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Friday notes

I have just been wiped out this week.  Played hockey for 2.5+ hours on Wednesday night and fell asleep on the couch last night around 9:30.  Really looking forward to the weekend.

- Finished up GTA4 the other night.  What a pain in the ass that was.  I still don't get how this game got the ratings that it did.

Throw 'Generic 3rd person shooter' as a title on it and I think the game gets 8's instead of 9's and 10's.

The thing that was the most frustrating to me was the need for the driving from one island to the next.  I understand that's life in the big city, but more often than not it was a lame attempt to hack the story together.  I would have greatly preferred a 5 minute, split-screen, cut scene than having to complete the same drive over and over again on the more difficult missions.

The worst thing along those lines was the fact that the last mission wasn't even all that difficult.  You had a gun fight, then had to hop on a motorcycle on the beach... to chase someone who is in a boat.   Never mind the fact that they have a boat and could leave the f'n city and get away from you clean... Oh, no... they had to stay close to the shore so you could keep tabs on them.  Grrr....

- I think the next game that I'm thinking of working on is Heavenly Sword.  I haven't played a good hack'em up, God of War, style game in a while.

- Best feature of the DSi thus far, which will sound a bit funny, is the fact that pictures that you take are shown to you when you turn your system on.  Seeing pictures of my daughters when I turn on the system is always a nice surprise.

- Starting to get excited (and nervous) about my upcoming trip.  The fact that my wife still doesn't know where we're going is an interesting challenge.   She's very sneaky in her question asking.

- We've awarded Jermaine the game of his choice for winning the bracket challenge this year and his first choice is Madden 10 for the PS3 when it is released.  Congrats again Jermaine on winning the contest.