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So I bought Ninja Gaiden 2 tonight
June 5th, 2008 • xbox
And then I remembered how stupidly hard the first one was on the Xbox and then realized — after about an hour — how this one is essentially a gory button masher. I still think the game is fun but it’s definitely not as hard as the first one was, not by a long shot. Of course, this helps bring casual gamers into the fold a little easier but can essentially kill the replay value for hardcore gamers that helped NG1 become such a smash. I guess Team Ninja really had a toss up between shifting more units for Tecmo or keeping more in line with what Ninja Gaiden was always about: being hard as hell. But they definitely upped the bloody and gory killer moves, which do get repetitive, and added new weapons. It’s like “more of the same+” but still, it’s fun to be the world’s best ninja and kill lots of stuff.
I also snagged LEGO Indiana Jones but haven’t played it yet. I know my girlfriend is pretty eager to play though, she never played my LEGO Star Wars II game but is dying to play this one. Odd? Yes.
Crap! It’s almost 4AM and I still need to clean up Marley’s fresh head wound she got in some scuffle last night. It’s oozing all sorts of pus and I’m worried that her vision may be affected if not properly treated. Where’s her owner (again)? No freakin’ idea, we’re thinking of just taking her somewhere at this point.
Major Nelson gets his grubby paws on the new XBOX360 Elite
March 30th, 2007 • consoles, xbox
Rumours on this only came out weeks ago, Microsoft did a great job of keeping it mostly underwraps. Details were scant until last week when it was announced that the Elite would have HDMI, a 120GB hard drive (a much needed upgrade over the paltry 20GB included with the Premium), and be a svelte black color. I was wowed about this for about 10 minutes and went on back to my job because really, it’s nothing super. Honestly, it’s black and that’s about the greatest thing about it. Oh, and the upgraded hard drive which will also be available separately. Instead of adding things customers really want, MS took an easy way out and only added one NEW feature: HDMI. That’s great and all but not everyone has an HDTV and not everyone has an HDTV with HDMI support. Now, we’re given a new $400 console to replace the Premium that’s not really worth it…or is it?
Major Nelson got his new “shiny” black elite in the post today and decided to take pictures of it. All the press photos showed this thing as a giant shiny black monster of a console but instead, it’s more of a matte dark charcoal color. Aside from the hard drive, the only thing going for it was the fact that it was going to be a glossy black like the PS3. This turns out to obviously not be true but that won’t stop people from buying it. I was a bit excited about the idea of a new 360 because I expected it to have an HD-DVD drive and integrated wireless like most people did but no, we were all let down.
This new console will replace the existing Premium console in the coming months but it’ll be plain white instead.