Reaction to ROTS

(Note: Contains Spoliers)

Best. Star Wars. Ever.

As you can guess, I loved ROTS. By far, it is the best SW movie ever. There was just so much action...every moment was good. Sure the acting sucks. Sure the lines are corny at best, sickening at worst, but man, the fight scenes are cool.

The Dooku scene rocks.

Mace Windo was awsome.

I love Yoda and the Wokkies.

Seeing Anakin kill "Younglings" was great.

Anakin getting his ass kicked was priceless.

And Yoda losing too.

Every fight seemed monumentus...and the saga now blends perfectly. Everything that should have happened, happened. And it happened right.

And for those tuck on the Qui-gon thing at the end, heres what it means. Remeber in V and VI Obi-wan talks to Luke right? How does he do that since he's dead? Qui-gon teaches him on Tatooine. It's the reason Obi-wan gave up fighting so easily in IV. The book makes this more clear, as Qui-gon talks to Yoda several times.

But where were these scenes?
-Mon Momtha? (action figure)
-Padma as an Egyptian (Poster)
-The Ackbar guys?
-Panaka scene w/ Palpy

Just a Few Seconds...

Just about 5 minutes till ROTS!! Can't wait!

And an usher is coming to take my laptop away. Stop! Let me hit publish first! I think I hav g

Waitin' In Line

I just settled in for my 7 hour wait to see SW:ROTS over in a small theather in Redlands. I can't belive how many people are out here. Redlands is a small town, not remotly close to being on a small map, and this theather only has 14 screens, and it's the only one in town, yet there are easily 600+ people in front of me.

As I write this, a few people are getting behind me and looking over my shoulder...

It is one hell of a sight...700 people , half with lightsabers and Vader masks jumping up and down, the other half with either an iPod or a laptop (I have both), and a few people with tents and TVs.

This movie better be good...

On a side note...no E3 Posting for today. :(

Fresh E3 News: Tuesday

Today at E3 a lotta info was released...heres a recap, console by console.

Nintendo Revolution

• Shown
• Will have WiFi support at launch
• No controller details...yet
• DL all Ninetendo games, ever
• Free online
• Very small
• GameCube games will work

Gameboy Micro

• Shown
• No real info on communication
• WiFi

Nintendo DS

• WiFi support: Free and this year
• Several games annouced
• Communicates somehow with the others

Playstation

• FF XII: Crisis Core details
• MGS: Substance info

Xbox 360

• DOA 4 Info
• UT 2007 officalt annouced
• Moutain Dew to give a free 360 away every ten minutes
• More Info Perfect Dark, NBA 2K6, and Gears of War
• Just Cause by Eidos annouced
• Joytech to make 3rd party stuff
• Llamasoft's Neon will (music/colors/dance thing) is on 360

Keynote Roundup

Tonights keynote was alittle underwhelming. Not a whole lot to talk about...most of the stuff is visual. Head over to www.xbox.com to see some the vid, or www.majornelson.com for the MP3.

But, heres what to expect:

• Some big Square News: FF XI is a 360 title
• Some news on backwards compatability: good games will be able to play "somehow"
• All games HD
• Lotta stuff on online connection
• Lotta partner stuff

What I'm wondering about is where is all the hard facts? I want specs!!!

PS3 Official

Right from E3 05...Sony has pulled back the curtain on the PS3. Some of the perks:

• Most hardware rumors true
• Coming 2006 (nothing more released)
• GTA coming "soon"
• Will output 1080p
• Looks nice. Real. F'ing. Nice.

Keynote Notes

Just a reminder: The Xbox keynote starts at about 8 PM. I'll be blogging everything that sounds remotly interesting. Stay here for all the updates.

Xbox 360 Game List So Far

Ahhh! So many games, so little time. Here's my very unoffical list of 360 games.
Ones in italics are rumor stuff

Perfect Dark Zero
Test Drive
Saint's Row
NBA 2K6
NHL 2K6
College Hoops 2K6
Top Spin 2
Amped 3
Quake 4
Gears of Wars
Call of Duty 2
Tony Hawk: American Wasteland
Another Activison Title
Frame City Killer
Condemed: Criminal Orgins
Full Auto
Tom Clancy's GR 3
Halo 2.5
PGR 3

Fresh E3 News: Monday

Final Fantasy XI is coming to Xbox!

This is huge news, FF XI is going to be a very good thing for Xbox. Imagine th possibilites...

Better yet...talk about fresh, TeamXbox got thre story at 4:43, and I wrte this at 4:44. (Time may be shown below as latter due to publication to server time).

The Quiet

It's all quiet before the storm...as thousands head to LA for the biggest week in videogame history...E3 2005.

Major Nelson's alreadly there. He reported on some strange Nintendo locked-box he saw while in-flight to the Smog City. He captured ALL of the details over at his blog.

G4 is preparing for their huge civerage of the event (2 hours a day). Like it or not, it's the best place to get live video from the event.

IGN is teamed up with G4 this year. Expect most of their info to be the same.

TeamXbox continues to deliver the best round-up of current Xbox news, as well as 360 rumors. This just in, UT 2007 is headed full-circle.

Bungie continutes to kill it's diehard fans by delaying the Halo 2 Map Disc untill 7/5/2005

Anti-Booth Babes is gearing up for it's large-scale boycott of Booth Babes, saying they take too much attention away from the actual games they are ment to represent. Their method of protest? Giving away Granie underware.

Time magazine is getting in on the videogame action by having this week's cover story on the new Xbox 360.

And, finaly, Continual Randomnes continues to compile it all up for you in one nice little package. Seriously, stay here this week. I'll do the work for you.

I Won a Fish Tank

My DLand Pics

Anyone who wnats to can cheek out my ride pics from the new Buzz Lightyear ride at Disneyland. Went on it today and I have to say, it's alotta fun.

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Halo/Xbox 360 Ad

Did you all catch the Xbox 360/Samsung Hi-Def Ads played during the MTV special? Notice the music playing in the background? It's Halo!

What are you trying to say MS? Halo+Xbox 360+Hi-def=Great Seller?

Remember back to Xmas 04...TeamXbox is pretty sure Xbox 360 will INCLUDE Halo 2.5. Should be interesting.

As far as the MTV thing goes...I like what I saw. Heres a recap for ya:

• The Net pics that were leaked were correct
• No camera, headset, DVD remote was shown
• Console startup showed
• Perfect Dark is a 360 game
• TC: GR3 is a 360 game
• All games in HD (duh)
• New site www.xbox360.com
• Controller shown (leak)
• Logo shown (leak)
• Aracde is built in

That's It

All rumors were true...Xbox 360 is just like the pcitures.

It's Starting

Here we go...expect an update soon!

Some Real Info

The June OXM has the scoop on the next batch of maps coming for Halo 2. Although I wouldn't trust a single word written in the magazine... it may be worth it just for some pics. The magazine also comes with a demo of Destroy All Humans!, a game I have been waiting for almost as long as the new maps.

In another Halo 2 note, WTF is up with the "lag outs"? You know, were you go to the blue screen, but then it looks like everyone else quit the game but you? But in reality, you are the only that quit and you come in 8th place? I've gotten 4, YES FOUR, of them in the last week since the reset. Is it just a random stroke of bad luck...or is something up?

You Heard It Here First!

In a brilliant investigation, I, StarDrummer, have unearthed the first details of the next batch of Halo 2 maps.

Well, sorta.

OK, not really.

But I did find Major Nelson's game page, which lists "mysterious" map titles like 1002. Theres no real info to be found...but it's still cool.

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Blogger Downtime

Just got an e-mail saying Blogger, who runs this blog, will be offline tomorrow, 5/10/2005, at 4 PM PST for one hour to do some work on ther servers. I'm not sure if this means the blog will be up or down...but in any case, you have been warned.

What Color is YOUR Xbox 360?

A new OurColony.com image hints at the possibility of color-changing Xbox 360, kinda kile most cell phones do.

Again--is anyone really all that excited about this shit?

It should be interesting to see what Thursday brings about. Granted, we already know the name, logo, design, controller, DVD remote, headphones and camera, but even still there is a whole lot we don't know yet-like what it looks like in motion.

I don't have any special pass to see the thing early (in fact it's already taped), so I'll be watching it just the same as everyone else. I'll probably be doing a post every five minutes of so, so be sure to surf here during the commerical breaks for my commentary.

Never Trust MTV With Your Kids

MTV has yet again spilled the beans.

Today, pics of the new Xbox console were leaked onto the Internet. This time, the pics are more revieling and much more convincing. The pics also included the controller, which looks very similar to the orginal Xbox's Controller-S, save for a cool new raised Logo at the top of the controller.

Also, the first ever sight of a DVD controller was revieled, which includes a Windows logo right in the center. Interesting.

Another pic of a camera was also revieled. It still scares me to think about an Xbox Camera...

I can't belive MTV is leaking all of this stuff out. You'd think they would care about people watching the show too, you know.