Ramblings Of A Madman Vol. 5 (with some Baaaaaad Company)

Woah!  Double feature city!  So, I know all 2 of you have been wondering where I am.  ”Where’s Thomas?” you’ve all said.  ”Last I heard, he blew his brains out after wrapping Mass Effect 2,” one of you pipes up.  ”Naw.  He just dropped his computer in the toilet,” says the other.

WRONG!  Both of you!  You don’t know what you’re talking about so just shut the hell up!  You don’t know my life!  God!

The truth of the matter is, I’ve actually been busy doing things that pertain to real life.  Crazy as that may seem, it’s true.  But, it’s not without a little bit of gaming squeezed in there.  What game?  Well, it’s Battlefield: Bad Company 2, my friends, and it’s impeccably awesome.  BC2 blows the pants off of MW2 (Modern Warfare 2).  That is, if you prefer a slower pace, a more thoughtful process as to how to approach situations in the game, the ability to use vehicles, destructible environments, and the best approach to matchmaking and teamplay I’ve ever seen in an online FPS.  If you like twitch gameplay and a bunch of kids calling you fag all day, be my guest, go play Modern Warfare 2.  I will be pwning noobs in the open environments of Bad Company the second.

Sidenote:  Singeplayer is bad.  Standard and unoriginal, with rinse wash and repeat levels where you fight a bunch of dudes, maybe ride some kind of vehicle, blow some kind of shit up, and then fight some kind of big thing like a tank or a chopper.  But multiplayer…

All the other stuff that this game does and does well is pretty straight forward, the real game-changer here is how it treats communicating with other players.  You join a team, you don’t talk with the entire team.  What happens is that you join a squad, and then you’re only talking with 1 to 4 other people.  This means you’re more inclined to talk to the other people and try to work as a team and cover flag points, blow up or defend bombs, etc.  I’ve also not once encountered hateful slander to either myself, or my family, or those poor defenseless homosexuals I feel so desperately the need to stand up for.  And if you’re on with a friend, the experience is so much better.  Last night I was on with my friend Matt Fisher (we are now part of the clan, SAG — the Screen Actors Guild) and we not only cleaned house, because as soon as you act like a team you suddenly start doing insanely well, but it was the most fun I’ve had online in a first person shooter in maybe a year or so.  It was great.

So.  Bad Company 2.  Get it, love it, look me up (Gamertag is Mr Greezy), Matt and I will let you join SAG (if you pay your dues), and we can all take it to the absolute limit.  I mean, let’s get serious in there, only minimal small talk, it’s all about capturing chokepoint Bravo.

Secondly, my friend Jim Santangeli and I are the new hot song-based comedy duo.  He and I both make weird songs on our own and we’ve finally collaborated in our new single called Coats.  Enjoy the smooth vibes above.  And Merry Christmas, everyone!