A Sith in time saves nine and my wacky weekend hijinxes

I didn’t want to help the Rebel Alliance. Truly I did not, and I don’t even care if this can be seen as a spoiler **WARNING STAR WARS UNLEASHED SPOILER** I was under the impression (due to my inability to research before I play a game or watch a movie) that I was going to be Lord Vader’s’ Apprentice. You know… wash the Death Star, fuel up the Tie Fighter and polish the helmet. Typical stuff that gets me into the dark side. I didn’t think that would be a Sim’s type of game where I do tedious tasks for the motions of “Wax on wax off” that would assist me with saber fighting or choking the enemy from across the room… but I thought I was going to be taken under Vader’s cape (not in the dirty sense) and assist him in fighting the Rebel Alliance.

No such luck. For the first two decades of my life it was hopeful that I would be part of the magnificent 3- Vader, the Emperor and me. I even drew pictures and stuck them on my fridge as a daily motivator. The game had a horrible twist and the next thing I knew I was working FOR the Alliance, and not against them. Sadly I continued with the game play, apologizing as I kicked the Dark Lords butt and then sobbed uncontrollably when I had to take the Emperor down. “NO!!!!!!” It was a traumatizing game to say the least.

The game is completed. 11 hours and a lifetime of traumatize, I suggest you rent it if you really want to play the game and avoid adding it to your collection. I highly doubt there’ll be a decent resale value, unless PS3 has a completely different experience than the PS2. The levels are wash, rinse and repeat. There’s absolutely nothing challenging, nothing to figure out- you move forward across the storyboard, kick bad guy butt (while dealing with the annoying camera that causes tons of frustration because you’re losing life while trying to get the damned camera turned around so you can see who to attack as you’re cornered.) The controllers caused the same frustrations “I was trying to levitate the Storm Trooper to the right not the chair on the far left!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!” “DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!” <- I said that a lot this morning while ending the game. My fists also hit the floor several times due to the shoddy controls and camera angles.

Finally when you’re at the final boss stage, there are no special tricks or techniques to taking them down… just keeping doing it and follow the pattern and then voila, you’re finished. I miss the games where each take down requires different skills sets- the rare games that call for intellect and arsenol/skills that vary depending on the level and baddie. Unleashed is pretty much your run of the mill “Why was there so much hype surrounding this” game that had so much potential and no follow through to the promises that began about a year ago.

I didn’t feel sorrow when Jonathon and I walked over to Hollywood Video and I dropped it in the bin. I was not sad to see it go.

Speaking of Jonathon… he’s once more anxious for Halloween to arrive because Halloween = Darth Vader costume He wants me to be Ben Kenobi so we can fight. He doesn’t need Halloween for that! We did spend a portion of the weekend going through our NYC pics. He kept sighing while we went through the sights and our friends, “That was the happiest day of my life… wait- THAT was the happiest day of my life… no that was the happiest day of my life!” “Sweetie, how about it was happiest week of your life?” “That was the happiest week of my life *sigh*” “Mine too.” And then of course we came across the pic of him and Ben standing by the “In case of Sith, Break Glass” (squeal) I think until Jonathon finds another media created passion, we’re stuck with SW for a little longer.

Television season has arrived- and I’ve yet to be impressed by anything I’ve seen. Chuck- meh. Knight Rider- nuh uh. How I Met Your Mother (yawn), Big Bang Theory- nope, My Name is Earl- twas okay… The Office- Ooops I forgot to watch, Heroes- Yeah it was good… and I think that’s it so far.

Iron Man comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray Tuesday. YEE! That’s my highlight. I need something to pump my blood and get me working out again. This weekend was a total binge weekend. Because of the car frustrations I completely wanted to revert- grab a cigarette light up and fall prey to the evil that is the stinky stick. I didn’t. I instead stuffed my face full of everything I could. I swear if it wasn’t for running into old lovers I’d probably weigh 300 lbs by October 1st. After this weekend I feel like it’ll be close to 290lbs though.

The new Simpson’s is on so I’m going to go watch that and say thank you for not waiting two months into the new television season this time before airing it.

In the meantime- NKOTB, I saw their video today… I just have to say, “Please go away. Please?” I also tried the Dominos Subs because when I went into work yesterday I over heard some people poking fun of the advertisement… but it did sound good…. I got the Philly for me and Chicken Ranch for Jonathon… not bad and worth the price, HOWEVER, I think Quizno’s sensed the new gimick because apparently they can’t make pasta.. and now Quizno’s is going to deliver. I keep going to the Quizno site to see if they’re doing it in my area yet… or even my work location… no such luck.