Dylan B-Day

Dylan's 4th Birthday

My youngest is 4 years old! No more babies for us. He loves superheroes, trucks, and guns. I know typical 4 year old boy. He is learning to read and pretty much has any 3 letter words down. My how time flies!

VOTD

He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity. Proverbs 21:23

Swag!

I don't know what happened but my last blog missed the pics.

ODST ruck Stop

I got the chance to play the Firefight mode yesterday and will answer as many questions you guys have that I can.

I played Firefight twice yesterday and was surprised at how different it was from Horde. First of all you are human and have very little health with no shields. in other words you will die fast. We played on Heroic and even the best players died 2 or 3 times in 10 minutes. It is very fast and furious and the AI is very smart. They will duck and dodge your gernades and shots and they are very agressive with brutes jumping on you and jetpacks making them very moblie. I found that you would have enemies literally jumping on you and all around before you even know it. I played 2 of the 3 maps available. I don't remember the names of the maps but the first one was "outside" and wide open with a few vehicles dropped in. You can jack the wraiths but only to kill them. I didn't see any useable vehicles. Whereas the enemies are faster and smarter the wraiths were pretty slow and easy to jack. I think it was 180 points for taking down a wraith as opposed to like 450 points for a brute with a gravity hammer. That being said the gravity hammer and the turrets are the best weapons for high scores. They gave away a set of action figures to anyone who scored 20,000 points individually in the 10 min. demo. I think only 2 people did this while I was there and your team really had to suck for you to get this many points, most team scores were around 22 to 30 thousand points although the day before when they were in Vegas someone scored 47,000 points by himself smashing the old record of 32,000.
It was a fun, fast, and hectic gametype akin to playing multiplayer with bots. That said It is a lot diffrerent than horde but still I don't think the people who play multiplayer will get much out of this. I predict people will be hot for Firefight at first but will fade fast compared to multiplayer.
I have lots of other things to say about the game but am tired of typing so ask me a question or hit me up next time I'm on Live and I will answer all your questions.

I will still be buying the game I just think Firefight will fade fast. From what I've heard the campaign should be interesting though and with all the maps included I will finally be getting back into Halo3 multiplayer.


Sorry, they wouldn't allow any cameras inside the truck!

Little bit o' swag!
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DirecTv Sucks!

I have been a loyal DirecTv customer for over 10 years.
That said I warn everyone to stay away from that company unless you have tons of money to piss away!
Don't get me wrong, thier programming is outstanding but, thier hardware, warranties, and cust service blows!
10 months ago I paid over $200 for a HD DVR from DirecTv. Now it takes over 10 sec. to change the channel or bring up the guide. After dealing with cust service making me reset my reciever numerous times they told me they would send me a new reciever for $99 plus $30 shipping. WTF? A piece of electronics that cost me over $200 is only under warranty for 3 months? Not to mention I had to sign a 2 year contract to get the reciever for $200 instead of the $400 they wanted to upgrade my existing service!
I have long been a supporter of DirecTv, but no longer, I am here to tell you to stay away from this evil corporation that only wants your money and nothing else.

I have two Xbox 360s, a piece of hardware known for failing. Say what you will about Microsoft but they took a one year warranty and extended it for 3 years! This is impressive in todays day and age. Microsoft has done many things wrong but, at least they stepped up to the plate when push came to shove! I only bring this up to say that more companies should take a lesson from them in this aspect and if I didn't say it earlier DirecTv sucks! Please, for your own good stay away!

GTA IV

Well I sent it back to Gamefly today. I really didn't have much interest in playing it but, I knew everyone and their brother would be playing so I figured I would try it out.

I actually enjoyed Crackdown a lot, Just Cause was ok and Mercenaries on Xbox180 was great! I've never played a GTA before so I was expecting something similar. Wow what a letdown! I personally think all of the above games were better than this. The single player in GTA is very linear, yea you can do whatever you want but not if you want to progress the story. Strike one: very linear.

Graphics are ok, NOT spectacular. maybe they are just amazing compared to previous GTAs. Anyways controls definetly need improving and the same for the game saves. Strike two:controls and graphics

Storyline, what can I say? it sucked. not to mention it feels like it was written by a fourteen year old timmie. I don't mind cuss words being used appropriately but, thrown in every other word! just stupid and childish! Strike three:story

My conclusion: this game is only really popular because it is "taboo" or "pushes the limits" for content. Personally this game ranks right with BMX XXX, the Guy Game, or the Playboy game. Geared for and made popular by teenage boys.

Let the hate mail begin!

After all the time wasted with this game I will be gladly waiting for Crackdown2 or better yet Mercs 2!