Yearly Archives: 2008

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was one of the first two game that I purchased last week after getting my Sony PlayStation 3. Yeah, if you missed it I know own a PS3. :D

Prior to my purchase, I hadn’t heard or read anything about the game… or just about any other PS3 game for that matter. But the package looked cool, and Sony was pushing it with a PS3 bundle, so I figured I’d give it a shot. I was actually quite pleased with the game which I finished earlier today.

It’s kind of a cross between Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia (what can I say, I like those types of games). You’ll spend a bit of time hanging from ledges, swinging from ropes, and jumping off of cliffs. And when you aren’t doing that, the rest of the time is spent dodging gun fire. I swear, by the time I finished, I thought I had taken on a small country.

Story wise the game may remind you a bit of National Treasure or Indiana Jones, though towards the end of the game it takes a swerve that resembles Return to Castle Wolfenstein more than anything. Definitely worth getting if you are looking for a good adventure game on the PS3. Yes, it is a PS3 exclusive.

Prince of Persia (2008)

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Despite that nice new PS3 that I got for Christmas, I’ve not been able to put down my Xbox 360 remote just yet. I’m in the middle of Prince of Persia, and I’m having a lot of fun with it.

I find it ironic that as New Year’s Eve approaches, I’m stuck in the middle of Prince of Persia. A year ago on New Year’s Eve my home was broken into and most of my video games were stolen including two Prince of Persia games;  The Warrior Within and The Two Thrones. I was in the middle of The Warrior Within at the time.

The graphics of the game took me a while to get use to, but they aren’t bad by any means. I was just expecting them to look more like Assassin’s Creed (another awesome game!).

The new Prince of Persia is more of an acrobat story than anything. You spend most of your time jumping, running, and climbing. A few puzzles are mixed in to break things up, but for the most part that is all the game offers.

Combat? Oh sure, you get that on occasion. Usually when you are fighting one of the main bosses, which you’ll do several times. Aside from the bosses, you may run into another enemy here and there, but it’s certainly not the combat game I would have expected.

There is also a good bit of dialogue within the game, part of it offers details to the story, while other parts of the dialogue (usually from the Prince) add some humor and comic relief… some of which has had me rolling on the floor.

Those of you who enjoyed Assassin’s Creed may be happy to know that you can play through Prince of Persia as Altair via an unlockable skin. Both Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia are Ubisoft games.

And I’m Back (Again)

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I’m back again. Upgraded my site to the latest version of WordPress. I must say, I’m really liking the changes to the dashboard! :D

I’ll play around with the other features later. Now, I just need to figure out what I want my next theme to look like… I wish I was more artistic in that regard.

This Should Be Better

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Sorry about the bit of downtime earlier today. I actually moved my site over to a new set of servers in an attempt to improve performance.

When you ask people about GoDaddy.com, most people either hate them or love them. Me? Well, I’m mostly on the love the side of the house. I’ve never had any kind of major problem with them. In fact, when my site was running e107, someone exploited an issue with the services trackback functions. A support rep from GoDaddy contacted me, and we worked to resolve the issue.

I’ve been hosted on GoDaddy now for several years, and like I said, no major problems. However, for the last few months, I’ve noticed a considerable slowdown that just shouldn’t be there considering I’m running a single instance of WordPress. I upgraded PHP, MySQL, and removed plugins in an attempt to speed things up. Nothing had anything more than a marginal impact. So last night, I upgraded my hosting plan moving from GoDaddy’s Linux Shared Hosting package to their new Linux Grid Hosting (beta) package.

I’m really not sure what they mean by beta hosting, but so far it is certainly faster.

Now that the site is working, I’ll have another moment of downtime while I upgrade my WP install to v2.7. ;)