Big Lots FTW (again).

Tonight I picked up yet another great game at an absurd price at Big Lots. I found Mirror's Edge for $6. You read that right. I never actively looked for this game at retail, which may explain why I've never seen it anywhere. In any case, I couldn't run it when it came out, but now that I have a new video card I've been waiting for an online sale somewhere. Not anymore.

I'll post my thoughts on the game soon. Meanwhile, let's review what Big Lots has delivered:

• Darwinia (very rare at retail)
• Psychonauts (ditto, and obscenely good)
• Driver: Parallel Lines (impulse buy at $4, very fun)
• Just Cause (underrated)
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars ($6 or $40 online? Hmm)
• You Are EMPTY (mindless fun, emphasis on "mindless" and "fun")
• Thief: The Dark Project (very lucky find)
• The Lord of the Rings Online (in case I want to play it someday)
• Prey (already had it on Steam, but now I don't need Steam or a disc)
• Mirror's Edge

Keep in mind, all of these games cost either $4 or $6. That's ten solid titles for less than the price of a single current-gen console game. And I'm a collector; I love having the box art, manual, etc. Digital distribution is definitely a good thing, but given the choice, I'll always take a retail package.

That isn't counting two games I grabbed for Jenny on the off chance that she might like them: Viva Pinata and NeoPets Puzzle Adventure, which I'll surprise her with when she gets home from work in ten minutes. She toyed around with Viva for a while, but didn't really get into it. Which is fine for four bucks. I think she'll like the NeoPets title, and if not, Haley might want to play it. They're into NeoPets, because they're apparently ten years old. But I'm not judging.

By the way, Haley's new blog, For the love of God... and anime, is up now, and shows off her phenomenal wallpapers. Go grab some of them now, you will definitely be impressed.

All slack, all the time.

But you don't care.

So yeah, haven't posted in a selfishly long time. After the usual spiel of schoolwork, Real Life, etc., I got sick. Horribly, evilly sick. Some ungodly combination of strep and flu. My one and only Jenny caught it taking care of me, so now I'm at the Raleigh house for a few days taking care of her and hoping/guessing I have leftover antibodies that will keep me from getting it again.

Been playing some games lately, mostly Quake III with Jen. That girl has got some deeply buried bloodlust or something, I've never seen someone so unused to shooters take to a game like this before. "Don't shoot Lucy, that fucking cunt is MINE." That sort of thing. Fucking awesome. Also playing Psychonauts after finding a rare retail copy for 6 bucks at Big Lots. God, what a great game, though Yahtzee wasn't kidding about the crazy-ass difficulty curve. I'm at the very end, and a sudden onslaught of jumping puzzles is making me want to start over from the beginning to have some actual fun again.

There's more to tell, but I really need to get to bed. Jenny takes some looking after when she's sick, and I can't do it passed out.