God only knows, and that's the best part. However, I can make some guesses. Number one has to be my acquisition of at least $400 in illegal software from A. Bakes. My highlights, you ask? Well, keeping with my current fetish for Lucas games I am now running Jedi Academy, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Republic Commando. Jedi Academy got pushed to the back burner early. It was like KotOR, but not as good. I started in on Battlefront.
Picture this for a game premise: Exactly the same as Battlefield 1942, only you're playing Star Wars characters. You can play the Droid Army, Old Republic, Empire, or Rebels. They all have 5 different classes which all have different weapons, although it's pretty easy to see which characters are analogous between the armies. Clone Jetpack Troopers have to be the best thing going for that game. Also, it's old enough that I can run it in 1600x1200 resolution with almost no lag, which rocks balls. Only sniping is difficult, and as my favorite race is the clone troopers (whose snipers suck) that's not a huge issue. However, while it's very cool to see AT-ATs on the feild of battle, destroying them is hard as hell, and unfortunately the same goes for all the other vehicles (of which there are an impressive number also). Basically, in spite of the fact that every race has a "demolitions"-esque trooper, none of them are worthwhile. As far as I know none of them can even track targets with their projectiles. Basically, to kill a vehicle you need another vehicle. Also, like BF, this game is meant for multiplayer: I beat both campaigns (Clone Wars and "real" Star Wars) in 5 hours.
Republic Commando=Beautiful game. How much more can I say? You're the head of a four man squad of commandos who just run around killing more battle droids than you can shake a vibro-blade at (which, coincidentally, is my favourite method of disposing of said droids). The best part? Basically being immortal. You and your team all have bacta processing implants, and when one of you gets "incapacitated" one of the others can administer a feild-bacta pack (unlimited in number), and bring you back to 50% health. Unless the whole squad is down you'll all be back soon. That being said, this doesn't make the game easy. There would be no way to win against the shit they throw at you without it. Anyway, the game is clearly a console port because the controls are very easy (as opposed to UT2004 where every button on the keyboard does something). A good side/bad side would be that your team won't engage in sniping or demolitions unless you order them to at specific points (generally behind cover). however, if all three of your subordinates are engaged in sniping "maneuvers", pointing down the same hallway, you're basically untouchable. These guys aren't called Commandos just to sell the game.
This is getting too long (Ellen has probably stopped reading by now) so, I'll conclude the gaming portion by saying that AOE3 is pretty nice, but I've only been playing the campaign, and thus haven't built up a strong home-city in random maps. Fable was good for the 15 minutes I invested in the first quest (also able to run at 1600x1200). After that I installed more Star Wars, and went to bed.
I have exciting news: I did cardiovascular exercise today. I know, you're shocked, but it was fun! I played road hockey for an hour with Tyler Vivian and some of his friends, and, aside from a brief stint in the net, it was not bad. I dunno what's up with me. I mean, that's literally the most exercise I've had in probably a year or more. Yeah...weird, hunh?
About T. Vivian (#9, ladies), I'm confused. As I've mentioned before, all through high-school I just kind of knew who he was, and regarded him with light disdain as a huge jock. Now that I'm getting to hang with him more, he's actually fleshing out into a real person. But there are times when I just don't get him. Yesterday the man made fun of his girlfriend for literlly 20 minutes. He just wouldn't stop. She told him a (hurtful) nickname that kids had called her in public school, and he just cut into her with it. She eventually snapped and shoved him, and he took her down, catching her at the last second, but holding her there prone, asking if she was done. He then proceeded to not stop calling her the name. Needless to say, she didn't stick around to get Swiss Chalet with us. Now, perhaps I, havin maybe a little too much empathy for people who got picked on in public school, may have been overreacting to Tyler, who, of course, has no empahty for such people, being the one who probably called the names back then. I don't think he's a bad person for being a popular kid in school, but i'm shocked at the total lack of understanding about what it's like to have someone call you names, and not stop. I dunno. Everything seems to be fine now, so presumeably I'm making a big deal of nothing.
Speaking of him, I've gotta grab some dinner and then go to his last volleyball game. He'll probably be playing Labarro (Laberro Labarrough...) which means they'll probably lose in 3 games. Not that he's a shitty labarro, but when he played power, they would lose in 5 games instead of 3, and some of those games got to the 30 point range. It could be coincidence...
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4 comments:
Hey! I read the whole thing!
Computer games are stupid.
And Tyler Vivian has always been like that! I've gone to school with him since teh 1st grade. I attribute it to having a family that was incredible hard as him as a child. He must be the best!
Anyway, I'm sure he's a good guy.
**Ellen
He is, but god help you if you're in a serious disagreement. Until he dropped his girlfriend I didn't really realize how fast/big he really is.
Wow.
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Wow
video games, tyler vivian (don't know who he is, but he sounds like a prick.), swiss chalet, and of course volleyball.
wow
oh, and hurley...
..theatre is stupid.
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