Good News: I’m back from a small holiday break. Bad News: It’s limited capacity.
Although I did get some gaming in this weekend including trying my hand at Elite Beat Agents, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, World of Warcraft, and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, each game was in small quantities. For most of the weekend my wife and I had our hands full trying to make our mess of a basement organized. Since we moved into this house about two and a half years ago, we’ve pretty much used the basement as a place to simply throw things and “get to later.” I’m sure all of you have a drawer or closet like that, but imagine a space that’s as big as your entire ground floor just filled with knick knacks, some furniture, musical instruments, and of course vintage game consoles. Fortunately it was a long weekend and we were able to take care of the entire basement, making it once more a place where people can enter and not feel like they may never return.
This was all in preparation for the new carpet we’re getting installed on Thursday. Although the workers will be moving large items out of each room for us, the smaller stuff has to go into the basement temporarily. Cleaning the thing before doing this makes it easier for us to put things in left over boxes for a few days until the new carpet is in each room. As a result though, my nights this week will be spent packing and unpacking each room before and after the carpet installation. Fun fun! Hopefully the other writers will jump in here and there and provide you with cool content while I’m preoccupied.
Sorry to bore you with all that. So what did you play this weekend?
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Not much really. Mostly been spending time with my PS3- largely Resistance since that game is so damn good, but I’ve also been having fun checking out some downloaded demos for some other games like MotorStorm. Sony’s online network does need some tuning, as it sucks that you can’t run downloads in the background while you play other games or browse around, but at launch the foundation is there for a great service once some patches clean things up. The PS3 interface is excellent though, and setting the system up on my wireless network was as simple as pie with the built in wi-fi. I also haven’t really noticed any problems with the backwards compatibility. Testing Killzone has been the only problematic game for me thus far, as it glitched up a couple of times on me.
Other than playing around and digging into my PS3 I haven’t really played much else the past week or so. Some Portable Ops here, and some FFXII there, but that’s about it.
I’ve actually been spending most of my time the past few days sucked into the world of 24. In anticipation of the new season I’ve caught the bug of wanting to go back and watch all the previous seasons, and I’m hoping to watch them all before the new one starts. Gone through a season and a half in about 3-4 days so far, so I may be able to pull it off lol.
World of Warcraft…in anticipation for Burning Crusade.
Aside from the usual, we had a New Year’s lock-in at work. My Wii-mote lost its gyroscopics I think, so we weren’t really able to play that. However, Daniel brought his 360. So, my night consisted mostly of owning on PGR3, then some Amped 3, then checking out CoD3 (like it more on Wii honestly), then Project 8 (never liked Tony Hawk, and this is no exception), then killed everything in sight on Oblivion for about 3 hours (the Imperial City didn’t like me very much). After that, I got my face melted in Company of Heroes, and then we did a couple Halo 2 matches.
Overall, it was a good weekend.