"Oh, it’s end of April, but it’s supposed to snow today. Well, if it’s snow, I won’t need an umbrella. I’ll just wear a hat. That’ll be enough." - me, this morning before work.
Well, not only is it not snowing. It’s raining, and to top it off, we’ve also got hail. BB pellet hail. Too bad I have a Halo hat, not a helmet.
Guess I won’t be getting GTA IV tonight at the midnight launch. Guess tomorrow’s another day. Another day on which I have to work till 9:00pm. Gah!
First of all, stop saying it’s a demo. People don’t pay $40 for a demo. People don’t put over 60 cars into a driving game if it’s just a demo. Granted, Prologue is a just a taste of the GT5 to come, but it is not a demo.
I’ve heard a several reviews say that Prologue relies heavily on “grinding” to get the credits to buy better cars. Since there’s only 6 different tracks, not counting alternate setups and reverses, I can see why one might have to play the same race over and over again just to get the 2,000,000 credits for an F1 racer. On the other hand, you can also make money by running the races online; a lot more rewarding, and with human players, the races are a lot more interesting.
Well, the main point of this post is to try out some of the features on the new Windows Live Writer blogging application. So far? I’m pretty impressed, and I hope that this does away with a lot of the nuisances of blogging and get me back here more often.
We knew it was coming, as Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS was announced months ago. What we didn’t know, until today, was how it would be coming. I was kinda hoping for the USB to DS adapter so that we could all look awkward awesome wearing our GH guitars around town to shred on the go. Sadly for us, IGN has revealed that the portable iteration of the franchise will instead come with a Guitar Grip attachment our handhelds. No picture here yet, (check it out here: http://ds.ign.com/articles/860/860511p1.html) but it basically looks like four fret buttons plugged into the GBA slot. So you hold the DS like a book, ala Brain Age and Ninja Gaiden DS, hit notes with your system-holding hand and strum with your stylus-holding hand on the touch screen. If that seems dangerous to you and your DS, be thankful that Red Octane is adding a handstrap to that package to keep your portable from falling off a three story building.
I hope Activision has some big pockets for all the money they’re about to make, because this game is going to be huge when it releases this summer.
Jackie Chan and Jet Li in a movie together? How come no one thought of this before?
The Forbidden Kingdom, trailer in previous post, features the aforementioned martial arts, movie stars and the guy who put together the fight scenes from the Matrix, so it looks like it’ll be a pretty cool action flick. Mixing Jackie Chan’s style of kung fu comedy with Jet Li’s serious skills should yield some interesting results. I’m excited. The story is something about a kid from our time looking for pirated DVDs, getting sucked into the mystical Chinese past, and having to learn kung fu to free the Monkey King and save the world. Hm.
As I said, it looks like it’ll be a pretty cool action flick.
The Forbidden Kingdom comes out April 18th. Video game adaption to be announced.
Anyways, speaking of typing, here’s my idea for a PSP keyboard: take the clear plastic one they showed originally, only instead of having it on top of the system, overlay it on the screen, effectively making a touchscreen. Then, only have the keys show up when text input is called up. Easier typing, and you keep the PSP form factor.
Well, more like 1:15, so I thought I’d post in the blog. Couple of cool things going on here: there’s actually free wireless internet access at the new Milwaukee Greyhound / Amtrak station, making my two hour layover that much more interesting. I also picked up the higher capacity PSP battery over the weekend, so I have my screen brightness turned up `cause I’m not too worried about the system dying as I “type.” Which would suck.
