Bonding Whilst Killing

If I may just throw down a few random thoughts.

Today has been an odd day. I am crushingly tired and have been fairly bored. This leads me to one of my philosophical depressions which I am hoping to banish tonight by killing that son of a bitch Wesker with Phil.

We have been playing through Resident Evil 5 in coop and being very thorough with the emblems and treasure and it has been a joy. Phil and I used to be inseparable. We would skate together, were in the same band, worked in the same pub, played games together and crash at each other's place all the time. Then he abandoned me for uni and eventually his wife and we haven't been as tight as we once were. We still see each other now and then but we have taken some serious Chop and Phil time recently to plough through Resi 5.

Shit is off the chain.

Resident Evil 5 promotes coop in a way that some other games don't. Shit gets real constantly and it has been great to be in desperate fire fights as a pair and come out triumphant with pockets full of treasure. The game is perfectly balanced so that each player makes a very real contribution to the fight and the game just throws rewards at you.

I'm glad that we've been brought back together as a pair to save the world again.

It's a very similar feeling to when I play games with my brother. We have always been very close and since we've lived away form each other for a few years we have kept in contact via Xbox Live. When terrorists invaded Vegas, we were all over it. The Mexican coup? Squashed. The Russian gold conlict? We stole all that ish.

And then there is Halo 3 and Halo Wars. Halo is a franchise I love and if there is one person who has a similar reaction, it is Beast. We have saved the galaxy so many times I have lost count.

My point with all of this is that we friends use these games to hang out in often rather than going to a bar and wishing we are cooler than we are. We need more games like this.

More games need to offer a social experience that give high rewards for casual parties of people and I'm not talking about MMOs because they are too off putting and time consuming. In the modern world our best friends often don't live down the street anymore but we still want to play games together and hang out online.

Saving the day with your team of bros is one of the best feelings in the world.