The Lamer Gamer

In addition to running all over the place in Mirror’s Edge, I’ve managed to strap shoes on my feet and run around in real life too. Not sure how many miles I put on, but my calves hurt pretty bad…

Mirror’s Edge is kicking my ass.  I need some mad practice as the speed runs are kinda tough for me.  Finished Chapter 1 in 6:00.60, OUCH.  I’m sure I could have dicked around a little less and saved that .60 somewhere but whatever.   I’ll get it done.

Other good things this weekend.  Finished Both Halo 3: Annual and ODST: Deja Vu, so Only ODST: Endure left to go for Recon armor.  Also managed to score the free night vision specs from MW2 for the ole avatar. Of course everyone else has them too, but they’re still cool, and way oversized.  Also stole the same guy’s airdrop crate 3 times in the same match last night.  He must have been hating on my pretty bad.

I haven’t touched Halo 3 matchmaking in a while, not since earlier this year.  Now that ODST is out, I was thinking of playing again.  Now I only rented ODST, so I don’t have the extra disc with all the extra maps for Halo 3.  Imagine my surprise when I find out that you can’t join a ranked playlist without the new maps.  What the FUCK!

Now I could buy ODST to get the maps, but it isn’t really a keeper and the $60 price tag doesn’t help, I guess that’s supposed to be eased by the map inclusion.  Campaign was okay and Firefight is fun, but like Horde in GoW2 it loses its appeal after a while, as you aren’t exactly competing with people.  Ostensibly this is why the Halo 3 multiplayer disc is included.

Gotta feel bad for the poor bastards who A) already purchased those maps via LIVE Marketplace or B) gotten the Mythic Map Pack with Halo Wars.  Thankfully I’ve done neither of those things, so I’m not out any money and yet, somehow, I feel ripped off.

Why, I already spent $60 on Halo 3 (probably $70, stupid limited edition), and on top of that the LIVE subscription, but now I’ve got to spend another $10-20 on maps just to keep playing a game I already own?  That’s lame shit.

Yet another great find from Cheapassgamer.com

The Halo 3 Legendary Edition for $39.99 + free shipping

There was no way in the world I was going to pay the $129.99 they were selling this monstrosity for originally, but now, got me thinkin’.  Sadly this is $20 less than the copy of Halo 3 that I purchased, and it comes with a cool cat helmet.

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