Friday, December 05, 2008
-Belated Thanksgiving everyone. It is my favorite holiday of the year, no stress over people buying too many gifts, all about the best dinner of the year and visiting family. Had to celebrate twice too, once with Dad where we went to the local Buffett house since we had a humongous Thanksgiving-calibur dinner a few weeks prior right before when one of my sisters mo ed, and that went well. Then we had some other family up a couple days later and we had the traditional, amazing Thanksgiving dinner at my moms. The traditional left overs for a few days were a nice little bonus too.
Of course, speaking of Thanksgiving tradition, who can forget the amazing day after Black Friday sales. I didn't hit up that many stores as I usually did, just Best Buy for some good deals on TV DVD sets, and Amazon because they had some great deals on games. Here are my grabs.
Best Buy - Shield seasons 4, 5, and 6 and Seinfeld season 9 for $15 each, 8 gb USB thumb drive for $20.
Amazon - Mortal Kombat vs DC for $40, Tecmo Bowl Kickoff for $15, Infinite Undiscovery for $20, and Commando on BluRay for $13.
-Speaking of The Shield, how about that series finale? Spoilers ahead so skip the next paragraph. That episode kicked my ass to the barn and back. The finale was pretty much all I could think about for an entire day. I don't follow too many television series now a days, so when one of your all time favorites is over, it kind of blew. Poor, poor Ronnie taking the hit for the entire Strike Team for all of his blind loyalty to Vic. The unfortunate demise for Shane and his family. That especially got to me since it seemed a little too similar to the Chris Benoit tragedy last year. Ultimately though, everyone seemed to get their just deserves, even Vic being assigned to office hell for three years. Ascevada appears to have the mayor job locked up.
Would have liked a little more resolution with Danni, never really caught what was going on with her, first it looked like she was packing up her stuff and moving to get away from Vic, then after a few episodes she's back working at the Barn with no real reason to why she was gone other than a throwaway line of dialogue from someone saying "look's like that time off did good for Danni." Though I noticed the Shield over the years has so much going on with any episode, that sometimes they can address a potentially huge issue with sneaking in a quick line of dialogue. Also would have liked a little more clarification with Dutch's and Julian's futures, other than some little hints here and there. Overall though, still a satisfying finale, now time to keep my fingers crossed for a movie to tie up all the loose ends.
-I got around to watching the Outsiders DVD interview recently. This was shot right before Scott Hall skipped out on his PPV appearance for TNA a little over a year ago, and is surprisingly sober. Lot of good anecdotes from their classic nWo and WWF days. They even got around to talking about their then present situation in TNA where Hall was ribbing Nash for not wanting to work against Kurt Angle, "I don't want to take a bunch of German Suplexes, fuck that!" Entertaining watch as I expected, and well worth hunting down for any avid Outsiders fan. The four disc Ric Flair interview DVD finally came in the mail too, don't know how I'm going to make time to watch that, but that is going to be one hell of an interview. Very professional packaging too. Also finally got the Bret Hart book in the mail, that I forgot I preordered nearly four or five months ago, and wow is that book ginormous. Over 500 pages, and other than a traditional middle section of pictures, there are no pictures cluttered throughout the chapters much like in all of WWE's biographies. This help motivated me to pick up the Ted Dibiase biography again so I can finish that quick read up and move on to the crazy huge Hart book.
-I just got back from the new Punisher: War Zone flick, and I don't know if it was going in with ridiculously low expectations or what, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. War Zone seemed like more of an homage to the original 80s Dolph Lungdren Punisher flick more than anything. If that doesn't make sense to you, than just imagine all the crazy gore and action of this year's Rambo, but amped up in a New York gangland warfare environment. I didn't want another deep origin tale, the Tom Jane flick nailed that, I just wanted the crazy nonsensical violence that I usually get out of Punisher MAX, and War Zone delivered in spades. 9/10
-I finished Resistance 2 last week, making it game #20 completed of the year. Like R1, R2 has one of the toughest easy difficulties I have encountered, its not insane tough and is the about on par with most other games' "normal" difficulty I'm use to, but it gives a whole new meaning for 'casual.' Still a damn fun time, got some interesting info out of the story, though wishing for a little more. The bonus DVD did add a little more to the back story and I would suggest giving it a watch. According to my stats I knocked this out in 7 hours 41 minutes (and I was taking my time trying to find as much intel as possible), with 1840 kills, 69 deaths (11 of which were my own clumsy suicides) and a total of 235350 XP.
-Conquered the last 30 waves I needed to beat for the achievement in Horde mode yesterday with my brother and Chris. Than we beat the first 20 waves because my brother wanted the achievement too. Of course, we had to do it on Casual difficulty, but even then the last couple of waves for each set of ten posed a significant challenge. Still a blast, and will gladly throw down in this with anyone on Xbox Live.
-I have been getting back into FallOut 3 again after only putting in a couple hours earlier this month. Liking it just as much as Oblivion, which is no knock against it because that is still an amazing game (though I have been seeing an extraordinary amount of backlash against it in the rise of Fallout 3's success lately), I'm just glad to see Bethesda step out of the fantasy/medieval environment, and into something a little more modern. I'm not all that far, about 8 hours, and I got hung up one side quest for awhile too, so my main overall progress is fairly minimal. I am still in Megaton, and I have finally crafted the Rock-it Launcher, which is an amazing weapon of destruction that finally makes collecting junk in a Bethesda game useful! Only thing I find myself wanting so far in FallOut 3 is a mount. I like that the ability to fast travel is back, but sometimes I don't want to fast travel, and getting by on a horse made journeying through Tamriel in Oblivion so much more convenient.
-GameFly has been a show lately. It's been two weeks since I mailed out my last game back to GameFly, I'm use to GameFly taking 6-10 days to get a game back to me, but this sets a new standard. It took 8 days from mailing the game back (on a Monday) before I got an email saying GameFly received the game, and usually within a day of that email I'm use to getting another saying what game they decided to ship next to me. Even though I have around 7 or 8 games in my Q, it took them them another week before I got an email saying my next game was on the way, I finally got Pure in the mail today, marking 17 days it took them to get a game to me. Ridiculous! Friends don't let friends use GameFly folks!
-That's all for now. Until next time.
Of course, speaking of Thanksgiving tradition, who can forget the amazing day after Black Friday sales. I didn't hit up that many stores as I usually did, just Best Buy for some good deals on TV DVD sets, and Amazon because they had some great deals on games. Here are my grabs.
Best Buy - Shield seasons 4, 5, and 6 and Seinfeld season 9 for $15 each, 8 gb USB thumb drive for $20.
Amazon - Mortal Kombat vs DC for $40, Tecmo Bowl Kickoff for $15, Infinite Undiscovery for $20, and Commando on BluRay for $13.
-Speaking of The Shield, how about that series finale? Spoilers ahead so skip the next paragraph. That episode kicked my ass to the barn and back. The finale was pretty much all I could think about for an entire day. I don't follow too many television series now a days, so when one of your all time favorites is over, it kind of blew. Poor, poor Ronnie taking the hit for the entire Strike Team for all of his blind loyalty to Vic. The unfortunate demise for Shane and his family. That especially got to me since it seemed a little too similar to the Chris Benoit tragedy last year. Ultimately though, everyone seemed to get their just deserves, even Vic being assigned to office hell for three years. Ascevada appears to have the mayor job locked up.
Would have liked a little more resolution with Danni, never really caught what was going on with her, first it looked like she was packing up her stuff and moving to get away from Vic, then after a few episodes she's back working at the Barn with no real reason to why she was gone other than a throwaway line of dialogue from someone saying "look's like that time off did good for Danni." Though I noticed the Shield over the years has so much going on with any episode, that sometimes they can address a potentially huge issue with sneaking in a quick line of dialogue. Also would have liked a little more clarification with Dutch's and Julian's futures, other than some little hints here and there. Overall though, still a satisfying finale, now time to keep my fingers crossed for a movie to tie up all the loose ends.
-I got around to watching the Outsiders DVD interview recently. This was shot right before Scott Hall skipped out on his PPV appearance for TNA a little over a year ago, and is surprisingly sober. Lot of good anecdotes from their classic nWo and WWF days. They even got around to talking about their then present situation in TNA where Hall was ribbing Nash for not wanting to work against Kurt Angle, "I don't want to take a bunch of German Suplexes, fuck that!" Entertaining watch as I expected, and well worth hunting down for any avid Outsiders fan. The four disc Ric Flair interview DVD finally came in the mail too, don't know how I'm going to make time to watch that, but that is going to be one hell of an interview. Very professional packaging too. Also finally got the Bret Hart book in the mail, that I forgot I preordered nearly four or five months ago, and wow is that book ginormous. Over 500 pages, and other than a traditional middle section of pictures, there are no pictures cluttered throughout the chapters much like in all of WWE's biographies. This help motivated me to pick up the Ted Dibiase biography again so I can finish that quick read up and move on to the crazy huge Hart book.
-I just got back from the new Punisher: War Zone flick, and I don't know if it was going in with ridiculously low expectations or what, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out. War Zone seemed like more of an homage to the original 80s Dolph Lungdren Punisher flick more than anything. If that doesn't make sense to you, than just imagine all the crazy gore and action of this year's Rambo, but amped up in a New York gangland warfare environment. I didn't want another deep origin tale, the Tom Jane flick nailed that, I just wanted the crazy nonsensical violence that I usually get out of Punisher MAX, and War Zone delivered in spades. 9/10
-I finished Resistance 2 last week, making it game #20 completed of the year. Like R1, R2 has one of the toughest easy difficulties I have encountered, its not insane tough and is the about on par with most other games' "normal" difficulty I'm use to, but it gives a whole new meaning for 'casual.' Still a damn fun time, got some interesting info out of the story, though wishing for a little more. The bonus DVD did add a little more to the back story and I would suggest giving it a watch. According to my stats I knocked this out in 7 hours 41 minutes (and I was taking my time trying to find as much intel as possible), with 1840 kills, 69 deaths (11 of which were my own clumsy suicides) and a total of 235350 XP.
-Conquered the last 30 waves I needed to beat for the achievement in Horde mode yesterday with my brother and Chris. Than we beat the first 20 waves because my brother wanted the achievement too. Of course, we had to do it on Casual difficulty, but even then the last couple of waves for each set of ten posed a significant challenge. Still a blast, and will gladly throw down in this with anyone on Xbox Live.
-I have been getting back into FallOut 3 again after only putting in a couple hours earlier this month. Liking it just as much as Oblivion, which is no knock against it because that is still an amazing game (though I have been seeing an extraordinary amount of backlash against it in the rise of Fallout 3's success lately), I'm just glad to see Bethesda step out of the fantasy/medieval environment, and into something a little more modern. I'm not all that far, about 8 hours, and I got hung up one side quest for awhile too, so my main overall progress is fairly minimal. I am still in Megaton, and I have finally crafted the Rock-it Launcher, which is an amazing weapon of destruction that finally makes collecting junk in a Bethesda game useful! Only thing I find myself wanting so far in FallOut 3 is a mount. I like that the ability to fast travel is back, but sometimes I don't want to fast travel, and getting by on a horse made journeying through Tamriel in Oblivion so much more convenient.
-GameFly has been a show lately. It's been two weeks since I mailed out my last game back to GameFly, I'm use to GameFly taking 6-10 days to get a game back to me, but this sets a new standard. It took 8 days from mailing the game back (on a Monday) before I got an email saying GameFly received the game, and usually within a day of that email I'm use to getting another saying what game they decided to ship next to me. Even though I have around 7 or 8 games in my Q, it took them them another week before I got an email saying my next game was on the way, I finally got Pure in the mail today, marking 17 days it took them to get a game to me. Ridiculous! Friends don't let friends use GameFly folks!
-That's all for now. Until next time.
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