Tiger Woods is Jesus

Sometimes EA’s marketing actually does know what they’re doing.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » August 2008

RB2 Video

My favourite song by my favourite band on the best game ever.

http://www.gamespot.com/video/949926/6194201/videoplayerpop?rgroup=e32008_live&tag=video_main%3bwatch%3b4

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » July 2008

Leaked Rockband 2 Song List

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=174487

I do hope this list is for real!  EVERLONG!!!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » July 2008

Lack of Updates

Unfortunately for the past month I’ve been pretty swamped at work so I haven’t had much time to do anything creative.  I did remember that I did a small Mario-based painting sometime last year.  Nothing fancy, but definitely geeky!

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Random Life Tales, Artsy Fartsy, Video Games 4 Comments » June 2008

Oh, Guitar Hero. How far you’ve fallen.

http://kotaku.com/5011292/rip-guitar-hero-2005+2008

http://www.destructoid.com/footage-of-guitar-hero-iv-someone-tells-activision-ceo-it-s-called-rock-band-88034.phtml

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » May 2008

The MVP Reunion

Last night was a large gathering at Steamworks for anyone who had worked on any of the MVP Baseball games years back.  It was surprising to see that so many people had showed up.  I hadn’t kept in contact with many of the folks who had left the studio, but I was able to chit chat with a number of them fairly easily (I’m horrible at social events).  It was just a good time to see everyone together again.

MVP was always a great team.  Although I didn’t think I always quite fit in, it still felt like a family.  It was a small enough team to be able to splurge on monthly birthday celebrations with beer and cake.  Also small enough to sometimes get the company American express to pay for a dinner or two.  :P  Every monthly meeting had raffle prizes.  The wrap-up parties were always a blast.  People partied like friends rather than co-workers.  There were limbo contests, poker games, curling and karaoke.  It was good times.  I don’t think that sort of thing will ever exist again on another game team at the studio.  But I think we all try to pass it along wherever we work now.

One of the girls there was pointing out how the majority of them who started in the industry when they did are in such good positions now.  They are the senior people in Vancouver’s gaming industry now.  I feel quite lucky to be sort of a part of that group.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games, Worky Worky 1 Comment » March 2008

Rocking Out on the Interwebs

I finally figured out how to play Rockband online through the PS3, hahaha…  I would have liked to have seen an option to “Join Existing Group” rather than it randomly (or at least seemingly randomly) choose whether you get to be Leader or not.  Sometimes I want to pick the songs, but sometimes I want someone else to pick the songs.  Also, for the Score Duel mode, it’d be nice if you picked the difficulty level you wanted first, then it would search for other players also looking for that level.  Rather than pairing you up with someone, then the Leader choosing the level.  I got paired up with this one guy who decided to play all Expert drums.  I was lucky if I got half his score!  Haha.

I had tried out the Tug of War mode first, and didn’t stick around too long.  I was playing drums on Hard, but the person I was playing with was on Medium.  Now either I just suck at getting anything perfect (which I usually do), but it almost doesn’t seem fair that a Medium goes up against a Hard and wins the tug of war.  But I guess I should be equally as good at Hard as someone would be on Medium.  Oh well.

Score Duel I found probably the most because I could compare myself to others, especially those who are better than me.  Like snowboarding, I think I try harder when I’m surrounded by people who are retardedly good.  I’m forced to kick it up a notch.  But still, playing on Expert difficulty was insane for me.

I also tried playing just regular Quick Play with someone.  The first person that joined didn’t stick around very long as I was trying to wait another minute to see if anyone else would join for the remainder of the instruments.  So when that person left and another joined, I just started up the game.  Was an alright mode, but I guess it’d be more fun with people I actually knew, and maybe if there was a singer hahaha.

Anyway, I wish I had a 360, or that more people I knew had PS3s, so that I could play online with actual friends. 

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games 3 Comments » March 2008

pwned

Going around the gaming community recently was the Fox News broadcast of critics of the game Mass Effect.  The “expert,” Cooper Lawrence, knew nothing of the game yet claimed the game was full of sexual content and was targetted towards young children  They did bring in a Spike TV guy in who did counter the Fox people.  But obviously they’re not gonna let that guy win the conversation.

Well, the community knows how to strike back.  People have swarmed Cooper’s book on Amazon.Com with bad reviews.  Awesome.

[Article on Destructoid]

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Video Games No Comments » January 2008

Portal - Weighted Companion Cube BFF Cross Stitch

For my second video game-themed cross stitch, I decided to go with a more recent popular game - Portal. I used 14-count Aida fabric which fits nicely into a 4×6 inch frame. This time, I decided to try out some self-stick mounting boards which were found in the cross stitch section of the craft store I went to. It worked out pretty well, I was able to peel the fabric off fairly easily to readjust. The frame required minor modifications so that I could fit the mounted stitch in along with the glass still.

Pattern for those of you willing to give it a shot.  (click to enlarge)

Colours:
For Link: #321 red, #310 black., #318 light grey, #3799 dark grey, #604 pink.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Artsy Fartsy, Video Games 27 Comments » January 2008

Legend of Zelda Valentine Patterns

Here are the patterns I created for the Legend of Zelda Valentines cross stitches.  I used 18-count Aida fabric, which ends up fitting nicely in a 2.5″x3″ frame.  I didn’t do anything special for framing, I just used the cardboard backing that came with the frames and masking tape to tape down the fabric on the back.

 
(click for full image)

Thread colours:
For Link:  #321 red, #720 orange, #402 skin, #704 green, #310 black.
For Zelda:  #321 red, #720 orange, #402 skin, #310 black.

Posted by tastethehappy Posted in: Artsy Fartsy, Video Games 10 Comments » January 2008

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