I had such high hopes for last weekends gaming. Tales of LittleBigPlanet copies being sold early spured me into a frenzy to socially engineer my way toward a copy – which, of course failed. If I knew what I know now, I’d probably have tried just a little harder. I can’t help but think the entire LBP delay situation is my fault, allow me to explain. After tasting crushing defeat in my quest to attain a street broken copy of LBP, I searched long and hard for the silver lining. The outcome – with great fervour I tracked down the release date for Dead Space. This game has interested me from day one, but I had written it off as a casualty of the holiday season – sometimes we have to make terrible sacrifices. But now a thirst for a new game and the unattainability of LBP had left a Dead Space sized gap in my weekend gaming schedule. As it turns out, the game isn’t released on our island until this Thursday, of course, sharing what at the time was considered LBP’s release date.
So logically I can only assume my angst about missing Dead Space had been heard by God, whom using his greatest weapons has delayed LittleBigPlanet so I could experience Dead Space. Umm, Sorry I guess?
So now that we’ve covered what I didn’t play over the weekend I guess I should put in a few words about what I did.
I got hold of Generals and Zero Hour, vital steps in my continuing effort to get my girlfriends brother to play a PC game that doesn’t start with the words World Of. I guess I was successful in that respect, although no Generals was actually played. The game acted as more of a poking stick – my explaination of the games mechanics and pacing simply awarded Fletcher with a template on which he could place his disinterest.
I don’t like games where you have to fight. I just want to build stuff. Oh, I have a game just like that.
