The less human you are, the more likely you are to finish the game.

Okay, so it's been a very long time but life happens and it sure has been um,... interesting. Loads of things are going on with the wedding planning and the apartment and my new hours at work but,... there is a spot of light shinning through the clouds and reflecting off my computer screen making it impossible to finish my game. PAX East 2013 tickets went on sale today and there are now two badges heading in our direction. The wedding planning and my job are taking up quite a bit of my time but what little time I do have is being distributed between a few games. Minecraft is one of the big time takers especially since, thanks to my fiance, I've discovered mods. Lego Star Wars on the PS2 is another time thief. I've played it on the DS but as of recent the power cord has run screaming into the hills never to be seen again. Seriously, I've looked all over this damn apartment and it's no where to be found. So in an act of desperation to quench my Star Wars thirst I put the game in and I don't remember the next three hours. The next thing isn't actually a game. I've the discovered the wonders of the X Files. I was quite young when the show was originally aired and never really thought about watching it until my fiance's mother let us borrow a two episode VHS tape. After that we rented season one from the library and we were hooked.

Also, my fiance did something wonderful and hazardous to my health. He bought my The Binding of Isaac from the steam summer sale. I spent the next three hours battling monsters in a randomly generated cellar/dungeon/crypt/catacomb. For those of you who don't know anything about The Binding of Isaac, it's a little indie game from the makers of Super Meat Boy. Well, I shouldn't say "little" game. With all of the randomly generated pieces you will almost never get the same dungeon layout twice. The annoying or helpful thing is sometimes you get the same monster three times in a row. Good for easy bosses, bad for frustrating ones. That Saturday I sat playing as Eric and his friend played his friend's Xbox and discovered something. The more character add on bits you have the easier it is to move from level to level. Except for the pills. If you find the item "mom's pill purse" take caution. Some pills can help you, like give you more hearts. Some pills, on the other hand, can make you sick or transport you to not so good areas of the dungeon. At one point I had Isaac transformed into an interesting little creature. A cyborg eye piece, floating on air and able to go anywhere, lasers shooting out of one eye and a few other things. He looked bad ass. I showed Eric and he mentioned that the less human you are the more likely you are to win. In a horrible turn of events I was killed by a poorly placed bomb. I have yet to get to that level since. Because it's randomly generated there is no strategy and no way to obtain the same items in the same order or to even have the same items on different play through.

It's getting a we bit late and I have some games and wedding planning to do so I'll say goodnight. Hopefully I can upload some of the pictures I took from The Binding of Isaac. I do plan on updating more often (I know that's something I say often but carry through. I really mean it this time.) Goodnight.