The newest addition to the Hot Gamer Girls Forum's Moderator team: ME! That's right. The creator and lead of the website invited yours truly to be the only female moderator for the forums :)
I get to seek and destroy crappy people and spam postings, etc. That makes three of us moderators now: the two creators of the website and organization and me.
Yes, I really am that much of a nerd to be stoked about this, but it's all good :)
I started playing Bioshock last weekend - last Sunday night. First of all, Bioshock is not a game to be played at night right before bed. I have never in my life, played a more stressful game. The designers, as Keith and I discussed last night, did a great job in the game's atmosphere: dark, spooky, eerie, half people/half science experiments-ish gone wrong. One minute you're strolling along, hacking vending machines, the next moment, you're being whacked in the head with a wrench by a crazed, blood soaked psycho. I'm still turning and asking Keith if "they're coming in here" (Big Daddies and Little Sisters:)
You learn more and more about the story behind the game as you play, but dear Lord. As fun as collecting achievements is....my goodness....this game is one to be played if you like games that require some intricate thinking and solving puzzles.
"Raining Blood" by Slayer on GH III still kicks my ass.
I got some Halo 3 play time (beginning of the game) with Palmer on Saturday. Am just unlocking achievements now.
Bioshock is a stressful and eerie game - haha - though I did not dream of Big Daddies or Little Sisters last night.
I got a perfect score (100% notes played) on Sunshine of your Love by Cream and Hit Me With Your Best Shot by Pat Benatar.
I closed out GH III.......on easy.
(though not console related) The haunted dart boards are still in full force at The Harp, but Palmer invented "Triple Cricket" - throwing all three darts at once...and did very well.
Cheered Keith on in TF2. Had some good team members (Elizabex) and some crappy team members (everyone on Saturday night). --------------------------------- New gaming goals:
1) Attempt to complete BioShock
2) Unlock following achievements in GH III:
* Who Needs the Power 200k on Cult of Personality without Star Power
* Too Many to Count Hit 250,000 notes in Career
* Never Gonna Spend It All Earn $350,000 in career lifetime earnings
* Gold Streaker Earn a 500 note streak in Career or Quick Play
* Axe Grinder Earn 5 stars on all songs on the Easy difficulty
* Ready to Rock Complete the tutorial (easy enough)
3) Unlock more achievements in BioShock (haha - that's funny - is there an achievement for "are they coming in here?") and Halo 3
Now that Portal has been beat, I thought I would recap. Warning, may contain spoilers.
The first handful of levels were puzzling, but nearly as difficult as not having a spot to shoot a "Portal Hole" and, instead, having to dodge missile-shooting bots in order to continue. Towards the middle of the game, you start realizing Portal is fun - except for laser-scoping gun-bots (like that?) However, you'll find yourself taking childlike delight in knocking them over and listening to them as they "die."
Here are a few of my most common phrases I said (aloud)...when playing Portal:
"Aw, s*it." "F*ck!" "Ha HA! I fell in the acid stuff again!" "Whoops - that wasn't good." "That's right I'm gonna burn your ass." *maniacal laughter* "Yay - push you over!" *maniacal laughter* "Ha ha - throw you over the edge!" "Whoops - I got squished." "Well that sounded gross." "Welp, missed that jump." "Where's the cake?" "GLaDos is....the Evil Cake Bitch." "Run! Run! Run! Hurry - ahhhhh!" "I don't know where to go." "C'mon, Companion Cube..dammit! Go through the door! Awww, s*it, I dropped you."
All in all, I give Portal 4 stars out of 4 stars. (The credits were the best part)
** If you have not beat the game, the below song contains spoilers **
GLaDos serenades you :)
Lyrics:
This was a triumph! I'm making a note here: "HUGE SUCCESS!!"
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science; We do what we must, because we can.
For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake. And the science gets done, and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive.
I'm not even angry... I'm being so sincere right now - Even though you broke my heart, and killed me.
And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now, these points of data make a beautiful line. And we're out of BETA. We're releasing on time! So I'm GLaD, I got burned - Think of all the things we learned - for the people who are still alive.
(Go ahead and leave me...) (I think I'd prefer to stay inside...) (Maybe you'll find someone else to help you?) Maybe Black Mesa? That was a joke! HAHA!! FAT CHANCE!!
Anyway this cake is great! It's so delicious and moist!
Look at me; still talking when there's science to do! When I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you.
I've experiments to run. There is research to be done, on the people who are still alive. And believe me I am still alive. I'm doing science and I'm still alive. I feel fantastic and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.
1) Guitar Hero III - It's safe to say that while I may have the drums and singing down pat in Rock Band, I suck at Guitar Hero III. After knowing how to play the guitar, my fingers fumble looking for notes that aren't there. It was quite humorous, I'm sure of it. I cuss during some gaming, and I find myself laughing uncontrollably at how bad I suck at GH-III. I managed to get through a Dropkick Murphys song, Pat Benatar, Disturbed, and some others, but GH-III will require MUCH more play time to even begin to fit in the groove.
2) Halo 3: Slayer - Most anyone that has played Halo with me knows...this is not my favorite. I seem to recall "someone's" blog post from way back when about "understanding when I get annoyed playing with pre-teens on Live." Yeah...I can see how that would happen. My new slayer comparison - 25-13 (I think...right?). I was not the 25'er, but I did manage to have a few good moments, "where are you? how did you get up there?"
3) Portal - ah, Portal. When I first started playing, I was confused but easily fell into the swing of it all. Now I find myself in the final areas of the last Testchamber. I follow the sign for cake! (the cake is a lie, the cake is a lie, the cake is a lie, the cake is a lie....) Hey there is no cake only a maniacal Glados who still says things like, "remember that time I told you there was cake, and then you went through the fire?" almost reminicing how "fun" that was. Let's see, I've launched myself through the air, giggled when I knocked over laser-scoping gun-bots, found myself saying stuff like, "oh well...crap...I fell in the acid again" and found myself thinking about alternate physics "if I put a blue portal there, and an orange portal here, and then run and jump here, fall, and shoot, I'll be over there on that side from that blue portal." Right - doesn't make sense? it will. I message my Portal Pal and tell him where I am in Portal. He "lol" at me and informs me that "sometimes you can come from the floor." Okay - lots of help that does though I have two new tactics to try when I play next...without getting crushed by giant piston like steel tubes.
4) Bioshock - I am set to play Bioshock. I can't comment on it and am trying to look at some screenshots or just a basic, "this is what it is" without cheating and looking for the player's guide. (I've been successful in NOT doing that for any game I've ever played though really wanted one for Portal last night!)
