I just had the most intense match in GTA Online. I mean... it was pulse-pounding.
I'd been playing this incredibly silly team deathmatch with these people, where the map is suspended miles up in the sky and only melee weapons are available. It was hysterical, and pretty much my favourite thing in the game. Now, the other team were made up of these American kids with, well, the most annoying manner of speech imaginable.
Not quite as squeaky as the stereotypical CoD gamer, but they tried their
hardest to sound like rappers or whatever. It kind of hurt the brain, but hearing them rage whenever I killed them (wearing a ludicrous outfit of bright yellow, complete with a hockey mask- they called me either "the yellow one" or "the banana") was immensely satisfying. My team lost that, though.
But then we moved onto another deathmatch, this one all with sawn-off shotguns, two versus two with me and some silent unknown on a team against them. It's a fairly tight map, with trailers and a couple of country stores and a whole mess of backyards, tin fences and garages.
My teammate was crazy good, and the pressure to keep up with them was immense. I did it, though, somehow; most of the match was spent with only a one or two-point lead to us, and for the last few kills we were even. At one point, right near the end, they were chasing me and I was cut off from my teammate. I knew my last hope lay with the liquor store entrance around the corner, so I dashed blindly in there, took cover behind a stack of beer cartons, and
freaking killed them both as they came in after me. Oh man, my heart was pounding. And it looked awesome, too- my dramatically-dressed character crouching behind the beer, shotgun blasts shattering the store's glass door as I popped up to shoot them.
And then we went on to win. Just.
My gods, I didn't realise this game could be so fun. This is definitely the biggest videogames-related Happy I've had in a while.