What's new on the homefront? Just a few quick games.

FFXI is not as good as I previously thought, the logging in and quitting process became too much of a hassle (that and the lack of skills for my character). I have been logging some time on my friend's City of Heroes account, and am throuogly impressed with my meager time spent playing. After 3 hours of playing it, you a great background on your character's development, get a handle on how the city works and the adjacent battle areas, and a nice and uncomfortable wait for it's sister city: City of Villains.

The tidbits offered for this expasion have satiated all but a remaining hunger for some primal lust of superhero/supervillain confrontation not just limited to a few skirmishes outside some shady skinbar in the "bad" part of town either. I'm talking about a full scale superhero battle royal admist the quiet settings of park, or some junkyard. Superfriends teaming up against supervillians in an attempt to thwart their plans for domination of the world.. More updates will come as soon as the latter half of June rolls around. Ignoring the days are the only way I can keep sane while I wait to see if I get picked for EQ2 Beta.

Picked up 2 other games recently: Red Dead Revolver. Made by these guys, the same people also responsible for the GTA series. I have been nothing but impressed with this game, as it was high time they made a good western game. You start off as a Clint Eastwood lookalike named "Red" and as far as I am, you never talk The Englishman talks, and will sometimes even shoot in the direction of the enemy. So far I've killed some of the villians of the old west, like an evil cowboy who drinks some sort of healing acid, which then allows him the ability to teleport to predetermined places while hoards of circus folk with guns try to kill you. And I have killed those circus folk, and each time a bullet enter's their little skull I laugh a little inside. You had to be there after all.

Last game of the evening was Lord of the Rings: Return of the King which I will get you a link to in a bit. The gameplay is fun, you can have anywhere from 1-4 people and the skill level at normal puts it at about a party game level. Previous LotR franchise opportunites in the gaming industry have sucked, and this one was going to follow suit when I found the obstruction between me and actually playing the game. They should make it a universal rule that you can skip any movie that is in a game or else they need not sell it as a game. The movie/story sequences were a pain to watch as I have already seen the movie and wanted to play the game. My precious minutes flew out the window as I saw the end of Two Towers unfurl before my very eyes. Then after that introductory battle there was an ending movie sequence to then before and after each subsequent section of the game. Note: I am not complaining about the fact those sequences exist (than and the GC does not have enough power to play full DvDs). IN fact I applaud them for their intent to help immerse my being apart of the story, I just felt that being forced to sit through a choppy Return of the King clipshow is not my idea of fun. Oh well a free rental is a free rental after all.