Dare to Play the Game

No Blu-Ray for Xbox, Fallout 3 level cap to 30 & the MMO Crash of 2008 - Welcome to the column that will be going Blu-ray as soon as it figures out how to reconfigure the CPU that resembles a Commodore 64 known as Dare to Play the Game.

Gaming was a weird bag for me this week. I primarily played Lego Star Wars CS and find myself done with Episode 3. Achievements are kinda slow but it is playing very similar to Lego Batman where achievements were slow in the beginning and sped up at the end. I am enjoying myself and haven’t found too many rough spots as I’ve been going through the game. However, I would like to find some stud multipliers before too long. Typically, I have to go through a stage a few times to collect enough studs to buy all of the characters & extras. Makes it a bit frustrating but the % complete constantly increasing still gives me hope.

Most Played over Xbox Live, Lego Rock Band & Illinois Senate hates alcohol? - Welcome to the column that would be rich if it had a nickel for every bad gaming idea to be made this year known as Dare to Play the Game.

I am currently not playing Fable II, I know you are in shock. So since my time in WoW is limited on purpose; what exactly am I playing? Believe it or not, Lego Star Wars CS and Burnout Revenge. Not Paradise, the older one. The one before they opened it up and tried making it a sandbox game. By the way, achievements are hard as heck in Burnout Revenge. But I did get a couple since I picked it back up. I still have the same problem with the game though. I can never gold star any of the Burning Laps. Races, Road Rage, Traffic Attacks, Crashes, Eliminators, & Grand Prix are not that big of a deal. But any of the so called Burning Laps or Preview Races where I’m trying to finish in a certain time, I’m just not cutting it. Even on the Harmless Ranking.

Video Game Physiques, Sixty Dollar Standard Disappearing & Michael Phelps: Next Action Hero? - Welcome to the column that brings in the New Year with as much booze, chicken wings and women that $10 and witty jokes will get him known as Dare to Play the Game.

This past week I found myself playing two games in the 360 arena: Fable II & Lego Batman. In Fable II, I went to the task of getting all of the achievements that I reasonably could on my “good” character. This included things like getting married, having a child, getting married again, etc. I am now currently up to 855. The problem is once I did those things it made me like the game a little less. It wasn’t because I felt I had reached the point of nothing else to do. Far from it. I still have about half the gargoyles and half the silver keys to find if I want to go that route. It’s because being married and having children opens up certain quests.

Death to the Clamshell, Guitar Hero: Metallica Edition & Breath of Fire dismissed? - Welcome to the column that Santa Claus brought three non-working N64’s, two suspended WoW accounts and no Morgan Webb in a pear tree known as Dare to Play the Game.

This weekend I beat Fable II. Now, many beat this game a long time ago but I was taking my time. I wanted to be in line for certain achievements and my hard work payed off. As a result of buying Giles’ farm, I found myself to be the recipient of a wonderful weapon. Ever see Army of Darkness? I got me what can only be described as a boomstick. The thing has a short range but does double the damage of any normal gun. I figured I would take the thing into the Crucible for a little test. Twenty minutes and eight perfect rounds later I had me another legendary weapon, the Chopper. However, for melee I stuck to my master cleaver with an augment that gave me health back for everytime I sliced and diced. Level 5 Inferno didn’t hurt either.

Crying in Games, Need for Speed headed for the scrap heap & the Used Games debate - Welcome to the column that can be bought new, used or in a junkyard underneath the blue cowboy boots that your mom gave you known as Dare to Play the Game.

My 120gb hard drive for my 360 has been working quite well. I had the opportunity to test it on Fable 2 quite a bit over the past week. The Xbox no longer sounds like a tractor train ready to explode at any moment. As reported, loading is much faster. Any of the major areas in Fable load much faster giving me more actual playtime. So far, the investment seems worth it which was something I was quite worried about at one point.

Saw gets axed, No Aliens for Sigourney Weaver, and Age of Conan tanking - Welcome to the column that is considering slicing its wrists if it has to do any more writeups on remakes of Nintendo 64 games known as Dare to Play the Game.

Finally, I got my 120gb hard drive for my 360 on Monday night. There were a few messups in communication between the third party seller and myself but everything was resolved when I received the package. It was opened, however the hard drive, transfer kit, cd and manual all looked brand new as described on Amazon. I hooked it up to my 360 and started to transfer my files. Took about a little over half an hour. Then when it was finished, it said the curious message of “Some files were not transferred…they have been deleted”. Oh lord. So I replace the old hard drive with the new and power it on.

Dominating 360’s, GTA IV making mistakes, and Escapist Gaming - Welcome to the column with copy protection that can only be decrypted with sharp wit or a giant pair of “hackers” known as Dare to Play the Game.

Last week was Thanksgiving. I ate lots of turkey, I ate lots of pie. The combination made me sleep until well today. No, okay okay not really. However, I had no desire to go out to Black Friday and found myself sitting at home for most of the weekend. Instead, I did what a lot of Americans did, I shopped some online. There were deals to be had and I didn’t have to punch a grandma or trample over somebody at Wal-Mart either. So, I’m trying to wrap up my Christmas shopping as soon as possible and not fall into a trap of not being able to provide something to the people I have to shop for.

In the Army, Fable II DLC & The Size of 360 Games - Welcome to the column that tried to copy itself to the Xbox 360 drive and realized it was 20 gigs (19.99 of which was pictures of Morgan Webb) known as Dare to Play the Game.

Last week, I mentioned the fun subject of storage. My dvd spinner arrived and was assembled on Monday. On Tuesday, we took the liberty of splitting up my current spinner so they would be even. It looks much better and as promised I have put a for trade list on the forum. Here is the link. Maybe we’ll get some pictures up if you folks are interested in that type of thing. Now, I’ve gotten in the habit of seriously looking at my game room and can see myself consolidating with maybe a couple more spinners. They are so easy to build and are usual better built than those media shelves you can buy from Target, Walmart, etc. Perhaps a project for down the road.

Real Pirates, Street Fighter IV Arcade, & Who exactly owns a particular piece of Software? - Welcome to the column that holds all rights and privileges to the work contained within, except there really is no work involved within known as Dare to Play the Game.

When you love a hobby such as video games and collecting dvds, you often find yourself running into problems. One of these problems is storage. The holidays are fast approaching and that spinner that is holding the majority of my dvd collection is filling up fast. The only things it doesn’t hold is some random TV sets that sit in a shelf towards the back of the family room and the adult dvds which *caugh*, sit in the game room, away from people who might frown upon such things that might visit us. The normal dvds are filling up so fast, that I am probably going to buy another spinner pretty soon. Once I figure out the shade and size of my current one. I often go through the labor buying dvds and putting them in a shelf above my computer where I will take forever to catalog them into my database before figuring out how to fit them into my spinner.

Losing Suits, Being Less Ambitious & Outgrowing Games? - Welcome to the column that would only outgrow games if Obama admitted himself to be a level 70 Tauren Shaman known as Dare to Play the Game.

Tuesday was Veteran’s Day, hopefully most of you took a moment to observe what those brave men and women did for the United States of America. I offer the following piece of courage for those who might have missed the day. To be honest, it snuck up on me as I had forgotten about the holiday until late last week. But we owe them a debt of gratitude. Even though we might loathe most of the nation’s politicians, we know that these fine people still believe that this is a country worth fighting for. We salute them.