July 5th! 40 bucks! Are you fuckers ready? You ain’t fuckin’ ready…
And suddenly, like a fat man stepping on an ant colony, my excitement for every single game coming out in 2010/2011 has been squashed by the prospect of getting to play a new Earth Defense Force. If this game has online multiplayer, there is a chance I will never buy or play another video game ever again.
Link reblogged from DLesica
Not pictured: The Monolith
Learn your roll.
Video games go hand and hand with geeks. Geeks go hand and hand with social awkwardness. And social awkwardness goes hand and hand with having really, really thin skin. So of course whenever someone nit-picks or criticizes anyone or anything having to do with video games, you can expect a shitstorm of Hurricane Katrina proportions. And when someone who pretty much lives in a world of video games gets even the slightest negative comment, you better pack up your ark with two of every Pokemon cartridge and pray, because you will be flooded by 40 days and 40 nights of defensiveness and insecurity.
Video games had a profound effect on you? Fantastic! Express yourself. Promote the shit out of them if you want. But don’t but don’t think your feelings about them trump everything else. Cinnamon Toast Crunch changed the way I feel about breakfast cereal but I don’t get up in arms whenever someone says they don’t like them.
A single person can mock you and constructively criticize. And that’s not a blogging lesson; that’s a life lesson. So man-up, thicken your skin and learn to differentiate between the two. If you can’t, you’re fucked and will never be able to better yourself.
Things (About Video Games) I Can’t Wait For
I can’t wait for Capcom to stop “balancing” Street Fighter by weakening characters instead of buffing all of them until they are somewhat equal. Based on a 10-point system, my excitement for Super Street Fighter IV was in the 9-10 point range, but after the new reports on changes made to the game, it’s now in the 2-3 point range. Kind of makes me wonder why I didn’t just stick with Super Turbo.
I can’t wait to make an actual choice in Final Fantasy XIII. Thirteen hours in and I’m still mindlessly walking where the story wants me to. It’s pretty much the Sonic of RPG’s—Run forward, kill shit fast, run forward, jump, run forward, kill shit fast, etc. My brain has gone completely numb and not even the awesome characters can help me. It’s still better than Final Fantasy VIII, though, which continues to be the Twilight of video games.
And finally, I can’t wait to play Left 4 Dead 2. The game just never gets old.
Michigan Man Accused of Raping Cleveland Boy
http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=9747243
First, please read the headline and laugh. Got that out of the way? Good. Now for the story.
“A Michigan man is accused of going to the Cleveland area and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy he’d met playing an online video game.”
Oh boy (see what I did there?). That’s the kind of blurb news outlets love.
“Police say Hawks had played an online Xbox system game with the boy and was allowed to stay with the family after he arrived in Parma by bus on Jan. 15. But police say the parents grew suspicious and confronted their son about his relationship with Hawks.”
I’m usually not one to jump on the “blame the parents” bandwagon because there is always more going on that just bad parenting. But if you’re allowing your 12-year-old to hang out with a 19-year-old from another state because they became friends over a video game, I think you need to perhaps reassess your duties and responsibilities as a parent.
Unless, of course, the XBox went rogue and became the kid’s parent. Then by all means, blame the damn video game and ban that S.O.B. from all retailers.
