/dev/games 29 Nov 2007 01:04 am
Power Man 6000
As of tonight I have earned exactly 6000 gamerpoints. And I haven’t finished that one game I’m working on finishing which will most likely make it into my top 10 but now I have to make tough decisions again and you could always spoil it for yourselves and see what I’ve been doing through my gamercard.
So. No matter what I say in the next few days. You have to buy the Orange Box. And if you don’t want to play it on a PC, the 360 version is really well done (other than a Microsoft violation involving their press start screen and the Guitar Hero II guitar) (also, the 360 version has prettied up versions of Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, while the PC version only got re-releases). If you saw the Half-Life 2 demo video in the summer of 2003 and you saw something there, something that you didn’t think you’d ever see. Something in the way that floating a mattress in water was different from floating some pieces wood. You owe it to yourself to play through the game again. And you more than owe it to yourself to play through the Episodes. Just fucking do it already.
And as soon as I’m done here, I’m going to run through Gears of War, probably multiple times, because I want to see where it stands. While I love the game, and I decry it as the best game on the Xbox 360, I never played through it. I don’t even think I played past the second chapter. But now I have to. It’s a personal mission. So if you have Live, let’s get our co-op on. It’s time, my brothers.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 1:39 am 1.chris said …
I totally just sent you a friend request (I think?) - I’m still figuring out what this new fangled machine is capable of, but the idea of playing co-op long distance like that is making me sort of giddy.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 9:32 am 2.jack said …
You, me, Gears, and some hicked-out rockabilly.
Chris, send a friend request to HAVE YOU A WIN.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 9:48 am 3.mike! said …
i can has co-op?
on 29 Nov 2007 at 10:10 am 4.chris said …
Consider it done!
on 29 Nov 2007 at 10:11 am 5.chris said …
mikey, what’s your handle? Can we get 4-way up in this bitch?
on 29 Nov 2007 at 11:20 am 6.Ben said …
Gears is an intimate experience between a man and a man.
Everybody else has to watch.
Although, it supports hot joining (you can be playing, and your friends can join WITHOUT YOU NOTICING).
And it looks like four of us have the game and want to play through it some.
We could all play it simultaneously and join a private chat.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 12:17 pm 7.Ben said …
Oh yeah, Juls has the game, too. That’s like, even more people to spread ourselves between.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 1:34 pm 8.jack said …
Man on man on man on man on man.
on 29 Nov 2007 at 3:29 pm 9.mike! said …
mikeisonthenets
on 30 Nov 2007 at 9:55 am 10.jack said …
I was looking through ben’s friends list. There’s some goonswaddled piece of afterbirth spaghetti, a Predator Goose, who’s further along in Symphony of the Night than I am. The only way I can outdo this guy is by playing through the game as Richter, which I DON’T WANT. Then, ben tells me that ektachrome is chris, whose friend request I ignored because I didn’t know it was chris. But first, I was going to punish chris, for forcing me to go through as Richter (DON’T WANT).
The voice messages are not punishment, brothers. They are rewards for your progress.
on 30 Nov 2007 at 9:56 am 11.Julius said …
jubu1
I’m down.
on 30 Nov 2007 at 10:18 am 12.mike! said …
I enjoy my daily reminders of having endured Bionicle in my nerd points quest…
I can’t wait until Avatar:tLAB arrives!
on 30 Nov 2007 at 6:18 pm 13.chris said …
So I just set up a new LCD TV last night, and it’s like my eyes have been opened anew. I was playing the 360 on the same little 20″ TV we used to have in the Thomas St. lair. Now I’m playing and watching in full HD glory and it’s like I’m in a walking wet dream. I’ve never seen with such clarity. I’m now even more pumped for kills because I can see about 74% more of the enemies I was supposed to be killing.
on 30 Nov 2007 at 11:43 pm 14.mike! said …
hell’s yeah. my jump from the 27 inch to the 42″ plasma was retarded. which is partly why i’ve begun playing gears of war again… it’s like a whole new freakin’ game.
on 01 Dec 2007 at 2:11 am 15.Ben said …
Meanwhile, I’ve had an HDTV since day one, and I’m really liking how games like Gears look when I hook it up to an SDTV. For one thing, you get a better framerate. Different strokes, I guess.
Oh, and Chris and I rocked some Gears tonight. I want to play this game over and over again. We should all be playing it all the time, until the chainsaws run dry, Amen.
on 04 Dec 2007 at 6:34 pm 16.chris said …
That was ridiculous fun, btw - it’s been so long since I did multiplayer ANYTHING. We should definitely try and round up a good lot of us and have a group game!