Go play a real guitar…

I have thought about this subject a lot.  When playing a game like Guitar Hero or Rockband, people always say “Why don’t you just play a real instrument?”  This question I feel is easy to answer, as I am going to try to do here.  First and foremost, I would like clarify the subject of gaming as a whole, for me, the simplest way to do that is to compare it to other things which EVERYONE does: Gaming is:  A waste of time. Watching TV is:  A waste of time. Watching Movies is:  A waste of time. Sitting around drinking beer is:  A waste of time. Reading Magazines is:  A waste of time. Now that we have that out of way, when people look at me as an adult gamer, they find it hard to understand why I play games.  It is such a waste of time after all, right.  However, if I […]

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Anyone wanna watch some Metal Gear?

So I finally got to use my Playstation 3 for something other then an overpowered Blu-Ray player, Metal Gear Solid 4.  I am still not really sure if I am writing a review of the game or not with this post, but I tend to think its not so much of a review, more of just some of my impressions of it. So I started the game out on “Big Boss Hard” mode and it took me about 4 hours to get about an hour into the game.  Even though I generally play every game I get on the hardest skill level, it got so frustrating that I finally just kicked it down to the normal difficulty level.  It became a lot more fun after that, since the game is about sneaking around everywhere and the only way we were able to succeed on hard was to shoot everything, really […]

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