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I love the first two Alien movies. J-Bone, did you ever play the Alien's game Alien Trilogy on PS1? I had that game and played it when I was a kid, and I never beat it. It scared the shit out of me because it was really darkly lit, it was hard for me to tell where doors were, and there were face suckers and warrior form zenomorphs tearing me apart the entire way through a level. Scary game, that's for true. The sound of the zenos was terrifying too. The sound clips that played when they attacked were offputting and even the sound when they died was weird. Freaky-deaky. I've never talked with anybody about that game ever since lol, and I've never heard people reference it in gaming communities either. Was I the only kid playing it? It was like Doom with xenomorphs, I imagine people would want to check it out.

No I haven't heard from Dead Sara yet, I will go check them out today I think and see if I can find some of their music. Thanks for the recommendation!

I wasn't a fan of this game during its presentation at E3, but much of that might be due to a bad presenter and performance. When the Wii came out I played some of Wii Sports and it was interesting for a little while, but it was just sports and I don't like sports games outside of hockey. I love hockey games. I think Nintendo Land is more interesting than Wii Sports because Nintendo Land has more "gamey games" and not just some cartoony sports imitations.

If I get a Wii U and this was bundled with it I'd like to check through all the games it has. I'm more interested in this than I was with Wii Sports, that's for true.

Great blog Esteban, and great analysis of the music. Very thorough, and a good read. Keep them coming!

I'm glad you're back Julian, and I'm glad E3 is over and we can get back to some normality. Rob did a good job hosting the show. He casted a buff spell on Julian, let him rest, and took the opportunity to undress Patrick with his eyes.

Rob is a lucky dog for playing Dragon's Dogma, I really want to play that, it's shot up to number 3 on the priority list. Between the last Triforce Crew episode and now I've done some gaming, bought one game, and plan on buying two more soon. I've been jumping around a lot. I got a level done in Deus Ex, upgraded some abilities and I'm loving that game. I started a second playthrough of Dante's Inferno and I'm really into it this time. I got the game when it came out because I honestly wanted a God of War clone because 360 doesn't have GoW obviously. The first playthrough I ended up wishing I was playing GoW instead. Now I've warmed up to it on the 2nd playthrough and I'm actually enjoying the levels, boss battles, and upgrading my remaining abilities.

I finally bought the full Minecraft xbox edition game a couple days ago. For the longest time I was just dicking around in the demo which times out after 30 minutes or so. I fell in love with Minecraft the second I dropped into the demo the first time. The simple mechanics, deep crafting system, survival horror, the serene music, the open world, this game was built for me and I can't get enough. This is more addicting than building levels in Forge World and I have much more freedom in Minecraft. I have so many ideas, when I had the timed demo alone, I built dozens of things in that format. But now that I have the full game and I can take my time and do it at my pace with the full game, I'm going to be building shit in this game for a long time to come.

I've already done so much stuff it would take too long to explain, but to keep it short and current, last night I spent a couple hours in my world carving out a giant mine system under my big log cabin. I was getting attacked by creepers underground, I put together an iron armor set, stockpiled a metric shit ton of cobblestone and fired it into proper stone, and some other stuff. I'm planning on expanding, going on an adventure around the map till I find a suitable place to start building a huge stone house or castle. There will be multiple livable levels including a ground level area, a huge tower overlooking the map, and an underground bomb shelter to retreat to in case the walls get breached, I'm dying, and need to sleep till morning. I'm also constantly on the hunt for diamond, no luck yet.

Enough about Minecraft though, I'm planning to buy two other games soon, the two that have been at the top of the priority list for a little while, Dark Souls and Civilization Revolution. I'm pretty set on getting those two, but I did have to think about it because I realized that I can get Mass Effect 3 at Gamestop for $30 right now and that's crazy. I'm a big ME fan but ME3 just isn't at the top of my list sadly. Once I buy Dark Souls and Civ Rev, those will be off the list, and the game that's going to get pushed to the top of the list will probably be Dragon's Dogma.

This comment contained nothing about E3, I'm just tapped out on E3 and glad it's over so we can get on the normal day to day gaming world. Everyday that goes by is another day closer to Halo 4 and I'm really fanboyed up about it.

You should definitely nerd out about your music Esteban, I'd like to see it. I know you love Rolling Stones, so if you give some shout outs to Paint It Black or Beast of Burden I'd be smitten. I love those songs. You listen to lots of other stuff besides the Stones though, so you should put together some music stuff when you have the opportunity cause I'd like to check it out!

Those Mario Paint renditions were really cool Angelo! My favorite has to be the Morrowind one, just because that's probably my favorite theme song ever.

Well yea, if you "come at him from any angle" he can't resist. Thinking along the logic of coming at a person sexually from any angle, they don't necessarily have to succumb to your advances Rob, you can use stealth to your advantage. I'm not saying get him while he sleeps, ...but get him while he sleeps. Lol, just kidding, I don't endorse nocturnal rape behavoir, that's a buggaboo. Be a gentleman and let Patrick come to you when he's ready.

Angelo you're the man for showing up with In Flames songs lol. I really like In Flames, they're amazing. They're actually my friend Justin's favorite band, so I hear a lot of their music through him. I have the album A Sense of Purpose and I love that thing from beginning to end and I would actually listen to it all the way through repeatedly as I played Halo Reach Firefight mode for hours. I also love some of their older songs, like Episode 666, Only for the Weak, Pinball Map, Embody the Invisible, My Sweet Shadow, Colony, and lots of other stuff. In Flames rocks.

Angelo I come across 8-bit versions of In Flames all the time, you should check this crap out it's awesome. I'm a junkie for finding 8-bit versions of metal songs on youtube.

Embody the Invisible 8-bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-cT7Rgb1cI

Crawl through knives 8-bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA8LIjLen14&feature=related

My Sweet Shadow 8-bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEyyS3E76Gs&feature=related

If you can think of a metal song, it probably has an 8-bit version.

Of couse I remember that blog Jesse, my brain is a steel trap, made of jelly. Mechanically I think this game looks really solid, I have no doubts it'll be fun and accessible to players. It'll be fun, but I wonder if it'll create an identity for itself or make itself stand out. I wonder the same thing about The Last of Us. Tomb Raider and Last of Us look like really fun, really solidly designed games, but we've played all these games before. Will they just become noise to us, or "routine". We already had a game come out that took influence from The Road, it was called Am I Alive, people kind of got their The-Road-fix in that game. Tomb Raider as I said is looking like any other game I could go play right now in AAA gaming, and if bleak opression, blood, and rape scenes is all I have to look forward to I could go watch The Hills Have Eyes or something.