This Thing Still On?

Bah, I had almost forgotten the tedious grasp of tertiary educations. The past week has had me on a couch living vicariously through my video game avatars in titles such as Rainbow Six Vegas, a game since sequel'd whose online presence is pretty much absent. This is sadly common with games over a year old on the Three-Sixty, minus staying power games like Halo Three and I have heard even Halo Two. Unlike PC games where the sheer amount of people who own a PC or three keep titles as old as Counter-Strike alive the Three-Sixty's online presence acts as a sort of trendy crowd. On lauch, every person with Xbox Live had Perfect Dark Zero, a fairly crappy sluggish game but still the most fun I had that particular three months or more. I also had a popular rival FPS known as Quake 4 or 'IV' as is trendy with those in Rome. Quake was pretty much empty from the day I put it in my console. I spent a good ten minutes searching for a game before I gave up. After a month or so I checked an online calendar on Xbox Live Dot Com and found it was apparently Quake Four's game day and so that night I popped it in, played a single one-on-one against a fellow Australian (Oops, it's out there now), lost due to rediculous lag (I say anyway) and never touched it again.

Back to Prefect Dark Zero, I bought maps, the game was refreshed and then finally there was Chromehounds. I did not realise at the time how 'into' large mech-warriors I was. It was one of those things looking back, seeing all my achivements, save games with time measured in the several-hundred-hour marks. I did so with many games. I own every G.R.A.W 2 map and got the highest and mightiest achivements such as surviving in a realistic defence match for an entire hour. It has since been removed from my memory how I acomplished such dedication in a fictional and quite pointless environment. Team Fortress 2, Gears of War, Call of Doody Three: all games I have played to complete death until the next game came out. The online components of those games is embarrasing now.

To the present day: I spent hours playing through what might have been an overconfident choice of the 'Realistic' difficulty setting in Rainbow Six, the highest difficulty accumulating in one-shot-death level of play against an endless number of various criminals. I find it odd that for such an elite crack-squal of highly trained super-hero marksmen demolition trained sky jumpers that the Rainbow Six team would choose to land their helicopter (to remove hostiles in Vegas) in the middle of the road, forcing you to wade through fifty guys each who could kill you in a matter of seconds rather than, for example land on the roof. The co-op experience I found eases the difficulty somewhat but still is fairly lacking when compared to the co-op of something like Gears of War (I bought the sequel recently, like yesterday recently), but for ever flaw I find in this game I am assured is repaired and then some in the newer-but-not-new Rainbow Six Vegas Two.

Oh and Medion finaly picked up my laptop after it was requested a repair about 4 months ago. I think the post office is going to refund us the missing-in-transit (read: Stolen) parts we sent previosuly. I should start gettin back to work on my studies (how I equip pencil?) until then blog-children. Oh and pretend this is like two posts, since I diddn't post last week. Do it.