I continue to be surprised that you're still playing Minecraft but I guess it's, like, the most played game today for a reason*
*I have no idea if this is true but I'd totally believe it.
Minecraft, Media '75 and Battlefield Bad Co. 2
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 On 08/26/2017 at 10:56 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
Only at the very end of the evening did I play the opening levels of Battlefield Bad Company 2, but I feel like I can take a long break from Minecraft now.
The day started with Mark and I playing Minecraft on survival mode as if to get to The End. I got to the Nether, was very careful, and then just before I was about to hit level 30, I got killed. I recovered my gear and 8 of my levels, but that's a lot of levels to lose. I basically gave up trying to level up. It just takes too long and can be taken away from you at any time. So I had to figure out something to make the game interesting again.
While I was thinking, I went to youtube and watched a bunch of trailers for film and tv shows from 1975, the year I'm focusing on in music for September. Some examples are: SNL year one, Woody Allen's Love and Death (Rik Mayall, in his voice work for the game Hogs of War, did a character that was totally Woody Allen from this movie), Monty Python's Holy Grail, Welcome Back Kotter, Space 1999 (a personal favorite), Jaws (where the Sega arcade electro/mechanical game Killer Shark is shown in the trailer), Tommy the movie (the trailer shows some Gottleib pinball games: Kings & Queens and Buckaroo), Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I finally joined Mark again in one of his new seeds. I dyed sheep yellow and made yellow carpet, bed sheets and a couch out of their wool. That was some dumb fun. Then I tried, on several other seeds, to get to the Nether in as quick a way as possible. It's fun to find shortcuts to do this. Then I tamed two parrots and watched them follow me around. Finally, Mark and I entered creative mode and started creating mayhem. We burned two Mansions to the ground and terrorized a witch's hut. Actually, we blew it up. Whoopie!
Then, as I was about to leave, I played the first few areas in Battlefield Bad Company 2. This game gets right to the action with no opening cutscene. Only a little text introduces you to the setting and historic mission in the Pacific theater of WWII. Right away it felt like a classic corridor FPS like Medal of Honor. Yes! It's fun to revisit old styles of gameplay from time to time.
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