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[trinityvixen]

With applications done, I'm ready to play video games, like, all the time again. I've got Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (FINALLY), so I hope it's worth the wait. In order to get free shipping on it, I also ordered Marvel Ultimate Alliance, about which I have neither expectations nor excessive interest, but that I will get around to some time after the other games I have to complete, like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2, which I got for, Jesus, I think it was last Christmas.

Despite this backlog, I'm debating grabbing the Dead Rising 2-ish game, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. I played some Dead Rising 2 DLC this past weekend, and it made me kind of miss that series. I don't know about this sequel-ish game, though. You play through the events on DR2 through the perspective of the hero of DR1. That's really kind of a cheap-ass way to avoid having to make up anything new and still get $40 for your non-effort. Also, I'm confused as to why, if Frank's running around Fortune City, he's not, like, AT ALL helping Chuck or other anti-Zombrex-making-company people do a damned thing. And wasn't he supposed to be dead anyway?

Eh, fuck it, why not buy and play this game? It'll warm me up for accepting things like the Bioshock spin-off Bioshock: Infinite, which is neither true spin-off nor sequel. Might as well get used to it now.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

This sort of thing is why I had to make a spreadsheet to track my backlog, y'know.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I don't really play games anymore. Is that weird?

[skalja.livejournal.com]

I'm still expecting you to get a six-month review where your boss chides you for not gaming enough.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

Oooh, let me know what you think of Shattered Dimensions! I really want to play it (even though the story's by Dan Slott ... sigh) but I don't have a console, so.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Who is Dan Slott and why the sigh?

I will probably be posting obnoxiously about all my video gaming, though, not to worry.

[skalja.livejournal.com]

The current writer of Amazing Spider-Man who 99% of the rest of fandom treat like God's gift to Spidey. I ... well, he's certainly not the worst writer Spidey's ever had? But his stuff is whiplash-inducingly uneven -- we're talking "sublime perfection" and "jawdropping awfulness" several times each an issue uneven -- which is almost more aggravating than straight-up mediocrity because one keeps getting one's hopes up and having them let down again. Plus your sadly usual slight skeeviness regarding characters who aren't white dudes... yep.

(Also, something I forgot about this afternoon when I commented, he's prone to googling himself and then arguing with people who don't like his work, so if he suddenly shows up here and picks a fight I apologize!)