Never fear, faithful readers. Army life hasn't tamed the geek within. Without further adieu, I give you a brand new entry in Things I Think I Think.
- UFC 118, James Toney's only chance is to catch Couture quickly with a big shot. If the fight lasts longer than a couple minutes Couture will be the easy winner.
- After all the hype about Starcraft 2 finally getting released it sure did vanish off the radar with barely a peep didn't it?
- I was going through a magazine the other day and there was a picture of Tina Fey with a caption that indicated she was in the class of the "hot nerd". Am I the only one who's irritated that some people honestly think if someone wears glasses and writes for a living they're automatically a part of the great fraternity that is nerd or geekdom? Get some pics of her throwing down some 20's as a DM for D&D or staying up for 10 hours straight on WoW, then you can call her a geek or nerd. Until then shes just a chick in glasses.
- I was gone for nearly half a year so I'm late getting into Modern Warfare 2 but Damn, that's a fun game. Can't wait to get my grubby mitts on Black Ops, the next CoD game.
- If you like movies about stuff that blows up, you'd do well to see The Expendables. Solid action flick that makes no excuses for what it is: an almost non-stop, over the top series of action sequences.
- Although he was hardly Oscar worthy, Couture's turn as a former high school wrestler turned mercenary wasn't too shabby. He may have a future in action movies.
- Despite the myriad of great PC games that have been coming out of the last couple years I want to replace my aging, problem ridden computer so I can play Neverwinter Nights again.
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Starcraft 2 dropped off the radar once it came out for a good reason. all the people that were talking about it have gone into their computer rooms and haven't left. either to keep playing, or to make custom maps for it.
ReplyDeleteits a great, fun game. the single player game is awesome... except it ends too soon. really, they launched the game with 1/3 of the single player, and are going to stick it to us for the rest. but we knew that was happening for some time. the custom maps that people are working on right now, are amazing. they have a Zombie 3rd person shooter, where you have to aim with the mouse. someone else is working on a metal slug custom map set of levels. starcraft 2 is a slow burner. the fratboy gamers are busy jerking off over halo 3 remix 2: the search for more teamfortress.
yeah, haven't heard anything about tina fey that says "geek". or even "nerd". what scientific papers has she helped to write? what RPG's has she run? which 40k army does she field the most often? What Star Wars parody movie has she written?
i hear ya with neverwinter nights. been meaning to get on there again, and play some, but just never seem to motivate over to it. You hear about the "Neverwinter" MMO, that they are making? sounds like D&D Online 2.0, after that one went down like the hindenburg.
I haven't heard of the Neverwinter MMO but I'm interested. I'll do some research and touch on it in a later post.
ReplyDeleteAs for Starcraft 2, my view comes from reviews I've read, which are lackluster and from the of the game in internet memes mocking it's lack of expansion over the first and, as you mentioned, a number of things missing.
I don't know, maybe it's simply a case of someone on the outside looking in.
i don't know. they expanded on SC2, just at funny angles. while the core game is the same mechanics, it looks the same, but much better... they focused on other things.
ReplyDeleteadding a RPG type frame around which you do the missions, upgrades to your units in the campaign, and such. the core multiplayer is meh, just SSDD really.
it is the custom levels, the user content that kept people playing SC2 and WC3 for so long. now that is going to shift over to SC2, as the players make new custom maps, that are insane. they made, for the campaign, a SC2 version of 1942, top down ship shooter. it uses the SC2 game engine, but you just spam the shoot button, and use the beyboard to more, and drop bombs to clear the screen.
its, for better or worse, the wave of the future. Mods have been an ever rising thing with computer games. special new levels and modes that change the game. SC2 is the first game i know of, that hired on custom map makers, to help with the development process of the game itself, to help make it more mod and custom map friendly.
yeah, i payed $60 for a game that has 1/3 the content of the original game... but it is still super awesome content that kicks ass... and that investment will pay out in a year or two when all the crazy custom maps come out, and turn my RTS into a FPS, Side scroll shootemup, RPG (someone is working on making a Final Fantasy game map, and it looks interesting, they have the fighting system down).