“I’ve got nothing against dwarves– they’re a vigorous, hardy folk– but don’t they live amongst the rock and stone their whole lives, communing with the spirits of the Earth every day? How can our average, above-ground human weapon and armor smiths compete with that?” said Harry Lancaster, a 43-year old father of two who joined the picketers.
Many in the city are hoping that next year’s Mardi Gras will be a chance for the city to show the world just how strong it remains in the face of its recent tragedies. One Mardi Gras expert, a local named Alison Ryan, told Hardcasual, “I think it’ll be basically the same. Thousands of brain-dead freaks slowly making their way down important paths. No safe places to stop and get anything but more cocktails. Horrific monsters vomiting deadly substances onto the street and innocent civilians. Yep, New Orleans is still the best city on earth.”
Eric, 14, begged to differ. “I told her like a thousand times. Modern Warfare 2 for the 360. She should know better, she’s always the one telling us to stop playing Xbox. She never has to tell us to stop playing Wii – we haven’t turned that thing on since a week after we made her buy us Super Smash Brothers. It’s like, how can you be an adult and still know absolutely nothing about anything? Everybody at school tomorrow is going to be talking about Modern Warfare 2, and what are we supposed to talk about? How cool our Wii is?”
Mr. Michaels said of the article, “Everybody keeps going on and on about a Citizen Kane of videogames. I say, what’s that? Is there a Banana Republic line of Citizen Kane clothes? Does Citizen Kane make it cool for me to smoke profusely? Did Citizen Kane introduce me to the Manhattan, rocks, one cherry? No. And that’s why we need an article like mine in the gamesblogosphere – to ask the question everyone knows they should be thinking.”
Several industry observers have suggested that we may see GTA V in the late part of 2010 – but rumors of a release of another Madden title have already begun swirling for that period, and some in the industry have even suggested that the “sequel fever” gripping the industry may also strike the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises. If that’s the case, we can certainly look forward to a crowded holiday season in 2010!
In a statement, Square Enix responded by saying it was exploring its options along with belt designers, manufacturers and distributors, who are ramping up production to meet the increased demand. “We continue to search for ways to develop our games responsibly,” the release stated, while adding that “We wouldn’t do it if it didn’t look awesome.”
I had never even heard of Rock Band. If you had told me, “Oh, yeah, it’s a videogame where you pretend to play the drums to songs,” I would have laughed at you. But how innocent I was. Turns out that was wrong, though. Rock Band is a videogame where at 2 in the morning, someone decides they want to try to play Metallica just by stomping their foot on the ground of the room right above your bedroom. And failing. Seven or eight times in a row.
“As I understand Freud, dreams are just small concerns of the day made into images that point to deeper desires and fears. But I work in a bank. I can’t imagine what goes through my mind at work that would make me dream of a tree with a boner nose making me swallow apples and spit them back at his face.”
