Ok, so I am pretty much done with Gamespot. This December would have marked my 5th year on this site, and while it was good while it lasted, I see no further reason to visit here. I have moved on to GiantBomb. I simply find GB to be much more fun, and its a placce where I can look forward to visiting every day. So if you are on GB, feel free to add me:

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/wickedskillzz/

Thats pretty much it....nothing else to say really, besides goodbye.

Goodbye. :P

I haven't been too active on Gamespot lately, and thats mainly because I have been busy, and because I haven't played anything since my last post. Aside from some Super Smash Bros. Brawl with some friends yesterday, I haven't played anything at all.

Hell, I didn't even watch any of the E3 press conferences. I checked out a few trailers the guys in Skype chat posted, but aside from that, my interest in games lately has been non-existant.

What I have been interested in, is The Dark Knight. I saw the film at a midnight screening, and it was amazing. Heath Ledger deserves the Oscar, and if he doesn't get it, this only proves more that the Academy are a bunch of idiots. While I'm not saying the movie is perfect, its damn good, and definately worth seeing for anyone, Batman fan or not.

The Dark Knight: 9/10

And "Hot for Teacher" being in Guitar Hero: World Tour, makes it an even more likely candidate for my GOTY. Now all we need is some Avenged Sevenfold, and I will be happy.

Until next time, cya.

Now, I have never claimed to be good at Super Smash Bros. Brawl, mainly because i'm not. But seriously, i got my ass handed to me.....by my girlfriend. Wow, the shame. :shock:

However, I do have a probably not-at-all valid excuse:

I had to use the Wii Mote+Nunhuck control scheme, as no GC controllers were available.

Yeah, I suck lol.

I just thought this was kind of funny, sorry for wasting your time.

Until next time.

Ok, so i knew i said iwasn't planning on getting a PS3 anytime soon, blah blah blah.....

Well, turns out my uncle (Who I am currently living with) decided to get a 42 inch HDTV and a PS3 the other day. He bought it mainly for the Blu-Ray player, but I'm thinking i'll use it more for games :P

Though I must say, Blu-Ray looks absolutely stunning. I watched Cars the other day, and my jaw was on the floor the entire time.

I played through the first 2 chapters of Heavenly Sword. Impressions: Its decent. Imagine God of War with no puzzles, and more button-mashy combat, and crappy six-asses minigames. I played about 15 minutes of Uncharted: Drakes Fortune. Damn, that game looks amazing. I haven't gotten to really give it a good go yet, but the mechanics seem to work well enough.

Speaking of games, my 360 has, once again, lost the battle to the Red Rings.

Which is actually fine with me, seeing as how I have barely been playing games for the past few weeks. I spent a few hours on GTAIV, then my 360 died. So that was that. I don't even plan on sending it in, at least not right away. If you see me online, its because I had recovered my Gamertag at a friends house, and never bothered to recover it back on my hard drive, so my friend has been using it.

Oh, one more thing: Celtics are going all the way. Screw the Lakers, screw Detroit, screw the Spurs. Boston all the way! I'm off to watch game 2, so until next time, i'm outta here.

So I have been playing GTAIV with my precious spare time that I have, and yeah, its pretty good. A 10? Maybe. Best game of all time? Hm, we'll have to wait and see about that one. I have only put about 2 hours in, and so far so good.

I went to see Iron Man on opening night wth a few friends of mine, and we all agreed that we thought it was horrible. I've never been so bored while watching a movie in the theater in my life. The whole time I was thinking "Where is the action?" I know a film doesn't have to have a lot of action to be good, but when every action seen in the film can be seen in the trailer, you know there is something wrong.

And despite the fact that I have never read a single Iron Man comic in my life, every plot twist was unbelievably predictable. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at every obvious twist. There are no surprises, and there is no reason to see this movie. Maybe it was my inexperience with the character, but I found this film to be an absolute borefest. Instead of spending $10 to see this, go rent a copy of Batman Begins or V For Vendetta to see how a real comic book adaptation should be made.

My final grade for Iron Man: D+ (And thats being generous)

P.S.: Yes, I know that V for Vendetta was based on a graphic novel and not a comic book. But its close enough.

Ok, so I am supposed to say 5 things you guys don't know about me, right? Ok, well here goes.

1. I love soccer, and have been playing ever since I was 4 years old.

2. I love movies just as much as I love video games, and my DVD collection is growing bigger every day.

3. I once met Ryan Nyquist, proffesional BMX rider who has won multiple gold medals at the X Games.

4. I am an atheist. I hope I do not offend anyone when I say this.

5. I have never met, and know nothing about my real father. Not even his name. Kind of sucks, but I stopped caring some time ago.

So there you go, 5 things you probably didn't know about me. I'm not going to bother tagging anyone else, as pretty much everyone I know has already been tagged.

Thanks for reading.

BOOM! HEADSHOT!

So yeah, after a little while of being absent from this here Gamespot, I have returned. Yay?

I'll get around to posting a real blog later.

Cya later.

On Friday afternoon, I managed to nab the last Rock Band Special Edition that my Gamestop was getting all year. Pretty cool, eh? I brought it home, and a few minutes later I was jamming on the drumset to Wanted Dead or Alive. And I was having the most fun I have had playing a game since, well, forever.

The drums are amazingly fun and very easy to use. When I first got the game I hopped online to play some Band Quick Play with a friend and (Naturally) started on the Easy difficulty setting. I found it to be a bit too easy, and on the next song went up to the medium difficulty. I played on this difficulty for the rest of our session. After that, I decided t start the single-player career on hard, because medium still wasn't much of a challenge. I'm now about half-way through the hard career, and no songs have really given me any trouble yet. I'm not going to start over on Expert, because that may be a bit too much. So I'm going to finish the hard career, and move forward from there.

I finished the solo guitar career on Expert last night, and got 5 gold stars on nearly every song. And despite the difficulty level being much lower than Guitar Hero 3's, I still had more fun with the songs in this game. The most surprisingly funsong, easily goes to "Dead on Arrival", by Fallout Boy. Now, I expected this song to be dead on arrial (See what I did thar:P ?), but it was actually quite fun.

I tried out the singing as well, and it was a LOT of fun. I only did 3 songs, but I really enjoyed it. I'm not too good at it, as I suck at hitting the lower notes, but it was still tons of fun. "Learn to Fly" by Foo Fighters was especially fun, and I actually managed to 5 star it on easy:)

The overall song list is really great, and nearly every song is fun to play, no matter which instrument you are using. Of course, I have songs that I would love to see as DLC, but thats for another blog somewhere down the road perhaps.

The presentation is where this game really amazed me. It absolutely blows Guitar Hero out of the water. Unlike GH, when you play this game you really feel like you are on stage playing in front of a ton of people. The crowd interaction is especially great, and I really like when the crowd sings along with the song. Its extremely immersive.

Overall, Rock Band is no doubt the front-runner for my GOTY, and I expect to be enjoying this game for a long, long time to come.

Now, as I'm sure all of you know, there has been a lot going on atthis here site recently. I'm not going to delve deep into the issues or present you with a whole bunch of useless facts. I'm simply going to say that what happened to Jeff is complete bull****, and this site has lost its soul. As many have stated before, Jeff WAS Gamespot. While he wasn't always my favorite editor, I always respected him. He was never afraid to say it like it was, no matter what. It's a damn shame what happened to him, and this site has lost most of its credability now.

Like many other users here, I have created a Gametrailers account. While I never actually left this account here, I hadn't planned on coming back to it very often. I was still going to read and comment on you guys's blogs, but I wasn't going to do much else. Well, most of my friends pulled 180s and came back here.So itlooks like I'll be a bit more active here than I thought. I will still be on my Gametrailers account (Same as my username here), since a few of my best friends here at Gamespot are still there. Now let's just hope this site can rebuild itself, maybe to what it once was again.

Until next time. Thanks for reading.

(Please Note: This is simply my opinion. I understand that many of you will call me crazy, stupid, insane, whatever. I don't care. This is my opinion on the game, and I don't really care whether you agree or not.)

Now that we have that out if the way, I can move on to the main point of this blog. Guitar Hero III was released a few weeks ago, and of course, I had my copy pre-ordered, and proudly went to the midnight launch my Gamestop had. Upon returning home, I ripped the plastic off the game case, threw the game disc into my 360, and immediately jumped into some co-op action.

The first thought that came to my mind was "Wow, this is amazing." Rocking out to Stricken with a good friend of mine was an amazing experience. We proceeded to rock all through the night, not stopping until about 6 in the a.m.

Andthen the next day, I continued to rock. I rocked all the way through the Expert Career, and I didn't plan on stopping anytime soon. It was just so fun, and I never thought it would get old. Of course, after beating Luo (I would like to throw a big **** you to Luo, and his stupid lefty-flip power-up), the next obvious challenge was to make it all the way through the ultimate test of Guitar Heroes everywhere: Through the Fire and the Flames.

After practicing the song for a little bit and getting the intro down (I use the term "down" loosely), I made my first attempt at the song in Quick Play mode. To my surprise, I flew through the song, with no problems at all. I never had to use star power to stay alive, never had to worry about failing. It was disappointing and satisfying at the same time. After that was over, I quickly thought "What next? What is there to accomplish now that I have beaten the 'Ultimate' song?"

Well, I could go through and 5 star every song, which I had almost done anyways on my first playthrough of the game. So, as I was going through the list of songs, making sure to 5 star any songs I hadn't before, something hit me.

It wasn't fun anymore. As I was playing through these songs, I realized I wasn't having fun anymore. I was playing these songs simply to prove to myself that I could 5 star them, that I could conquer everything the game had to offer, regardless of whether or not I was enjoying the game.

Now, this is the part where you can freak out and call me insane. To be honest, I'm not so sure you would be too far from the truth. Maybe I am insane. But that's fine with me. I guess I'm just happy being the way I am.

Back to what I was saying before. I was no longer having fun playing the game. The novelty of playing songs with that plastic guitar had completely worn off. The more I played, the more I realized I would rather spend my time doing something else. Something like learning to play real guitar. The concept of Guitar Hero was no longer exciting like it once was.

Now, I'm not saying I don't like the game. It's a great game. The online is brilliant, most of the songs are fun to play, and the presentation is decent enough. All I'm saying is that the game has completely worn off on me, and I think I am done with Guitar Hero. Does this mean that I will never touch the game again? Of course not. I'm simply saying that, for now at least, I no longer have that drive to play the game. I'm planning on taking up real guitar, as soon as possible.

Imagine if I had started playing real guitar when I first started playing Guitar Hero, some 3 odd years ago. I think I would be pretty damn good by now J.

Does anyone else feel this way? Or am I the only loser lame enough to sit here and type a blog like this? Does anybody else think that perhaps the idea of Guitar Hero will eventually wear off to you personally?

Opinions?

Thank you for sitting there and reading my perhaps entirely pointless blog post. I appreciate it.

As you guys probably know, I am a HUGE Guitar Hero fan. Having always been a fan of rhythm games, Guitar Hero caught my attention when it was first announced. I managed to get a copy of the game when it first came out, and have been a huge fan ever since. Last year Guitar Hero II was unleashed, and quickly became one of my favorite games. I just recently managed to 5 star all the songs on Expert, as well as beat Jordan, which is quite an accomplishment, for me at least. I have been looking forward to Guitar Hero III ever since it was announced, and having finally got to try the game for myself, I have come away impressed. But not asimpressed as I thought I would be.

Now, maybe it's just me. Maybe it's the fact that this is a demo, and not the completed game. But as fun as the demo was, there was something wrong. Something didn't feel quite right. I can't put my finger on what exactly "it" is, but "it" is there. The game just didn't feel as polished as previous installments.

The first thing I noticed when I started playing was the new feeling of the hammer-ons and pull-offs. The timing seems to be a bit more forgiving in this new game. As a result, extremely fast sections full of notes seem to be much easier to hit this time around.

However, I found that the hammer-ons and pull-offs seem to be a little, um, less responsive for lack of a better term. Sometimes I swear that I hit a certain part of a song absolutely perfect, but still fail to hit the notes. Fore example:

There is one section in particular in the song "The Metal", by Tenacious D on Expert difficulty. It's a simple little 3 note hammer-on at the end of the main chorus line, but no matter how perfectly I think I hit it, I miss it every time. Now, thinking this could simply be me reading the notes wrong, I decided to put the song in practice mode (Which, surprisingly, is available in the demo.) and slow that particular part down, and get it memorized to perfection. Now, it seems to work fine in practice mode, every time. But as soon as I get into Quick Play mode, I can't hit it anymore. Maybe I just suck, but it certainly is weird.

Now, this wouldn't be such a big deal if keeping a combo for high scores was the main goal in Guitar Hero. If this kind of thing happens often throughout the game, we're gonna have a problem.

Now, lets move onto the positives. The game is still a blast to play. The 5 songs included on the demo ("Hit Me With Your Best Shot", "Lay Down", "Even Flow", "Rock You Like A Hurricane", and "The Metal") are all fun to play. The difficulty level in this sequel seems to have been jacked up a few notches, as the game is noticeably tougher this time around. The solo in "Rock You Like A Hurricane" almost killed me the first time I played it. Considering this is one of the easier songs in the game, I can't wait to see the final songs. And don't even get me started on "Through the Fire and the Flames".

I really liked the new presentation style that Activision has used for the game. The HUD has been almost completely redesigned, and for the better. The character models and venues look great. Although I must say that the character model for the singer will likely give me nightmares. Why the hell did they make him look like that? Anyways, I really liked the new look of the game, and it suits the game well.

Despite a few issues, I really enjoyed the demo for Guitar Hero III. With the confirmed track list looking great (I still wish they'd put in Paradise City.) and online play competitively and cooperatively, this game is shaping up to be a great addition to anyone's collection. I plan on pre-ordering the game soon, and I look forward to playing with some of you guys on Live.

And no, the demo is not available on the XBLM. Not yet, at least. It is available in the newest issue of Official Xbox Magazine. I managed to find a copy at my local Blockbuster, after failing to find a copy anywhere else.

Thank you for reading. Until next time, I'm outta here!