This finally came in via Netflix and got to watch this movie.
I'll start off and just this is an ok movie. Nothing you've gotta see right now and I can see why it didn't do so good at the box office.
While you're watching you'll be debating whether it's worth watching or not as some parts pull you in and the rest doesn't. If you have ever watched any Anime, you always look forward the fight scenes as that's where the action is. Well, this pretty much falls into that theme for me. The best parts of the movie were watching the fights.
Now granted, them throwing in subtle things game like in a real world scenario was a neat idea but it won't pull you in quite enough. It jumps at the beginning like the guy is outta his head, so that didn't help either but you got what they were trying to emphasize on how a girl can really mess with your head during a breakup.
The lines in the movie are very cheesy but has its subtle humor as long as you catch it. Trying to tell a girl you love her but saying, "I Love Lesbian's Too" just won't work out the way you think it would.
I haven't bought the game but it might be better to own than owning this movie. Someone will have to let me know on the game as I don't plan to get it unless it drops to like 400 MS points or less.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Gran Turismo 5 - Impression Right Out of the Box
So Gamestop offered a 50% mark up on trade ins toward a preowned game for power reward members. I've been finishing off games, so I called around and found Gran Turismo 5 preowned and traded 6 games in with $10 added to my card. Woo Hoo!!!
Throw the game in the system and the first thing to do is install an update, which I knew about, so ran that. That gets done and then it pops up asking me to install it to the Playstation 3 hard drive. Well, I do plan to play it a lot and will own it a while, so yea, sure, do it. When that finally gets done, I have to go through and answer more questions, pick a track suit that I'm never ever going to be able to change in the game, which is just stupid. I'm finally able to go and buy my first car to race with. Let me put all that in perspective for you. All that took me 1.5 hours to do before I could even play the game. Needless to say, I was ready to do something.
So what car do I buy first. I don't, I buy a go kart and race a special cup event. The go karts are pretty fun and you can spin out pretty easy if you're not being somewhat careful driving them. So I finish off the event and race until I get to level 3 with some more money. I then finally go and buy me car to race with.
However, before I do that, I go to the license area and see what that's all about. It takes you through the basic of how to drive the car and do everything in the game. I did the first 2 and got gold. Figured I'd go race as I'm ready to race some by now.
I can't really describe how this is different from Forza 2 since I haven't played Forza 3 yet but the game is different. I knew the tracks I was racing on but they drove and felt completely different. They seemed shorter and had higher banks in the Forza game where they are stretched out and flat in Gran Truismo.
Another main aspect which is another reason I wanted the game is the right thumbstick is your gas and brake. Push up to go and push down to break. Now the X is gas and O is brake as well. I would not suggest using them though as I used the stick to begin with and then tried the buttons. When you press a button, it's a hard hit of go or stop. When you let go of the stick or push it down to break, it slows it down properly instead actually locking the tires up. It really helps you drive the car a lot better. The next step will be to buy a steering wheel to use in the game.
After winning some events and winning some cars, I noticed they were not in my garage. There is a truck on your screen and it had 3 on it for me. Clicked on it and their are cards in it. Clicked on the first one and it delivered my car. I don't understand why I have to click on a truck to get a car when it should just go straight to my garage. Plus you have to watch it drive in from the dark with only seeing its head lights until it comes into full view. I just started the game and that has gotten old fast and I only have 5 cars. It happens when you straight out buy a car as well. You have to own over 1000 cars in the game for a trophy. I'm sorry but I really want a way to turn that off. It's just annoying.
I then went back to doing the license test and when I got to the 5th part of the test, I could not get gold. I can not hit the brakes and take a turn coming out flying without sliding off the road or stopping dead. The few times I did do a good turn and got through it, I was over the gold medal time by 20-30 seconds. This happened on the next 4 of the tests. It's definitely not going to be easy to get gold in, that's for sure. I'm sure they will only get harder as there are 6 different tests in the game for different licenses.
Another aspect of the game is the load times. I feel like I'm back on an old PS2 because it takes so long to load up a track to race on it. On top of that, it says it's installing it everytime. Why are you installing a track when I installed everything to the console already. Loading is one thing but installing it on every track I race. Either the wording is wrong or if they are installing everytime like it says, which would be just ridicilous. Why did I bother loading it to my PS3 then?
There is a lot of options to pick through on the menu. Some are large, some are small and some look like icons. It's easy to tell what is what on the screen by the name or putting the pointer over it to get the text to pop up on what it is. You might not know where to go though in order to get where you want. So it's kinda messy as you don't know how to navigate around until you've dived into every screen and learned everything on the menu so you know what each sections offers.
Overall, the game was enjoyable and I made it to rank 6 before I quit playing last night. I did upgrade my car last night before I got off though so the next time I race, my car should be booking it down the track. I'm sure the game will get better and I'm sure I'll find some other bad part as well. When I get a good list, I'll let you know later on what I get out of the game.
Throw the game in the system and the first thing to do is install an update, which I knew about, so ran that. That gets done and then it pops up asking me to install it to the Playstation 3 hard drive. Well, I do plan to play it a lot and will own it a while, so yea, sure, do it. When that finally gets done, I have to go through and answer more questions, pick a track suit that I'm never ever going to be able to change in the game, which is just stupid. I'm finally able to go and buy my first car to race with. Let me put all that in perspective for you. All that took me 1.5 hours to do before I could even play the game. Needless to say, I was ready to do something.
So what car do I buy first. I don't, I buy a go kart and race a special cup event. The go karts are pretty fun and you can spin out pretty easy if you're not being somewhat careful driving them. So I finish off the event and race until I get to level 3 with some more money. I then finally go and buy me car to race with.
However, before I do that, I go to the license area and see what that's all about. It takes you through the basic of how to drive the car and do everything in the game. I did the first 2 and got gold. Figured I'd go race as I'm ready to race some by now.
I can't really describe how this is different from Forza 2 since I haven't played Forza 3 yet but the game is different. I knew the tracks I was racing on but they drove and felt completely different. They seemed shorter and had higher banks in the Forza game where they are stretched out and flat in Gran Truismo.
Another main aspect which is another reason I wanted the game is the right thumbstick is your gas and brake. Push up to go and push down to break. Now the X is gas and O is brake as well. I would not suggest using them though as I used the stick to begin with and then tried the buttons. When you press a button, it's a hard hit of go or stop. When you let go of the stick or push it down to break, it slows it down properly instead actually locking the tires up. It really helps you drive the car a lot better. The next step will be to buy a steering wheel to use in the game.
After winning some events and winning some cars, I noticed they were not in my garage. There is a truck on your screen and it had 3 on it for me. Clicked on it and their are cards in it. Clicked on the first one and it delivered my car. I don't understand why I have to click on a truck to get a car when it should just go straight to my garage. Plus you have to watch it drive in from the dark with only seeing its head lights until it comes into full view. I just started the game and that has gotten old fast and I only have 5 cars. It happens when you straight out buy a car as well. You have to own over 1000 cars in the game for a trophy. I'm sorry but I really want a way to turn that off. It's just annoying.
I then went back to doing the license test and when I got to the 5th part of the test, I could not get gold. I can not hit the brakes and take a turn coming out flying without sliding off the road or stopping dead. The few times I did do a good turn and got through it, I was over the gold medal time by 20-30 seconds. This happened on the next 4 of the tests. It's definitely not going to be easy to get gold in, that's for sure. I'm sure they will only get harder as there are 6 different tests in the game for different licenses.
Another aspect of the game is the load times. I feel like I'm back on an old PS2 because it takes so long to load up a track to race on it. On top of that, it says it's installing it everytime. Why are you installing a track when I installed everything to the console already. Loading is one thing but installing it on every track I race. Either the wording is wrong or if they are installing everytime like it says, which would be just ridicilous. Why did I bother loading it to my PS3 then?
There is a lot of options to pick through on the menu. Some are large, some are small and some look like icons. It's easy to tell what is what on the screen by the name or putting the pointer over it to get the text to pop up on what it is. You might not know where to go though in order to get where you want. So it's kinda messy as you don't know how to navigate around until you've dived into every screen and learned everything on the menu so you know what each sections offers.
Overall, the game was enjoyable and I made it to rank 6 before I quit playing last night. I did upgrade my car last night before I got off though so the next time I race, my car should be booking it down the track. I'm sure the game will get better and I'm sure I'll find some other bad part as well. When I get a good list, I'll let you know later on what I get out of the game.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Spider Man Friend or Foe
This game isn't to bad to play. It's not very hard and once you beef up your characters and figure out the moves you like to wup everyone up with, you'll role through this game. The cheat for unlocking 5000 points to spend off the bat is nice as well. There are some character unlocks as well if you want to use Venom just from the start.
This game does have collectibles but they aren't hard to find. The ones that you are going to miss are the ones that are just out of the screen where you can't see them or you just don't look around enough to find them. Which also means destroying everything on your way. Which you need to do for the money anyway. I wouldn't kill yourself trying to find everything. You can just go back, replay the level at anytime. Plus, just look at a guide to see where everything is and you'll find them easy enough for the ones you do miss. It won't hurt you to reply the levels because when you do beat the game, you'll have to keep playing to earn enough money to upgrade every character in the game. So nothing like going through the levels to earn money again.
You will get some power-ups on the way, use them as you go as you can only hold 3 of each anyway, so you'll waste them if you never use them. No worries if you die, you'll start right where you left off but you will lose all your money you've earned if you do. So the power-ups can help prevent that.
Once you are down to just earning money. Just do the last level where you fight the final boss as you'll get 3000 just for beating him plus any you earn in the level along the way which will range from 200-300 depending. Each character takes about 3800 I think to level up all the way. So this would be the quickest way to do it as no other level gives you near that amount. I think 1 level I got up to 1000 on a beach but that was it.
So enjoy, play through for fun destroying everything and looking for stuff as you go through, then go back to finish up when you didn't find later on.
This game does have collectibles but they aren't hard to find. The ones that you are going to miss are the ones that are just out of the screen where you can't see them or you just don't look around enough to find them. Which also means destroying everything on your way. Which you need to do for the money anyway. I wouldn't kill yourself trying to find everything. You can just go back, replay the level at anytime. Plus, just look at a guide to see where everything is and you'll find them easy enough for the ones you do miss. It won't hurt you to reply the levels because when you do beat the game, you'll have to keep playing to earn enough money to upgrade every character in the game. So nothing like going through the levels to earn money again.
You will get some power-ups on the way, use them as you go as you can only hold 3 of each anyway, so you'll waste them if you never use them. No worries if you die, you'll start right where you left off but you will lose all your money you've earned if you do. So the power-ups can help prevent that.
Once you are down to just earning money. Just do the last level where you fight the final boss as you'll get 3000 just for beating him plus any you earn in the level along the way which will range from 200-300 depending. Each character takes about 3800 I think to level up all the way. So this would be the quickest way to do it as no other level gives you near that amount. I think 1 level I got up to 1000 on a beach but that was it.
So enjoy, play through for fun destroying everything and looking for stuff as you go through, then go back to finish up when you didn't find later on.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Losers
Well if you're looking for some action with a bit of comedy, this movie is a must see. I actually enjoyed watching this. Never got bored even once with the entire movie.
The comedy they used is very refreshing and goes with the vibe of the movie.
If you get a chance to watch this movie, definitely watch it.
The comedy they used is very refreshing and goes with the vibe of the movie.
If you get a chance to watch this movie, definitely watch it.
Monday, December 20, 2010
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.
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.
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.
Friday, December 17, 2010
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.
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.
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