Just Today

Well it has been quite a while since I posted a blog. There are reasons why I haven't but I really won't get into them. At the end of the day it comes down to what I am willing to do, to get where I want to be in life. Just to give a quick summary. I have been in college for the last year. I am just going to be entering my last two semesters this fall. I had planned on taking summer classes, but i found out with a little help that I was reaching burn out mode. So this summer will be spent building my body, going to more karate classes, playing and writing about video games, posting on this blog, and finally seeing the very few friends that I have left. For now I will leave it at that, and I hope that over the summer you enjoy the blog.

Heavy Rain is an interactive drama brought to us by Quantic Dream. Heavy Rain is not your average game; it is a quality experiment with lots of depth. It is a concept game which pulls you into a deep story line.
Heavy Rain follows the story of four individuals, all on the lookout for the Origami Killer. Ethan Mars is the depressed father. Madison Page is a photo journalist who is always in the right spot at the right time. Norman Jayden is a FBI profiler who will do anything to capture the killer, and Scott Shelby is the loveable yet tough private detective. The story follows as such: your son goes missing, and you play through the story putting the clues together to catch the deadly Origami Killer. You get to play as each character in the game, so the story unfolds from four different unique perspectives.

There are many great aspects to this game with minimal downsides. As you follow the story, the game play mechanics feel good. When involved in one of the many action sequences, the push button aspects of the game feels smooth. The only problem with the game play controls is actually trying to walk around; there the controls are sloppy and often your character doesn’t go where you want. The graphics live up to the Playstation standards. Heavy Rain places you in a dark, wet environment which makes you feel like you need an umbrella just to play. Unfortunately for Heavy Rain, games such as Uncharted 2 set a new precedent for voice acting. Heavy Rain cut scenes are almost amazing, but the bad voice over is enough to let your thoughts wander to what you’re going to be eating tonight.
Heavy Rain offers the trophy hound in you a chance to rack up over fifty trophies. Heavy Rain also has a unique feel and comes close to a choose your own adventure books that we use to read. This game is packed with quick decision making moments which could have a direct impact on the rest of your game. The dramatic experience is enough to give any movie lover long sessions with the game. For the video game collector, this is a must buy because of the unique concept, and you will want to go through it more than once just to see what other outcomes you can come up with. This video game will not only appeal to the movie lover and the video game collector; for everyone else I will say that it is a must play. I give Heavy Rain 8 out of 10.

Geeks and Gamers

Words to live by

When I started this blog this year I thought I would be able to contribute more than I have so far. But this is just a quick update for my friend said something to me today that just kinda of kept my day going. For any who would read this I hope it does the same for you.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands If it changes your life , let it. Nobody said life would be easy the just promised it would be worth it.(Tiffany Hoffman)

Wash

Caution

This is pretty self explanatory. It has been a tragic week with everything that has happened, and is still happening in Haiti. First and foremost my thoughts and prayers goes out to all the victims and families. I would like to say that I am completely overcome with emotion on how the world pulls together when tragedy hits. What I would like to caution you on though is just how fragile our reality is. This is a big illusion of safety. It took mere minutes to turn an entire country to rubble, and to kill in the upwards of 100,000 people. So you should stop to think what would I do if something like that hit? Am I properly prepared? How do I get prepared? Where would I go? Do I have resources to live on? These and other questions fly through my mind when something like this happens. I would like to caution any who would read this post. Just because we have the illusion of safety does not mean we are safe. It only takes a couple of minuets to turn your life upside down. Not that you can properly prepare for these moments that life brings, but I would urge each one of you to just take a second to think about trying to plan. Tsunami, Katrina,and now Haiti anything can happen at any time.

Today starts a new future for me. I'm sure that this is said by people everyday what makes me and today different you ask. Well I guess the biggest change in me would be the fact that I realize only now that you can't sit on your behind and expect to get what you want. You have to actually go out and try to make it happen. Sounds like an easy enough lesson right, well it's taken me nearly ten years to figure that one out. I expect the most out of myself now, and know that I can make it happen. Something happens to you when you have a bit of a mid-life crisis, you sit back and reflect on what is, what is gone, what should have been I hope that I will be able to look back at today as the start of something special for me. There is a quote form the Dark Knight which has stood with me "The night is darkest just before the dawn, but know that the dawn is coming" from here on in it's game time all the time.