The major part of last week, I played Grand Theft Auto:Vice City.<\/p>\n
Correction: The major part of last week, I played the same<\/i> freakin’ mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. That is because I could not complete<\/i> that freakin’ mission, though I must have played it something like seventy-two times.<\/p>\n
Did somebody say “lousy gamer”?<\/p>\n
I am. I definitely<\/i> am.<\/p>\n
The mission in question in something called Death Row<\/i>. Tommy Vercetti ( that’s me) goes and meets an obnoxious Brit-clubber named Kent Paul at the Malibu club in Vice City, and learns that his partner Lance is being tortured by the Haitians in Little Havana ( that’s on the other end of a bridge). So what I have to do – go and resuce Lance before he croaks. That means – I need to drive fast, all the way to the Little Havana junkyard. The goons ( and there are lots of them) open fire at my car. I need to ram the car that’s blocking the gate of the junkyard, get out of the car ( which, in all likelihood, will start burning. Being fired at and<\/i> hitting another car at full speed is not good for it’s constitution) and run like hell. (Time’s ticking away for dear Lance) Millions of other Haitian goons open fire with automatic guns, you know, the kind that go rat-a-tat, and very accurate they are, too. <\/p>\n
There have been times when I actually manage to get inside the shed where Lance is kept and free him. Now I have to take him out of the junkyard and into a hospital. But there are still more goons firing at me from outside. And sooner or later, either me or Lance eat too much lead, and well, Hasta la Vista, bay-bee. Reload game.<\/p>\n
Stuck!<\/p>\n
I think it’s because the game is so insanely<\/i> addictive that I have carried out the above procedure – load, drive, fire, get fired at, die, reload – so many times. And I refuse to cheat. <\/p>\n
Friday evening, I realised that enough was enough. There were just too many things to do than waste my time failing the same mission over and over. ( Well, I been saying this to myself over the week. I would ditch the game for sometime, and try to read some novel, then say “What the heck, i’ll do it this time.” and start playing again. But on Friday it got serious) So I took out the Philip K Dick and finished it. Then I got The Princess Diaries<\/i> and finished that too. Then I realised I had the second book of the Princess diaries with me, so that, too went the same way. Also squeezed in shows of LOXG<\/i> and Bad Boys 2<\/i> over the weekend.
\n ( Mental note: No, beatzo. Don’t. No movie reviews. Enough. )<\/p>\n
Then yesterday, this itch came on again. For a time I kept it in control, by playing Soldier of Fortune 2<\/i>. It got too much, though, and very soon, I was on through the same pattern – load, drive, kill, yadda yadda yadda…<\/p>\n
I suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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