Xbox Game With Gold: Horrible Guesses

In case you had an Xbox 360 and a gold account, MSFT is "giving away" free game downloads on the 1st and 16th of every month for the rest of the year (for 15 days or so each).

Dead Rising 2 Kind of Sucks, Let Me Count the Ways

So, I recently (ok, August 15th) downloaded Dead Rising 2.  I knew it was a zombie slaying game with light crafting elements.  However there were a couple of things I didn't know (never playing a Dead Rising game before). 

Xbox One: Or i Would Walk 500 Miles for a Console (and trade-in a bunch of games)

I kind of pre-ordered the Xbox One the day after E3.  I just paid it off in late July (along with Ryse).  It helped that I had $420 trade-in credit from GameStop.  When the Xbox 360 was up for pre-order, I traded in all my Xbox games (and my console) - this time I did not (just most of my games and none of my consoles).  Hopefully, unlike the Xbox 360, I will actually be able to get this at launch. 

So, why did I say that "I would walk 500 miles for a console"?  Well, when I was deciding whether or not to buy a console, I decided that it needed to be less than $300 out of pocket expense.  One of my alleged sisters offered to give me a few bucks for every "peak" I would "climb" on a thing at americaonthemove.org (Flat 14ers).  It was basically a thing where you entered daily steps taken with a pedometer and it would compare that to the estimated steps it would take to actually climb the "peaks" (or something like that, but it probably isn't exactly accurate). 

Well, much to my surprise, I finished the trail.  It took me a little over 2 months and was actually 531 miles (that is a lot of walking).

Now i just have to figure out how i am going to get the console.  Is it safe to walk with a console 1.6 miles back from Gamestop?

Xbox One: Part One: Launch

The launch titles have been announced at Gamescom and are as follows (sadly no date yet, my guess is November 15th):

Dropping the Pretense: Site "Content"

So, I have been thinking about this for a while... what exactly do I want to post (when/if I actually do post anything going forward)? 

It dawned on me that where I spend the vast majority of my time is on Microsoft platforms (Xbox 360, Surface RT and soon Xbox One).  So I guess my sporadic posting will cover only that.

It dawns on me that I have no real interest anymore in what is going on in the worlds of Sony, Nintendo, PC, iOS and Android (I still view it as a cell phone OS).

Of course this could change a little bit if I were to win the lottery (I would pick up a PS3 12 GB and a bunch of games).  The PS4 and Wii U really don't interest me.   

Sony's E3: My Impressions

I can honestly say that I have never watched a more boring E3 conference than Sony's.  It started about 17 minutes late, the presenters had the charisma of wet paint, it was too long, and it really dragged.  It was nice when Assassin's Creed 4 froze multiple times.  To be honest, I quit watching it at about the 1 hour 20 minute mark, because I couldn't take it anymore (I got to the Elder Scrolls online part).

Microsoft's E3: The Xbox One: My Impressions

Well, that was probably the most crushingly disappointing E3 conference I have ever seen.  Don't get me wrong, the games they showed were mostly OK.  What killed this conference for me was about 30 seconds.

$499 at launch (or $499 in many other currencies).  There is only one way I would purchase one now (winning the lottery).  I would have pre-ordered one at $399.  I don't see a price drop happening until 2015 at the earliest either.  I guess that suggests that Sony's machine is probably in the same ballpark (have competing consoles ever got together and fixed launch prices?)   

For the first time in a while, maybe i'll watch the Sony conference.