Lots of Monkeys

Finished inFamous and looking forward to a sequel.  I guess that’s pretty high praise in and of itself.  Played it through twice, even.  Finished all of the side missions on my first run through and then just finished the storyline on my second run as a good guy.

The nice thing is that it lets you sandbox once the game is over.

You can go through Empire City and get all of the things you missed because you were too busy trying to get through the storyline.

Overall, a lot of fun, and fairly compelling.

I just really finished a jar of peanut butter.  I mean really finished it.

As in from start to finish, every serving in that jar was consumed by me.  All estimated 3200 calories, if the label is to be believed.  It’s a jar that I’ve kept at work over the last couple of months.  It sits next to the jar of nutella that’s remains unfinished.  I’ve taken a small teaspoon to the jar, scraping along the sides and the rims.

I’d need a tiny squeegee now if I wanted to get the rest of it out.  Which is bothering me, because now I’m wondering about tiny squeegees to get everything out of jars.

Health monitor?  No thank you.  Metroid game developed by Team Ninja?  Okay, maybe you’ve got something there.

Sure, I’m dismissing the health monitor without really thinking about the benefits that it grants.  If the Wii knows my heart rate then it’ll know that I’m extremely bored with most of the game lineup and I’m playing other consoles.

It really needs games, not gimmicks.

Read the highlights of the Microsoft keynote.  Facebook, last.fm and twitter in the 360 dashboard.

I hate to say this, but if the 360’s integration of Facebook is compelling, it may be my killer app and I finally lose the “Don’t Join Facebook” game I’ve been playing for the last year or so.

Love the ability to browse the instant queue in Netflix.  This is something that has been needed ever since the service was released.  I’m one of those users that has a standing movie night and the 360 is always the “go to” device if I don’t know what I’m showing.  The ability to browse the queue and add items now brings it up to the first tier.

SONY is going to have to have a really impressive keynote today to keep up with Microsoft.  Just announcing the PSP GO isn’t going to validate the purchase of my Folding@Home Blu-Ray player.  (Okay, well, it plays inFamous, too.)

Note to SONY:  I hear that this “social networking” thing is going to be big.  Better get on it.

E3 starts tomorrow so there’s probably going to be a lot of post keynote announcement video game geekery.  I’ll try to throw a writing exercise in there every now and again, but please bear with me as I feed the addiction hobby.