Oh what the hell.

Been around three years since I did anything on this blog. Feel kind of confined on my other sites. Can either talk about racquetball, books and software, and Physical Therapy which I know next to nothing about. So need a place that's free of such constraints. Been in love with Minecraft for a while now. I've been playing mostly on the XBox 360 and working the same map. Pretty much have all my farms, storage, and supplies in one spot. Also built a tunnel that goes from my castle to a village. Need a faster way to gain XP, but otherwise content with just playing and taking care of animals, farming, and mining. Shown a few of my friends the game and only one really took a liking to it. Anyway makes me think what is wrong with my friends? How can they not love this game!!

Conduit for Wii

Been a while not much game time with two kids and all the other stuff going on. Bought Conduit for the Wii used a week or so ago. I saw the video on the Nintendo Channel and thought hmmm.

Anyway controls with the Wii Remote and Nunchuck are ok, not great. Sometimes hard to move and shoot. Think I'll always find Keyboard and Mouse better for any shooter. It's how I came up.

It's a basic shooter and doesn't have many innovative features. AI is ok and some of the Weapons are alright so far. Think I'll get used to it...if I ever get a chance to play.

How Far First Person Shooters Have Come

My friend, Marv, is supposed to come over on Thursday to play some Quake 2. Yep Quake 2. We've been playing co-op mode to try to get him used to how the mouse and keyboard works, etc. I've beat the game a few times by myself and with my best friend, Pezboy. So it's fun and I get a kick out of playing it.

Anyway got me thinking how far FPS games have come. Since Quake 2, III (sucked), Tribes, Unreal Tournament, UT 2003 (sucked), Battlefield, Battlefield Vietnam, UT 2004, Battlefield 2142, and Unreal III (kinda sucks). Battlefield 2142 is my favorite. So playing Quake 2 after playing BF-2142 is like pulling out my old Atari 2600.

The use of vehicles really changed FPS forever. I love how people can just team up and drive/shoot or carry people around to different parts of the map. It's like playing War or something when I was kid but with real weapons and stuff.

Very Cool.
--Joe.

New Gamer Blog

Normally I would do a whole bunch of stuff in HTML and Post, but thought why not start something free and save myself some work. I usually post stuff about racquetball on my site (http://www.eqp.com/pubs/rb) but wanted to do something different and write about another passion of mine gaming.

I read on Sarcastic Gamer (http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/03/bfbcs-dlc-is-just-plain-bs.html) about the new Battlefield. I've loved Battlefield since the first 1942. So the idea of them charging for weapons and stuff is just plain greed. I also read they want to charge for better players in the Madden series? Oh please. Gone are the days of working to unlock something and actually having the skills to do it?

Where's my console?

Later,
--Joe.