Games are Life
Hi.
My life's kind of become an endless cycle lately, and so I'm posting as a way of trying to break it. I guess not a lot has changed since my last post. I still get up and go to work, come home, play some games and go to sleep. I feel like I'm just a cog in the machine... a strangely shaped slightly broken multicolored one, but a cog in the machine nonetheless.
Work sees me taking more of a supervisory role these days, coordinating several others towards a common goal while finding ways of motivating them, understanding their needs while trying to fit everything into a deadline. Hopefully, this will lead to having an actual supervisor-type role in the company, but we'll see.
My gaming life has been completely taken over by the PS3 in pretty much every way possible. Since picking up the console at Christmas, we've bought 9 PS3 games (Motorstorm, Oblivion, The Orange Box, Burnout Paradise, NHL 08, Unreal Tournament 3, Rock Band, Virtua Fighter 5 and The Eye of Judgment) and 1 on the PSN (Castlevania: SOTN).
What was that about low attach rates?
Motorstorm... well, it was a pack-in and I like it, but something about it just doesn't click with me for some reason. I should like it more than I do. I think I'll give it another shot soon.
Oblivion is such a huge game and a huge commitment that just putting the disc into the PS3 feels like I'm signing my life away. I love being able to explore huge worlds and everything... it's just going to have to wait a while longer.
Having never played through all of Half-Life 2, The Orange Box was pretty much a no brainer for me. I finished Portal quickly enough, but still need to go through HL2 and the two other episodes. (My wife has almost finished HL2, I believe.) Something about Team Fortress 2 (when it works at all) just doesn't click with me either. I've played it a little bit here and there but I just don't find it as fun as I'd hoped, but at this price, who can complain?
Burnout Paradise is just incredible. Almost everything I've ever wanted in a Burnout game in one package. Seamless online play? Sign me up. I'm about 70% complete at this point with about 65 hours played and I'm having a blast. Found quite a few other people to play with too. Just wish there weren't as many douchebags that feel the need to try to show their dick to me after I wreck them.
As for NHL... well, the 2k hockey game just sort of felt like more of the same, so why not give EA a shot this year. At only $20 (I love working in the game industry), it's everything I want in a hockey game... though I find myself not scoring as much as I'd like. Probably just not good enough at it yet, so it's not a real complaint.
UT3 has been just such a blast. I've installed more mods than probably anyone else... something like 80 mods and maps installed at this point and I'm working on more. I just wish the importing wasn't such a clumsy process. (Epic's working on a patch to the game to fix some issues as well as making the mod process more streamlined.) I'd say that I've been playing UT3 the most out of all my games lately.
Rock Band. Such an excellent game. Awesome songs. More Pumpkins, please! Oh and actually integrating into the PS3 online stuff a little better would be nice. And support for Players Met would be nice too. Hoping to have a few more drunken Rock Band nights with friends soon.
I haven't actually received Virtua Fighter 5 yet, but it should be within the next week or two. No online play on the PS3 doesn't bother me because any sort of high-level play isn't really doable online. Any lag whatsoever kills the game for people that know the frame counts and collision detection of their favorite moves, so... I'm looking forward to the Quest mode and El Blaze.
The Eye of Judgment is a really neat game, but I'm not really the kind of person that plays card games like Magic, so I'm a little lost when playing it. There's just a lot of details and stuff to absorb. I know I'll understand it more as I play it. It's a bit of a commitment to play it as well since you have to set up the PS Eye and the mat and all that and I don't have a table to do it on (which would make things infinitely easier). Hoping to play it online a bit with Rich this weekend at some point.
Castlevania... well, it's Castlevania. Having it on my PSP and PS3 and being able to transfer the saves back and forth is quite awesome. I just wish Sony would release more PS1 games.
I'm quite enjoying all the SF4 coverage, though I'm not sure I would even call it SF4 considering the fact that it appears little has changed aside from the graphical style. As a huge SF fan, I'm not sure what Capcom could do. If you change too much, you risk the game bombing and losing the fanbase. If you change too little, everyone complains and says it's just another rehash. I'm enjoying what I've seen so far, but what I'm really looking forward to is the SSF2T HD Remix.
So... what are you playing?
My life's kind of become an endless cycle lately, and so I'm posting as a way of trying to break it. I guess not a lot has changed since my last post. I still get up and go to work, come home, play some games and go to sleep. I feel like I'm just a cog in the machine... a strangely shaped slightly broken multicolored one, but a cog in the machine nonetheless.
Work sees me taking more of a supervisory role these days, coordinating several others towards a common goal while finding ways of motivating them, understanding their needs while trying to fit everything into a deadline. Hopefully, this will lead to having an actual supervisor-type role in the company, but we'll see.
My gaming life has been completely taken over by the PS3 in pretty much every way possible. Since picking up the console at Christmas, we've bought 9 PS3 games (Motorstorm, Oblivion, The Orange Box, Burnout Paradise, NHL 08, Unreal Tournament 3, Rock Band, Virtua Fighter 5 and The Eye of Judgment) and 1 on the PSN (Castlevania: SOTN).
What was that about low attach rates?
Motorstorm... well, it was a pack-in and I like it, but something about it just doesn't click with me for some reason. I should like it more than I do. I think I'll give it another shot soon.
Oblivion is such a huge game and a huge commitment that just putting the disc into the PS3 feels like I'm signing my life away. I love being able to explore huge worlds and everything... it's just going to have to wait a while longer.
Having never played through all of Half-Life 2, The Orange Box was pretty much a no brainer for me. I finished Portal quickly enough, but still need to go through HL2 and the two other episodes. (My wife has almost finished HL2, I believe.) Something about Team Fortress 2 (when it works at all) just doesn't click with me either. I've played it a little bit here and there but I just don't find it as fun as I'd hoped, but at this price, who can complain?
Burnout Paradise is just incredible. Almost everything I've ever wanted in a Burnout game in one package. Seamless online play? Sign me up. I'm about 70% complete at this point with about 65 hours played and I'm having a blast. Found quite a few other people to play with too. Just wish there weren't as many douchebags that feel the need to try to show their dick to me after I wreck them.
As for NHL... well, the 2k hockey game just sort of felt like more of the same, so why not give EA a shot this year. At only $20 (I love working in the game industry), it's everything I want in a hockey game... though I find myself not scoring as much as I'd like. Probably just not good enough at it yet, so it's not a real complaint.
UT3 has been just such a blast. I've installed more mods than probably anyone else... something like 80 mods and maps installed at this point and I'm working on more. I just wish the importing wasn't such a clumsy process. (Epic's working on a patch to the game to fix some issues as well as making the mod process more streamlined.) I'd say that I've been playing UT3 the most out of all my games lately.
Rock Band. Such an excellent game. Awesome songs. More Pumpkins, please! Oh and actually integrating into the PS3 online stuff a little better would be nice. And support for Players Met would be nice too. Hoping to have a few more drunken Rock Band nights with friends soon.
I haven't actually received Virtua Fighter 5 yet, but it should be within the next week or two. No online play on the PS3 doesn't bother me because any sort of high-level play isn't really doable online. Any lag whatsoever kills the game for people that know the frame counts and collision detection of their favorite moves, so... I'm looking forward to the Quest mode and El Blaze.
The Eye of Judgment is a really neat game, but I'm not really the kind of person that plays card games like Magic, so I'm a little lost when playing it. There's just a lot of details and stuff to absorb. I know I'll understand it more as I play it. It's a bit of a commitment to play it as well since you have to set up the PS Eye and the mat and all that and I don't have a table to do it on (which would make things infinitely easier). Hoping to play it online a bit with Rich this weekend at some point.
Castlevania... well, it's Castlevania. Having it on my PSP and PS3 and being able to transfer the saves back and forth is quite awesome. I just wish Sony would release more PS1 games.
I'm quite enjoying all the SF4 coverage, though I'm not sure I would even call it SF4 considering the fact that it appears little has changed aside from the graphical style. As a huge SF fan, I'm not sure what Capcom could do. If you change too much, you risk the game bombing and losing the fanbase. If you change too little, everyone complains and says it's just another rehash. I'm enjoying what I've seen so far, but what I'm really looking forward to is the SSF2T HD Remix.
So... what are you playing?