I read something online recently about how shit the resident evil series has became. The fanboy in me immediately went into defensive mode even though I kind of agreed with what was said. It's the usual argument. Mainly that RE 0,1,2,3,CV are great, and 4,5,6, rev just suck. I like all of them, but prefer replaying the classic series myself. The thing that bothered me was that there was no mention in the anti-capcom rant of RE0Remake or RE2Remake (which is supposed to be due this year).
Why does this so-called RE fan who loves the same games I do, not know about the remakes to get excited about? The HD re-issues have been a success and gives us old school fans a nice appetizer between big releases. Capcom needs to do a better job of advertising I guess, cause that new MP shooter seems to be making a lot of people mad, although I've read that it's actually really fun? I might try it out, I don't know.
Cool to see all the Saturday blogs though. Not discouraging it but for those who aren't BaD blogging on the weekends that's perfectly fine.
I downloaded and played the Yo-Kai Watch Demo on 3DS the other day. I liked it. It's totally an RPG with exploration and item gathering and battles with Yo-Kai, who sometimes become your friend. The battle system is kind of neat. You have six Yo-Kai that you use to battle set in a wheel with the top three being the ones battling and the other three in reserve. You can rotate the wheel at any time to bring a different set of Yo-Kai tot he battle line. Then the Yo-Kai battle automatically, but you can build up their special moves by playing simple mini games during battle like tapping targets with the stylus, or tracing a pattern, or drawing circles very fast. These come up randomly it seems. Then you can Purify a Yo-Kai if they get a status effect that immobilizes them by rotating the wheel and putting them in the back line where the Purify button becomes active. My only issue with the battle system is that I can't see what's going on while I'm doing mini games to build up a special move. I could be getting my butt kicked during that time, but it's not very long, so it could only be an issue against a tough opponent, I guess.
Since I want to play Killzone 3 I feel like playing Killzone 2 first. KZ3 is a continuation of KZ2. The first Killzone is pretty much a stand alone game so Im skipping it.
It's a movie weekend for me. My girlfriend really wanted to see Hail, Caesar!, so we did that this evening. I'm not what I would call a Coen brothers fan. I have enjoyed every movie of theirs that I have seen, but I have not seen them all by any means, and the only one I've seen more than once is The Man Who Wasn't There.
I started watching Occupied not so much for the series itself, but to practice my very rusty Norwegian. By the middle of the first episode, I was hooked. Occupied is set in a near future where the new prime minister, a member of the Green Party, has started building a Thorium reactor for green energy and has halted all fossil fuel production. This is a big deal, Norway is one of the top non-Arab oil producing countries in the world, if you didn't know that already. The EU, faced with the cutting off of their closest source of fossil fuels, decides to step in and force the Norwegians to turn the oil and gas production back on. They do this by allowing the Russians to persuade, by use of the threat of full-scale military occupation, the Norwegians. They take over all the oil platforms in the North Sea, and maintain a large presence in Oslo to make sure the oil keeps flowing. They claim they're there to “help” the Norwegians and supposedly, they'll all go home again once gas and oil production levels reach and are maintained at the earlier rates.
Wow! I made it all the way to Friday for the First week of BaD. I plan on playing some Fallout 4 later and maybe some Paper Mario Sticker Star. Other than that this is it for now. See you crazy guys Monday!
So I got my 101 students' tests graded the same day as they took it, thanks to the magic of Scantron scanners. Only reason it took longer was cause I marked a couple answers on the "keys" wrong, so I went back and added those points (or did nothing if they would have gotten it wrong anyway).
I've read a lot of comics in the last five years. Nothing compared to some people, of course, but still quite a few and enjoyed most of them (Batman especially). But the only comic I've ever really loved is the Mega Man comic from Archie. It's so good! Anyway, I guess it's never been a ginormous seller—what's wrong with people?!—and in June of last year they put it on hold. I was so distressed when I found out that I emailed the publisher a pleading message...to no apparent avail. So I haven't had any new Mega Man comics to read in far too long.
Happy Friday Pixlpeeps! So how has your first week of BaD? On my end its going well. I’m only a day behind and I should be caught up with the BaD posts and then I’ll check out my backlog of blogs after that (thank goodness it isn’t Mount Backlog of Blogs). Let’s get started with Quick Hits!
Of course, my last blog was pretty terrible. I know I promised some great stuff in there, but this one is going to blow your socks off.
It's all japanime music from openings of games I liked. If you hate anime, just scream and run away!
ATELIER ESCHA & LOGY
AMNESIA:MEMORIES
XBLAZE: LOST MEMORIES
That title is supposed to rhyme. Whoops. (Molyneux and Godus, Part Deux.)
Perhaps you've already read the interview Peter Molyneux had with Eurogamer.