With my new game writing job at the Rocky comes some interesting drawbacks. Chief among them, besides not being able to hang with cops anymore, is the fact that I no longer have parking.
Downtown Denver is a morass of two-hour-limited, over-priced meters and crap parking lots waiting to overcharge for monthly rental.
I may change my mind, but for now I've decided to forego leasing asphalt and try the Mile High Cities public transportation.
Man, does it suck. Not only is it exceedingly overpriced ($100 a month for the train alone, or about the price of renting a parking space), but it appears no one games on the train. What the hell is that about?
I actually pitched a story to my editor about this. I was thinking I could spend a day or two hitching rides on public buses and the light rail looking for pick-up games on my DS or PSP. While this could make for a fun story in New York, it appears doing that here would amount to a story on riding around on trains playing with myself. Hmm, I'd probably reword that for the article.
What gives? Having spent little time on public transport, I just assumed that trains and buses in most major cities were rolling arcades of portable gaming, where the back of the bus beat up on the front of the bus in endless games of GTA: Liberty City Stories and Mario Kart DS. Does that only happen in New York? Does that even happen in New York?
Do tell.
