I feel that over the course of the last two days, I've become something of an expert about air ducts. It seemed that half of the time during playthroughs of Shadow Complex and Batman Arkham Asylum, there was an awful lot of time spent crouch walking through these narrow passageways to destroying my enemies. Ladies and gentlemen, I think that the last two weeks have offered us one of the best one-two punches for the year since the release of Red Faction Guerrilla and Prototype (whether you liked either of those is entirely up to you).
Now comes the part in the blog where I say "okay, so I was wrong". I was up at Wal-Mart yesterday, looking around in the Value game bin. As I stood there holding retail copies of four Fallout 3 DLC packs (everything but Mothership Zeta) in my hands, I started saying "what if the reviews on Batman Arkham Asylum were right?". I quickly realized that I knew this feeling as I was looking at that Fallout 3 DLC - this is the same way I felt when I picked up Fallout 3. After spitting venom at that game for so long, it ended up being one of my favorite games of last year. I asked a representative in the media department (yes, there was ACTUALLY someone over there) if they would price match the Canadian Wal-Mart...and was told they don't price match ANY store, especially their own. Weird, but okay. I realized that I can hold out until the Fallout 3 GOTY Edition in October, so I started calling every rental store in town. Luckily, one store had one copy left. So how is it?
To end my blog, I finally played BlazBlue. After months and months of Street Fighter IV, and knowing that I wasn't a huge fan of the Guilty Gear games (great games, but I was no good at them), it was refreshing to play BlazBlue. Within minutes of picking up the controller, I was busting out combos left and right. I had no clue what the fuck was going on, but I was busting out combos. Everything was insane. Nonetheless, I quickly realized something: I lost every time I played against my buddy J.R., but I had fun with it EVERY SINGLE TIME! Street Fighter IV frustrates me when I lose, which is why I've put the controller down for a while. It's not that I suck at it - I'm a mediocre player at best. It's just that I hate shoto toons, and I couldn't take the frustration any longer. Meanwhile, something like BlazBlue captured me in only a few moments. Needless to say, I want to clock some more time in with it so I can try to find a level of control over its insanity. By the way, I played as Bang Shishigami. Sadly, there was no on-screen craziness or loud J-rock playing. = ( I will get there eventually.
Until next time, PIECE!
P.S. - Jeff, I'll be playing Wolfenstein next week. Madden 10 ain't touching that Xbox for a while. = D
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