Joker961
Shared on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 02:22
Thursday is the second night of the rotation; trying to keep things together. I was looking at the November calender... Holy cow, do I have a bunch of stuff scheduled! I've got a trip to the Bronx, a lunch with Roseanne and Carol Ann, Reibo's birthday, Matt's birthday, and Thanksgiving... Doesn't sound like all that much, but when 4-5 days a week are sucked up by a job 100 miles away, it tends to limit your free time. I haven't heard back about my Sunday meet-up yet, and I confess I'm starting to be a bit nervous... No Call of Duty news links today, except for a bunch of 'Me, too!' links on the single player trailer. Medal of Honor seems to be taking a critical drubbing; I'm reserving judgment until I actually play it. Since I thought I'd be the only one in my crew playing it, I didn't bother with expedited shipping, so it'll be reaching me prolly next week... Not in any particular hurry, since I have other matters occupying my limited free time. As I blogged yesterday, I'm indulging my Half-life infatuation by trying to plow through the HL2 campaign. Last couple of times, I got stuck around the Ravenholm section... It was too nerve-wracking for my sensitive nature. LOL. Seriously, those black headcrabs and the fast zombies are a brilliant idea, something Valve cooked up specifically to unnerve the player. And that shit works. Immersion is really important. I my early PC gaming days, playing Quake and Quake 2, I recall ducking out of the way of the computer monitor, as if that would help. ;-) For Half-life, it always seems to work for me. As I blogged yesterday, the only thing that throws me now is the lack of an aim-down-the-sights mechanic. I find myself using it all the time, after so many games of Call of Duty, and I sometimes gelatinize myself by firing the grenade launcher that's the alt-fire on a lot of HL2 weapons. Moving on...
Call of Duty Links:
More Gaming Links:
- Medal of Honor reviews: IGN (PS3); The Guardian; OperationSports; PRNews; Electric Pig.
- UGO: Is Medal of Honor the hot new military shooter? Cnet also asks: Can Medal of Honor compete with Call of Duty? Well, if the critics are to be believed...
- EA dismisses middling Medal of Honor critical scores.
- Unsubstantiated report: About-to-be-laid-off EA employee vents about studio mismanagement.
- David Jaffe wants a 'surrender' button in Medal of Honor.
- Zero Punctuation reviews Dead Rising 2. (NSFW language, as usual)
- New Red Dead Redemption trailer swarms with flesh-eating crazies.
- Kinect sells out in the UK. Meanwhile, the full Dance Central track list is out.
Cartoony FPS on Kinect
Non-Gaming Links:
- Monster galaxy cluster discovered.
- Satellite pictures of asteroid collision.
- White holes and kitchen sinks. You'll rarely find anything white in my sink...
- Study shows we learn more from others' mistakes.
- William Gibson says the future is right here, right now.
- Fox wants Natalie Portman for Alien prequel. I want her... for other things. Muhahahahahahahahaha!
- Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back to the Future.
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