The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

So. The Electronic Three. The EEE. The E3. It was so not exciting! Well, I mean, I’m glad I don’t have to pony up for a PS3 to play FFXIII, but it was mostly not exciting. What was exciting, though, was watching all the big press conferences with all my Talking Time… I was going to say friends, and then I was going to switch to peeps, but that’s lame… so friends. My Talking Time friends. A chat room was made, and it was enjoyable making jokes at all the marketing speak and such going on. I had a good time. Nothing really earth-shattering was shown in these presentations. The big notes are like… Rhythm Heaven on DS this year? OMG. And, like, the FFXIII thing, I mean, I don’t really know. Nothing big was announced. I mean, I will probably get the Wii Animal Crossing, but everyone could guess that was coming and I knew I’d get it. I’m not looking forward to typing letters with the Wiimote, though. It might be faster to point at the screen? But it is a pain. In. the. ass, and I hate it.
Anyway: E3? Uneventful. You heard it here last, folks.

Anyway, the thing I really wanted to talk about, though, was how well my recent game purchases have been working out. Civ:Rev and Chocobo Dungeon are both not games I can play for huge periods of time straight. I can only dungeon dive about 3 to 4 times before I want to do something else, and playing more than 1 game of Civ:Rev just sounds crazy. Still, I was worried about having two new games in the house at the same time, thinking that one would fall to the wayside. That hasn’t been the case, though! I find once I tire of one, next time I want to game, I play the other, and then back again. It’s working out well. Good for me!
They’re both pretty good games, though I could recommend Chocobo Dungeon better if it was 30 bucks, but apparently a DS remake was announced the day after I bought the game? So that would be that OH WAIT SQUENIX TAX. Still, it’s a fun Mystery Dungeon game with the jobs. I just unlocked Scholar, which I am told is “easy mode.” That’s good. I like easy mode. That’s why I like Pokemon Dungeon more than Shiren. That, and because I have a high threshold for still liking and putting up with extremely kiddy games.
Civ:Rev I probably couldn’t recommend on the consoles for $60 bucks, even if you want a dumbed down Civ experience. Knowing you can get so much more and just set it to easy in Civ4 on the PC for the same price just makes me hesitant to recommend it. But on the DS? It’s pretty darn great. Good price, same gameplay… not having a minimap is completely stupid, but otherwise the game is spot-on. If you want an on-the-go Civ, I wouldn’t hesitate.

But yeah, so… that’s what’s been going on! Shocking, I know. Hopefully we’ll be playing DnD again this weekend, which means I should probably put the finishing touches on my notes soon… we’ll see… Also, you know… Dark Knight. It should be a good, if lacking work and thus funds, rest of the week. I think I’ll get to that rest of the week now.