I am always a wait-and-see kind of guy. For instance, I had to wait and see with the PSP until there was a God of War skin coming out before I even considered it. Also games, online, HD in the palm of my hand, yadda yadda yadda. It was mostly about the sick paint job and it was a good deal. It had literally everything I wanted for the console. But I have never had a music player.
The Appelization of the industry has made me not trust anything. I don’t want iTunes, I don’t want DRM, I want a music player. But the Zune was this clunky joke. And what, pastels? Am I gonna be the 800th guy you see today with the black one? So when I saw the Crackdown 2 Zune HD above I sort of fell in love. I don’t know any of the stats or abilities. I don’t know what it costs. It might be a cell phone. It might be able to float on its own. I don’t care, I want it. I want it more then the game at this point.
I am currently consumed with the 90′s condition(not even cool in the retro way), a sickly and displeasing sort of ennui. I know, woe is me. That said, I have been trying to deal with a couple personal “Megatonz” and have been hard-pressed to really write. I’ve been reading like crazy, I just have been finding it almost cripplingly difficult to commit myself to any one activity. I also fell behind on showering and teeth brushing, as my girlfriend can attest. As a sort of retcon for the wasted week of big news I present the top 5 list of goings-on at the annual Game Developers Conference with relevant links to Joystiq, a legitimate news organization not fighting with bouts of depression.
Credible sources be damned, sometimes you just have to tell the people what they want to hear. And if I’m a people, and I think I am, I want to hear about new Crackdown info. I can try to be interested in Realtime World’s new game APB or Crackdown knock-offs like Infamous and Prototype, but in the end they really just don’t cut the mustard.
Videogaming247 has answered my call to “give the people what they want”, announcing that Ruffian Games is/has been working on a new Crackdown that will be out late ’09-early ’10. Their source? A guy named “rumour”.
what they’re saying