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March 5, 2007
Just a Bit Distracted
kay, I've been neglecting my blog and reading other blogs for a while now. I have no excuse...
Other than the fact that I got a Playstation 3 and a new Macbook Pro laptop to play with. (No, I didn't get the Nintendo Wii because it's not HD.)
My plasma HDTV needed something, a friend, a companion, a buddy to hang out with. So I got it a Playstation 3. It was time for me to catch up with the Playstation universe. Nevermind that there are only about 20 new games for it and only one is rated 5 Stars. It can play all the Playstation 2 games as well, you see.
Right now I am playing two games:
Formula 1 Championship: A Playstation 3 HD game that just came out. Everyone needs at least one racing game. I like the Monte Carlo track, although there are about 2 dozen to choose from.
Okami: A beautiful, wondrous Playstation 2 game that I saw on XPLAY (on the G4 tv channel...very funny writing and great game reviews on all platforms). Okami is a pure Japanese consciousness game. You are the great sun goddess Amaterasu in the form of a white wolf who travels the Nippon countryside saving the land from dark curses, returning flowering life to nature by wielding the great caligraphic Celestial Brush to banish enemies and restore life. When you run, flowers are left in your trail, and when you succeed in restoring a Guardian Sapling you watch as petals and blossoms flow across the land bringing color and fructifying goodness to all.
The entire game is in a special ink-and-wash style kind of watercolor-like more than anime. It's quite a wonderful, odd non-western game. Check it out if you have Playstation 2.
On my new Mac I'm trying out Call of Duty. A friend in Tennessee got it for his dad. It's great. Shooting Nazis. Sometimes it's better than doing all those shoot-em-up space alien games.
Of course I have a few backups when I get around to them: Call of Duty 2 for Playstation 2. Halo for Mac. And Resistance: Fall of Man, the 5-star Playstation 3 game that challenges my ability to effectively use the controls. I'm not an experienced Playstation gamer, so my fingers have to learn the new way of playing.
So that's what I've been doing with my spare time. Can you blame me???
Posted by witnit at March 5, 2007 2:53 PM
