A love note to Saints Row 2

January 14, 2009
Oh, Saints Row 2, how I wanted to love thee!

At first, Yahtzee was kind to you in his video review, which is something that does not happen often. My interest was tickled. Then, he gave you The Copulating Jelly Baby Award for a fuckin sweet game in his Games Awards 2008 video, and I knew I had to meet you.


Before we got together, I saw Obama and McCain in the co-op trailer and it solidified my lust for you. I then saw the GTA IV spoof trailer and it put a broad smile on my face. Then there came Ultor (as in Red Faction) trailer and I appreciated your wit even more:

I eventually saw Story trailer too, but it was cherry on the cake, since we were already together, enjoying our honeymoon.

I felt like I got mysteriously carried away back to sweet GTA:Vice City times. Running people over, shooting cops and blowing things up was fun again, except that there were more options to do wacky and immoral things and graphics was better. Mmm, it was good. So good.

Alas, my love!

Your hardware requirements ruined it for me. On my decent gaming rig, you run slow like molasses, losing our precious FPSes. Just look at Left 4 Dead, it can push ten times more frames on the same equipment. I know that inner beauty is what counts most, but how can I appreciate your wit, charm and gameplay, when the game changes into a slideshow?

Therefore I believe that the best we can do is to give each other some time apart and rethink where this relationship is going. We might eventually hook up again (when I buy better gaming rig), but for now let us go our own ways.

Yours truly,

Barts


GTA and elections

October 21, 2007
On the occasion of parliament elections in Poland I would like to present a cool image by Śledziu that depicts Polish politicians in GTA-like fashion (you may also notice George W. Bush and Tony Blair). It actually made me chuckle when I first saw it.


“Gry polityczne” means “Political games”, which sums up nicely recent standards of Polish politics, which have reached a new low. If you like the image, you can buy T-shirt with it from Mr Herring’s shop, and if you are Polish, please go and vote.


GTA and elections

October 21, 2007
On the occasion of parliament elections in Poland I would like to present a cool image by Śledziu that depicts Polish politicians in GTA-like fashion (you may also notice George W. Bush and Tony Blair). It actually made me chuckle when I first saw it.


“Gry polityczne” means “Political games”, which sums up nicely recent standards of Polish politics, which have reached a new low. If you like the image, you can buy T-shirt with it from Mr Herring’s shop, and if you are Polish, please go and vote.


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