Anyways, enough with excuses and onto what's what in my world.
One thing that Life has allowed time for is the discovery of mucho new music to listen to. My Pandora Internet Radio has introduce me to a lot of new bands I've never heard before and bands that I wrote off as major suckage but changed my mind once Pandora drilled them into my skull. Some examples that mayhaps will get you interested:
- Slayer (I was extremely anti-Slayer for years until Pandora showed me the error of my ways)
- Kent
- Gravenhurst
- Machine Head
- Nonpoint
- Primal Fear
- Karma to Burn
- Lyzanxia
- Nothingface
- Opeth
- Prong
- Placebo
- Queensryche
- The Fratellis
- The Kooks
- Thornley
- Hanzel und Gretyl
It started with Batman: Arkham Asylum. It's certainly the best superhero video game ever made but I have serious doubts as to whether it beats out The Darkness as the best comic book video game. The Darkness, to me, was much more than just a video game. It was an action packed, emotional roller coaster ride that still sticks with me to this day. Still Arkham Asylum is certainly no slouch. Batman is a badass right off the bat. There's none of the usual watered down hero bullshit that most games would make you slog through before you finally grind away long enough to get the powers you should already have. Instead, Batman's skills are refined as you progress through the story. You earn new gadgets and combos to string onto your already impressive move set. Plus the Riddler's puzzles will keep you playing long after the story is actually over as you scour over every inch of the island trying to solve his devious mysteries.
Hours, maybe even days, of my life have been sunk into Halo 3: ODST's campaign and Firefight mode. Firefight's addictive gameplay grabs your virtual self by the throat and never lets go. After each match I'm always ready to go at the Covenant horde again, chomping at the bit to beat my score in the last battle. Firefight is fast paced, intense, and very nearly irresistible.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a game that I waited two years for. I have to admit that I was extremely underwhelmed by the game at first. Maybe it was the long incubation of my anticipation and the major expectations I had. It was not long before I was doing the mea culpa because this game is simply amazing. There is nothing more adequate that I could possibly say to get my point across. The online multiplayer is better implemented than the first Modern Warfare (who knew this was even possible) with tons more weapons, perks, and rewards as your online persona progresses. And the co-op Spec Ops missions are the best thing to ever happen to the Call of Duty franchise. Every mission is different and challenging, taking your FPS skills and reflexes to the limit.
Finally, the game that I'm currently frittering away my hours with, there's Dragon Age: Origins. This game may just be the definitive Western RPG. BioWare has made some of the best RPGs of our time with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect so it's really little wonder that Dragon Age is as fantastic as it is. I'm not even halfway through my first playthrough and I'm already thinking about what my next character is going to be. That is the beauty of having multiple origins for each of the different races. BioWare has given players the ultimate incentive to play their game over and over and over again. The world is expansive (to say the least). The lore and history of the world of Fereldan is fascinating. Your Codex is constantly being updated with the legends and historical backdrop behind your current quest to save the world.
Naturally Life steps in to make sure that I'm not playing games 24/7. There's spending 40+ hours a week at work trying to make as much money as I possibly can. There's the rigors of having a new puppy. And then there's keeping up with this blog. Most of the time (as you can see) the blog gets pushed to the back time and again.
I've been watching tons of movies since discovering the magic of Redbox. Renting movies for $1 a night is probably the greatest thing to happen to my movie watching life...ever. But this post has gone on for way too long and if you've made it this far I applaud you. I seriously doubt that by this point you're interested in the movies I've been watching and you probably just want the damn post to end. Honestly, I'm surprised Life has allowed me to go on for this long.
So that's that. Like I said all the way at the beginning: I'll try to keep the updates more consistent.
Not that you readers care because you don't exist!
Who the Hell am I talking to?!?!
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