Really enjoying nhl 2010

So I have been playing a tonne of EA Sports Nhl 2010 on the xbox since xmas. I have been playing solo, been playing some Be a Pro mode, and even a little online with my buddy R. I used to be quite good at this game back in the day, but played 20 games as part of an online league with a buddy of mine and was easily the weakest player of the 8 or so that was playing.

I root for the NYR, but I have been trying almost a different team every game against my buddy R. and so far my favorite team to play has been Chicago Blackhawks. They are fast and fun to play. I actually like their roster of youngsters as well, with Kane, Toews and Sharp etc. If I play a season I may use this squad. I simply don’t like anyone on the Rangers right now.

I did also pick up Fable 2 the other day finally and started that as well. I am up to 27 xbox games, and will not be buying any more until I finish some of what I already have. I plan to play alot less WOW this year and alot more Xbox, and the wii fitness games this year, to get some exercise in.

Picked up a couple games this AM

I took advantage of some boxing day sales today and picked up DragonAge: Origins and Gears of War 2. I was looking for Fable 2, but where I went was sold out and couldn’t be bothered to go anywhere else to pick it up. I am sure I will pick it up later this week someone.

For Xmas I got NHL 2010 which i have been playing quite a bit the last 36 hours. I also picked up Unreal Tournament yesterday for 12 bucks or something. For the kids/family I got The Biggest Loser and EA Sports Active more Active, along with some High School musical stuff for the kids. We have all used the fitness games quite a bit in the past couple days, so thats good. Anything to keep us moving.

I just talked to one of my best friends, who was more ambitious than me and would venture out past just walmart and he said that Fable 2 was everywhere. I will pick it up later in the week, I have to work this week so I will be out and about and will stop in somewhere and get it.

My gaming history

Welcome to my gaming blog.  If you just stumbled upon this blog, I hope you see enough to bring you back.  If you are one of my friends that is thinking “WTF, another blog? “  lol, deal with it.  I have 300 interests that run from hiking, fitness, poker, sports, etc, and writing is one of my biggest passions.  Soooooo, you get alot of blogs!

 

I have always played video games.  I was never a hard core gamer, but I have definitely played some long, intense stretches of video games.  I am old enough to remember and have played PONG.  My uncle had pong, and I remember thinking this was the coolest thing ever!  left to right tennis, up and down hockey.  It was so much fun!

 

A few years later I got the original Atari but I remember it breaking and not getting fixed.  My best friend had one though, so I didn’t go without for long, and played all kinds of pac man, pitfall, space invaders, centipede, tron, and all kinds more.  Across the street another friend had intelivision and the big game I remember playing alot of on that system was the baseball.  Other games of the day I played back in the early eighties was Donkey Kong and mousetrap (coleco vision).

 

This brings me to owning the first nintendo.  Of course I played the Mario games, but also loved duckhunt and a few others.  I wasted more time than I thought imaginable playing tetris.  Later in university, my buddies and I played an entire season on RBI baseball on this old system.

 

Going forward, I remember getting a sega genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog.  I tried forever to complete this game, and then I tried to finish the game without losing a life, lol.  This was a great game that I still play to this day occasionally on my Nintendo Wii.  My favorite games from this console were Joe Montana Football and the EA sports Hockey games.  In university, just like RBI Baseball, my buddies and i played full season keeping scoring races manually on paper before the game would do it for you.  NHL 94, I think at the time I would have taken on anyone haha…..(its funny to say that, when in present day after 3 years away from the game I am the worst EA NHL player amongst my friends).

 

In grade 6 I received my first computer a Commodore 64, with a tape deck and 5.5 inch floppy included.  Some of my favorite games of my childhood were played on this machine.  Shamus 1 and 2, Questron 1 (to this day one of my fav games), as well as frogger, missile command, mouse trap and many others. 

 

In about 92 I’d say, I received my first multi media pc.  It was a powerful (for the day) computer and cost like 3500 out the door.  On this I played the old windows standards jezzball, solitaire, freecell etc, but also later Quake, Descent, numerous sports games like the EA Maddens and NHL’s, and my all time favorite series Civilization.  I have owned every single version of the Sid Meier series, and have probably played more of that series than all my other gaming history combined! 

 

In recent times I have owned playstation 1, a modded xbox with nearly 200 games, and now a Wii and Xbox 360.  I still own the last 3 consoles, and my family gets use out of all 3. 

 

I was never a hardcore gamer, and much of my recreational time over the past three years has been spent studying, watching, reading, and playing online/live poker.   Due to a bit of poker burnout, I am getting more seriously back into gaming and hope to be able to get back up to speed.  I am seriously behind in the shooters and still not used to the xbox 360 controls.  Since this post is running so long, I’ll cut it short here and come back next time, with a little more of my gaming history.

Picked up Guitar Hero World Tour

Today I picked up GHWT for the 360, but I have yet to play it.  My oldest daughter has given it a go and approves.  We have the drums for RockBand 1 and they work although they don’t have the symbols.  As I have been saying, I am a newly converted GH player and I am enjoying it a lot.

Been playing WOW today, and my buddy who I play with has dinged 77 meaning he can fly in the expansion continent of Northrend, big time jealous over here.  He is nearly 2 full days of play ahead of me and I don’t think there is much chance of me catching him at this point.  Sigh.  lol.

Well off to play some GH.  I will be back.

Picked up GH 3

Today I went out with a buddy of mine and braved the crowds at the malls and picked up two games at a pretty good price. I got Guitar Hero 3 with a wireless guitar for the 360 and I also picked up Party Games 2 for the Wii. I have been playing GH3 at the house here as I borrowed my buddies, so I know I like that (hooked, lol) but I hadn’t played the party games.

I quickly tried the party games out and its not too bad. I think its going to be one of those games thats more fun with a couple friends or family, and/or over a few beer. I played a few games of each of the darts, shuffleboard, horseshoes and longdarts etc, and while not perfect I can see them being a lot of fun with my friends. My friends and I compete at absolutely everything so this will be just one more thing to compete with.

As far as the GH, I am slowly getting better, have only been playing for 3 days so Its going to take some time to get to the point that I can compete with my friends who have been playing for months or years. I like it because I can play with my friends or play with the kids, or for that matter alone. My wife hasn’t joined in the fun yet but I am sure if she did she would see that its a blast. I am hoping to get GHWT for my bday but we’ll see, its a couple days away so time will tell!

Hooked on Guitar Hero

Ok, I may be the last man alive to have ever played this game, but until today, I had played less than 10 songs in my life on any platform, or any version.  But today, I played nearly 5 hours of this game!  I am hooked.  I stink, but I am hooked.

 

My kids are making fun of me (8 and 11 years old) because they both have already beaten easy and I fail roughly 47 seconds into Raining Blood, but let me tell you, I will get them in the end! haha.  Right now I couldn’t get a blue note consistantly if you paid me 5 dollars each time I did it and didn’t miss the next 3 notes but practice makes perfect I guess.  Anyway, the feeling is almost back in my forearm, so back to the game.  haha.

Couple more 360 games

So, even though I have not been playing much, yes I bought two more used games, for the low low price of 19 bucks for the two.  I bought an older NBA 2k7 game for 5 bucks and Lego Star Wars the complete collection for 14.

 

I through the NBA game in and as I should have expected for a 3 year old game, it wasn’t what I have seen in the newer games.  I basically bought it cause I wanted a bball game to play, and a buddy of mine has this and hopefully I can take him to school! haha. 

 

The Lego Star Wars I put in and got thru the first couple acts of the first movie.  I think I am going to like this game.  I love the star wars universe, and have been meaning to start reading the books and stuff.  The Lego games have gotten good reviews from the pros and from my friends so I thought this was as good an introduction as any to the series.  I will write more once I tear myself away from WOW, lol.

Couple more 360 games

So, even though I have not been playing much, yes I bought two more used games, for the low low price of 19 bucks for the two.  I bought an older NBA 2k7 game for 5 bucks and Lego Star Wars the complete collection for 14.

 

I through the NBA game in and as I should have expected for a 3 year old game, it wasn’t what I have seen in the newer games.  I basically bought it cause I wanted a bball game to play, and a buddy of mine has this and hopefully I can take him to school! haha. 

 

The Lego Star Wars I put in and got thru the first couple acts of the first movie.  I think I am going to like this game.  I love the star wars universe, and have been meaning to start reading the books and stuff.  The Lego games have gotten good reviews from the pros and from my friends so I thought this was as good an introduction as any to the series.  I will write more once I tear myself away from WOW, lol.

My gaming history

Welcome to my gaming blog.  If you just stumbled upon this blog, I hope you see enough to bring you back.  If you are one of my friends that is thinking “WTF, another blog? “  lol, deal with it.  I have 300 interests that run from hiking, fitness, poker, sports, etc, and writing is one of my biggest passions.  Soooooo, you get alot of blogs!

 

I have always played video games.  I was never a hard core gamer, but I have definitely played some long, intense stretches of video games.  I am old enough to remember and have played PONG.  My uncle had pong, and I remember thinking this was the coolest thing ever!  left to right tennis, up and down hockey.  It was so much fun!

 

A few years later I got the original Atari but I remember it breaking and not getting fixed.  My best friend had one though, so I didn’t go without for long, and played all kinds of pac man, pitfall, space invaders, centipede, tron, and all kinds more.  Across the street another friend had intelivision and the big game I remember playing alot of on that system was the baseball.  Other games of the day I played back in the early eighties was Donkey Kong and mousetrap (coleco vision).

 

This brings me to owning the first nintendo.  Of course I played the Mario games, but also loved duckhunt and a few others.  I wasted more time than I thought imaginable playing tetris.  Later in university, my buddies and I played an entire season on RBI baseball on this old system.

 

Going forward, I remember getting a sega genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog.  I tried forever to complete this game, and then I tried to finish the game without losing a life, lol.  This was a great game that I still play to this day occasionally on my Nintendo Wii.  My favorite games from this console were Joe Montana Football and the EA sports Hockey games.  In university, just like RBI Baseball, my buddies and i played full season keeping scoring races manually on paper before the game would do it for you.  NHL 94, I think at the time I would have taken on anyone haha…..(its funny to say that, when in present day after 3 years away from the game I am the worst EA NHL player amongst my friends).

 

In grade 6 I received my first computer a Commodore 64, with a tape deck and 5.5 inch floppy included.  Some of my favorite games of my childhood were played on this machine.  Shamus 1 and 2, Questron 1 (to this day one of my fav games), as well as frogger, missile command, mouse trap and many others. 

 

In about 92 I’d say, I received my first multi media pc.  It was a powerful (for the day) computer and cost like 3500 out the door.  On this I played the old windows standards jezzball, solitaire, freecell etc, but also later Quake, Descent, numerous sports games like the EA Maddens and NHL’s, and my all time favorite series Civilization.  I have owned every single version of the Sid Meier series, and have probably played more of that series than all my other gaming history combined! 

 

In recent times I have owned playstation 1, a modded xbox with nearly 200 games, and now a Wii and Xbox 360.  I still own the last 3 consoles, and my family gets use out of all 3. 

 

I was never a hardcore gamer, and much of my recreational time over the past three years has been spent studying, watching, reading, and playing online/live poker.   Due to a bit of poker burnout, I am getting more seriously back into gaming and hope to be able to get back up to speed.  I am seriously behind in the shooters and still not used to the xbox 360 controls.  Since this post is running so long, I’ll cut it short here and come back next time, with a little more of my gaming history.

My gaming history

Welcome to my gaming blog.  If you just stumbled upon this blog, I hope you see enough to bring you back.  If you are one of my friends that is thinking “WTF, another blog? “  lol, deal with it.  I have 300 interests that run from hiking, fitness, poker, sports, etc, and writing is one of my biggest passions.  Soooooo, you get alot of blogs!

 

I have always played video games.  I was never a hard core gamer, but I have definitely played some long, intense stretches of video games.  I am old enough to remember and have played PONG.  My uncle had pong, and I remember thinking this was the coolest thing ever!  left to right tennis, up and down hockey.  It was so much fun!

 

A few years later I got the original Atari but I remember it breaking and not getting fixed.  My best friend had one though, so I didn’t go without for long, and played all kinds of pac man, pitfall, space invaders, centipede, tron, and all kinds more.  Across the street another friend had intelivision and the big game I remember playing alot of on that system was the baseball.  Other games of the day I played back in the early eighties was Donkey Kong and mousetrap (coleco vision).

 

This brings me to owning the first nintendo.  Of course I played the Mario games, but also loved duckhunt and a few others.  I wasted more time than I thought imaginable playing tetris.  Later in university, my buddies and I played an entire season on RBI baseball on this old system.

 

Going forward, I remember getting a sega genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog.  I tried forever to complete this game, and then I tried to finish the game without losing a life, lol.  This was a great game that I still play to this day occasionally on my Nintendo Wii.  My favorite games from this console were Joe Montana Football and the EA sports Hockey games.  In university, just like RBI Baseball, my buddies and i played full season keeping scoring races manually on paper before the game would do it for you.  NHL 94, I think at the time I would have taken on anyone haha…..(its funny to say that, when in present day after 3 years away from the game I am the worst EA NHL player amongst my friends).

 

In grade 6 I received my first computer a Commodore 64, with a tape deck and 5.5 inch floppy included.  Some of my favorite games of my childhood were played on this machine.  Shamus 1 and 2, Questron 1 (to this day one of my fav games), as well as frogger, missile command, mouse trap and many others. 

 

In about 92 I’d say, I received my first multi media pc.  It was a powerful (for the day) computer and cost like 3500 out the door.  On this I played the old windows standards jezzball, solitaire, freecell etc, but also later Quake, Descent, numerous sports games like the EA Maddens and NHL’s, and my all time favorite series Civilization.  I have owned every single version of the Sid Meier series, and have probably played more of that series than all my other gaming history combined! 

 

In recent times I have owned playstation 1, a modded xbox with nearly 200 games, and now a Wii and Xbox 360.  I still own the last 3 consoles, and my family gets use out of all 3. 

 

I was never a hardcore gamer, and much of my recreational time over the past three years has been spent studying, watching, reading, and playing online/live poker.   Due to a bit of poker burnout, I am getting more seriously back into gaming and hope to be able to get back up to speed.  I am seriously behind in the shooters and still not used to the xbox 360 controls.  Since this post is running so long, I’ll cut it short here and come back next time, with a little more of my gaming history.