I feel all high and mighty again cause I actually finished a game, even though it took me longer then the average gamer.  The game was Costume Quest, and omg it was too cute, I highly recommend. SO exciting news about costume quest, I tweeted Kari (from Two Hit Combo Kari and Tyler) asking how to save, and Tasha Harris, as in THE Tasha Harris who created/produced/managed/created Costume Quest answered us! I’m not going to pretend I knew who she was until Kari notified me, but it’s still awesome! That brings me to my only complaint…the save option; there isn’t one. It auto saves when you finish a quest and/or go to a new area, NOT level though so I had a few times where I lost a level because I didn’t have it save after. Other then that, it was awesome and I hope they make one every halloween.

by the way the unicorn was the awesomest.

So with my new found interest in actually finishing games, I’ve picked up (or Joe picked up for me because he’s awesome) Fable 3 and will be working through that as the weeks progress. I’m still playing WoW, or at least intending to continue but it’s taking a backseat again. I lost interest faster then usual. Maybe if I hadn’t lost my 60, things wouldn’t have been so boring.

As for games I was looking forward to, I haven’t bought one. I have watched/tried most of them though and I have to say everything seems pretty legit.  Except for Force Unleashed 2.  Joe got it for his birthday, and finished it on his birthday. Graphics were pretty amazing in gameplay and out, but it went nowhere. this was literally our conversation that afternoon:

ME: Joe, it’s halloween can we watch a movie?

Joe: It’s my birthday let me at least get a few levels done. I’m only on the first.

1 hour goes by.

Me: can we watch a movie now?

Joe: Sure, I’m just finishing the 3rd area give me a sec.

1 hour goes by.

Me: almost done?

Joe: Yup, I should be. god this level is long.

1/2 hour goes by…

Joe: okay I’m at Darth Vader, why is this fight so hard?

ME: Looks like a final boss fight.

Joe:no, it can’t be. can it?

Me: Sure looks like it.

Joe:no way.

10 minutes later…..

Joe: I just killed him, omg is this the end of the game? if this is the end of the game I’m going to flip my shit.

credits roll.

Joe: WHAT THE FUCK??!

And Joe flipped his shit.

Other then that, I played a little DJ Hero 2 and from what I could decipher from my drunken stupor it was good, much improved and smoother from DJ Hero. I’m going to give it a sober shot though.  Rock Band 3 is just another Rock Band, but I haven’t tried the keyboard yet because I don’t think there are any in Winnipeg yet. All of Winnipeg, no keyboards. However, new rock band games are always exciting, and rock band 3 is not short of an awesome set list. Belting out Bohemian Rapsody is right up my alley.

Finally, we have the Kinect. which I’m stupid, and asked for for Christmas. as if I voluntarily waited an extra month. SO far I’ve got a chance to try the Adventures, which I wasn’t excited about and thought was going to be lame but it’s actually quite fun, and Kinect Sports, which I also wasn’t excited about because of the association with Wii Sports but really, it’s very different.  I played volley ball, like a real person plays volleyball. it was great. It’s super funny though, because it’s like gamers forgot that they have a body. I was playing against this guy at work, and he was only moving 1 arm like with the wii, and we were like,’no like, PLAY volleyball’ and he was like, ‘how?’ and we were like, ‘like you would in real life?’. It’s bizarre but sooo cool. I’ve watched dance central, but haven’t got a chance to play it yet, however it looks so awesome. I was watching Tyler ( as in Kari and Tyler from Two Hit Combo) and he boogies down like nobodies business, I have to admit I am jealous of his moves.

BUT I’m dumb and therefore waiting for christmas.

In other quick tidbits, we are getting black ops on Monday, and I am working on aquiring through completely legal and legitimate means Mario Galaxy 2 and Kirby’s Epic Yarn, and possibly goldeneye.  BTW, is Kirby’s epic yarn good? I heard everyone saying how excited they were to get it, but then nothing after. Whats the deal, yo?

Hello again. Long time no blog. Hate to say it but I kind of forgot that tumblr existed…

I’m at work so I will have to make this update short.  Christmas has come and gone and I got my Kinect.  I love it.  Dance central is so much fun, and I also got Your shape: Fitness evolved and it is quite enjoyable.  I’m trying to make a routine of working out in the mornings with it, I find that 5 routines works out to be about 30-45 minutes and gets the heart rate going, but my will power is lacking when it comes to getting out of bed early on a cold morning.  

I feel like I am bias against the kinect because I love it so much (I named mine Hal, we’ve bonded) but I have to admit there are some criticisms.  You need a lot of space to play comfortably, and I have not yet found someone with a kinect that has this kind of space.  I am going to eventually get a wall mount which I’m hoping will help with the space issue (and the next issue which I will get to in a moment), but I still need to move the couch to play and when dancing my little heart out I frequently kick the radiator behind me, resulting in my cat having a heart attack and lurking around the radiator all puffed up for 10 minutes.  The second issue I have is that sometimes it doesn’t detect things as well as I’d like them too, in particular when I raise my arms.  The good part to this is that once recalibrated, it works fine, but it’s really annoying to have to recalibrate it.  But besides these minor issues I am venting about, I am still in love with my hal, please don’t tell him I was complaining about him he gets really hurt feelings, and then he tries to turn off the oxygen in the home…

Speaking of the Kinect though I was lucky enough to be invited to demonstrate the kinect for Tyler Glennon’s new show the Level Grind on Shaw TV.   In case you forgot (and shame on you if you did) but Tyler is the gentleman teamed up with Kari for TwoHitCombo.  This show is awesome, by the way, and if you want to see my tv debut please venture here, and promise not to judge my outfit…it was a spur of the moment thing and it was a sloppy day.

I wish I could say that I’ve been playing more games, but I’ve been very lazy.  I did beat Fable 3 and really did enjoy it.  It was quite laggy and many a time did a glitch mess up my 10 game streak of Lute Hero…but I thought the game was lots of fun, witty and overall a good play.  The ending, as usual, was a little lackluster but not as frustrating as Fable 2 and as Fable 3 has demonstrated, it’s not going to effect the next Fable…so I feel better about that.

Other then that, I have been sucked back into the World of Warcraft.  Joe and I are power leveling as many characters as we can while we have the triple XP.  I must say, Cataclysm is an amazing expansion.  Both new races are different and exciting, the quests are fun, and the changes to the world refresh even the older areas…well played, blizzard, well played.  I have just finished getting a worgen warrior to 60 and am now working on a paladin.

In personal news, I am engaged!  Joe was a super sweetheart and asked me to marry him, so now we will live happily ever after and raise lots of babies to be the best gamers of all time! muahahahaha!

I’m just kidding, but srsly exciting news. I’m very happy :):)