The past I've had my launch Oculus Rift since day-ish one. (That initial launch/shipping thing for the Rift was a mess.) I've loved VR. I haven't played as much VR as I thought I would, but I've enjoyed it. If you asked me before I got the Rift, I thought I'd end up living in VR and only play VR games. Why not? I'd say it was mostly down to the types of games plus the resolution and fov weren't...
Endurance racing and Controversy This past week was the first week of the new iRacing Blancpain Endurance Series for 2015 season 4. This season is special though because over 300 teams are competing to finish in the top 40 teams to qualify for a pro license and eligibility into the iRacing Blancpain GT World Series in 2016 which will offer up real prize money. The iRacing series is modeled afte...
New pedals! I finally upgraded my racing pedals. I’ve been racing with a Logitech Driving Force Pro wheel and pedals since 2005. At some point I did add a Leo Bodnar USB pedal adapter to increase the resolution of the pedals but while that was an improvement it was a spit shine on a rusty car. The new pedals I got are the Heusinkveld Engineering Sim Pedals Pro 2 pedal set with their baseplate....
I finished Portal 2 single player. I even went back and got all the single player achievements. Now I'm just waiting on my co-op partner so I can finish that story. I didn't go back and pick up any of the other games I'm halfway through. I just kind of grazed across my game pile of games that you can't really finish. Torchlight endless dungeon, Fifa 11 and a lot of Rock Band 3. I did have peopl...
I canceled gamefly again today. On this latest stint I've had it for 11 months. I still really want to get through my backlog of games and gamefly was just preventing me from doing that. It wasn't exactly giving me all these great games I saved money by not buying and I would keep them for usually 2 months at a time. The way amazon has been pricing games I'm pretty sure I could have bought ever...
Dragon Age spoilers in this blog post, FYI. This week it was all Ferelden all the time. With Dragon Age II coming tomorrow I went back and played through the Dragon Age Awakening expansion, plus the Leliana's Song, Golems of Amgarrak and Witch Hunt DLC. Awakening was a lot of fun. It was almost 16 hours of playtime for me to do all the quests except the special weapon item quests. The world cha...
So Your Shape: Fitness Evolved came in from gamefly this week. I'm always needing to workout more and get in better shape and I figured we've got this kinect, so why not. Dance Central and Kinect Adventures have only been played when we have people over so far. After a few days with Your Shape I totally get it. As someone who is really enticed by achievements this game makes working out that mu...
Operation Backlog soldiers on. I've been doing the daily dose with Mass Effect 2 over the last week. I also wrapped up Halo: Reach 3 player co-op style. It's interesting how much time and personal investment it takes be a gamer and more specifically one where I want to experience these games that people are talking about. I don't envy review sites or magazines that have to crank out the reviews...
So Operation Backlog floundered. I couldn't even tell you why or what I was doing in September that made me stop. I think it was getting back into WoW to get ready for Cataclysm. Anyway, after a night of co-op Halo Reach last night I think this is going to be a thing again. We shall see...
It's been slow going this week. Monday I went back to Borderlands . I'm now level 30 and finished with Krom . I think that means I'm 3/4 of the way through. Tuesday I wanted to play Assassin's creed next but for some reason ended up with Oblivion instead. I finished off the Arena and started on the Fighter's guild. I played Oblivion on PC when it orginally came out but never finished it. Orgina...
Dragon Age is done. 40 hours on this playthrough but over 60 on the game. I had an issue with my EA account right around the time Mass Effect 2 came out where my EA account was pointing to my hotmail instead of my gmail address. I was adding DLC on the EA website through my gmail but on my 360 with my hotmail apparently. When I switched everything over to my gmail account I then had a 20 hour g...
The rule of Operation Backlog already took a drunken hit this weekend when I bough Plants vs Zombies on live arcade. The rule is no new games until the backlog is complete. Sometime after midnight a few too drinks this weekend I thought I should buy PvZ for another platform. With that bad decision behind me I'm facing my biggest challenge today with Halo: Reach . I thought I wasn't that into it...
Batman Arkham Asylum is done. I began to like it a lot more as I moved along through the game. It seemed like the story only really kicked in after Harley was locked up which was only in the last 1/3 of the game. The combat kind of got frustrating to me with only like 3 moves. I think if I had gotten better with the gadgets it would have been smoother so I guess that was more my fault. I beat i...
So the Fable II main story is down. I need to finish the two DLC packs still. I finished Shank and Braid . Braid was another game I had just stopped right near the end. I was in world 6 and some of the puzzles were just getting frustrating so I stopped playing it last year. I went back and figured some of them out on my own and hit up youtube for the rest. I think there were only 4 pieces I did...
On August 23rd my gamerscore was 34035. We'll note that and see what it ends up being after Operation Backlog is complete. I don't know how long it's going to last but here's the mission. Beat every game on this list: Games I Need To Beat In addtion to the games on that list there will be also the various titles that come in through gamefly. Right now I'm working on Splinter Cell: Conviction fr...
It's weird. I seem to always get the itch around 10am. It's that feeling that playing games is probably a better use of my time than whatever I'm doing at the moment. Usually & almost always it's at work. I feel I get that itch the most between 10am and 4 pm. Unfortunately I'm working 9-6p right now though. The iphone has saved me from going crazy at work more than a few times. GeoDefense , Peg...
Really. Every week there's a pretty awesome title out that I want to play on the 360. That doesn't even include the PS3 and the occasional Wii game. The dearth of games has been the only thing keeping me back from buying a PS3 & a Wii. I'm still wrapping it up, but as you can see in the list I made I have no shortage of games still I have yet to beat on the 360. I know a lot of those are 2 year...
Just horrible 1990s gameplay in these very tiny set piece areas. Granted I only played the demo. But I was just wow.
In this market I wish I could in invest in gamerscore, it's on the way up. Mine specifically. I busted out almost a grand of more points yesterday through Madden 09 and getting the Halo 3 skulls. Back on the market and games though; Friday morning NPR ran a small report during the morning news talking about how video games are a booming market in a down economy. They did some street interviews...
Damnit all to hell! Waves in Geometry Wars 2 has been killing me. I'm going back and forth with a friend on high scores through all the modes in GeoWars2. I own them all, he comes back wins some, I go back, you get it. Well last week he got 3mil in waves. This one level has been my obsession all week now. I hit 2.7 mil twice yesterday but it's a lot of blind luck to get there it seems. I then c...