Drop Shock Gamer?

Despite running the risk of my EliteBox spewing the disc out in a fit of hysteria, I picked up Halo: ODST yesterday. I'm also reasonably confident it was the first game that I've ever gone out of my way to grab at midnight on launch day.

It's slick, lemmie tell you.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not particularly fond of shooters, on the whole. Mostly because I'm terrible at them and the better part of those games are spent watching various "YOU DIED!" screens and muttering obscenities at an unsympathetic console. This is why co-op is an awesome feature. I can pretend to be the badass gamer that pwns at FPS, because I'm l337 n' stuff.

Yes, I can thank co-op for my coveted Legendary Playthrough achievement on Halo 3. (Just don't tell anyone. *smirk* )

So, imagine my initial horror and feeling of impending doom when, after beginning ODST with a buddy who actually DOES pwn at FPS.....the game lagged (I'm thoroughly convinced this was a plot against me). We would have to each play on our own.

Thus began the game, with moderate success at first, followed by an hour and a half of the inevitable Death By Brute over, and over, and over....and over again. The controller was nearly chucked, but victory was eventally mine, and with an over-inflated sense of accomplishment, I can honestly tell you that it's a damn good game. Soloing it is truly a solitary and eerie experience that feels vastly different from it's predecessor.

So BUY it.

In other oddball gaming news, I stumbled across this today. Essentially, it makes Fallout 3 a most poetic exercise in human brutality.