Forgive me Lord, for I have sinned...again. I did the unthinkable. Something which goes against everything I believe in. Thursday night I committed the most unforgivable of acts. I bought Halo 2. Now before you stone me to death or burn me at the stake, hear me out. Ever since I first saw the original Halo, I disliked it. When I got my computer 5 years ago, that was the end of console first-person shooters, as far as I was concerned. There was just no going back. Now fast forward a few years to the present. A few weeks ago I rented and beat Halo. It still wasn't all that spectacular to me, but it halfway redeemed console fps's in my eyes. So then a few days after I beat Halo, Halo 2 was released and, as I mentioned, I rented it to see what it was about. It was a marked improvement from the original and the day after I rented it, I ended up buying it. It sucked me in and stole my soul. So anyway, I bought it Thursday night, played it a little Thursday and Friday night. Saturday I took the Xbox and Halo 2 over to Aaron's since he was itching to see it. I pretty much spent the day there, and we played co-op mode and ended up beating the game almost all the way through. It was a lot of fun but the ending was a big disappointment. I won't go into detail about the ending, since there may be some of you still playing it, but needless to say, it was lame. Last night I beat it in single player just to see if there was any difference between it and co-op (there wasn't), so now here I am less than a week after buying it and I'm already done with it. I suppose I can always play online via Live, but I don't really enjoy having my ass handed to me every game. Yeah, I'm terrible at that game. Overall Halo 2 is pretty good and I really liked the movie-like feeling it gave. Now I can get back to finishing all my other neglected games like Tenchu, Ninja Gaiden, Burnout 3, DoA Ultimate, Rallisport Challenge 2, and Street Racing Syndicate. The fun never stops.
So now that I've gotten that off my chest, I should definitely get to sleep right now because I have to get up at 7am to go shoot photos at the animal hospital near my house for my photo story in photography class. It's due at 1:30pm... You'd think in the 5.5 years I've been at UT I'd have learned how to manage my time, but nope. All I've learned is now to get by doing as little work as possible. Ah well, only 2 weeks left until graduation. 2 weeks until freedom... or something like that.
