Wednesday, November 12, 2008

So busy...

Man it's been a while since the last update... This sucks.

I have every intention of continuing to write in this blog - however, I have been very busy as of late, and on top of that, Fallout 3 came out on the XBox 360. Being a huge fan of Bethesda's last game, Oblivion, I'd be a dick if I didn't take some time away from the fists of Brad Burns to sit down and devastate some wasteland super mutants in post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C.

So, those of you that are still following along, continue to check back, as I have no doubt at all in my mind that I will once again pop Virtua Fighter 5 into the console and start at it again - it's the only game that I've ever been able to consistently come back to, and I'm notoriously bad for setting down games and walking away from them once I get bored of them.

Before I go, just a quick update of where I left off - I felt like I was starting to spin my wheels, and falling into common pitfalls the more I played Brad. It's not my fault that Brad has very good circulars in his 2K+G and DM P+K. But it IS my fault that I let myself fall into the trap of using these constantly and in every situation. Before I knew it, DM P+K had become my new evade, and I was back in the same boat. Ugh.

The more I tried to move past this, the more frustrated I grew, and that culminated when a good player I spar with defeated me multiple matches in a row using Brad himself. This would have been fine if he wasn't normally a Jacky player, and a self-admittedly poor Brad player. I knew I had to take a break and let myself return to a creative way of thinking about the game. There comes a point in everyone's progress where they need to take a step back, think about how they are approaching things, and recalibrate.

So, take my hiatus as an indication that this is what I am doing: retreating in order to move forward. I'll be back shortly - by my suspicions, in about two weeks time, as I am starting to feel my interest in Fallout 3 waning, and it's difficult to avoid the siren's call of VF5 when I don't have any other video games to play (and besides, what am I going to do in between working out and chores).

I still have a comment to address that someone posted, suggesting they would like to hear more about ways to improve Brad's flow, and that too is in the hopper. It's the next thing I'll tackle, as soon as I put my gloves back on and head into the ring. Big thanks to anyone that has remained patient while I disappeared over the course of the last month.