12/14/09

Man, it feels like it's been a long time since I posted one of these.  Two weeks really.  I probably wouldn't have even done it today if I weren't so damn bored at work.  I don't know, it's hard to want to keep doing something that you know no one cares about.  Though dozens of people may read my novel, no one cares about little blog posts about what I've done the last week or two.  Yet, I do it anyway.

Last movie watched: Watchmen

I'm pretty sure this was the only movie I watched in the last couple weeks.  If I did watch something else, it wasn't worth mentioning.  Watchmen, however, is worth mentioning, cause it's pretty damn good.  Like many others, I've read the original comic, but unlike many others, I didn't care much for it.  Probably just a thing of having it too overhyped, and I found it to be decent at best.  I recognize the influences it has had on so many other works, but it just never grabbed me.  I ended up liking the movie much more, mostly because it had an ending that made sense.  Also, it didn't get itself bogged down in exploring the characters that have little to say (which is most of them to me).  Very well paced, extremely awesome fight and action scenes, and it did feel like the comic in the same way that Sin City did.  I'll probably end up picking this one up just for the style and fights.

Last TV show watched: Penn & Teller's Bullshit Season 5

Again, like season 4, just watched it because it's streaming on Netflix.  Same good old stuff.  I definitely liked how this season brought up some things that I'd never really thought about before.  It also has good examples of how they really don't represent one side over the other, it's mostly just common sense to intelligent people.  I pretty much ended up agreeing with them on every topic this time around, which season 4 did not do to me.

Last games finished: Call of Duty 4, Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest

Neither of these are really worth talking about since they're both replays for me, and obviously I did them because I like playing them.  Both are just nice short games that don't require a lot of thought, FF:MQ in particular.  I still can't get that final dungeon theme out of my head.

Current PS3 games: Uncharted 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla, PixelJunk Shooter

Now that I have time again, I can play multiple games in a day.  Working through Uncharted 2 on the hardest difficulty, so once that's done with, I can put it to rest for a long while.  About 1/3 way through that one.  Secondly, also jumped back into Red Faction and have been grinding into that.  Although the game itself is pretty fun to play, it is starting to show a lot of its repetitiveness, and that's kind of turning me off to it.  Still, I'm over half way through it now, so there's no point in quitting yet.  I just might not go for 100% like I had originally intended.

But I also got a new game, PixelJunk Shooter, which came out last week.  The verdict is still out on this one in terms of how much I like it, but the first impressions are good.  Based on the trophies listed, it seems there are 15 levels, and I've done 6 so far.  The game is a bit harder than I had assumed.  I haven't managed to get 100% on anything in any level yet, which means a lot more plays to complete them.  I like the concept and level designs, but the controls are a little lacking.  Specifically I don't feel the aiming is precise enough, and doing spins is harder than it should be.  Otherwise it's a good little game, and it's easy to pick up for 15 minutes to just do a level.

Current DS game: Chrono Trigger

Yep, still working on this.  Looking at a guide, I realize that I'm a lot closer to the end than I had realized, and if that's true, it's not as long of a game as I had once thought.  I suppose it's just weird for me because most of my RPG gaming was during the PS1 days, when a fully played out game would take 70+ hours.  Even the shorter RPGs I've played take 30 hours or so to do full completes.  Really, FF:MQ has long been the shortest RPG I've played, and that's 10 hours to get a 100%.  Chrono Trigger is probably longer than that, but it doesn't really feel like it has been.  Maybe it's just because of the lack of grinding compared to most games of its type.  And the sad thing is I still don't like it that much.  I feel like I'll enjoy it more on the New Game+ playthroughs since I will just be wiping the floor with enemies at that point.  Again, it probably suffers from overhype.

Next week is Christmas week, and I couldn't be more stoked to take a huge chunk of time off work.