And once again, with a poorly written cblog post i'll brag to you all about my ownage of Halo 3, and my excitement, I'll let you know how it all happened
It's come to my attention that I should blog about my experience on the Muni (Public transportation around SF) a few days ago.
It all started when we decided to go venturing in the city. Sitting on the Muni with our newly purchased tickets at hand, we had an aura around us the size of my old high school. Across the way sat a homeless man with a parrot tucked into his jacket. "Dude" I whispered "That guy totally has a bird tucked in his shirt".
As we stared at this rather peculiar passenger he noticed our hung-over glance. "It's a parrot, I'm going to take it down to the shelter on Monday" (It's Wednesday). As we went on our ride, he proceeded to strike up conversation with us, including making sure we were "street legal". My favorite part of the conversation, however, was when he assured us... [Sessler voice]"Don't forget boys... you're in Frisco"[/Sessler voice].
As he got off the train, (lol get off) he handed us a card for what he called a "Film" company. The card depicted two people, one giving head to the other. The fact he was trying to recruit us into a porn video was now very apparent. "He pays well" the man assured us as he stepped off the Muni. "Feel free to check it out"
The door closed and the entire train burst out laughing. I have to say that was, by far, one of my most memorable experiences on public transportation.
Yes turkeys, that's right, I have no life Also this post is poorly written but i don't care because I'm just that tired I stayed up all night (literally... the sun is coming up) just to beat bioshock Well I did It took me... since 4.00 PST to now (6.30 PST) so do the math when I'm not so exhausted I love you guys also, these are all my achivements (spoilers might occur... but I doubt it... some of you guys might omfg freak out about it
I know what you're thinking. "This has to be the most frantically written post ever"
Well it is
I have a dentist appointment in 15 min, which bumbs me out, because I can't play bioshock.
I woke up this morning with a frantic message from lawl informing me his toys r us sold him a bioshock game. I didn't believe him until he showed me his picture
Then I frantically picked up the phone, and called my toys R us
"No hun, sorry, I'm supposed to tell all calls we do not carry that game"
Damn... maybe I should run down there
So I went down to the game section (this is an hour after they open FYI) and the guy is stocking the shelves. "Hey... do you guys have a copy of bioshock" "no man, but I heard other stores do, try target" (lol)
So I walked around with my 20% off copon for a bit, decided there was nothing I want, then proceed to leave. As I was driving away the employee came frantically running into the parking lot, bioshock in hand "Dude, is this the game you want?" "HELLL YEESSS" I grabbed it from him and bought it before they had the chance to change their mind. "Hey" I asked as I was about to leave "Do you have any idea when this game came out?" "No man, I hear it's a new release though" "haha, alright cool thanks"
Meanwhile i'm off to my dentist appointment, then i'll be playing my video gamez
As you may know, I recently made my way to this year's E3 summit in Santa Monica. The silence of the awkward shuttle rides from place to place was often filled with bloggers discussing their favorite game. I never truly had one, until I had the opportunity to play this new tittle. Solitaire brings the excitement of card games back to the PC market, and uses the latest technology to provide an absolutely thrilling experience. Check out this review, after the jump.
*wannabe jump*
The game starts its massively deep story line by giving the player a virtual deck of cards. These cards are laid out, and must be organized according to color and number. Personally, I loved the story line and couldn't wait to finish the game just to see what happens. Never before have I been so addicted to a game just for the story line.
Overall graphics are left to be improved. Despite the summit is just to show off games that aren't coming for some time, and mostly aren't finished, I still expect the tittles to be presentable. The developers clearly had more graphics to explore (such as the third dimension) and left much more to be added, however I was told the latest version of the game (not yet on display) would amaze me once the final game came out. We'll see how well it delivers.
The controls leave nothing to be desired. There's nothing like picking up a game and being able to guess the controls. They've done a great job in this sense, and even leave more advanced controls (such as double clicking a card) for the experts.
Game play has several different scoring options (Vegas, Standard, or even None) so you can compete against your friends. However, this leads us to what this game is truly lacking: multiplayer. What kind of developer can release a game and expect it to be successful without mutiplayer? It's games like Army of Two and Little Big Planet that are going to push gaming into a truly new generation. We couldn't even get an online scoreboard, so in order to compare your scores with friends you must write it down or tell it to them! I hope they work on this game, and add some of the features it's currently lacking, however I still think it deserves a verdict.
Fatal1ty managed to sell out again. In his most recent reach for money, the walking billboard has decided to team up with IDG Word Expo to make the most product placed E for All Expo EVER. The overly popular professional gamer is taking on what IDG hopes has replaced the E3 expo all together. He'll be doing everything from just appearing to taking on challanges. However, unfortunately for us "normies" , he won't be doing anything that will make him look like anything less than a god. We wouldn't want to hurt the biggest ego in gaming, now would we?
For those that have no clue, Fatal1ty has been dubbed as the top professional gamer with 12 world championships in five different games. The last time I heard about him was on MTV when they were doing their huge drive for the Xbox 360. I'm sad to see his paid promotions take a shadow like linger over the upcoming E for All expo. Don't believe me? Head over to www.fatal1ty.com and see for yourself. The last time we saw somebody promote something more than themselves was... we're not going to get into that.
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