I would like to offer my comparison between the games Rock Band and Guitar Hero, but first I will mention something about my broken Rock Band drum set.
I bought Rock Band for myself before Christmas, having had a great time with Guitar Hero 2, and wanting to try out the crazy drum setup. I've been playing for a while, and my snare drum (the red one on the far left) has gradually stopped working well. It's at the point now that I have to bang on the drum really hard just to get it to register.
I've seen videos on the web about other people having trouble with their drum sets. Apparently, there were some issues with the early models (which I'm sure is what I have considering I pre-paid for mine) that are fixed in later revisions. EA is being awesome about replacing the broken drum kits. I've visited their site and ordered my free drum kit replacement. Hopefully I'll be swapping out the drums early next week.
That said, let me get into my comparison between the games, and what I think they should do with the next version of Rock Band and/or Guitar Hero. more
I was out shopping for a UPS the other day after the power went out at home and I encountered a strange thing while pricing at Circuit City.
There were several tents erected outside the from door of the Circuit City store. What the heck?
At first I thought they must be selling tents. Then I wondered why Circuit City was selling tents. Then I realized that these were PS3 buyers....
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I was waxing nostalgic with some other folks on IRC the other day about computers that we had grown up with. My very first computer was a Timex Sinclair 2000.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 was state of the art for a home computer at the time. 2K of memory. A 1/8 inch phono port to plug in the tape recorder to save and load programs. I was lucky to have a couple of accessories: The chicklet-style keyboard overlay and the 16K memory expansion pack, which was the size of four decks of cards and was so heavy that I had to duct-tape it to the expansion port in back to keep it from falling off.
Of course I proceeded from there to the venerable Commodore 64, and on to the Amiga. But before our conversation could carry me completely through my computer evolution, they started to discuss (for some reason) video games, especially some of their old favorites. This included revealing some of their reasoning why those games were favorites, and that's where the problem in this story begins. more
I had a conversation with my brother over Xbox Live a week or so ago. He was playing Hexic HD from the XBox Live Arcade while we chatted.
One of the neat things about the XBox 360, and the XBox for that matter, is that you can download games from their online service to play on your console. These games don't require a disc, and you can activate them from a button in the Live interface.
He was remarking how he really wished that Live had a vertical-scrolling space shooter. One of our favorite games of this genre is Xenon2 by the Bitmap Brothers. That was among my favorite Amiga games.
I was thinking about this idea when I saw a commercial for Gametap. more
I received my XBox 360 on Saturday morning, and Riley helped me open it. He wasn't very helpful with setting it up, but I did manage to get the thing hooked to my TV without too much difficulty. I guess you might want to know how it is.
Well, my initial impression is "eh" with a few "oh, that's neat"s sprinkled in. more
