First I need to preface this by saying that I’ve been a firm believer in Nintendo’s gameplay over graphics camp all year long. Second I do think 600 is too much when I want a games console, not the supercomputer and blue ray player that Sony is offering.
So today on my break at work I wandered over to Target hoping to get my hands on the wii, and there sat the PS3.
Motorstorm was the only thing I had time to try and just let’s get this out of the way. Dirt racing has never looked so frakking good. It really has a great sense of speed and the cars handle very well. There were a few times I flew off the cliff, but never in a cheap way. Each time I kinda knew what I had done wrong driving and so I got better the longer I played. The laps, are just wow. One lap was like 3 minutes real time. That’s 3 minutes of new terrain with no slowdown or framrate loading problems. Very impressive. The Bikes handle a lot differently than the cars which they should and offer a better sense of speed. Gamers were upset that Sony got rid of the rumble and I was surprised to notice how I didn’t miss it at all during this game. In fact because my hands were not shaking all my exterior input was coming from the screen, and it actually felt more immersive this way. It may prove that the rumble was actually taking away from our game experiences but we will see how that holds up in First Person shooters which really rely on the technology. From my first impressions of about twenty minutes of gameplay, I’ve got to say I’m impressed with the PS3 and Motorstorm in particular. I can’t imagine what games on the PS3 will look like once developers figure out how to code for it. As much as Sony has tried to botch this thing, they may still have one awesome gaming system on their hands.
Now if only if the average consumer could afford it.

wii in 13 days.
now playing, stta on the ds, alladin on the genesis
now reading. road of the patriarch, by r.a. salvatore, goldfish by brian michael bendis.
just watched derailed, B plus.
heroes, lost, battlestar galactica., jericho, boston legal, the five shows i’m watching on a regular basis.
music. what are listening to? i need something new, unheard of.

Just got home, played the first stage of Star Trek: Tatical Assault and got to say so far im pretty pleased. the graphics are o.k. for the DS which really doesnt do 3-d that well. and the music and space strategy is very Star Trek Even has Shatner doing voice work. Can’t wait to get further into it and unlock the klignon missions. Kaplah!

1st off let me admit, I love the burger king mascot. He’s so creepy and just the right amount of odd that he does what every good mascot should do. Make you uneasy.
I havent set foot inside a Burger king in years. but that will change come Nov 19th as they are releasing three Xbox 360 games for just $ 4 each. I don’t have a 360 yet but come on three games starring the King for $4 each. sign me up.
The games are Pocket Bike Racer a take on Mario Kart, starring the king, and some meat and fries. On Bikes!
There’s also Big Bumpin, which is a bumper car game! A BUMPER CAR GAME?
And then what’s got to be the best one,
Sneak King

Yeah. you’ve seen the commercials where the King stalks people. Now you can play it. WOW.
I’m sure these games will be horrid, but come on people. Sneak KING. Your Mission to deliver Burger king food to hungry people. by sneaking up on them. Awesome.

tommorow morning in nyc nintendo holds a press conference. it’s really unique that gamers are so ready for this, and the unsuspecting mass public is kind of clueless right now. come this christmas it seems they won’t be able to ignore it. It so reminds me of the 8-bit days, when there was this newness to video games. and there was this upbeat attitude about the whole experience.

It’s so funny as well that thousands( maybe millions by some reports) of fanboys(myself included) just spent the past hour or so hitting refresh on our computers reading a supposed live blog from the Japanese press event. The event actually starts in a few hours. Amazing in this technological day and age, we can’t figure out the difference in time zone. we all got pawned, and yeah i hate that word, but we did. see you tommorow or maybe tonight if we now have our timeline straight.

O.k. fun times, no sleep. Friday we drove to grinell to see rainer maria. they still have so much energy. love them. really do. also had a pretty good chinese buffet there in little ole grinell.

slept three hours got up went to chicago for the creation event. 1st let me say im not a big fan of the way creation does cons. they only have one main room for programming, and a dealers room and the rest of the day revolves around autographs. if your like me and could care less about someones handwriting, then it leads to some overpriced boredom. I enjoyed the thirty minites each that Shatner and nimoy spoke though. They are truly class acts and really quite funny together. I’m glad I got to see them and here good news about Shatner meeting with JJ Abrams but not thrilled with Creation. I guess i just prefer the more local, (i.e. not for profit cons). Off to see The Proposition.

u.s. and japan only get 500,000 at launch. hahaha. it’s so funny. Sony what in the world is going on over in your tokyo offices?
There are some hilarious photoshop posters over on thisiswaiting.com
My favorite has got to be the dear sony Wii wish you a merry X-mas. Wii60 looks more and more like the way to go. God I’m just trying to comprehend how a multibillion dollar company like Sony can run a business so poorly this past year. Really what is happening? Stocks will fall, heads will roll, and Nintendo and Microsoft will laugh all the way to the bank.

o.k. I’m a football junkie. Love my East Carolina Pirates. Used to be able to listen to them for free from afar on the internet. Last year CSTV got the rights and I had to pay for the service. Fine. Everyone needs to make a buck. This year getting ready for football and I log in and guess what? No freaking Macintosh users allowed. WTF? seriously 20 percent of the internet if not more are Mac users. This is B.S. and I want to watch my pirates play. degrade your system. If Mac users worked last year, how can an upgrade make it impossible for them to watch this year. bad business.