Posts tagged guitar hero
The Stowaway Sock
Jan 24th
Wassy came over last night for some mid week type stuff. She normally comes over Wednesdays so we do stuff that we enjoy and that her husband doesn't (anime stuff, listening to various musics, etc). We had been trying to decide all day what we were going to do for dinner because we wanted to go someplace that wasn't Applebee's. We ended up deciding on Teddy's which is a Teddy Roosevelt themed local place. Pretty good food too. I haven't been there in a long time, but I think I'll be back sooner.
Anyway, while we were waiting for our food, I shifted my feet under the table and stepped on something soft. I looked down, thinking it was a napkin or something and as it turned out, it was a sock. Specifically, it was one of my socks. I guess it stowed away in the leg of my pants and I didn't notice until just then. I think it was trying to escape. That was probably the most random thing that happened during the night.
Well, that was second to the conversation about if somebody gets married, divorced and then re-marries the same person, does their "years married" counter start again at 1 or does it continue where they left off? I'm of the opinion that if the re-marriage happened within a short period of time after the divorce, it would carry over, but anything after saying…4-5 years you'd be starting again at 1.
We returned to my place for some Guitar Hero co-op action trying to restore my save file back to it's original state after it got horribly corrupted last week, and then we listened to some music. Oceansize mostly, because I recently rediscovered the CD after not listening to it for quite some time.
The Wonder Of Statistics
Jan 18th
Last night was the first night of hopefully my last semester of college classes. Nothing like a 3 hour statistics course after work to pass the time. Or something. At least the professor is an interesting guy. He's got a quirky sense of humor and knows how to make things interesting.
The first thing he said to the class was that he was annoyed at the school because they don't know how to do anything right and nobody will actually pick up the phone if you're trying to get a problem fixed. He basically went on a 5 minute mini-rant about how annoying working with the school was. It was at this point that I realized that this is my kind of teacher. He also seemed to know how to teach people too, which is kinda a rarity. Although he does also teach at Herkimer County Community College which might explain it. I've found that most of the teachers at community colleges actually know how to teach.
And as far as the big project goes, I'm beginning to wonder if my faculty advisor guy knows what he's doing at all. I'm trying to get some guidance about how the project is generally run and the guy isn't telling me anything. I have a feeling I'm just going to have to stumble through this blindly and hope for the best at the end. Fun.
Let's see here…in other non school related news, I discovered that something ate my Guitar Hero 3 saved game on my memory card, so now I need to replay the game from scratch to unlock everything again. Not that I really mind doing it, exactly, but it's just a pain to have to. I have no idea how my saved game got corrupted either as I don't recall turning the game off while it was saving or something along those lines.
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Shredding With A Plastic Guitar
Oct 30th
If you know me, you probably also know that I'm really into the Guitar
Hero series of game. Guitar Hero 1 was the game that really pushed me
over into the world of console gaming. So, it was with great
anticipation that I waited for Sunday to arrive. The release of Guitar
Hero 3.
I picked up the Playstation 2 version instead of the Wii version that I
could have bought since I plan on eventually purchasing a XBox 360 at
which point I'll re-buy the game for that platform (for the XBox Live
integration.) This means that I'd rather not have to re-buy my guitars
and such for the Wii even though it is technically the better platform
to play.
In any case, I'm really enjoying the game. I finished off hard mode
last night and I'm just going back through and working on learning some
of the songs I didn't do so great on my first time through. The song
list this time around is exceedingly good. My personal favorite at this
point is Muse's Knights of Cydonia, which isn't entirely unexpected
considering I was looking forward to that song since it was announced a
looong time ago. Other highlights include Metallica – One, Iron Maiden
- Number Of The Beast, The Who – The Seeker (a cover, but still fun to
play), Guns n' Roses – Welcome To The Jungle…and probably more that
I'm forgetting right now.
I should say that I think this is the best entry in the series yet
before I get to my annoyances so you don't think I'm being all down on
the game. But, as good as I think it is, there are some annoyances.
First up, boss battles. This time around, they added a battle mode
which is a competitive type of play focusing on trying to get your
opponent to lose. As you play, you collect various power up weapons
that you can use on your opponent. This multi-player mode made it's way
into the single player career in the form of battles with professional
guitar players Tom Morello and Slash.
My main complaint with this mode is…I just want to play the songs!
Battle Mode is mostly about luck. All of the power ups are random, so
you can get hit with some really bad stuff right off the bat or you
could skate by almost totally clean depending on what your opponent
ends up with. There's too much luck involved for my taste. The last song in the game isn't a song, but another boss battle and this one is dependent even more on luck than the previous two. It's just…not fun.
My second complaint: Lack of a quick play co-op mode. My preferred way of playing the game is in co-op with my friends. But they took that mode out (they're patching it in on the 360, but that doesn't help the PS2 gamers…) and replaced it with a co-op career mode that does basically the same thing. It's still fairly annoying though.
Third minor complaint: All of the videos in the game are recorded in wide screen. If you're playing on a standard def TV without using wide screen mode, instead of letter boxing the videos, they squish them up so everybody looks tall and skinny. Luckily my TV has a 16:9 mode that fixes it while the videos are playing, but it's fairly annoying to me. Not a game breaker.
All in all though, a worthy entry in the Guitar Hero series.
Busy Busy Weekend
Oct 27th
Well after the whole lot of nothing that was last week, this weekend is going to be an awful lot of activity. First up today I'm going over to my friends place to watch some Anime/Mystery Science Theater/Other movie type stuff which will be nice since I haven't really had a chance to relax recently.
Tomorrow though is the big activity day. Guitar Hero III is finally coming out, so obviously, I need to go pick up my pre-ordered copy from Best Buy tomorrow morning. Then back home to rock out before heading out to Albany with my parents to go see the Blue Man Group perform in Albany. October is the month of concerts.
In other news, I'm considering trading in my car for something that doesn't totally suck in the winter. Still thinking on the financial type stuff that's going to be involved in that though so that may or may not happen depending on certain other factors. We shall see. I'm probably going over to a few dealerships next weekend to check things out and get a feel for about how much this is going to run me. I'm almost totally done paying of my current car though, which is part of what brought this about.
QotD: I’m Good
Feb 21st
What are five things you’re good at?
Submitted by HapaLove.
This is going to be a stretch I think. I’ll tell you what I’m not good at: Making lists of things that I’m good at. I can think of so many more things that I’m not good at.
- Computers – I’m good at computers, knowing how they work, fixing problems that come up. Anything I can’t solve on my own is usually solvable with a quick Google search.
- Programming – This could probably fall into the category of computers, but I’m stretching things out here. I’m not the best programmer out there and I’ll be the first to admit I’ve got a lot to learn, but, I think I’m pretty decent anyway. Especially when it comes to web based programming. I’m not great at the local desktop programming stuff, but I think I’m better with the web. I enjoy it a lot more too.
- Guitar Hero – Free bird on expert baby!
- Researching Stuff – If I decide I’m going to go and do something, I’m good at researching it. I tend to over-research a bit actually. If I want to buy something, I want to know pretty much everything there is to know about that particular thing. I’m also good at looking up useless facts..such as how much it would cost to put a plastic tarp over the Great Lakes.
- Listening - From what I’ve been told, I’m a good listener. That’s a little hard to measure for myself, obviously, so I’ll just have to take other people’s words on that one.
The Weekend Rundown
Dec 4th
So I haven’t posted much at all this weekend because I was too darn busy to write something down. So here’s a post covering the three days of my weekend.
Friday
I had the day off because I took every Friday off until the end of the year, plus December 26th to use up some vacation time I had before it vanishes at the end of the year. So I basically stayed home and played Suikoden V and hoped that somebody on the internet would get some Wii’s in stock because I’m actively trying to find one at this point. Towards the end of the day, target and amazon actually got their bundle in stock, but I held off because I’m not sure if I wanted the contents of the bundle and I was planning on trying to score a Wii Sunday morning at Target anyway.
Saturday
Today I had plans. Lots of plans. However, the first thing I want to mention is an emergency cheese run.
I had a bit of a crisis, since I wanted to make a sandwich and had no cheese. You can’t really have a good sandwich without cheese! So I went to the store to get some. I went to check out in the express, 15 items or less lane and there’s two people in front of me. The person actually paying was an older woman who pulled out a wad of coupons and double coupon things from the paper. In fact…she might have clipped every coupon in the entire newspaper ad. So we spend roughly 10 minutes sorting through all of her coupons so she could save 50 cents on orange juice. I swear, if she pulled out a checkbook…
The next person in front of me was a little kid buying a stuffed animal of some sort. The cashier asks for his advantage savings card thing and he then proceeds to yell across the store to his mother asking her if he can use her card. At this point, I pull out my card and hand it to the cashier and told her that he can use mine. So FINALLY I get checked out and leave the store. Waited about 15 minutes in the express lane for that.
So later that afternoon, I went to meet up with some friends to play some Wii/XBox 360/PS2 games and just generally hang out. A plan was worked out for the weekend where I would stay overnight at one of my other friends places since they’re closer to Target than I am and I was going to be over there Sunday, on call for helping out with a school project that involved some PHP web programming anyway. So that’s what happened. Cut to Sunday…
Sunday
Sunday I was awake at 5am, trying to get a Wii from Target, but I decided not to actually get up and going until 6 because I didn’t think there would be too much of a line. I get going, get to the store about an hour and 15 minutes before it opens and there’s already a line of, apparently 28 people. So I got in line, I’m number 29. The person in front of me turns around and said that we might be out of luck since the word is they only have 27 and the person in front of her is 27…but we waited it out just to make sure. They came out about 20 minutes later and confirmed they only have 27. I met another friend of mine in line behind me, so we took off to best buy to see if they were going to get any in.
We get to best buy around 7:20-ish and there’s one guy standing outside. My friend called his girlfriend and got her to check the Sunday paper ad and it wasn’t in there, so instead of waiting in line for an hour and 40 minutes in the freezing cold before the manager got there at 9 (the store opened at 10), I decided to just go back to my friends. Which ended up being a smart decision since they ended up not having any.
So I spent the day playing Zelda on my friends Wii, hanging out and not really helping out with the programming project because, as it turns out, I wasn’t really needed. But I had fun, as always hanging out and stuff.
The extreme fun of the weekend didn’t make coming back into work this morning any easier though. That set of annoyances, however, will be saved for another posting…
It’s a Psychobilly Freakout!!!
Nov 9th
Guitar Hero 2 co-operative play is fun. Really fun. It’s cool being able to play the same song, but have different parts. Some of the bass parts are even harder than the lead guitar sections. I spent a couple hours last night over at my friends playing co-op and regular modes.
I’ve also determined the I hate Buckethead. Because the unlockable song he made for GH2 is hard. I’m not sure if I’m going to get much Guitar Hero in tonight since my arm is sore from playing the bass track on the Rage Against the Machine song “Killing In The Name Of”. Most of it was easy. Then there’s this section where it’s a lot of really, really fast notes for like 30 seconds, all on the same fret. It hurt. A lot. Be warned!
Even without the guitar hero, I’m looking forward to 5 today since I’m taking off tomorrow. It’s like it’s Friday! But…one day earlier.
Guitar Hero Woes
Nov 8th
I placed a pre-order for Guitar Hero 2 on EBgames.com, thinking that it would be easier than me driving out the store considering I live a fair distance away from a place where I can pick it up.
However, it seems like it hasn’t been shipped yet after being released yesterday. If it hasn’t been shipped out by this afternoon, I’m going to see about canceling the order and just going somewhere to pick it up, since I want my guitar hero! Doing the online pre-order thing made sense at the time. I should have gotten it today though.
Blast! Foiled!
Guitar Hero, Woo!!
Nov 6th
Ok, so my previous post was a little too early. It turns out they hadn’t updated the tracking number and my package was delivered about an hour ago.
I’m going over to a friends house this evening to get together and do some rocking out as well. Mmm…Guitar Hero… The only thing that could make it better is if they included some Dream Theater in there. It’d definitely fall into the hard to play category 
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