Monday Morning Commute.
Every Monday I’m going to detail the various things I’m either currently or will be watching, reading, playing, and listening to in the next seven days. It’s Monday. You’ve got a long week of school, work, or compulsive masturbation to get through. Tell me the arts that you’re indulging in, to stave off suicide. Check out my list after the jump:
Playing / Uncharted 2
It’s a scientific fact that Naughty Dog are the masters of Playstation technology. And to me, their first Uncharted is the only viable system seller for the PS3, up until tomorrow. That’s when the sequel comes out, and I begin to masturbate furiously and disappear off of the face of the Earth for ten hours or so. Hellls yeah.
Watching / Where The Wild Things Are
This shit is finally arriving on Friday. Can you feel it, the anticipation?! Spike Jonze is my hero, this book is a childhood staple. I’m also looking forward to hopefully catching Paranormal Activity at some point this week. If there is one thing I like, it’s not sleeping at night.
Listening / The Black Dahlia Murder: Nocturnal
My friend Bri recommended these guys to me, and pushed me in the way of this album. They’re pretty grindy, I don’t know what genre, death metal? Whatever. All I know is that they have enough hooks to keep my head bobbin’. The sort of music which would probably make my Nana thing the four horsemen hath cometh.
Reading / Altered Carbon
I’ve already read Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon. However, it’s pretty fucking awesome, and I’m a slut for cyberpunk. If you like Neuromancer, Snow Crash, the Matrix, or Blade Runner, you’d dig this title. It’s something I’m meandering through prior to bed. It’s been long enough that there’s a lot of nuances I missed the first time, and yeah, it’s like hanging out in some dystopian future where I imagine I’d be a super dope detective guy. And I’m doing this, because yes, I’m still trudging through The Brothers Karamazov. Forever. Into infinity.
I am so excited for Uncharted 2, but cmon… MGS4 was totally a system seller for me and tons of other people. Even if you didnt love it. Where the wild things are is giving me a horrible erection every time I see a poster or preview for it… oh and black dahlia is pretty good stuff as well.
I forgot about MGS4. That’s how much that game blew. But yeah, I suppose it’s a system seller too.
I ended up like Uncharted way more than MGS4, which was disappointing, but also orgasmic because Uncharted is my new video game mistress.
Lately, I’ve been wanting to play MGS4 for a second time. I couldn’t even bring myself to do it after I completed it the first time.
But fuck yeah, Uncharted 2 is going to be the fucking truth. Not that I doubted it at all, but Buddy has already played through it. And even he, someone who hadn’t played the first, threw frothy loads everywhere over its excellence.
I wish I had the AIM log where you proclaimed MGS4 one of your favourite games of all time, lol.
Uncharted 2 is a miracle of action gaming. Highly, highly recommended to anyone who owns a PS3, and worthwhile enough to warrant buying the system if you don’t already have one.
Re: Where the Wild Things Are, how have I never heard of this story? I assume it was a children’s book from when we were young? I must read up on it.
Listen, I’m always changing my mind while I assess and reassess things I’ve played/read/watched, et cetera. As you said, I was probably halfway through and just riding high on the excitement of playing a new Metal Gear installment.
I liked Matrix Reloaded and Attack of the Clones too. I’m excitable at first blush.
Ok, I paraphrased heavily, you didn’t call it one of your faves ever. I just didn’t know you were disappointed with it!
I suppose I am too. MGS is a marvelous piece of entertainment, but it just isn’t the pinnacle of gaming to me like it is to the millions that have licked Kojima’s boots for the last five years. Its pacing is just catastrophic — MGS4 really broke the cinematic:gameplay ratio and it ruined the experience, in my opinion. Somehow, it was tolerable while playing it for the first time, because, I mean, hell, this was the ending to a decade long game saga. It was the same phenomenon that made Return of the King’s half-hour ending acceptable; it wasn’t just ending one film, it was ending a trilogy. It had to be dense, elongated and fulfilling as a conclusion to all three films, not just the one.
Uncharted kept me in control more often, and that’s why it shines over a Kojima product now, in my opinion.
“black dahlia is pretty good stuff as well.” Fucking really?