What is MAG? most importantly, MAG is a fiance stealer. this is quite shocking to me. daniel and i both have a love of video games, but i have never seen him love a video game this much... i dont think i have loved anything to the point that i lose all track of time and reality. i swear, last night i heard "oh, we're only playing one more round" for about 2 hours. [the battles only last around 15 to 20 minutes.] not to mention, planning a strategy with his teammates over a blue tooth headset. i swear to god he missed his calling. he is very good at ordering people around.
what is MAG really? its a massive war game. its 256 players fighting in all out war. it is the most ridiculously hard thing i have ever played. i consider myself a gamer. i love video games and i am fairly decent at most games i play.. this game though.. too much insanity for me. daniel will ask as hes starting the game "oh did you want to play?" hoping/knowing i'll respond with a no thanks. i have played all of three times i think. it is much harder than i thought it would be.
to start off, you do a training mission. when i chose my first "military faction" i picked [apparently] the commies... because their symbol is a wolf.. and because i like to be different. so daniel directs me to the training mission so i can "learn the controls" as i have learned with wii sports, "training missions" are not good learning tools for me. i do not retain what i have "learned" in the training mission, and spend half the time confused. NOW. i pull up the training mission, and i have a russian guy telling me to run this way and press triangle to crouch. as i hit triangle, he starts screaming at me to stand up and run! THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE. Yes sir. i didnt realize this game was THAT serious.. and this is just the training mission. i spent about 15 minutes trying to throw grenades, [not a strong point for me. grenades are apparently my weak link. so, if you want to fight me to the death, just make sure i have some grenades handy.] not just throwing grenades, sorry i forgot, throwing grenades witha russian army guy yelling at me that im doing it all wrong and i need to go resupply and blow up that car blahblahblah. i really would like to know where he was standing.. perhaps i could've taken him out with a grenade.
anyway, i finally finish the training with a "nice work" from the russian guy and decide to head into battle. i think there is a reason i never joined the military, and that reason is that i am a big fat chicken who is scared. i start the game and hear a bunch of nerdy teens yelling orders from my television [these were real people who were REALLY serious.] i decided that sniping was the way to go and managed to get all of 2 kills. when i started, i didnt really understand the controls, and was continually hitting the trigger button and pulling out my other gun, instead of shooting the enemies that were right in front of me. good job for me. i died quite a few times, however i later developed a strategy for that.
after that one battle of getting my ass handed to me by a bunch of 16 year old kids, i decided i was done and handed over the controller.
the next night i switched teams and joined the millitary faction of Raven [who has a raven for a mascot lol] that training was even more ridiculous, and i somehow managed to DIE in the training mission, which i believe should've been a medal or something. "Most Ridiculous Death Ever." i think what happened is that i threw a grenade onto myself. i said grenades weren't my strong point. after 10 minutes of trying to find a mysterious ladder, i finally complete that mission.
ONTO BATTLE.
my new strategy is to stay low and run away from the enemy. like i said, i would not be good at war. i manage to get another 2 kills and only die 5 times.. so hiding is a much better strategy. i can kill the people that arent paying attention to me. i feel that i come across as somewhat harmless, because nine times out of ten, i'm just staring at my teammates asking daniel if "those are the ones i'm supposed to kill?"
so that was MY experience with the game. which now leads me to this.
Last night was daniel's big MAG night apparently. (like 5 hours of MAG.) he had his clan all established and was playing hardcore. one thing that i have a hard time remembering is that, unlike the 360, the ps3 does not have "private chat" where nobody can hear you. i also forget that the blue tooth can pick up much MUCH more than the 360 headset. this all comes into play later.
daniel's playing, i'm going through my 9 thousand pounds of laundry and its boring. i decide that since he's wrapped up in his game i'm going to kick up the tunes and jam on my ipod while im doing laundry. its a whistle while you work situation.. i work much faster if i have music to listen to.. and yes, i sing. [now you understand what i said about the headsets.] i was feeling particularly Gagaish last night, so i decided to listen to The Fame Monster CD over and over again. the louder the music is in my headphones, the louder i sing and the more i tune out everything else. i had both headphones on, and music at full blast. i was singing loud and having a lovely time folding clothes [L.O.L. yeah right.] Bad Romance had just finished playing, when i hear laughter coming from daniel. i figure, hes just being mean because i have a horrible singing voice. in honesty, i am not a BAD singer, i have a "fake-i-dont-want-you-to-know-what-i-really-sound-like-just-in-case-you-hate-it" singing voice, im pretty sure everyone has that voice. so i pause it and tell him not to be rude and he tells me, "everyone can hear you singing."
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thats right. EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU SINGING.
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if you didnt know.. he generally mutes his bluetooth because he doesnt talk in game. save for the random expletives [and BOY DO THEY FLY.] so. imagine my suprise when im told he has it on public chat. he was playing with one of the guys from publix, and they were discussing strategy. daniel realizes that everyone can hear me when carl says after the game is over, "mindy is singing bad romance."
AWESOME.
i am extremely quiet, and i dont like talking in front of people, much less SINGING in front of people.. and lady gaga is the only music that i really get into and SING. i mean i just belt it out, like i am in my car and nobody is around. in retrospect, i suppose it really looked strange for him to be a girl singing lady gaga and fighting in war. i guess he looked like the most hardcore gamer girl ever with the worst singing voice/musical taste ever.
so that's been my experience with MAG. daniel is addicted, and he needs video game rehab. tonight however, he has his headphones in and is singing, but the headset is on mute. i wish there was a way for me to unmute it, so his squad could be serenaded by pink floyd or whatever he is listening to.
i just asked him to pass me a coke and he said "thanks alot you made me die."
ah, love. <3
xoxo
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Thats funny!
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