Nuclear Winter Wonderland

I love Gamefly. Absolutely love it. I got Fallout: New Vegas from them on Saturday, and simply allowing me to play this game has made them the greatest company ever.

It's very expansive, much like Oblivion, with which it shares an engine. It focuses much more heavily on firearms and projectiles than Oblivion, considering it takes place in 2281. The melee weapons still exist, they're just less common or useful than the firearms. Especially since there is a time-stopping targeting system, which allows you to aim at pre-selected parts of the enemies body. Oh, and the one thing Oblivion was missing was the taking of heads. I literally have said that before. New Vegas fixed that.

You can make heads and limbs simple explode, tossing chunks of flesh everywhere. Also, for the most part, they always remain there.

Mister New Vegas, signing off.

Beyond Good & Sanity

I bought Beyond Good & Evil HD a couple days ago. It's a graphically-improved version of Beyond Good & Evil. It's the same game, otherwise. So it's a great game. Until the final boss.

Video mostly unrelated.

The final boss sucked. It was easy enough for the first part. Then half way through, 5 clones of a guy with an invincible shield. He can be attacked, but only right after he attacks. When you beat them, which luckily only takes one hit each, he reverses your controls. Up is down, left is right, forwards is backwards, and Twilight doesn't suck. No, wait, not that last part. Ever. In any reality.

Also, my health is only at two hearts, and I couldn't get any healing items. Also, he raises you up on a pillar and attacks you personally. He teleports to one of five directions, relative to your location. I had a split second to hit him when he teleports, with reversed controls, and also one hit takes half my health. If I survive the nigh-invincible onslaught with health.

I borked my wireless controller trying to beat him.
Also, "borked" is not a typo. It's "broke", but weird on purpose.

Malkovich malkovich, malkovich?

I'm somewhat scarred, and somewhat in love. I saw Being John Malkovich yesterday. It's was strange, and I loved that. But there was one scene that really horrified me. The one where he entered his own mind.

Essentially.

Over all it was amazing. I love movies that literally make me say "What the hell is going on?" And this was one of them. Other than the shock of seeing the hot body melt into a face of an ugly, balding man, it was perfect. I have no doubt that Spike Jonze wanted that shock, though. So yeah.

T-Recks?

So I drew a picture. A secret one. Not for your hypothetical eyes. But it is pretty sweet. It's got like, a scientist riding a T-rex that is fighting a robot with a fleet of UFOs shoot at a ghost that's flying above a pirate ship that's shooting cannonballs at an army of water-tunnel-surfing sharks, but some of the cannonballs went rogue and hit a zombie that's in front of a ninja with a jetpack that is leading a unicorn into a one-ninja ambush.

I think that's about it. Oh, and a ninja is breaking the fourth-wall with his mystical ninja-ness.

Wake Up

I has GameFly. I've gotten two games so far. Final Fantasy XIII, and Wet. Both pretty good. FFXIII was too linear for me, and Wet was too short. Alan Wake is next, and I don't know why, since it was at the bottom of my queue. I had like 20 games ahead of it. Hopefully Fallout 3 or New Vegas comes next. But Alan Wake is what I have, and Alan Wake is what I shall play.

I have no idea of what to expect from it. At all. I know the story, I know the premise, and I know that they have a lot of product placement for a game. Hope it doesn't suck.

Combustible Lemons

I got Portal 2 on Saturday. Saturday night. And I beat it on Sunday. Sunday morning. For a grand total of... 5 hours. Not much time for a video game. But in those 5 hours, I couldn't stop laughing. And tearing out my hair out. Cave Johnson is my favorite part. He is the best. Like, ever.



Get this game. Even if you don't like the gameplay or story, the dialog alone is enough to make anyone shell out $40 for this game. Like, seriously.

(Hulu+)+xbox360=Crap

I've tried my hardest to watch some things on Hulu Plus. I really did. They had a good selection, with a more up-to-date library than Netflix. But the service is awful. It has ads still. It's supposed to be less than the free Hulu service, which they do. But the fact that it's a paid service should mean that it's ad free. And then on top of that, it crashes every few minutes. It's not just me, and my bad connection. I have a few people telling me the same thing is happening to them. My advice: The $7 subscription is not worth it. Buy a freaking DVR. At least TV only goes down in bad weather.

In Tents

Oh, hey. If anyone important, aka not you, reads this, they know by now that I take on some random and fairly ambitious projects. Well, to be blunt, screw that. I've decided to log any idea I have, and save it for the future. Probably. If not, I'll sift through it, and at least make sure I get credit for whoever I give the idea to. I am a genius, after all. Everyone wants my ideas. Even you.

... Go. Go away, you. I'm watching you. You know that. Don't you?
You know I know that you know that I know you know.

Freedom?

My friend has a 360. A broken 360. That he wanted to blow up. So I asked for it. And I got it. Rad.
Now I just need to fix up. Easy enough. I hope. Free xbox, with a hopefully quick-fix.

Okay then. Good day.

Vanille L'Aic?

I played Final Fantasy XIII on the weekend. Fun game, but a bit too linear for me. The animation/graphics and most of the voice acting was great. Most of the voice acting. Vanille has the worst voice I've ever heard in a game that wasn't funny-bad.

Her.

The accent is mostly Australian, but switches to British or American every few words. And it sounds awful. I hope that the voice actor doesn't actually speak like that all the time. And if she does, I'm so very sorry for you.

By the way "L'Aic" is supposed to be pronounced "La-ice". And "Vanille" is "Va-kneel". Just FYI.