Things to do while you’re waiting.

So today was my day off. And I thought ‘self, let’s check on the Star Trek: Online beta download. What you say? 90%? How can I kill many hours waiting for the thing I want to play more than anything?

Join me through a mental checklist of that which was the Day of Waiting (2009, AD).

First, I tried to drown my sorrows in Dragon’s Age. Wasn’t feeling it. Morrigan’s bitchiness just put me off more than usual, as my attention wanted to be elsewhere. I did a mission with Davram, and realized I didn’t want to be around him at all today. Wow, I think his name is Davram. I never use him. I could be mixing the name with Davram Bashere from the Wheel of Time. My brain is all swiss-cheesed from leaping… er, I mean waiting. Oh boy.

From there I flitted to Borderlands. I did about five missions before 1080i at 1920×1020 started to make me queasy. Damn vertigo from playing FPS in full screen. I really love how addictive the game is; but it is my love of not hurling cookies across my living room that makes me stop playing it after a while. I start to feel….off. And that’s when I know it’s time to stop playing. Although I did get a new sniper rifle today that was primo pimpsauce.

So I decided to start my world-famous Japanese curry; I have been thawing two gianormous steaks and bought all the fixings last night… except mushrooms. So I threw a hat on, stuck my The Gathering Storm (book 12) audio book in my ears and set out to town to kill some time and get mah mushrooms. I ended up buying the rest of the fixing for my creamy meat (mock liver pate) that I’m taking to my brother’s house for Christmas. I also ended up with egg nog, that sweet, sweet nectar of the gods. Why can’t they have it year round? I’m sure I’d only put on 30 pounds or so. On second thought, maybe it’s better it’s only 3 months for availability.

I returned an hour later to find IT HAD ONLY MOVED 1%. Seriously. It took me 26 hours to download the file, by the time it was said and done. My average download speed was 30-50k/sec. How are they going to handle OPEN beta if that’s their best speed for the downloader in CLOSED beta, when not so many people are supposed to be on it?

Anyways, I came back, and a friend was over and we tried out the Army of Two: 40th day demo. I had heard the first one was pretty bad, but I actually enjoyed this. Good on them. Then I tried Bayonetta, and wasn’t very impressed. Her proportions and animations look… off… somehow. Plus points to the dev team for me trying to actually learn combos to get her nekkid, tho. That’s some kind of base programming if I’ve ever seen it.

After that, it was the Dante’s Inferno demo. Lots of T&A, I was rather surprised, but there were several moments where I was laughing out loud that I don’t think I was supposed to be… when everything got all cartoony was one of em. And how exactly is a Devil May Cry clone supposed to represent the poem? I’m not sure. But as far as platform/beat-em-ups go, it’s pretty, and I like the dark settings I was exposed to. The powers seem interesting and it seems like there are over 60 or so… but it’s just NOT what I was expecting, at all.

After that I booted up the Puzzlegeddon demo, which was cutesy and ok, but not terribly interesting. Not much is after Puzzle Quest.

Lastly, i played a demo for Trine, and was pleasantly surprised at how cheerful and lighthearted this platform/puzzler was. Good story, GREAT music and a very unique twist on how to play levels. It’s nothing that hasn’t been done before separately, but an interesting combined method to twist what we know on our heads a bit. This is one DLC game I might invest in.

Now the installer is running. Soon I will be collecting my gold-pressed strips of Latinum, and receiving lobe rubs from all the dabo dabo girls. Yes, sooon…