Well this posts gonna be a doozy to write. Let it be known that I have the foggiest of memories and can barely remember the finer details of high school, let alone the whole fucking decade. Speaking of High School the begining of the decade was when I first graced the grounds of my high school as a nervous, fresh-faced weiner who stuck to societies rules and social etiquets and didn't want to tread on toes. Now that we're coming to the end of the decade I've actually developed a personality and stopped catering to everybodies bullshit like the spineless, leatherbound gimp I once was. Who knows, maybe another 10 years from now I'll be some sort of oppressive dictator or suicide cult leader? As loyal readers I'm willing to give you some perks if that happens, just drop a comment as proof of your undying loyalty and I'll get the blood signature later. So anyway that's about all my alcohol abused memory can muster for the past decade, so let's move on to the main body of the work and look back on 2009.
2009 marked several special occasions for Infinite Possiblogities. It marked it's 100th post and welcomed it's first birthday. I must say that this old blog has done alright considering my grim predictions of it lasting for about 2 weeks. It's a place for venting, offering critical opinions and expressing ideas (and on the odd occasion it might even entertain someone...somewhere). So "Yay for me, I managed to stick to something and create something that isn't completely awful." Another big feature of 2009 was me finally getting my life together and undergoing my first year of uni. There I discovered that most students are complete morons who seem to think they are far more clever than what they actually are and my distaste for humanity was strengthened.
So now's the part of the post where I dish out awards for stuff that quite frankly nobody will give a shit about. So here we go.
2009 IP Award for Most Shithouse Educational Undertaking
This award was won in a landslide and goes out to Geology 110 and 120. Mountainloads of boring, inaccessable coursework coupled with a horrible excursion that took up an entire Saturday made studying rocks even more boring and painful than I could have ever predicted. Congratulations Geol 110/120, I hope I never see your metaphorical face again.
2009 IP Award for Biggest Disappointment
This one was not an easy task. Hardly a day goes by that something fails to disappoint me so there was a very large number of contenders. "Sadness" (the game in developement for the Wii) has failed to provide the world with any information or indeed any evidence of it's existence at all. You might recall that I listed it as a game I was looking forward to in 2009 but since then I haven't heard shit. Another contender was also from the list and that WAS released. That contender was The Conduit which failed to deliver in any of the areas it promised to. But I think the award has to go to Sam's Warehouse for shutting up shop and leaving me, once again, unemployed.
2009 IP Award for the Game of the Year
Batman Arkham Asylum is probably the winner here, although a special mention goes out to the Metroid Prime Trilogy which contains 3 of the best games of all time, two of which were remade with better control schemes, in one sexy package. If I hadn't already played them all before I'd have given it to them, but Arkham Asylum is so gosh darn good I don't think anything else can beat it.
2009 IP Award for Shittest Movie
This one's only a recent discovery and you can expect a full review of this one in the coming weeks. The award goes to Kicking the Dog, for proudly flying in the face of every single cinematic advancement we've made since the invention of the medium and failing to provide any entertainment to me or my friends.
2009 IP Award for Most Pleasant Discovery
I won $300 on a pokies machine, that was good. I became a frequent trivia goer which was a very nice discovery indeed. We Love Katamari would win the award if it were exclusive to gaming BUT I think the award has to go to The Big Bang Theory. I had initial reservations but some solid characterisation and respect for the subject matter has made The Big Bang Theory a winner in my books.
Lastly we have the 2009 IP Award for the Thing that has my Vagina Most Juiced Up which at present goes out to Bayonetta for the Xbox 360 and PS3 (just a week to go now, expect a review in the future). Honerable mentions include Final Fantasy XIII, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and the next Zelda game for the Wii of which nobody really knows anything. So anyway that's it for this post and all the posts of 2009. I'll be back in 2010 to do whatever crap I usually do. Let's hope 2010 will be an even better year for all of us and that Half-Life 2: Episode Three at least gets fucking announced. I mean COME ON guys, it was supposed to be out years ago.
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