What'cha Been Up To?
Written by Kevin Alexander   
Friday, 07 November 2008 05:29
HOLY CRAP I've actually been playing something! Fable II has been monopolizing my gaming time just as the first one did when that came out oh so long ago. This sequel is more like an improved version of the first one which is completely fine with me. There's more to do and what you choose has a more lasting and real affect on the world. I find myself splitting time with doing primary quests and just messing around. It's become somewhat of a mini game to see how many wives I can accumulate but that quickly becomes a bit much to handle, much like what happens in real life. I'll probably talk a bit more about it on the next BitCast.

Last night the wife, our friend and I went on a Friday Night Lights season 3 binge. I've been accumulating the episodes since this new season began and this was the first time we watched any of them. If you've never seen the show you might think you have to be a big football fan to enjoy it which really isn't the case. The show really revolves around the characters and their relationships living in a football-obsessed town. The relatively unknown cast know their characters really well and that helps to let yourself get absorbed into their world.

This week in music has been filled with binging on The Decemberists since I'm going to their show tonight in Philly. They're a very unique band in terms of sound and lyrics. I've often described them as "colonial", like they should have been making music in the American Revolution period. Really they should be a really pretentious band but they're melodies and hooks make them very welcoming.

That's about the size of it for, What'cha Been Up To?


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written by Dan Zuccarelli, November 07, 2008
LittleBigPlanet
Dead Space
World of Warcraft
That new Castlevania game on the DS
Pinball Hall of Fame for the PSP (it's awesome)
Rock Band 2

...and I'm currently fighting the urge to go out and buy Gears 2
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written by swiftwulf, November 07, 2008
The same for me, Rock Band 2, WoW and thats about it. Hopefully gonna be getting Fable 2 off my friend this weekend.
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written by Miles Moore, November 07, 2008
Way too many games....
LittleBigPlanet
Spider-Man: Wed Of Shadows
Guitar Hero: World Tour
Rock Band 2
Gears Of War 2

...Thank God I work from home as a computer tech....ah....now I must get back to my games...errr...I mean work...yeah, that's the ticket!
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written by Jim Squires, November 08, 2008
@Dan -- Williams or Gottlieb?

Pretty busy week for me and games too --

Gears of War 2
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
Bejeweled Twist

...and a mountain of stuff on Kongregate. I've only just discovered that their games have achievements, so now I'm killing most all of my free time there.

In terms of non-gamey stuff I wrapped up The Wire (*tear*), finally checked out Oz and was grossly disappointed, and shat a brick at the return of 30 Rock.

It's true. I'm a brick shitter.
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written by Xerxes3rd, November 08, 2008
This week I beat Fable II with my "good" character, so I'll move on to my evil one. I finally got to play some 2-player LittleBigPlanet, and let me tell ya- slapping around another player's character is pretty fun.

On the WoW front, Dan and Swiftwulf were kind enough to accompany me on a Karazhan raid, where we killed a seasonal boss and I was able to snag an Arcanite Ripper. See the video below for what it's about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcfPsGPfOU

Lastly, we just finished some 4-player, co-op horde mode on Gears of War 2. We got to the 20th wave, and that mode is an absolute blast. I'm always a fan of co-op games, and this mode is just the ticket. I might actually hang on to my copy of Gears 2 after I finish the campaign.
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written by JJ BANKS, November 10, 2008
Jim - Is "The Wire" not the best television ever???!!!

My ranking of the five seasons from best to worst (although every season rocked), so maybe from best to very good: 2, 1, 4, 3, 5.

For more on "The Wire" I broke down each season here:
http://jjbanks.steamweasel.com/category/movies-tv/

I have a feeling we're not going to see a TV show like this is a long time.

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