Sorry

Sorry about yesterday, I lost track of time due to sleep and testing out other video games to review for you all. My mistake, I hope you all can forgive me. This is going to be a very lengthy blog, I may break it into two parts.

Anyways, before I go into detail what games I tested out yesterday..I'd like to talk about fanboyism. You all know my hatred toward unknowledgeable fanboys. I totally understand liking a system more than others and I'm fine with fanboys who have valid points on why their favorite system is superior to all the rest, but when confronted they have nothing but..xbox has more games. Well no shit..It's been out since 2005 and the ps3/wii came out at the end of 2006.

I'll name xbox exclusives that are well known. Bioshock(which I didn't enjoy that much), Halo 3(was a fun game, but I certainly didn't get an xbox for Halo-never was a big fan), Crackdown(kick ass game), Mass Effect(need to play more), Gears of War(kick ass), PGR4(never played), Forza 2(decently fun), Lost Oddessey(haven't played), Dead Rising(sucked for me), Viva Pinata(pretty fun actually), Saint Row(beat it-loved it), Shadowrun(I enjoyed it), Two Worlds(have yet to play-heard it sucked bad), Blue Dragon(never played), Eternal Sonata(never played)..that's the big ones I noticed on the wiki website for their exclusives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_360-only_games and http://www.notebookforums.com/thread203647.html). Of course, we can look forward to exclusives that have been confirmed: Ninja Gaiden 2, Gears of War 2(yeesss!), Fable 2 that I can remember.

PS3 exclusives: Folklore(haven't played), Heavenly Sword(really enjoying this game), Ratchet and Clank:Tools of Destruction(I'll talk about this later in the blog-fun!), Lair(would be fun, if the controls didn't suck), Warhawk(crap), Motorstorm(very fun), Ninja Gaiden Sigma(fun-previous original xbox owners, could have this game(i.e. Ninja Gaiden Black)), Resistance: Fall of Man(phenominal), Unreal Tournament 3(have yet to play), Uncharted:Drake's Fortune(best game on ps3). Future exclusives to look for: Final Fantasy XIII, God of War 3(woot!), Gran Turismo 5(almost here!), Haze, Killzone 2(Killzone sucked, but I think they could improve this one), LittleBigPlanet, Metal Gear Solid 4(yes!), Motorstorm 2, Resistance: Fall of Man 2, SOCOM 4, Tekken 6(I'm not a fan of the series, but I know a lot of people are), Twisted Metal Ps3(I used to love this series), Uncharted 2(thank you Jesus!). All information provided by: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=858296 .

Ok, so I'd say they are pretty even and for me, I see more games on the ps3 exclusive list I'd like to own. Ok, I'm sure there more for the xbox coming out, I just can't find a damn list, so I had to come up with those off the top of my head. This rant is going to be primarily about the xbox 360 and the ps3, because the Wii isn't in the battle as much with fanboys, they normally leave the Wii out of it. Probably because the Wii is kicking both of their asses in sales.

Sales: 1) Wii - 20,766,443 consoles sold (and it's still in HIGH demand-been going since *2006*)
2) Xbox 360 - 17,864,195 consoles sold(pretty good-been going since *2005*)
3) PS3 - 8,869,735 consoles sold(sales increased due to blu-ray winning-*2006*)
*thanks to www.nexgenwars.com
Ok, so now we have to look at quality product. Wii, a very quality product, don't hear many of these breaking down. The ps3 (very rarely do I hear about these breaking down, pretty quality system, but they do break down, more than Wii I'd guess) and then we have the xbox 360: 1/3 of the xbox's get the Red Ring of Death. That's a bullshit number since it's been out the longest. Not a quality product at all and I normally send up a xbox 360 for a replacement plan exchange about every 2 days due to the Red Ring of Death. I personally have gotten the Red Ring of Death and I was very displeased with the customer service I received with Microsoft.

Online: You have to play for xbox live($7.99/month), but I promise you, it's well worth the money. Kick ass online and a very nice list to download arcade games from(I currently own: Bomberman Live, Uno, Doom, Galaga) and I have 400ms pts left, not sure what to buy. Ps3 has free online and a web broswer, which is very cool if you have a keyboard(I don't-yet). Although the playstation store has yet to offer me something that I'd like to play, they won't be taking the cake on this one. The Wii online is slowly coming, I'm not a fan of the whole wii number thing, but it's cool once you go through that hassle. Anyways, the Wii Store offers a lot of great games(although I own most in cartridge(I did buy two on Monday-I'll tell you about that later). Xbox 360 is the superior online console.

Extras: The small things add up. Do you want to do wireless online gaming? Well you have to buy a $100 adapter for the xbox 360 versus the ps3 is built in(the wii is too). I also enjoy my blu-ray movies/upconverted DVD's. Have you seen a blu-ray vesus a regular DVD? Check it out. It's pretty amazing. The sixaxis is a nice feature, but I'm not a fan of it (i.e. Lair). Sony did have a victory over the xbox 360, as far as HD DVD vs. Blu-Ray is concerned. Sony did something right there.

Anyways, I'd keep rambling about the two but time is becoming limited and I need to talk about monday/yesterday a bit. So, I did play the Orange Box after HIGH demand by my viewers for a review. I only played the Half-Life 2 portion. I have to admit, I'm clueless as to what the hell is going on in the story, as I never played the original Half-Life, but it has been fun as hell! Interactive environment, AI is decently smart and the gameplay has been outstanding. I wish I wouldn't have waited this long. I still need to check out portal, TF2 and everything else, but for now I've made decent headway with the game. I also opened up Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction and finally played it. Wow, it is extremely fun and it reminds me of the previous Ratchet and Clank games. Definitely something to check out, even adults will enjoy the game, not just kids! Look for a review on Ratchet and Clank and my initial thoughts on Orange Box so far.

I tested out the Super Smash Bros. Brawl last night online for a random match. It was laggy as hell, I think it may be on my end, because it was like that for the two matches I played. I won the first match and came in 2nd place on the second match. I did get my Brawl Friend Code: 1977-0179-1743. There ya go, for everyone who has been demanding it. I finally used up the majority of my Wii Points Card. I've got either 200 or 400 points left, because I bought the original Sonic(Sega Genesis) and Cruisin' USA(N64). I also finally busted out the Classic Controller from Christmas and enjoyed it.

I figured since I haven't gotten a video out for awhile, I'd give ya something big to read. I have to get back to work. Remember though: I am not a fanboy for any of the systems, but I do give my opinions on it all. I don't like one more than the other. When a game is released for both systems, I decide how many friends I'll be able to play with on each system and I chose the system that the most friends are buying it for. That's my deciding factor.

Anyways, again I'm sorry about missing the ustream. I needed sleep and I needed material for you all, so I can get a damn video out. I apologize. Take care! Talk to you all soon!

-Matt aka Shepdawg25