Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Writers...block?

Okay, so I haven't posted anything on here for a while. Been having a rough time lately, so obviously I haven't been playing any games. Even now, I barely play any. But from what I have played I had to post on here, it was just too good to pass up.

Being frustrated and at home, I wanted to play something to get my mind off stuff, so I popped Just Cause 2 into my 360 (I had a feeling my mind may wander, so bringing JC2 home was a wise move). Like GTA games, it's great for doing random things without worry of doing something wrong. Anyways, I felt it was about time to complete some missions, actually get the story moving along. I can't remember if I explained in my previous posts, but the story and writing in Just Cause 2 is atrocious. I was trying to think of a joke to make about the writers, like "the writers for JC2 are so bad, they should be writing for 'so-and-so'" but I couldn't even think of someone that bad. I mean, even the worst of television shows and movies have their good moments. JC2 hasn't had one good line, it's just so cheesy.

Don't get me wrong, I fully understand that the writers were aiming for cheesy at times. That's obvious, making fun of "badass" movies and games like Grand Theft Auto and Scarface. But then there are the lines that made me wonder if Eidos took a few months off and let 15 year-olds do the work.

So there I was, driving down a winding road, having recently hijacked a stretch limosine. I should also mention I had just rode a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff, jumped off, and landed on said limosine. My job was to hijack it to deliver the man inside to be interrogated somewhere else. As I drove the man kept screaming and not surprisingly, wanted to be let go. What does my character say to the man? "Stop your whining or I'll cut off your hands and bitch slap you with them all the way until we get there." Exact words, I'm dead serious. It gets better! The very next mission, just as I thought I had finished blowing everything up, three men in black clothing with katanas stroll out of a building to stop me. My character felt the need to give another great one liner: "I hate ninjas." Normally not a bad line, but the way he said it, like when someone goes "Ugh, I hate that TV show." Not only that, but it was the first time ninjas had appeared in the game. And in a game where ninjas don't belong. Part of me wants to finish the game, just so I can get a whole slew of bad quotes.

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