What a shitty week

So all kinds of crap has been going crappy this week. My DSL has been out since saturday morning, Verizon said there is nothing wrong on their end, but all of my neighbors that have it also have no service. We've all been repeatedly calling and they are saying its not them. I bought a used copy of a Star Trek game off ebay for $10, and when i got the "no scratches! works perfectly!" disc, its quite clear it was one of those ones damaged when some idiot knocked over his 360 while playing it. But eventually, after 3 resurfacings, it seems to work. Then the guy sends me a nasty email after I leave him a negative feedback when he refuses to refund and shipping charges if i want to send the game back for a refund. Then last night, I think my A/V pack died, because the picture on my tv went out and the music kept playing, and it does the same thing on other tvs. The VGA cable pack works on my PC monitor though, so it doesnt seem to be the console. The damn thing was just purchased 20 days ago and it already broke, wtf. I hadn't even unplugged it from the TV once since I got it. I also bought Guitar Hero 2 over the weekend and ever since my girlfriend has been hogging the shit out of my 360. After all this crap I really cant wait to get home and rip into one of these out-sourced call center motherfuckers.

Posted by cerialthriller @ 12:45 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

So many games

    So I was up just about all night last night playing Madden 08 just trying to get a hang of the game. It really pisses me off that they put those "fake" fumbles in there, that would be reversed in any real life game. And I know you can challenge them, but they really really suck when they happen in the last 2 minutes of the half and the challenge button is greyed out. I have lost 2 games to the CPU due to this stupid crap. The first one, I was down by one point with a little under a minute left on about the 15 yard line. Well what do you know, a fumble happens after my guy is clearly down, they pick it up and run it back for a TD. WTF! The challenge button is greyed out and the game didn't automatically review it like it is supposed to. So I was kind of pissed off at the game, even though its just a game and all. So the very next game, Same thing is going on except I am winning by a FG. I throw a pass, and it's intercepted. I tackle the guy, he is down, and he fumbles, and they pick it up and run it in for a TD. I get a kick-off with under 30 seconds left and down by 4 points and lose the game.. So needless to say at that point I pretty much cursed the entire EA team.
    Today, I was just so frustrated with the game, I was going to trade it in to GameStop and get Two Worlds instead. So I go up there, and they offer me $20 for the trade-in. They have to be kidding right, I see the used copy right there on the wall for $49.99. So I said nevermind, then went to Best Buy and got a copy of Two Worlds anyway, I didn't want to give GameStop the business at that point. But later I played another game of Madden and kicked some CPU ass and so I am kind of glad I didn't trade it in after all.
    But aside from all that, while I was browsing the games in GameStop, there are just so many games I want to pick up that I am going to go insane. And with every week something new comes out that I want to buy and there is no way I have the time or money to buy and play all these games. I really would like to pick up Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata when that comes out, as I love my JRPGs. I am definately picking up NHL 08 next week sometime, I can't wait to play that. Lets get some action goin with all you hockey fans, I've seen a few blogs with NHL logos on them and some with NHL 07 in the now playing list. I really needed to hit that $300 million lotto that was going around..

Posted by cerialthriller @ 1:38 am EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Finally got a 360!

    So like the title says, I finally made the plunge and bought an Xbox 360. Also picked up a copy of Madden 08 and Saint's Row when I bought it. So far I'm having alot of fun with, I didn't get to play it until like 11 pm last night and I think I was up until about 7am playing it. Today I've been messing around with all the other stuff like downloading demos and such.
    So I've been playing Madden, but I am still pretty bad at it, I think it's mostly I am not used to the controls. And I keep trying to play with the cord on my wireless controller. It's kind of like phantom limb syndrome and I keep imagining that the cord is tangled on something, wierd. But after a few more games hopefully I'll get the controls down. I started a NY Jets franchise and my first game was against Michael Vick and the Falcons. I was very pleased that I was able to sack that moron a few times. But if anyone would like to play in a game or two after I get a few more games under my belt, feel free to add me to XBL friends, my tag is CerialThriller. I still haven't played any online games yet, I don't have the courage to get owned yet, haha.
    Well thats all for now, hope everyone is having a good labor day weekend. I know I am

Posted by cerialthriller @ 8:05 pm EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

Can You Feel the Hype?

    I just can't feel the hype for any of the upcoming games. I am just getting back into the console gaming "scene" if you will, after a long journey into the MMO world. So, I checked out gamespot.com (yeah, im not sure if this is still the website to checkout for this kinda stuff, ill have to look around) and I checked out all the top games for the 360.
Number 1 still is Bioshock. I heard so much about the game in the passed few weeks, so I had to check it out on the site. It just doesn't look like my kind of game. I never got into the horror genre of games, never caught the Resident Evil or Silent Hill fever.
    So the next obvious choice to check out was Halo 3. Now I may be the only person in the modern world that owns an xbox and does not own either of the Halo games. I was a staunch opponent of FPS games on a controller. I mean it just doesn't seem like it would work, right? So now that I am turning my back on PC gaming, I decided to give FPS on the console a whirl, so I went to the local Game Stop and picked up a copy of Black for the Xbox (I couldn't find any copies of either Halo there, the old Xbox section got cut in half to make room for the 360). And I must say, I am really liking it. So I am looking forward to getting Halo 3 for the 360 but I don't know, I just don't have the anticipation or anything like I did for say The Burning Crusade WoW expansion, which in the end was a horrible let down. I am even thinking of getting in on the Halo 3 midnight launch parties just to try to catch some of the Halo fever.
    I mean don't get me wrong, there are tons of games coming up for the 360 that I am planning on buying, but I just want that "little kid on christmas morning" feel for one damn game at least. Maybe I just haven't been back in the console world long enough to appreciate the year long wait that is usually ahead of those must-have games that just gives you that feeling the closer it gets to launch. Maybe I am just getting older and it just doesn't feel the same since now I have a job to support my gaming habit and I don't have to fill a piggy bank and hope I have enough in there so I can buy Mario All-stars. But then again, many of the games that I really enjoyed weren't those hyped up games. I ended up buying a Wii from all the hype it was getting and I've played Mario 2 on the virtual console more then anything else.

Posted by cerialthriller @ 11:08 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

My first blog post ever

    Hello everyone, and welcome to my first blog posting ever. I am new here at 2old2play and have had a wonderful time exploring the community and reading blog and such, so I decided to make my own. There is just such a large community and so much going on I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment, but hopefully that will soon pass and I can start making some friends. So anyway, as you can see my banner thing, I like to Rant and Rave a lot. And I like video games a lot. You get the picture.
    Truth is, I used to like video games a lot. I was stuck in the vacuum that is World of Warcraft for over a year, and the whole MMO scene 2 years before that. Needless to say, I am quite behind on console gaming. I was recently able to kick the habit, and in one week it will be 2 months since I have logged into an MMO. And on that day, I will treat myself to an Xbox 360. Now you may be saying to yourself, "Why not buy the 360 first to get you to stop playing MMOs in the first place." To that I would say, "Well, I tried that with the Wii, but it didn't work." So to justify buying the 360, I had to be sure that I wouldn't play it for a week and then ditch it for WoW, or LoTRO or some other such game.
    But anyway, enough about me, I will try not to talk about myself or my life too much, my life is quite boring and I won't bore you with it. What I will talk about is the latest gaming news, probably whatever is controversial at the time. I will try to keep it funny, so as not to sound like a whiny bitch or a fan boy. Recently Bioshock has been in the gaming news alot for various screw-ups and Manhunt 2 for submitting to the ESRB. I mean honestly, how many more copies of a game will sell with an M rating over an AO rating on the PS2 and the Wii. A large percentage of Wii owners are not in the Manhunt target audience (I would assume) and I would think that a good amount of people interested in Manhunt 2 have already switched over to next gen consoles. As for Bioshock, I really really hope for the PC version to flop, if not, it will only help the SecuROM sales pitch. Are we really entering the age where you need internet access to install a single player game? Does anyone remember the DIVX disc format? (Not the AVI codec). It was almost exactly the same, but luckily that died off very quickly. For those of you not familiar with it, you could buy a DVD very early in the DVD media uprising, for a little cheaper then a normal DVD, but you could only watch it a limited number of times. To check this, it needed an open phone line each time you wanted to play the movie so that it could dial a number to see if you could watch or not. PC gaming is dying off rather quickly, PC titles don't seem to get nearly any hype these days unless it also has a console port coming out. And if this becomes the normal practice, I think it will die off even quicker.
    Well, thats it for my blog for now, if you read this and enjoyed or read it and didn't enjoy it, leave me some kind of feedback, I'd like to know what I did well and what parts sucked.

Posted by cerialthriller @ 1:20 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments