So, I have both Portal 2 and the new Mortal Kombat game, and I love both of them.
Portal 2 is an extremely funny and fun-to-play romp. Hell, I've went through and beaten three times. The first time normally, the second time trying to get various missed trophies, and the third time listening to the developer commentary. It's well written, well voiced, and has one of the best pacing structures I've ever seen in a video game. Everyone should play this game. Everyone.
Mortal Kombat is also great and has raised my expectations for fighters to come. The story mode is awesome. Johnny Cage is awesome. The dialog is extremely hammy and awesome. I, in fact, have only one complaint. Online play is broken. And I don't mean in a 3.5 wizard kind of way, no, I mean it's unplayable because of the lag. This hasn't affected me too much since MK has become the game of choice during the 'figuring out exactly what sort of d&d shit we're doing' parts of game night. We've definitely fallen in love with Test Your Luck, setting it to the maximum number of reels and just having a blast. Everyone, or at least everyone who likes fighting games, should play this game.
In about a week and two days, give or take a couple of days for various reasons, I'll be getting a car! A real car! Isn't that amazing? There's a few drawbacks though. For one, I'll be missing out on a cell phone bill, meaning next month's is likely to be around $200-225. Owch. I won't be able to go to the GitP meet up this June either. And! My spending money for A-KON will be extremely limited. Like maybe $150-$200 limited. Or less. Depending. But it's ok, because I need a vehicle. I need to get driving and not relying on other people.
PSN was down, as you are probably aware. Apparently either Anonymous or a splinter group of Anon got into Sony servers and obtained personal information, including e-mail addresses, passwords, and MAYBE credit card information. I had to change my card out for a new one JUST IN CASE. Online gaming is now back up and the store is said to be restored soon. Sony is going to offer a free month of ps+ and two free games. Very much looking forward to that. I'm not extremely upset with Sony. They responded faster than most corporations, have taken responsibility, offering free identity theft protection programs, and gifts they didn't have to offer people for a free program going down.
There you go, a decently long post!
