Due to lameness, today’s strip will be postponed. Sorry!
Love,
Noah
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I’ve completed the main storyline of Red Dead Redemption.
First, a caveat. As a lover of both spaghetti westerns, and The Dark Tower series by Stephen King, I’m predisposed to enjoying nearly anything that involves a gunslinger. I really feel, however, that this game overshadowed that predisposition with its inherent awesomeness.
The landscape is wonderful, and it goes on forever. Everything that you can do is a game unto its own. There’s hunting. There’s gambling. There’s horse breaking. There’s ranching, bounty hunting, flower picking, train jumping, cadaver dragging, animal husbandry (not really), and the list goes on. I’ve spent at least 3 hours just playing poker because I like the thrill of cheating at cards without getting caught, especially when a gunfight is the “punishment” for failure.
Sure, many of the missions are variations of staple classics. DeadEye (read: BulletTime) makes it all better. Lining up 22 separate rifle shots in slow motion and then giving your character the go ahead to unleash hell as you watch rustlers turned out of saddle, thieves flung over balconies, and murderers dropped into the dirt makes the task of, “Go here, kill these” much more entertaining than it should be.
Lassoing and hogtying people? So much fun. Placing their hogtied body on the train tracks and watching the results. Interesting.
This game is both THE sandbox game and THE “western” game. If you have an interest in either and haven’t played this yet, you’re missing out.
People don’t seem to like the Lost finale. Personally, I only liked half of it.
Spoilers ahead, but really…why wouldn’t you have watched this by now?
Somewhere around 3:00am on Sunday morning, before the PS3 Fat Meltdown, I finished my initial play through of Heavy Rain.
It’s bloody brilliant.
Let’s start things off with a bit of clarification; Heavy Rain is not what I would call a “game”. It certainly has game elements, but I would definitely classify it more as interactive storytelling. If you’re looking to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, you’ll need to look towards a different game on the local retailer’s rack.
With that out of the way, let’s get to why I love Heavy Rain so much, and why I think that interactive storytelling should be a new staple in every gamer’s diet. Be warned, there’s a very minor spoiler after this jump, but nothing that is experience ruining.
A new literary blog entitled Trick with a Knife has popped up in the last few days, and they’re updating like mad with interesting articles.
If you like writing, or even reading, there’s something for you here. I’m keeping my eyes on it for now.
I got a request from my sister and a friend to do a PXC-style headshot of them, so of course I obliged. Click the thumbnail for the full version.
Jump for joy, there’s gonna be 2 Parallax City strips this week.
Maybe…
Edit: Confirmed!
The iPad is not for me.
I have a MacBook Pro and an iPhone sitting in front of me as I type this. I’m deeply in love with both of them (sometimes, when nobody is looking, I soul kiss my iPhone). I use the MBP for accomplishing many productivity tasks, but my main reason for owning both devices is simply to fuel my love of the internet. The decision to break down and buy an iPhone came one day when my Comcast internets were down, and I desperately needed to get online for…something.
Both of these devices accomplish pretty much anything I can see myself using an iPad for. Things that may be iPad exclusive (e reader app, etc.) just aren’t a draw for me. (I’ve never purchased an ebook and don’t see myself buying one anytime soon, but that’s a Ramble for another day).
My wife has an iBook G4 I bought for her back in 2004. It wasn’t fast then, it’s positively slow now. It’s running 10.4, but I think it’s going to give itself a hernia soon. She complains about it frequently, but doesn’t really want to spend the money on a new computer.
My wife uses her iBook for almost nothing but viewing the internet and checking her email. Any rare productivity tasks that she needs to take care of are usually accomplished through my MBP. This got me to thinking that she might be the kind of person that this type of device was for. I showed her the promo video on the Apple web site.
Yup, this thing is for her.
So, when the opportunity exists, I think we’ll make a trek to the Apple Store to check one out. My biggest concern is the onscreen keyboard, but I’m guessing that Bluetooth connectivity will allow it to pair with our already existing wireless keyboard.
I don’t know. I still think it’s an odd product. I’m surprised to find a potential user for it in my own house. We’ll see…
