Oh yeah, I just remembered the other think about the LAN; someone had set up and XBox on the projector so I watched crappy XBox games all day.
Hunter: the Reckoning especially made me cry, since
White Wolf make such good tabletops but commission such shit computer games. I admired the cel-shaded art in
Cell Damage but lamented the fact that it was a shitty car racing game, and grinned at the oddballity of
Whacked but lamented the fact that it was such a generic game under all the mainstreamed oddity. Everyone in the room langhed when
Buffy accidentially blew herself up with the Hellfire she was trying to throw at Evil Buffy. I watched some random FPS which looked a lot like
Counter Strike and just as bad, as well as someone playing
Quake X2 or whatever the XBox version of it is called. Plus, of course, there were people attempting to LAN
Halo. So now to
you; both Mat and myself have seen it played and LANed. Fft, yeah. It actually reminded me a lot of the kids who were playing
Battlefield 1942. These games that try and introduce a new dimension of playability into the “core” of the FPS (conversley, most of
Quake III’s playability comes from external sources such as mods and tricking weird things in the physics – ie. straife jumping). Eh. I still maintain
Halo is crap, just like all other FPS except
Alice,
Quake III when it’s played properley and
Doom III at any stage. I guess technically
House of the Dead is a FPS as well, so that can also live. Everything else can die.<br />
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Now I’ve lost my tangent. Fear my paragraph skills!