This was a long week fraid its not over yet. My sister is getting married on Sunday. I called off work tomorrow to be able to make the rehearsal, but we're all packed. Ready to get this going. Happy for my sister but not real up on putting a tux on, feels like prom again, but I will persevere. Video game wise still dipping my foot in the Starcraft 2 pool want to get in, but its real discouragin...
Ok that was one bullshit week, long story short it sucked. Finally the weekend comes and Friday was pretty sweet. After clocking out for the night the girlfriend and I got some Five Guys burgers and did a little relaxing, poor thing is due at work in a few hours and isn't feeling great. So I got some video games done while she recovered. I'm slowly but surly slogging through Reach the sweet car...
According to the Twitter account of Dan Hsu formally of 1up and currently of Bitmob, an undisclosed website has taken down its review of Fallout New Vegas due to dissatisfaction from Publisher Bethesda with the review. This was against the wishes of the writer the boss of the site pulled a review. Apparently due to pressure from Bethesda the review will be pulled until the ad campaign for the g...
For me however it was a baby night. It was a good night with my little one as we played and I pined a litle bit to hang out on SC 2 and work on my game. Without Parker it would have been a perfect night to game, since there was no new Glee, but we watched a Tosh.0 marathon and hung out with my kid, it was a pretty cool night especially when giflfriend made chicken parmsean (pretty nice to have...
Brought my collection on the site up to speed hardly any of my PC games are on here but I'll try and take care of that another time. The girlfriend and I swung by gamestop for their buy two get one free deal and I picked up Far Cry 2, Alpha Protocol and Darksiders. Had a hanckering for FC2 and Darksiders recently but Alpha Protocol was a surprise. I heard the rough things about it but it'll be...
Hey, I'm back. I missed you. According to my list I haven't been around since April and truthfully alot has happened since then. My kid's almost 9 months old and doing cool shit and after a pretty good summer in the Magic: The Gathering arena, I've decided to leave the game behind. After a move in September in with my girlfriend I now have a nice little setup in our basement that allow for me t...
Ok so I havn't blogged in a while a month or so? Not really sure. I've been child-rearing and getting back into the swing of things Magically (the gathering) but I have been playing a slew of games borrowed or something like it. Bad Company 2 is still spinning like a mad man in my 360 as i've tagged it for my next (3rd) S rank, with my 4th being Mass Effect 2 but that one's on loan at the momen...
Andrew, dude where all your updates at? Simply put I started a new job and my kid's mom is sick, so I've been spread a little thin. Its been hard even to listen to my podcasts. That being said, my training is over and I start going in part time to work. So more updates will be forthcoming, I did pick up Halo Wars and Bad Company 2. I'll get into better details later. But we're about to play D a...
After watching the kids at Giant Bomb's trip to Liverpool to check out Blur. The best comparison I've heard is a dark Mario Kary so I signed up immediatly for the beta. Now I'm not a huge racing fan, I haven't played any since Burnout and generally pass on any games with driving that aren't Burnout or Mario Kart, but given its free I tried it out. This game looks amazing even in beta, the racin...
I'm sitting in my living room after a long fucking day of working my ass off at my soon to be former job. My buddy Nate is moving away to Japan so to see him off in true nerd fashion they're all drunk and now we're firing up some Beatles Rock Band. They walked in a little before 10pm. After hauling in the plastic drums and some pizza they start 28 minutes later with a little Abbey Road Medley....
Over the last couple of days we as a community watched at the two heads of Infinity Ward, creators of the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare franchises, were fired for "insubordination" along with a litany of other complaints, by their parent company Activision (also home to Guitar Hero, the Tony Hawk Series and several others.) Insubordination could mean any number of things but I find it strange...
Ok I'm playing Darksiders and I really don't think its the game for me right now. Don't get me wrong I see the appeal, the Zelda nature with a little God of War sprinkled for flavor, even the World of Warcraft acetic, but right now I think I'm not into it. I played the demo and got half way through it before I said "F this demo shit, we're going to Blockbuster" and left immediatly to rent the f...
Since October last year, I've been a bit jobless. I started with a political campaign shortly thereafter and was stuck in a bit of a limbo, I wanted to keep working at my current industry but the realities of it were incompatible with a new family. The hours of a professional political operative are as follows, from the day you get hired until election day you get to go home every now and then...
Nintendo finally came out of its shell of money to bring us some information about 2010. For the DS I think the biggest announcement was the bigger DSi, which I think is like a Jitterbug for video games. In all actuality it seems like a cool system, assuming this will will fit in my pocket then I may be down for a bigger screen but my busted DS will have to do in the mean time. For me the excit...
I'm going to be porting my blogs from here on out to both Giantbomb to my Blogger account which I'm starting today. Same posts for both blogs. Think of how a show premiers on one network but gets rerun on the other except with words. If you prefer my website there is http://sovietdancnbear.blogspot.com/ . Feel free to stop by, but same information over multiple blogs.
Found out about this debacle from today's Penny Arcade which linked to this Joystiq article . Pretty much its gamertag "ItzLupo" decided to tell a moderator named The Pro about his "romancing" his grandmother at the end of a Modern Warfare 2 match, then decided to go on a minute and a half swearing session (all done like a 13 year old.) The Pro, being the pro that he is, banned him with a right...
Wow that was a long one. It was a crazy long weekend between work, photo shoot for my kid from a good friend. This weekend my roommate and I picked up Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 for $8 I'm going through the tutorial for days because I've been way too sleepy when I get free time so I just like 5 minutes ago. So i'm starting up with the first campaign there. Its great to have Tim Curry givin...
I work in poliics, maybe not for much longer but its what I do. I try and keep my career out of my hobbies but when the twain meet., I have to have a little chuckle. Joystiq reported today that Conservative Political Action Confrence will have video games in the lounge to attract younger folks and to kill time between keynote speaker Glenn Beck, chilling with the NRA and "late night rap/jam ses...
Dear Parents Scared by bad reporting, According to 1up.com, the Denver Fox Affiliate KDVR put this video up last week. Before I go after this video, which is pretty well panned by 1up and their commentators, I showed the above link to a current reporter and a former reporter neither of whom are gamers. Here are their reactions: Current Reporter, “I agree with the commentary below the article. I...
So its been 5 days since I last blogged mostly because there wasn't alot to say, aside from a long post about sensationalist journalism which I may still hit on. Long story short with it, I did all the research I wanted to and then accidently navigated away from the blog page. i'll touch on that later today or tomorrow. Yesterday was an interesting day at the office. What started as a productiv...
With all this talk of Shiren the Wander on Wii , it made me want to revisit the game on my copy for the DS. I picked it up on the cheap at our local micro Center and its one of those games i've never bothered to sell, since its for the DS and I only own a total of 4 games for it. This is the first real rougelike I've ever played and I have to say I wish they were a little less bullshit. The onl...
I left Omega quickly and blitzed it on over to Purgatory, shenanigans ensue and Shepard, Moridin and Garrus all plow through the station. Its not especially difficult until the last room, took me 3 days and major reloading to get from one end to the other finally last night I beat the mission and got a new recruit into the mix. Then like seraphic, Bioware delivers some clutch DLC in the form of...
So the Super Bowl was this past weekend, I guess. I'm a football fan in name only. I'm stuck in a kind of football limbo, I'm a fan of Ohio State, but I didn't go there for my degree (Muskingum College represent) and I the team I grew up closest to Pittsburgh who I can't stand. I think Terry Bradshaw is an idiot, Rothlesbeger IS a fucking idiot, and for various other things, so like baseball I...
I'm sitting here at work patiently awaiting for a snowstorm that will hit Columbus with a righteous fury. Personally I'm alright with city crippling snowstorms, we get along just fine. For instance, the fervor of me and some of my friends for Super Smash Brothers Brawl was so high, I trekked 6 hours (usually takes me 2.5) to go from my old place to Columbus, through a mother fucking blizzard, t...
Was headed to the usual wackiness that ensues on Wednesdays for me but got a call late in the day from Mommy that she was wondering if I could keep an eye on the little guy last night. To which I said, "hell yes." Long story short, because I have nothing of interest to report, I had alot of fun taking care of Parker. Around 10 I headed home and tried to play ME2 to no avail, both because its su...
Insane mode is like asking your well meaning girlfriend to be brutally honest with you. They're going to point out all the stupid shit you do but you'll still want to come back for more. I played through the first time on Normal. I didn't want to be too stressed playing this game I've waited for for 2 years for I wanted to simply be given a Coke and some popcorn and watch my Space Jack Bauer do...
Took down Mass Effect 2 this afternoon. Right now I'm waiting on my parents to roll into town for dinner and Grandparenting, but I was satisfied with the ending of Mass Effect 2 and the confirmation of a New Game Plus. I'm going back through the game on Insane because I apparently hate myself. The last part of the game, from the point of recovering the Reaper IFF (for those who don't know) are...
I've been playing Mass Effect 2 like its my job. I've been working on getting a few crew members "loyal," although I do enjoy how loyal in this game is me doing shit for them. All the personal quests unlock the 4th and ultimate ability, so I've been pimping my team out a bit. I love the character development in this game. The dialog after you unlock one character and ask about their interests a...
I'm on the second disk. I've had way too much time with it. Rolling over my character from ME1 was seemless and gives you a sweet rundown of what you did last time. If you loved the characters you'll be enamored with this game. That said every other world you visit you're tripping over your old crewmates or friends. Some of it is really cool, like I was Illium and an Asari's like, "hey Shepard"...
I've been a long time fan of the 1up network's shows, downloading all the them day of to have something to listen to usually over a game or while driving. GFW Radio was always my favorite podcast with Sean Elliott and Jeff Green and their wacky/geeky shenanigans. Along with that, Retronauts, about gaming in the past, and their flagship podcast, 1up Yours were usually top shelf. There was roughl...
After the hubub and welcome of my child, in both crying or burrito mode, I hopped back on the COD bandwagon to help me make up some ground in my pretige quest. I was able to land a series of 10k challenges both planned and unplanned to get me to Level 65. The good news is I got my Danger Close Pro 10k achievement, the bad news is I have no ambition to remove my noob tube class. I did however re...
I haven't been on the last couple days mostly because my first son was born, Parker William was born on January 21st, 2010 at 10:42 am weighing in at 8lbs 3 oz. and coming it at 21.5 cm long. Baby and mother are doing fine. This little series is great my lucky number being 21, I was born on the 21st, got my first driver's licence, was confirmed into my church on the 21st, 21 is a blackjack, two...
Yesterday I got all mushy about my kid coming assuring that he would be induced this weekend, the baby (read as Boss) had other plans. The little guy is on his way. Its 4pm right now, I've been here since noon with the future Grandparents and the Official Aunt on the way. Since I've been here I've watched Soap Operas and bought a Sodoku book before finally realizing that they have Wi-fi up here...
Looks like my son wants to come a little early, which leaves me in a very scared state. Up until recently my kid has been an ethereal good, something that didn't exist. But today she texted to let me know that the doctors want to move things along by about a week. I'm ready for the little guy, ready to open my arms to someone new, ready to buy him his first comic book, ready to show him his fir...
I got a message from a gamertag who didn't know. Thinking it was someone from here I listened to it. Turned out to be a 10 to 13 year old attempting to communicate. This was how the exchange broke down, I'm not going to call out the GT. Him: *garbled mess* (audio) Me: Couldn't understand you Him: Nuke boost me. Me: no Him: Your a fag. Not wanting to belabor it I reported him for abusive languag...
Hit the MW2 bottle hard today getting FMJ with the Mini-Uzi glad I can retire that weapon. Kinda always been a piece of shit compared to the P90. Given my poor aim and high clip count of your typical flanker (that's me) its perfect for what I do. I just realized that my favorite SMG doesn't have its full metal jacket for those cold winter nights. So I refitted Rocket Shoes with the P90 and real...
I'm rolling right along with my re-unlock all the SF4 characters, and I'm standing by the above statement. He has replaced I-No as the dumbest boss character in fighting games. Seriously this junk slut teleports out of my Ultra move and hits with his when I'm going for the cross over jump kick. Anyway this whole "working from home" thing seems to be working out able to get everything done easil...
Or maybe its E Honda and me only knowing 2 moves. Anyway I borrowed my roommates' copy of SF4 picked up my Hori stick that's a hold over from Virtua Fighter 5 and I'm now going on the frustrating task of unlocking all the characters. I say its frustrating because they put Seth in the game with all his stupid ass movies. Seriously fighting this jerk off reminds of fighting I-No in Guilty Gear XX...
I wrapped up Borderlands last night and started again only to realize the Skags, the ubiquitous vagina faced dogs in the game, are like a real threat to your god damned life. As a Hunter I've used my pet as like a form of outsourcing. Like here you deal with these bandits there's other shit I have to deal with over here, now its, "holy shit save me bird." But now that he's all leveled up it nai...
Unlike some of my contemporaries I name my classes after pop culture references which i do to most things the fact that my child isn't named after a book character or an obscure character in a television show is cooler heads prevailing. However my custom classes are named for such odd things, such as: My primary class is called Vera, after Jayne Cobb's prized gun in Firefly for no reason in par...
Been called back into the siren sound of Street Fighter 4 which meant my Hori stick got dusted off and god damnit I forgot how bad I was at the game. I have to unlock all the characters after a hearless knave ran off with my old 360. Meaning I have to beat the game with Dhalsim and all the other characters I hate. So I knock it down to small child mode and suck...terribly. Of course I still fee...
Yes my improptu New Years Resolution was to survive the alien like syptoms that assaulted me on New Years Eve until now. A couple of sick days later and i'm back on my feet at work. During my sabbatical I was able to wrap up Mass Effect again with saving the council getting the girl and all the stuff I wanted my Shepard to have experienced for the new game. Again for me this game is still very...
Didn't get as much time logged with Mass Effect I went out and hung out with some friends for the majoirty of the night. Came home around 10:30 and played Mass Effect for a couple of hours before calling it a night. I finished out Feros, putting together crazy paragon points, for not losing a colonist in that firefight and freed the people from the crazy, alien with magic powers, that was messi...
Ok I guess I have a bit of a temper. I played Mass Effect, Modern Warfare 2 and Borderlands for at least an hour yesterday. Starting with one of the major flaws in Mass Effect, the bullshit save system. ME's auto save doesn't kick in enough. Coming from the Dragon Age where I would only go out of my way and save when I thought something major was about to go down or I was going to call it for t...
Yesterday I mentioned that I was upset by the default state of the galaxy in the upcoming Mass Effect 2, so I picked up a copy (again) to do 2 things. 1) Plow through as quickly as possible 2) play as a solider. I'm also really enjoying it. I don't know if its the whole "Oooo HD" thing or if I'm really happy with it again. Only once did I get screwed getting stuck with something. At the moment...
Alright back in the saddle after June 6, 2008. Where, spurred on by my and Adam Sessler's rant against idiots on xbox live, I've decided i'd like to write again. Things are going to change for me greatly in the next few weeks, I have my first son on the way. All signs point to healthy but I'm quite anxious about the whole thing, its kind of a game changer for me as I'm sure it would be to anyon...