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All in the Delivery
August 15, 2006
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Yes, it's true: I had to jump on the bandwagon and yammer about that game. Really, if you'd seen it, you too would be helpless in its clutches... even with Capcom's notoriously horrible save systems (only ONE save per Xbox 360 profile), trial-and-error gameplay (not 100% knowing which stuff is critical path until it's passed you by), and high difficulty (holy crap, I do NOT EVEN know how you beat some of these missions, holy CRAP - and it's really really timed) - Dead Rising is still a very awesome game. It's got flaws that keep it from being REALLY tops, but it does a lot of things very right. It's actually more serious and spooky than I thought it would be - when night falls, and you're trying to escort two terrified Japanese tourists through a park full of red-eyed zombies (who are stronger when night falls) AND a trio of escaped convicts tear-assing around in a jeep with a fucking GUN TURRET, you SEE if you're not scared at least a LITTLE - but there's nothing like messing with those real-time cutscenes. Capcom does its cutscenes with motion-capture - you can tell that with the nuanced animations - but man, nothing like watching a tense scene where you as the main character have decided to wear a sexy strapless dress and a cartoony bear mask (and might I mention that the main character is a fairly burly dude). At the serious close-up moments when instead of careful emotion you see what looks like a damn Pooh bear head - if you do not snort-laugh, you are made of nothing human. ROBOT. You damn unfeeling automatons! ::grin:: But yeah. It is my torment that I neither own an Xbox 360 nor have the time to play the one at work - but Friday night hanging out with my coworker friends and bludgeoning hordes of zombies with cash registers and potted plants is a joy. Huzzah!
Speaking of work, I must again leave you to prepare myself for sleep so I am not late for it (took a while, but I brought it back to the original point, didn't I?) - but once again guest comic goodness awaits you on Friday. From - a never-before-seen artist! LE GASP! A NEW CONTENDER HAS ARRIVED! ...Well, not so much a real contender per-se, because that would mean they are contendING for some kind of prize, which I don't got, but well... er... GOSH GEE LOOK OVER THERE IT IS THE END OF A PARAGRAPH.
OH SHITS! You know, I very nearly forgot to show you all the most hilarious and bizarre thing I've ever seen in my entire fucking LIFE! Seriously. If you don't watch this, angels will cry for you. It is nearly eight minutes of making precisely NO SENSE AT ALL, and goddamn if I didn't want to stop watching. I should emphasize that yes, it's real. All of it. Actually created. And you know, I'll just shut up and let you watch it. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO, GODDAMMIT. I mean it! WATCH!
Anyhow. Back on Friday! Woot!
WTB [Time] PST,
Annie "Blue" C
Just a guy made of dots and lines
- They Might Be Giants
"See the Constellation"
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