I want a Ducati.
Well, I'm now up to speed with Matrix #2 - after I missed it's run on the big screens, it finally made to my little one in the living room.
It has to be said - riding a nice new, thoughtfully-fueled-up, shiny Ducati, full out, the wrong way down a crowded freeway & watching the resulting mayhem is a highly entertaining way to spend ones time. This is exactly the kind of thing that any decent driving game should strive to let you do, since actually attempting such things on real (Ha! What is real, anyway?) freeways would probably be considered a tadge anti-social.
Roll on Matrix Revolutions!
In other news - I like what I've seen so far in FF:XI, with the one exception being the totally insane installation & configuration setup that literally takes hours (though, the 1 1/2 hour patch download served a purpose in forcing me to actually go and finish writing out checks to pay bills & stuff). Oh, actually - there was another annoyance - having to repeatedly create & delete my character until I got the same server as the other folks I know on the game. This would have been fine, except I probably went thru this rigmarole several hundred times without ever getting that server (it took a World Pass via togabitoion to get me there). I think that I managed to see most, if not all of the other 27 servers, though (one was called Carbuncle, I think - lovely name :) ). But, aside from that - the actual game rates highly in the eye-candy dept. & there seems to be plenty to keep one entertained, even when in solo mode. Oh... and the Tarutaru are disturbingly cute! (and I'm not just saying that to tweak disposableninja!)
It has to be said - riding a nice new, thoughtfully-fueled-up, shiny Ducati, full out, the wrong way down a crowded freeway & watching the resulting mayhem is a highly entertaining way to spend ones time. This is exactly the kind of thing that any decent driving game should strive to let you do, since actually attempting such things on real (Ha! What is real, anyway?) freeways would probably be considered a tadge anti-social.
Roll on Matrix Revolutions!
In other news - I like what I've seen so far in FF:XI, with the one exception being the totally insane installation & configuration setup that literally takes hours (though, the 1 1/2 hour patch download served a purpose in forcing me to actually go and finish writing out checks to pay bills & stuff). Oh, actually - there was another annoyance - having to repeatedly create & delete my character until I got the same server as the other folks I know on the game. This would have been fine, except I probably went thru this rigmarole several hundred times without ever getting that server (it took a World Pass via togabitoion to get me there). I think that I managed to see most, if not all of the other 27 servers, though (one was called Carbuncle, I think - lovely name :) ). But, aside from that - the actual game rates highly in the eye-candy dept. & there seems to be plenty to keep one entertained, even when in solo mode. Oh... and the Tarutaru are disturbingly cute! (and I'm not just saying that to tweak disposableninja!)