I watched Mirrors last night, Unrated version, dunno what is different between it and the theatrical cut, but it's pretty good, generic at worst, but has a cool premise. While the ending seems tacked on, it was still worth watching. As a semi-fan of 24, it strikes me that Kiefer Sutherland in this movie is the equivalent of 24 if Jack Bauer was fighting demons. Not a bad thing, definitely a better performance than him NOT being Jack Bauer in The Sentinel.
Lost Planet is $4.99 on Steam this weekend, 75% off the normal price on Steam. While it's not worth buying for the multiplayer side, the single player campaign is definitely worth at the least a $5 drop, especially if you have the PC to handle it. The game gets hard as balls close to the middle, and there's a very strong Japanese quirkiness to it, which again, depending on what you like, not necessarily a bad thing.
I'm up to issue 28 of The Walking Dead. I'm not usually much into comic books/graphic novels/whatever term isn't offensive to people who don't read books with no pictures, but this series totally has me sucked in. The first volume was kind of meh, but once I got into issue #6 I started to really get hooked in. I'm totally a zombie whore anyway, so this comic is pretty much right down my alley, and I haven't been disappointed. With Walking Dead and the Angel: After the Fall series, I've really been enjoying getting back into the comic book scene after years of not reading anything in that area.
Oh, to anyone who was a big fan of Shawn Elliott from the GFW podcasts over at 1up.com until he left last year, he's on a couple of podcasts on gamerswithjobs.com. I totally recommend it. I think Shawn manages to stay pretty insightful and honest with his opinions on the gaming industry, even now that he's part of the side that he spent years writing about. I hope to hear more of him. There's also an episode from December on there where him and Jeff Green sit in, which is great to hear.
Also, Team Fortress 2 is $10 (50% off) on Steam right now. For the 3 people out there that haven't bought it, might be a good time.
I'm hoping it runs on my laptop too...I assume it will, as Episode 2 runs okay at mid to high settings and a lower resolution and Left 4 Dead is the same engine. Unless they've gone crazy with effects or something."
They've updated a lot of the dynamic lighting effects and other fancy terms I don't understand, but you can dial almost all of that back and it still looks okay.
While this is all good and fine, I'd rather get the hookup with maybe a new campaign or two. I'm not sure of anyone who's heard this news that's too happy with it, I mean, it'll be great to get some more vs. action, but we've already played the hell out of those 2 campaigns in coop, I think by spring (or...now), people will be ready to see something new.
This game's only real criticism from launch was a lack of content, and for whatever reason, Valve seems to be dropping the ball and losing momentum on it. I think they're walking a fine line between taking their time to get new content or an SDK out and hitting a point where people have moved on and just don't care anymore, especially 360 owners, who tend to be a very Game of the Month type of club. Not that the SDK would help 360 owners at all, but still.
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