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GeekFest 2009: 10 Reasons NOT to Kill Yourself Before Next Year
If you’re the average Sci-Fi, Video Game, Movie, Comic Book geek (like us) you’re going to be sitting alone in your one room apartment on New Years Eve re-bagging all your original issues of Secret Wars, organizing your 3rd generation VHS tapes of Space 1999, and repairing your Spock ears all while trying to figure out whether to bring a toaster to the bathtub January 1st or take one last shot at trying not to hit 35 without getting laid.
FEAR NOT! We would like you give you, the hard working, hard living geek 10 Uber-cool reasons NOT to kill yourself yet. In 2009 there are some awesome things coming that geeks like us should be looking forward to help get through one more miserable year of life.
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Just Buy It
I love downloadable content, think it’s a great idea. For just a few bucks, you can get additional levels and goodies for your games, extending their life and your enjoyment. Even better, you can snag some pretty cool, original games that often times are more fun than their more expensive disc-based counterparts. Or buy classic games you enjoyed (or missed) in your gaming youth and give them another go. What I don’t like is gambling, and that is far too often what buying DLC turns out to be.
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Gears of War 2 Combustible Map Pack: Instantly Combusts $10!
This is going to be short and to the point. I’ve downloaded and played through a few rounds in each of the new maps in the downloadable Combustible Map Pack released today for Gears of War 2 and am prepared to make a recommendation.
Don’t dowload them. At least not yet. Here’s why.
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No More Heroes
It occurred to me that I might be done with Guitar Hero. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the game. I got on board with the original Guitar Hero when it first came out, driving to about a dozen stores in two states on my way home from Christmas at my folks’ house to find a copy, and I played the hell out of it. Having absolutely zero musical talent, here was a way to feel—admittedly in a somewhat cheap, plastic way—that I was able to shred a six-string and play some killer tunes. For a musically inept metalhead, this was a dream come true. I introduced my fiancee to the game and she wound up “borrowing” it for several months. We snapped up Guitar Hero 2 when it released, and later, with dwindling enthusiasm, Guitar Hero 3. We also grabbed Rock Band, because I was seriously stoked about playing the drums, much to our downstair neighbor’s lament.
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Heading Home
Well, after multiple delays, eternal beta testing, and lots of excuses, Sony finally released Home, their much-hyped online socializing space, in a public beta for the PS3. Was it worth the long wait?
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Keeping up with the Keflings: XBLA Review
A Kingdom for Keflings is one of the first games to utilize the new Avatars on Xbox Live and makes “you” a playable character, er, Giant. This is easily a game that could be overlooked and forgotten or found and obsessed over. Take your pick. Anyone who liked Animal Crossing or the first Sim City will definitely get into Keflings.
What can I say, I got suckered into Keflings after playing the trial to the point I had to pay. I didn’t mind since I had 2200 MS Points and Keflings was only 800. It is a quick and small download. What is it? If you imagine Warcraft 2 without the fighting then you pretty much have A Kingdom for Keflings.
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Gears of War 2 Online Multiplayer: Just Plain Broken?
I’m following up my initial Gears of War 2 review to cover some things that have come into focus as glaring issues that hopefully can be addressed by Epic Games. While there are many criticisms from GOW fans right now of certain aspects of the game play mechanics themselves, most of those are issues of taste and preference. Instead, I think the issues that are killing this game for me and many players is the entire online multiplayer system. Right now, my perspective is that it is a failure of epic proportions — no pun intended. Is it too broken to fix?
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Focus!
I wasn’t that interested in the launch of the new Xbox 360 interface. I didn’t care about their new Mii-wannabe Avatars, the ripped-off-from-iTunes “coverflow” navigation, the pointless party system, any of it. Seemed like just another example of Microsoft copying someone else’s success and calling it innovation. And then I heard about streaming Netflix movies and changed my tune rather quickly.
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Deal o’ Day - Guitar Hero 360 Bundle - $55
I normally won’t be doing this but I’m sure everyone knows someone asking for Guitar Hero something this year so…
Guitar Hero Aerosmith Bundle 360 - $54.99 + shipping from Newegg.com
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874117059
INCLUDES WIRELESS GUITAR + GAME + Other junk!
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Fable 2: The Best Mediocore Gets
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Set in the world of Albion 500 years after the first installment, Fable 2 looked to improve upon the first in the series in many ways and happens to come up short, way short, on a lot of the key elements that made the first game so great. Though, with all of the shortcomings of true greatness in the game, your reviewer still could not put the game down.
Come along for a tale of amazing mediocrity…
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