Time for another little update. As the picture above suggests, we just can’t seem to stop hitting the snooze button. I’d love to tell you it was because we were busy on something productive, but the truth is, we are just epic procrastinators. Hell, Jesse Bishop has been putting up more content than us, Math bless him ’cause watching him and William play is great.

Things on the game’s front haven’t been entirely silent. I finally managed to put down Hydro Thunder Hurricane and pick up Blur on Steam for $39.99. That ain’t no sale price, but you’d think it was if you saw what kind of crazy ass prices they want for the 360 and PS3 versions($54.99ish, yowza).

I’ve only logued a few hours in Blur so far, but I can already tell you where the design went wrong. Track design, the track design of Blur is just plain boring. A dock, and air port, some city streets, maybe a ditch or two — guys seriously, where is teh freaking Rainbow Road? They’ve got crazy pillars of lighting and plasma balls going all over the place, and then smash it all into freaking Ford Fiesta’s driving to the grocery store.  Obviously, this is a huge differentiator between Blur and Mario Kart, but also the world offered up in Hydro Thunder who’s crazy ass racing feels right at home with Thor or some such Norris god sending tidal waves your way. In other words, save your $40 bucks unless, like me, you are desperate for racing like this, but not desperate enough to boot up your Wii.

Pretty:

Boring

What else is going on? Well Brooks is still working on earning his Wings of Liberty, and building a website for a client. Other then that I have no idea what he is up to. We’ve both been watching the new Futurama episodes religiously. I am seriously beginning to think that their five year break was good for them, because I’d say these are some of the best episodes ever. I’m not sure if that has to do with having another half a decades worth of nerdy tech culture to poke fun at or if it is just by virtue of being out from under the thumb of Fox. Whatever the reason, I like it.

So what the fuck right? No posts, no updates, not even a hint of activity at Two Fedoras for the last several thousand hours? I know, it’s quite tragic, and things were going so well too. The reality is, that reality caught up with us. Summer hit and that always translates to me getting cabin feaver and fleeing my domicile on a more routine basis, add on top of that vacations and impromptu jaunts across the country to attend to family affairs, and well you get the point, 2F is moldy bread at the moment.

Of course we have been playing games, we’ve just been too busy and/or lazy to write about them, so I’ll give you an exceptionally quick cut to the chase of what I’ve been up to and if you’re lucky maybe even tell you what Brooks has been playing as well.

Just so we can get it out of the way, yes we both have played through Limbo and yes we both loved the crap out of it. I found the environments of the game to be incredibly creepy and disturbing. I think I attribute this mostly to the somewhat Lord of the Flies feel to the game. Everyone humanoid silhouette of the game appears to be that of a child and lets face it, there are few things creepier than children. I will say though for such an amazing athlete, capable of leaping chasms and climbing ropes, it is awfully suprising that he can’t swim in two feet of water. I feel this gives weight to my theory that he is actually a robot made of especially non-buoyant metal.  Anyways, 1200 points, a little expensive for the 3 hours of gameplay you get but you’ll get over it.

Moving right along Brooks played through the new Castlevania game for the iPhone. He says it rocks your socks. I’ve played maybe 10 minutes of the game and find it quite enjoyable. If you’ve ever picked up Puzzle Quest, then you pretty much have the general idea — just know that this is much more cool, because it has vampires that dont sparkle.  Castlevania Puzzle: Encore of the Night is $4.99 on the iTunes store, seems like a pretty generous offering.

See how this works? Yeah its like little micro-reviews forged out of my laziness. So what else have I been playing? HYDRO THUNDER DER DER DER, yeah thats right I’m rocking it late 90′s arcade style. That’s exactly what this game is, it is good old fashion pop in some quarters and play arcade action. There isn’t an ounce of boring ass simulation in this game and I for one welcome it. I haven’t tried all the modes, the race mode is just like you remember the arcade mode to be. The other modes are rings, gauntlet, and championship. I’ve only played around a bit with the rings, but to be honest it seemed kind of boring. The game also has multiplayer so you can make your homes drowned in your rooster tail. This ones 1200 Microsoft points also, for some reason I felt better about these points just because I think I’ll get more replay out of it. But just to be clear, I still think you should buy Limbo if you only have 1200 points to spend.

I also spent some time playing Lumi on the XBLIG, I havent finished the game yet but I think it has a lot going for it. The game is quite attractive and has a neat little electromagnetic mechanic going for it that is simple yet capable of producing quite a bit of depth and challenge.  This one is 400 Microsoft Points, which puts it at the top of the Indie Game price list. I can’t really say for sure that it is or isn’t worth your five dollars so I’d suggest picking up the demo and deciding for yourself.

On the block buster retail front, I’ve been finally working my way through Broderlands. I would say I’ve managed enough hours in it to say: “It’s good but it ain’t no Diablo II.” Which actually provides me with a perfect segway to tell you what Brooks has been putting an inordinate amount of hours into, which is Blizzards latest installment into the Starcraft series. He appears to think it’s the cats pajamas since he wont stop telling me to go buy it. To be fair though, I only think he wants me to buy it so he can nuke my base. I’ll go ahead and assume you either already own these or know where to get them, so I wont waste my virtual ink.