See [[[Eye of Judgement]]] to understand what the heck this post is about.
So Eliot brought [[[Eye of Judgement]]] for the PS3 over last night. It was kind of like being inside an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh, as you’re playing, essentially, a card game, brought to operatic levels of absurdity by video game goodness. All the math of hit points etc is figured out for you by the PS3 via a camera on a stand which shows you both the real world card playing board and insane graphical representations of what the creatures on the cards are doing while you’re battling. It’s really cool in that "oh my God, I’m such a nerd for thinking this is cool" sort of way. The camera picks up data from the physical cards as you lay them down on the board, scans them and all of a sudden big operatic dramatic things appear on the screen.
Nearly every time I went to draw a card, I mustered up my best Yu-Gi-Oh! battling voice and said something like, "All I need to do is have faith in my Uncle’s deck and will that I draw that one card which will win this battle for me." The first time I said it, Eliot, who is much younger than me, exclaimed, "How do you know that?!" Translation: why on earth would an older dude like you have ever watched that horrible animated TV series.
Answer: Because I watch everything. I’m like a big sponge of all the horrible things on TV. It’s one of my three super-powers.
So here’s my big tip for playing [[[Eye of Judgement]]]. Don’t use the stupid fabric board (or iron it flat before usage). If you’re not in *excellent* lighting conditions, the creases from where the board was folded can interfere with card recognition (b/c the cards won’t be perfectly flat on the table). As soon as we did away with the fabric board and just used the screen to tell us where to drop our cards, it worked like a charm.
Also, this comic nicely expresses how your life will be if you buy this game and become obsessed with it.
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