Destiny, a take of my first 6 weeks

Destiny, or as my family calls it my addiction, is the latest game to capture my attention. I did not pre-order this great FPS/MMO hybrid, instead I went and purchased it after trading in my copy COD Advanced Warfare, which I was disappointed in but that is another story entirely. Destiny, in my opinion, is engaging and fun.

I have been fans of other hybrids of the same type like the Borderland series. These games fuel my needs to get better loot and items to upgrade my character and at the same time having an engaging story. I have read articles and reviews attacking Bungie calling the storyline weak or minimal. I, on the other hand, see the raw materials and storyline that can provide almost unlimited updates and DLC possibilities that could be branched off what is a good start in the basic Destiny storyline.

In some instances people want to get through the campaign so quickly that you can miss the storyline and little sentences used to set up other branches of the campaign at later parts of the storyline. With an expected 2 years turnaround before we see Destiny 2 or what ever Bungie names the second act of the series there are huge opportunities for Bungie to further enhance our experience as gamers. I will continue to share my experiences as time goes on and bring to light the enjoyable notations of this great game.

Where has Customer Service Gone?

It has become evident that the days of quality customer service are history and what businesses key intrest is to sell and forget their cutomers. The issue is that it is not the businesses that are to blame but the lack of the employees of these businesses. Employees are the first and last experiences for a customer of a business and businesses can live or die based on sales.

If an individual, as a customer, has a bad experience are they liekly to come back? Do they give the business a second chance? Chances are "No" due to the fact that every business has competitors. Businesses are woned by large corporations that use mutiple locations in a venture to achieve sales across all of the loacations where small family owned businesses rely on a sole location to sell their services or products.

This is where efforst in customer service are divided and are subject to evaluation. Most family owned or small owned businesses tend to have a more personal and effort based customer experience. Effort equals quality in this instance. Large corporations or "chains" of stores provide a less peronal customer service experience.

GTA IV - Wishing for more!

After getting the chance to rent GTA IV at my local rental store, the first thing i did was make sure the kids were asleep and placed the game disk in my 360.

First thoughts, I am disappointed! From the get go I felt that this installment of the GTA series looked just like the last (San Andres). Now I did try to be in a positive mood while playing this game.

I will state that the characters in this game are very interesting and well designed. The controls for the game are not to my liking but i adjusted to the new control scheme. I do have to say that the beginning game instructions were not big enough and were hard to read.

I will post additional comments after the break!

Waiting for Grand Theft Auto

As a gamer I am awaiting the release of Grand Theft Auto as is much of the XBOX 360 gaming audience. I research information on this title on an everyday basis and I have already reserved my copy of the game at GameStop. I simply can not wait until this is released but I am not going to take time off to purchase and play this title as others I have heard and read on the internet. I believe this title will be the game of the year even before i play the title. This decision may be based on the amount of hype this title has presently on the net but at the same time I was a fan of all of the releases of this franchise.

As i find out more news about this title I will be posting additional comments on this blog. I hope all of you are as excited to play this game as I am.

Frontlines: Fuel of War Multi-player Review

I had the chance to play Frontlines: Fuel of War for XBOX 360. I took the chance to start a single player game and enjoyed the game and features that the game includes especially the ability to control the remote vehicles such as the Helicopter. I will tell you that I absolutely love the game play when utilizing the remote control vehicles and I can not recall having as much fun as I did when the missions in the single player included the remote vehicle options.

Where this game really demanded my attention to the point of playing a 8 hour cession without realizing that time actually when by is playing the Multi-player option through XBOX Live. The maps included and utilized in the multi-player are simply huge and at the same time interesting and functional. if you have not yet played this game in either mode i would encourage anyone to take the chance to rent this title and give it a chance.

GameFly Experience

I subscribed to GameFly yesterday under their 10 free trial service. I navigated my way through their site and set up the list of games that i would like to request. Most of the games I chose were new releases such as Frontlines but the availability to these games was said to be low so I picke some other games that were a little bit older and left the site.

I received an e-mail about 2 hours later saying that two of my choices had shipped but the problem was these choices were the last two in my list of ten titles. I know that i am new to GameFly but I would suspect that if someone is paying the company's $22.95 per month price to rent games that the availability for the new titles such as Frontlines would be available, why else would someone want to use this service?

I will post additional information that I may experience with respect to the game rental subject in future posts.

The Infamous Peggle

I like any other gamer can easily be addicted to a game simply by playing it, however I have come across a game that I simply can not stop playing. The game I am speaking of has been published by PopCap games and goes by the name Peggle. Currently this game is only available for the PC but I hope to see it ported for the XBOX 360 sometime in the future.

This addictive yet simple game consists of a pinball type playing where the object of the game is to hit each orange colored peg on the screen before you run out of balls to shoot at them. Once you have shot a ball from the top of the screen the ball bounces of other pegs colored in blue as well as various objects provided within the game.

As you make your way through the adventure side of the game to have the chance to hit green colored pegs that correspond with different abilities or special enhancements by the board. Some of these "specials" include flippers, explosions and even enhanced targeting systems which help you achieve the overall task of hitting each orange peg on the board.

A demo of the game can be downloaded form the PopCap game web site and once you have had the chance to try this addictive game you may find it hard not to stop or until you have to purchase the full game to get your Peggle on sort of speak.