We decided to watch that fun family classic,American Psycho, last night. For your viewing pleasure, I present a classic scene, and one of the greatest scenes in movie history, where well-to-do businessman Patrick Bateman introduces Paul Allen to Huey Lewis and the News … and an axe. Great film.
(Video may not be suitable for babies and puppies.)
In other important doings, there were videogames and we played those suckers like you wouldn’t believe. Hit the jump for the usual.
Nick:I accidentally playedLumines Supernovaon the PlayStation 3 in two separate 60-minute-plus sessions. I say accidentally, because I didn’t mean to play the game — I was simply backing out ofPersona 4on the PS3 and saw the icon. It was calling to me. As forPersona 4, I’ve dumped four hours into the game and have maybe played less than four minutes. That’s a bit of a lie — I finally fought my first boss yesterday!
I also playedAnticipationon the NES, if anyone remembers that one. It’s a weird mix of Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary designed by Rare and released in the late 80s. Any game where “space shuttle” and “space ship” are unacceptable answers but “space rocket” is correct … well, that’s a game that’s some bullshit. Seriously, “space rocket”? Who says “space rocket”?
Colette:All my gaming was done on airplanes this week. I played a littleOrder of Ecclesia, a littleNintendogs, but I mostly spent a lot of time trying to get one of the obscure characters inPrincess Debut. The fact I have not only enjoyed that game, but gotten replay value out of it, humiliates me to no end.
Orcist:Since I’m away from home for the holidays, I’ve been doing a lot of DS gaming.Professor Layton,Puzzle Quest, andPhantom Hourglass, especially. A littleMario Kart WiiandTekken 5at my cousin’s house.
I also playedStay Drunk on Delicious Winefor three days straight.
Ross:Pretty much onlyPersona 4before I went home for Christmas. At home it’s just beenTF2(luckily my dad’s computer runs it),Chrono TriggerDS, and my new obsession,Pic Picfor DS. That game rocks.
Chad:I love you so much right now, Nick Chester.Anticipationis some bullshit (but I still love it). Haha. 🙂
As anyone who listened to the last RetroforceGO! knows, I like FPSes now, care of the okayResistance: Fall of Manand the vastly superiorResistance 2. I played them all week and loved every second! Seriously, the boss battles inResistance 2are so ridiculously epic!
I also started playingBanjo-Kazooiefor the 75th time, this time on XBLA. I have to say: the graphics for the game are so much slicker on the 360 that I may never play my Nintendo 64 cartridge again. And that makes me a little sad.
Nick:I was so excited to hear on RetroforceGO! that you were playing first-person shooters. This goes hand-in-hand with me playing JRPGs now … well, at leastPersona 4. Yay for branching out in 2009. Next up: sports games! Wait, no … forget that. Where’s Samit?
Chad:Yeah, sports games are like country music.
“What kind of [music/videogames] do you like?”“Oh, I love everything …except[country music/sports games].”
Topher:“I was so excited to hear on RetroforceGO!…”
Lolwut.
Nick:Yes, I listened to RetroforceGO!, bitches. With myears.
Hamza:I’m along the same lines as Nick here. I’ve branched out from shooters this year to retro RPGs. Well, trying to play retro RPGs. They’re a bitch to find. I’ve been getting into puzzle games a lot more this past year too.
Oh, and I finally updated my 360 with the New Xbox Experience. I gave my avatar shark teeth.
Dyson:Chad has always liked FPSes. Well, at least since theMetroid PrimeFPS series came out!
Zing! That’s right, Concelmo; Prime is an FPS.
Dyson has been playing two third-person shooters this week (as thePrimeseries should have been made — oh, snap!). First is the epic space zombie festDead Space. And second is the PS3 titleUncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
I literally just started playingDrake’slast night, so I have very little to say about it other than I’ve really wanted to play this game for a while.DeadSpace, though, has been taking up most of this last week for me and I’m two chapters away from the ending. This game, while showing that there were many influences taken from other games in its presentation, is still rock solid awesomeness. Why didn’t it get more attention? Shenanigans, I say.
Jim:Thanks to the PlayStation Network, I’ve been getting reacquainted withMediEvil, an old favorite of mine. I have also been playingLIPSfor a late Destructoid review, and a crapload of XNA games for our Community Games review challenge. I am patiently waiting for my late Christmas present to arrive, a copy ofSonic Advance, which is one of my favoriteSonicgames ever.
Topher:MediEvilkicks ass.
Samit:(A) Fuck you guys.
(B) I’ve been branching out this week, too — I finally started an RPG (!),Fallout 3, on Christmas Eve, and it has consumed every fiber of my being. I mean, I haven’t touchedNHL 09at allin the past seven days, so youknowI’m addicted. In four nights (Dec. 24-27), I’ve already managed to logtwenty-three and a halfhours of playtime (I just made it to level 8 last night).
And when I say “nights,” I mean that I’ve been playing until the wee hours of the morning — in fact, as Snoop Dogg would say,til’ six in the mornin’. I can’t remember the last time I was this engrossed in a game — it might have beenCall of Duty 4last winter, when I was playing the multiplayer whenever I could get the chance, orUncharted, because I loved that game so much.
(C) I’m going to have to giveMediEvila second look on the PSN. I remember not liking the demo back in the day, and most of the people I’ve talked to since then have said that I’m crazy. It’s the same thing withMaximo: Ghosts to Glory, an early PS2 game — I rented it and didn’t enjoy it, but if it sold well enough to be a Greatest Hits title, it’s got to be good…right?
Topher:Maximowas fun.
Conrad:I lovedMaximo.
The last couple of days have been practically nothing butSaints Row 2, which is consistently impressing me with how much fun it is. I’ve also played a lot ofPuzzle ArcadeandMeteos Wars.
