Video Games
Last night went over to John & Jenny's, where they let Allison and I play probably 2 1/2 -3 hours of a video game called Heavy Rain. Allison and I shared the controller, passing it back and forth and switching out characters so that we could both get a feel of the game and have fun making decisions in the game that changed the storyline. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm pretty video game stupid-- I never grew up with video games, so I don't really know my way around controllers. I had gameboys as a child, but for the most part I was only allowed to play them on vacations and really long car rides. A my cousins' house in Chicago I got to play Ninento (super old school), and sometimes Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega, but these were few and far between.
Luckily in college friends like Josh and Keith were kind enough to let me play occassionally with them, where I got to try out games like Super Smash Brothers and Naruto fighting games. Not knowing how to use controllers well kind of helped me in the long run, because my "strategy" was just pressing buttons at random and hoping that it did something, though I'm sure that was annoying!
At John and Jenny's I have had a chance to play a little of Prince of Persia, Indigo Prophecy, and Silent Hill, which were really fun (but hard for me), among some other games, but Heavy Rain is the first one we've actually saved the game to continue playing later. I can do the controls for the most part, but the faster action-based times during game are much harder for me (I think I've either killed or nearly killed one of the characters already, I hope he's okay!). Either way, I'm having fun playing it.
I still want to buy a game system for myself, but financial difficulties have left me wondering if I should be spending that kind of money on a form of entertainment, even just $100 on a used game console. But we'll see.
Luckily in college friends like Josh and Keith were kind enough to let me play occassionally with them, where I got to try out games like Super Smash Brothers and Naruto fighting games. Not knowing how to use controllers well kind of helped me in the long run, because my "strategy" was just pressing buttons at random and hoping that it did something, though I'm sure that was annoying!
At John and Jenny's I have had a chance to play a little of Prince of Persia, Indigo Prophecy, and Silent Hill, which were really fun (but hard for me), among some other games, but Heavy Rain is the first one we've actually saved the game to continue playing later. I can do the controls for the most part, but the faster action-based times during game are much harder for me (I think I've either killed or nearly killed one of the characters already, I hope he's okay!). Either way, I'm having fun playing it.
I still want to buy a game system for myself, but financial difficulties have left me wondering if I should be spending that kind of money on a form of entertainment, even just $100 on a used game console. But we'll see.