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By fwylo May 6, 2010 3 Comments

Woa

So I'm super bored at work because they told me they were going to give me something to do.  Then told me to old off on doing it because they weren't sure about some of the details.  But then didn't give me something else to do instead.  But who am I to complain? I don't know if any of you actually read this but fuck I need something to do.
 
What games have I been playing you may ask?
 

Gears of War 2. (Minor Spoilers)

Through a cousin of a friend of a co-worker, I was able to pick this up for $15 dollars brand new.  So I said why the hell not!  I played through the first one and played quite a bit of the multiplayer in it as well.  And the 3rd is coming out soon so I'm going to need to know how the story carries on.  But I had heard a few of my friends ranting and raving about how amazing this game is.  
 

 
I am disappoint. I feel like they are going too back and forth with the story.  Almost trying to make it more epic than it really is.  I'll admit the game looked really good and that added to a lot of the effects they were trying to pull off with the storyline though.  Sinking Jicento wouldn't have had nearly the same effect if it didn't look so amazing. It seems to me that the biggest draw to that game right now is the characters.  Dom got a little selfish with his Maria issue. Marcus seems to have some kind of hidden incentive other than saving the human race.  Cole just loves to shoot stuff and pretend its all a big ass game. Baird is still a back-talking asshole but seems to be a bit more co-operative.  And Carmine dies again, but who saw that coming?  Even though I knew it was coming it still came as a bit of a shock.
 
 
I played through the game in 2 sittings with a friend of mine. Co-op split screen isn't too bad but it really cuts out some of the viewing area.

All in all it was just more gears.  From what my friend's were saying I was expecting to be blown back in amazement by the game so that didn't help me when I found out it was Gears 1, but 2 instead, and the gameplay improved a bit.  When 3 comes out I kind of hope there is some kind of new aspect to it but this time I won't be expecting it.  So I'll be ok with Gears 3 being just more Gears. 
 
How'd you like the game?
 

Starcraft 2 Beta

I got hooked up by a friend of mine with one of the key's.  I don't know how he got it nor do I care all that much but it gave me a chance to dabble a bit.

 
This game is effing crazy.  I played maybe 3/4 of an original Starcraft match in my life so I knew this was going to be a huge jump/learning curve for me.  I played a lot of Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne but Starcraft for some reason never caught my eye as much as it should of.  I hopped into a 1v1 novice match to mess around with some units or whatever.  Obviously I'm going to get my ass beat in due to having no idea what is going on. But wow.  That game looks so amazing.  The depth of the tech tree.  And the detail/variety of the units.  The expansions on the sides of buildings. Everything in that game is so well thought out it just amazes me every time I think about it.
 
Turns out I lost that match I decided to play.  I don't know if I really want to get in to that game at the moment though I might just wait till it actually comes out instead.  The amount of work and thought it's going to take just to wrap my head around a simple base build is going to take a while.
 
Where the hell do you even begin with a complicated game such as this?

Plus I've got a bet with a friend that I can beat him at ...
 

Super Street Fighter 4

He is a huge fighting game fan and has been playing anything that consists of two players fighting for as long as I've known him.   The only thing I've ever touched is DOA 4 but I'm pretty good at that I must say.  I keep waxing his ass in DOA 4 which he plays a lot as well so he keeps piping back with a bet that I can't beat him at SSFIV.  When I'm ready I get to challenge him, it'll be first to 5 wins and winner gets 50 bucks.  I've been playing that as much as I possibly can and actually am improving quite rapidly.  I never realized how much a different game 2D fighters are than 3D fighters.  Taking out the 8-way movement allows you to focus much more on other things.
 
I've been flopping around between Cammy, Guy, Ken, and Fei Long.  I haven't really chosen a "main" yet but those seem to have my favorite play styles from any video's I've seen and what I've played with them so far.  If anyone wants to play me I'm more than up for it.  I have it on PS3 and my ID is "fwylo".
 
 
Oh, and I've been playing a bit of Team Fortress 2 and all I have to say is, that game is Awesome.
 
Also I've been thinking about recording game footage and doing some video editing and what not.  Anyone know anything about that?  I know capturing video on PC can be done with FRAPS.  Do I need some external device to do it for my PS3/360? Also, what video-editing software is good? Is there some free one that will introduce me to some basics before I have to go out and buy one?
 
Thanks for reading if you did.  
 
-Respect.

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