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JPsmooth42Rants and Reviews 08/01/2007 Beat RaamI beat Raam in GoW tonight. Took me long enough. I couldn't find the Torque Bow in the last area for the longest time, but once I found it , he was pretty quick work, using the Bow and Longshot combo. Now I need to get the balls to try it on insane.
It took me sooo long to beat this game. Mainly because I don't have time to play the violent games anymore, because my four year old is totally engrossed in every game I play, so it usually ends up being Viva Pinata, Feeding Frenzy, Cloning Clyde or the Burger King Games.
She got me the new Spyro for Christmas, and I got a new DS game, some war game, can't think of the name right now but it is fun to pick up and play.
I am patiently awaiting Crackdown, as I want to be in the Halo 3 Beta. I am going to attempt all 3 ways to enter. I also signed up for the Shadowrun Beta, as I used to play the old pen and paper game, and I am interested in the whole magic in a FPS.
Work has been slow (noone wants their carpets cleaned in winter) so I haven't bought Rainbow Six Vegas yet (not enough $). But I will definetly get this one pretty soon. I rented it and I love the Multiplayer. So much more teamwork and strategy than in GoW. I still love Gears when I need to let off some steam, but R6V holds my attention longer.
It is nice to see that the fixed some troubling issues in Gears ie; melee grenade distance, but it looks as if Epic has pissed alot of guys off over at the Xbox Forums. They don't understand why you shouldn't be able to stack you team in ranked games? It is frustrating for me to see these poor guy's rant... (player matches are worthless) Do you really play for the rank that much? Who cares.
My post today was really random- hopefully noone comes here anymore, so I won't be embarassed ha ha
JP 01/11/2006 Sorry!!!Sorry for not blogging lately, I've been very busy with moving (twice), finding out we are expecting a third child and making a huge career change. I appreciate the comments left while I was absent. I'll give you all a brief summary of my hiatus- I quit my job in Lewiston Idaho where I worked at an Applebees as a manager. Moved to Post Falls Idaho to work for my Dad cleaning carpets. He owns Mr Moms carpet and floors. I moved my family of four into his house for two months of hell. It wasn't the best experience, but it did drive me to buy a DS and play a ton of cool games on it (New Super Mario, Starfox, Brain Age and Wario are among my favorites). A month ago we finally got our own place, and we are getting settled (thank god). The carpet cleaning gig is nice and relaxing plus I make about twice as much as I did before.
Right now my 360 is playing Call of Duty 2, GRAW, Dead Rising (difficult save spots) and Lumines (or I guess you could say half of Lumines, I don't have enough points for the rest of the game lol).
I have preordered Gears of War, and besides this I am looking forward to Viva Pinata (for my kids, I promise) and Call of Duty 3.
I've decided (with my wifes help) that I must skip the new console releases this November, as we still are struggling to catch up with bills and I guess my kids deserve a Christmas. But come tax-time I will be getting one if not both of the new toy's.
I don't have a PS2 and I am at a loss as what to do about FFXII. Do I wait till I have a PS3? Do I "pawn shop" for a used PS2? If I got a PS2 I could also play Okami. Anyways, thats my little old blog, thanks for stopping by.
JP
16/07/2006 Where do you go?I was wondering where other bloggers go for thier news (besides on here). I usually go straight to Major Nelsons blog, then Kotaku and then Destructiod. On Fridays I go to Bungie.net to get my weekly update and on Saturdays I go see what some little kid named Haloaded has to say about the weekly update. (don't worry, I'm just bitter over your 10 million in Geometery Wars)
Does anyone use a paid service like gamespot? Do you like Joystik or IGN? Does anyone still come to my blog, since I'm a loser and haven't been very active? We'll all see in the below comments...
JP 13/07/2006 The Ship Online!This is a PC online multiplayer game that was just released on Steam that looks really interesting. You play as a passenger on a cruise ship, and when you log in you get a name on a piece of paper. You must then kill this person without the ships tight security finding out. Sounds pretty neat huh, well here is the cool part, once you log someone else gets your name on a peice of paper too. I think this game would be very interesting online, and even though I usually don't play PC games, I may have to check it out. Imagine seeing the person you are supposed to murder, walk up and ask if they have seen a (insert random name you just saw here), then befriend the person to get them alone! Or if you are someones "real" friend and then you get their name. Sounds like their is alot of possibilities for some real life backstabbing. In a perfect world this game would play online like an episode of Lost.
 http://www.destructoid.com/man-overboard
JP 11/07/2006 Back to OblivionMy Burnout Revenge disc has been acting up lately so I popped Oblivion back in the other day. I was promptly sucked right back in. It had been a couple of weeks since I played last, maybe closer to a month. I beat the main quest and set it down for a while. So when I turned it back on I didn't fuss with one of the new characters I had made and got bored of, I instead played as my original character.
He's a level 24 male Breton "Adventurer"(custom class) named Justen. (Coincidentally, this is my name too- wierd huh!) He is a master of destruction, and handy with sneak, bow, restoration and light armor. He is the Arena Champion, Hero of Cyrodill, and the Arch-Mage. He really goofed up the last mission in the Thieves Guild, tried to talk to one of the Blind Monks in the Imperial Palace, and unfortunately he did some really poor saving at this point and screwed himself out of the achievement. He has barely touched the Fighters Guild and hadn't ventured into the Dark Brotherhood quests at all.
So when I picked up where I left off, much has already been accomplished and i was still left with 20 or 30 questlines to choose from. So my once noble adventurer Justen lets fame go to his head and joins the Dark Brotherhood. These missions are very fun, but they still leave me feeling uneasy after murdering people for gold. Or should I say I'm murdering for achievements, because gold is the last thing I need.
Then I bit the bullet and bought the extra content I didn't have yet. I already had the Wizards Tower and the Orrery, so I spent 450pts to get Mehrunes Razor and the Thieves Den.
The Thieves Den is a "Goonies Like" underground pirate ship, which is crawling with Skeleton Pirates. Once you clear the place out you can purchase upgrades for it and make it a base of operations. You can gain access to your own personal fence, and a couple trainers and merchants. Also you gain a crew of scurvy pirates who you can send out pluning. Then a week later"in-game" you can come pick up yer booty. Arrrgh....Whats a pirates favorite place to eat?........
ARRRRRRRRby's..sorry about that.
The Mehrunes Razor quest is great! The Dungeon is huge! The enemies are numerous and very strong! There was a Morag Tong assasin locked in the "jail" and his armor is sweet, probably the best I've seen for a Thief character. It took me about six hours to devour these quests, and it was worth the points..er money?
My wife just got back from Wal-mart, and she traded my copy of Burnout for a new one. Actually I guess my little sister did it, and when they said no, she blurted that Blinko.com said they would. She meant Bungie.net, which doesn't make any sense either- but it worked... yeah its not very honest, but I got a defective disc from EA and Walmart will collect their money from them.
I apologize for the lack of activity around here, I've been going through a ton of stuff right now in my "real life" including a huge career change, and move. I'll be quitting the resturant industry and moving into the family business, carpet cleaning... Yes I know it doesn't sound like fun, but I will have more time for my family and we will be financially secure. And the most important thing is that we will be back with our family! Well my family, my wifes family is in Cali and Arizona.
Thanks for stopping by, I'll be around to leave some comments later.
JP
01/07/2006 Prey Demo!I downloaded the new Prey Demo off of the Xbox live marketplace and its is alot of fun. The story is played out very well, and they throw alot of neat new elements into the first person shooter style gameplay. I especially like the teleportation stuff (you have to see for yourself). Also the "gravity walks" are really cool. I got vertigo and almost motion sick from switching around which way was "down". This probably sounds really confusing, but believe me, this is something you have to play to believe.
Don't even try it if you don't like gore though, its pretty bad. There was even a scene where... nevermind, I don't want to ruin it for you... but it was just wrong!
I'd say its a must-buy for myself, and I haven't even tried the multiplayer yet! Just remember, this is not one for the kiddies.
JP 21/06/2006 Two WorldsWhere did this game come from? Its due for release this year and looks to maybe give Oblivion a run for its money. Here is a link to its news on Gamespot-
I came home the other night and my wife had perfected the Maniac rank in Burnout, gaining 45 achievement points and pushing me over the 5000 mark. She is playing alot and getting into the races. She hasn't taken it online yet, but she will and she will enjoy it I'm sure.
Speaking of Burnout online, anyone else get mad at EA's servers? I froze up the other night and dropped about 20,000 point in rank from one game. I am not a rank whore, but it is kinda frustrating.
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