*gasp* An update!
Two hours before I should be getting ready for an exciting day at work (senior citizen day, oh joy ) and I realized that I had a lot more to say in this journal than I have been doing as of late. Not that there hasn’t been an abundance of video game playage (without cable I have little else to entertain myself) but a lack of internet has played some part in it. As we speak in order to leech a signal off of the neighbor I have to sit in a very specific place in my bed and hold my netbook high overhead, hoping that what weak signal there is will register with my wireless card and won’t water long enough for me to do something on here. It’s been annoying, taxing, and very un-fun, though supposedly we will have real internet by Friday.
My God of War stint is not over but has been put on indefinite hold. I got through God of War with relative ease and enjoyed myself tremendously (though in the last fight against Ares my game glitched for some four minutes where I had to listen to Kratos and Ares grunt and groan and clash swords while their on-screen counterparts were frozen before, with a stroke of luck, the game righted itself and I could finish pounding Ares’ hairy face in) but now in God of War II I’ve faced some problems. Specifically a glitch that, according to some forums online, a lot of people have had to face. Countless times I’ve tried the level right before Icarus is to appear, just after getting the Spear of Destiny. It’s just about then, before the jumping puzzle, that my game refuses to load half the level. A few times I beat it into submission only to have it freeze right after the level, much to my frustration. So sometime in the future I’ll be either getting my disk cleaned and fixed (maybe it’s the scratches on it?) or having to invest in a new one entirely. I’m too poor to do either at the moment, unfortunately.
In other news, for the first time in my life I kicked serious ass at Street Fighter. Friends of mine have a working and fully functional Sega Genesis and it’s like being sucked right back into my childhood holding that controller. Though normally I’m horrible at fighting games I won seven rounds in a row! No one could contain my childish glee and breathless laughter as I hauled ass with Blanka, Dhalsim, Honda and M. Bison (though Vega was a bad choice and led to my first defeat, doh). Even with the GP2X nothing beats playing things on a real console.
Which brings me to another point of interest: The Wii. There are probably a lot of people who know me that have heard me rant both about the Wii and about touch screens both; I can’t help but think of them as some novelty or fad that, while entertaining for a short while, won’t last. And if they do I fear we’ll be reaching the end of the real console era, if Microsoft and all these new-wave controller-less games pick up.
Am I the only one not excited for all that? I will admit that games while Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Mario Party 8 have been pretty fun (and I’ve very much played them in the last week) but I find myself shortly bored and yearning for a N64 to whomp some ass on (and I do have one but my shitty old Mad Catz controller finally shitted out months ago and I still have not come upon a 64 controller). The motion control, tilting and even the jack-off games (probably the funnest, more perverted and most fun things to do on the Wii games if you ask me, who doesn’t like to watch their friends violently shaking a Wii-mote up and down while you make penis jokes?) wears out on me quick. And I don’t like the fact that I have to sit up for some games. Sit up? Sit up?! I’m a lazy gamer. I like me a control in my hands as I flop on a couch and stare at the screen while my thumbs do all the work. Though I will admit I found ways to cheat through the whole getting-off-my-ass part of Wario Ware by just moving the controller as if I had done so. All in a day’s work.
Either way, I’m not sure where I’m going with this really. The Wii has been some temporary fun but if I was going to put my money towards anything right now it’d be a 360 and the chances of that happening are zill to none. Goal of the month: find an N64 controller, get through Ocarina of Time (which I was playing when my controller unfortunately busted) and find cheap old games to keep me entertained.
On a side note in Super Smash Brothers Brawl did anyone else notice that the weird adventure-mode thing seems a lot like a bad crossover fanfic? I only watched V play and am tempted to do so myself just because of how damn ridiculous it looks.
That and I’m pretty sure I’m going as this for Halloween:
