This is fast becoming a journal for me… Oh well.
I stayed up until 4 AM to finish two more Elf levels.
I successfully beat the Corrupted Druids 42-35.
Then I spelunked the dark and ominous Barrow Dens which were surprisingly pleasant. I would’ve stayed longer if it weren’t for all the Lightening Lizards and Demon Spiders.
Nothing spruces up an old dungeon like potted plants!
Stephen kept true to his word and beat HALO in three days. Stephen Crosby, living the Summer Games 2003 dream.
One more Elven level ate my bomb tonight! This time, my quest was to find a magical relic and use it to fashion a coin purse for the Druid God Furion.
When you rub it, it turns into a breifcase . . .
I realize this isn’t going to be as exciting as a man-party, but I finished a very serious part of Midnight Club II tonight. With one hour yesterday and three hours, I finally finished Paris. Keep in mind this was a total of four hours on one fucking race. I’ve now moved onto Toyko and I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t have done it all with the help of my roommates: “Sexy Hair” Mike Rubenstein, “The Outlaw” Marty Souza, and EJ “The Italian Tank” Marzano. They were cheering me on the entire three hours tonight. A couple notes:
- Fripon X is your car of choice in Paris
- Handling is often more important than top speed
- Save your NOS
- If frustrated (which you will be), the cheat code for missiles on your car is “savethekids”. Remember to take out your mem card while releasing your anger.
Lastly, a couple of my roommates deserve some honorable mention for their commitment to Summer Games.
- Stephen’s taken a very serious approach to start and finish HALO this week. He’s two days in and in his words “making those aliens his bitch”.
- EJ’s hopped on the Gran Turismo train, and he’s running with it. He’s just bought some new tires, and soon Snoop’s gonna be riding with him.
- Sexy Hair already took car of MechAssualt on the Xbox, and it gets a decent thumbs up from him.
Ps. Half-life is $20 at Compusa, so when you lose your friend’s copy, you can go pick up a new one.
This is what my day looked like:
If you’ve learned how to read waveforms, you’ll know that it says “He closed his eyes and stroked himself faster, recalling in his mind exactly how she had looked last night. Her firm, full tits bouncing up and down while she fucked her boyfriend in that see-through white nightie. ” - seriously, that’s what it says.
Meanwhile on the Elven front, someone left a bomb at the Old Druid Outhouse and it’s my job to clean it up before the Undead find it and harness it’s nasty, green essence.
Sorry guys, you’re going to have to breath through your mouths for a while…
As I gradually make my way through the twisted underworld to save Annie, I’m finding that I always want to punch the eskimo and little old man who continue to try and thwart my fun by saying unacceptable things like “Nothing here”, and “I can’t see without my glasses.” My attitude toward this game may seem a little belligerent but I am only preparing for Goonies III: Return of The Punisher.
Saturday morning I finished Splinter Cell. I thought I had much more left and then it ended when I shot the bag lady who was guarding the Russians’ suitcase nuke. I gotta hand it to the Russians on this one. Who would’ve suspected the bag lady? Unfortunately she bit down on her cyanide tooth before I could kick more information out of her.
At the end of the game, I was treated to a trailer for the next Splinter Cell game Splinter Cell: Ghetto Riot. It promises great action as Sam Fisher takes the war back to the streets of the good old USA. The clip I saw featured Sam baiting a street gang with an expensive camera and then shooting them from the roof of a KFC. It’s a straight ripoff from Death Wish 3, but looks like a kick in the ass. Let the mayhem continue with Hitman 2!
Back to the Sewers I Go
It was a sad evening of Ghost Recon gaming at the Seamster household. We took on the Russians, and they made us their bitches. There were Russians on the bridge, Russians in the hills, Russians in the tanks. Much like real life, the UN wasn’t any help. While Jeff and I were out trying to stave off the onslaught, they’d go and get themselves killed.
Terribly frustrating.
On the upside, we were playing networked Recon between a Mac and a PC. Only small consolation for being killed over, and over, and over again.
I finished the Orc level and the first 2 Elf levels today. The cut-scene at the end of the Orc campaign was very rewarding. Especially the plot twist where we find out that Grom is really Thrall’s father.
Jess and I also bought a new baby ferret which has bitten me more times than I can count (because I no longer have fingers to count with.) I’ll be sure to post a picture of him soon (probably an action shot of him drawing blood.)
Number One online game [to the best of my knowledge], is CounterStrike for Half-Life. [Still available for free download, even though they have made 10 million off of retail sales].
I still play Unreal Tournament regularly every few months, partly because the consistent flow of new in game user mods keeps thing fresh.
In going through in playing all those old games, I downloaded some user made scenarios for Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2, and some of them [despite a saving problem] are pretty darn good.
My thought: I would not be surprised, if in the next few years, the number one single player game experience ends up being a user-made total conversion and not being a big developer house production.
[Of course maybe could say that have already happened with Half-Life, but I am talking about something you can download for free.]
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