| something to get off of my abdomen (this was a triumph) |
[Mar. 23rd, 2008|05:37 pm] |
without the aid of bicarbonate of soda.
happy easter=merry chrsitams. trekked through seven inches of snow to get to the cross. girlfiend's parents aok. she phoned. she is okay too.
ate v. well, scored some sage and about two pounds of suet (this is not an euphemism for drugs. i really have a kilo of hairy pig suet in my fridge. for dumplings, of course)
enough of this then.
i meant to say how much i revere b. "yahtzee" crosshaw's game reviews. for proof, most are about games i have never heard about, and would not be interested in otherwise. that he makes them funny is one thing, but it goes to the extent of making one crave information about said games, finding out about their storylines, finding video captures, downlaoding stills, and so on and so forth.
one review i kept coming back to was the orange box review. i had heard of half-life, and had safely classified it in the "games which make me twitch too much" section. this having been said, his praise of portal did sort of itch. so a little research level, i discovered a game i loved. not loved to play, or even motivated to play, but it seems this is another game, pretty much like silent hill, in which the real fun hook is the storyline. then again, how twisted do you need to be to enjoy the kind of story which culminates in massive player frustration when the main opponent character does not let you beat the shit out of her/him with a fully cleared conscience. silent hill had it's suicidal bosses, portal has an insane ai which sings you a song after you've beaten it to express how happy and proud it is of you, and how it does not hate you and is not even angry at you. it wishes you the best, and finishes by letting you go in a sad little voices.
couple this with the fact the game cuts the mean protagonist off of any human contact, but encourages a rather intimate relationship with an inanimate box, later forcing you to sacrifice it at the height of your emotional attachement, and you have a game which fascinates me by it's narrative potential, to the extent i never want to play it, ever.
the cake is a clear rip off of the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy, though. |
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