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Played Tiger Woods online last night and had a blast.  Hope to get on tonight and do it again.  8 days 'til Halo! 

R!
-sw

Posted by Smallwoody @ 11:01 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Yay! an update

Wow.. almost 3 weeks since the last update. Let's see, I finished Bioshock, got the good ending and almost cried (just don't tell my wife). I played Stuntman and hated it... run track, mess up, reset, rinse, repeat. It was just stupid and a knockoff bastard spawn of Burnout and PGR. Stranghold is playing pretty good but I got pretty drunk about 2 hours into it and got bored.

What has my full attention right now is Tiger Woods '08. This a perfect representation of that f*cking game called golf on a computer. the swing mechanics are flawless and will drive you crazy, the game is has a lot of replay-ability with 12 different game modes, a huge career mode and actually difficult achievements to earn. The game also paces well with how you're doing during a tournament... doing poorly and it'll reduce the field a bit, playing good and it throws putting robots at you. I've played non-stop for over a week now and my personal "dude" is only up to 32% of his potential... and I won my first tournament yesterday! I actually jumped up and down. It's frustrating and rewarding... just like golf. Thumbs up EA. Now if I could figure out how to play on-line with people developing their own players instead of picking Tiger Woods for every match...

Anyone else play? (Yes, I'll check the forums)

Posted by Smallwoody @ 1:04 pm EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments

Eclipse tonight...

And thanks to my wife's new job I'll be up at 5:30 am to see it!




 Key to Eclipse Visibility Map
P1     Penumbral eclipse begins (not visible to the eye)
U1     Partial eclipse begins
U2     Total eclipse begins
U3     Total eclipse ends
U4     Partial eclipse ends
P4     Penumbral eclipse ends (not visible to the eye)

Posted by Smallwoody @ 1:44 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Timed is just right!

I sent back Darkness after finishing it last week. Since the mail has to travel the width of a continent back to their shipping center, I tried to send it back exactly 3 days prior to the release of BioShock. It worked! It arrived yesterday and they shipped out Bioshock within an hour.... to now travel 3.5 days back to my house. The thought of missing almost 25% of my month to have 2 games out at once is keeping me from running out to GameStop right now and taking the rest of the day off.

Went to the Doctor with the oldest this morning. They removed the cast to look at his heel and took off the tape covering the wound. Large chunks of skin came with is which the doctor didn't seem to mind... said it was "like being in the pool too long". He's suppose to wear this boot thing now for 2 weeks then gets to start putting weight on it again. He was shaking like a leaf the poor little guy he was so nervous. He also wanted a Southern Miss colored cast for the game we're going to on September 1st! But now he gets a clunky boot thing. But in the immortal words of my little brother, "Chicks dig scars."

-sw

Posted by Smallwoody @ 2:45 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

I feel the urge...

I almost broke down a couple seconds ago and made my way over to Rhino games...  must... resist!  So I came in here to bitch about my fading resolve.  [b]I will not purchase Madden '08 until it drops below $39 used!!![/b]   That should be in like 2 months.  I can do it!

Almost done with Darkness as I'm on the final mission.  I don't know what's more exciting... finishing the game or returning the game to GameFly.  I have 6 Netflix movies out at any one time and the next usually shows up 2 days after I send in a return.  The first return for GameFly it had to go all the way back to Cali from my home state of Alabama and then my queue sat for 2 days until #6 on the list was sent to me.   I did send one back last week though and they got some sort of pre-notification I guess cause #4 on my list was sent out even before they received it.  GRAW2 should be here today!

I'm not real thrilled with them bypassing up to 5 games on my queue in order to send one out else waiting as many as 4 days to send out your next game if you don't have more than one in your Queue.  $21.99 / month seems a little steep for that but I'll give it a chance to develop.  You'd think that the PA distribution center would be closer to me down here than Cali but it only serves New England to Chi town.

I will not buy Madden....  I will not buy Madden...

Posted by Smallwoody @ 2:50 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments