I bought Borderlands on Wednesday after much soul-searching (I didn’t finish Fallout 3, which is in a similar market segment, probably because it was too creepy). Fallout 3 is Role Playing Game that is also a First Person Shooter. In contrast, Borderlands is a First Person Shooter that is also a Role Playing Game.
Just posted this e-mail to Harmonix for feedback.
Yes kids, it’s the Red Ring of Death.
More details follow.
I thought I should just drop a note and say I’m not dead. I am in fact 41 (so far for 10 days). Which is not dead, though some young whippersnappers (yes, I feel entitled to use that phrase now) seem to think so. I got news for ya, sunny Jim! ::shaking fist::
Yes, as the [...]
Here are a couple of middle-term geeky purchases I am planning.
So I downloaded Fable II Pub Games a few days ago and have been steadily accumulating inventory items and unlocking higher stakes games. (I probably will buy and play Fable II, probably with the birthday mad money my Mom sent me – Thanks Mom!)
This evening, while unlocking higher stakes games in Keystone (which is a [...]
It was an effort. First I had to get everything hooked up properly and set the proper settings per input channel (some are in game mode most times, though Beautiful Katamari looks best in the TV’s super-saturated, super-postprocessed Vivid setting, and it’s not so time-sensitive/reaction sensitive to really sweat the little delay in display).
During this [...]
It looks huge. It is huge. It is gigantic for our living room.
I am engaged in advanced cable management tactics just so I can push the damned thing back another 2 feet.
But lest I sound like I am complaining, I’m not. It is in fact just right, only it’s just friggin’ huge.
The newly arrived Hannukah [...]
Just so those of you who might care know, I couldn’t recover my account info for my existing XBox Live account (Gamertag: Aciel), so I created a new one and will cancel the old.
My new Gamertag is: Tsao Mao