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The task at hand was simple in theory - complete legendary from start to finish in one sitting.  Digilearner rounded us up a team of members from 360friendspot which included him, myself, Johndg, and Tommy Da Gip.  Unfortunately Tommy had other obligations and couldn’t be our fourth gunner.  Just when we thought we were going to be a 3 man show ReaperHybrid joined the party making us complete.  Reaper all ready finished the story, and I am close to the end myself - but both on lower difficulty levels.  John and Digi had only played the first chapter in the story thus far.

We figured while we were at it we might as well collect those pesky glowing skulls along the way - and for the most part we did great at it.  Unfortunately as the night went on you could see that fatigue was starting to set it, we all were discussing the next skull that had to be collected after finishing off a scarab - but after finishing him we just kept going completely forgetting the skull. 

Reaper and myself finally got to the point that we needed to get some sleep - before we had to face the attack of our wives in the morning, but we said we would go at the end of the current chapter (6 for those of you keeping track).  Of course, because we had planned to leave at the end of this chapter, for the first time we actually started having difficulty surviving, it seems like we all just kept getting destroyed over and over, and we were never going to finish.  I blame the fatigue, keep in mind this was the 3rd night in a row that I was up till 3-4AM playing and the kids are always up at 8am at the latest.

Finally we finished up the chapter, but unfortunately not the fight - hopefully we can get the team together again later tonight and finish it up - legendary style.

 PS. Sorry you missed it tommy!

Be prepared to be jealous - it looks like Bungie and Microsoft have once again let their staff get there hands on a special build of the game you are all dying to play…Halo 3.

Based on some images floating around from a post on GamingTalkHQ and some interesting data picked up by The Live Eye, it looks like this is a test or beta build of the halo campaign, or at least a portion of it.  I assume its not the full released product because the release date is still about a month and a half away and the game doesnt show up in your official xbox.com gamercards.

Well last night I actually got a bit of gaming in for a change.  I booted up The Darkness one last time before it had to go back to Blockbuster today, and unfortunately I still haven’t completed the story - I am going to have to buy or rent it again soon.  The only complaint I have with the game is often the checkpoints seem a bit far between each other, for the second time in the story I am at a point where I travel quite a while and kill quite a few enemies but die and have to redo it over again.  I am 95% sure I am dying right before the checkpoint, but rekilling the same 20 or so enemies gets a bit tedius.

I finally got to play Carcassonne - well I played it back in May on the Gamerscore Blog Tour, but this is the first time I got to play the game on my own console due to my repair and lower play time lately.  The best part was I was able to play the tutorial, and actually get a better understanding of how the game works, in fact I only played the tutorial and a few 1 player games (which I lost).

Then I gave Spyglass board games a try.  Thanks to Deaconblade 360 I won a free copy of the full game.  Just to give the game a trial run I played 1 Player mode only.  Played a game of checkers (won), played a game of Reversi (won), played 2 games of chess (loss), and played 3 games of Mancala (lost).  I love chess, but clearly I am not very good at it.  Mancala - well I still dont even understand how this game works.  I read the rules and still it confuses me, maybe one of you readers know how the hell it works.

Finally I booted up Forza Motorsport 2, and played a few races and boosted one of my cars up with some parts.  My buddy Th3 Strange gifted me a pretty sweet custom car promoting The Live Eye and 360friendspot.  He had previously shown me pictures I will have to find them again and post them - or take new ones myself.

I briefly played a Price of Persia: Rival Sword (Wii).  Mostly just played the begining part that teaches you the controls and how to save etc.  It was relatively interesting so I am probably going to play through that a bit more.

I just realized how long it was since I made an actual blog post here, for the very few of you that even bother to check my blog these days

I have been mostly busy with the family, spending time outside while the kids play, going to water parks, the normal father things I guess you could say and during the day I have been pretty busy at work.  I also haven’t been staying up for my late night gaming as much anymore, perhaps I am getting old, not sure.  I also picked up a Wii recently (Friend code: 2057 7482 7233 6739), though I have played that less than the xbox.

At times I spend some time on my DS on lunch breaks.  I have been working on finishing Pokemon Pearl - but honestly its getting rather boring.  They have a few other titles for the DS (old and new) that I want to get my hands on - specifically Sim City, and from what I remember reading a while back there is a Zelda gaming coming for the DS…..I am such a sucker for Zelda - its probably 75% of the reason I bought a Wii.

Seems like since my 360 went out for repair I started falling behind on posting news, gaming, or just random blogging in general.  We haven’t had much changes to the 360friendspot or theliveeye websites that I haven’t posted about (as far as I remember), I guess I just dont have alot of ‘gaming’ related things going on.

I have the darkness on rental, and just as I said from the Gamerscore Blog road tour, it’s amazing.  If I had not spent the money on the Wii, and Zelda I would definately have bought it by now.  Speaking of buying, there are so many good titles coming out soon and I am not sure how many of them I will get to buy - my son starts preschool soon, which means another somewhat large monthly payment is currently coming out of my income. (i hope gamefly loves me and sends me all the new releases without much trouble). 

I think that will do for the “random post because I havent posted in ages post”