The Gamer Lounge

I’m sure many of you are excited for COD Modern Warfare 2.  While I (obviously) can’t give you the game, I can take you to the achievements.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Achievement List

Like the other game before it, it will have it’s share of achievements that can only be unlocked on the veteran difficulty.  I just finished Call of Duty 4 on veteran a couple days ago, and while it does feel good to complete it, it’s frustrating as hell!  I am excited to try Special Ops, though.  Let’s hope this one is as good as 4 and WaW.

Brutal Legend was the demo I finally got around to downloading this morning.  It’s about 2GB so it will take a while to download, but it is totally worth it.  As soon as you load up the demo you notice it’s original.  See the picture above?  That’s the thing’s menu.  When you press start, hands come and open up the record and you see some awesome flame filled heavy metal artwork.  From there on it just gets better and better.

Jack Black does the voice work for your character and there is some genius writing.  This leads to some hilarious scenes and some awesome gory action.  Right before a cursing fit is thrown, the game actually pauses and asks you if you want the curse words to be bleeped out.  Soon after that the game asks if it’s OK to show tons of gore only when “it’s totally awesome”.  After that you are transported into a world based on album art from old heavy metal records and kick some booty.

When I saw the guitar in the game, I figured there would be some long stretch that had Guitar Hero gameplay.  There is a bit of rhythm type gaming, but there is only one in the demo and it’s only a few seconds long.  Not too mention the items that appear after you play the solo are totally awesome.  (I’ll let you see that for yourself)

The only bad thing I can say about it is the art style and graphics make it look like an older game.  It’s a good look, but it just looks like something that came out a few years ago…not two weeks from now.  Nevertheless, I have one more game to add to my Christmas queue.  I highly recommend you check out this demo if you haven’t yet.  It will leave you laughing and rocked away at how brutally good it is!

For anyone who subscribes to the Xbox newsletter, you probably noticed that Fable 2 has now been put up on the marketplace in episodes.  I’ve been wanting to play this for quite some time, but after deciding to get some other games first, I just forgot about it.  Luckily, the first episode is free and offers a surprising amount of playtime.  Depending how much you run around looking for other items, you could easily get two hours out of it.  The game’s quite a bit different than Fable 1, and interacting with people has been improved.  Actually, almost everything has been improved.

I wanted to just get the rest of the episodes, but they are huge!  I still have one of the original 20GB hard drives, and the first episode alone takes up 2GB.  Episode 2 is a little over 4, and I’m unsure how big the other three are.  The only place you can see the size and price ($10/800 points each) for the next episode is in the game when you’ve reached the end of your current episode.  The size isn’t the only problem though.  With four more episodes priced at $10 each, by the time you got the whole game, you’d have dropped $40.  The game can be bought new for $30, and used for around $25.  It should also be noted that you can’t get any achievements until you get episode 2 or the disc.   I think I’m going to go for the disc, but I highly recommend you try out the first episode if you haven’t played the game yet.

As you may have noticed, I’ve been missing in action for more than a month now.  Believe it or not, I actually have a fairly good reason.  College started which took up a lot of time, and there was a death in the family.  Luckily it wasn’t close family, but it still isn’t exactly a joyous occasion.  The funeral is tomorrow, actually.

There hasn’t been a new episode of The Gamer Lounge, Luke’s Ramblings or even a new blog post!  That’s all going to change starting tomorrow.  Quite a bit has happened both movie and gaming wise, and I’m going to share that with you!  There will be a new blog post for sure tomorrow, and new podcast episode sometime this week.  It’s good to be back!

After a month break (which will be explained in a future blog post), we finally have a new episode out this week!  Topics include Xbox LIVE Gold, Batman Arkham Asylum, Champions Online, World of Warcraft Cataclysm, GI Joe, Kevin Smith movies, Speilburg making a Halo movie, and so much more!

Also, a huge thanks to I Am Three for letting us use their tracks on the show.  Give ‘em a listen!

Be sure to email us your thoughts at gamerloungepodcast@gmail.com….it seems you’ve already found the website!

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Episode 21 is up and at’em.  Topics include Transformers 2, The Hurt Locker, Green Lantern, Hacking the iPhone, Fallout 3 DLC, Battlefield 1943, Secret of Monkey Island, Possible table PC from Apple, and more!

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What’s that you say?  Yet another Luke’s Ramblings!?  Indeed.  Since there is no new Gamer Lounge episode up this week, you instead get a few new LS Ramblings.  This is an original song no less.  I come up with these on the spot, so this probably won’t be award worthy, but Beer on the Rear is worth a listen.

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In this episode I talk about the movie The Hurt Locker, as well as a bit on downloading and supporting movies.

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I’ve made it home and share with you my thoughts on Rock Band and Hero of Sparta!  There’s even a sneak peek of a future blog post.  :-O

These “Luke’s Ramblings” have really been a blast for me to make, so expect more of them in the future.  I’m planning on having at least one a week, and a maximum of three.

One quick other note:  I’ve changed the RSS feed to a feedburner feed just so it’s easier for everyone if I ever switch where I host my audio.  This puppy will be in iTunes soon!

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(Woops, that link was broken for a couple days.  It’s fixed now.)

I just recently purchased a new pair of earphones for my iPod Touch which includes a microphone.  This handy little addition will allow me to tell you my thoughts and going abouts quite easy!  This little section mentions vacation, and a couple games I want to play.  Check it out below!

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