Stuff.
I finished MGS4 Saturday morning, clocking in at almost exactly 20 hours play time when I did my post-credits save. There isn't much to say, it's the most fun I've had playing a game in -- well, I don't even know how long. But I'm leary to say much more until more people have played / finished the game.
When you finish the game, among other things, you unlock a new difficulty level called "Extreme Boss." Well, Extreme Boss mode is... extreme. I started a few file to try and do a No Alerts, No Kills play through, but I'll be damned it is remarkably hard on that difficulty setting. So I may have to turn it back a notch.
I'm not sure what else I want to play, now. I've made some pretty good ground on my backlog in the last few weeks. I've still never played Metal Gear Portable Ops, which of course would be closer to the mood now. I'm not that far into GTA IV and I still have Twilight Princess unfinished. And then there is Mass Effect, which I never wound up starting.
Oh yeah, I finally started playing FF2 on the PSP. And wow -- it is definitely the worst game in the series! I feel an obligation to try and finish it, because I'd be annoyed having there still only be one game in the main series I have not completed, but I'll be damned if this game doesn't manage to ever go more than 5 minutes without pissing me off. Whether it's the extremely repetitive travel (you seem to spend many, many hours traveling between the same 4 cities, forced to fight the same mobs you could 1-shot many "levels" ago), the ridiculously poor balance (new dungeons filled with a mix of mobs where you one-shot some, and deal 0 damage to others), the usual annoyance of magic in early FFs (some mobs can only be hurt by magic, but you only have enough MP to cast 5 spells), or the ridiculous amount of thousands of gil needed and mobs often only drop 5. This game makes me wish Game Genies were still around.
OK, but enough BS about video games. So, what other fun stuff has been happening. Well, I got caught in a dust storm yesterday. And then an hour later, I managed to hydroplane -through- an intersection. That was awesome! Although I almost died. Last week, AK and I took the john boat out to go fishing on Tuesday (took the day off), and we got stopped by conservation police (who almost tried to "board the vessel"). They made me row to shore since we didn't have life jackets on board. The whole story is actually pretty funny, but it'd have to be told in person!
When you finish the game, among other things, you unlock a new difficulty level called "Extreme Boss." Well, Extreme Boss mode is... extreme. I started a few file to try and do a No Alerts, No Kills play through, but I'll be damned it is remarkably hard on that difficulty setting. So I may have to turn it back a notch.
I'm not sure what else I want to play, now. I've made some pretty good ground on my backlog in the last few weeks. I've still never played Metal Gear Portable Ops, which of course would be closer to the mood now. I'm not that far into GTA IV and I still have Twilight Princess unfinished. And then there is Mass Effect, which I never wound up starting.
Oh yeah, I finally started playing FF2 on the PSP. And wow -- it is definitely the worst game in the series! I feel an obligation to try and finish it, because I'd be annoyed having there still only be one game in the main series I have not completed, but I'll be damned if this game doesn't manage to ever go more than 5 minutes without pissing me off. Whether it's the extremely repetitive travel (you seem to spend many, many hours traveling between the same 4 cities, forced to fight the same mobs you could 1-shot many "levels" ago), the ridiculously poor balance (new dungeons filled with a mix of mobs where you one-shot some, and deal 0 damage to others), the usual annoyance of magic in early FFs (some mobs can only be hurt by magic, but you only have enough MP to cast 5 spells), or the ridiculous amount of thousands of gil needed and mobs often only drop 5. This game makes me wish Game Genies were still around.
OK, but enough BS about video games. So, what other fun stuff has been happening. Well, I got caught in a dust storm yesterday. And then an hour later, I managed to hydroplane -through- an intersection. That was awesome! Although I almost died. Last week, AK and I took the john boat out to go fishing on Tuesday (took the day off), and we got stopped by conservation police (who almost tried to "board the vessel"). They made me row to shore since we didn't have life jackets on board. The whole story is actually pretty funny, but it'd have to be told in person!