If these are my only two choices, Forever Alone starts to seem a lot more attractive...
(Not exactly safe for work. Also, very loud.)
Ok, I lie. 31's pretty awesome, in a bitterly cynical sort of way.
(Tangentially, I can recall the sleepless night long ago when I realized that I was now closer to 30 than I was to 18 - and how that scared the bejeezus out of me...)
Wow, forget to post for a week or two and you come back to more than weeds. It was like Rise of the Machines here, guys. Only they were peddling meat byproducts in a can.
I've had something of a disinclination to post of late, this is true. I can't pinpoint a cause, merely a general melencholy that sometimes seems to accompany the lengthening shadows of the season.
I'll try to do better.
The 2011 Video Game Awards were on Saturday. I don't have cable, and I'm generally against these kind of things in other genres, but the saving grace of the VGAs (and I love the irony in that abbreviation) is that it's become a sort of tide-you-over-until-E3 event for the hype machine.
In other words, we get new trailers.
One such new trailer was for Bioshock Infinite, which doesn't really have a lot to do with the original Bioshock beyond being developed by Ken Levine and company. Infinite bids farewell to Rapture and instead takes place in Columbia, an alternate universe location in a 1900's era America.
In the sky.
It's pretty awesome, and I'm not going to go into the mini-controversy that blew up regarding the choice of song and whether or not the lyrics were censored - you can find all you need on the subject right here. I will note, though, that being familiar with the version sung in churches meant I noticed the difference. And Irrational may be using the "original flavor" and all, but once Johnny Cash does it his way, that's the RIGHT way, and that's all there is to it.
Also debuting at the VGAs - Command & Conquer: Generals 2. By Bioware. Becuase someone, somewhere at EA must have said, "Hey, people like Bioware. And people like Command & Conquer. So they'll obviously love a C&C game with the Bioware logo on it. What do you mean, 'do they know how to make an RTS?' It will say Bioware on the box. But just in case, we'll make it with the Battlefield 3 engine. Everyone loves that too. What could go wrong?"
I'm not saying it won't work, or that it won't be good. It was just a bit of a bwuh moment for me. Of course, the way EA plays musical chairs with studio names and all, in the future all studios will be Bioware for at least 15 minutes.
Oh, and I guess I ought to mention that Skyrim won the Game of the Year award, to the shock of exactly no one.
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