My 360 hasn't been used much lately, mostly only to play GTA IV (Still. The. Best. Ever. Game). Even though I have 100%'ed it already, I love the multiplayer, loads of fun!
I am waiting for my copy of Saints Row 2 to arrive (should have come yesterday, bought the Limited Edition) and for Midnight Club 2: Los Angeles (being released on Tuesday the 21st so I should have it by Wednesday/Thursday. A very busy gaming weekend awaits me, 2 Grade A games being released one after the other... so little time, so much to do.
I bought two games, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat and Transformers, The Game. The first one because I believe that the time has come for me to start playing FPS's ( I am bloody useless at them) and second just to have some fun and get a few achievements on the way...
I've only added 715 poins in the last 2 weeks because I have been busy at work but with the new games that I got last week and the two new ones coming, expect some improvements.
Here is an update:
GamerScore: 21618
Zone: Recreation
Completed XBLA: 1 / 51
Completed Retail: 4 / 51
GS Completion %: 34.57%
Country Rank: 19,467
World Rank: 94,620
Completion Rank: 89,315
Sunday, 19 October 2008
Windows Vista woes
My laptop is back. I got a new 160GB laptop SATA hdd so my laptop is up and running again.
Microsoft says it takes an hour or less to install Windows Vista. Bollocks. Bullshit.
It took me an hour to install Vista, another 4 hours to install all available updates, another hour to download and install Service Pack 1, then one or two hours to install all basic and necessary software: AVG anti-virus, K-Lite codec, MS Office, Nero 8, Real Player, Win Rar, Bittorrent, Daemon Tools and Printer drivers.
All in all it took me two days of intensive computing and many, many restarts to finally have a working laptop.
Still, it is much better than Linux (Ubuntu) which I felt was un-intuitive, troublesome and a pain in the arse to work with which I believe why I keep coming to Windows and its familiarity and its BSOD's and constant updating, etc.
Can't live with it, can't live without it.
Microsoft says it takes an hour or less to install Windows Vista. Bollocks. Bullshit.
It took me an hour to install Vista, another 4 hours to install all available updates, another hour to download and install Service Pack 1, then one or two hours to install all basic and necessary software: AVG anti-virus, K-Lite codec, MS Office, Nero 8, Real Player, Win Rar, Bittorrent, Daemon Tools and Printer drivers.
All in all it took me two days of intensive computing and many, many restarts to finally have a working laptop.
Still, it is much better than Linux (Ubuntu) which I felt was un-intuitive, troublesome and a pain in the arse to work with which I believe why I keep coming to Windows and its familiarity and its BSOD's and constant updating, etc.
Can't live with it, can't live without it.
Saturday, 4 October 2008
Busy week.
I haven't updated this blog in a while because I've been busy at work and my laptop's HDD decided it doesn't want to work with Windows Vista so I had to find a nice Linux OS (Ubuntu) to get by until I get the new HDD next week.
Back to topic.
This week I bought 2 new games, Hot Wheels Take That and Pure.
Hot Wheels is basically a series of mini games that you have to beat to unlock new ones to move forward. Great fun and a bit challenging. It's one of those games that I'll play when I want a break from all the serious gaming or when I have mates around. I recommend it, specially if you have children at home.
Now, Pure. What a game! The graphics are just unbelievable, the sense of speed and the available trickery are just off the top drawer and the difficulty is just the right one, hard if you make a mistake, fair you are good. Comparing to the other two off-roading games that I have (Sega Rally and Collin McRae Dirt), this one is really in between them in terms of difficulty and gaming performance.
If you have a Xbox 360 or, God forbid, a PS3, get this game! Any gamer will be able to love something about this game, either the races or the freestyle events.
I already pre-ordered Midnight Club-Los Angeles and I should get either next Saturday (11/10) or the following Monday.
Once I have a few hours of playing about with it, I'll post my thought on that game. All previews on specialist site so far are great so this could be THE driving game of the year. Let's hope so.
An update on my gaming history:
That's it for today, hope to come back with some more news next week.
Back to topic.
This week I bought 2 new games, Hot Wheels Take That and Pure.
Hot Wheels is basically a series of mini games that you have to beat to unlock new ones to move forward. Great fun and a bit challenging. It's one of those games that I'll play when I want a break from all the serious gaming or when I have mates around. I recommend it, specially if you have children at home.
Now, Pure. What a game! The graphics are just unbelievable, the sense of speed and the available trickery are just off the top drawer and the difficulty is just the right one, hard if you make a mistake, fair you are good. Comparing to the other two off-roading games that I have (Sega Rally and Collin McRae Dirt), this one is really in between them in terms of difficulty and gaming performance.
If you have a Xbox 360 or, God forbid, a PS3, get this game! Any gamer will be able to love something about this game, either the races or the freestyle events.
I already pre-ordered Midnight Club-Los Angeles and I should get either next Saturday (11/10) or the following Monday.
Once I have a few hours of playing about with it, I'll post my thought on that game. All previews on specialist site so far are great so this could be THE driving game of the year. Let's hope so.
An update on my gaming history:
| Rep: |  |
| GamerScore: | 20903 |
| Zone: | Recreation |
| Completed XBLA: | 1 / 50 |
| Completed Retail: | 4 / 49 |
| GS Completion %: | 34.64% |
| Country Rank: | 19,999 |
| World Rank: | 98,254 |
| Completion Rank: | 93,086 |
That's it for today, hope to come back with some more news next week.
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