Dan's World

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The next generation Xbox was finally announced by Microsoft this morning. Personally, I feel the specs are fairly impressive, and some of the quick-launching abilities seem pretty awesome, but overall, I can't say I was very impressed with the big reveal. For one, it took them a half hour to even talk about games...on a gaming console. As much as the entertainment features are becoming more and more prevalent, I can do them as it is on all of my current gen platforms.

Games aside, which Microsoft will apparently be talking more about at E3 in a few weeks, I feel there is much to be revealed about the console before casting my final judgement on whether it will be this or the PS4 in my living room this holiday. Honestly, this is mostly how I felt after the Sony PS4 announcement, so I guess time will tell.

One thing that really surprised, and worried, me is that Microsoft failed to announce an exact date and price. It was surprising because they really could have had an upper hand over Sony. It worries me, because it makes me feel they are sort of shy to announce what it probably an expensive price point.

I won this last night at the GDG Utah Lego Mindstorm event. My girlfriend and I built the little guy you see in the bottom right corner (his name is White Bandit) and we were tasked with popping three balloons of our color before any of the other contestants. To control the bot, we used a program, sent to an android phone and drove it around using the gyro on the phone, all communicating via Bluetooth with White Bandit. I got first place in the tournament and this was my prize.

I’m so excited to build it this weekend! Probably the most valuable thing I’ve ever won.

Yesterday I beat The Cave in my first play through. I don't think I will count that as "finished", however. Since there are a total of seven playable characters and you can only take three with you at a time, I will still go through it with another set of three characters, and maybe once more to get the seventh, before I feel like I can officially mark this one off my list for Four in February.

I started with the scientist, the time traveller, and the hillbilly. Each of their unique puzzles were fun. I think I enjoyed the scientist's level the most, once I figured out how to start it...I think for my next play though, I will choose the twins, the knight, and the monk. I was listening to an IGN Podcast Unlocked the other day where they interviewed Ron Gilbert, and he said that his favorite puzzle was one in the monk's unique level. So, I'm looking forward to giving that a try. Finally, I may give it one last play using the adventurer and pick two others that I enjoyed the first time through.

Once I get The Cave successfully crossed off my list, I will be moving on to Dishonored. I really can't wait to start this. I've heard so many good things about it.

I really like this song. That is all.

I came across this the other day and have been giving it some thought and decided that I will try to accomplish this goal, in order to try to give some of my unplayed back catalog some love. The hard part of this is deciding exactly which games to play...

Top on my list is probably Dishonored. I got this around the holidays last year and have been really wanting to give it a try.

I just bought The Cave last night on my 360, so I think I will include that.

Other than that, I can't really choose. I was considering Sleeping Dogs, but that may be a bit much to undertake multiple 15-20 hour games in one month.

I heard that the Homeland single player campaign is pretty short, so I am thinking of putting that on the list. 

I was thinking I should probably have a portable game or two on the list to make more use of my time away from home. I was considering putting Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation on the list, but I have technically started it already, so I don't know if I want to count it or not. I got Ragnarok Odyssey for Christmas, so maybe I will start that at some point. Alternatively, if I get Fire Emblem in the next couple of weeks, I can give that a go.

Other games on my list that I'm considering:

Resident Evil 6

Prototype 2

Rayman Origins

ZombiU (which I've already started)