February Made Me Shiver

Almost a month since the last post.  School has been kicking my ass.  I really bit off more than I could chew with this semester and I've already had to withdraw from one class.  So that's more of my money that Wake Tech gets for nothing.

Last month just kinda sucked.  My new (to me) car broke a week after I got it and it's been in the shop since, getting one transmission part or another replaced, my mechanic's shoulders hung in a perpetual shrug.  Then my computer got fried.  Like the mother won't boot to BIOS fried.  On the up side I bought this to replace it:



Samsung RC512.  I spent waaay more than I wanted to but my desire to finally have a machine that could handle everything I needed outweighed my usual obsessive thriftiness.

I'm sure there was some other January bullshit but I'm too tired to remember any of it right now which I suppose is good.  The TV and headphones (see last post) are awesome.  I had heard some recommendations against the wireless version of the X11s but I'm kind of wishing I had gotten them.  The cord is really long which is awesome but it gets in the way sometimes and I end up bumping the volume knobs accidentally.  Also I have to take them off to go make a sandwich or take a bathroom break.  That's right, I used to party chat in the bathroom.  It happened and I'm not sorry.

So despite all the work I have to do I've made plenty of time for my habit.  Lords of Shadow is an impressive game but it's god-awful hard.  I have yet to turn that game off in a fashion that didn't involve screaming.  The free download of Symphony of the Night was way more fun.  I'm still trying to beat the game as Richter.  Difficult but not to the point where I want to stop playing.

The last couple of days I put my borrowed copy of ES4: Oblivion in and quickly sacrificed some hours of my life to its beautiful altar.  It really is a fantastic game!  I never want to turn it off, to the detriment of sleep (always badly needed at this point) and food.  I don't even know who's game it is.  One of my wife's co-workers lent it to her months ago thinking she might play it (yeah right) and I tried it out.  Thinking they would want it back I didn't let myself get too into it but it's been a while and they never asked for it back so... YOINK!  Maybe It's like the monkey's paw, and they were just trying to get rid of it on some other doomed soul with a wish in their heart.  A wish for awesome video games.

December Recap part 3

Also I got Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

I got the duluxe package which came with a very nice art book, a CD with the game's soundtrack, and a free download of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for XBLA. I had some things to say about C:LoS but cares? I got Castlevania: Symphony of the Night!  It's all I've played.  I've come to the conclusion that there is no reason to make more Castlevania games.  This is it.  I have no problem putting it in the top ten best games ever made. EVER.  How much do I like this game?  I've played through it three times on the original PS1 version.  This is my fourth playthrough.  I spent eighty bucks on the collector's edition of this game.  Every dollar worth it just to play SotN.

OK Enough gushing, it's pretty good but.... grklhrk... cruun!!...hruklemurrkk!! I WOULD HAVE THIS GAME'S BABY!!!! I WOULD GET DOWN IN FRONT OF IT ON MY KNEES AND SERVICE.... No! Focus! Control! Get a hold of yourself! You swore to leave that life behind you and you're not going to mess it up now!

So yeah Lords of Shadow is a game that I have, the end.  Actually funny story, my wife had intended to buy it for me for my birthday.  I had not asked for it nor even mentioned its existence to her.  She was annoyed that I bought it but I was very impressed that she's learned my tastes to that extent.