Hi folks. Got a tiny bit of stuff to share with you all, so I thought I'd write this here blog.

Let's start off with games. I play those. I recently bought Guitar Hero World Tour from a friend for $20. I wouldn't have bought the game otherwise, but for that price, I thought I'd give it a go. The song list is passable, as I do not recognize or even know a good majority of the songs, but there are some really fun ones to sing, such as La Bamba, Beat It, Hot For Teacher, Hotel California, Crazy Train, Freak on a Leash and Band on the Run, amongst others. As for the singing mechanic itself, I find it to be much inferior and somewhat harder than Rock Band's, as I haven't gotten 100% on a song so far (closest was 94%) and I'm playing on medium difficulty. In Rock Band, I can easily get 100% on most songs on the expert difficulty. However, from a graphical and technical standpoint, Guitar Hero takes the cake tenfold. The environments are very well designed, the band members have continuous and fluid animations, instead of jerking out of them, and the overall feel is by far superior to Rock Band. So the question is, do I find Guitar Hero World Tour superior than, let's say, Rock Band 2? Not by a long shot. The song list is what's important in music games, and Guitar Hero's doesn't quite cut it compared to Rock Band's. Add to that some very poor DLC, and that pretty much sums it up.

I also downloaded and finished Fallout 3: Mothership Zeta this week. This new quest looked so promising and could have been so good, but sadly, it fell short of my expectations. Your trek through the mothership is very linear. That wouldn't be so bad if the environments weren't so damn boring and ugly. This expansion also focuses a lot on Fallout 3's combat system. That doesn't bother me that much, since I really like using V.A.T.S. and seeing aliens' heads explode in a million pieces, but when you're doing that every 2 minutes or so, it can get annoying. You'll find yourself pushing buttons a whole lot here which, aside from shooting aliens, is the only excitement you'll be getting. Fun, huh? Also, the story could've been so much better, but ends up being underwhelming at most. However, you do get some awesome weaponry here and, if you're at the very start of the retail game, they can help you you a whole lot. That doesn't help the fact that I'm very disappointed in Mothership Zeta, especially since it's supposedly the final episode in the glorious Fallout 3 adventure. I did net myself 1,100 gamerscore from it though, and that's quite awesome.

Onto movies now. Last night, I saw G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and was thoroughly disappointed. There are so many bad things about this movie, I don't even know where to start. The script is God-awful and, even though Channing Tatum (Duke) and Sienna Miller (Baroness) try their damnedest to pull off a good acting job, they are brought down by the horrible dialogue and other mind-numbing performances by Dennis Quaid (General Hawk), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Heavy Duty) and the always horrible Marlon Wayans (Ripcord). This is a movie where less talk, more action would have been appropriate, but it always seems like some Joe is giving words of advice to another Joe, and it all ends up sounding ridiculous. Speaking of which, isn't G.I. Joe supposed to be "The Real American Hero"? Then, I would like to know why so many people from other countries are a part of the unit. Don't get my wrong, I'm not discriminating anyone here, but it just feels out of place here. All in all, G.I. Joe the movie, with Accelerator Suits and all, is just a big joke and a huge slap in the face to all of the long-time fans of the comics on TV and paper. Thank you Stephen Sommers for pulling a Michael Bay on another one of my favorite series. Good thing I watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when I got home, which was an excellent movie and, in my opinion, the best Potter yet.

Alright, I've bugged you long enough. Stay well and see you soon.