Monday Night Fantasy Football Week 1
Watching Monday Night Football last night, I was impressed with the Destiny trailer that was shown.
I really thought initially that it was a Star Wars preview but was not disappointed when I saw it wasn't. It does bring up an interesting point though – will actual game play be anything like the crafted commercial?
So many times what looks like a great game in trailers and commercials turns out nothing like it in real gameplay. When games can use actual gameplay to portray the trailer rather than the cut scenes, I think we will have a revolution in gaming. Does Destiny attain this level of gameplay? I certainly hope so. I doubt it will happen with my measly Xbox360, but I expect to see cinematic quality gameplay from the nextgen consoles. Anyone see it yet?
Monday Night Fantasy Football
The reason I was watching MNF last night was my fantasy team. I went into the day with 58.2 points on the week, down over 30 points to my opponent. I had 2 players going while he had one. Fortunately, my 2 guys were Matt Stafford who picked up 34 points and Calvin Johnson who grabbed 31.9 points. What was a 30 point deficit ended with me on top by over 20 points. For a first week, I think I did well and I feel like I drafted well. Next week will be interesting as I am sure Andre Ellington will still be questionable so I am not sure who to use as my running backs. I suppose on the whole, I watched a bit more football, but mostly, I watched my ESPN app on my iPad to see how I was doing.
September Featured Link
Today I feature a link from Syp over at Bio Break. Since yesterday was the 48th anniversary of the premier of Star Trek (the original series), I thought it would be appropriate to feature his post In Defense of Star Trek Online's Ground Game. It brings up some very valid points about what was the most unwieldy part of that game when it came out, but what has evolved into one of the only squad based tactical combat simulations in MMOs. While I do like the space combat better since it is reminiscent of Star Fleet Command and Star Fleet Battles, the ground combat has come a long way and is much more enjoyable that it was. Syp lists off 6 reasons supporting the ground portion of the game, and I suggest you give it a read and check out the combat for yourself. It is free to play after all.
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