I think it's great how you can look at a picture like his old entertainment center and date it - like some scientist - based solely on the consoles present. Also, you can see how the stuff looks now on his fancy new Bob Vila shit, but it was in a pretty sad state. I think the thing that finally pitched him over the edge into Home Depot territory was the Xbox, which he had to pile everything else on top of. Not only was it hard on the eye, it was like a treacherous, fabulously expensive variation on Jenga every time he added a new component.
You can also see that he has a platinum Cube now where the black one had been, which is fine by me, because the black one is now here on my own misshapen entertainment hutch. The only Cube game I own is Resident Evil Zero, and really, I could do much worse.
Most of my friends never made the plunge and purchased Battlefield 1942, despite the fact that the Wake demo released for it is one of the most compelling previews of a game in existence. Soldier of Fortune 2 might be the consummate LAN party champion, but we don't play it much outside that. In fact, the crew as such is scattered to the four winds, and I think we're all waiting for some prophecy or other to reunite and vanquish a growing evil. Kiko is off playing that Medal of Honor expansion, Gabe plays that Mechassault literally every night, and until recently I've been amusing myself with Natural Selection or Starfleet Command III's haphazard Dynaverse, a persistent online campaign that would be really cool if it weren't broken. Monkey and I have been playing something lately that I hope becomes a regular, though - this Raven Shield demo.
Gabe heard that it was bad, and he won't say from who, but I don't see what difference that makes. There are people who don't like caramel for fuck's sake, which is to my mind a wholly untenable position. If you don't like Caramel, you don't have a tongue - and that's that.
Besides the fact, Raven Shield isn't bad! The equipment options simply have no equal in other games, it's highly lethal which I like now, the demo levels have good options... If it's too similar or dissimilar to other games in the series I wouldn't know, but I'm into it. They've got like three months to smooth off any rough edges, so they put out this preview at a good time - meanwhile, I'm certainly getting my money's worth.
I cannot stress to you how good it is to be home, serving the good readers of Penny Arcade with information that is readily available via other sources.
(CW)TB out.
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