Morning Discussion
I enjoyed Warcraft III's millions of custom tower defenses an immense amount and Sol Survivor is the first commercial TD I've played that learns from the archetypes. You're offered a choice of 'executive officers' with their own towers and support powers--active, targeted abilities from lowly orbital lasers to nukes--so it's not simply "plonk towers down; watch." I look forward to trying the co-op and competitive multiplayer.
Shatter is also fun. I haven't played that as much. Fun though.
Hey, it's Saint Patrick's Day! Time for degenerate American frauds to pretend they're Irish, get ratted and yell "WHOOOOO YEAH BRO!" You sicken me.
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Like many other people, I scored a copy of God of War III yesterday. I was able to walk into Best Buy and pick it up. The only inconvenience in-store was the cashier, probably ten years my junior, carding me (a first).
Things got interesting on the way out, however. I went back to my car, and like a true internet whore, photographed the box and MMS'd it to Facebook. Then I started up the car, and began to leave the parking lot. I pulled to the end of the row and got ready to turn onto the road, waiting for traffic to clear. At this point my car is stopped facing the store, with a handicapped parking spot immediately to my right. It is at this point, waiting to turn, that I suddenly see a light out of the corner of my eye. I turn and see it is the handicapped parker's reverse lights--he has chosen the time at which I am stopped behind his car to back out. I lean on the horn to try and get him to stop but that doesn't faze him. He gracefully powers into my passenger door and my car lists to the left. Then a second or two passes as he, I assume, realizes something is amiss. He finally notices that he is crushing my car and pulls back into his spot. I pull next to him and get out to assess the damage. My passenger door has a big dent in it, and upon closer inspection I see that the impact occured right at the edge of the door so some of the energy had transferred to the door jamb and put a small dent in that too. Fantastic. I turn back to the other driver and after the driver's door slowly opens, a 60-70 year old guy pulls himself out and leans on the car for support, then stammers out an apology. We swapped insurance and contact information and both filed claims on the spot. I talked to an agent again this morning and his insurance is covering it, so at least that is taken care of.
But who gives a shit about that? Let's talk about God of War III!
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This is a really cool game. It's exactly how I remember the series. I played for a few hours last night and I am presently in the Underworld and I just met Emo Hephaestus. Kratos just can't keep himself out of trouble, can he? The introductory cinematic was really well done. The first level was raw insanity. The finale of the first level, where you watch Kratos kick the shit out of Poseidon from Poseidon's point of view was hilariously brutal. The blurry vision and looking around was great. There was a complete sense of, "oh man, you are FUCKED."
I did a temporary backlog push to play this game, and so far it is worth it. I will need to resume Valkyria Chronicles once I finish God of War III, but if the rest of the game offers the same amount of action and excitement that the first two did, this will be totally worth it.
However, I have noticed a few quirks and bugs so far. For example, if you run behind Gaia's Heart on the first level and swing your blades, it looks like the resulting red light actually makes the walls darker, which looks really awkward. I've also on two occasions noticed that if you jump and do an L1+[] (fantastic crowd clearing move, an old favorite of mine from God of War II) while sliding along a wall, Kratos will sometimes pick up a ridiculous amount of speed and fly across the map. I also once saw a minotaur get stuck on a wall and start moving in turbo speed for a few seconds. None of these are major and I am really enjoying the game so far. I can't wait to play more. -
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And hubcaps like this, amirite? http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cCJdvoMLTEg/Sw8x9-8txhI/AAAAAAAABQU/EPxTkk8XitY/s400/Boadicea-chariot-Statue-Lon.gif
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finished gow1 on sunday, and pretty far into gow2. i just finished the atlas titan stage, probably about 30 mins past it. i wonder how much more there is, but it's been a blast the whole time except i'm impatient with some of the puzzles. is gow3 like that? puzzles every 15 mins? i would imagine as that's pretty much what gow is.
bummer about your car man. at 70 dudes probably don't give a fuck, i doubt he even bothered to look behind him. -
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Interestingly, all of the county cops were busy a few miles away busting a bank robbery: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/16/AR2010031604647.html
On my way to BB, I saw about six polie cars in full lights/sirens heading the opposite direction. The bank where they caught the guy is close to where I work.
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I'm confused by these posts where someone seems surprised that they were able to just walk in a buy a game at a big-box store like Best Buy or Target or somewhere similar. Why wouldn't you be able to buy God of War 3 at any store on opening day? I can't recall EVER seeing any game sold out at big stores like that. Maybe at lame Gamestop due to their retarded pre-ordering policies but not at any huge chain. Weird.
Sorry about your door, Omaha. That guy clearly should NOT be driving if your honking didn't even phase him. Scary.-
You know, I feel the same way, because I was able to do the same thing with God of War II, and Grand Theft Auto IV, both of which were huge launches and I was able to grab it halfway through the day.
I think the horror stories come from smaller places and places with shitty policies like Gamestop. I have never had a sold out Best Buy experience on a release day.
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Haha, I've had that exact same kind of thing happen. Some dumb ass old guy backed RIGHT into me when I was stopped. The thing that makes it even worse though... My car was stopped there to unload stuff for like 15 minutes. He walked into his car, with my car behind it, got in, and then hit it. Now that's paying attention.
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One of the first holy shit moments for me: You enter a room with a reflective glass floor. There is a plaque nearby. Here lies Ares, the fallen god of war. The camera pans down and you can see Ares laying there. "Holy shit!"
I momentarily thought, wait, didn't he explode in dramatic fashion when he died? But then I said it was very cool and moved on. -
THOUGHTS I think I'm close to the end so here are some.
So far its been a pretty good game but not without its flaws. I've ran into quite a few bugs which have detracted from the experience. For example, the first time I got on that ridable 3 headed fire breathing lion thing, I couldn't get it to turn right or left, just back and forth. It was infuriating getting it to where I needed it to be. Also there was another couple of parts where I was fighting something and got smashed through the world to an instant death.
Some of the other issues I had have to do with pacing of the coolest moments being broken up by split second timing events where you die because you don't know whats coming so you have to replay the whole thing such as the Hermes chase. I'm also not sure why all other models outside of Kratos look like shiny plastic playdough, especially Zeus. The game can look so good but so bad at the same time.
Lastly, I think I'm not a fan of most of the new weapons outside of the Whip Blade which is ridiculous. -
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A few months after I got my first brand-new vehicle, my 2007 Tacoma, some genius off-duty rent-a-cop decided to change lanes into mine on the freeway. He didn't hit me bad, just enough to lightly scrape the paint, but when I chased him down and made him pull over, a plastic wheel well flare piece was lodged in the side of his vehicle. That would've been funny if I hadn't wanted to throw him off the overpass. Fixed with rental car on his insurance's dime, nothing too serious. The rental car was fun, a Toyota Avalon.
A few months after that, I get nailed by ANOTHER rent-a-cop. This time in the goddamn parking lot of my own workplace by a senile old grandpa. I've got the right of way on my way out of the lot, he's coming up to the top of the T in a row of parking spaces. He "just didn't see me!" and lightly, scrapingly T-boned me. That one resulted in some serious scratches on the bed and back of the cab and a dent. My truck was in the shop for weeks on that one, being shortly after Hurricane Ike, and requiring actual body work and reprimering and painting and all that. The rental car sucked, a Chevy Impala.
TL,DR: Rent-a-cops hate Tacomas. True story. -
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