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Mirror’s Edge Trailer

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Does anyone get the feeling this might be 2008’s Portal? It’s got a really catchy soundtrack, cool game mechanic that you have to perfect, and it’s looking like one neat story. Speaking of the story there is a story video that helps give you an idea what this game is about. I think this is a new and cool trend from EA doing story trailers for games they are releasing.

I probably already mentioned this, but just for preordering the game you get a neat bag, and there is another bag from Timbuk2, but I guess that one is around $120 preorder and I’m not really ready to make that kind of investment.

They are supposed to be releasing comic books as well to help give the story more depth. I still kind of dig comic books. I’ll have to see if the comic book store in Barberton is getting them. I hope I can find them.

Preview of NXE

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The NXE (New Xbox Experience) is being opened up to some lucky people this Friday, but not me. Seems that while the promise of registering on the Microsoft Connect site and then registering for the NXE Preview program was supposed to be a pretty good bet to get in, it was not.

Looking at the forums it seems that if you are outside of the United States and even if you just have a silver account (read: not even a paid member of the service) then you get in. The people like me who have been on Xbox Live since the beginning (5 years and counting) well there are about 300 posts from people like me who didn’t get in.

The NXE is being released for everyone on November 19th.

You ever feel that sometimes they are just collecting your information when they do things like this? Or is that paranoid?

Thursday WoW Update

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This is kind of a fun update! My brother is out of the hospital now and the first thing he decides we should do is to go get ourselves Devilsaurs. My Devilsaur is the orangish one and my brother has the brownish one. Yes, these elite mobs from the depths of Ungaro Crater used to be untamable by the hunter, and now look at them. Large T-Rex looking monstrosities that are ours to control. They have completely changed the way pets work in the latest patch as well, but that’s a story for another update when I’ve explored it and know a little more about the abilities in the skill tree for pets. I need to get my brother’s characters names so that I can add them to this update.

We have a new member on the server and probably two. Melissa apparently started playing WoW and so Rick will be starting a new character just to play with her. I don’t have either of their new character names, so that’s one for the next update. I got an IM from a friend letting me know that they were entitled to a free character transfer, which is the process by which you take a character from one server and put it on another, but I am not sure how they managed to get a free one. The cost of this move is usually about $20.

Warhammer Online is taking it’s toll on WarCraft and I have a feeling things are going to change, for the better I hope. Seems that the guild that I was in is down to 3 members. I hope this is the pressure Blizzard needed to get off their collective asses and do something about this constant end game grind. It’s not fun, and they have about a month and a half to fix it before my subscription runs out.

My next update should be littered with players names.

Midnight Release

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Tonight Fable 2 comes out for the Xbox 360 and GameStop is doing a midnight release for the game. I doubt that I’ll get any play time in, but it’s sort of fun to still have the option of showing up and getting the game at midnight.

The cooperative patch that will address the fact that the game does not come with cooperative play is supposedly already up and we might just get to download it tonight as soon as we get the game home.

I already read the instructions on another website about how to obtain the gold and items that were earned in the pub games.

Things should go pretty smooth.

Thursday WoW Update

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It’s not really Thursday, and it’s been a few weeks coming, but here’s your update for what’s been going on in the World of Warcraft.

Well, Nothing has been going on with either Grotesk or Tsugutoshi. Neither character has moved an inch from my last update. Am I surprised? No, I’m not. There are times when people can’t get around to their characters and some of us don’t use those sparing free hours in the day to get anywhere on our characters.

If I listed all my characters they would have made the same amount of progress. Honestly most of the time that I get spurred on to play it’s by my brother or this guy, so it’s no wonder there’s been so much inactivity as of late.

Next is Steakems who I know is still playing the game, especially when the expansion is mentioned but this character has been absolutely stagnant…

So stagnant in fact that even though at one point I am sure there was a 20 level difference between characters Rombus actually passed him up. Sure it’s only by one level, but it’s still the first time. He’s also passed up all my alts, and he’s kind of in his own territory now.

Finally, Remana has been steadily gaining levels, but due to a really cheap DSL package it took something like 2 or 3 days to download the patch. Sure the latest patch was a big one weighing in at 1.2 GB’s, but that’s some cheap DSL. It usually takes me about 4 hours to download the same patch, and that’s with some sort of problem with the Blizzard Downloader telling me I’m behind a firewall.

I’ll try and be a little more consistent and maybe play myself so I have something to talk about.

Oh No He Didn’t

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I caught up with a friend of mine that I haven’t talked to in a long time. He hasn’t been online at all since he moved to Alabama, but I guess now with the new job he has more time to play Xbox 360. He picked up a few new games, but the one that I’ve been most interested in finally getting a chance to play with someone is Mercenaries 2 .

There are a few people on forums that offered to send me a friend request and I could play with them, but generally I don’t want to deal with that kind of thing. I’d rather play the game with someone that I actually know. Someone who after we are done playing this game I still have a reason to have them on my friends list. While you can enjoy this game single player I feel most of the time that this game was really made to be played cooperatively.

The only problem with this game is that when you play cooperatively you are only advancing the single player story for the world that you are in. I’ve been connecting to his game to catch him up to where I am, but soon I think it’s going to be his turn to connect to me. I’d also like to get some challenges and other things done.

The achievements you get just for playing cooperatively are great. You get one just for blowing stuff up, one for shooting things, one just for connecting in the first place. I’m not really someone who plays just for achievements, but it’s nice to get them for doing nothing.

Red Controllers

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The limited edition red Xbox 360 controller is finally in stores. I thought we were getting a green one as well, and while I had no real intention on getting it, I still thought it would be there. Turns out, according to the clerk at GameStop, that the green controller had an “improved d-pad” for Europeans, because apparently that’s how they play soccer games. I don’t know if that’s true or not, and to be honest I have no intention on looking it up. It seems plausible enough explanation.

I think everyone should get one. I mean, look at this thing. It’s read with black trim, and not even the black controller has black trim. I wish the blue controller had black trim. It’s pretty neat looking.

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Thursday WoW Update

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I said I’d bring them back, so here they are. There has been some moving around and some other things going on. Some day this section might be larger, because more people might move here. I know that Andrew and Anthony have been being prodded to at least start new characters on this server. Some day this section might be for an entirely different game, since there seems to be a lot of interest in the Warhammer game. For now this is where we are.

I’ll start with Remana who hasn’t changed a great deal since I stopped doing these updates about a month ago. I’m sure there will be a renewed interest now that I’m coming back.

Grotesk should be seeing some sort of play, but he never liked the character so it’s going to be pretty stagnant. I don’t know if I can convince him to play it anymore, but it would be nice to have a priest in the group. As part of a compromise, and since you can move characters from PvE servers to PvP now, he moved Tsugutoshi and he’ll actually play this character.

Steakems shot up to level 36, and I really thought after he passed my two alts that he was going to climb all the way to 60. Now he’s having car trouble and some other not so fun stuff is going on and I don’t know what’s going to happen with this character. I’ve even heard him say that he might be putting WoW on hold for awhile until he gets it all straightened out. Who knows. Have to wait and see I suppose.

Rombus has actually been playing ever since they convinced me not to go. I know this, because when I had that get together he was playing this character and had Tsugutoshi run him through Scarlet Monastery. I think when I stopped the updates he was only in the 20’s, so this is of course an improvement. I can actually run through the stuff he’s doing with my alts. Just as soon as I find time to be on when he is.

Well that was a heck of an update. Maybe some day I’ll figure out how to get a page going for just these updates or something. I don’t know. Lot of ideas.

Rock Band 2

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Jo, Tim, Trewr, and Codex all came over to play Rock Band 2. They are supposed to come over tomorrow as well. I’m pretty impressed with it, but it seems that they changed a lot regarding how the drums work. The notes were completely different than anything I had seen on the original, even on songs that were supposed to be “warmup” or “easy”. Be interesting to get into it more and see if I could get the hang of it.

I do enjoy quite a few songs that were picked for Rock Band 2. I mean, there are always going to be some ridiculously hard songs in these kinds of games, but there is a very large selection of songs to choose from now. That is when you consider that you can transfer all the songs (I know except for 3) from the original Rock Band on to the hard drive and play those while you are playing Rock Band 2.

I took some pictures of them with the camera on my phone. I’m not sure I like how they came out, and I think I’m going to have to play with the phone a bit to get the pictures to look better.

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