Prince of Persia arrived in the mail from GameFly yesterday. Little disappointed that it wasn't Prototype but I was really excited to play PoP before it was released and while my interest in it has dwindled I'm still happy to be playing it now.

Really, though, what is the deal with those easy cheevos? You literally get one for playing the game the first time. Seriously?! I don't think I've ever unlocked that many achievements that quickly - all for doing practically nothing. It felt like just about every minute some achievement was popping up. I would have gotten another easily too had I known that there was one for beating the Concubine a certain way.

Personally, I think achievements should mean something - that they should be an achievement; not because I can hold the block button.

Seems like the rest won't come AS easily but none really seem particularly hard. I am fairly certain that I won't be getting the cheevo for falling less than 100 times. I think I may have come close in the hour I played just last night.

I am hoping I can get the girlfriend in to this one. It's a gorgeous looking game. She was sitting next to me while I played and she was having fun with some of the humorous dialogue - although the way they enunciate "fertile" was really ticking her off. So between that and the no risk of death aspect of the game, I'm hoping she gets interested. She's told me that she hates "failing" in games so this seems to be along the right path anyway.

My jaw nearly dropped when I saw this today...

Anyone else remember Madballs? I wouldn't had I not seen the picture. Those foam rubber balls with grotesque monster faces on them from the 80's. Why on earth they're trying to make a video game of them I simply can't imagine. I don't think nostalgia for them is that strong and why the hell would anyone care about them now?

Sup Gspotters. Hope everyone had a nice weekend. I was able to have a slightly unexpected, impromptu 3 day weekend. I was supposed to have drills with my CG unit but was excused at the last minute due to my broken foot. So since I already had Friday off of work it became a day to spend with the gf and just relax in the sun. Come to think of it... I'm not really sure what we even did. Nice change since last weekend was epic. Part of which involved picking up both the Mass Effect books. So I've been working my way through those. The writing is pretty average, there's too many chapter breaks and they're both pretty short but I'm enjoying them. Nice to get a little more back story - even if some parts can be a little overly descriptive at times.

Saturday I got to get a full day of gaming goodness in. Since acquiring the new lady friend my free time has been consumed with her. Friday night she took off to see her sister a couple hours away and spent all of Saturday there with her. Which meant I had a full evening and day to do nothing but game. And I took full advantage of it.



Finished up the story to Saint's Row 2. Pretty damn fun game. I said it before but I'm really glad I gave this series another chance. I didn't care for the first one at all but this has been a blast. I've put about 45 hours into it so far. Lots of stuff still to do; lots of activities still to complete. I want the cheevos but I think I'll keep if for another week, see what more I can squeeze out of it then send it on its way.



Speaking of achievements, I've had the itch to try and get a few of those that I'm still missing. So between that, reading Mass Effect and having some free time, I popped in Mass Effect again to try and get Insanity playthrough. I've had a lvl 10 character stuck trying to save Liara from the Krogan Battlemaster and after way too many attempts, I decided to try taking one of my previous characters and do a second playthrough with them. Hopefully this works for the achievement. I changed the difficulty to Insanity as soon as I had a chance so hopefully the game is cool with that - although it says not to change it. But you can't set it at the beginning unless starting a new character... I'll be upset if I get through the whole thing on this setting and don't get the cheevo. Hell, it's taken me several tries just to get past the rocket drones in the beginning.

Finally, referring back to my previous post, trying to order new headphones turned into a bit of a headache. Turns out the Klipsch's that I thought I ordered were out of stock and weren't going to be in for a month. Unacceptable. So I looked around at some other sites and no one has them in. So went back and did some more research and found a pair of Woodees that seemed pretty good. Decent price - about $60 or $70. So I tried to order those, but each time I did the shipping costs came out to a couple hundred! I tried ordering from multiple sites but each time the same thing. The final price from one place was even over $900! I happened to see the weight at one point and they were listed as over 200 lbs so this must be where the problem was stemming from. They must have listed the wrong weight which was messing up shipping costs.

So I bailed on those and looked around again. This time I found a pair of Ultimate Ears MetroFi 200v with a mic for the iPhone (which I plan on getting this week when the new one is released - super excited). They're normally $100 phones but Amazon has them for $25 so I figure hell yeah! Ordered them on Thursday. Had them on Saturday. They sound awesome. I'm super pleased. The fit hurts my left ear a little after a while but they have pretty decent sound and you can't go wrong for that price.