First, let me start off by saying that Resident Evil 5 is amazing. My complaints with this game are minimal (like why can't you walk and shoot at the same time?), but this is primarily due to my playing Gears of War so much. I miss being able to duck for cover, run and fire, roll and dodge, but these things were never present in an RE game to date. They should be, in my opinion, now that RE is a third-person shooter, but I digress. I never thought a game in broad daylight could be so creepy, but the graphics are nice and the lighting is perfect. Being able to actually play co-op is a great thing; I can't imagine taking on a mass of running, jumping, weapon-wielding Majini with an AI partner.
Oh, and the scariest thing in the world? Chainsaw-carrying Majini. Not because of the chainsaw (which is instant death, of course), but because of the fact that they have a burlap sack over their heads with a single eye peering out at you. Worse yet, TWO chainsaw-carrying Majini chasing you all over a playground of metal platforms and you have two shots left with your handgun. And worse still, a single chainsaw-carrying Majini in seriously close quarters, doors locked, and you with no where to go.
Totally got a chainsaw blade lodged in my collar bone and nearly wet myself in the process.
And I love it!
And it's not a racist game, like I've been hearing. Believe me, I'd be one of the first people to riot against a game that promotes the slaughtering of a people based on their skin-colour or ethnicity, but this is survival. Yeah, a white guy goes to Africa and kills African zombies. Not because they're black. Because they're trying to eat his face off! There's a difference. No one made a fuss when Leon waltzed into a Spanish village in RE4 and started offing zombies there. And guess what...Sheva's black. And she's right there with Chris shooting the heads off of her people. Because they're trying to eat her face off! I'm convinced that people like tearing apart popular video games just to start crap. "Popular" being the key word here. No one said anything when Luminous Arc came out. Heck, the whole point of that game is to kill the god of your world. But people whined about Assassin's Creed attacking religion, Bioshock for the option to kill children, and Grand Theft Auto 4 for it's drunk driving.
Moving on...
Udon's Darkstalker Tribute book has accepted its fan art, mine not being included, but at least I can say that I tried. I was going to enter the Shojo Beat contest this month, but it was cancelled, sadly, after I started drawing my entry. I plan on finishing the picture just because I want to, but it's been placed low on the priority list.
This session in nearing an end, and while I've learned a lot, this class has been the hardest thus far. I've enjoyed drawing in perspective for once, but I find it difficult and haven't been able to wrap my head around it entirely. Yes, the principle and concept I get, but executing it is another matter. I'm convinced that I need much more practice and will be forcing myself to draw backgrounds with many of my drawings from now on.
I'll be happy when Spring Break rolls around. I need a holiday to catch up with my gaming (Ar Tonelico, here I come!), drawing what I want, and writing. I've picked up my Arden Rain story again after realizing that I had 15 pages of it typed up, and have been adding to it for a few days now. I suppose I could say that it's nearly finished. I always meant for it to be a short story...after all, it's based off of a dream I had a year or so back. The whole of it is plotted out; I know where it's going, what'll happen. It's just doing it. Who knows...with the way I end up dragging things out, it'll probably turn out to be a novel.
2009-03-20
2009-03-01
March '09.1
The month of February passed by in a blur. I completed my Design class and spent far too much time making sure my final looked as good as I could make it, considering the due date was a day earlier that I had anticipated. I'm in the second week of my Perspective course, and have started off on the wrong foot with my instructor, who probably thinks me a moron for the simple mistakes I've made in such a short amount of time. My only true, albeit weak, excuse is that I was busying myself with the Udon Dark Stalker Tribute contest. With school and work keeping me predominately occupied, I had gotten behind in my fan art for the contest submission, so I had to pull a last-minute-stay-up-late-and-slack-on-my-homework week in order to make the deadline. Now I'm back to busting my chops drawing boxes in two point perspective to perk up my grade.
I picked up the new Gears of War novel the other day, and I have to say that I'm pleased with it, and mildly impressed considering it's based off of a video game. Besides, it's nice to see what happened before the first game, as well as the events that transpired between the first and second game after the Lightmass bomb detonated.
I've also had the chance to play through the first bit of Ar Tonelico and am enjoying that, as well. The voice acting isn't the greatest, but there are few games that do a good job that way. I like the story line so far; it takes place in the future after the world has been destroyed twice (first by humans, and a second time by artificial life), and is being threatened a third time by manifestations of computed data called Viruses.
A couple of weeks ago, I took a look at the Oneechanbara game for the 360, Bikini Samurai Squad. I enjoyed it enough (nothing like hacking away the undead with a katana), but was disappointed with the overall appearance of the game. Sure, it's made for men who want to see some skin, and the game literally begins with a shower scene, but the breast physics were horrible, and the models weren't as good-looking as I would expect from a next-gen game. It was fun to slice through a few levels, but even killing zombies got old, especially when your character berserked out (she'll do that when she gets covered in blood) and rapidly started loosing health with no way of stopping it. Sorry, but if your looking for a "breastacular" game with some better jiggle physics, play Soul Calibur 4. Ivy's got enough for everyone.
Oh, and for the record, it's pronounced oh-nay-chahn-baa-rah, not won-chen-bara. It's Japanese for Big Sister Sword Fighting.
Most of my gaming time, little though it is, has been devoted to Street Fighter 4. Fun, fast-paced, and beautiful. I highly recommend it to any fighting game fan. Some of the voice actors made me wince when I heard them (I had to put Chun Li in Japanese), and it was very odd hearing them speak English, as all of SF games have only been in Japanese up to this point. The movie that came with the collector's edition of the game was...not great, but good, I suppose. It featured only a handful of the characters and left you hanging, but the animation was nice, and the story was decent.
Aside from homework, drawing, reading, and minor gaming, I've been thinking up new cosplay ideas. I've just bought shoes to use for my Linna hardsuit costume, and I've been playing around with paper mock-ups for a potential Pooco cosplay, as well. I've even found those goggles!
Well, here's hoping for a good March!
I picked up the new Gears of War novel the other day, and I have to say that I'm pleased with it, and mildly impressed considering it's based off of a video game. Besides, it's nice to see what happened before the first game, as well as the events that transpired between the first and second game after the Lightmass bomb detonated.
I've also had the chance to play through the first bit of Ar Tonelico and am enjoying that, as well. The voice acting isn't the greatest, but there are few games that do a good job that way. I like the story line so far; it takes place in the future after the world has been destroyed twice (first by humans, and a second time by artificial life), and is being threatened a third time by manifestations of computed data called Viruses.
A couple of weeks ago, I took a look at the Oneechanbara game for the 360, Bikini Samurai Squad. I enjoyed it enough (nothing like hacking away the undead with a katana), but was disappointed with the overall appearance of the game. Sure, it's made for men who want to see some skin, and the game literally begins with a shower scene, but the breast physics were horrible, and the models weren't as good-looking as I would expect from a next-gen game. It was fun to slice through a few levels, but even killing zombies got old, especially when your character berserked out (she'll do that when she gets covered in blood) and rapidly started loosing health with no way of stopping it. Sorry, but if your looking for a "breastacular" game with some better jiggle physics, play Soul Calibur 4. Ivy's got enough for everyone.
Oh, and for the record, it's pronounced oh-nay-chahn-baa-rah, not won-chen-bara. It's Japanese for Big Sister Sword Fighting.
Most of my gaming time, little though it is, has been devoted to Street Fighter 4. Fun, fast-paced, and beautiful. I highly recommend it to any fighting game fan. Some of the voice actors made me wince when I heard them (I had to put Chun Li in Japanese), and it was very odd hearing them speak English, as all of SF games have only been in Japanese up to this point. The movie that came with the collector's edition of the game was...not great, but good, I suppose. It featured only a handful of the characters and left you hanging, but the animation was nice, and the story was decent.
Aside from homework, drawing, reading, and minor gaming, I've been thinking up new cosplay ideas. I've just bought shoes to use for my Linna hardsuit costume, and I've been playing around with paper mock-ups for a potential Pooco cosplay, as well. I've even found those goggles!
Well, here's hoping for a good March!
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