Left 4 Dead 2

I played through the first two of five campaigns. It's great, like the first with improvements. A lot of new guns and fun to use melee weapons as well as new enemies. The characters are ok so far, I like Coach and Nick, both are good replacements for Bill and Louis, Ellis is funny but not as good as Zoey. The girl sucks, so I guess she is like Francis.I tried co-op once with a friend but it was very laggy for both of us at first them him later. My wireless internet is slow and I think his brothers were playing WoW so that would explain it.

Assassins Creed 2

I've been playing this a lot and have really been enjoying it. It's definetely an imporvement over the first so far. I like the way money is used, the duel hidden blades, weapon collection, and upgrading your town.

"Itsa mee Mario!"

Movies Bought

Naruto Shippuden Movie 1

Two years after the first series ends and I still hate Naruto (in the shows timeline). Needs more Kakashi and Shikamaru. Wal-Mart has been getting a lot of Naruto stuff in lately and they always have cheaper prices so I have been getting stuff their.

Naruto Movie 2

Ordered off of Amazon for $5, I have all the movies once I get this one.

Series

Naruto Season 1 (box set one and two out of the 16)

With the release of Shippuden the price of Naruto is going down. New box sets used to be $30-$40 each (with 12-15 episodes each), they have gone down in price and are now coming out with seasons that mix two box sets for $20-$30. The next one comes out next week and the first box set of Shippuden in Janurary, I will be getting those when they come out. So far I have the 4 movies, OVA, and box sets 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. and will have 3 and 4 when I get the next season.

Babylon 5 Season 3

Babylon 5 Season 1

Babylon 5 and the X Files are my favorite shows, Wal-Mart just got these in for $20 each so I picked up these two. Giving me seasons 1, 3, and 5. Just need 2, 4, and five of the six movies (no interest in one of them). Wal-Mart also just got in season 1/2, 3, 4, and 9 of the X Files. Shame I already own the first four, don't know if I will get 9 yet. I might, it's only $13.

Bleach Season 3

Love last few episodes of this season. Good but the first two are my favorites so far overall

Bleach Season 4

Ok but not that good of a season, also one disk shorter than the past three at the same price of $50 (luckily only $35 at Wal-Mart).

These were all bought within the last month and a half

I get paid about $570 every two weeks with $20 going to insurance and $50 to 401K and put at least half in savings. You can see where my money goes. Of course it doesn't help this is the half of the year where almost all the anticipated games come out, September-March.

We exited the elevator, each wielding an LMG. We noticed a crowd of people waiting in line and a few security guards. We waited for a few seconds, the rage building inside the longer people went without complimenting us on our stylish bulletproof vests. Seconds turned to minutes, I could no longer keep the rage inside, "Hey, over here stupid!" I yelled to the nearest guard. He turned towards me and, with a smile, informed me that it was no longer the 90s and we couldn't just bring anything we wanted onto the airplane.

I returned the warm smile and informed him that I disagreed, I went on to say that I would show them all just how much I disagreed. Within seconds my good friends and I each had our own Running Riot, surely nothing would ruin our excellent K/D ratio in this round. The remaining members of the crowd must have been in a real hurry to get to their plane because they all ran screaming away from us. I decided that I would help them with their tickets, I would buy the tickets for them and make sure that they all got on the flight they wanted. Oddly enough, everyone wanted the same type of ticket, one way, straight to hell. It must be a good vacation spot around this time, what with the cold of the winter months. Perhaps I would vacation there one day soon.

As I walked through the airport giving out as many tickets as I could I couldn't help but have fond memories of one of my favorite movie series. It was probably just the excitement but for some reason I could have sworn that I kept seeing John McClane everywhere I went. Thinking back, I must have looking like a real fool saying, "Are you John McClane?" To people just before I sent them on their merry way. I think I must be going crazy, although, I never did get an answer, just more screaming. I really must go on vacation one of these days, it gets people so excited. Two of my friends decided that they would go, I bid them farewell and continued on my way.

Everywhere I went people were in need of help, but I had no time for errands today. I came across a man sitting over the body of another man, he looked at me and said, "My lord could you spare any healing potions?"

I came across a lot of people with similar questions as I walked through that airport, my answer was always the same, "Maybe on my next playthough." He stopped asking for help once I gave him his ticket, in fact, I gave him a couple hundred tickets.

Another person asking for favors, "I'm hungry, won't you spare some coin?"

"I have no coin, but I have some pizza on me, every pizza comes with pepperoni and bullets!" I didn't ask her if she enjoyed it or not, I believe I saw the answer in the horrible expression on her face as I left. Bullets always were like sardines, they take some getting used to.

Police began to storm the bulding, eager to stop us from handing out anymore tickets. "Why must the man always keep people from enjoying themselves?!" The police went away after we gave them tickets of their own, but they were mean policemen, surely they didn't deserve to go to such a hot spot as hell. No, we sent them to Jersey instead.

My remaining friends and I prepared to get into a van, we would be leaving to our next desination, or so I thought. My best friend stopped me from getting into the vehicle, "Buddy, I think you earned a vacation to." He raised his gun

"Oh goody, I could use some time off."

"You're going to Jersey."

"oh, ****!"

Call of Duty 4 Hardened Edition

Call of Duty as a free download on Xbox Live

Dragon Age Origins Special Edition

I played almost nothing but Dragon Age for the last week, I am always a good person in RPGs. I help everyone I can and turn down the rewards for doing so. For the most part, I just seem to be unable to play the evil route in an RPG. Even so, being such a paragon of virtue does get boring every now and then. Which is why mowing down defensless civilians in Call of Duty MW2 was such as welcome change of pace. Is it disturing, sick, wrong? (.....NO!) Do I give a **** if it is or not? HELL NO!

As I shot everyone in the airport I just imagined all the people asking me to preform some stupid task. "Give me money to better my poor life. Go get food for my family. Find ingredients and make a potion to cure grandma. Get my cat out of the tree." NO MORE!

What do I think about both games?

I don't even know if I would call Modern Warfare 2's Single Player good, especially not when it is compared to the previous games. The multiplayer more than makes up for it though, it's like the first Modern Warfare but with a lot of additions, Spec Ops mode also looks like it will be a lot of fun. So far I finished the game on hardened, got all the 45 intel pieces, got to level 30 in Multiplater, and got at least two stars in all the first SO missions. I need to play through it on veteran now, and the Multiplayer I will likely be playing for a long time.

Dragon Age is a great game. Great characters, party dialoge, an interesting world, good amount of choices. The combat is good but it is also my only real problem with the game. Unless I am missing some cammands for the scripts this game has horrible AI when you are in battle, I have to constantly watch over my party, and though that isn't much of a problem (I always paused and issued ordersa in Baldurs Gate), with the new view it just isn't as easy as the old Baldurs Gate or Icewind Dale games, even in the PCs top down view.

I would easily recommend both games. Dragons Age is my favorite Single Player game of the year so far, and Call of Duty my favorite Multiplayer. Of course, it won't be long before Left 4 Dead 2 and Assassins Creed 2 are out.

I've been buying a lot of 007 movies, either at pawn shops or at Wal-Mart, the most each cost me is $5.

So that makes a total of 10 movies

DR. No
Goldfinger
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me
Damn Gamespot Text Censoring
The Living Daylights
Licence to Kill
Goldeneye
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day

Most of them I had never seen the entire movie or in the last two's case I have never seen at all. I loved all three of the Sean Connery ones, of course, Dr No, Goldfinger, and Thunderball. Not sure what would be my favorite, four more left to get with him. I liked both of the Roger Moore movies, with The Spy Who Loved Me being my favorite one that he was in out of the seven, even my favorite opening song if I remember right. Pierce Bronsan is probably my least favorite Bond (I never did see the George Lazenby movie, which I've heard is great....except for him). I kind of like Goldeneye and The World is Not Enough, I forgot if I liked Tomorrow Never Dies, and I hated Die Another Day. With the exception of Vew to Kill I would say Die Another Day is my least favorite movie, theme song by Madonna, I don't like Halle Berry, too much focus on Halle Berry (like Natalya in Goldeneye, also hated her), and is makes horrible use of CGI. I don't know about Connery, but are all the Bonds last movies always their worst?

I already own Casino Royal, which means that I own half of the movies. I just need

From Russia With Love
You Only Live Twice
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man With the Golden Gun
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
A View to Kill
Tomorrow Never Dies
Quantum of Solace

I know you think he is a man ***** but I still love 007 movies Jessica.

Other Movies

Wal-Mart is selling every season of Futurama and the movies for around $12 each so I ended up picking up Season 3 and 4. I love Bender, why did he have to go play a lousy character like Marcus Fenix after being Bender? Why couldn't Bender have just been in Gears of War, that would have been awesome.

Reviews

I found this when the review came up, and NeonNinja later sent me a PM

"Do you like cars? If so, Forza Motorsport 3 is the game for you. In fact, provided you don't hate cars, Forza Motorsport 3 is the game for you."

In my last blog I said I hated cars, and I do, a few days later I see that opening for Gamespot's Forza 3 review. Even with my hatred of cars (and usually driving and sports games) I did enjoy the first Forza.

My Review

Douglas is working on his site and it sounds like he is busy so I still don't have my review that a mentioned over a month ago up yet, it should be coming though

Game Bought

Borderlands

Been playing this. I wanted to play as a Hunter but Jessica was already one so I switched to a Siren, so right now I have a level 9 Hunter and a level 21 Siren. My other friend I have played with is a Soldier c1ass I really like the game so far. A lot of guns. The only thing I don't like so far is all the creatures you fight, there needs to be some more people, or more creature variety.

I was going to buy a copy for Jessica for her Birthday and one for me so we could play together but her Brother bought it when it came out. I'll have to think of something else to get her now.

Lord of the Rings Online

Level 40 Hunter, yay

Tagged by Jessica

Here are 10 facts about me

1: After kindergarten, why do they have that, I was home schooled with my sister, which I enjoyed because I never liked being around other kids. I don't remember what it was through when I was younger but we switched to something else later on, and when I was in seventh grade through high school I had to go to c1asses 1-2 days out of the week.

2: I never had many friends, I had one when I was younger then two through high school. The few I would call friends I would usually want to be around constantly, some people said that I was like a puppy following its owner around. I think Jessica knows this, she says I call and text her too much, grumpy muffin.

I really didn't care much for other people around me, I am usually always nice and help people whenever I can but if I was told that someone I knew was moving, I was not going to see them for awhile, in one case was dead, and in another committed suicide I was about as detached as if I was just told something about a complete stranger. When my sister was told we were moving from California to Texas she was always crying or upset with my parents, with the exception of being further away from Jessica, I didn't mind at all. Even though I was leaving the job I had had for over three years and all the people I knew there.

3: My name on Gamespot was because one of my friends was a big Lord of the Ring fan and was using Aragorn, he wanted me to be Legolas when we got Xbox Live. I also loved Lord of the Rings and always preferred elves to other races, and weapons like bows or sniper rifles so I had no problem with the name. The other half of my Gamespot name was from Kyle Katarn, the main character from the Jedi Knight series, I was playing Jedi Outcast at the time on the PC and really loved the game, also Legolas was taken on this site. I was still a few months away from the time that I got Live so I added Katarn instead of 43.

4: I love co-op games, I think that started when I was around 4-5 and I always had my friend and another kid coming over to my house to play Mario and Mario 3, and later TMNT Turtles in Time. The one kid came over just about every day for months.

5: I HATE cars and bikes, etc. I have always hated them. I don't like hearing people talk about them, I can't stand watching car chases in movies, I don't even like watching people fighting on cars like in the second Matrix movie or a scene like the one from Live Free or Die Hard, no matter what happens, if there is a vehicle involved, I am bored. I hate driving and couldn't care less about what I am driving, I just want it to run. I also hate robots, so guess how much I like the Transformers.

6: When I was really young I would always watch the Power Rangers and TMNT, when I was around seven I started watching pretty much all science fiction series. As the years went on my favorite shows would include Babylon 5 (love G'Kar), Stargater SG1, Farscape, and Firefly. I also enjoyed watching the old Star Trek. Oddly I never liked Science fiction, I always loved Fantasy. I really dislike space ships, futuristic weapons, and computers, still all my favorite shows rely on those things heavily. Why couldn't there have been a great Dungeons and Dragons series?!

7: In movies (and any RPG game) I almost always prefer talking to action. What they say doesn't even have to important to the plot. I like hearing just random conversations that tells you more about the characters. For example the beginning of Reservoir Dogs when they talk about tipping the waitress. It's probably why Babylon 5 is my favorite show, because it has great random dialogue. I remember in the first series when they are trying to pass the time so they start talking about if they fasten then zip up their pants or if they zip then fasten. Or in the last season when one of the main characters was explaining why he always washes his own socks (he was the commander of the station, then the president, he didn't need to do his own laundry).

8: I seem to hurt myself a lot. I always run into things, hit my head on things, hit my toes on things, or cut myself. I never mind when I do so I make no effort to avoid doing it later. While working at the paintball field I never minded being hit by paintballs. Most people would act hurt or start complaining after being shot once or twice, I was always able to ignore it I never got mad at people for shooting me accidentally, if I was talking to someone and started getting shot I would just keep talking to the person, usually to their amazement....pansies. The worst I was shot was when I was playing a game where you go until you give up, when I got home I was able to count about 80 hits from looking at my body, I only left because I was out of ammo.

9: I usually lose interest in things quickly (in about 1-3 months), Gamespot and video games have been two of the few exceptions. 1-3 months is about the time it takes for me to leave websites or to stop doing things I once thought that I enjoyed. Bringing up my last job again I got it because I enjoyed playing Paintball at the time, a month or two after getting it and I never wanted to play again, it was boring to me. I never did get any adrenaline from it like most people seem to, I was always calm and relaxed (though tired from my horrible stamina), I was never really getting into the game or getting mad at other people like most others were. That is probably why I always hated sports. As boring as watching people play paintball is to me, I will admit that it is more exciting than stocking grocery shelfs at Wal-Mart. If only because I am able to walk around the field.

10: Everything that can go wrong will. I pretty much find that to be true in just about everything I do. I buy a computer, I need a video card, ok. No, I need a power supply, ok that was a bad power supply, take it back, order another. Get that, sent me the wrong one. Computer won't instal games...**** you computer, do some stuff I find online it works...when it feels like it. Old monitor stops working, have to switch to new one. Internet doesn't want to work, need a new wireless reciever.

Live in California for 18 years, get a girlfriend, time to move to Texas.

Get a job at a paintball field, start to hate paintball and to get ******** coming to the field. Get a job at Wal-Mart, we all get our hours cut after being told that we almost always work a little overtime since everyone else has been there. The day time manager that everyone at night hates to switch to nights after the other guy is fired for sleeping in his car every day. All of us are now forced to take an hour lunch after, so I'm there for an extra half hour.

Maybe I just have horrible timing

Also

RealKilla is going to be having an unofficial Gamespot Game Night for Left 4 Dead (360). Join if you can, it will be on the 19th at 3PM PT. The week after Gamespot will have an official one for Uncharted 2. Go to the link for information

PC

I bought an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX Graphics card at Best Buy for $140. That worked fine for a week and then my games started freezing, I forgot that with a Dell computer I would need a new Power Supply. I found a store yesterday and bought one for $100, hooked it up, and it isn't working. I'm going to take it and my computer back to where I bought it in a few hours to see if something is wrong with it or if it was not hooked up correctly.

I also bought a headset for my PC for $18. It's not USB but it seems to work fine. When I have it plugged in some sites play the voice through speakers, some through the headset, some games play the sound through the speakers and voice through the headset (LOTR Online), some play both through the headset (Warhammer)

Games Bought

Lord of the Rings Online Mines of Moria Collectors Edition: $27

One of my friends has been wanting me to play this and now I can, the special edition has the first game as well as the expansion. I have been playing the trial for about eight days, game was freezing for the last two and enjoyed the game. I'm an Elf Hunter and I think I am level 25. I'm still waiting for the game to arrive so I can continue playing.Playing this should keep me busy until the KOTOR MMO comes out, I've been trying to sign up for beta but it won't work.

Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War 2: $40

I had been wanting this and The Witcher for the PC, both were being sold for the same price so I picked this one up so I could make sure my PC and headset were working right online. I'm enjoyng the single player, I have not tried online though, LOTR is keeping me busy. And it has achievements for my Live profile

Halo: ODST: $60

I get to kill things as Nathan Fillion, that is cool. He says, "Bam says the lady" while killing things is even better.

The story for the game isn't that great, a lot of the dialouge is overacted or just stupid (one forum poster put it something like this, "If my teacher walked into the room with a pop quiz and said, "You know the music, time to dance", I'd shoot myself in the face),and the new health system (especially making the screen turn red) is very annoying. Moving around the city as the rookie gets kind of boring and this game, like the last two, has continued the trend of making allied marines dumber and dumber with each passing entry. The thing I loved about the first Halo was working with large groups of other Marines, being able to easily keep them alive on easy and normal, and usually finishing a level with about half on heroic (they would all die on Legendary right away, but then again, so would I). I loved fighting with them, the things they said, and making sure as many survived as I could. Halo 2 had very boring allies and they were not as good as the last game, also I think you usually only had two with you, you could keep them alive by giving them better weapons though. Halo 3 had boring useless idiots that would all get slaughtered. In ODST (at least on Heroic up) they might die so fast you won't even know they are there, unless you are with another ODST squad memeber that is not able to die. While fighting with another ODST you really can see just how stupid the AI has gotten, they will often just run forward ignoring all enemies and getting shot in the back. Also, damn is the woman with you ugly, Nathan deserves better. For whatever reason Bungie decided to have a system that resets the entire game if you are to go back and replay a completed level, if you do that and try to go back to your last game you will find that, while you still have the same guns and audio logs, you will need to get to every becon and replay every level to get back to where you were.

Firefight mode is fun but, like Halo 2 on, continues the other Bungie trend of taking things that are great and doing stupid **** to them. When I first heard about the skulls I thought it was a good idea, I assumed that one skull would be randomly turned on at each wave and that you would have the option to turn them off if you wanted. Nope, instead the skulls are turned on in the same order every time and you can not shut them off. Why the **** is the skull that makes enemies throw tons of grenades at you on at the second round every time?! Then when I get to the third round and I think it will turn off, nope, they leave it on and turn on two more, one of those being the melee an enemy for health skull. It is very annoying having to melee for health when all three types of covenent grenades can stick to you and instantly kill you, and because of the stupid health system your vision is always red, even if you can't even tell that any of the life from your bar is missing. It is also a shame that, like the ability to make custom games, you can only play with friends. No one can start a room and have people join them. Having only friends join and matchmaking sucks Bungie, remember the good old days of finding hosts and servers that you liked to play fun custom games (not whatever swat/rockets only bull you idiots can come up with).

I still hate Halo 3s multiplayer but getting all the maps on a disk allows me to delete all the extra maps from my 20GB harddrive, giving me some much needed space, and having the last map mack allowed me to get all1750 achievements in Halo 3.

I really don't understand Bungie since the first Halo. It's like everything they do that they do really well, then it isalmost likethey hire a few people whos job itis just to **** things up to put on the finishing touches.

Movies

I found a store that sells old games, new games, and movies right next to the place where I bought my new power supply. I got

Red vs Blue Season 5: $9

Red vs Blue Season 4: $9

Good deals for both, boxes and disks in great condition. They usually seem to sell used online for at least $15. They also had seasons 1, 2, and 3, I already own 3, I would have bought one and two if not for having to buy the damn power supply.

Gift Card

I got another $25 Gamestop gift card from the website utalkback.com. That's my second one, only about three months after the last.

Review

A little over a week ago DoulasBuffone asked me to write a review for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for his site, Entertainium. He told me the review should be put up after Saturday sometime, so I will post a blog when it is up. Doug recently posted a blog looking for more writers for his site, check outhis blog for details.

Edit

I love when people randomly start arguments with me

Got my power supply working. Plugged something into the wrong...thing.

I rented Wet for the 360 with my free rental this month.