Destructoid NARP Party

Saturday night I attended the Destructiod NARP (No Apparent Reason Party).   First Destructoid, for which I was not familiar with prior is a community for hard core gamers.  The primary reason I went was to meet Robert of Infinity Ward.  I was led to believe there’d be good IW SWAG.   Unfortunately the RockStar guys clearly one-up’d infinity ward.  There was GTA4 stuff everywhere, multiple Tee’s for just about everyone as well as stickers and what not.

The prize for the COD tournament was a signed Infinity Ward poster.  (whoopie)…

I understand this was Desctructoid’s first event.  Overall as a party goes it was pretty good.   There was a good group of folks playing Rock Band, a game I still don’t ‘get’.  Clearly sucking and looking stupid at Karaoke isn’t enough. At least with Rock Band you get to share the shame with 3 other people playing guitar and drums.   Some of the ‘bands’ were OK, at least they can push the buttons, but the singing, well, I should probably just stop here.

There was another station set up for people to play smash brothers.   Which to me was about as lame as it gets.  If I had shelled out $50 for that game I’d have to hurt someone.

There was a pre-release showing of a Ninja game.   Imagine the sword fighting of the Lord of the Rings PS3 games or Prince of Persia, mixed with the run around task based game Assassins Creed, only not as good and you’ve got this game.   I’ll certainly pass on that release.

The COD tourney was somewhat of a joke.  Very unorganized, and I’m sorry to say, you need sound to play that game.  That wasn’t possible hooked up to the big screens above the bar.

This review may sound negative and perhaps it is.  But the party was a blast and I’m sure it will only be better next time. 

Wh00t!

Written by datapoohbah on June 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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