K_Kinnison Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I think I might have enough spare change saved up to get a 360 as a birthday present for myself. Been a while since I had an up to date computer/console Hrm.. guess if no body cares I won't get one. *sob* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Interesting phone call today, I was offered an interview with some company that looks to pay ALOT of money. Going to look into that on Wednesday, check 'em out and stuff. Suit and tie time, whoot? Good luck! I was wondering what was so important to drag you away from our battle! Ace Combat looks great... but it's not really a true flight sim. A bit too "Arcade-y" for that. Still, it's probably about as close as you can get on a console, and it's also a lot of fun for what it is... and when you are in the middle of a furball your Adrenalin really shoots up. I guess I'd recommend waiting for the price to come down a bit before you rush out to get it. Or find it used. So far, I have to say, The Orange Box is the best game purchase I've made for this system. I'm having a blast with it! I can't wait to finish HL2 and tackle the other episodes. Kinda sad that I'm nearing the end of Portal, though. (As well as the loss of my weighted companion cube. *Sniff*) I hope they add some downloadable content for that game. And yes, Kinnison,.. you should get one. ASAP... if not sooner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 got my stuff fixed without having to call. all i had to do was easy. just take the modem and connect it directly to the ethernet cable going to the xbox 360, stupid router. -_- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 chilled with my mom this morning/afternoon, bowled a few games, my last game i did awesome. 120, which is good considering most of my games are 100 and below. Got my copy of Turok preordered at Best Buy. got a beanie cap with it and a demo disk. very cool! can't wait til the 5th of february...gotta request that day and the 6th off! Hey cracken, you work at best buy right? will there be a 'midnight release' of the game or will i just have to pick it up the next day at whenever the store opens. just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I suggest next day. Make it easier on the poor blue shirts that work there. Kinnison: We do care, we want to blow you up. Because we love you. I have yet to actually PLAY portal. I know, I'm a bad gamer, but I really haven't had the cash flow to go nuts. Soon though, soon. Work today was ok. Very slow, and I had little to do. Yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 i find that going from playing a pinky note (e.g. blue) to a middle finger note (e.g. red) is the toughest transition for me thus far. Crack, did you play easy mode or just go for the gusto? I like your idea of "choking up" on the neck so that the index finger gets more work. Do you think it would be worth my time to play on easy mode in that manner so I get used to playing two buttons with one finger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 That would help. Practice mode is built into the game for a reason. What I did was jump straight at Medium and Hard when I first started. Medium to get used to using all 4 fingers, then Hard to get used to using the Orange button and sliding. Above all else, ABUSE PRACTICE MODE. And learn to down/up strum (Alt Strumming). It will save you alot of hassle if you learn to do it NOW rather than wait until the third installment of the series. Like me. If you wanna use Easy to get used to sliding up the index to Green, I see no harm, but you won't have the muscle memory from playng on Hard to coordinate you pinky to do stuff. ALSO! Hammer-ons and Pull offs: Very importantto master those. Play Impulse by Endless Sporadic (Bonus song bought in the store in game) to learn those. It's fun, makes songs easier, and the ONLY WAY to really do the intro to Through the Fire and Flames on Expert. Easy songs on Hard/Expert are as follows.... Slow Ride Mississippi Queen (some wierd patterns here though) Closer Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Chord changing practice) Sunshine of Your Love If you have the Xbox 360 Version, All My Life is fairly easy. Good for learning alt strumming triplets. The Hardest Songs are... Through the Fire and Flames The Devil Went Down to Georgia (Xbox 360 DLC) Raining Blood One If your on Xbox, Ike, I can attempt to help you learn some stuff via the kinda ****ty Online Play. And yes, it helps a bit to play the real thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 i have the wii version. what are hammer-ons and pull-offs? is this info in the practice mode, tutorials, whatever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Oof. Got home from work yesterday at about 6:30. I was exhausted for some reason, and went straight to bed. Thought I'd nap for an hour or two... Just woke up. Huh. Guess I needed the rest. Well, that's good, I guess. I was waste-product all day yesterday. Couldn't get out of my own way. Didn't think I missed that much sleep over the weekend, but apparently my body thought otherwise. Slow day at work,.. fortunately. The big highlight was rounding up all the staff and crew who were around, grabbing a couple of cars, and making a re-supply trip to Home Depot, to put a little burn on the boss's corporate card. Other than that, the only thing I remember about the day was lunch. Oh... and now I am apparently the only person on the planet without Guitar Hero. Everybody I work with who has a game console owns it now. *Sigh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 The info is in the tutorial. But here's the skinney. Say you have a string of 16th notes coming up, Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Red, Green. You notice the very first Red note is the only one out of the bunch with a Black Circle around the white core, the rest of the notes do not have the Black Circle around the white core. That means you strum the first note, and you can simply tap the rest of it. Again, mess around with Impulse in Practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 what is portal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted January 8, 2008 Author Share Posted January 8, 2008 crack, i think i found that out by accident. i was wondering if that was the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 what is portal? A very cool puzzle game set in the Half-Life universe, and included in the Orange Box. Summary: you have a gun that allows you to open a wormhole between almost any 2 points by firing a blue beam at one wall... and then an orange beam at a different spot. Then a pair of portals open in those spots, and you can travel instantly between them. You start each level locked in a room with only way out... usually in some impossibly inaccessible place, and involving a number of steps to unlock it even if you figure out how to get there. It's trippy, the puzzles are complicated, and it's super addictive. Perhaps the most fun I've had with a non shoot-'em-up game since Grim Fandango. Highly recommended. My biggest complaint is how short it is. But then: It could have been 2 or 3 times as long, and still seemed short though. A lot of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyan Farlander Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Ike, what are your favorite games for the Wii? I've thought about getting one, but really only Mario Galaxy and maybe Metroid Prime 3 look interesting to me. I'm not sure that's enough to warrant a purchase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 I still haven't decided if I'm keeping my Cube or not. I'm kinda thinking I'd like to... but I have people clamoring for it if I decide not to. I originally bought it for entertainment if I ever had little kids over. It could still serve that purpose... better than the 360 anyway. Or maybe I invest in the Wii hardware at some point, and just keep all the games... Something to think about... Today at work was surprisingly productive: Did some good, ol' fashioned carpentry for a change. Built a little platform for in front of the mixing board to counter the 10-degree or so grade of the floor where it is that always makes the chair roll around. Set up the sawhorses outside the stage door and just went to work. It was very nice, considering it was in the low-60s today! The perfect day to do this job. We couldn't have timed it better! Came out nice, too... despite the fact that it's been like decades since I've operated power tools to this degree. It all came back to me once we started. Couldn't actually set it up in place when we finished it, however... since there was a crew sandblasting the years and years of layers of paint and patching off the floor in the hall. Oh well... we'll see how it looks tomorrow. If we can get back in there by then. Took a nice relaxed lunch (I felt we had earned it by then...) and then left a bit early for me. Schweet. Not sure what I plan on doing tonight. Play some Halo 2 after dinner maybe. Haven't changed the strings on my Strat yet. Want to finish that Tolkien book I started before Xmas. I guess if I plan it all right, I should be able to do all 3 of those things. We'll see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 work was slow today. easy day though. got home, played the Turok demo for about an hour, followed by an hour of call of duty 4, now i'm playing big game hunter trying to beat the career and get some achievements, then i'll probably rock out on guitar hero 3 a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Arrrgh! Just found a flea on my leg! Grrr... [insert the very worst string of profanity you can imagine here...] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikhnaton Posted January 9, 2008 Author Share Posted January 9, 2008 Ike, what are your favorite games for the Wii? I've thought about getting one, but really only Mario Galaxy and maybe Metroid Prime 3 look interesting to me. I'm not sure that's enough to warrant a purchase.Mario Galaxy, Super Paper Mario, WarioWare Smooth Moves, GH3, Tiger Woods PGA tour, Wii sports, Zelda: Twilight Princess. I also enjoy some of the old Virtual Console games like Punch-out, Mario 3, etc. The wii is a wonderful gaming system, especially if you're not an elitist gamer snob who thinks that a good game has to have cutting edge graphics. I recommend it to everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 The Wii definatley has it's merits. I like it, it's innovative. Ike: Good! work on it, and it wil definatley make the harder difficulties easier. Work was good, went out with the Home Theater Installer. Was fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edlib Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Too much sleep the other night. Not enough last night. I'll get it right one of these days... Been awake since about 2 am. Finally got fed up and got out of bed at 4. And it's not like I went to bed exceptionally early, either. I was up until 11-ish. I think it had something to do with how warm it was last night... I couldn't find the proper combination of covers to regulate the temperature. I was either way too hot... or just chilly enough to not sleep well. Bah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 ugh. woke up this morning at 12:15, late for work, double checked the clock. good thing. it was only 9:45, the wind must have knocked the power out earlier. scared me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cmdr. Cracken Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Same here... I saw 2 something and I was like... *#(%#@*&u%#( But my watch said 10:00AM. Yay! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 going to get direct deposit set up today. this way i don't have to go to walmart or the bank at all tomorrow. set up my gamertag picture in my sig, the score is off quite a bit though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zargon Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 oh portal is a flash based game on the internet as well, guess I know where it came from now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildstar Posted January 9, 2008 Share Posted January 9, 2008 Ike or Niner "bertijones" posted some I-Phone spam in the "Hardware Center" section of the "Classic Gaming" forums. Can you please take care of it? I'd do it myself, but I'm not a mod there. :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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