There’s plenty going on these days, but that’s all I can think of to share at the moment.
I know a few guys that need to spend some time playing Desktop Tower Defense. (Maybe some gals, too, but The Wife showed absolutely no interest…)
My high score so far is ~3100 in “normal” mode, which is a full 5000 shy of the ultimate high score.
If you get prompted to save your score, add it to the “blahstuff” score group.
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It’s been an interesting week in some respects, and it’s bound to get even more interesting tomorrow.
The radio silence is unintentional, but not too surprising.
One thing worth mentioning: Thanks to all kinds of peer pressure from the dorks at work, I downloaded the 10-day trial for World Of Warcraft and got it installed last Thursday. I never played Evercrack, but boy is this game dangerous. My Tauren hunter is now level 13 14, and I’m very afraid. I’d do myself a favor if I just let the trial expire…
There are two video game series in this world that I truly enjoy. One is the set of Tony Hawk skating games, which I’ve been playing since the days of the old school PlayStation. The other is Grand Theft Auto, which I’ve really only been playing since Vice City was available for the XBox as half of a double pack along with GTA3 (which I played only a little).
The latest installment of GTA is huge, but by some force of luck I actually finished the primary storyline last light.
The final mission took 20-30 minutes of real world time to do. It was insane, and I could/should have failed it any number of times. The main example being when I had to escape from a burning building filled with gunmen. My health meter was empty and flashing, meaning the next hangnail I got would kill me, and then I found some body armor, which allowed me to make it the rest of the way. That wasn’t it, though. I was on a timer, too, and only managed to get out of the building with maybe 12 seconds left on the clock.
That was probably only the midpoint of the mission, too. Then I had to drive a car through gang bangers tossing molatov cocktails and all kinds of other craziness.
I ended up finishing with zero health and maybe one third armor.
But I did the damned thing on the first try, and boy am I glad!
This Planarity Flash Game will probably make some of you cry.
Then there’s me (and geeks like me)…. I love spacial games.
I got through level 7 with a score of 11567 level 8 with a score of 23088 before I forced myself to stop.
Later: After level 11 (Score: 199554 — It took 21.5 minutes for me to do that one!) the ActionScript caused a prompt in FireFox giving me the option to cancel because it was running so long. Te-he!
Even Later: Level 12 took almost half an hour (Score: 402599), so I think it’s time to give up the chase.
I was talking to the brother-in-law, Chris, yesterday and he hits me with an incredibly disturbing recommendation: “You need to do me a favor — and just try to trust me on this — go get Karaoke Revolution for your Xbox.”
My reply? “Oh, hell no! You have to be kidding me.” I begin to shiver as I flash back to my karaoke distaster from my bachelor party.
He continues his argument, though, telling me that “with a few friends you trust and enough alcohol it’s about as much fun as you can have in your living room” (paraphrasing, of course).
I’m still not really that convinced, but it does seem to be the next big thing in gaming. The song list looks kind of hit or miss, though.
Besides, the key factor is the friends thing. Chris lives in LA: He has both gay friends and friends in the entertainment industry (with plenty of overlap, obviously). These are the types of people who would be willing to come over and be foolish without embarassment or reserve. My friends like to play poker, make snarky comments about movies, and listen to The Wife cuss like a sailor. I’m not convinced I could get Matt to belt out “Broken Wings” in my living room…
So, yeah, I’m on the fence on this one… And I’m only waffling because his description of “It’s all Kate, Scot and I have been doing lately: Irish Car Bombs and karaoke” sounds like a ton of fun.
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