GWAR plus video games also Happy Thanksgiving!

Been a few weeks since I have last updated this blog so might as well write an entry. I'm currently under the weather from either the cold (it was -6 the other night) or being around a ton of people. The exciting news was that I went to see some live music with a friend of mine (which is why I was around a bunch of people). I went to go see GWAR and the show was pretty fantastic. Gotta love getting soaked with fake blood while hearing some metal music. The show was really cool and I was close enough to get really soaked with all the blood. It really was great and I have to thank Dana again for it (it was so freaking awesome). Granted after the show my hearing wasn't top notch but that is really to be expected. It made me realize that I need to get out of my house more and go see more live music. I forgot how much fun it was to see people play music live. The only bad part was walking back to my car while it was snowing and I had a ton of cold fake blood all over me. Needless to say it was very cold. After the break there is a picture of me at the show.

On to video games! I picked up Call of Duty: Black Ops recently and have been playing it online quite a bit with some of my friends. Playing it online is pretty much what you would expect. It is very fast paced and a lot of fun as long as you don't mind dying. I need to play it more online and actually get good at the game. It makes me terrified of RC cars since there is a killstreak reward that is a exploding RC car that you can control. They also have attack dogs as a 11 killstreak reward (you have to kill 11 people without dying to get it). They are really mean, I have dealt with them and dogs are terrifying in that game. I need to play the single player mode of Black Ops, I have heard it is good so I should probably give it a shot. More text after the break.

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night completed!

Over the last few days I have been replaying Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Since I bought it on the PSN store I can play it on my PS3 and my PSP. So I started playing it at work on my PSP when there was nothing to do at night. When I got home I would connect my PSP to my PS3 using my USB cable and transfer the save so I could play it on my TV. I really like having the ability to use my save on both systems. The only problem that I have with the PS1 games on the PSN store is that there really aren't enough of them up there at this point. I am assuming it is due to licensing issues but really what would it hurt to put all of the games up there? I am just assuming that people don't want money.

Symphony of the Night seems to have aged very well over the years. The game still looks pretty fantastic. I have noticed that the sprite based games age substantially better than older polygonal games. I still think that Super Nintendo games look really good for the most part and I think that has to do with good sprite work. Symphony of the Night has some amazing sprites. The game is still just as much fun to play as it was the first time I turned it on back in 1997. More gushing about Castlevania: Symphony of the Night after the break.

Done moving and game stuff

I have officially moved all my stuff out of my old apartment and I no longer have keys for that place. My move is now complete but the real work starts now. I have to work on organizing my new living space will all my stuff. This will be no small task but I think I am up for it. I have the internet now which I had talked about in the previous blog post. I haven't hooked up my Xbox or my PS3 to the internet yet which I need to rectify. It would be nice to be able to play Demon's Souls online and watch Netflix again. I've also missed playing Halo Reach online and just playing games with my friends in general.

So Call of Duty: Black Ops has come out as of yesterday and I kinda have some mixed feelings regarding the game. Part of me wants to get it and part of me does not. The part of me that wants to get it likes Call of Duty and wants to play it with my friends (which I know most of picked it up). The part of me that doesn't want to get it is saying "Don't support the evil actions of Activision!" That part of me is angry at Activision for what happened regarding Infinity Ward. It makes me not want to support them in any way. But I do like playing games with my friends. I don't know which one I will give in to as of yet, I guess only time will tell. Also I don't have too much money to spend on stuff like that. More after the break.

Moving adventures also some games

So I have spent the last weekend moving all my crap to my new place. I'm about 95% done moving everything over. After all of this I really have to say that I loathe moving. I like it once it's all over but hauling crap to and from a place just sucks for the most part. Plus on top of that I am moving from a apartment on the second floor to a apartment on the second floor. Luckily I had a friend helping me move my big items like the bed and furniture. I found out that having a person help you move really makes a huge difference. Plus he has a truck and I have a Honda Civic. For moving things the truck is definitely superior to the car. I also just got the internet up and running at the new place. It was supposed to be going on Friday but apparently there was some sort of problem and it wasn't working. The weekend felt like the dark ages for me. Life without the internet is just so strange. I believe the internet is the second most important utility at this point.

So since my life this weekend has been moving I haven't really played very many games. I went over to a friend's house on Saturday at he was playing some Metal Gear Solid 4. I haven't played that game in quite a while and I didn't really forget that the game was super amazing but it sure did remind me. Later that evening we played some Super Street Fighter 4 which was great. I think I need to play that game more to hone my skills. My Ibuki feels rather weak at the moment and that needs to change. Seems like the best thing to do would be to go online and get beat down for a while. That should get me back into the swing of things. More about moving after the break.

Just a short update today and Z.H.P.

Just gonna write a little blog entry today. I'm gonna be having to move this next weekend so I'm thinking about all the stuff I have to get together to be ready for the move. The bulk of it is going to happen on Sunday when my friend Mike can come by with his truck and we can get the big items like my bed moved. Gonna be a busy weekend for me but it will be the start of another chapter of my life. I feel like I have ignored my PSP for far too long and it looks like Nippon Ichi Software has made the game for me. It is called Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman. It is a ginding game where you can customize a ton on your character. Basically everything it seems is customizable. Here is a trailer for it:



So I'll be playing that in the near future. Still working on Demon's Souls which is fun! The new Xbox dashboard came out and now I can use party chat again! I was in the beta for it and I couldn't use party chat since the audio codecs changed which was a huge bummer. I don't really like talking to random people so when I'm in a game with my friends I really don't like using anything but party chat. Having to use game chat just usually sucks since there is always a douche-bag or some little kid trash talking. But I'll give a bigger update in the days to come once I have more of my shit together. More to come in the near future!