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The Force Unleashed: Xbox360
Pretty much more like the FUN unleashed. Besides the times that I was yelling and screaming how much I hated playing I actually loved every minute of it. Not as much as I have loved other Star Wars titles, but almost. I was really upset initially at how shiny Darth Vader’s helm was and how on a whole, unimpressive the game looked. However, once I was throwing and choking everything in my sight I very quickly became enthralled with the game.

The game exists in the Star Wars galaxy timeline somewhere between Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A new hope. The games story itself isn’t more interesting than the perspective of playing a Sith character and fighting Jedi as if they were the bad guys however it does offer additional information on several star wars universe characters, especially Darth Vader. Galen Marek code name “Starkiller” is Darth Vader’s secret apprentice hunting down the remaining Jedi under order of Emperor Palpatine. The intent of the game (I think at least) is to attempt to draw the two trilogies together, however I don’t really feel as though I got that connection out of playing the game. In attempt to not ruin the game plot for anyone who has not played but wishes to attempt this game I will say that the bugs are minimal, and the amount of confusion that different levels offer you is relatively standard to that of any other Star Wars game you might have played. Also a plus side is that there are only three absolutely aggravating situations, one of which has something to do with a certain laser, a bridge, and aligning some rings, and another has to do with force “pulling” a star destroyer out of space onto the ground. The game, as expected is highly gimmicky.

The game runs with Lucas Art’s “Ronin” engine but also incorporates third party mechanics such as Havoc, DMM, and Euphoria. As a whole the engine experience has been fun, it’s very destructive which I enjoy. The engine makes the combat system very, very fun. From zapping the snot out of your foe, to throwing multiple bodies into matter that will explode there is little limit to the amount for fun you can have killing NPCS in the game. However, there is a limit of how much fun you can have killing other players with this game: none. What a shame that this game in all its awesomeness does not have a multiplayer feature for the Xbox360.

The character combat animation were very cool, however I found the character design and animation for some of the cut scenes to be a type of disappointing that only a Star Wars enthusiast can feel. The soundtrack is standard Star Wars themes, and while this is actually endearing I really value the musical creativity that games often incorporate.

This game features cinematic finishing moves that I feel the need to warn people about. It always goes “before you buy it, there are these scenes...at the ends of fights...they involve mashing buttons and its hyper slow and really dumb” and really I can’t think of a better way to say it. The last thing I will mention is that I was thrilled with the various character appearances, they are among my favourite and it was really fun to fight them.
If I were to score this game, I would do it unconventionally:

Fun: 10
Graphics: 8
Sound: 5
Cinematic: 7
Combat: 9

facts vs opinions vs emotional raging and the internet

In attempt to keep my blog relatively clean I have avoided it this week because I'm not sure if I can control the urge to reveal all the fun drama in my life. There is something about being personal on the internet (like on a blog) that I can't agree with. I know every time I read a blog and it's an emo-rage cry fest, I'm relatively amused or annoyed. My goal is not to do that, but I feel a very strong urge to do so. Like the dark side beckoning me: "Mary, hey Mary! Over here! Post about how much you hate your roommate and the fights you're having with loved ones and information about your sexuality for attention!" So I think the appropriate protocol would be to ensure that I only approve the posting of facts and or opinions where appropriate. Fact: My roommate is a douche. This is undisputable therefore I can post it, and as long as I don't rampage on about my feelings I can post that my opinion is that she is a douche because she is an immature brat. Very nicely done! Fact: I am not gay! Opinion: Gay people are ok. Again, nicely done! I think I have a handle on this. Fact: my boyfriend is wrong. Opinion: but I love him anyway. Touché.

I've mostly been writing tests and meeting strange people. There seems to be a never ending supply of both tests and strange people at college. And even stranger is how it's always catching me by surprise.

Other than that there have been many gaming adventures. I've gotten myself into Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, and of course there is Xbox360.

This is what I look like on Halo 3 multiplayer. Yep, I'm an elite alien mo-fo with a bad ass star-girly looking emblem. I can be seen here in this actual photo of my "guy" attempting to snipe a "blue guy" across the map.

The screen on the bottom is me firing a shot, probably saving the guy standing in front of me (who also happens to be my BFF/lover).

oh shi- firefox why you crash on me?

Long story short, I am sleepy and I have no idea what's going on in this class. Databases, what are they, why have I spent the last 3 classes compiling data about all the media on my laptop? When will this grand project end?




















Not my highest quality work, but it's dark and in my dreamstate I someone lack creative drive.

building a resume and posting more pictures of my cat

I just spent a very large portion of my spare time building a professional looking column style resume. I showed it to a fellow student, and they told me that it was bad because people are retarded and they won’t understand how to read it. How is that even remotely possible? There are bumpers, like bowling for retards separating the columns, and there is large protruding bold letters noting locations of key information. I want my resume to be sock blowing and awesome. I don't want my resume to look like some kid made it out of an introductory 9th grade business class.


Oh well, here is another picture of my cat. Awww.

this is why I'm sad after networking labs

I don't even know why it works, but it does. Now I just need to figure out how to access a time machine so that I can submit this bad boy to an online dropbox that closed September 25th, i.e. 4 days from now in the future.

this is too fun to be learning

This is only a teaser trailer movie poster thing highlighting the high octane adventure action to come from my java class movies I'm making. As soon as I can figure out how to convert an a2w file screeners will ensue.

how am I so lucky with these 8:00am classes?

This picture is a little mushy. Whimsical cat-love adventures on a beautiful summer day.

so while you were explaining the economy to me using maple syrup, I was drawing you in paint.

Yeah, that's right. I learned nothing. I learned that 30 years ago you had to work a full day to earn enough wages to buy a gallon of maple syrup. Today you'd only have to work a few hours. Ok, I get it. Best lecture. Ever.

Loki traversing our new hone, the cube room. It's actually a very rectangular room, but small by all standards. Also I just noticed that the spell check feature for blog creation has flagged the words "by" "all" "room" "the" "our" and "new" as bad and wrong. Wtf?

yo, it's blog time?

I have been, or am incredibly bored in class and I decided to make something to showcase the pretty stuff I make instead of taking notes or practicing labs. This page is both gross and ironic. It's gross because it's a pointless blog, and it's ironic because I used a template when I am currently working for a diploma in IT. Also this blog will probably be about my cat.

This is my cat Loki. Cat adventures to follow.