Saturday morning and I have 23 minutes until I need to be to work. This is how life is going lately, when it’s not work, it’s video editing or going into City of Heroes. There just hasn’t been a lot of time to myself or to devote to anything else lately.
The past month has been equally a blur and one of the longest months in my life. Somewhere in there I broke down and bought a Playstation 2. Yes, the ultimate evil.
After the crushing reviews of “Showdown: Legends of Wrestling 3,” I wanted a good wrestling game. I ended up with a PS2 and last year’s WWE Smackdown game. I now know why Evil James was bitching about the Undertaker. The game is @#$#’ing hard, even on easy level. You lose matches! Unheard of! In season mode, you start out as a scrub and you have to work your way up until you can beat stronger guys. You lose quite a bit. There’s no real way around it unless you want to be a weenie and take the strong guys out of season mode. Not that I’d DO that but … hmm … so right where were we?
I bought a handful of cheap games off of ebay but really didn’t have time to play them. Again, I found myself buying a system just for the wrestling games and I’m getting flashbacks to the N64. While Smackdown is nowhere near as fun as WWF No Mercy for the N64, it still has its moments and yah, it beats WWE RAW 2 for XBOX in every feature except graphics. The Xbox will always blow the PS2 away in that department. The PS2 just can’t compete with the hardware.
Ended up also buying ESPN NFL2k5 for XBOX. Didn’t go with the Sony version because … well, see above. Xbox has better graphics, I love the Xbox J controllers and if I’m plunking down money for a football game it’s going to be the one with all the extra features. One of the big ones is that you can customize the soundtracks that play over the PA system for nearly every situation in football. You can even go to a certain part of a song and start the song there (something WWE Raw 2 for Xbox really needed). So don’t be surprised when my games start with “Hello Dolly” and “Highway to Hell” blares any time I get a touchdown. It’s my soundtrack and I can be as psychotic as I want with it. 🙂
New strips are coming eventually. I have to figure out where I was going with with this past stuff. I wrote the first strips 3 months ago and for the life of me, I’m not sure where I was going. I’ll figure it out, so stay tuned …
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