Hello review readers and friends a like, I know it's been a long time since I've written a review but that is going to be changing as of today. Before I jump into it, I would like to send a huge apology to everyone who has read and followed my reviews I should have been on more to do these and not have gotten so far behind but I love you guys and hope you'll continue to read what I review. Okay so L.A. Noire is quite a fascinating game about what detective work was like in 1950's. And I want to go on record and say that Rockstar games did a wonderful job with how detailed and how far they took the idea.

Overall I rate this game at 9.4, I loved the game it's long but not ridiculously long as to spending your whole natural life trying to reach the end. However, there were a few things within the game that have caused me to put it down for a little while but nothing to game breaking or over the top annoying. I would say it would mostly be missions involving high speed chases. The graphics are great, a solid 9 if I do say so myself. The characters move pretty realistically and talking scenes matched up very well with the lip movement of the character speaking.

Which brings me to the sounds, I rated the sounds at a 10. I personally believe without a doubt that the city noises really brought this game to life, it made the whole experience feel way more realistic and enjoyable. Even the police sirens sounded great, even though they got annoying fast. And the music, although simple is really quite nice to listen to I liked the music quite a bit and even got one of the tracks stuck in my head a few times.

Addictiveness, this is probably one of my favorite parts aside from story to review but I digress. I rated this game an 8 for addictiveness, when I first bought the game I couldn't put it down I was absolutely hooked. As I mentioned before the only times I really put the game down was when it got a little to challenging for me, and I don't know about you guys but when I play the same part of a game like fifty times in a row I tend to get a little bit ragey.

Now it's story time, okay so L.A. Noire does kind of lack in the story department. I rated the story a 6, and that is generous. They tried to implement a story in there but it's nothing to in-depth. You are a detective and war hero, you have a wife, and if I remember correctly a child as well but you don't see him/her, your name is detective Phelps and you solve murder cases. See pretty simple, right? But they did try, by showing you all the different levels of detective that he becomes from homicide to arson. Now here is a little personal theory of mine, but I think that the game would have been made a lot more interesting story wise if they would have implemented more of the Black Dahlia murder case in it. You see Phelps is somewhat interested in the Dahlia murderer and some of his cases turn out to be very similar and he tends to think he is on top of whomever killed Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia), he even gets clues from the murderer...but that's it, after a certain point in the game that is all gone. Which was kind of a bummer for me but did not at all ruin the game.

As for depth, no doubt I rated this game a 10. Not only does it have some length to it, but it shows you all of the different things an actual detective goes through on a daily basis such as high speed car chases, interrogations, investigating crime scenes you name it. Needless to say that it was mostly the gameplay that had me hooked. Now difficulty, I had to rate a 9 and here is why. You remember those high speed chases I mentioned? Yeah, well they start off pretty easy but once you really get into the bulk of the city they become rather difficult and not only are those hard but sometimes even tailing a person can be a challenge and you run into them quite often whether it be the main case you're working on or a side mission that you ran into on the way. So if you love a good challenge this may just be your game, or maybe I suck at it either way those were kind of hard for me.

All in all L.A. Noire, although lacking story is a great game and one of my personal favorites on the 360. I highly recommend it to anyone who really enjoys things about detectives or anyone who even has a slight interest in the Black Dahlia murder case. It has great gameplay, sounds and graphics. Not to mention that it runs pretty smoothly, I don't really remember running into a bug or anything like that. Thank you all for reading this coming back review I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope you all forgive me for being away for so long again I am really sorry about that. Well, until next review see you guys.

Resident Evil has always been one of those games series where I sit and wonder, how in the world did it get as popular as it is? Don't get me wrong the games are good, and definitely deserve some praise. However, I could never find my way around the horrible acting scenes, the clunky moving controls and awful dialogue to really take the game seriously. Again this doesn't mean that I did not enjoy the games, I did they where a lot of fun once I could get use to how the characters moved. A big misconception about this game is that it was the first survival horror games to be created, it isn't although I'm not entirely sure what game in the genre came first but I do know that Alone in the Dark was before Resident Evil.

Anyway, back to the topic Resident Evil I rated this game an 8.7 where this game lacks it makes up for it with it's fun and challenging puzzles and storyline which I found very interesting, not the greatest story I have heard in a video game mind you but a good one nonetheless. And I would like to point out that for me there was just a few things that made this game lack, and there are a few things that I felt could have made this game a whole lot better than what it was. For starters, smarter zombie A.I.'s the zombies are easily avoidable in this game for the most part, sure maybe a few here and there you will need to kill to progress onward but the rest you can easily just dodge around and continue on. I actually feel like I am wasting ammo when killing a zombie in this game because of this. Another thing would definitely have to be better acting, if you have seen the cut scenes in this game you know what I am talking about....-cough cough- Berry -cough cough-

As for the graphics, they were pretty standard for the PlayStation's time they were not bad but not the greatest I have ever seen on the system so I rated them a 5. I felt that the graphics could have been upped quite a bit and made to look a lot better. However, everything still looks pretty good things a identifiable and to me that is very important if I can't tell that a door is a door then we have a problem because I am just going to keep walking past it every time. As for the character models, things are a bit different I think that the models look fantastic for the PlayStation era, best I have seen in my personal opinion on the system. Legs and arms are more defined and not very blocky or unshapely like in Final Fantasy VII.

The sounds of the game to be totally and completely honest didn't impress me very much, there was no music that caught my attention some of the in game sounds got kind of annoying after hearing them for the millionth time and the zombies moaning and grunting noises got kind of old. So I rated the sound a 5. As for the addictiveness I rated the game an 8, it was a very good game despite it's flaws. But think about it, what games doesn't have flaws? I would definitely pick this game back up again if I had it, and a PlayStation again for that matter. I remember when I first played it, honestly I hated it I couldn't figure out the controls, but then I was young and tried it again when I was a little older and had a way different opinion yeah the movement still sucked but it wasn't by any means a bad game.

Now onward to my favorite part of any review, the story for this game I rated the story an 8. This game had a great storyline to me. However, I felt that it was one of those story's that is in almost every zombie type game where your number one goal is like always to survive. But Resident Evil did it a little differently, for the whole zombie outbreak is not caused by some kind of radioactivity or witch doctor or something like that but rather a man creates a virus that infects the dead. How interesting? Because now we have gone from walking dead scary to biological walking dead scary. As you progress through the game you will find things like files and diaries that you can read that helps to explain the story a little better and I personally think that it adds more depth to the game. Going off topic a little, Bioshock did the same idea but with radio diaries to help better understand the story (my favorite survival horror game series). Anyway, Chris and his team were sent to find out who is causing a string of bizarre murders in Raccoon City what they find is a mansion full of zombies and a few dead members of Bravo team who was sent before them and an annoying teenager Rebecca who tries to help you out but fails miserably at the piano. However, things begin to pick up from there when you start to discover that the rest of your team is now missing and you must find them. One thing leads to another and soon everything becomes twisted and out of control. I know this story retelling was a little vague, but I'm trying not to put any spoilers but still give the full effect of the story so I'm sorry if this sounds kind of bad.

As for depth and difficulty I rated them both a 7. The game is about as long as a standard PlayStation game, so maybe a few hours into the game and you will be at the end and to my knowledge I don't remember to much hidden items in the game aside from herbs and clips and shells but the puzzles add a whole new dimension to the game. They can be quite complicated to solve, but when you do figure them out they are very worth it most you have to solve to progress through the game. As for the difficulty you are given three choices normal, training and advanced. Normal would be the same difficulty as the first Resident Evil (the non-director's cut), training is for the beginners and of course advanced is hard and for more experienced players, however they are not to difficult until you progress further in the game. It is all fairly beatable, the bosses being probably the most difficult thing to actually kill, well those and some of the hyper zombies if you are not given enough room.

Thank you all very much for reading my review, I hope you all enjoyed it and will maybe try this game if you haven't already. There will be many more reviews to come, and maybe some more Resident Evil reviews so look forward to that. Until next review.

Probably about the middle of last year I discovered the youtuber Nalif, and I have been hooked on his videos ever since. For those of you who know who Tobuscus is, Nalif was a really good friend of his, and I know I might get a lot of hate for this but I don't find Tobuscus all that funny. However, Nalif is freaking hilarious. Like Toby, Nalif does let's plays as well. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone on here knows of Nalif and if not I thought I could recommend him to a lot of people on here. His most recent let's plays are Dead Space, Dead Space 3 and Ib. I would highly recommend his Bioshock let's play, and The Walking Dead. I think his commentary in those were his best. So what are peoples opinions for those who do know him, or for those who have checked him out?

Well I recently beat The Darkness, Bioshock 1 and 2, and I half beat Arkham City just finishing up some side missions. I'm currently working on Mass Effect, Prototype and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. They are all pretty good games, Mass Effect I'm not completely sure if I'm all the way into yet because I was never really a fan of space video games, but it is cool so far. The Darkness was cool, but can get kind of frustrating, as for Dark Messiah which is also really buggy for instance barrels go through walls instead of breaking. Bioshock so far is my favorite series for the 360, great story and game play. Arkham City was awesome too, but then again I'm a huge Batman fan so that could attribute to it a little, the graphics are phenomenal, and the game play is pretty good too. And I haven't gotten to far in Prototype yet to really give it a judgement, but so far it is pretty cool and seems kind of modern.

I would honestly really like to see it remade for the 360 but I voted 3DS because one I was limited on options, and two it would be more consistent with the other remake they made for ocarina of time. Just makes sense to me, also I see me getting a 3DS over a wii anything any day lol

What does Pokémon mean to me? To me it was life when I was child, I remember going to my Grandmothers house every weekend and watching the newest episode on Kid's WB (anyone remember Kid's WB?),  and playing Red for hours catching and raising the best Pokémon I could. I loved the series and the franchise all together, still do. Sure it may have taken a different route than I expected, but Pokémon got me through a lot of tough times and sure maybe this sounds a little cliché or lame, but Pokémon was and is a big deal to me. Call me a nerd all you want, I will raise Pokémon until I die, and maybe even after. All I have ever wanted was to be a Pokémon Master as a child, and now that I have become older I kind of think of myself as one because I have had Pokémon before the change, before Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh and Unova. And I still have Pokémon, it has always been with me and will always stay with me.

Leanna from Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, I know she was not a bad guy or out to kill you, in fact she helps you though some of the game. I just don't like her, she gets on my nerves I love Xana though (the demon lady in your head) she is my favorite. I would be okay if Xana was helping in the game rather than Leanna.

My favorite PlayStation game is definitely Final Fantasy VII, and I know this sounds kind of predictable for a Final Fantasy fan, but this game was an amazing game when I first played it and I loved it, it was one of the first games that was really like an adventure to me and for a game does that to me is just mind blowing. So yeah Final Fantasy VII, and I think a very close second would have to be Vigilante 8. That is more of a childhood nostalgia though, as a kid my dad and I would play that game all the time.

Hmm that is really hard, I really like the level designs for Sonic 2, mainly because I can blaze right through them beating so many different times XD But I also loved Earthworm Jim, so it is a tie between those two with the first X-Men as a close second. They were fantastic games, which I still own along with my beloved Sega Genesis. I hope it works for forever lol

I know it is not really considered a first person shooter, and more of a survival horror game but I have to say Bioshock. It was so much fun for me, I never really like shooters that much, I enjoy them sure but I don't go out of my way to pick one up. However, Bioshock had a story and a meaning to me to go around doing what you are doing instead of being like pick up this gun and shoot these people because they are bad. There was more to it than that to me anyway, other peoples opinion are probably different.

It really depends, for the most part I start on normal or medium, although on occasion I have started a game on easy more as a look see as to what the game is like before I really try. Once I have beaten it on easy or normal/medium a few times I will then try my hand at the harder modes.

Practically anything on the Punk goes Pop albums are better than the originals, but if I had to choose which cover song I have ever heard that was better than the original would probably have to be Rob Zombie's cover of Brickhouse 2003. I had gotten the Rob Zombie Past Present and Future album a little after I seen him about two years ago at Mayhem fest, and noticed the track listened to it and laughed so hard because it was so unexpected. XD

I checked out Dove by Antihoney, and it is certainly interesting. I liked it, but in my opinion it was just to slow. I listen to a lot of faster paced music. It was good though, and if someone put it on like if I was hanging out I wouldn't complain. So I suppose I choose an artist now, um how about D.R.I. They are an awesome band, but yeah that is my choice. lol

Well I've played with a few different bands, and so well writing kind of becomes part of the job. So I've written some stuff, nothing I think is amazing or great but not terrible. What I usually do, unless I have a great idea for the lyrics is I save the lyrics for last and work on the guitar, because that is what I play, then I'll work on bass (mainly because I know how to play that to, and know in my head how it sounds with the song I'm working on). Then I'll go to whomever is drumming, and doing vocals and work with them on the rest just getting out the drums fills, rhythm and then finally the lyrics (which I work on mainly by myself) and the way the vocals are to sound with the song. It has honestly been a little since I have written anything, I feel kind of inspired to write now lol

This took me some thought, and a few youtube searches, but I think my favorite is one of three:



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This was a really hard choice, thanks for the challenge lol

Jason Voorhees, since I was a little kid I had an obsession with horror movies and it is all because of Jason and Leatherface. The first horror movie I ever saw was Jason Lives, and I thought it was awesome then I watched the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre and since then I have been hooked on the horror movie genre. I still watch all kinds of horror films, the classics are still always the best. But by now I say that I have seen every Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm, Texas Chainsaw, Chucky and so many more. I can't get enough lol