Serving you hookers and blackjack. Without the hookers. Or the blackjack.
My JET application is now in the hands of the Japanese consulate. It’s both frightening and exciting (mostly frightening) that the next few years of my life are about to be determined in the coming months.
Well, I can’t say much more now, I won’t know if I got an interview until fucking January. Crazy! Guess it’s time to start studying for the JLPT…
I can’t be TheTrin’s nemesis if I don’t argue back, right?
While I mostly agree with what he said in his article on co-op play in games and what makes it so great, he unfortunately didn’t dabble upon what makes it suck.
Reality.
“Now, rk,” you say in that sexy, seductive voice as you bite your lip in that way that drives me mad, “‘reality’ doesn’t make sense as an argument!” No, it doesn’t. But it’s short, sweet and to the point, and people like that!
Well, actually, the reality of the situation is, people have different priorities. While some of my fondest memories of cooperative play come from Secret of Mana, getting my friends together to play was a bitch and a half. And that half a dog was the ass end.
Thankfully, I could progress my game when my friends weren’t around. But there are still some games where you can’t do this, and most of the time you just feel scummy doing it without your friends.
Now, thanks to the great online frontier, I’m able to get this game on even with my friends in other states, and fuck, other countries, as I play Gears of War online with TheTrin who’s in Japan of all places. Even then, it’s difficult as hell to organize play-time, and sometimes I just dip back into Final Fantasy XII, and lord knows why. But that’s another story for another time.
Cooperative play is actually one of the main reasons I keep going back to MMORPGs, and the reason I keep leaving them. Playing with your friends online is great…until they are twelve levels above you and you’re still cutting up rats to make your Fleece Towel of Ass-Wiping + 1. Games like Gears of War seem to not have this issue due to the lack of levels or equipment, but when one player’s skill rises well above the rest of the players, wouldn’t the same frustration kick in?
I think in the end, even with more co-op games coming, the big onus of playtime lies on the shoulders of the gamers. (Heh, I said “big onus”.) Can we find the time in our schedules to do co-op? Its rewards are definitely up there, but the time sink in preparation can lead to frustration.
Actually, now I’m kinda in the mood for GoW co-op…but let’s see if I can get it started!
It was a moment of brilliance.
I’m standing in line at the grocery store, people around me carts filled with fixings for Thanksgiving and all that shit. Pumpkin pies, cranberry sauce, giant vegetables that look like human heads. All that shit.
And here I stand with a steak in one hand and a forty in the other with a huge grin on my face.
Good times, good times.
I spent a good, I dunno, almost 4 hours waiting for the Wii, which some might deem mad, but I think it was worth it. Even though my chance was one in three almost, by the time I got called I figured I wouldn’t.
Raffle to win the right to buy something. Amazing.
Anyway, I figured after almost a day of playing, I thought I’d get a post in for my initial opinions.
WiiSports – More fun than I thought it would be. Really, really fun.
Trauma Center – Better than the DS version. Which is already fantastic.
Virtual Console – I bought Zelda. $5? Eh, whine if you will I think it’s pretty great. I didn’t know that if you quit the VC it would stop your game mid-progress, and save said progress. Really neat.
Zelda – Don’t let the first (very bad) hour throw you off. I won’t say more, but things get very interesting, very quickly.
More to come!
Back to games!
Wii, Wii, Wiiii!
So, I’m standing in line with a bottle of lime juice preparing for a night of vodka and said juice, when I spied a four-pack of “Tab energy”.
Okay…well whatever. They make thousands of shitty ass energy beverages, so what’s the harm in spending a couple of bucks to see how terrible it is. (It tastes like shit.) But that’s not the point. I say to my friend “Oooh, new Tab!” and pick up the case. A guy standing in the cashier lane next to mine, apparantly takes notice and starts to talk to me.
“You know that shit makes your dick shrink, right?”
I’m not exactly sure how to respond to this. I mean sure, my massive five inches of manhood may be impressive to the ladies, but why do I want to discuss these details of my potential cock shrinkage with a random man in a grocery store?
Oi. I haven’t been hung over in a class since…fuck, I was in Japan! Far too long. Anywho, last night I found my weakness.
Alcohol + surgeon video games
There’s something about cutting into a generic anime torso and pulling tumors out of a stomach that does not bode well with my own food sack. No less than three times while playing I’ve had to lie down to get my gears back in order. I am the manliest of men.
But I keep playing. The game intense fun and I can’t believe I’ve passed it up for this long. Every operation has gotten impressively more difficult, although it doesn’t help that I still have trouble trying to affix a damn bandage.
Convinced my roommate to pick up a 360 tonight. Well, $100 also helped his decision but I don’t think I have much more than that vested in my 360 life span. $100 to let me ride out the next year with being able to play the system seems more fair than the cost I’d have to pay to reinsure the new system I’d purchase. Plus now when I get my $400 Best Buy gift card I can go hog wild and get a Wii or some shit.
I’m getting quite fed up with this “WE NEED THE POWER” hype coming into the gaming world and I end up with broken gaming systems. Hoorah. I’m sure I’ll end up with another 360 in the future, and probably a PS3 and a Wii, but if they all break I might just pick up a few cheap PS2s and live of the PS1/2 RPG backlog for the rest of my gaming life. This shit’s getting annoying. I don’t think I have to repeat the exploits of my five dollar trash bin SNES.
Oh yeah, and I’m hocking Dead Rising. Game’s not worth the alleged trouble it’s caused me!
Just a quick little blurb to announce that I’ve started linking my google videos from here. Nothing particularly special, but it will be nice, at least for me, to be able to easily snag links to all my exploits.
I’ve only typed up the Final Fantasy challenge video detail so far, but the rest will trickle in as time goes on.
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