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Happy Emergence Day!!
11/12/2006
Happy Emergence Day!!
What's Emergence Day? Basically it's just a day Microsoft has devoted to giving away prizes to people who play Gears of War online as well as having "play with fame" in which the lead singer of Megadeath will be online playing. Gears of War came out last Tuesday in some places but it has been slowly trickling out to stores since then. I got my copy Wednesday. In case you hadn't heard all the hype about this game, one of the biggest draws of its attention is because of its graphics. It is arguably the best looking game ever, up to now. Take a look for yourself (click on them for a bigger version):
Those are in-game pictures. Amazingly, there is no slow down at all in the game. I am really surprised how amazing it looks, especially in HD. The game plays just as good as it looks too. So far it's probably my favorite 360 game, topping Oblivion. The only bad parts are its lack of story and limited multiplayer modes. There is a story behind the game, but they really didn't try hard to tell it and parts of the game I would be on a mission to get or do something and I don't recall even being told WHY I'm doing it. They should have fixed that up. Multiplayer only has 3 or 4 types of games you can play. They are incredibly fun, but still there is only 3 or 4 compared to Halo's basically limitless approach.
One last nerdy thing and then I'll move on. Apparently XBox 360's everywhere are starting to get into this blogging thing. My 360 just made a blog of its own! Actually, the website tracks what you do on your 360 and then writes a blog entry as if the XBox was writing it. If you don't play it that day it will even write and complain how you never use it and it misses you. It's hilarious.
The Packers won today but unfortunately I was "disabled" for most of the day. I woke up with some stomach pain and it didn't go away until about an hour ago. I was laying down during most of the game but I saw parts and heard all of the game. Glad they did so well versus the Vikings. Now I can go into work tomorrow and brag to all the Vikings fans.
What's Emergence Day? Basically it's just a day Microsoft has devoted to giving away prizes to people who play Gears of War online as well as having "play with fame" in which the lead singer of Megadeath will be online playing. Gears of War came out last Tuesday in some places but it has been slowly trickling out to stores since then. I got my copy Wednesday. In case you hadn't heard all the hype about this game, one of the biggest draws of its attention is because of its graphics. It is arguably the best looking game ever, up to now. Take a look for yourself (click on them for a bigger version):
Those are in-game pictures. Amazingly, there is no slow down at all in the game. I am really surprised how amazing it looks, especially in HD. The game plays just as good as it looks too. So far it's probably my favorite 360 game, topping Oblivion. The only bad parts are its lack of story and limited multiplayer modes. There is a story behind the game, but they really didn't try hard to tell it and parts of the game I would be on a mission to get or do something and I don't recall even being told WHY I'm doing it. They should have fixed that up. Multiplayer only has 3 or 4 types of games you can play. They are incredibly fun, but still there is only 3 or 4 compared to Halo's basically limitless approach.
One last nerdy thing and then I'll move on. Apparently XBox 360's everywhere are starting to get into this blogging thing. My 360 just made a blog of its own! Actually, the website tracks what you do on your 360 and then writes a blog entry as if the XBox was writing it. If you don't play it that day it will even write and complain how you never use it and it misses you. It's hilarious.
The Packers won today but unfortunately I was "disabled" for most of the day. I woke up with some stomach pain and it didn't go away until about an hour ago. I was laying down during most of the game but I saw parts and heard all of the game. Glad they did so well versus the Vikings. Now I can go into work tomorrow and brag to all the Vikings fans.
Labels: gears of war, packers, xbox 360
Static electricity and other fun topics
11/05/2006
So I finally decide to post something and Blogger is down for maintenance, what's up with that. So I'm writing this post in CoffeeCup HTML Editor, which is pretty handy by the way, although I mostly use it for syntax highlighting.
Every time I get out of my car I get shocked as soon as I go to touch the door. Sometimes, I'll avoid touching the door when I get out to open my garage at the apartment and then when I go to put the key in the garage it gets me there. I can't avoid it! I don't know if it's my car that does it or something that I wear. Either way it's been doing it for a long time. One of my jackets does it too when I take it off or put it on, but that's to be expected for a jacket. At work when I take it off I cautiously put my hand near my metal drawers and wait to see the huge spark it causes. It's actually kind of fun except for the fact it stings.
Windows Media Player 11 was just released recently and I am very impressed with it. I've never been a fan of Windows Media Player but this latest version is pretty nice. It now has this pretty slick black look to it and everything in your "library" is represented by its album art. So when you search through your music you see all of the album art. It's very cool. There is also a feature which allows you to stream music, photos, and video to your XBox 360. This existed before but you couldn't stream video unless you had Windows Media Center Edition. Well now it looks like you can stream videos without having it, but from what I've experienced so far it only work on very select codecs. So no DivX, AVI, and I tried MPEG-2 which doesn't even work. XBox is supposed to support MPEG-2 so I bet it's WMP11 that is blocking it.
I bought F.E.A.R. for the XBox 360 last week, I believe I mentioned it in a previous post probably a month or so ago. It's a first person shooter like Halo but there is also a paranormal twist to the game. There are people who just appear out of nowhere who will disappear into thin air after staring at you or they will tell you some part of the cryptic story and then leave you. The main person seems to be this little girl in a red dress. She's very creepy, see for yourself:
Um.. yeah, creepy. The game is meant to be scary and it's pretty good at doing it. Occasionally you'll just be walking down a path and you'll hear a sudden creepy sound and see something disgusting on the screen. It catches you off guard, it's fun.
Gears of War comes out next week which is supposed to be XBox's killer holiday game. It looks pretty sweet so hopefully it is. I played the Rainbow Six: Vegas demo too and that game is looking awesome as well. There are too many good games coming out.
Speaking of good games, Burger King is releasing three of their own XBox/XBox 360 games this November. Pretty crazy huh? They are $3.99 with a value meal purchase I believe. I'm sure they are pretty horrible games but they will be worth $4 a piece just to laugh at them. The XBox 360 has these "achievement" points you can earn by doing certain things in games and then people can view them online. Well these Burger King games will have them too, so it will be hilarious to lookup your friend online and see he got 20 points for doing something in "Sneak King". Check out a screen shot of the game, it's so funny!
In one of the games, Sneak King, you have to sneak up on hungry citizens who are starving for Burger King and surprise them with a sandwich. You are judged on your technique and surprise factor I believe. How ridiculously funny does that sound?
Every time I get out of my car I get shocked as soon as I go to touch the door. Sometimes, I'll avoid touching the door when I get out to open my garage at the apartment and then when I go to put the key in the garage it gets me there. I can't avoid it! I don't know if it's my car that does it or something that I wear. Either way it's been doing it for a long time. One of my jackets does it too when I take it off or put it on, but that's to be expected for a jacket. At work when I take it off I cautiously put my hand near my metal drawers and wait to see the huge spark it causes. It's actually kind of fun except for the fact it stings.
Windows Media Player 11 was just released recently and I am very impressed with it. I've never been a fan of Windows Media Player but this latest version is pretty nice. It now has this pretty slick black look to it and everything in your "library" is represented by its album art. So when you search through your music you see all of the album art. It's very cool. There is also a feature which allows you to stream music, photos, and video to your XBox 360. This existed before but you couldn't stream video unless you had Windows Media Center Edition. Well now it looks like you can stream videos without having it, but from what I've experienced so far it only work on very select codecs. So no DivX, AVI, and I tried MPEG-2 which doesn't even work. XBox is supposed to support MPEG-2 so I bet it's WMP11 that is blocking it.
I bought F.E.A.R. for the XBox 360 last week, I believe I mentioned it in a previous post probably a month or so ago. It's a first person shooter like Halo but there is also a paranormal twist to the game. There are people who just appear out of nowhere who will disappear into thin air after staring at you or they will tell you some part of the cryptic story and then leave you. The main person seems to be this little girl in a red dress. She's very creepy, see for yourself:
Um.. yeah, creepy. The game is meant to be scary and it's pretty good at doing it. Occasionally you'll just be walking down a path and you'll hear a sudden creepy sound and see something disgusting on the screen. It catches you off guard, it's fun.
Gears of War comes out next week which is supposed to be XBox's killer holiday game. It looks pretty sweet so hopefully it is. I played the Rainbow Six: Vegas demo too and that game is looking awesome as well. There are too many good games coming out.
Speaking of good games, Burger King is releasing three of their own XBox/XBox 360 games this November. Pretty crazy huh? They are $3.99 with a value meal purchase I believe. I'm sure they are pretty horrible games but they will be worth $4 a piece just to laugh at them. The XBox 360 has these "achievement" points you can earn by doing certain things in games and then people can view them online. Well these Burger King games will have them too, so it will be hilarious to lookup your friend online and see he got 20 points for doing something in "Sneak King". Check out a screen shot of the game, it's so funny!
In one of the games, Sneak King, you have to sneak up on hungry citizens who are starving for Burger King and surprise them with a sandwich. You are judged on your technique and surprise factor I believe. How ridiculously funny does that sound?
Labels: gears of war, music, xbox 360