I was still here. You're all Just crazy.

So, I blame School + Work + Normal Things that keep people Human for my MIA status.. and since my university went on strike back on Nov 6th, I decided:

Hey! Time to catch up on all that school work you should have been doing instead of sleeping!

Which actually meant:

Play as much Portal, Gears of War 2 and LittleBigPlanet as you can.

Now apparently their in negotiations and the strike might be coming to an end. Meaning Natalie is Officially Screwed.

But I STILL have the cutest sackboy EVER.

PICTURES TO COME!!

Games// What The !@$& Has Bryan Been Up To?

Wrath of the lich king was released not too long ago, and ended up being a day one purchase. So between playing this and Far Cry 2 and having aquired Fallout 3, my gaming time is pretty full right now to effectively play any of these 3 games for more than 2-3 hours.

Also after having enjoyed the 5 day demo of Left 4 Dead on STEAM I cannot wait to get my hands on this sick co-op experience. It's been awhile since a really good multiplayer game has come out for the PC. the last one I can think of was Team Fortress 2 which incidentaly was also made by Valve, maybe I'm a fanboy I don't know but these games are just tuned so well for a mouse and keyboard it seems to be a skill that not many developers nowadays seem to competently grasp.

Far Cry 2 turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Heres a game that has absolutely nothing to do with the original Far Cry on PC, or the bastardized spin offs on consoles. Yet its refreshingly new and builds on mechanics that have been succesful in 3rd person view rather than first. The most refreshing thing about this game was that you don't have to shoot at any more @$#(&@ mutants. I really hate mutantss and aliens but that's a blog for another time.

I recently booted up Fallout 3 on the PC and haven't gotten too far but so far I'm enjoying the game. The V.A.T.S. system is pretty basic from the orginal first two fallout titles and it's best played using it because any real-time shooting is atrocious in the engine that was built for the Oblivion game. The game does seem to show some pretty annoying flaws due to it's transition to a multiplatform game rather then a PC exclusive. I might write about this game more in the future but for the moment V.A.T.S. is pretty fun in 3D form.

Wrath of the Lich King made me venture into the much awaited continent of Northrend. All in all it did not end up dissapointing. With 2 different regions to begin leveling up for newly level 70s. They also did a pretty good job of not keeping you in one area for too long, one of my biggest annoyances with Burning Crusade was that the first area was all the same it looked just like the previous region I had spent leveling. It's pretty boring when a brand new area is looks all dead orange. So thankfully Wrath of the Lich King takes us from a sandy beach area to a foggy beach area to a burning farm to a village built on Ice, then to some old ruins and then inside a mountainous area full of snow. And all of this before I got to level 71 (I was level 68). So again all in all I'm looking forward to going into my first 5 man dungeon and seeing what else this expansion brings.

Left 4 Dead I'm impatiently awaiting my copy of this game. Zombie killing is fun but fast zombie killing with 4 other human players is a blast. Seeing a mass horde of zombies climbing a fence as you and 3 people go "Oh! Sh*T!" and a zombie boss coming out of nowhere to grab one of your friends by the neck and dragging him away while facing a mass of zombies sure gets the heart rate going. I only played the demo which consisted of 2 levels but I played the hell out of those 2 levels over and over again and I can't wait until I get my hands on a retail copy.

I'l try to be more frequent with my posts but at this moment I can't promise anything.
Until then, Happy Gaming!

-Bryan, Over and Out.


"Oh SH*T!"