Weekly Wrapup

Barely finished this week's game of the week, Fable 2, in time before having a clean slate for next week which also happens to be the week of E3.

Fable 2 was a good game and I enjoyed it overall but it didn't really give me anything very memorable or super great to experience. I felt it trying to suck me into it's story and critical decision making but in the end, it seemed like I wasn't where the game wanted me to be. Granted, I did cheese my way through it with the help of a JTV viewer and probably skipped alot of the side quests, but I just didn't give a damn about key moments of the game where the game was trying to forcibly shock me with decisions and making the right, or wrong, choice. Probably not the game's fault, but take it for what it is. I enjoyed the hack and slash, variety of spells, and the little extra touches of bartering, realty management, and social mini-games it had. All in all, a good playthrough if you have a 360.

Now, with E3 coming up next week, I plan on streaming all of the press conferences when they are made available. I won't be home for the live showings, but I should be able to put up these shows on JTV once I get my hands on them, so expect some E3 stuff this week. I also might throw up some short site content regarding to particular events/announcements.

As for next weeks game of the week and shindigs, I'll post that tomorrow so stay tuned. As always, thanks for dropping by.

Surprise!

Well, it's been awhile. A long while...well at least I've been pretty active on my JTV account.

I actually felt compelled to kick start this thing once again because, well, people still come here. For all of you who only visit this page, swing by my JTV channel at http://www.justin.tv/elephnat . I play games there, lots of games, alls the times.

I'm also trying out a new feature on this site that correlate's with my JTV channel, a weekly rundown of whats happening in the form of a short video that I plan to post every Sunday. Lets see how that goes.

On another note, this place needs a kick in the rear. Games have been finished, E3 is coming up, and our community is apparently getting bigger. So expect the unexpected (site content and updates!).

elephnat weekly - 6/7/10

Dogs are barking

The end of the week is almost here and as usual, I'll be broadcasting another TGIF gaming session on JTV that will go into the wee hours of the morning. I'm thinking about trying Splinter Cell: Conviction since it just dropped this week. I was a huge fan of the Splinter Cell series until it made it's way onto the Xbox 360. Double Agent didn't sit well with me, especially after putting in alot of hours into the special goodness that was Chaos Theory. I hear that this next iteration is also less stealthy than its predecessors, well at least it looks pretty fawesome.

I've also started Operation Upgrade for my PC and got rid of my trusty 750W PC&Cooling Silencer PSU for something that would offer me enough headroom to run what I wanted, the Corsair 1000HX. I'll be picking up a new CPU and replace my GTX 295 in the following months since I can't find a decent place to get another GTX 295(other than ebay). Thanks Fermi, totally killed off my quad SLi-plan. Until next time, that's all folks.

XBLAH 1 Going Down

Today at midnight, the original Xbox Live service will be going down forever. I can still remember those late nights playing some Ghost Recon over Live and just being blown away by the online experience the Xbox had to offer. While I didn't get sucked into the Halo 2 craze, I did play and respect what the Xbox Live experience had to offer. Those were exciting times, now everything is jacked into the net. Giantbomb is doing some live streaming of it's last moments so head on over to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/giant-bomb-live-test to catch some of the action.

Upgrade time?

Kinda lost track of the time when Friday rolled around, anyway on to the good stuff. Now that my PC is pretty stable since I fixed those loose memory timings, I've been eyeing a spiffy upgrade for my PC for the upcoming year and haven't decided on throwing another GTX 295 to run quad SLi or bumping up my CPU to something more speedy/stable. In either case, I definitely need a new PSU which I've decided on, seems like the Corsair 1000HX will be able to get it done for both scenarios.

In gaming news, not too much new other than I've been playing alot of Mount & Blade: Warband. I also tried out Lead and Gold from Fatshark and have to say it's a pretty fun FPS, but it's kinda small. I think the game just makes me wish that Red Dead 2 was already out, but for 15 bucks this is a nice little break from your standard shooter. Game looks alot like Team Fortress 2, and kinda has that feel too, which is good I guess.

Oh yeah, finally changed the layout for our page here to represent the Dale, but I need a new banner, which means work, which means it'll probably never happen. So there you go.

Thursday mang!

With all the new hype the iPad has brought since it's release last week, it's hard to kinda not think about it, even for me and my Apple-phobic self. I don't really have anything against Apple, I just kinda played more games on a PC than anything else, and the Mac was just simply not a choice.

Anyway, I'm not really sure what this device is for. It's not really as productive as having a laptop and it's not really small enough to be a convenient access to apps and the web, so where does it fit? Have we reached a point in our tech that we need a device to use while sleeping in bed or watching T.V. on the couch? At 500 bucks it's not really that affordable either, so I'm having a hard time figuring out where this thing fits.

On a side note, finally got my PC up and I started a queue up for all my games on Steam. The servers are kinda taking a hit though since they decided to let everyone and their grandma download Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer this weekend starting today. It actually kinda made me stop and realize for a second, that I don't actually hold these games and that I'm relying on Steam to always be there when I need it. Kinda scary.