Over the weekend, our friend Becky came to stay with us. Thankfully, I got paid a few days early due to the holiday, so we could afford to do a few things.
Friday night, we went to Sukhothai, an incredible Thai restaurant on 20th and Broadway. We found the place several months ago when the whole group went there for Zach’s birthday. This time, Sean and Gwen came with us, and we stuffed ourselves. They have a dish called Sukhothai Delight, which is their house version of Pad Thai, and it’s awesome.
After that, we headed back to our place, and watched the Daily Show, and I showed everyone the episode from the day before when they covered Zell Miller’s “speech” and his interview on Hardball where he challenged Chris Matthews to a duel.
Saturday we rolled over to the beach, where we bought ice cream at the Cheese Factory, and visited my parents at the cabin. It was a nice relaxing day, we didn’t really have any goals other than getting to the beach, so we could just hang out and talk. We had pizza for dinner, and then came home and played video games.
On Sunday, I woke up before Annie and spent the whole morning playing Beyond Good And Evil, and xbox game that Becky brought with her. When game magazines put out a list of the “top 10 games you’ve never played but should”, this game is always in the top three, no matter which magazine puts it out. I’ve actually been thinking about picking it up for a long time, but after playing Becky’s copy all weekend, I bought a used copy for $15.
The game is hard to describe. First of all, it’s beautiful. It’s very well-designed, and has a kind of exaggerated cartoon-like quality to everything, but it’s done well enough that it can pull off serious moments as well as funny. The main character is awesome. She’s a fairly normal looking woman (meaning she’s attractive by real-world standards, and isn’t some freakishly top-heavy video game chick), who happens to know staff fighting. The game opens with some combat, but that’s all the combat you’ll see for awhile. You actually spend most of your time taking photos of animals.
Anyways, like I said, it’s hard to describe, but it’s awesome, and it’s one more thing for me to play while I’m waiting for Fable, Half-Life 2, and Halo 2.
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I was lead to believe there would be something about vintage sharp white cheddar in this post.
September 6th, 2004 at 8:58 am
We visited the cheese factory. At that location, Vintage Sharp White Cheddar cheese was consumed. And there was much rejoicing.
September 6th, 2004 at 9:33 am
I am using my time in europe to try and eat as many different kinds of unpasteurized cheeses which are ILLEGAL IN THE AMERICALAND as possible. It’ll the first step on my plan to become a maitre fromagier.
September 6th, 2004 at 11:49 pm
I really enjoyed Beyond Good and Evil. I like that it’s so difficult to nail down its gameplay. It’s like it isn’t a particular genre of game, it’s just a bunch of fun things to do, one after the other.
I played it around the same time I played Prince of Persia. If you haven’t played PoP and need something else to keep you busy until Fable, it’s also fantastic. Check it out.
September 8th, 2004 at 10:37 am
Well, I don’t play games very fast, so between BGE and just getting to Hell in Doom 3, I think I’ll be able to keep myself busy until Fable gets here. :)
September 8th, 2004 at 10:55 am
If you get *really* stuck for a good game, I’ll loan you my playstation and you can play Incredible Crisis, which is one of my favorite games.
It’s an import from Japan, where the object of the game is to get all four members of the family (dad, mom, son and daughter) home in time for their Grandma’s birthday dinner. In the way are alien invasions, giant robots, and 30 mini-arcade games, from “Taneo Dance Fever” to “the Love Tester”.
It’s kind of stupid, and it’s mostly button-mashing, but it’s really fun.
September 8th, 2004 at 10:57 am
it’s not that great. points for style, but button-mashing games aren’t fun to rts/fps fans. it would have made a good movie. ;)
September 9th, 2004 at 7:01 pm