The past week or so has been the last weeks at university. So I now have more time to blog. GTA4 has taken up my entire weekend as well, which is why this is being posted now.
First of all, let me talk about GTA. It’s good. It’s really good, but it’s not amazing. The missions are good, the pay is good, but mad rampages aren’t as mad. Vice city had it right, even now I could spend hours killing everyone in sight, just for fun. This just doesn’t have that fun factor.
Second, the money. The single most pointless thing in the world. Vice City and San Andreas(the game that shall not be named, that was named) both had actual applications for the money. You could buy cars, new houses, sweet upgrades for your cars. This one? Burgers, hot dogs, sodas, chicken, hookers, strippers, taxis and weapons. Weapons and taxis. These are the only ones that are worth having on the game. Sure hookers are a good way of making about $40 if you kill them, but it gets boring. Sure the food is good to replenish your health but kind of shit.
Drink driving is one of the really nice touches. If you go out drinking, the screen goes all wibbly your driving goes all wibbly, and you fall down all the time. The nicest touch of it all though is the police will try to pull you over for drink driving. Anyways, whether or not the 360 has worse graphics the acheivements that you can get are fun and worth getting.
As good as Vice City, not as good as GTA3 though. GTA3 was where it peaked, I will be surprised if we ever see one as good.
So, back to VS. Tonight the Illuminati cards were spoiled, sans article. So far, they have exhaust effects, hand fill and an uncommon search. I am building illuminati, and it has been brought up that a team-up with the infinity watch - iron mans convienient second affiliation- gives anybody a deck with 8 tutors. I was always one for 4 tutors, but 8 is the key. 8 Uncommons are going to be sweet.
So far the illuminati keyverb, keycondensationofalotofnames, whatever seems like the perfect way to handle a ”team” like the illuminati, and I am impressed. Maybe we will get some actual legend cards to go along with the illuminati theme. I NEED to make a Black Bolt legend deck.
What I am finding intersting is that when this comes out we will at least have a 3,4,5 of Iron Man, which is a wierd distributon for a legend curve, not unlike ghost riders 3,5,6,8. So hopefully we will get a 2 or a 7 cost Iron Man to go with the 5 and 6. Though the equipment to go on the Iron Man could be a little silly on a 7 drop Iron Man, so I am thinking that it may not happen for us.
100 Ideas. 100 more ways that Family of Four can get even better. Sigh. I am not lucking forward to this, so hopefully we will get some more out of combat stuns/exhausts for characters with a cost of 3 or less.
What I want most out of this set it bizarre though. I really, really want a few c/uc generics. Prefereably a search card, even if it is along the lines of a Vicarious Living card, something that says something along the lines of:
To play Discard a Character Card.
Search your deck for a character card with cost less than the card you discarded that shares a printed affiliation with that character card.
I ask this because I know when I started the game, I couldn’t win games because I didn’t have the search capabilities of some of the other players. We also need a Flying Kick card in modern, even if is just an homage to Flying Kick, like Roundhouse Kick or something silly.
I hope I can pull all the C/UC’s I need from the 2 boxes I have on order, mostly because I don’t think I can afford more than 2 boxes of it.
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