Justin & Jesse's Blog

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Per Jason's Request

This would actually fit a CD if it was a real CD player...

Any other requests from anyone??

Spooky!

I love Halloween and I am so excited for Halloween, even though Justin and I won't really be celebrating it. I got into the Halloween spirit by decorating. Take a look:

This is a Christmas tree that got overtaken by Halloween spiders.

This is Justin's broken bike that got infested with big spiders.

These are the pumpkins that have been sitting right inside our door for about a week. Maybe we'll carve them today.

Check out our bat and ghost-infested trees. Ahh! (It's scarier at night)

I named him Todd.

This is all about guitar hero.....really!

So what has Justin been doing while Jesse builds an entire civilization with legos? He has been playing the new guitar hero game. I actually am not allowed to rent games until they have been out for two weeks, but i found a coupon, which means i found a loop hole. So i used this coupon to rent it on sunday on my regular account that i had before i started working at hollywood. I was so very excited to see that the guitar hero game works with my rock band equipment. It makes me very happy. I have enjoyed playing the game quite a bit but i do have some issues with it. First and foremost, the music on the game isn't loud enough. I have our playstation hooked up to our surround sound. When i play rock band, i can't turn it up louder than 30 or the neighbors be complainin'. One time i did turn it up to 20 and it blew my face off....it was the most awesome thing ever. But the sound on guitar hero i have to turn up to 20 and i can still barely hear it when i am playing. It drives me freaking nuts. I have even turned the volume up in the options all they way......and nothing. Whatever. The other issue i have with it, is that it is WAY easier than rock band. Even though i am a wicked awesome expert drummer on rock band, i hadn't heard of most of these songs and i thought it would be best to start on hard. Guitar hero's hard is the equivalent of rock band's medium. I am just coasting through all of the songs, it feels way too simple. So i thought, "is it possible that i am just this awesome and it really is harder than i am making it look?" The answer to this is yes and no. I walked into game crazy today (for those that aren't familiar with hollywood video they have a seperate store inside of hollywood video that is called game crazy, they do the games...it really is just what it sounds like) because they were playing the new guitar hero. Yes, these guys make like three hundred dollars a day. They go hours and hours without a customer and they just get to play video games all day....it's pretty sweet. Anyway, i have a good report with a couple of the guys that work there, and one of them is exactly like you nic! It's crazy. Same voice, same laugh, same sense of humor, it's insane. So i was talking to him and i asked him if he thought it was easier than rock band. He concurred. He said there was only one song on guitar hero that he couldn't play and there were about fifteen on rock band that he couldn't play. I can't believe i am talking on this long about guitar hero....oh well. I am a dork, i know this. So basically i just wish it was a little harder because i am awesome. Oh yeah, and i did play some songs on expert today and the jump between hard and expert is pretty flippin' extreme. It's equal to playing rock band and going from medium to expert. I don't think Guitar hero's hard really prepares you for expert at all. One thing i do like though is that you can make more mistakes in guitar hero and still pass the song. On expert in rock band if you miss like five notes you get booed off stage. It's pretty intense. That's my guitar hero story. It is still tons of crazy fun though. I just rented the are you smarter than a fifth grader game too, and apparently i am not.....four times. I will be tomorrow though. Give me video game glory or give me death.