One wouldn't expect a little white box and a couple of remotes to bring out the competitive nature in some people, but the Nintendo Wii has this power. I have a couple of friends who get pretty intense when playing certain games, specifically the fighting type. It started my freshman year of college with a 3D fighter where you can fly around the arena. You have to actually use the Wii-mote to do the super moves in the game as well as shaking them up and down trying to out-shake your opponent. This can get heated at times, often we will get up off the couch and be borderline roaring at the screen
My friend and I started playing the game in the common room in our dorm and at a certain point we began to amass an audience. The battles were entertaining like an action TV program and there were over 100 different characters to play as.
Recently Capcom has released a new 3D fighter that is on a 2D plane. So it plays like old school Marvel vs Capcom, if you know what that is... only it has old Japanese cartoon characters instead of Marvel ones. It is very very addictive, you can choose two characters and tag in and out working with the unique talents of each. Its nice too because you only have to use the Wii-mote turned sideways and two other buttons, which makes it very easy to just pick up and play.
As it turns out this game has caused my friend and I to play it repeatedly until we got good enough to just click random and be able to play with whatever character we received. Although the initial heat has died down after having the game for a couple weeks, but its only a matter of time until the next new competitive phenomenon appears.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Recent Break. . . a little too late.
Due to my trip to Charlotte to see my family over the short break we had, I was unable to post my blog in time. But now I have the opportunity to talk about my long weekend back in the Queen city.
I worked Wednesday night and didn't stay up too late afterwords. I yet somehow managed to wake up later than I wanted to. My birthday was on Tuesday so my parents wanted to celebrate with me and go out to a restaurant when I arrived. I had planned on getting up fairly early and packing before driving to Charlotte to make the 6:00 dinner reservations. I instead woke up an hour late and rushed my packing to make it to my girlfriends apartment to pick her and her sister up. My girlfriend was staying with me and her sister was hitching a ride to hang out with some friends up there. I didn't fully account for time and the short errands we would have to run before leaving. The decision was made that I would not drop off my girlfriend's sister at her friend's at UNC-C but instead they would pick her up at my house to save us an hour plus extra driving time in rush hour Charlotte traffic.
We made it there with a bit of time to spare and we did our unpacking. I found that I had forgotten some of my things before leaving such as a phone charger; within a day, I was without a mobile phone! But it was fine, I made a list of my Charlotte friend's numbers and used other people's phones. The first night we were there we went to Kabuto a hibachi restaurant. It was delicious as always. That evening we just hung out around the house and watched a film on the dvr, wonderful technology.
The next day my girlfriend and I went to some of the many parks in the Charlotte area due to it being such a nice day out. I also drove her around Charlotte and showed her some of the major landmarks and some of the interesting architecture. Later in the evening we went to the South End area and went to an art gallery crawl and saw some great local paintings and sculptures. We also had a nice diner down there as well.
The next day we went to see Shurlock Holmes at the $2.00 theater in Matthews. I enjoyed it, as I do many of Guy Ritchie's films. Later that evening we had a great flank steak dinner and went out to hang out with some of my old friends from the area.
This morning We woke up and packed our things. We had a nice pancake and bacon breakfast and hit the road back to Wilmington, as usual later than expected.
I worked Wednesday night and didn't stay up too late afterwords. I yet somehow managed to wake up later than I wanted to. My birthday was on Tuesday so my parents wanted to celebrate with me and go out to a restaurant when I arrived. I had planned on getting up fairly early and packing before driving to Charlotte to make the 6:00 dinner reservations. I instead woke up an hour late and rushed my packing to make it to my girlfriends apartment to pick her and her sister up. My girlfriend was staying with me and her sister was hitching a ride to hang out with some friends up there. I didn't fully account for time and the short errands we would have to run before leaving. The decision was made that I would not drop off my girlfriend's sister at her friend's at UNC-C but instead they would pick her up at my house to save us an hour plus extra driving time in rush hour Charlotte traffic.
We made it there with a bit of time to spare and we did our unpacking. I found that I had forgotten some of my things before leaving such as a phone charger; within a day, I was without a mobile phone! But it was fine, I made a list of my Charlotte friend's numbers and used other people's phones. The first night we were there we went to Kabuto a hibachi restaurant. It was delicious as always. That evening we just hung out around the house and watched a film on the dvr, wonderful technology.
The next day my girlfriend and I went to some of the many parks in the Charlotte area due to it being such a nice day out. I also drove her around Charlotte and showed her some of the major landmarks and some of the interesting architecture. Later in the evening we went to the South End area and went to an art gallery crawl and saw some great local paintings and sculptures. We also had a nice diner down there as well.
The next day we went to see Shurlock Holmes at the $2.00 theater in Matthews. I enjoyed it, as I do many of Guy Ritchie's films. Later that evening we had a great flank steak dinner and went out to hang out with some of my old friends from the area.
This morning We woke up and packed our things. We had a nice pancake and bacon breakfast and hit the road back to Wilmington, as usual later than expected.
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