Where the Wild Things Are

Started and finished this game fairly quickly. I haven't seen the movie yet, so now I'm curious if the movie follows the game. If so, it doesn't really follow the book but the book is short in comparison to a movie and they added a bunch of stuff in the middle.

This game has collectibles but everyone said don't worry as you'll get a cheat later on. Well in order to get the cheat you want in order to find all the items on a board, you have to find everything on a certain item to unlock that cheat. So as you're running through, you still need to try to find everything you can and towards the end of the game, you'll start unlocking all the cheats. At least when you're running back through, you can run until you find it and not worry about looking everywhere again.

The gameplay is very simple and not hard at all. Fighting and saving the monsters gets a little harder later on but all you need to remember is, not die of course, but keep knocking the black stuff off the monsters so they will stay up and not get pulled down into the ground.

So in about 10-12 hours you should be able to knock this game out fairly easy.

Green Zone

Had another movie come in from Netflix that was not near the top. They are getting as bad as Gamefly when it comes to shipping out movies you want. I got around to watching it yesterday.

I really enjoyed this movie. It was during the Saddam period where we were looking for the chemical weapons. The movie did a great job showing how things probably were over there and what Americans were going through.

The action was really good. Any FPS fan is going to enjoy it because some of the scene's reminded me some parts in some games I've played. It made it more intrigueing if anything else.

If you like war movies and got 2 hours to spend, I'd watch this movie at some point.

Death Proof

So I watched Grindhouse: Death Proof a couple days ago. I wanted Grindhouse with the girl with the shotgun leg but my wife had added this to the Netflix que saying it was part of some how. I don't think so but I won't know until I get Grindhouse.

The first thing that made me laugh in the movie was when I put it in. First thing that popped up on the screen said, "This disc is for retail sale only". I thought that was pretty funny considering it came from Netflix as a rental.

The movie overall I was not really impressed with. I almost cut it off and quit watching a few times. I watched until the 1 hour mark and that's when the wreck happened that they rewinded and showed what happened which each person in the car died. That caught my attention enough to finish it as it went to 14 months later after that. Figured I'd get to see another wreck which would have been worth seeing.

Well, the last 30 minutes is the best part of this movie. From that point on to the end I enjoyed every bit of that part of the movie. It took it that long for it to get good. So if you wanted to fast forward to the car scenes in the movie, you would be good to go and only waste about 40 minutes instead of 2 hours on this movie.

Start the Party

Start the Part is a PlayStation 3 Move game. It's a bunch of mini games where up to 4 players can play. The graphics are clean and crisp but nothing overwhelming. The move controllers to work very well in the game and follow you precisely for where you are moving.

Just starting the game up, it's not to bad of a game, but it would keep young kids entertained for awhile. As an adult. It's only going to take a few games and you are going to grow tired of it very quickly. It gets repetitive and that's what drags it down.

One thing that really bugs me about the game is no matter if you pick 5, 8, or 10 rounds to play. When you get to the final round of the game. The winner of that round wins. All the stars you earn up to that point just give you more time to score higher. If someone is really good and you're not at the game that comes up with close times whether you have the lead or not, they can win by that last round. Seems unfair to me.

I went after all the trophies in the game and got my first platinum with this game. Most are going to be pretty easy to get. There are a few time consuming ones. Then their are some annoying ones that are hard. The one with the 3 strike rounds are annoying as you have to play an 8 round game for a 3 strikes round to show up. If you don't get the trophy associated with that game, plan to play for another 1.5 hours just to get that mini game to show back up again. It got old quick as one of the hard trophies to get is a 3 strikes round trophy.

First time playing, it'll be fun and any kids that jump into it will enjoy it. If you're not a kid, it's a play to see, maybe get all the trophies and get rid of the game. That's all there is to say about this game.

I Need to Post

I need to start posting up as I've had plenty to post but just haven't taken the time to post. Finished a PS3 game for my first platinum trophy. Which helped me get to level 6. Been wrapped up in Yu-Gi-Oh but finally played some Pinball FX2 and got some achievements. Got to start working on my games to be able to trade in to get Gran Turismo 5. I want to get Dead Nation on the PS3 as well. Christmas is almost here. Thanksgiving was a blast. Writing up a walk through for TA on a game.

So a short post just to get me back to posting again.

Disney Vacation

Finally back from a week long vacation at Disney. Had a blast and the girls loved it. We went to Magic Kingdom on Monday, Animal Kingdom on Tuesday, dined with Chef Mickey in the morning on Wednesday morning, then dined with Cinderella, Prince Charming, the evil step mother and her 2 daughters Wednesday night, went to Hollywood Studios on Thursday, Sea World on Friday, and finally stopped by Downtown Disney eating at the T-Rex restaurant before driving home.

So tired each day and very sore from all the walking around. Especially since we ended up carrying our 3 year old a bunch.

Most everything is cleaned and put away. I have 2 days of work this week and then I'm off for Thanksgiving.

The interesting part is when my friend who was watching our cats called me up Saturday night and told me to check out my games. Went and looked, Assassin's Creed II was setting in the pile. He said he couldn't resist and he has been wanting me to play this game. He won a Ebay auction for $4 for the game. I couldn't have let that pass either. So looks like I'll be playing Assassin's Creed II on my PS3 instead of the Xbox 360. No complaints here. I've been playing both systems equally here recently.

CompTIA Security + Certified

As of today I'm officially CompTIA Security+ Certified.

My company paid $1400 bucks for me to get into a boot camp class that lasted for 4 days. It was supposed to be from 8-5 but I didn't leave until 6 or after each night. Came home, didn't each supper, did some stuff around the house and studied until I was too tired to study anymore.

So today I went in, we finished covering everything that was left, took a short 30 minute break and took the test.

My nerves had been shot all week as all the pretest we took I was the lowest scoring and wasn't quite making it up to the average I should be in order to pass the test. The teacher knew I was going to take it anyway but her recommendation was to study for 1 more week then take it.

Even last night my daughter woke us up at 12, 1, and 2. Couldn't get any sleep, so was already tired today. My wife was awesome enough to go into the room and sleep on her bed with her the rest of the night. She's so AWESOME!!!!

So I take the test and get through all 100 questions in about 70 minutes and had about 20 minutes to review over some. I changed at least 4 of them. The last one I changed was under the 5 minute mark. I knew I had picked the wrong answer when I realized I misread the sentence and was thinking of the wrong port.

The test ended and everyone in the class came over as I was the last one still taking it. The teacher was up front. I got through the survey at the end and when the screened popped up, all I heard was OMG! I was like what, what. Then I realized my screen showed CONGRATULATIONS on it. Then I looked at my score. You get 100 points just for setting down take the test. To pass this test, you have to get 750 points. I seriously had a score of 750. I've got the paper to prove it. I shouted to the top of my lungs and everyone was giving me high fives. Even the lady who registered me up came and congratulated me. It was awesome to get that score and pass. Granted my scores had increased over the tests for the past 4 days but it wasn't enough to where I should have passed.

Praise the Lord on this one.

So now what am I going to do? I'm going to Disney. I'm leaving Sun for the entire week.

See Ya!