This is exactly how I feel.
The Dren has left a comment on 11/9/2011 3:05:53 PM: FshGuy wrote a little in a watcher comment about the debut of Modern Warfare 3 trailing both Modern Warfare 2 and COD: Black Ops.
What he forgot to mention is that:
Activision fired most of the development team of Modern Warfare 2 in a dispute over bonuses they were owed.
Activision tied Modern Warfare 3 to Call of Duty Elite, a $50 add on to purchase if you want the full experience, effectively pricing this game at $110
Activision just last week threatened to punish players who got their games early in the mail if they played them before the official launch date.
Perhaps some better questions overall would be, "Have gamers gotten tired of being abused by game publishers? Have gamers gotten tired of seeing developers treated poorly by the publishers? Have gamers gotten tired of shelling out upwards of $100 for a complete video game?"
In the overall greed of $10 online passes, $15 map packs (of which there were 4 for Black Ops), maybe a lot of gamers are doing what I'm doing. Going through old games never completed and having some fun with the money they already spent. New games are pricing themselves right out of the market.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Captain America
Well, I must say, when I saw the previews for this movie, I didn't have high hopes and didn't care to try to watch this movie. I got a free rental with Redbox yesterday, so this was the best choice I had to pick from.
I was pleasantly surprised that this was a pretty good movie. It was not like the last one I saw where it was beyond cheesy to me. This movie was done right. I enjoyed it all the way through. It flowed smoothly, had some funny parts, and it wasn't cheesy at all. It's definitely worth the watch. Especially if you plan to watch The Avengers movie when it comes out in theaters.
I was pleasantly surprised that this was a pretty good movie. It was not like the last one I saw where it was beyond cheesy to me. This movie was done right. I enjoyed it all the way through. It flowed smoothly, had some funny parts, and it wasn't cheesy at all. It's definitely worth the watch. Especially if you plan to watch The Avengers movie when it comes out in theaters.
Monday, November 7, 2011
I Finally Played
After a week and a half, I finally played last night. In which I stayed up too late playing as well. haha It was all good. Spent most of the time talking with Lady Death 13, MightyMango, and SparkyMP.
Of course I went back to Sims 3. Still trying to finish up that game. I'm at 853 of 1000 wishes. I made it to level 10 in writing on my young adult last night and I thought 1 of my last 2 achievements was going to pop. When it didn't, I had to look at the lifetime wish again. I have to get to level 10 in writing and painting. DOH! Currently at level 5 before I stopped last night on the painting. So I'll still finish the young adult before the wishes. Would be night to make it to 900 wishes before I got level 10 in painting. Will see how well that goes.
Dance Central 2 is on the way to the house. Still need to unwrap and play Twister. My youngest daughter popped an achievement in Wipeout then another this weekend. Will be getting Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 even though Lego Star Wars 3 isn't finished yet. I still plan to get Gears of War 3 and Dead Island before the year ends. Plus their are a few more games that might be bought. Needless to say, my completion percentage is about to take a drastic hit. Seems to happen that way every time I get past 90%. So I've got a lot of work ahead of me next year to get that percentage back up again.
Dropped cable last week so using Netflix, Hulu, and a service call Playon which isn't quite giving me all it said it would do. I think they did an upgrade to their software and it broke a lot of the scripts people had created. Some stuff does work so I need to weed out the bad ones until they are fixed. Once I get a good feel for all that, then I will make a full blown post on it.
Of course I went back to Sims 3. Still trying to finish up that game. I'm at 853 of 1000 wishes. I made it to level 10 in writing on my young adult last night and I thought 1 of my last 2 achievements was going to pop. When it didn't, I had to look at the lifetime wish again. I have to get to level 10 in writing and painting. DOH! Currently at level 5 before I stopped last night on the painting. So I'll still finish the young adult before the wishes. Would be night to make it to 900 wishes before I got level 10 in painting. Will see how well that goes.
Dance Central 2 is on the way to the house. Still need to unwrap and play Twister. My youngest daughter popped an achievement in Wipeout then another this weekend. Will be getting Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7 even though Lego Star Wars 3 isn't finished yet. I still plan to get Gears of War 3 and Dead Island before the year ends. Plus their are a few more games that might be bought. Needless to say, my completion percentage is about to take a drastic hit. Seems to happen that way every time I get past 90%. So I've got a lot of work ahead of me next year to get that percentage back up again.
Dropped cable last week so using Netflix, Hulu, and a service call Playon which isn't quite giving me all it said it would do. I think they did an upgrade to their software and it broke a lot of the scripts people had created. Some stuff does work so I need to weed out the bad ones until they are fixed. Once I get a good feel for all that, then I will make a full blown post on it.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Moved Into A New House
Every since last Thursday, I've off work until today. I closed on a house, had 3 friends show up and moved that afternoon. Spent most of the night getting bed and furniture arranged and unboxing boxes on stuff we needed for the next morning. Worked on getting the house arranged and everything put up and didn't get done until Sunday at some point. I didn't hardly sleep any during this move. If I got 4 hours during a night, that was a lot.
What the worse part of it all was Saturday morning when I went back to the old house to tear down and cut up the old swing set we had as it had just seen its last days. My eye was crusty that morning. Throughout the whole day, I kept getting mucus in my eye all day. During the night, I woke up like three times and both my eyes were sealed shut. Had to get all the crust off them. By the time I got up on Sunday, my eyes were bloodshot red. I had no idea what was going on and the wife said go to the medstop. So I went and found out I got pink eye in both my eyes. I've never had pink eye in my life and I don't even know where I got it from. So lost as to how I actually got it. So I got drops and antibiotics to help me clean it up. I actually got some white back in my eyes today for the first time. I'm sure by the end of the week I'll have it fully cleared up.
Needless to say, I haven't felt like playing games at all during all this so I haven't played any. Which I couldn't have anyway as my Dlink wireless router up an died on me during the move. I had already been researching for a new router and went ahead and ordered a Netgear WNDR 3800 wireless router. It's dual band with 2.4 and 5 GHz built in. Two USB ports that I plan to use for cloud storage and hooking my printer up to it. This router is the biggest router I've ever owned. It's almost double the size of my past routers. Not going to complain if it does the job it's supposed too.
I do currently have an issue with it and it's dropping my 2.4 GHz signal to all my devices. Which everything I have is on that except my iPad 2. Which I thought my laptop was able to connect to 5 GHz but it won't see that range at all. I'll have to find a way to upgrade my 360 to the Wireless N device later on if I can find one on the cheap.
I've changed the MTU from 1500 to 1400 and it helped it stay on longer but it's still dropping. I just picked channel 1 and I'm testing to see how long this last until it drops offline. If it drops, then I'll go to channel 6 and 11. Those are supposed to be the best channels to use with Netgear. So will see how that goes. So I'll be testing the next few days on that.
We got rid of 5 pieces of furniture before we moved and we had to get the kids a new dresser to replace the one we got rid of. It should be delivered Thursday, so I'll be glad to get it as they need some drawers to put all their clothes in.
A furniture place in the next town over is having to close up shop as they are going to tear down the building and put in a gas station. Crazy though considering one is across the street already and that business has been there for 50 years. It sucks but everything was 50% off, so we got 2 new couches to replace the old one we had. So no more being cramped all on one couch.
Which this is another cool thing that I didn't realize I was going to get. I actually have more room in the living room for my Kinect compared to the old house. We thought it was going to be smaller but the other house had a rectangle living room where this one is more like a big square. So we are actually farther back from the TV and it looks small now compared to before. With all the stuff that was in the living room when we looked at the house, it just looked like a small living room. So we're happy for that.
Especially since we have the Twister game, plan to get Dance Central 2, and Just Dance 3 for the Kinect. Kinect is slowly taking over on all my games. We own WipeOut now as well.
We are going to drop cable as well this week. Going to keep just the internet and try to stream everything. So going to hold onto Netflix and do some Hulu. I've got a program called Playon that I have setup to stream shows and stuff from all the website that streams to the Xbox 360, PS3, iPad, ipod touches, and smart phones. Which is another reason I needed a new router to be able to handle all this bandwidth and not mess up my online gaming. 8P
So once I get over this pink eye, get some good rest, and get this router fully setup like I want, I'll be back online playing again.
What the worse part of it all was Saturday morning when I went back to the old house to tear down and cut up the old swing set we had as it had just seen its last days. My eye was crusty that morning. Throughout the whole day, I kept getting mucus in my eye all day. During the night, I woke up like three times and both my eyes were sealed shut. Had to get all the crust off them. By the time I got up on Sunday, my eyes were bloodshot red. I had no idea what was going on and the wife said go to the medstop. So I went and found out I got pink eye in both my eyes. I've never had pink eye in my life and I don't even know where I got it from. So lost as to how I actually got it. So I got drops and antibiotics to help me clean it up. I actually got some white back in my eyes today for the first time. I'm sure by the end of the week I'll have it fully cleared up.
Needless to say, I haven't felt like playing games at all during all this so I haven't played any. Which I couldn't have anyway as my Dlink wireless router up an died on me during the move. I had already been researching for a new router and went ahead and ordered a Netgear WNDR 3800 wireless router. It's dual band with 2.4 and 5 GHz built in. Two USB ports that I plan to use for cloud storage and hooking my printer up to it. This router is the biggest router I've ever owned. It's almost double the size of my past routers. Not going to complain if it does the job it's supposed too.
I do currently have an issue with it and it's dropping my 2.4 GHz signal to all my devices. Which everything I have is on that except my iPad 2. Which I thought my laptop was able to connect to 5 GHz but it won't see that range at all. I'll have to find a way to upgrade my 360 to the Wireless N device later on if I can find one on the cheap.
I've changed the MTU from 1500 to 1400 and it helped it stay on longer but it's still dropping. I just picked channel 1 and I'm testing to see how long this last until it drops offline. If it drops, then I'll go to channel 6 and 11. Those are supposed to be the best channels to use with Netgear. So will see how that goes. So I'll be testing the next few days on that.
We got rid of 5 pieces of furniture before we moved and we had to get the kids a new dresser to replace the one we got rid of. It should be delivered Thursday, so I'll be glad to get it as they need some drawers to put all their clothes in.
A furniture place in the next town over is having to close up shop as they are going to tear down the building and put in a gas station. Crazy though considering one is across the street already and that business has been there for 50 years. It sucks but everything was 50% off, so we got 2 new couches to replace the old one we had. So no more being cramped all on one couch.
Which this is another cool thing that I didn't realize I was going to get. I actually have more room in the living room for my Kinect compared to the old house. We thought it was going to be smaller but the other house had a rectangle living room where this one is more like a big square. So we are actually farther back from the TV and it looks small now compared to before. With all the stuff that was in the living room when we looked at the house, it just looked like a small living room. So we're happy for that.
Especially since we have the Twister game, plan to get Dance Central 2, and Just Dance 3 for the Kinect. Kinect is slowly taking over on all my games. We own WipeOut now as well.
We are going to drop cable as well this week. Going to keep just the internet and try to stream everything. So going to hold onto Netflix and do some Hulu. I've got a program called Playon that I have setup to stream shows and stuff from all the website that streams to the Xbox 360, PS3, iPad, ipod touches, and smart phones. Which is another reason I needed a new router to be able to handle all this bandwidth and not mess up my online gaming. 8P
So once I get over this pink eye, get some good rest, and get this router fully setup like I want, I'll be back online playing again.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sweet Deal for an iPad
Newegg.com - Apple - iPad w/ Wi-Fi 64GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858753003&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS102211&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS102211-_-EMC-102211-Index-_-index-_-58753003
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Pinball FX2 Paranormal Table Free For 1 Week
Well I definitely don't want to miss this. They are cranking out the Pinball FX2 tables unlike the first Pinball FX where they were supposed to be doing it. They are all good tables so getting one for free is a no brainer. Make sure you get it if you have Pinball FX2.
Hi Everyone! Yes, Paranormal will be a FREE download for one week only. It's a bit of a 1 year Pinball FX2 anniversary celebration, and we really wanted to say "thanks" for all of the support over the past year.
Once you download the table it is yours FOREVER.
The FREE download period is Oct 26 - Nov 2.
If you have friends who are experiencing Pinball FX2 for the first time, please make sure they download the FREE Pinball FX2 platform from Marketplace when they download Paranormal.
Once again, thank you all for supporting Zen Studios. It's been a great year for us and we are happy to give something back to you, our fans.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
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