I want to go home and play more Mario Kart. Like I was saying, it’s a great way to completely zonk out after a day of work. But I don’t have it here, I left it with my mom so she could play. Between the Wii and Rock Band, it’s my grand scheme to get here to play video games more. I don’t know why that’s my plan. I think it’s because that’s how I have fun, and I want to see her having fun too. I dunno.
I’ll tell you what game I do have. Alien Swarm. Such a good game. Running around, shooting things, friendly fire, flamethrowers, welding doors… and all on the UT2k4 engine! Well, it was. Then they beefed it up, and it uses a bunch of code from Left 4 Dead. I can’t tell you all of it, but look at the glow around the items, and then watch the way the tool tips pop up and float around. I don’t like Lefties 4 Deadsies, and I don’t like being reminded of it. But it’s a valve game, so what do you expect. Besides, once the mission is on, and you’re back to back with your buddies nailing enemies left and right, protecting the one tech who needs to get the door open, it’s a hell of a good time. I’m not going to say much here cause I think we’re going to cover it on the podcast soon, but still. Great game.
Other then that, iPod Touch. It’s a thing. I named mine Twit-com, because that’s really what it’s best for so far. Read my tweets, have some aim conversations, play some music, and then have the equivalent of a flash game to waste some time with when I’m waiting around. Okay, that’s a broad generalization. The machine is a surprising powerhouse, and I’ve even seen full 3d racing games, a Morrowind like 3d rpg, and some very animated tactics battle games. A lot of them are generic, and some were just put out to try to get hits, but there’s a lot of good stuff that you don’t need to look very hard for (I’m sure apple makes sure of it). But it’s really nice to have aim and tweets and a simple puzzle game all in my pocket. That’s really what I wanted it for. It’s basically all of my communications stuff, but in a device that can fit in my pocket (so I don’t have ot bring my big laptop everywhere), and on top of everything it’s replacing my zen as a music player. That’s the cool part, all the other stuff never really gets in the way of it playing music.
But yeah, Alien Swarm is fun, and I wanna play it again soon. Then I’ll go back to Bioshock, but more importantly, playing Front Mission 4 again!
F*R*A*G: It tells me “don’t shoot team mates,” but really it should be telling my team mates “don’t stand in front of the guy with the minigun!”
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