The Importance of Being Idle

I Just Want To Say Pred-Alien Again

One thing I notice about PC gaming, and probably gaming in general, is how cyclical it is, or at least how cyclical my interest in it is. For the best part of a year now, with one or two honourable exceptions, there's been nothing on the PC that's really caught my attention, and then all of a sudden it's back and with a vengeance! So aside from the continual love for World of Warcraft, wishing I had enough time to set aside for Lord of the Rings Online, now we learn that Mass Effect is coming our way! And sooner than you'd think too, in just a few short months time! Which is awesome news, except that I fear Mass Effect will make my ageing PC go into shock. On top of that Bioware (ah, lovely Bioware) are making anothe KoTOR game! Oddly I went looking for my PC copy of the original not that long ago, and couldn't find it anywhere. I concluded that I must've sold it once I got it on Xbox. Too many RPGs, too little time! Not that I've finished Jade Empire, and it's been so long since I've played that I almost feel like I should go back to the beginning...
Hmm, what else?
Honestly, today has been kinda disappointing. I expected to have a really good day today, with nothing in particular to do or worry about, and yet it's just been a horrible old damp squib of a day. Although I enjoyed watching the new AvP movie this afternoon, for all that it is undoubtedly rubbish. It had decent effects though, good monsters, and lots of gory deaths, so I was more than happy. If you have to be critical then you'll be pointing at the fact that it's rubbish, and also the strange changes to the aliens reproductive cycle first seen in the original AvP (ie the twenty minute gestation period, although you could argue that away by suggesting the predators selectively bred them to have this trait to make the trials harder) continue with a moment where you will undoubtedly say both "yuck" and "the pred-alien can do what now?". Let's just say there's lots of babies about, but nobody is bothering with all that trouble with eggs and face huggers anymore. Still, in the film makers defence they really go for it (I knew I was gonna enjoy it when they refused to spare the kid in the opening few minutes, always a good sign) and the aforementioned "yuck" bit finds a whole new use for a maternity ward full of soon to be VERY expectant mothers. So yeah, a good time. Although you'd think a predator would know better than to use a plasma weapon aboard a spaceship!

posted by BadMonkey @ 6:31 PM