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egypturnashI wish Google Maps had a "walking" mode. That would make planning things like the trip Nick and I took out to Trader Joe's a lot easier.
Also, damn, I really miss living in Glendale where it was sunny all the time, and there was a TJ's like five blocks from where I lived. Oh, to move back to California.
Meanwhile, the past couple days have been spent in the grips of GTAIV and its hooks into parts of my brain that make me act like an addict, thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
read_alicia loaning us her 360 for a bit. I keep on comparing it with GTAIII, due to it being set in a caricature of New York, and it keeps coming up wanting - sure, it's more detailed, but most of the detail is at the expense of gameplay. Zooming across a bridge, then having to brake sharply to stop and pay toll does not enhance the fantasy in the least, IMHO. The whole thing's full of design decisions like that: petty simulationalism over fun. Which, really, is no surprise after all the micromanaging you had to do of your character in GTAIIISA.
I should just hook the box up to the router, give it my cc info, and buy Space Giraffe and a few other indy games. (ooh, and it seems that Everyday Shooter is on Steam now. Better download the demo on Rik's machine, this one keeps sounding cool.)
Also, damn, I really miss living in Glendale where it was sunny all the time, and there was a TJ's like five blocks from where I lived. Oh, to move back to California.
Meanwhile, the past couple days have been spent in the grips of GTAIV and its hooks into parts of my brain that make me act like an addict, thanks to
read_alicia loaning us her 360 for a bit. I keep on comparing it with GTAIII, due to it being set in a caricature of New York, and it keeps coming up wanting - sure, it's more detailed, but most of the detail is at the expense of gameplay. Zooming across a bridge, then having to brake sharply to stop and pay toll does not enhance the fantasy in the least, IMHO. The whole thing's full of design decisions like that: petty simulationalism over fun. Which, really, is no surprise after all the micromanaging you had to do of your character in GTAIIISA.I should just hook the box up to the router, give it my cc info, and buy Space Giraffe and a few other indy games. (ooh, and it seems that Everyday Shooter is on Steam now. Better download the demo on Rik's machine, this one keeps sounding cool.)
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Date: 2008-05-19 01:27 am (UTC)Turn them down right then, they don't like you as much. Accept, then call them right back with 'cancel plans'. It doesn't affect your standing at all, I've put off going and playing chauffeur to the various and sundries for days.
Really, the game has a good life in not just the single, but the multiplayer. Some of the best times I've had have been playing 'free mode' without any defined structure, with sixteen people all shooting at each other. Mayhem. Or, if friendly fire is off, shooting everyone else. Sixteen people with five stars is a lot of police helicopters...
Oddly enough, the comment about the changing of character clothes comes just as I find out that the devs hid the GTA III main character's clothes in GTA IV, and Niko can wear them.
I've been at this for perhaps far too long.