it's still snowing

Back in 2006 I registered on the Microsoft site that promised free arcade games if you registered your console. I don't have the actual site anymore otherwise I'd post it, no idea if the offer is still on. At the time the site seemed sort of shady, when I visited it some of the images wouldn't load but it recognized my passport logon so I just figured..what the fuck... and filled out the form. Well it turns out that it came in and I got Frogger and Joust for free:





Anyway, decent games..my generation so I had some good memories of both games, especially Joust.

I can't believe how huge Oblivion is really. I finally finished the main storyline and decided to try and get a few of the guild achievements. It took almost 10 hours to complete the fighters guild quest. At this point I'm at just over 60 hours played, this game is fucking huge. I downloaded the Mehrunes Razor quest (which I believe was free on XBLM for a while) and the equipment I got for doing that quest made the game a lot easier (and more fun) so I'll probably be playing Oblivion for a while yet.

I started playing GRAW1 again with a friend from work. I still need to get the co-op achievements anyway and since Microsoft was giving away GRAW1 in a 360 bundle a lot of my friends have the game. The GRAW2 demos are out and initially I wasn't that impressed but the multiplayer demo looks so nice and since I'm having fun with GRAW1 co-op I may bite and buy GRAW2.

Alien Hominid came out on XBLA today, it's great. It's really hard but technically I find it really impressive. The framerate is really good and looks awesome on my TV, vibrant colors and whatnot. I should probably post pictures of my TV, I found out by accident that it has a "freeze" option so I should be able to take some decent pictures of it.