Developmentally Challenged

There was a little SNAFU with the site, apparently, but my host rules, and the problem is no-more. It motivated me to blog more.
Lets get right down to it:

Guitar Hero II Sucks To Play

The game looks great, but it doesn’t play right. I just returned my copy for a refund because the guitar just doesn’t work. The wammy bar is busted, and I can’t activate Star Power by turning the guitar upright with any kind of consistency. Davey got it to work once with no effort, then we tried a bunch to do it again…and it just didn’t work. We tried turning the guitar upside-down and shaking it…no dice. The input feels lagged even if you do the lag calibration. I still am feeling between 10ms-30ms of lag (it’s kind of tough to say for sure, but it’s off). The whole game feels off. This is probably 100% hardware or input code, because otherwise the game looks fantastic. The textures look great at 720p, leaderboards, PDLC songs…I wanted the game to rule, but it doesn’t play right at all. Playing the game is a lot like trying to do a search in Windows XP. You want to just get in there, do your thing, and get your results. You aren’t looking for Spotlight, but grep would be great…instead you are stuck with the fucking dog which doesn’t give you any of the graphical advantages of Spotlight, and none of the functionality of grep. That’s Guitar Hero 2 for the 360, right now. I want to use this and have it be cool, but it’s just painful right now.

In other news, I got mentioned along side Mark Rein in an interesting article. I’ll have to buy him a beer sometime.

If you’re in Eugene, I’ll be playing on May 5th for Prophecy V. I’ll be playing progressive house for my chill-area set, and I may have a main room set. If I play a main floor set, I will probably play progressive trance/psy. I don’t know what name I’ll be playing under; I told my friend to just make something up. Honestly, as long as they think “that guy with the laptop” plays good music, I don’t care what they think my name is. As always, I’ll record the set and put it up for download.