A bit early but....

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Uhhh...

I hate making titles. Anyways, I thought it was funny during Sixty's video that Du Hast by Rammstein was playing. I've been in a Rammstein phase lately. I've always enjoyed and loved Rammstein's music, but that's all I've listened to this past couple weeks.

I only have three of their albums:

1) Sehnsucht
2) Mutter
3) Reise, Reise

Ironically, the only two I don't own are their oldest(Herzeleid) and their newest(Rosenrot). Definitely need to get my hands on those, may check Best Buy tonight and see if they have them.

All of my gaming stuff is packed up pretty much. The only things remaining that I can play on are my Xbox 360 and my Playstation 3. I've left all my games out for obvious reasons, so I promise I'll review Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles for you Sixty, just won't be for a couple weeks or so.

Anyways, I'm going to eat lunch and go back to work.

-Matt-

New Video

Put a new one up. I gave a deep in depth look at the New Xbox Experience(NXE). Enjoy!

New Video

Productive Weekend

I had a pretty damn good weekend. I got a couple videos accomplished or ideas planned out(thanks to my friends!). I got packing done and I worked on my CoD rank online.

I'm currently Rank 22 and just got a new bad ass gun, I'm loving it. I had a wonderful response to the Christmas Wishlist video I made. I think I've got somewhere from 5-7 video responses, many comments and 10-20 private messages talking about Christmas Wishlists, this is why I love youtube! Connecting with many people is what its all about.

It's not about money or fame for me, I enjoy meeting people!

So, I believe the next video I am going to do will be my impressions and thoughts on the NXE.

Want to hear something else that's cool? I heard from Mavrek yesterday, haven't talked to him in ages. It's awesome, because when I took my hiatus from youtube, the one thing I missed most was friends. It feels good to connect with friends again.

Anyways, my sister (Kuhellsea) finally beat Gears of War 2 last night. After countless text messages and frustration calls, she did it all. I only really gave very minimal advice and a nice pep talk to keep her calm. So, everyone who sees/knows her on youtube, should shoot her a message, because she was dying to get it completed.

Well, I've got to get to work. See you all later!

-Matt-

Upcoming Videos

Keep an eye out, I plan to make at least two more videos in the next week.

1) Review on Call of Duty: World at War Multiplayer (played it for the first time last night - for a couple hours)
2) NXE Review

I've waited to do the NXE review because I needed to get more involved with it and use it for a couple days rather than give my first impressions right away.

I remember telling Sixty and Tebo from youtube, I "fucking hate" the update. It's grown on me a little, but I still have issues with it that I will talk about in my video.

I may post a video with my wish list from Christmas, because I'd be interested in some video responses or comments of everyone else's wish lists. I probably won't even get a fraction of the games, because:

1) I've got a lot I want (sucks not being able to buy games much anymore)
2) We need a lot of new furniture and such for our new house

Can't remember if I've talked about this in my previous video, but...

I've picked up a second job. We don't necessarily need the money(will help if something major ever happens), but I basically took it to do when Brittany has closing shifts and I am bored at home. Instead of sitting on my ass, I'm going to get paid instead.

I'm an independant contractor for my wife's tanning company she works for. I have two stores I am constantly maintaining. I do things such as:

-Switch out bulbs in tanning beds
-Repair tanning beds if broken
-Repair lighting(ceiling)/toilets/washers/dryers

I am basically a repair man for them. I fix everything on my own time, so it's not a work this and this day, it's whenever I can. So, I primarily work while my wife is closing her store. I've only had two days that emergencys happened, but I wasn't there repairing long.

Been fun so far and I think the payout is going to be AMAZING. Which means, as long as we don't need the money for something else, I've pretty much decided that the fund will go towards my video game/movie collection. Since, it is money I'VE earned on the side. I'm pretty excited.

Anyways, I've noticed some new people left comments! Thank you! Keep checking back!

-Matt-

Yet another game added to my list:

So, last night I beat Call of Duty: World at War. Let me say one thing to start this off: I still hate World War II games. Alright, I'll carry on.

We live in an age with higher technology and more destructive weapons. I don't want OLD shit. I've ranted enough about that, so I'll carry on with a smaller review(before I record my video review).

As far as the story, it was pretty boring to be honest. I didn't feel involved with the characters and all I was doing was point and shooting. I understand it's a shooter, but come on...could it be anymore boring? At least in Call of Duty 4, I felt a bit more "into" the game, because it dealt with our current war times.

You're separated into two different campaigns essentially:

1) America vs Japanese - Probably my least favorite to be honest.
2) Soviet Union vs Germany - Still pretty dull, but at least I had more fun with this one.

I did like the "dramatic" ending to the second campaign, but there has been a lot better. I'm not sure if it's the difficulty level I was playing on (always start on the middle ground - just to get through the story) but shooters don't seem to challenge much of anything anymore. Especially this game.

It's weird because I never wanted Gears of War 2 to end, but I couldn't wait to just beat this (I never wanted Call of Duty 4 to end).

The one cool thing was after you beat the game, you get Nazi Zombie mode. Didn't get to drive too deep into it, but I'll definitely check it out more and talk about it.

That's a quick look at the game.

-Matt-

And I decided on.................

Call of Duty: World at War. It's a pretty good game, it's basically Call of Duty 4 with a World War II skin. I'm glad Treyarch kept Infinity Ward's gameplay. Want to know what I am sick of though?

I'm fucking tired of World War II shit. Seriously! What the fuck is your obsession with World War II, Treyarch? Give me a fucking break. The only reason I am remotely enjoying the new Call of Duty, is because you didn't fuck it up with your gameplay style from CoD3(which blew balls). If you are going to do a old war, then pick something else, FUCK.

I wonder how many games there are that center around World War II? I know Treyarch has made 3 alone. Don't get me wrong, I have more respect for our war veterans, but come the fuck on.

Got that off my chest. It's been fun otherwise. It does suck going from higher technology type of weaponry from CoD4, to the old ass guns of WWII. It has been challenging(which I love) and I hope it's longer than GoW2.

I want to bitch a bit about GoW2. You'll see this in my video review I'm sure, but I do want to note some things I disliked about it. Don't get me wrong, I FUCKING loved Gears 2, but all games have flaws.

1) Short game - Didn't you learn from Gears 1 that people wanted a longer game? I played off and on starting Saturday and beat the game Wednesday. I definitely could have beat it in 24 hours(which I did with Gears 1). MAKE LONGER GAMES! That goes out to all game developers(some are long though-MGS4 for example)

2) Ending - What the fuck. This will contain no spoilers. People who have beat the game(example:Sixty) will know what I am talking about. Where was the epic boss battle to end the fucking game? Are you shitting me? Remember the show down with RAAM? Where the fuck was the showdown in Gears 2? Come on, before I beat a game, I want to beat a badass motherfucker before I win.

Those honestly are my only two complaints as of right now with the game. I've still got to try out Horde and the multiplayer. Hopefully, I can pull myself away from Call of Duty and check them out to get a review up.

Sixty, you said your xbox live ran out? I got like 2 48 hour trials, I'll give them both to you, if you want them. Just message me on youtube.

There ya go, my nice little rant for my faithful few.

-Matt-

Gears of War 2: Added to the list of beaten games

Yup, I finally beat Gears of War 2 last night. Two words to describe this game: FUCKING AMAZING. I loved it, I thought it blew away Gears 1 in the following ways:

1) Stat Tracker - Loved this, let's you know how you are accomplishing goals/achievements
2) Story - Story line was 20x better in my opinion and as Sixty said, there was one very emotional scene in the game. You could tell it wasn't rushed and they wanted a better story.
3) Added new bad ass guns - Flamethrowers, mortars, you name it. I loved it.
4) Cooler/better monsters - Quite a bit more challenging monsters and more bad ass looking monsters. Some massive fuckers in this game, was awesome.

I've still yet to play the multiplayer, but I will definitely give it a try out tonight. Afterwards, I'll most likely be making a full review for youtube.

I've got some extra cash for one other game. Which should I pick? Fallout 3, Call of Duty: World at War or Resistance 2? It would be a given for me considering Call of Duty is released and I LOVED CoD4, but CoD:WaW was made by treyarch and they have sucked ass their past 2 games. CoD 2 and 4 were 20x better than 1 and 3. I wish Infinity Ward made all the damn Call of Duties.

Let me know your opinions!

-Matt-

What's up!?

First of all, before I talk about anything, I need to bring attention to TWO things:

1) Fran (chroniclesofbayley) wrote 2 blogs and put up videos of her individual game collections. I watched/read it all Fran, very nice job! I've missed ya for sure!

2) Sixty has some nice tracks on his myspace: www.myspace.com/sixtycelph. Very good job Sixty, I really like them.

Ok, back to what my usual is. We have accepted a counter offer on a house and we should be able to move in December 22nd, as long as all goes well. Sucks we have to move right at Christmas(have to be out of apartment by December 31st. Yikes.

Secondly, I've bought movies and a new game(I'm sure you can guess it-Sixty and Fran already know by seeing me play it on xbox live.

So the game first, Gears of War 2. Holy fuck!!!! I am back to being obsessed with gaming again. I love this game, even more bloody, good story so far and some neat new additions. I've only played the single player, because well, I want to beat the game(I'll do multiplayer later).

Holding an injured locust(for a shield) while you fire your pistol is awesome. I loved the new trackers they implimented too. For example: there is one about killing locusts with different ways. Pretty much using every new gun you can find. I think there is 15 different ways to kill them. I'm like 10/15(every time you get a new kind of kill, it tracks it). I think it then leads to the achievement(letting you know how close or far you are).

Pretty much exact same style as gameplay though. New monsters and old annoying ones(I hate reavers).

I started out on the middle difficulty, then I'm going to beat it on Hardcore. I can't wait to beat it, it rocks. After I beat Gears of War 2, I will be purchasing Call of Duty. I'm pretty excited for it. I want Resistance 2 badly, but I'd rather have CoD.

As for a DVD update, I got the following two Saturdays ago:

1) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - Worst of the 4 by far. I wanted it solely to complete my collection and it was only $5.99.
2) Die Hard - Never seen it, loved it!
3) Die Hard 2: Die Harder - Never seen it, have yet to watch it.
4) Die Hard with a Vengenance - Never seen it, have yet to watch it.
5) Mad Money(for Brittany) - Stupid movie
6) Few Good Men - "You Can't Handle the Truth!" LOVED this movie, Nicholson/Cruise kicked ass. Demi Moore did very well too.
7) Road House - I actually liked this movie, old classic for sure. "Does the Hobby Horse have a Wooden Dick?"
8) Shoot'em Up - Very odd but enjoyable movie. Bloody and a lot of violence. Worth a watch, got it for $3.99.

Don't think I mentioned them before, but I did buy Ironman and Incredible Hulk both on blu-ray on their release days.

For those who wanted to see our Fox News thing for my paranormal team: http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/wupw_A_haunting_Eclipse

If you click the video tab, you'll see their 3 1/2 minute video. I made an appearance! =D

Thinking I'll make a full review of Gears of War 2. We'll see. Stay tuned.