So now my good friend is borrowing Fallout 3 and I feel like I've got nothing to play. (Can you imagine? A problem like that at this time of year?)
I beat Fable 2 the other day and couldn't have cared less about the plot. I'm not sure what the point of the game is after beating it. (I'm not sure what the point of the plot was either. It was so cold and distant that I scarcely felt a part of it.) You can buy more property and do some sidequests and earn more gold that's ultimately pointless... I don't know. Maybe it just doesn't "jive" with me completely. I don't really understand the purpose of playing it more. So I can make my character even more hideous? Seriously, get a good look at your character when you start, because they'll never look more attractive than they do then.
I don't really want to play Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts either. If it was a platformer, that'd be a different story. Guess I'll just have to wait until GameStop gets my preorder code in so I can play a Banjo game I enjoy.
I thought about playing some Orange Box and finally finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 2, but right now I want to play a game that I can ignore the specifics of so I can catch up on podcasts. I played a few Portal challenges, but gave up when I remembered how frustrating it was to get gold medals (I sincerely hope the console versions are more lenient with time trials than the PC version).
Next I decided to play some XBLA games. I got new personal high scores in Hexic and Geometry Wars and then I tried the demos for Bomberman Live and Age of Booty. Neither of those where bad, and had I a copious amount of pretend Microsoft money, I'd purchase them. Bomberman could potentially be quite fun online (as I'm sure anyone who played it in the NES days knows) and Age of Booty was like an even more simplified Civilization Revolution. Now there's a game I'd like to play right now... It has the perfect balance of involvement and not-having-to-pay-attention for listening to podcasts.
Or what would also be really good is a version of Tetris Attack for XBLA. Queue up the music for Poochie's stage and I'd buy that for a dollar... Or five.
It makes no sense that I feel like I have nothing to play at this time of the year -- not to mention all my old games I could enjoy. Listening to the Retronauts podcast on Chrono Cross/Radical Dreamers makes me want to play those, even though I sort of despise them. (To put it succinctly: As a standalone game, Chrono Cross is fairly good. As a sequel to Chrono Trigger, it's terrible.)
Or maybe I'll just fire up some Yoshi's Island or Super Mario Bros. 3 and have at it. Those are always fun.
And to anyone that has to work on Thanksgiving/Christmas: Fuck your employer. Bunch of greedy pricks... I bet your CEOs aren't working those days, are they?
I beat Fable 2 the other day and couldn't have cared less about the plot. I'm not sure what the point of the game is after beating it. (I'm not sure what the point of the plot was either. It was so cold and distant that I scarcely felt a part of it.) You can buy more property and do some sidequests and earn more gold that's ultimately pointless... I don't know. Maybe it just doesn't "jive" with me completely. I don't really understand the purpose of playing it more. So I can make my character even more hideous? Seriously, get a good look at your character when you start, because they'll never look more attractive than they do then.
I don't really want to play Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts either. If it was a platformer, that'd be a different story. Guess I'll just have to wait until GameStop gets my preorder code in so I can play a Banjo game I enjoy.
I thought about playing some Orange Box and finally finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 2, but right now I want to play a game that I can ignore the specifics of so I can catch up on podcasts. I played a few Portal challenges, but gave up when I remembered how frustrating it was to get gold medals (I sincerely hope the console versions are more lenient with time trials than the PC version).
Next I decided to play some XBLA games. I got new personal high scores in Hexic and Geometry Wars and then I tried the demos for Bomberman Live and Age of Booty. Neither of those where bad, and had I a copious amount of pretend Microsoft money, I'd purchase them. Bomberman could potentially be quite fun online (as I'm sure anyone who played it in the NES days knows) and Age of Booty was like an even more simplified Civilization Revolution. Now there's a game I'd like to play right now... It has the perfect balance of involvement and not-having-to-pay-attention for listening to podcasts.
Or what would also be really good is a version of Tetris Attack for XBLA. Queue up the music for Poochie's stage and I'd buy that for a dollar... Or five.
It makes no sense that I feel like I have nothing to play at this time of the year -- not to mention all my old games I could enjoy. Listening to the Retronauts podcast on Chrono Cross/Radical Dreamers makes me want to play those, even though I sort of despise them. (To put it succinctly: As a standalone game, Chrono Cross is fairly good. As a sequel to Chrono Trigger, it's terrible.)
Or maybe I'll just fire up some Yoshi's Island or Super Mario Bros. 3 and have at it. Those are always fun.
And to anyone that has to work on Thanksgiving/Christmas: Fuck your employer. Bunch of greedy pricks... I bet your CEOs aren't working those days, are they?
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