stormtruperTK41
So hey all, just got back from a weekend in Toronto with Logicalnot. It was
pretty awesome and consisted of spending lots of money, eating lots of good
food (Thai food rocks), drinking lots of beer and playing lots of video games.
Any time we spent not doing that, we admired the beautiful women of Toronto in
their natural habitats. We stopped off in a Games Workshop, the first one Logicalnot
had ever been in and he was awe-struck by the much larger selection, compared
to that of our home town location. We both bought new units to build our new
armies, his Daemons, and my Tomb Kings. The guy working their seemed pretty
cool except for the massive stain in the middle of his shirt, but then again
pad sew made a huge mess all over my shirt and I am not even sure how!
The ride to and from Toronto was spent listening to good tunes, both from my
iPod and from some sweet radio stations we found, if you are ever in the area
give Z 103 a listen or tune in to Kim Mitchel's afternoon show on The Q fm. It’s
a good thing we had the tunes as we got stuck in traffic on the 400N because of
an accident...n00b drivers. It was horrible we left at 10:30am and got home
at 3:30pm....eww. It took every bit of willpower to not go and see Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull while in Toronto but promises were
made and had to be kept. Speaking of that, how the hell does Speed Racer go to
the IMAX and Indiana Jones not!!! Its a travesty!! Well at least The Dark
Knight will be in IMAX. When I have seen them I will give you my two cents on
both of them.
Video game wise I tried out Blacksite Area 51, which Logicalnot had recently
bought. Now a while back I had downloaded the demo for this game off of Xbox
Live. It seemed solid with a cool storyline, game mechanics and graphics. I
mean squad moral is a cool idea, fighting aliens on Earth is awesome, and who
can say no to fully destructible environments. Well let me tell you, its not
what it seems. First of fully destructible environments are cool...when the
developers account for it by places a decent number of non-destructible pieces
of cover, because in this game there essentially no where to hide where you can
also fight back. Also the game is full of glitches, whether it be items
floating in mid air, going where the game does not want you, resulting in lag,
invisible walls, passing through objects, or not being able to shoot something...the
list goes on. I believe in always playing on the hardest difficulty on a game
from the get go, but in this game it is a little too hard when combined with
the games other down falls. Your squad mates become completely inept and are
only good as a distraction. The enemy has like 110% accuracy and seems to be
able to see through objects because they always know where you are. All in all
the game seems a little rushed, graphics are still pretty sweet but there is
just to much wrong with it, all in all I rate this game a "don't
bother".
Other than that we went back a few years and play Star Wars Battlefront II.
This game is always fun, as it lets you partake in huge battles (space and
ground) in the Star Wars universe, as you and your friends try to take over the
galaxy planet by planet either together or in versus. You can play in both time
eras and as either side (Rebels, Empire, Republic, CIS). Logicalnot and me
played as the republic and took the galaxy with the help of Jedi and tanks!
This game may not have the best graphics or be the perfect game, but is definitely
a lot of fun and worth playing. The story campaign is also co-op, more games
should be co-op!
Speaking of Co-op, last weekend myself and IMTHINKING rented Army of
Two...great game. Maybe a little short, but good graphics, co-op play, cool
story, and fun features like interactions with you partner, buying your weapons
as you accumulate cash, pimping out your weapons (literally with gold and
diamonds, but such is the life of a mercenary). Grab one of your friends go
play this game and I challenge you not to play it all the way through. I am sure you can look foreward to a post from LogicalNot about our little trip as well, he has some cool pictures to share I think.
Until next time, to the readers have a good week, to
Logicalnot and his Daemons...the way is shut, it was made by those who are
dead, and the dead keep it, the way is shut