My entertainment cup runneth over
I just finished the first level of Halo: Anniversary Edition and failed to make it past the first checkpoint on the second level. Also, though I unlocked the "Overshields are for sissies" Achievement I failed to find the first Terminal. I am self-disappoint. Then again, I am playing on Legendary... and it's been years since I last played Halo 1... so perhaps I should cut myself a bit of slack on that.
Still near the Xbox is my copy of Forza Motorsport 4, whose discs (note plural) may as well have been pressed from crack cocaine. I never was one for racing games, shunning the Burnouts and even disdaining the vehicular portions of Crackdown in favour of running... though in the latter case leaping over buildings is a lot of fun in itself. Before Forza the only race game I had was Outrun, but Turn 10 managed to get a little something into their game that was enough to draw me in. (And not just the Top Gear integration either.) I think I'll be playing it as long as I have any of my beloved Halos; I'm so confident on that I bought the Season Pass for their DLC for the rest of the year. Vroom-vroom!...
I also have a Ghost in the Shell DVD I picked up at a charity sale last month yet to watch, as well as a brand-new Blu-Ray/IMAX on the Hubble Space Telescope that should be awesome to watch.
On top of all that, my to-read pile currently consists of Children of the Sky (Vinge's direct sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep) which I'm about half-way through, Traviss' Halo: Glasslands, and Stross' Rule 34 (sequel to the 2nd-person POV novel Halting State).
Even if I dump all of my social stuff, it'll take me the rest of the month to exhaust this supply... and the year's far from over yet.
-- Steve wishes he could do without sleep. There's so much doable and so little time to do it in...
Still near the Xbox is my copy of Forza Motorsport 4, whose discs (note plural) may as well have been pressed from crack cocaine. I never was one for racing games, shunning the Burnouts and even disdaining the vehicular portions of Crackdown in favour of running... though in the latter case leaping over buildings is a lot of fun in itself. Before Forza the only race game I had was Outrun, but Turn 10 managed to get a little something into their game that was enough to draw me in. (And not just the Top Gear integration either.) I think I'll be playing it as long as I have any of my beloved Halos; I'm so confident on that I bought the Season Pass for their DLC for the rest of the year. Vroom-vroom!...
I also have a Ghost in the Shell DVD I picked up at a charity sale last month yet to watch, as well as a brand-new Blu-Ray/IMAX on the Hubble Space Telescope that should be awesome to watch.
On top of all that, my to-read pile currently consists of Children of the Sky (Vinge's direct sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep) which I'm about half-way through, Traviss' Halo: Glasslands, and Stross' Rule 34 (sequel to the 2nd-person POV novel Halting State).
Even if I dump all of my social stuff, it'll take me the rest of the month to exhaust this supply... and the year's far from over yet.
-- Steve wishes he could do without sleep. There's so much doable and so little time to do it in...