Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

It's okay, it's alright. I got my Guitar Hero III. Good thing Chriz had the foresight to keep old stock for such an old title. First off, I had absolutely no idea that Guitar Hero was played by holding down the fret and then strumming (are real guitars played this way, too? haha).

The game is actually pretty overwhelming to me but I'll just try to enjoy myself and take my time to learn it. It's very tough and its mostly skill-based achievements are regarded by many to be the hardest ever.

I was actually encouraged to pick up this game by this awesomely funny Zero Punctuation GH3 video review. I'll probably just aim to 5-star all songs on Medium since I do not possess tentacles for fingers. So far, I don't know ALL the songs in the game except for one (Guns & Roses' Welcome to the Jungle) so I hope to catch some nice new tunes to put into my phone.

Anyway, for non-Xbox-gamer readers, I think I'll briefly mention what 'achievements' are. Each X360 retail game is worth 1,000 g (gamer points) which are earned by fulfilling its conditions/achievements. Basically, it tracks your progress & accomplishments for the game. If you get 1000/1000, you know you probably done everything there is to do. It's great because it adds tons of replayability to games and anyone can view anyone's achievements online for comparison, bragging rights and whatnot.

And that's it for this week!

I Wanna Be a Guitar Hero T_T

It was last week when I saw it at Tampines' Mega Multimedia. Lying in the glass display before me were a whole bunch of X360 Guitar Hero III packages. Now that was a rare sight. I've never seen it available in stores before. As I looked on, an equation formed in my mind: Me + Guitar = Fun! But time was a-wasting, so I brushed aside the thought and went home with RB6V2.

However, that thought lingered over the next few days and I soon found myself yearning for the game. I think it was due to a lot of sublimal messages and influences that I came across when I was surfing the net. Ranging from game forum discussions to comics strips to watching the full South Park Guitar Queer-O episode (I only recently learnt that full South Park episodes can be watched for free at the official site) Then of course, there was this crazy Guitar Hero contest that totally reminded me of rejects from American Idol:



That was it. I finally decided that I would get the game today. I actually wanted to hold it off till the weekends as a birthday gift to myself but I couldn't wait any longer. haha. I endured through a day at work then quickly cabbed down to Tampines Mall. Somehow, my penguin senses told me something would go wrong.

When I arrived at the store, I quickly went to the glass display and eyeballed the boxes of Guitar Hero III. PS3, PS3, Wii, Wii, PS3. Where the heck were all the X360 versions? I felt that I already knew the answer but I just had to ask the salesperson. Yup, the X360 was sold out. No. Freakin'. Way.

The journey home felt so cold and empty. Time to carry on with the sadface. T_T

It has Been a Short Week

This week actually went by very quickly for me since I took MC on Monday and Friday was a public holiday. I was still pretty sick so it was a good chance for me to catch some rest. I had to go to work on Saturday but it was okay. To my surprise (and also horror), my boss actually came to the office on a Saturday. Now that's pretty amazing. Maybe I should go and buy 4-D.


I went to watch the Evangelion: 1.0 movie at Cathay on Saturday with Akira, Max and Darrell. It was a remake of the old TV series. I actually forgot most of the show because I was probably too young to appreciate it at the time (how long has it been?). A few scenes were redid and the Angels were redesigned. They look pretty great in their new 3D-rendered glamour. haha. This is just the first part so I am looking forward to the rest of the movie.



I picked up Rainbow Six Vegas 2 on my Xbox 360 to play for the week. To be honest, it's an immensely overhyped but pretty sub-standard game. All those fanboys keep saying how the game will overthrow Call of Duty 4 and many got suckered into buying it. I would've sold rightaway it if it weren't for the massive online player base this game has. It's also pretty addictive. I'll just play it, collect some Achievements and then shelf it.

Pon Pon Pata Pon

It seems that the whole country was going to the IT Show at Suntec last week. I arrived at work on Friday to see boxes containing parts of a HP Pavilion desktop sitting around my desk. I had the feeling that the senior manager (my boss' husband) would come in early today to instruct me to set it up. And I was right.

He did tell me that he'd be picking up a desktop to replace the old laptop I was using. Sitting at a measly 256 ram, it takes several minutes to start up/shut down and 30-60 seconds to load any Office applications. I did advise him against getting a desktop, though, since it would eat up even more space on my small work desk. A desk top was generally more stable, though so he went ahead and bought one.




I spent the morning setting it up, only to have Windows Vista lock up when I tried to connect to wireless. I hard-reset it and came back after lunch to continue. I was told to download OpenOffice, which I realized was a pretty cool open-source (free) alternative to MS Office. This was the first time I was using Vista and I realized that it looked really modern and cool (for some reason, its colours and style reminded me of the Xbox 360's OS. haha). Oh well, I couldn't install the drivers of the office printer/scanner because Vista wasn't supported. I'll have to work on it on Monday. Meh.

With thoughts of the IT Show in the brain, I went to check it out myself on Saturday with Yonghao. I was expecting a terrible crowd and , boy, was it terrible. I just bought a 2GB Sony thumb drive (spent 30 minutes squeezing & queueing for it), grabbed some Asus brochures (to plan my next future laptop purchase) and checked out the Xbox games sale (which sucked cos' the prices at good video game shops were still lower).

After that, I dropped by at FunZ Centre for dinner at Fish & Co's with Brainy, Kyo, Akira and Mango. I picked up two new games: Lost Odyssey and Patapon before going home. Patapon is a game that received quite a lot of hype. Its tune is catchy but too much of it can probably drive people nuts. haha

All in all, it was quite a fun day.