To WOW or not to WOW

I am sort of undecided if I want to play WoW again or not, I started about a month back but didn’t really do much at all. It was just boring with out have a good guild to be in. But with wrath of the lynch king coming out I would love to get back into it and do some high level raids.

I suppose the only reason I am not playing is because of the cost. Its a good bit every year when you think about it. I suppose I will have to give it some though before I re-install again. On the topic of the new expansion it does look very cool. I have just been reading a preview at 1UP and it did get me excited for it. I don’t know what my prospects of getting into the SGW’s beta any time soon are and I really want an MMO to play soon.

Just Got Wii Fit!

Me and my brother finally got round to getting Wii fit today and I have to say its great! They had like 20 in stock which was a big surprise. Anyway I have spend a good bit of time with it and its really great for building up muscles or losing weight if you need to. I can really see my self using this everyday from now on as I think it could really help me build a better body and just keep me in better shape.

I was down on this sort of thing when Nintendo first started going this way but now I really love it and I have to say love Nintendo again. The Wii is getting more use than the PS3 at the moment that’s for sure. Anyway once I have played it a bit more I will post a full review, but if anyone is looking for something to keep them fit I recommend they get this.

Sony E3 2008 Press Conference

I am a bit late at posting this but anyway here we go. So not a bad showing from Sony they could have done a lot more and talked a bit less but never mind. The only really big thing they announced was MAG, the 256 player online game. If it ever played like the CG trailer this is the game I have always wanted but I really don’t see you ever getting 256 people, who are that smart together at one time. But I can hope.

The movie service is cool but with Microsoft announcing that they have added net flicks to the Movies service on Live, does anyone really care? The show of both Home and LBP where very disappointing as very little was shown and they more or less said home is coming out 2009. God of War 3 was cool but again it was CGI and really did not say much about the game so its hard to tell. I think thats more or less it, they showed a few PSN titles that interested me but over all it was very boring to watch at times, just a little too much PR even though Jack who gave the talk is a very cool guy.

Yea it could have been more interesting and I would have liked to have scene Motorstorm but it was a fine showing just nothing too big.

Microsoft E3 2008 Press Conference

It was quite an exciting day for Xbox 360 and future Xbox 360 owners. I will start of by saying I think the new dashboard looks great, who cares if Wii had avatars first they have done fuck all with them. Microsoft took a great idea, made it better and look like they will be put to good use. The new dashboard has a nice little 3D effect to it, as you sweep through the blades. A few don’t like it, but a lot of comments on blogs and forums that I have scene like the idea.

Apart from the over haul of look and design loads of new features are coming with the fall dashboard update including the ability to burn games you have on disk directly to your 360’s Hard Drive! I will be doing this with the likes of Halo 3 for sure.

But the big show for Microsoft was Gears 2. The Live demo they gave on stage was great with the game looking stunning all the way. Anyone else taking November 7th off? Microsoft had a good amount of causal stuff this year with the best being the Xbox Live TV Game show feature which looks great and Lips the singing game from the makes of elite beat agents.

In the end Microsoft kept one of the best to last as the head of square enix walked off stage after talking about a few RPG’s that where coming to the 360, Dom started to wrap up the show. How ever he returned, tapped him on the shoulder. telling him we have one more thing to show you tonight. They proceeded to announce that FF13 is coming to Xbox 360 at launch!

What They Go’ta Show

Microsoft
This E3 is going to be big for Microsoft, they have the most to gain and also could have the most to lose. First of all I really think Alan Wake and Peter Jackson’s Halo game need to show in some form. If we do not see them at E3 I would be very worried if we will ever see them. Gears 2 is going to be a big title for them this year and I think we need a new trailer and Live on stage gameplay demo, same goes for Halo Wars.

I think the biggest title of all could be what Bungie show, its 99.9% sure they will show something at Microsoft’s press event. It’s going to be one of three things, a totally new IP, a new Halo game that does not involve Spartan 117 or Peter Jackson’s Halo project. I think its most likely going to be A new Halo game (possibly the rumored ODST game) or a new IP.

Finlay I think they have something big for the casual market to show. It could be a motion controller or something but I think they might have something and it could be BIG, lets not forget about the leaked avatars system. O the new Banjo, after seeing gameplay its in my top 5 games for this year looks so fun and am sure we will see something from it too.

Sony
Sony need to stop announcing new stuff and announce when the current stuff in development is coming out. Home, Little big planet and loads of other stuff has been all talk talk talk. Killzones not till next year and we really need to see some good stuff from Sony hitting this year.

Motorstom 2 and Resistance 2 are going to be the big titles for them this year and they need to show trailers and gamplay demos of both, to get the hype really going. God of War is a massive IP for Sony and I think God of War III will get announce and arrive sooner than we think.

Small titles like Flow have been big for Sony too, so i think they need to talk about new stuff coming from those developers.

Nintendo
Animal Crossing Wii with good online play! nuff said!

Bungie Day!

Happy Bungie day everyone. Yea today is 7/7 so that means its Bungie day again. They have a very nice offering for all of us as well. For today only you can get a free Bungie theme and some free gamer pics both of which are very nice after downloading them. Also starting today the new Halo map cold storage is out now on Marketplace for Free and the legendary map pack from now on will only cost 600MP. So overall a very cool offering from Bungie in my opinion and lets not forget Microsoft who host all this stuff and agreed to the price drop as well.

Have a great day and talk to you all soon.