Summary from the abyss

I took a staycation over the past few days because my birthday was this week. And with it, a lot of unhealthy, high calorie, high fat, high sugar meals were consumed this whole week and I’m now starting to feel the effects of all this bad food. But unhealthy meals aside, this was a great week because for my birthday I received a PS4! Yea, I’m now officially with modern consoles like the rest of you. I received the PS4 that’s bundled with Arkham Knight. That’s cool and all, except I haven’t played any of the previous games. I was hoping this would be the kind of game where it wasn’t necessary to play the previous games, but the online gaming community proved that to be not true.

There are not many games that I care for currently (but there are many games coming soon), but I did happen to snag a copy of Alien Isolation that I got for a nice $40. I wanted to play this game so bad back when it originally came out, but I wanted to play it on a “next gen” console. So now that I own a “next gen” console I can now finally get to play it. Well, except for one minor thing: I’ve never seen any of the Alien movies with the exception of Prometheus.

I don’t believe you need to watch the movies to enjoy Isolation, but I want to have a solid understanding of the all of the little references from the movies I feel they have sprinkled throughout the game so I can have a better appreciation for them when I come across them in-game. Also, watching the Alien movies was something I wanted to do for the past few years but never had the motivation to do so. So over the past few days I watched all of the major Alien films in order of their release dates -- all by renting them on my new PS4 too!

Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, and Prometheus. My favorite was the original, Alien, followed by its sequel, Aliens. I didn’t care for the majority of Alien 3, but I thought Resurrection was a fun sci-fi flick. I hear a lot of people hated Prometheus, but I liked it; and especially after watching the original (things in that film make so much better sense now). So yeah, it was a great week with great accomplishments.

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