In other news, I’m still loving my Macbook Pro, just runs smooth as hell, and the new 4 finger exposé gesture is just magic, it genuinely makes me work faster between multiple apps. When I’m not working on my pretty Macbook Pro, I’m wasting time playing all these new pretty games that have been released this month so far I’ve bought the following:

- Fallout 3: This is probably the first RPG I’ve ever really enjoyed, I love the post apocalyptic steam punk 50s theme and there’s just so much to do, I’ve run through the main story so far but there’s so much more to do, I’d say once I’ve finished messing with all these other games, this is the one I will go back to.

- Left 4 Dead: This one is just pure fun 4 player Co-op and versus mode, all you do is simply shoot zombies, and it’s great fun nuff said.

- Guitar Hero World Tour: So far I’ve just bought the standalone game using the GHIII guitars, but after trying out the drums and mic that a mate brought over, I think I’ll have to get the full kit. It’s just too much fun, and after 10 beers it would be even more fun. Hoping to give that a try this weekend in between poker games.

- Mortal Kombat VS DC Universe: One thing I always enjoyed on consoles is the 2 player fighter, so I thought I better get one. This game is great fun with a mate and you can lose 2 hours very easily with it, and the characters are great all the good oldschool MK characters, and some bitchen DC guys as well, Batman VS Sub-Zero? Hell Yeah.

So far that’s it, I still plan to get Gears of War 2, I was pondering Need For Speed Undercover but apparently it’s rather crap, and I’ll probably get COD5 at some point.

Have fun kids.

]]> http://www.spiraloz.com/2008/11/25/324/feed/ 0 http://www.spiraloz.com/2008/10/03/ive-got-all-things-that-are-nice/ http://www.spiraloz.com/2008/10/03/ive-got-all-things-that-are-nice/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:33:56 +0000 Sebconn http://www.spiraloz.com/?p=315 I really need to make sure this blog doesn’t turn into one of those 1 post a year wonders that always starts with “I haven’t blogged in a while”. They give me the irrits.

So anyway, I haven’t blogged in a while, I think Twitter may be taking up a lot of the time that I would/should spend on this site. This post is going to be a bit of a catch up rant.

I’m seriously backed up with web dev stuff to do, and I really want to get them all done and get a decent portfolio up and running, it’s looking rather stale at the moment, I tend to be a bit of a rollercoaster when it comes to web dev, sometimes I can find my creative side and quickly whip up a nice wordpress concept design, then I have a brain fart and struggle with making that concept into a theme, or vise versa, I think it depends on the music I’m listening to at the time, it has a big effect on the way my brain works. I might need to look at tagging songs for creative and for coding, I’m convinced it has an effect.

I recently bought a new toy to take my attention away from my iPhone, a nice Samsung 46″ LCD TV, it’s big and beautiful, and looks perty as hell, the purchase of this TV has given my xbox new life, through the HDMI cable I can finally play the games how they’re supposed to look, and since buying the TV I’ve bought 3 games for the thing; Guitar Hero III, which I already have on the Wii, but I wanted downloadable content and HD niceness. Project Gotham Racing 4, having heaps of fun with this one, haven’t got into a console racer in years, probably since the first Gran Turismo. The third game I’ve bought is Mass Effect, which is ok, only just bought it, not overly impressed.

I’m currently looking at Blu-Ray player prices, they are going for around $400 in the places I’ve looked, definitely a future purchase.

On to other Gadget goodness and me and my housemate have decked out the house with 2 airport expresses for streaming music, we’ve had one for a while but the things really shine with two, perfect synced streaming music throughout the whole house, one in the lounge, and one in the outside stereo with our recently partified deck, which proved to be awesome on Grand Final Day.

And Finally, just a bit of iPhone stuff, even though I’ve saturated this blog with it, I’ve finally hacked my iPhone, it was a breeze and the stuff I can do now is fantastic, live last.fm scrobbing, direct to device podcasting, themes, soundsets and video recording, particularly Qik.com streaming, which streams live video to my Qik profile, I’ve always been impressed with this service and now that I use it, I’m super impressed, check out my profile for some of the vids I’ve made.

I think I’ve rambled on enough, what a stupidly long post, oh well, kudos to you if you actually read it all!

On another note, I’ve got a nice new widget in my sidebar that displays my Gamertag details, it’s simply called the Xbox 360 Gamercard Wordpress plugin. It doesn’t come as a widget, so I’m using another plugin to use it as a widget, that’s called the Custom Function Widget, nice!

The Xbox community stuff is pretty cool, it connects to MSN messenger, you have a gamercard that you can view online showing your games played and acheivements gained from the game. The voice chat in online games is fun but of course you get lots of assholes and brat kids. The one thing I’m really looking forward to is the streaming media from my PC. At this point I can’t get it to work since my Xbox connects using a seperate subnet created by my Macbook. Next week I will be just sucking it up and getting a wireless adapter for it, since I’ve sussed out that with my Netgear DG834G ADSL Modem Router does not support the WDS settings that my Airport Express uses, which is very disappointing.

So the next step is to call up EB Games and see if I can trade in my double pack Wii Guitar Hero 3 setup for the Xbox equivalent, I assume I’ll have to pay a bit extra, if it’s too much I’ll sell it on ebay and then buy it, apparently the double pack is limited edition and it’s selling for a decent price on ebay. We’ll see.

Stupid me assumed the Xbox had built in WiFi, nope, it doesn’t, I wasn’t fussed, I’ve got an airport express just sitting beside it with an ethernet port just waiting to be used. Not quite as easy as it sounds, or should be. Apple are missing out on a very wanted feature out there and I can’t understand why it can’t function that way easily. I’m sure I’ll get it eventually, but for now, I’m using my laptop as a ethernet to wireless bridge, it will do for now.

The online features of the Xbox are impressive, lots of game demos etc, it had some demos and stuff preinstalled which I may get rid of, I eventually want to get some good arcade games and whatnot, along with GH3 downloadables when I eventually get it.

GTAIV is awesome, of course, I love the controls for driving, using the triggers for forwards and backwards, works like a charm. There’s so many little things in this game that make it awesome, I’m not going to bother to get into it, it’s just awesome, and I’m stoked with it. Online play is just amazing, I played just deathmatch and it’s complete nuts, being a noob I naturally got my ass kicked but I didn’t care, it’s just too much fun. One thing I noticed, even before I got the Xbox was that people seem to talk a hell of a lot more when playing online with it, with the PC people rarely talk, CSS they do a bit but no where near as much. I feel kinda weird talking on it, I haven’t talked that much on it since I was mainly playing some European guys and I couldn’t understand a single word they were saying, I’m sure I’ll get use to it in the future.

Anyhoo, my gamertag is Sebconn, so add me if you’re keen, I could probably keep playing another 6 hours but I do have to go to work unfortunately.

The setting for this game would make a great movie I reckon, although I think hollywood has issues with religious themed movies, which is disappointing.

So I’m fairly certain, in a fortnight or so once I’ve fixed my still broken Macbook, I will invest in a 360, just for this game, of course I will buy other games as well, can’t think of any right now though.