Fast, so fast. I try to play the games.
Slowly... lost in profit... New Vegas and Brotherhood. So it goes.
I say goodbye but yeah, goodbye. I'm looking forward to a sky rim job.
A game noonecaresabout...you say...
My fair friend in the end.
Claude Speed my friends. Claude Speed.
I haven't been on Giant Bomb as much as usual as of late, but I have a good excuse. I've been rehearsing for a play. The play you say...? Dracula. I'm playing the role of Abraham Van Helsing. Last night was opening night and it was a horror story with some major technical problems with the lights, but tonight, with the help of a new light board, it went on without a hitch or glitch.
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This is a different kind of community show for me. This is my 18th local production, but this one is being performed outdoors in an amphitheater. The play itself " Dracula" was written by Steven Dietz in 1996 and follows pretty closely to the novel. The amphitheater is used for an outdoor drama in Valdese, North Carolina called "From this Day Forward". The story of how the Waldensian people came from Northern Italy under religious persecution to settle in Western North Carolina.Â
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I thought I would throw up some pictures. With such a large outdoor stage and hardly any budget, we used a somewhat minimal set, but the actors make it work like a charm. Â
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I smell victory. We continue to fight. We preach with our pockets of money. We matter.
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Log...on. Finish it.
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But the small things matter.
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It sucked. I was 11 when I first played Pong in 1976. I didn't play the Atari 2600 until my parents bought it Christmas of 1978 at the young age of 13. I was 18 in 1983 and in the Navy when the video game crash came about. It didn't affect me. I was into other things. I got out of the Navy and my parents bought the family a Nintendo Entertainment System. I was 22 years old and it was 1987. Fucking Ocarina of Time came out when I was 33. Yeah. Crazy.
Video Games > Multiplayer Video Games
I've never understood the love for multiplayer games. I don't even like friends to play games with me while they're visiting. Sure I played Team Fortress 2 for 40 hours, but that's it. And Mario Kart Wii was a blast online until it had worn out its welcome. Hell, I played Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 on the Wii "online" until I realized it was a futile effort of sad competition.
Competition seems to be the key word when playing multiplayer games.
Community is trying hard to become a part multiplayer. But yeah, no, really?
Co-op is not for me either.
It's just not for me. Give me a single minded game or else. I'm too old to change. Change....
One day, I'll regret saying that. I'm sure. I can see the writing on the wall. You either go small with your birds or go all out.
Giant Bomb has taught me well. I will subvert to the inevitability of a world of games I thought I would never participate in.
But, will I join in or will I not? That is the question yet to be answered.
Good thing there are plenty of games to choose from. Good thing I can buy used games from our past as I wait for the future to unfold.
It sounds like an 1950's horror movie.
What does it all mean? It's nothing more than a creative outlet for your journeys in life and in video games.
Question: How have video games transformed me?
Answer: Entertainment and self story telling.
Routines are major part of my gaming life cycle. My routines change and so do my games. Change...nothing but change.
I fear not the future, but feel sorry for those that choose to live in the past.
I still need to buy PGR 3. Yeah, that one.
I will love you. I hate you.
You, Wii, will live on in the Wii U.
I loved you. My goddamned Wii. I will touch you again, but damn, sorry to see you go so fast, so young.
Maybe your HD versions of all your great Wii games will be a hit. God speed Wii, God Speed.
The Wii has died and a Skyward Sword will seal its fate as the Wii tries to live on. And Giant Bomb debates.
They suck the life out of the living to feed the dead.
I'll put a stake right through their heart as I buy their next home console and enjoy the few pleasures they bring. I will drink upon the living to kill the dead. My dead, my feeling and need for Nintendo.
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