sense of humanity whatsoever. We already have a bad enough rap as it is......

Of course I know that this goes on all over the world, but the way I see things, we need to correct ourselves before we chime in on anyone else.

**END RANT MODE**

I played the Brutal Legend demo, and I gotta say it ROCKS! It was so damn fun! Definately DL it and play it. The voice acting isspot on and very funny!

Well, I gotta go, but I will talk to you guys later!

Hey guys, first off thanks to all that wished me a Happy Birthday! To those who did not, go to hell.

Just kidding! No worries.

Today I reached level 35 on here, and 35K in Gamerscore. Wierd huh?

My first day at Gamestop is tonight. I get to kick off my second job by working the ODST midnight launch. I am excited! For both the game and the work! I am already friends with all of the staff on a personal level, so the atmosphere will be great!

Check out this pic!

I thoughtit was badass! Very creative!

I have been reading my Physical Anthropoloy book and am bored as hell. I mean, I am interested in the theories and facts of evolution, but the technical terms that I have to remember and stufff like that is boring and hard!

Have been playing Wolfenstein. I gotta say, its a pretty good game. You should at least rent it and check it out. The multiplayer is fun, if there were other people playing it. I got on 3 different nights to play MP, and the same 5 people were the only people I played with, all 3 nights....

Why is it that I remember Sonic and Knuckles being a fun SEGA game, but I DL'd it and it is not fun on XBLA.... not to me at least.

Well, I gotta get ready to go home, I will talk to you guys later.

Hey guys!

Sorry that this blog has taken so long to produce. Its been a crazy week! A day before my class started, I was informed by the school that it was cancelled. That threw a wrench in my gears! I had to find a new class and sign up for it before the cutoff. I finally got into Physical Anthropology. Yay.

As for the PAX pics, there are a ton. Well, more like over 110, so I posted them all on Flickr and you can view themby copying this link into your address bar (would make a link, butI get a message that its not avalid link....)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25144059@N06/sets/72157622379094298/

My birthday was Sunday the 13th. The big 29. I am getting old man. Did not get anything for my birthday, mainly because there is nothing that I want right now.

Its funny how you say one thing about something so small, and people just get up in arms about it. Some people can be such jerks. Especially when you are joking. Oh well. Some people do not want friends.

I am picking up Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 today. I cant believe its been recieving such sub-par scores. Oh well, I liked the first one, so I will enjoy this one. I cant believe that one of the bad things was that it was alot like the first one. So?! Thats like saying "This cake is just as delicious as the first cake, and thats bad!". Doesnt make much sense does it?

I BEAT BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM! Yup, last night I did it! I have foung all but 3 joker teeth in the Mansion, and I think that its bugged! I searched the mansion 3 times (over 2 hours) looking for the last 3 teeth, and they are nowhere to be found! I am gonna be pretty bummed if its bugged.

Well, I gotta go, but I hope that you guys enjoy the pictures! Let me know if they do not work, and I will fix it. Later!

Hey guys!

Its been a couple of days since I left the last day of PAX, and I am still going through all the shwag that I collected! There is so much! I played SO MANY GAMES! Lets see, I played Dantes Inferno, Tekken 6,WoW: Cataclysm, God of War III, BF:BC 2, Diablo III, Borderlands, Quake Arena, which is coming to XBLA this holiday season, Uncharted 2: Drakes Fortune, Star Trek Online, Starcraft II, MAG, Mass Effect II, Split Second, Star Wars: The Old Republic, LFD 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Darksiders, and a few other independant games that I can't remember the names.

Games that did not show with Demos: Splinter Cell Conviction andAssassins Creed II. Dammit!

Favorite game played: Hardest question to answer, but my personal favorite was Diablo III. I cannot wait for this game! Its so badass! The Monk class is sick!

Worst game played: There was a Capcom game called Spyborgs for the Wii, and it was HORRIBLE! The graphics sucked, the controls sucked, and the game sucked!

I will have pictures soon. I was using my camera, and it suddenly broke, so I used my friends camera the rest of the weekend, and I still need to get the pics from him, so be patient.

School starts this week. Tomorrow actually. I had two classes get cancelled, so I am only taking one class this quarter. I am cool with that! Less homework.

I am also about 99% sure that I got a job at Gamestop. I will keep the job that I have now, but times call for more work, so I will be working on the weekends mostly. and nights that I do not have school. I have to go friday and talk to my buddy, the manager, for more info. Gotta know a guy man, always.

Well, anyways PAX 09 was awesome, and I am already counting the days till I get to PAX '10!

I gotta go, but I will be posting the pics (or a link to them, there are a lot) very soon. Stay tuned!

Later.