My only question is how in the eff did a vandal manage to get up there, and apply what I’m imagining are vinyl/magnetic/static graphics?
Oh well. Ho-BO-ken!!
Tag: video games
Rebecca Chambers gets Straight A’s
Now this is netbook territory – brogging from inside of a Cuban restaurant while munching on a tasty Cubano.
One of the benefits of the latest Resident Evil 5 updates was the mini game known as Mercenaries: Reunion. It’s all the same levels as in the regular Mercenaries, but this time, they’ve added several new character. Funny that they should call it “Reunion” though, since out of the eight playable characters, only two are truly “being reunited,” coming from an earlier RE game.
A game that lives up to its title
A gripe I had about not working was the simple fact that my weekends had lost meaning, since they were just like every other day in which I wasn’t working. This past week, I finagled out four solid working days, and a good bit of hours to alleviate the grind, so suffice to say, my weekend had some meaning again, especially since I’m slated to work the next day or two starting tomorrow. So what do I do all weekend? Aside from watching Alice in Wonderland, pretty much absolutely nothing, but play XBOX all weekend long. But most importantly, it was going through the second of the two Resident Evil 5 downloadable missions, Desperate Escape. And for once, we have a game that lives up to its title.
Enjoy the little things
It’s such a small and fleeting moment, but it’s the one I remember the most as my favorite. After using Chris Redfield as a springboard to acrobatically flip across a giant chasm in the flooring of the second-story, Jill Valentine makes a perfect landing, and for one brief second, stands, and stares off into the distance while the virtual camera captures the blank expression on her face. It’s my favorite shot out of the entire Resident Evil 5 Lost in Nightmares content.
Resident Evil 5 DLC – Lost in Nightmares
To very little fanfare, and seemingly low-interest from the rest of the video-game loving internet, the first of two mini side-missions for Resident Evil 5, Lost in Nightmares, broke this past week. This is how I spent my Saturday evening, a little under the weather, sick with Bulldykefluenza. And within two hours, I had beaten the mission once on Normal difficulty, and once on Veteran difficulty. This morning, I tackled the game on the subsequent unlocked Professional difficulty, thus resuming my self-proclamation as an elite Resident Evil 0wner.
Overall, it was fresh and new, and no doubt packaged beautifully, but let’s be straight here – it was too damn short. Start to finish in the blink of an eye. But I can’t balk that much; despite the fact that I did have to pay to download it, it reunites me with my beloved Jill Valentine.
The Mass Effect – Secret of Mana Connection
One of the best parts of the redesign is the simplicity in which I can post now – I have a clever idea, or inspiration to write something, I’m more or less an internet connection away from making it happen.
My recent time-waster these days has been Mass Effect. Not Mass Effect 2, but the original. I tend to be behind a generation when it comes to video games not starting with “Left 4 Dead” or “Resident Evil,” and to be perfectly honest, I probably wouldn’t have given attention to Mass Effect if not for the amazing theatrical trailer that they showed during the AFC championship game that made me go “whoa.” So I went out and picked up the first one, since it’s a Platinum edition, and inexpensive, to acclimate myself to the story, and prepare myself for the day in which I too, move onto Mass Effect 2.
And I love the game. I’m currently on my second go-around, to go the more renegade route, as well as unlock a few XBOX achievements on the way. But I came to the realization recently of what Mass Effect is, basically – Mass Effect is the sci-fi version of Secret of Mana.
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