Boy’s Night Out

This is the future, I guess. When boys get together for a night away from the wives not by going out drinking to drown their sorrows in bitching and booze, but to go wireless with Playstation Portables and get some Monster Hunter Freedom action going by teaming up to take down big Wyverns like the one pictured above.

While other men in various apartments around the neighborhood were screaming every time a goal in the World Cup was scored (For anyone in Canada and America, soccer is actually a popular sport in the rest of the world and right now they’re in the middle of the Stanely Cup/Superbowl finals, called the World Cup. Hard to believe, but sports do exist outside of North America), me and my buddy Eugene were holed up in his apartment screaming and mumbling directions to each other like “Okay, I just dropped a barrel bomb, clear out, CLEAR OUT” or “Okay, I painted him, I’m coming back.”

This merely reinforces my belief that while Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games are very cool, they’re still not quite as cool as actually playing with someone that’s in the same room with you. Of course, the beauty of playing wirelessly on a PSP or DS is that there’s no split screen, you have full access to view of the game, but you can still interact orally and visually with whoever you’re playing with, something that even an internet camera or VOIP still doesn’t quite capture.

Really, there’s just no substitute for playing with other people when the other people are physically present with you.

Of course, that in no way reduces the sheer geekiness of two guys over 30 sitting around in a living room hunting monsters. BUT, at least we weren’t doing it with trading cards…