Achievement

So I was playing a little known game called Psychology Assessment 423 on Monday and being the gamerscore whore that I am, I racked up a few achievements:

 

Netting me a total of 1250G’s for completion of the game and it’s expansion!

Filed under: Gameology, Jocose, Life, xbox 360

Dead Space

Even though Dead Space has pretty much been released all over the world, the official release for Australia is tomorrow and I secured myself a copy one day ahead because I’m a special video game reviewer for the Australian market. Okay I lie, haha, it’s only because I pre-ordered it from Harvey Norman and the guy in charge of the games department was so excited he called me yesterday to tell me that I could pick it up already. I don’t normally pre-order games because there isn’t much incentive too unless it’s a behemoth like Halo 3 and might run out, but this time it comes with an artbook (of which I’m still waiting on) that might make some good coffee table reading if the pre-release images of the game are anything to go by. But sadly here I am stuck in uni ploughing away at my dissertation and probably won’t get to capitalise on the earlier than normal reception of this game.

I don’t really know too much about this game because I don’t want to spoil the storyline etc for myself and just in case I’ll get let down (unlikely if the scores on reviews are anything to go by and it’s already being touted as the best game experience of 2009). But put simply it’s a survival sci-fi horror game, pretty much silent hill or resident evil set in space. Can’t say I have played those games in the series, but I do really enjoy playing a good single player game, e.g. Bioshock last year. But with that said, I hope my playing of Dead Space won’t follow the path of Bioshock where I pretty much never got further than chapter two because I didn’t have the time to sit down to be immerse in the whole expereince in pretty much one continuos sitting. And that’s how I like to play my games.

So because of that, even though I got this game sitting in my bag, I’m at uni trudging away at my dissertation which I had every intention to finish a few days ago. But now a reschedule should hopefully see me finish the huge majority of it by tonight, and just leaving some editing and stuff for tomorrow. And then it’ll be pretty much studying for exams. And once exams finish I can begin my quest to start and finish these games again!

So my to-play list after exams would be:

1. Bioshock
2. Dead Space
3. Gears of War2 (If I got the cash ahaha)

And all these will be interspersed with Guitar Hero: World Tour. Party times at my house!

Goodness me my Xbox360 is going to be my best friend post-exam…

who needs a relationship!

Actually I’ll make special exception if said person has an awesome tv, and surround sound system. Simply because I want the full immersion of experience only possible by a surround sound system that I lack.

Oh well, here’s hoping that dead space left in my dissertation will be filled.

Filed under: Dead Space, Gameology, Procastination, planning, xbox 360

Preemptive

Because Agape camp is in 12 hours! Restoration +, mmmm I’m preempting a strong move of God here, really expecting something, able to go to something not having to lead is always refreshing in my books Knowing the Agapean leaders, they will definitely do a good job! I’m SO EXCITED!

Despite my excitement, I kinda wish that camp might be a week later or something so I have some time to rest so I could go into camp not being physically and mentally tired and soak more of the awesome spiritual aspect in, but God will do something

On a less spiritual note (gosh the ’s’ key on my keyboard is dying!) played quite a bit of fight night round 3 in the past 5-6 hours, and well I got totally and utterly beaten by some young kid in my cell who doesn’t even own the game, then to make matters worst I get beaten by Alvin when he came around later when I CLEARLY had the upperhand So how does this relate to being preemptive? Well if I was able to preempt the punches made by thoe two I would have been able to parry all their punches since all they do is throw punches unceasingly, and it just lures me in to join them…. and I always lose out

Oh well, I shouldn’t really be playing so much xbox just before camp… especially when I still have to clean my room (because I know my mum will tell me to do something about it as soon as I come home from camp, and that is not something I want to hear…), clean my car, clean my junk from the music room, clean my junk from the living room, clean my junk from the spare room. As you can see… I leave a little bit of myself in almost every single bit of living space in this house, I just need to preempt which one my mum will pick on any given day

Oops I digressed a bit, I also have to practice songs for camp, and my saxophone… Thanks HuiFu for having me get it out :p (there is a touch of sarcasm in that statement… only a touch) it’s times like these that I’m always reminded that I’ve been given this ability, what am I going to do with it and not let it go to waste.

Whatever it is, I just want to be ready.

Filed under: Fight Night, God, long term, planning, xbox 360

Chainsaws, Shotguns and Blood.

Forgive me for sounding gruesome, but what I’m referring too is one of the most amazing games of the Xbox 360. For those who still havn’t figured out what game it is, I have a feeling that this post would probably be quite boring. But for the others who know that it is referring to Gears of War, probably are gamers and should understand my excitement!

I was actually going to post this up earlier, but I couldn’t figure out a decent title, and thus couldn’t get some decent content flow. I know and I know that many so called “systems to writing a good essay” proposes that the title should go on last and match the rest of the essay, but for me I enjoy finding one word and going off on a tangent as I am now…

[aside] This tangent should at least provide some form of intellectual stimulation to those who do not approve of the satisfaction I derive from the mindless “video game violence” about to be described.

But lets shift back into gear. On Sunday night after the Chinese New Year dinner held for students by the uni student ministry of my church, Alvin, Clement and myself found ourselves at my place playing co-op Gears of War in hardcore difficulty, and through that one sitting FINISHED the game. Well actually I was sleeping till about 3am whilst they were playing the beginning few chapters caused I played it already, and Alvin left about 5:30am when if he stayed on for about another 45 minutes he would have seen the ending.

But why chainsaws and shotguns? Because of the amazing goriness these weapons dish out. Below is an amazing display of what happens when you rev up the chainsaw!

IT IS ADRENALIN INDUCING! IT IS SENSELESS ACTION! BUT OH SO FUN! Basically when you start chainsawing any thing that moves, the blood spatters all over your screen! And in the case of co-op, if your partner is standing really close, the blood will spatter over his/her screen too! MUHAHAUAH

And last night I decided to take whatever puny GoW skills I have online, and blunty stated, I got decimated due to my lack of experience BUT IT WAS STILL FUN! Once I started to find my ground a bit (that was after about getting killed every round for an hour…) I had one round where I completely destroyed all four players in the opposing team! Was using the shotgun and in a mad frenzy I took out three in less then 5 seconds and then went on to hunt down the last one which was promptly chainsawed in half! I think it will be late nights for me from now on playing GoW online

Filed under: gears of war, xbox 360