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Let's play the "goddamn, it's early so shutup and get me some coffee" game. ******** daylight savings time, goddamn farmers. Totally screw with my biological/mental clock... All this really means to me is that the sun is going to be very up and very bright when I finally get to log out and head home, and it's most likely going to be right in my goddamn eyes when I try and take a nap to recover from the time change ******** with my sleep last night.
Anyways, all this cranky bitchyness aside, I had a pretty good weekend. I totally geeked out and had a massive gaming weekend. A nice influx of money from directly-deposited paychecks, and the fact that I aven't really bought anything other than necessities for a month or two meant I had some spare cash lying around. So, after the trip costs, I wasn't doing too bad. What does any gamer with some cash do? Buy games. Not that hard of an intuitive leap, really.
So, I'm on this 3rd person action adventure kick. I didn't know it until I looked at the games I just bought. God of War, Devil May Cry 3, Mark of the Kri (6$!) and Monster hunter. All 3rd person action adventures. Now, I've got a bit to say about all of them, so if you're not a gamer, don't bother reading.
God of War - Hooboy, this game rocked. I've already beat it and had a kickass time doing so. Combat is so highly entertaining, chains and blades cutting through the air, flying about, explosions, blood, customized death.. Quality falls from its' proverbial wazoo, all clean and crisp. Basically, all the reveiws are right. If you like these kinda games, buy this one. Now. It's also one of the prettiest acton games I've played recently, putting some pc titles to shame. Fighting a minitaur the size of a goddamn house is such a wonderful experience, I now wonder why I haven't done it more often.
A lot of games have a reward system, giving you new and nifty s**t after completing certain tasks. Sometimes, the spacing is lacking. Like in the Devil may cry series. You experience long draughts with no new s**t, no tangible reward for kicking so much a**. God of war just keeps giving you s**t. Almost too often. every corner you turn, it's giving you something new. "hey, way to not piss yourself for 20 minutes, here's a new attack!" 10 minutes later: "Hey, you didn't s**t yourself either.. here's a new special move!" Not that it's bad, it's actually kind of cool. My only big beef You spend all this tim becoming so badass it hurts, you do some very, very cool s**t, and they reward you with new weapons. New weapons you never get to use. Why? Because you can't carry your character over to a harder difficulty. Why even give me the goddamn weapons if I never get to use them? ********, that's just being a tease.
Anyways, buy the damn game.
Devil may cry 3 - I've been gaming for years. Longer than some people have been alive. Since I was 3, in fact, when my dad sat me down in front of a breakout clone called Ball. So, I'm not some ******** newbie to this. I tend to hand games their a** on a platter and have time to arrange the a** nicely, with a garnish. Except the rare game that fights back. DMC3 doesn't fight back. It jams itself into places best not mentioned, and starts chewing. It's that hardcore. I had read the reveiws, and expected a challenge.. not this crazy amount of s**t. Basically, the first two levels will teach you a new defenition of pain and frustration, and follow it up on the fifth with a little reminder that this game could, conceivably, kick your a** at the drop of a hat. Whenever it feels like it. It comes in, bloodies your nose, and then sits down and lets you play, but it's still that menace sitting in the corner. Once I have resoundingly conquered it, I'm going to wak over to that corner and pay the ******** back for levels 1-3. Other than that, pretty good so far.
Haven't gotten too much time with monster hunter or mark of the kri yet, so expect better reveiws soon. Just this note on monster hunter: Holding a 100 pound, 6 foot sword, and using it to smack around gazelles and deer is funny as hell. Altough, not quite as funny as missing and watching the gazelle kick your a**. Seriously. I killed this velociraptor type beastie, 3 of em' at once with no issues. First time I die? A gazelle beats me to death. That was just too funny to be embarassing.
Other notes:
The man show was a great, great show. The season 1 collection rocks.
Collecting things is going to kill me. I'm collecting transmetropolitan (read it, wankers!) and I thought that was enough, but no... Now I have to start buying Hellsing DVD's. Maybe Cowboy bebop DVD's, too. Tell ya what; Just take all my money now, okay? Maybe I'll finish them of at the convention.
Tiki cups are cool.
 Twistex · Mon Apr 04, 2005 @ 01:44pm · 4 Comments |
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