Month: September 2007

Tonight’s landmark still-grab experience involves our newly acquired Hayabusa armor!

Are you a bad enough dude to sport these duds?

As many of you well know, I am quite the connoisseur of game cassette instruction booklets. Expect to see some hot critiques of manuals old and new on the JLR, so here are some guidelines to mentally prepare you.

Game manuals are judged on the following basic criteria:

– color, or lack thereof.
– plot details
– artwork
– enemy profiles/accessory lists

Now, to close this post, here is your Sexy Halo 3 Snapshot of the Day!

Mowing down the opposition in a Team Slayer match on Snowbound

I love the theater feature in Halo 3. Basically, it records everything you do, and you can fly through your replays and take snapshots from any angle, and then upload them. You can take videos, too, but I don’t think you can download them onto your computer?

JoE being badass in co-op against The Flood

Yours truly getting the drop on some fools in Team Slayer

A most embarrassing position for me to get killed in!

My original intention today was to document a trip around the ‘Ville; an effort to find the most obscure place to procure Halo 3, this indie homebrew game you may or may not have heard of. I figured I could find one at a dry cleaners, perhaps with a preorder given out with every 4 shirt cleanings. Maybe the local pizzeria would have a few in their crane game.

But alas, gas is expensive and I am lazy. I ended up going to Best Buy around noon where, just as I had reassured the employees of Gamestop and the like, copies were plentiful. Legendary Editions stood stacked like the very crates I would be shooting later this day.

Going to an actual store— you know, one that doesn’t shake you down with questions every time you walk in— is by and large a more rewarding experience than visiting one of these Game Coffins. Please note that the clerk at Best Buy did not ask me, an empty handed man, if I had any “games ta’ trade.” They did not present me with a binder in demand that I peruse it to see if there were any “hot games” I wanted to put real, actual money down on; games that do not currently exist.

And now I am playing Halo 3.