Primed my Great Bears black and left them on my desk. Strangely, it’s an incentive to get those 15 IFP models done and off my table, literally, because I can’t use my computer without stabbing my arms and hands on their pikes.
I got called off to my parents to eat dinner, so I went to watch National Treasure 2 (with Nicholas Cage) on my PS3. Entertaining and fun movie – I don’t see much of those lately. Next I loaded up Resident Evil 5, which I’m finding quite entertaining as well. I’m on chapter 4 and finished up to 5, and it has been a lot of fun fighting machine-gun toting “infected”, lickers, reapers, etc.
I’ve been playing conservatively with my ammo, smashing skulls and spines with my stun rod, which unfortunately is quite annoying given the style of gameplay. Last night I was quite liberal with the shotgun and scoped rifle. There’s a morbid sense of satisfaction and power from destroying bugs and zombies at a distance. When you whack a zombie with the stun rod, they just simply fall over, shake a bit and dissolve.
Anyways, the trade off to boring melee combat with the stun rod (all you can do is swing – it’s not a melee-based game after all) is the expenditure of ammo?! I was starving for ammo. I have tons in my stash, but I want to keep it there. My weapons are not upgraded, as I’ve been conservative with my cash too. I want to upgrade my weapons so that I kill better… faster…
So I turned to the online FAQs to see how I can spend my money. It’s when I learned about infinite ammo. Now I’m anxious to get back to my parents’ and play some more. That’s when I realized that no video game has made me excited and anxious about playing it for fun in a long while. Disgaea 3 was fun, but the desire to play it stemmed from compulsion. Last game was perhaps Metal Gear Solid 4, and Dynasty Warriors 6 before that. RE5, it’s about good-ol zombie blasting, with enough RPG elements to make it fun for me :)