Robert and I have been AWOL for awhile, and we really feel badly about it. We humbly offer up the top eight things we’ve been doing instead of writing about games.
Working - Employment has a funny way of getting in the way of playing games, much less writing about games. The irony is that we can now afford them (sort of).
Frolicking in the summer weather - Yeah, this one is total bullshit. I think we deserve a free one.
Researching active volcanoes to throw ourselves into before Modern Warfare 3 comes out - Active volcanoes are extremely difficult to predict, and a significant amount of our leisure time goes toward staying on top of this. We were hoping to make a dramatic display of protest by timing our leap with an eruption, but unfortunately, we missed our window. Crap.
Playing League of Legends - We’re a little late joining the party on this one, but it’s been something of a timesink for the both of us. This is more of a Robert excuse, since I’m not as high of a level as he is. JAX IS OP. Shut up, we know we’re nerds.
Watching Breaking Bad on Netflix instant queue - Talk about a first world problem. As if my instant queue weren’t big enough, Netflix goes and adds the award winning series to their online catalog. When did watching TV become a chore?
Playing Team Fortress 2 – I run the risk of sounding like a Valve fanboy when I say that whenever free time is at a premium, Team Fortress 2 often takes priority. The irony about the game we’ve all stayed up too late playing before is that it’s still one of the easiest to pick up and put back down. Playing 30 minutes of video games at a time is seldom so satisfying, unless it’s TF2.
Getting over my horrible depression following the short-lived Tactical Intervention beta - The problem wasn’t that the beta was so bad. The problem was that I couldn’t personally play it. The new tactical shooter by Minh “Gooseman” Le, one of the developers of Counter-Strike, has been long-awaited by die-hard fans of his classic mod, myself included. Unfortunately, I was never able to get the thing to work. The servers were constantly at capacity for the first weekend-only beta of the game, and I was never able to get the game running in the first place. I didn’t even get to make fun of it first-hand.
Enduring creative malaise - We’ve known for a while now that we’re bad writers, and right before dropping off the Internets we received a lot of hate mail for our posts on Gonzo Gamer. Someone even tried to buy us out(not a joke). All of the stress of running an up-and-coming gaming blog stressed us out so much that we didn’t know if we’d ever pick up a keyboard again.
Despite all of this, too many awful games have recently come out for us to stand idly by while our once trusted gaming news outlets become less and less relevant. Alright, not all of the games were that bad. Some were… tolerable. Be that as it may, we are still opinionated gamers masquerading as writers! We’re tired of listening to each other’s opinion and demand a captive audience! Gird up your RSS feeds, bitches, because Gonzo Gamer is back.
