Xbox 360 Guitar Hero World Tour with the Guitar - $60 from Amazon (will probably be dead or gone by the time you read this)

Amazon's got a 15 days, 15 deals for video games. Oh, my bank accounts are going to hate hardcore... so hard to resist! Thank goodness for my job, though....

Other news:

I'm playing Too Human now. I just finished the Ice Forest and hopefully can complete the game before the end of next week. You know, I like this game but it really throws me for a loop sometimes. During battles I feel like I'm just owning everyone in sight sometimes; at other times I just feel completely helpless and unable to make things work. As a Defender, staying alive is a bit difficult. Health drops sometimes don't appear when I need them and I enter battles with no health. That's a very annoying thing for me as I usually have to watch that "long" death scene within moments of the next battle. Some kind of damage shield would have been good to keep me alive until I pick up an orb. I don't care too much about the framey goodness at times - it doesn't really get in the way of the action - and the pacing fits well with me. I also think that the story is just starting to get good at this halfway point. So here's to finishing the game with my Level 20 Defender!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I went to see Dragonforce; you know, those guys who made the hardest song in a Guitar Hero game "Through the Fire and Flames" (aka TTFAF). That was two days ago. My memories are still fresh and available for all to read (and comment on!!!) at my music blog. I know, I haven't really posted anything new about my guitar training, and that's because I work too much right now. Big changes will come in 2009.

I bought quite a few games on the cheap these past few days, and I hope there's an end in sight. My wallet loves the low dollar amounts but of course, it adds up. Let's see what I've gotten and where I've gotten them from - maybe you can follow suit if there's something you like!

Newegg.com (Black Friday sale)

Dead Rising $10
No More Heroes $15
Burnout Paradise $20

Amazon.com

Last Remnant $40 (pre-order sale, but will be same price on B.Friday)

Gamefly.com

Army of Two $18

Circuit City

Bioshock $10 (this week only)

That's a lot of game there! I'm thinking about getting the Crysis Collector's Edition from Gamestop tomorrow for $20, and I saw that Crysis Warhead is $20 somewhere... Too much!

EDIT - 2 minutes later...

OMG Titan Quest Gold is $9.99 on Steam!

I've got nothing but praise for the game right now. Everything from the intense action and the incredible difficulty to the wonderful audiovisual experience makes this game the one to play. A MUST have if you've got three friends with itchy trigger fingers.

I managed to hop in some games on the final part of the first "film," No Mercy. It's a rooftop escape where you must survive waves of zomb0rz. They throw everything and the kitchen sink at you and it makes you say things with messed up spellings like "this is rediculous" and "this is ****ing imposible" but when you actually succeed, you feel the ultimate sense of accomplishment. Just running like hell from an unending swarm of Infected (of all types) to catch the rescue "choppa" is an adrenaline rush. It took me about an hour with one human and two AI on Normal difficulty and another hour (maybe a little more) with three humans (one was a Steam friend, two are now friends) on Expert difficulty. Although it took ME an hour to finish the level with them, the game session lengths were completely different. The normal difficulty game was on for about 4 hours. The Expert difficulty game was on for 10 hours! The same three guys were playing that whole time! I'm sure that once strategies are perfected, the duration will go down, but the AI director (that dynamically generates the enemies in the game) will always go for the jugular.

In other quick news, I hope to finish FFIV tonight, if I can find an hour or two to play at work.

Anyone else have interesting L4D stories? Sound off!