We are entering the Matrix.

I just watched the MS press conference at E3. I was surprised by L4D2. Alan Wake looked interesing. Halo ODST will probably get my money. The facebook thing will be convenient BUT that "Milo" demo by Lionhead Studios using the Natal motion capture, facial and voice recognition technology was downright terrifying. I can't even describe it. You just have to find video of it. I thought that robot that Honda made that can walk and wave was kind of creepy, but this Milo kid is chill inducing. Molyneux was talking about how when Milo throws something at you, your (and everyone who has tested this) natural reaction is to catch it...that is the level of realism in this demo. You don't think about catching something....you react to actually catch something.

 

It was simply mindblowing.  Watch it a.s.a.p.

Posted by LetheanGrazer @ 3:37 pm EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

I lost my virginity tonight. What an achievement!

Finally. Finally. Finally! I wrote a previous blog about how I wanted to complete every achievement in a game. I have never done it before and I was close to doing it in a few games.Why this is one of my goals? I'll never know.  There are a billion other things I should be doing with my time. Well anyway, tonight I popped my cherry with Fallout 3. I've been spending an inordinate amount of time in the Capital Wasteland, and now I can finally put this beast to bed....until late June at least which is when the next DLC comes out.

 

This stupid game owns me.

Posted by LetheanGrazer @ 3:55 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Ass a sin?

Can anyone make an argument for Assassin's Creed? Good or bad, I want to hear what people have to say. All of the reviews have had me on the fence for this one for quite a while. Is it all eye-candy? Are the lukewarm reviews by journalists right on the money? Is there anything redeeming about the gameplay? I keep seeing all the hype about the sequel and quite honestly, it has made me curious about the original.

Posted by LetheanGrazer @ 8:14 am EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments

Dear Karma,

I've gone over this a million times in my head and it is only now that I am putting into words my questions for you. I think you have treated me so unjustly that I have to ask, "Was she really the one?"

Karma, I know she was good to me...I'm sorry, she was great to me. I was young, curious, impatient and weak. We were in a rough area at that point and because of my mentioned faults I didn't want to weather the storm. Hindsight being so clear, I can see now that it was a test for us. A test that I failed miserably because of my fledgling, naive heart.

To know then what I know now.

Experience twists a cold dagger.

So I ask you Karma, was it so bad that I have had to go through a trilogy of strange, unhealthy, serious relationships since then? You have been at this for 7 years now. When will your marathon lesson be over? I am over her, I have been. Although, I am not ashamed to look back and know how good a partner can be to me. However, she is not the bar to which all others will be compared. It is the disrespectful other three, the Cerberus incarnate that I now stare down at without fear...they have set the bar.

I have crossed the river. I will now go confidently through the gates.

Karma, I am not angry, just wiser. I am not impatient, just excited. When we find each other, I will be sure to thank you, for this woman of no face or name will reap the rewards of all you have taught me.

 

 

SIncerely,

your student

 

Posted by LetheanGrazer @ 8:18 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Gertrude Fenix

I have seriously got to stick to just playing GoW2 MP with clan members. Every time I go public I get my ass handed to me. Not to mention the lag-switching is becoming way too rampant.

I think the old school way of playing games gives credence to the saying of "Can't teach an old dog new tricks." I find that I'm jamming on the thumbsticks way too hard when things get heated up. I'll get a guy lined up with my shotgun and the next thing I know I'm shooting at a wall instead of the guy that was right in front of me 1/2 a second ago. I'm playing like I did when I was kid when I used to nearly push the cross pad right through the NES controller in hopes that Mario might just run a little faster.

The dexterity on these kids that have known nothing but analog control is quite humbling. Their ability to finess the controller in chaotic situations is something that I just don't think I can master.

It actually makes me a bit more empathetic of old ladies driving a car 25 mph in a 40mph zone. Many of those ladies didn't get their license at 16, 20 or even 25. They built a life time of bias of never having to control 5000 pounds of rolling metal. Their young brain didn't have a chance to make all those neural connections that dealt with negotiating 3-D space. Instead their old, bias brain has to deal with lots and lots of information that it just can't process efficiently.

So, to make a conclusion: When playing public multiplayer against all of these young kids that have known nothing but (and have mastered) analog control...I am the old lady in the over-sized Buick that everyone screams at to get off the road.

Damn whippersnappers.

 

Posted by LetheanGrazer @ 4:33 pm EDT | Permalink | 4 Comments