artur79's blog
To those of you that did not know, I'm finished with my studies and have to move up north in August. In the meanwhile, I'll stash my stuff at a friends place and enjoy the summer, the sun, the mini-skirts, the cold tall ones and traveling. I'm going to take my PC apart today and start moving all my crap this evening/tomorrow morning. After that I'll wash the apartment, say goodbye to some good friends and then I'm off to Barcelona this Monday. I'll be there for a week, it's going to be great!
I don't know when I'll log on next time (probably sooner than later), so I wanted to wish you all a nice summer. I hope you all do something else than game all the time. Maybe it's just my Scandinavian ass talking here, but I think the summer is worth a break from PC-related activities.
This is a crappy song, but it's sums up things very nicely. 
Anyway, see ya! Or eh.. I'll type one thing and then you reply and then I reply and so on...
I don't plan on writing a blog about every game I've ever played, but I've discussed this game with certain folks and felt like saying that I judged this game a little too soon. I'm not going to write a review, but I'm going to give it a score and list a few reasons for that score.
7. Yep, I think it's a good game overall.
Positives:
A few genuinly great levels. I could say which ones, but that would be spoilers. This is what made me finish the game.
Nice gadgets and some cool weapons that allow you to sneak around undetected through a 'scene'. (Still think that Splinter Cell is a much, much better stealth-game, but this is an FPS, so I give props where props should be given.)
A few catchy tunes. But not many. Nolf 2 was brilliant in this department.
This is a long game. (Also a negative.)
I smiled a couple of times.
Negatives:
Humor is a fickle thing. I did not find this game funny at all. Too... how can I put it politely... obvious and not intelligent jokes. I'm no expert at Brit humor, but I've seen enough to know that NOLF is not great British humor. (Folks from the Kingdom are welcome to correct me if I'm wrong). I would have laughed if I was a child. Don't get me wrong, I love Austin Powers and all that (I loved Nolf 2's humor as well), but this game just swung and missed every time. It was sometimes painful to watch the cutscenes. Something about the pacing and choices of jokes bothered me. There was no subtlety.
It was boring as hell at times. Some of the levels, especially vehicle levels even pissed me off. All I could think of was: "When is this over?!!? Enough already!"
And that's where the length of the game comes in. Sometimes less is more. Filler has never been fun and it's not fun here either.
The characters were all stereotypes. And I mean ALL of them. Even Mike Myers knows that too much of a good thing is eh.. too much.
Anyway, I could list some more reasons, but these are the most important ones imo.
The game is good, but I wish I never played it, it kinda ruined my memories of the second game. I know, weird...
I saw it yesterday. Can't say I understood the message that the movie tried to get across. I'm sure Tommy Lee Jones' dialog is the key to understanding it, but his ramblings about the ol' days and his dreams confused me even more. So, pretty please, with sugar on top (as Mr Wolf would have said), explain the point of this movie to me. Especially the end.
BTW, that serial killer, man... I understand why he got an Oscar. One of the best roles I've seen in a movie since Marv in Sin City.
Two things make me smile from ear to ear today.
1. I passed the last exam. If I pass the first, then it's the last one ever!
School's out for summer, school's out forever!
2. I finally bought GTA 4. Oh, yeah...
I'm currently having flashback to the glorious 90's and I dug out some of my old CD's. Alice in Chains is a fantastic band that many people think is pure genius on a CD and I tend to agree with them. So I thought I should make a blog in honour of one of the best bands of the nineties. To those of you that have never heard the music before: It's some of the best grunge around and you're welcome. If you don't like this, you suck.
RIP, LS, you were a genius.
