Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video games. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Mercs 2
I traded in GTA4 for Mercs 2 last weekend. Didn't get much credit for the trade-in, but it was a good trade. Honestly I didn't even complete GTA4, I got so bored with it. The graphics and world depth were outstanding but I always liked the original Mercs gameplay better than GTA. The sequel has not let me down. There are a few issues, namely random glitches and overly long and frequent load screens, but the graphics and physics improved a ton. Instead of North Korea, it's set in Venezuela, and though you're not going around collecting names on playing cards anymore, you're still running missions and capturing high value targets for the various factions. Good stuff.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Ketchup
Last weekend we tried out the Tilted Kilt way up north of mopac. It's essentially the same as Lion and the Rose in San Antonio: a british pub-themed Hooters. They do have a better beer selection than the Hoots, I'll give em that. The food was so-so. I had a couple pints of Stella and a fish sandwich; c2 had a "irish dip," which was their version of a french dip roast beef sandwich. Both meals were decent, and I especially liked the fries. The service was a little dippy. It would probably be a fun place to watch a game if it wasn't so goddamn loud inside. Still, I might go back.
No Country For Old Men was awesome. Pretty fucking cold balls but awesome. Will had already seen it a couple weeks prior but went with me to see it again. I get now why he was so eager to watch the movie a second time. Very suspenseful with great black humor dialogue. Chigurh is one of my favorite bad guys now. Thankfully I had totally forgotten that Josh Brolin was Brent in Goonies or else I might not have taken him so seriously. Don't let anyone give away the ending for you!
Mr. Brooks was definitely head and shoulders below No Country, but I still think it had its merits. Pretty much every scene with Costner, Cook, and Hurt together is great - the alter ego gimmick worked for me - everything else is terrible. The entire sideline plot around Demi Moore's character tracking Brooks down is worthless.
Hmm what else? I threw +2 on the 9 hole at Wells Branch the other day, beating my personal best of +4. That was pretty sweet.
Oh yeah, I finally got The Orange Box, and it's as great a set of games as I was expecting. I already beat Portal, a neat little game centered around one of my all-time secret wish fantasy toys: the portable hole. It's essentially a first-person puzzler with great graphics and the same creepy, quiet atmosphere as games like Myst or the original Half Life. A great title. Teamfortress 2, however, is a fucking masterpiece. TF2 is probably one of the most perfect computer games I have ever played. The graphics are cool and the mechanics are very smooth. Obviously you need an internet connection and a worthwhile server, but there's always tons of them to choose from. All the classes are equally fun, some more challenging than others. I don't think I'll ever be a very good spy or sniper, but I'm decent with the heavy, engineer, pyro, and medic classes. It's so fun to set up those sentry guns that you just want to cry.
No Country For Old Men was awesome. Pretty fucking cold balls but awesome. Will had already seen it a couple weeks prior but went with me to see it again. I get now why he was so eager to watch the movie a second time. Very suspenseful with great black humor dialogue. Chigurh is one of my favorite bad guys now. Thankfully I had totally forgotten that Josh Brolin was Brent in Goonies or else I might not have taken him so seriously. Don't let anyone give away the ending for you!
Mr. Brooks was definitely head and shoulders below No Country, but I still think it had its merits. Pretty much every scene with Costner, Cook, and Hurt together is great - the alter ego gimmick worked for me - everything else is terrible. The entire sideline plot around Demi Moore's character tracking Brooks down is worthless.
Hmm what else? I threw +2 on the 9 hole at Wells Branch the other day, beating my personal best of +4. That was pretty sweet.
Oh yeah, I finally got The Orange Box, and it's as great a set of games as I was expecting. I already beat Portal, a neat little game centered around one of my all-time secret wish fantasy toys: the portable hole. It's essentially a first-person puzzler with great graphics and the same creepy, quiet atmosphere as games like Myst or the original Half Life. A great title. Teamfortress 2, however, is a fucking masterpiece. TF2 is probably one of the most perfect computer games I have ever played. The graphics are cool and the mechanics are very smooth. Obviously you need an internet connection and a worthwhile server, but there's always tons of them to choose from. All the classes are equally fun, some more challenging than others. I don't think I'll ever be a very good spy or sniper, but I'm decent with the heavy, engineer, pyro, and medic classes. It's so fun to set up those sentry guns that you just want to cry.
Monday, August 20, 2007
Par for the course
Played some frisbee golf this weekend. My impeccable form:
And that of my brother:
We watched The Fountain yesterday and it was terrible. I'm almost done with season 3 of The Wire and it just keeps getting better and better. Brother Mazone just rolled back into town, looking to finish business with Omar. Ah shit, it's going to be good.
Still playing a lot of Day of Defeat and looking to probably get Company of Heroes in the next couple of months. DOW: Dark Crusade is awesome but the single player campaign system is pretty grueling. I was amazed the other day with the power of a quickly built, mass imperial guard infantry army. With a command squad distracting their HQs space marines and chaos can be fairly easily overwhelmed if they haven't yet built up vehicles or dreadnoughts.
The Vick bust has come full circle. I feel slightly conflicted about the deal, honestly, because while I feel justified in thinking some douche that kills dogs for sport should go away for a long time, I can't help also feeling a bit raw that the media is in complete control of my judgement from the arrest to the plea bargain. Emotional manipulation, call it. What the fuck do I really know about this guy, his buddies, and the whole shebang? Meh.
And that of my brother:
We watched The Fountain yesterday and it was terrible. I'm almost done with season 3 of The Wire and it just keeps getting better and better. Brother Mazone just rolled back into town, looking to finish business with Omar. Ah shit, it's going to be good.
Still playing a lot of Day of Defeat and looking to probably get Company of Heroes in the next couple of months. DOW: Dark Crusade is awesome but the single player campaign system is pretty grueling. I was amazed the other day with the power of a quickly built, mass imperial guard infantry army. With a command squad distracting their HQs space marines and chaos can be fairly easily overwhelmed if they haven't yet built up vehicles or dreadnoughts.
The Vick bust has come full circle. I feel slightly conflicted about the deal, honestly, because while I feel justified in thinking some douche that kills dogs for sport should go away for a long time, I can't help also feeling a bit raw that the media is in complete control of my judgement from the arrest to the plea bargain. Emotional manipulation, call it. What the fuck do I really know about this guy, his buddies, and the whole shebang? Meh.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
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