When it comes to things that are shit, not having the internet is one of them. Not having the internet for 2 weeks in 2009 is the equivalent of sleeping from 1942-1964, accounting for inflation and all that.
In case you also have not had the internet for 2 weeks I would like to share some things I missed:
-Han Solo, PI memed all over the place.
-Penny-Arcade did a thing. My vote goes to Lookouts. I would confidently bet my life savings that Rook has already started a letter writing campaign to ensure Automata is selected.
-Little Wheel was released with a sort of polite golf clap from the indie community.
-Magic: the Gathering was ruined.
-E3 blew its load on every gaming site and nobody cared.
To juxtapose, here are the things that I did instead of the internet:
-Played InFamous
-Played Sacred 2
-Played Red Faction: Guerilla
-Finally got 100% wins in 100 games of free cell.
-Drew a funny picture.
My funny pictureOf all the things listed I would most like to talk about InFamous. Well, I would most like to talk about my awesome FreeCell record but let’s go with InFamous. I will begin by describing it as a bastard child birthed from an orgy involving GTA, Crackdown, and Star Wars: the Force Unleashed. You play a dude with super powers of an electrical nature, able to shoot lightning, make lightning grenades, heal people with lightning, lightning surf, and make shields out of lightning. When you are not doing these things you crackle…sort of like lightning.
More like In-lightning-Famous mirite?Aside from lightning, one of the neat things is that the city has a feeling of feeling of being alive and not just become people the citizens and bad guys driving and walking around. The game opens with a bomb going off (A lightning bomb) and it turns out you are the bike courier that has unwittingly delivered this bomb. Anyway, when it goes off you get powers and half the people in the city die. It’s apocalyptic destruction on albeit on an island scale and as you play through the game your choice of actions, including how carefree you are with your powers, not only do you change, with your appearance leaning towards a light or dark side reminiscent of the Knights of the Old Republic, but the city itself either gets worse or becomes rejuvenated.
I tried to get a screenshot of lightning but IT'S SO FAST!So you run around the city leaping from rooftop to rooftop shooting people with your powers and it is good. The short of it is that it has a good story with some big twists, plenty to do, strong controls even with the number of powers available, and stellar visuals. Standing crouched atop a building looking out over your city you can’t help but feel like you’re having a Batman moment. Also, the cut scene are done up like a comic book which adds to the whole superhero thing. So if you have the chance to play the PS3 exclusive I say go for it, and play it evil. I normally play karma games light side but in this case the powers are more enjoyable and the gameplay smoother if you’re not worrying about hitting the civilians your targets are holding hostage. Plus, dark side get's force lightning
Until next time, if you kill someone by accident consider doing it again.
-King
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Wait -- so did they add force lightning to FreeCell? I really need to check that out again.
ReplyDeleteI did indeed vote for Automata, almost reflexively. Often, while internetting, I find my fingers drifting towards whichever button makes it be robots. However, upon seeing that it has taken a decisive lead, I felt a pang of regret that Lookouts will not be fleshed out.
ReplyDeleteThe force lightning they added to Freecell is pretty harsh. Even worse is the new version of Spider Solitaire where if you lose, you get a call from your doctor who tells you that the test results are back from that spider that they extracted from your inner ear...
Unfortunately, it was a female, and there is the troubling matter of the egg sacs.
I do believe they plan to do all three 'eventually' so we'll see the Lookouts content some time down the road I'm certain.
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