Xbox Live Weekend

Yesterday I stumbled upon a smidge of a financial issue which led me to sell my favorite video games...And that was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I got a decent amount of money from them, but I really believe they are worth more than that. I'll eventually get those games back, but for right now, they're on my "to-buy" shelf when I have the money.

Anyways, happier stuff, no? Like this weekend was Free Xbox Live Gold Weekend. Let me rephrase that.

FREE XBOX LIVE GOLD WEEKEND.

That was the best comfort gift I have ever gotten! Oh, besides the heartfelt note I got last night, but I was on a roll! I played on MP like craaaaaaaaazy and had an awesome time playing Online and challenging other people. Ok, maybe I hesitated a little bit at first because I haven't played in a while, but it was all fun in the end. What games did I play? Well here goes the list AND--

First off, let me say I kind of dislike playing with random players on Borderlands because: 1) When you join a game, the players are scattered EVERYWHERE. Let's say you're in the Arid Nexus -- Badlands. Player one is the main character, they're the ones who want to resume the story so they decide to complete mission objectives. Player two is the lone wolf, they're doing their own thing and they're just killing random enemies at the corners of the map. Player three is "idle" player, basically the one who does nothing and lets other players kill enemies so they (player 3) can level up. And then there's player 4, the one who doesn't know what to do and gets stuck fighting Saturn. 

And dies plenty of times. And losing almost all of their money.

I am not referring myself.

Second reason why I dislike playing with random players on Borderlands is because they "boot loot" you (I completely made up that term). Say you're fighting the final boss, and after a good 15-20 minutes you finally defeat it. After all that hard work, there's bound to be good loot right? Of course! But what does the host do? They kick out all of the players and collect the loot for themselves. 

Douche D:

Then again, I shouldn't be carping. If people (and myself) really want to prevent this from happening, then it's time to mic up and communicate (and compromise)! But aside from all of those negative things, I still had a blast. In a game, I eventually teamed up with a player 2 since player 1 had some of player 2's trait (he was a pretty skilled Commando, is what I'm trying to say), so I ventured with player 2. I also got an achievement, the one where you defeat Donkey Mong, I didn't even realize it was him until the achievement popped up. Last but not least, I didn't feel like I was dead weight in the team! Since I made my Siren "the healer", I revived people with my Phaselock and, well, healed them by shooting at them. My class mod helped too since it has Health Reg.

NEXT GAME IS

Awww yis. I went there. Actually I only play that game because of AoN, and only if my friends wanted to play with me. AoN was great, none of the less, and I won a round! I won a rooooound! Woot! In the beginning my score was 250 and a guy already had 750. Miraculously I caught up with them (by now they had 950, just one more kill) and I won!! That player raged quit soon afterwards, but that victory was sweet. I had We Are The Champions playing in my head after that match ended. The game after that was pretty bad, though. I was third from last and I end up being the winning kill. Yep. Good times, though! Hahaha!

IMMEDIATELY AFTER MY HUMILIATING DEFEAT I PLAYED

Since I don't have Halo 4 anymore, I started playing Halo: Reach's Team SWAT. The games were pretty fun, and my team won all of the matches. But at first I was freaking out. Aside from MW3, this was a fast paced game where Spartan enemies appeared around the corner and shoot you (Sword Base). I had the usual freak outs when a Spartan appeared out of nowhere and I had several Yoinks (sorry guys!), but I did get a couple of killing sprees every now and then. Soooo fun, fun

Annnnnnd to end my gaming night, I played Happy Wars. [:  

Run, clerics, ruuuuuun!