Another 15 minutes

Back in the day when I was playing Counter-Strike and attending and arranging LANs and tournaments we used to make CS movies and roadtrip movies that were very popular. I decided to upload them to YouTube. This is very much walking down memory lane for many of us, enjoy :). NoM powah!

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I was in the mood for a new PS3 game this weekend and after playing the demo of H.A.W.X. I decided to get it, it was on sale too. The graphics is very good, and the feeling of plane control too. I played through the campaign missions on level “hard” and actually finished the game in one evening, which is ofcourse not a good grade for a game I think. But I could always continue with online play, co-op or versus mode, which makes any game more fun I think. If it wasn’t for a huge harddrive installation (5 Gb) and short single user campaign it would have got 4 out of 5 from me for the graphics and feel of the game.

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It actually wasn’t so many years ago one was playing the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) 8-bit gaming console for hours at a time and suffering from a Nintendo-thumb. It’s mindblowing when you think about the progress made since then. When you look at the graphics possible back in the late 1980′s it’s laughable, but very nostalgic for people born in the 1970′s, like me, who used play these games. One game in particular bring back alot of memories for me, “Castle Vania”. It brings back bitter sweet memories of incredible frustration and happy simple times. I found a site some time ago where you can actually play pretty much all those old Nintendo games as they were, right from the web in your browser using Java. Just look at the graphics, hear the sounds, it makes me wonder what the hell we were thinking. But ofcourse it was state of the art back then, ah it makes me smile. Play this game, and many more at www.virtualnes.com, sometimes it’s just fun to look at them again to remember.

Castle Vania, anyone else played this game? I don’t remember it as this ugly, hehe.

I got “Rock Band” for Playstation 3 today and was hoping to play all my instruments from Guitar Hero World Tour. I read “official” compatibility charts for all instruments and the games so I knew it should work, but it didn’t. Rock Band does not recognize the drums of Guitar Hero World Tour, atleast not yet. There is hopefully a patch coming for the game on PS3 to make this happen soon, as you can read here. It is unclear if Rock Band 2 will recognize the drums, but I hope it will work right out from the box when it comes. If not they will just have to fix this, and fast, since they’ve pretty much promised both these games will work with the World Tour drums if I understand the situation. But right now, I can only use the guitar and microphone with Rock Band.

A few days ago I got the MIDI-USB cable that Red Octane will send out for free to those who are having problems with the sensitivity of the drumset in Guitar Hero World Tour. On their homepage you can download a software to install on your PC and set the sensitivity of each drumpad to prevent double-hits.

When I tested the drums I now didn’t get the double-hits I used to get, perhaps my technique was improved. But I did up the sensitivity of the foot pedal so I don’t have to step on it that hard. The drumset now records every hit I do, and nothing but those hits, sweet. I also strapped on some soft styrofoam/bubblewrap under the drumstand to soften the vibrations from playing that annoyed my neighbour, I hope it makes less noise now.

The MIDI-USB cable can be ordered free of charge at Red Octanes website and the software is also found there.

Yesterday me and a couple of my friends played some Guitar Hero World Tour at my place. Towards the end of the evening we decided to try out playing the drums on difficulty level “expert”, but with another person controlling the bass drum (the foot pedal). Removing the pedal from the main drummer proved to be a winning concept, most songs were actually pretty easy on expert when you could concentrate on just your hands. Perhaps the neighbour downstairs were less thrilled though, sorry about that.

Yesterday I picked up my complete bundle of Guitar Hero World Tour, and we had alittle afterwork at my place playing it all evening into the night. It was very fun to play four people at the same time (drums, lead guitar, base guitar and vocals). A few of the changes to World Tour from the Legends of Rock edition that we noticed pretty quick is that anyone in the band can pick up “star-power” that any other bandmember can use, and that’s the only thing you can do to save eachother from sucking, since the gig is over if only one bandmember fails to keep up his part of the show.

Also I think, atleast so far, the songs are not so good, there are a handful that are very nice, but most of them I had never heard, but there will probably be a few more when I unlock them. One can also create rockers that looks like you, features and clothes etc, but it took too long so we didn’t bother with it yesterday when we were eager to start playing.

Overall I think it’s a very nice game and I will have lots of fun with it and learn to play the drums even better than I did now :). I will probably post some more about this game in the future also.