More money on the PC, new games, movies, Bungie, gift card, and a review

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.