It’s that time again to run down what you are playing! I am slowly but surely working up a review of the XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade) game Risk Factions, which I managed to finish the campaign on. The nice thing about it is that it’s such a great Family game that we find ourselves playing it as a group all the time. Also mixed in lately has been Crackdown 2. Initial impressions of CD 2 are not that great. I just get the feeling like it’s too much all at once and it’s REALLY hard to focus on the ga…oooo Agility orb!
The latest add in to the library has been the XBLA game Limbo. This came out for the Summer of Arcade promo that Xbox does every year. The game is a hell of a lot like Braid, and if you haven’t played Braid you need to go check it out. Both are side scrolling puzzle platformers that will twist your brain in loops. I love it! Review for Limbo will be after Risk and Crackdown 2 will probably be a while still. Don’t forget that the first DLC for Alan Wake is out now, The Signal. My copy of Alan Wake is out on loan right now so I will be getting to that as soon as it comes back.
Outside of that, the workouts are going great, I can already feel a difference and only 36 days left before DragonCon! I am hoping to maybe squeeze out an interview with one or two celeb’s to see their take on gaming. And with that I leave you with the amazing Music video from the Guild: GAME ON!
Currently: DragonQuest IX, in multiplayer. And giving Team Fortress 2 (for Steam) a shot last night with some friends. That was a mixed bag. It’s a cliche, but after spending the first 30 minutes downloading updates and waiting, the second 15 minutes trying to figure out why the line-in mic wouldn’t work and giving up, and the next 30 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong that wouldn’t let us host our own private servers (seems to be a Steam bug as far as we can tell), we only got in about 40 or so minutes of actual game play. One of us said “I miss the Xbox 360 now” and I think he was saying what the rest of us were thinking.
Did you solve the issue with media streaming on your home network?
No no fix for the issue yet, (of course that would mean taking the time to work on it.) I jumped into TF2 a little last week just to check out the Eng update and was pleased. I just haven’t had time to jump on it a lot. Maybe I Will try and work on my network this week.