I am so doing this.
I AM SAM!
I AM SAM!
Friday, December 30, 2011
Friday, December 30, 2011
Dilemas and Dubs
So, me and most of my friends that use Steam have been winning games and packs, however, it's stuff we already have or don't want.
I'm thinking about setting up a page on the blog for trading the stuff I don't want, however I imagine it won't be too effective. So can anyone who visits the blog let me know if there's some site that specializes on steam trades?
If someone replies with a good site for trading, I'll edit this post, if not, I'll start figuring something else.
I am so not going to the steam forums though, fuckfest.
Aside from that, Shigoto linked me to a re-dub of fist of the north start. I thought it was really good.
It's well done and funny, but there's only 2 episodes so far.
I'm thinking about setting up a page on the blog for trading the stuff I don't want, however I imagine it won't be too effective. So can anyone who visits the blog let me know if there's some site that specializes on steam trades?
If someone replies with a good site for trading, I'll edit this post, if not, I'll start figuring something else.
I am so not going to the steam forums though, fuckfest.
Aside from that, Shigoto linked me to a re-dub of fist of the north start. I thought it was really good.
It's well done and funny, but there's only 2 episodes so far.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Xmas break is over, time to play Rokko Chan
I think we all took a few days off to wrestle our relatives into submission to leave us alone.
Hope everyone got something nice this Xmas. I got a fucking pen, a pocket knife and a broken flashlight, so winning Portal 2 was pretty awesome for me cause it kept me from going crazy during Xmas.
Anyway, I found a fanmade Megaman clone flash game, except Megaman is a girl in it. It's got it's own characters and robot masters.
I've played it a bit, and it feels rather solid gameplay wise, spriting is actually impressive in the sense that it's all 8-bit and rather well done. nice music as well.
Feels very retro, although the game does take advantage of the fact it's made in flash as there is sprite rotation that would had been impossible on the NES. Although personally, I have no problem with that.
I think it's made in the spirit of Megaman 1, which was hard as balls. This isn't as hard in my opinion, but definitely not meant to be easy.
A gamepad + joy2key is highly recommended for this.
Hope everyone got something nice this Xmas. I got a fucking pen, a pocket knife and a broken flashlight, so winning Portal 2 was pretty awesome for me cause it kept me from going crazy during Xmas.
Anyway, I found a fanmade Megaman clone flash game, except Megaman is a girl in it. It's got it's own characters and robot masters.
I've played it a bit, and it feels rather solid gameplay wise, spriting is actually impressive in the sense that it's all 8-bit and rather well done. nice music as well.
Feels very retro, although the game does take advantage of the fact it's made in flash as there is sprite rotation that would had been impossible on the NES. Although personally, I have no problem with that.
I think it's made in the spirit of Megaman 1, which was hard as balls. This isn't as hard in my opinion, but definitely not meant to be easy.
A gamepad + joy2key is highly recommended for this.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Didn't really have anything to post until...
Tis the season to put up with family, so not much to post about.
However, I made a post about Steam's Xmas achievements some days ago and how it gives random prizes. Well, it's been a few days and I know what me, Zach, and Bitten have gotten so far. Here's the verdict on that:
I'm still trying to figure if this is real of if I went to sleep and I'm dreaming this. If i am dreaming this I'm gonna be so pissed in the morning.
But yea, this Steam event is turning out pretty good so far. I highly encourage you guys to get them achievements, you might get lucky.
P.S: Before you get jealous, this is literally the only thing I'm getting for Xmas.
Edit: Not sure about claiming the gift, I'm reading around that I wouldn't get extra copies of the games I already own, So I'd be wasting a copy of TF2, L4D, L4D2 and Portal.
However, I made a post about Steam's Xmas achievements some days ago and how it gives random prizes. Well, it's been a few days and I know what me, Zach, and Bitten have gotten so far. Here's the verdict on that:
- 1st day, me and Zach got coupons, Bitten was lucky enough to freaking win Half Life 1.
- 2nd day, no one did any achievements.
- 3rd day, everyone got 2 coals.
- 4th day, no one bothered.
- 5th day (today), I dunno about the guys yet, but I got a coal, however, I gathered 7 coals already and crafted them, and I got:
I'm still trying to figure if this is real of if I went to sleep and I'm dreaming this. If i am dreaming this I'm gonna be so pissed in the morning.
But yea, this Steam event is turning out pretty good so far. I highly encourage you guys to get them achievements, you might get lucky.
P.S: Before you get jealous, this is literally the only thing I'm getting for Xmas.
Edit: Not sure about claiming the gift, I'm reading around that I wouldn't get extra copies of the games I already own, So I'd be wasting a copy of TF2, L4D, L4D2 and Portal.
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Talk about a twist for an LP
It's just kinda interesting to see someone do that. The Slowbeef and Diabeetus commentary is nice too.
Pretty long vid, but me and Zach watched all of it and liked it.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Steam Holiday Sale
So once again, Steam is doing holiday sales, and they're doing achivements at the same time for people to earn small tiny baby rewards that range from free games to coupons.
Obviously some of these achievements require games and those games will most likely be on sale on that day.
There's also daily deals, which is nice.
Sales make me wish there was something I would want in the steam store. Hope you guys find something ya like.
Monday, December 19, 2011
Kenshiro is the hero Batman could never be (Aka Batman sucks)
For quite a while, I've been thinking over in my head how to write this post. Only figured out how to do it recently after re-watching one of the First of the North Star movies.
To explain why I think Batman is a terrible hero, I have the explain the simple point that "Hokuto No Ken - Kenshiro Den Zero" is trying to get across. It's the lesson they try to teach Kenshiro though the movie.
Will now attempt to describe the movie without getting in too many details (cause I love Hokuto no Ken and I get carried away talkin about it.)
Kenshiro, the successor of Hokuto Shinken.
If you've not familiar with Fist of the North Star/Hokuto no Ken, it's the story of Kenshiro becoming the messiah of the post apocalyptic world where super powered martial artists rein supreme. Kenshiro himself is the successor of the Hokuto Shinken martial art.
This particular movie is about a part that wasn't shown in the TV series. Movie starts with Kenshiro being defeated, and the first part of the movie is about a gravely wounded Kenshiro witnessing what the world has become: A lawless wasteland where murder and slavery are common place and where the strong oppress the helpless.
At a point in the movie, a still injured Kenshiro is forced to fight a giant thug, and he wins, but didn't kill him. Back in his cell, The following convo happens:
It should be noted at this point that, there were 3 candidates to become the successor of Hokuto Shinken, and out of all of them, Kenshiro is actually the least talented and weakest. Kenshiro however, was picked because he was the most humane one.
This sounds retarded when you consider it's a martial art meant to make people explode from the inside. But there is a flashback showing a convo between Kenshiro and his master where his master says:
In short, Hokuto Shinken is a very powerful martial art. By having a compassionate person as the successor, you have someone that uses the style sparingly and only when necessary. But sometimes you HAVE to kill. That's why the old man calls Kenshiro selfish earlier in the movie, Kenshiro doesn't want to carry the burden of taking lives.
Kenshiro values life, even of evil people, and at the start of the series, he won't kill anyone. But that comes back haunt him when people he spared kill innocents, at the end of this movie he learns that killing truely evil people is necessary to protect the helpless. As the series go on his nature sometimes takes over and he spares a few people that he shouldn't have, and that causes more innocent deaths.
In the end, knowing that you caused innocent deaths with neglect is worse than killing a man is the idea here.
Batman, the hero that protects no one.
I have never been a fan of Batman, I never got into it and for the longest time I couldn't tell why. The appeal of Batman is that he's a normal guy, if being a billionaire is normal to you, then yea, I guess. I mean I get it, it's a guy that has no real superpower that is as competent of a superhero as Superman.
A while back, I started watching a LP of Arkham Asylum, and the game looks great. Gameplay looks fun, it was a really entertaining LP to watch, and Bitten must have been sick of listen to me bitch about how nothing in the Batman universe makes sense.
Now, I could point out the stupidity of Arkham Asylum itself (the institution, not the game) but this is about Batman.
Batman, in many ways, is in the same situation Kenshiro is in: There's evil people killing thousands and there really isn't a place to lock them away. There's no authorities that can protect innocents from these people and both Batman and Kenshiro are the only ones that can do anything about it.
However, Batman really doesn't do much at all about it. A villain escapes, kills hundreds, Batman goes get him and drags his ass into an asylum with the shittiest security ever. (resisting urge to rant about Arkham)
In the game, it gets to the point where the villains just shit on Batman in the sense that, Batman is literally no threat. Worse that can happen is that batman will drag their ass in a cell. In the comic, the Joker is so comfortable with this setup he'll just casually walk to Baraba Gordon's place, shoot her (causing her to become paralyzed), strip her naked, take pictures of her and force her dad to look at those while he's strapped to a ride in the nude himself.
Why? Because he just WANTED TO PROVE A POINT. The Joker can just ruin people's lives to support a thesis because there's no consequence to it for him. He didn't kill anyone that time, but, my god. This is fucking dumb.
I don't understand the character at all. It baffles me!
To Batman it's more important to not hurt a super villain than to save a man from being killed right in front of him. What the fuck? This happens so much you really question why is that guy even considered a superhero.
The motivation behind batman is that he became an orphan because a thug killed his parents in an alley. So he became a hero that pretty much allows other kids to become orphans too?
I know this is going into a dark area where it sounds like I'm defending the death penalty, but these are fictional worlds where violence is out of control and there's no one who can do shit about it except the main character. And unlike what Batman believes, you can't be everywhere at the same time all the time.
At one point when watching the LP I was just asking Bitten:
So many people die because of Batman's neglect, so many lives ruined, just because he has a moral code that doesn't even really make sense with his back story.
Fuck Batman.
To explain why I think Batman is a terrible hero, I have the explain the simple point that "Hokuto No Ken - Kenshiro Den Zero" is trying to get across. It's the lesson they try to teach Kenshiro though the movie.
Will now attempt to describe the movie without getting in too many details (cause I love Hokuto no Ken and I get carried away talkin about it.)
Kenshiro, the successor of Hokuto Shinken.
If you've not familiar with Fist of the North Star/Hokuto no Ken, it's the story of Kenshiro becoming the messiah of the post apocalyptic world where super powered martial artists rein supreme. Kenshiro himself is the successor of the Hokuto Shinken martial art.
This particular movie is about a part that wasn't shown in the TV series. Movie starts with Kenshiro being defeated, and the first part of the movie is about a gravely wounded Kenshiro witnessing what the world has become: A lawless wasteland where murder and slavery are common place and where the strong oppress the helpless.
At a point in the movie, a still injured Kenshiro is forced to fight a giant thug, and he wins, but didn't kill him. Back in his cell, The following convo happens:
Old man: Why didn't you kill that Bear Slayer?
Kenshiro: He couldn't kill me... So I had no reason to kill him.
Old man: How selfish of you. That may be very well for you...
Old man: But... Once that man's wounds have healed, he'll go back to killing others without a hint of remorse.
Old man: Next time... It could be this family he kills.
It should be noted at this point that, there were 3 candidates to become the successor of Hokuto Shinken, and out of all of them, Kenshiro is actually the least talented and weakest. Kenshiro however, was picked because he was the most humane one.
This sounds retarded when you consider it's a martial art meant to make people explode from the inside. But there is a flashback showing a convo between Kenshiro and his master where his master says:
Hokuto Shinken is a fist wielded by the god of death himself.
A god of death does not kill out of personal interest.
He kills people for the sake of the people.
To live both as a human... and as a god of death is extremely hard.
However...
The only person who can shoulder such a burden, is you!
In short, Hokuto Shinken is a very powerful martial art. By having a compassionate person as the successor, you have someone that uses the style sparingly and only when necessary. But sometimes you HAVE to kill. That's why the old man calls Kenshiro selfish earlier in the movie, Kenshiro doesn't want to carry the burden of taking lives.
Kenshiro values life, even of evil people, and at the start of the series, he won't kill anyone. But that comes back haunt him when people he spared kill innocents, at the end of this movie he learns that killing truely evil people is necessary to protect the helpless. As the series go on his nature sometimes takes over and he spares a few people that he shouldn't have, and that causes more innocent deaths.
In the end, knowing that you caused innocent deaths with neglect is worse than killing a man is the idea here.
Batman, the hero that protects no one.
I have never been a fan of Batman, I never got into it and for the longest time I couldn't tell why. The appeal of Batman is that he's a normal guy, if being a billionaire is normal to you, then yea, I guess. I mean I get it, it's a guy that has no real superpower that is as competent of a superhero as Superman.
A while back, I started watching a LP of Arkham Asylum, and the game looks great. Gameplay looks fun, it was a really entertaining LP to watch, and Bitten must have been sick of listen to me bitch about how nothing in the Batman universe makes sense.
Now, I could point out the stupidity of Arkham Asylum itself (the institution, not the game) but this is about Batman.
Batman, in many ways, is in the same situation Kenshiro is in: There's evil people killing thousands and there really isn't a place to lock them away. There's no authorities that can protect innocents from these people and both Batman and Kenshiro are the only ones that can do anything about it.
However, Batman really doesn't do much at all about it. A villain escapes, kills hundreds, Batman goes get him and drags his ass into an asylum with the shittiest security ever. (resisting urge to rant about Arkham)
In the game, it gets to the point where the villains just shit on Batman in the sense that, Batman is literally no threat. Worse that can happen is that batman will drag their ass in a cell. In the comic, the Joker is so comfortable with this setup he'll just casually walk to Baraba Gordon's place, shoot her (causing her to become paralyzed), strip her naked, take pictures of her and force her dad to look at those while he's strapped to a ride in the nude himself.
Why? Because he just WANTED TO PROVE A POINT. The Joker can just ruin people's lives to support a thesis because there's no consequence to it for him. He didn't kill anyone that time, but, my god. This is fucking dumb.
"The safest thing you could be in Gothan city is a fucking super villain. That's how fucking ridiculous Batman is."
I don't understand the character at all. It baffles me!
To Batman it's more important to not hurt a super villain than to save a man from being killed right in front of him. What the fuck? This happens so much you really question why is that guy even considered a superhero.
The motivation behind batman is that he became an orphan because a thug killed his parents in an alley. So he became a hero that pretty much allows other kids to become orphans too?
I know this is going into a dark area where it sounds like I'm defending the death penalty, but these are fictional worlds where violence is out of control and there's no one who can do shit about it except the main character. And unlike what Batman believes, you can't be everywhere at the same time all the time.
At one point when watching the LP I was just asking Bitten:
"Why won't he even fuck up these villains? If Batman bent the Joker's knees and elbows backwards every time he escaped and MURDERED people, don't you think maybe the Joker would be SLIGHTLY afraid of Batman? The guy just fucking slaughters people, and Batman gives him mild bruises! What the fuck is this shit!"
So many people die because of Batman's neglect, so many lives ruined, just because he has a moral code that doesn't even really make sense with his back story.
Fuck Batman.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
New Bro Team Pill: Painkiller
"THE DEVIL STOLE YOUR TITS! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!"
For me, this one was easily one of their best. Kinda of a relief cause they've been ok, but starting to feel a lil stale lately.
Obligatory sewers once again, never gets old. So much quotable stuff in this, love it.
For me, this one was easily one of their best. Kinda of a relief cause they've been ok, but starting to feel a lil stale lately.
Obligatory sewers once again, never gets old. So much quotable stuff in this, love it.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Forsaken World: Xmas event
Oh boy, This event feels like a clusterfuck right now, I'm writing this post as I figure out things so bare with me.
Duration
- Til January 3rd
First of all and quite important: The event ONLY TAKES PLACE ON THE TRADE REALM.The event seems composed of simple quests that reward you with "Festival badges". Your first quest can be acquired on the city square, from there, you'll have to travel into the dwarven starting area and find a (most likely clusterfuck'd) camp with trees and NPCs.
So those NPCs will give you quests and you'll earn badges as rewards, the Santa looking NPC is a merchant, and for a number of badges will sell you stuff ranging from pets, to food, recipes and a footprint card.
Can't really recommend anything to get so far. Personally, I'm gonna go try the recipe.
Additionally, under each decorative Xmas tree, You'll sometimes see a present box with a Green "!" on it, you can collect those and open them, usually they have really good food/drinks in them. There's an achievement for getting all of them.Some of these have a chance to give you badges as well.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Forsaken World: A personal victory
Ok, I probably should explain this a lil.
As i mentioned ages back, perfect world (who hosts forsaken world) has a store where you can trade in achievement tokens for items.
There's achievements for every class in the game, so multiple characters on the same account actually greatly helps towards that. Even though I've played the game the longest, Bitten has 3 fairly high characters on his account, as opposed to me having only 2.
Bitten noted to me a while back that he was close to being able to buy the cat pet (which is the best thing you can buy in the shop). Deep down I was a lil annoyed by it. I mean, I know I'd get to that pet eventually, but i wanted to be first since I started playing months before him.
Last time I checked the shop, I was like, 40 tokens away. When I checked it a bit ago I yelled out "Whoa Nelly!" and decided to rub it in on Bitten's face!
Haven't had things go my way for a long time lately, so I'm blowing this way out of proportion, but fuck you guys, I'm gonna enjoy what little I get.
I'm only doing this cause I know Bitten's a good sport anyway. He's a great person and an awesome friend so I know he'll prolly laugh at this.
On a related note, FW announced a Xmas event. But I'm tired so I'll post the details for it tomorrow.
As i mentioned ages back, perfect world (who hosts forsaken world) has a store where you can trade in achievement tokens for items.
There's achievements for every class in the game, so multiple characters on the same account actually greatly helps towards that. Even though I've played the game the longest, Bitten has 3 fairly high characters on his account, as opposed to me having only 2.
Bitten noted to me a while back that he was close to being able to buy the cat pet (which is the best thing you can buy in the shop). Deep down I was a lil annoyed by it. I mean, I know I'd get to that pet eventually, but i wanted to be first since I started playing months before him.
Last time I checked the shop, I was like, 40 tokens away. When I checked it a bit ago I yelled out "Whoa Nelly!" and decided to rub it in on Bitten's face!
Haven't had things go my way for a long time lately, so I'm blowing this way out of proportion, but fuck you guys, I'm gonna enjoy what little I get.
I'm only doing this cause I know Bitten's a good sport anyway. He's a great person and an awesome friend so I know he'll prolly laugh at this.
On a related note, FW announced a Xmas event. But I'm tired so I'll post the details for it tomorrow.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
My tweets about the lastest TF2 update
Very often, I end up reviewing or giving my opinion on things on tweeter. Why? well, it's easy, fast and just text. Also, my poor grammar is excusable. However, only some friends follow me on twitter.
Anyway, just trying out this post format where I show what I saw and then my tweets reacting to it.
I'm not sure this is a good format for blog posts. Maybe I just wanted to play with html a lil.
Anyway, just trying out this post format where I show what I saw and then my tweets reacting to it.
 | Oh boy, fucking more hair hats for the engi, right away my face is deeply buried in my hands. The wrench could be vaguely useful i guess. |
| the "rifle" could ruin ubers i guess, so that seems sorta ok? i think? if it has the same clip size and fire rate as the shotty, do want. |
| Ok, trying really hard to think of a good thing about the pyro stuff, nothing comes to mind yet. |
| You can't stop using the Axetinguisher, cause Valve made it so that's the main way to kill with the pyro, airblasting is pretty vital too. |
| Like the engi's rifle, We don't have enough info on the gun. Occurs to me pyro hat + engi hat = Soldier's Grordbort's set. |
| Oh joy, another top hat? fuck Valve. Love the idea of a new map though, pity it's CP and i don't play that. medieval would had been nice. |
I'm not sure this is a good format for blog posts. Maybe I just wanted to play with html a lil.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
You're Sitting on My Jacket, Samurai
I did this a ways back during an influx of busty sorceress artwork. Made me tempted to do it myself. It's an alternate universe version of Razz, or something.
It was around this point I'd also started experimenting with giving her thicker eyebrows.
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
New Bro Team Pill: War in the North
Epic seizure sewer theme! Decent vid, liked it.
Is there some weird law that makes it mandatory for videogames to have sewer levels now? I mean, it's been a well known fact for the past 10 years that EVERYONE hates sewer levels.
The only sewer level in any game that people tolerate is in turtles in time!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Monday, December 12, 2011
"Fighterpedia" by TheSw1tcher
Fighterpedia is a relatively new series of videos from TheSw1tcher, who also makes the great series "Two Best Friends Play" which I praised in a post ages ago.
Can't really explain Fighterpedia, I'm not even sure if it has a format at all really.
It's really random stuff about fighting games. One video was about the Street Fighter concept art, another was about comparing South Town to Metrocity in terms of worse place to live in, and this one, well, it's about grapplers.
Annoyingly, most of his videos are on the Machinima Channel, but he announces everything on his channel.
As someone who loves to play older fighting games and has played tons of them, this stuff is fun for me to watch. I bet Jimmy would get a kick out of this as well.
Loved that Yamazaki was in it, although I'm not even sure he's a grappler. I'm a lil disappointed Tizoc wasn't in this video, or Shermie. Female grapplers don't seem too common outside of SNK.
Can't really explain Fighterpedia, I'm not even sure if it has a format at all really.
It's really random stuff about fighting games. One video was about the Street Fighter concept art, another was about comparing South Town to Metrocity in terms of worse place to live in, and this one, well, it's about grapplers.
Annoyingly, most of his videos are on the Machinima Channel, but he announces everything on his channel.
As someone who loves to play older fighting games and has played tons of them, this stuff is fun for me to watch. I bet Jimmy would get a kick out of this as well.
Loved that Yamazaki was in it, although I'm not even sure he's a grappler. I'm a lil disappointed Tizoc wasn't in this video, or Shermie. Female grapplers don't seem too common outside of SNK.
Friday, December 09, 2011
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Killing Floor Xmas event 2011 + New weapons
So, new Killing Floor Xmas event, dunno much about it, I think it's the same as last year's with a different map.
That is not the important thing here! the important detail is, glorious new weapons! fuck yea!
So i popped in the game, and most of these are great!
- The medic class gets what feels like a better bullpup that can still shoot healing darts
- Demo class gets an assault rifle, alt fire shots a powerful grenade, slow as hell reload though.
- Sharpshooters get magnums, can be dual wielded, powerful shots, but SUPER SLOW RELOAD.
- Firebugs get a husk gun! and you can charge the shot for an explosive shot, awesome!
- Berserker gets a claymore, slower than the katana, but seems to do mad damage.
- Commando gets another assault rifle that can double as a sniping weapon, really good.
- Support get a really nice shogun that felt like it had awesome penetration.
If you used to like playing Killing Floor, You should pop on and try these. The new weapons are all top tier or just bellow it.
Gotta say, just played a game to try these new weaps, but there's this weird feeling of immersion on killing floor I don't get from anything else, I kinda like that. The game really needed more game modes or something, cause it is quite good, there's a certain feeling of intensity when you play and people really seem to stick together and help each other.
It's not an awesome game, but, there's something about it I like, can't really explain.
Edit: Oh, just saw this:
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Forsaken World: Double exp weekends
The best way to level up in forsaken world, besides doing the main quest, is God's Trial. It's a non dangerous instance where the players kill high experience mobs, and then a boss at the end.
Monster exp is generally rather low in Forsaken world, but it's massive in God's Trial.
There's Lionheart scrolls that double monster experience, and with double exp weekends, God's Trial becomes a huge source of experience.
Double experience weekends schedule:
- December 9th to 12th
- December 16th to 19th
- December 23th to 26th
- December 30th to January 3th
Duration:
- Begins at 12:01 AM Pacific and end at 11:59 PM Pacific on the first and last days of each double EXP weekend listed above.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Another TF2 vid from Tof
Wanted to try my hand at Vegas 11, with no better idea, picked a TF2 replay that i saved last week where i killed 14 people and got the cart to the end.
It's time consuming, but Vegas 11 is a rather good video editing software, I liked using it.
It crashed on me a few times, but can't say it was it's fault or if i was just running too much crap. However, love that it recovered most things I changed each time.
It's time consuming, but Vegas 11 is a rather good video editing software, I liked using it.
It crashed on me a few times, but can't say it was it's fault or if i was just running too much crap. However, love that it recovered most things I changed each time.
Sunday, December 04, 2011
Some Wakfu fan-characters I guess
From Bitten:
These are the same ones he doodled a while back. I do believe Bitten was considering making a comic using them.
For names, I've suggested calling the guy Luc and the girl Petal. Bitten says he might use those cause coming up with names is hard.
These are the same ones he doodled a while back. I do believe Bitten was considering making a comic using them.
For names, I've suggested calling the guy Luc and the girl Petal. Bitten says he might use those cause coming up with names is hard.
Friday, December 02, 2011
Julie from Stardogs coffee
From Bitten:
I didn't play far enough into Solatorobo to actually know who this is.
Maybe I made a mistake when I stopped playing that game cause a lot of the designs and characters do look really nice.
I didn't play far enough into Solatorobo to actually know who this is.
Maybe I made a mistake when I stopped playing that game cause a lot of the designs and characters do look really nice.
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Wrestler interview: 2 very different remakes
I'm sick and really feelin crappy, so posting moar fav vids.
If i had to pick the one i liked the most, I'd go with the heavy one.
If i had to pick the one i liked the most, I'd go with the heavy one.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Fucking Tea and Captain Planet
Couldn't decide which one to post, so I posted both.
The captain planet vid doesn't allow embedding, so you'll have to check it here.
The captain planet vid doesn't allow embedding, so you'll have to check it here.
Monday, November 28, 2011
New Bro Team Pill: Skyrim
I think i skipped posting their Magicka video because i didn't think it was very good.
In unrelated news, I've finally beat Odin Sphere, but the game wants me to beat it like 5 more times to establish my status of alpha male over it. Really dunno if I'm gonna put up with it much longer.
In unrelated news, I've finally beat Odin Sphere, but the game wants me to beat it like 5 more times to establish my status of alpha male over it. Really dunno if I'm gonna put up with it much longer.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Nice Graphics, horrible gameplay and neat service
I don't know why, but about a week ago I started playing Odin Sphere. Muramasa was a cool game so i figured I'd look at other stuff VanillaWare made in the past.
Huge mistake.
Visually, it's along the same lines as Muramasa, however, the gameplay is, fucking, horrible. I don't wanna get into it because I know I'll start ranting way too much, just take my word for it, it's terrible.
I am still playing it because I'm too invested in it to quit now, and the story does interest me, but each fight, even against normal enemies, is fucking torture.
This game has been taking huge chunks of my time that i should had spent writing or doing shit to post on here.
However I'd like to take the opportunity to mention Oovoo.
See, I've been playing Odin Sphere on the emulator PCSX2, and when I Skype with people, they sometimes wanna see, problem is, Skype limits this to 1 on 1 calls.
So me, Zach and our friend Shigoto tried Oovoo and I made a videochat room in it.
I gotta say, it was pleasantly surprised. For starters, We've been having problems in voice calls with 3+ people in them on Skype, Someone can't hear another person or breaks up, but only happens to 1 person and kind of randomly.
In a video call, we've had actually better sound quality and no problems on Oovoo, also, the video seemed to work rather well. I was streaming Odin Sphere from my desktop using ManyCam, and Shigoto was streaming Skyward Sword using his webcam (webcam LP, lol) and it all ran decently.
Oovoo's site says free accounts can have video conference calls up to 6 people, and premium accounts up to 12. Personally, 6 is way more than enough.
If you guys like Streaming yourselves playing games or doodling for your friends, consider Oovoo, I sure fucking loved it.
Huge mistake.
Visually, it's along the same lines as Muramasa, however, the gameplay is, fucking, horrible. I don't wanna get into it because I know I'll start ranting way too much, just take my word for it, it's terrible.
I am still playing it because I'm too invested in it to quit now, and the story does interest me, but each fight, even against normal enemies, is fucking torture.
This game has been taking huge chunks of my time that i should had spent writing or doing shit to post on here.
However I'd like to take the opportunity to mention Oovoo.
See, I've been playing Odin Sphere on the emulator PCSX2, and when I Skype with people, they sometimes wanna see, problem is, Skype limits this to 1 on 1 calls.
So me, Zach and our friend Shigoto tried Oovoo and I made a videochat room in it.
I gotta say, it was pleasantly surprised. For starters, We've been having problems in voice calls with 3+ people in them on Skype, Someone can't hear another person or breaks up, but only happens to 1 person and kind of randomly.
In a video call, we've had actually better sound quality and no problems on Oovoo, also, the video seemed to work rather well. I was streaming Odin Sphere from my desktop using ManyCam, and Shigoto was streaming Skyward Sword using his webcam (webcam LP, lol) and it all ran decently.
Oovoo's site says free accounts can have video conference calls up to 6 people, and premium accounts up to 12. Personally, 6 is way more than enough.
If you guys like Streaming yourselves playing games or doodling for your friends, consider Oovoo, I sure fucking loved it.
Friday, November 25, 2011
My masochist passion for Ultima IV
I seem to not be easily impressed with videogames like Mass Effect 2 or Oblivion/Skyrim while others sing it praises. But recently, I re-watched Spoony's review of Ultima IV with Bitten, and after a bit, It all started to make sense.
So here's a lil of my backstory.
As a lad, I got Ultima IV for the Sega Master System, and for the longest time, wasn't even able to play it seeing as a was a 10 year old french kid with very little knowledge of the English language.
Ultima IV came with 2 books, and a map. Those weren't for shits and giggles, you really needed them to play the game.
While being frustrated with my efforts to play the game, I would read the books (which thankfully for me were in french) and actually be really impressed with how much detail there was in the game. As a kid, I really like the spellbook in particular.
Almost every year I would pick up the game again and have this period of time where I would "fuck around with it" and try to play it, eventually learning about the game, the objective (which isn't all that clear) and in the process, learning English as well.
I think my first real attempt to play the game was when I was 13 or 14, and it took me ages, I got far, but didn't beat it.
Backstory of the game.
Spoony covered most of this in his review, but I'll try to add to it.
Doing a lil reseach on Wikipedia, I see that the game is/was considered one of the best roleplaying games of all time. Although mostly by old faggots like myself.
Apparently, the Ultima series were around when people were coming down on D&D because of possible "hidden satanic messages", and videogame RPGs were starting to be targeted as well.
Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series, was starting to get harassed about his games possibly having a hidden satanic meaning behind them, and that influenced him in the creation of Ultima 4.
Quoting from his biographer:
I think it's a fun fact that Garriott was the only person to beat the game during the playtesting.
So what is this game actually like?
I think this line of the Ultima IV Wikipedia page says it best:
After the first 3 games, there were drastic geographic changes in the land, "continent rose and sank"describes well what is meant by that. New cities arose and eventually the world was unified under Lord British's rule.
Here's where it gets sketchy for me: To give the people purpose in this relative age of peace, he proclaims the quest of the Avatar.
The Avatar shall be the spiritual example for all to follow, and shall embody all 8 virtues.
Basically, It's a Quest where someone has to become a fucking saint.
What I liked and how this influenced me.
The conduct of the main character was strict. You are meant to be a virtuous hero, so you had to act like one.
We've all seen people act like asshats in RPGs and it really has little to no consequence, and to me, it doesn't feel like role playing. It's more about "how can i break this game the most" or "can I get away with this?" than playing a role
Although the goal is to become the avatar, but you have the freedom to do anything you want in Ultima IV if you so choose to.
You can kill NPCs, steal the royal treasury, scam merchants, steal horses, etc. Things like, "If you attack someone in a town all the guards will attack you" were already in that game.
You can make yourself extremely powerful right from the start of the game if you have no morals, the side effect being that you'll make your quest much harder and longer to complete.
For me, modern games have less or just about the same level of dept or freedom of action that Ultima IV introduced me so many years ago.
I've looked at the 3 other versions of Ultima IV and the Sega Master System one is so much more colorful and pleasant to look at. the sprite work is simple, but to me, it works and it feels nice to look at.
I really love this game, the fact that you don't have a "go kill the bad man" objective is so neat as well. I can't think of another RPG where your goal is pretty much build a religion based on the best ideals of mankind.
I sometimes spend hours listening to the main theme of the game. The mellow soothing theme that I like to imagine is being played by a bard without tentacles.
I may try again to beat this game in the near future, was wondering if it'd make a good Let's Play, but prolly not.
This is where I start rambling like an old man.
When Oblivion was first introduced, people bragged about such features like they were amazing things, but to me, it's been done in fucking 1990. Maybe just shows I'm old compared to the majority of gamers.
Fact is, videogames haven't really evolved much when it comes to depth. One could argue they just got worse with time. But maybe I dislike how everything has to be 3D and look ugly.
Oblivion had a lot of elements that Ultima IV had, but it looks so fucking horrible I could not get into it all that much. After playing Oblivion for an hour, you start craving fucking color diversity.
And I know people will tell me it's the ambiance of the game, and I'll tell them to fuck your ambiance it looks boring at hell. Skyrim does not look interesting in the least to me either.
Any game that has to have no visual style and has to go with realism is fucking boring to look at. I see realism every day when I wake up and it doesn't give me a hard-on anymore. You can make 3d games and not make them look depressingly realistic, invest into a fucking art director.
Another thing is how 3D actually makes any task you have to perform much more complicated and a chore. Everything takes longer and requires more effort because it's all done in real time. They kinda get how traveling is fucking boring and implemented fast travel in Oblivion, but it's really everything that is too slow and boring.
Ultima IV can take a rather long time to beat, but it plays fast. If it played like Oblivion, it'd take a fucking month of continuous playing.
Ironically, Ultima IV doesn't have that problem. I don't get this modern need to waste everyone's time walking, dealing with NPCs and even cutscenes. These "problems" were actually added over time for some strange reason and serve no purpose other than to annoy.
Want an example? doesn't even have to be 3D, the pokecenters. Fucking why?
There is literally something like the pokecenter in Ultima IV, it's Lord British himself. He asks you if you're ok, you say no, and bang, healed. You have to navigate the menu but it still won't take half as long as a damn pokecenter.
Well, I'm done. Hope someone found this interesting.
So here's a lil of my backstory.
As a lad, I got Ultima IV for the Sega Master System, and for the longest time, wasn't even able to play it seeing as a was a 10 year old french kid with very little knowledge of the English language.
While being frustrated with my efforts to play the game, I would read the books (which thankfully for me were in french) and actually be really impressed with how much detail there was in the game. As a kid, I really like the spellbook in particular.
Almost every year I would pick up the game again and have this period of time where I would "fuck around with it" and try to play it, eventually learning about the game, the objective (which isn't all that clear) and in the process, learning English as well.
I think my first real attempt to play the game was when I was 13 or 14, and it took me ages, I got far, but didn't beat it.
Backstory of the game.
Spoony covered most of this in his review, but I'll try to add to it.
Doing a lil reseach on Wikipedia, I see that the game is/was considered one of the best roleplaying games of all time. Although mostly by old faggots like myself.Apparently, the Ultima series were around when people were coming down on D&D because of possible "hidden satanic messages", and videogame RPGs were starting to be targeted as well.
Richard Garriott, creator of the Ultima series, was starting to get harassed about his games possibly having a hidden satanic meaning behind them, and that influenced him in the creation of Ultima 4.
Quoting from his biographer:
He decided that if people were going to look for hidden meaning in his work when they didn't even exist, he would introduce ideas and symbols with meaning and significance he deemed worthwhile, to give them something they could really think about.The result, not your ordinary RPG.
I think it's a fun fact that Garriott was the only person to beat the game during the playtesting.
So what is this game actually like?
I think this line of the Ultima IV Wikipedia page says it best:
Ultima IV differs from most RPGs in that the game's story does not center on asking a player to overcome a tangible ultimate evil.
After the first 3 games, there were drastic geographic changes in the land, "continent rose and sank"describes well what is meant by that. New cities arose and eventually the world was unified under Lord British's rule.Here's where it gets sketchy for me: To give the people purpose in this relative age of peace, he proclaims the quest of the Avatar.
The Avatar shall be the spiritual example for all to follow, and shall embody all 8 virtues.
Basically, It's a Quest where someone has to become a fucking saint.
The game follows the protagonist's struggle to understand and exercise the Eight Virtues. After proving his or her understanding in each of the virtues, locating several artifacts and finally descending into the dungeon called the Stygian Abyss to gain access to the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom, the protagonist becomes an Avatar.It's so much harder than it sounds. On my own, before I even had internet, I had managed to obtained Avatarhood, completed all dungeons except for the Stygian Abyss.
What I liked and how this influenced me.
The conduct of the main character was strict. You are meant to be a virtuous hero, so you had to act like one.
We've all seen people act like asshats in RPGs and it really has little to no consequence, and to me, it doesn't feel like role playing. It's more about "how can i break this game the most" or "can I get away with this?" than playing a role
Although the goal is to become the avatar, but you have the freedom to do anything you want in Ultima IV if you so choose to.You can kill NPCs, steal the royal treasury, scam merchants, steal horses, etc. Things like, "If you attack someone in a town all the guards will attack you" were already in that game.
You can make yourself extremely powerful right from the start of the game if you have no morals, the side effect being that you'll make your quest much harder and longer to complete.
For me, modern games have less or just about the same level of dept or freedom of action that Ultima IV introduced me so many years ago.
I've looked at the 3 other versions of Ultima IV and the Sega Master System one is so much more colorful and pleasant to look at. the sprite work is simple, but to me, it works and it feels nice to look at.
I really love this game, the fact that you don't have a "go kill the bad man" objective is so neat as well. I can't think of another RPG where your goal is pretty much build a religion based on the best ideals of mankind.
I sometimes spend hours listening to the main theme of the game. The mellow soothing theme that I like to imagine is being played by a bard without tentacles.
I may try again to beat this game in the near future, was wondering if it'd make a good Let's Play, but prolly not.
This is where I start rambling like an old man.
When Oblivion was first introduced, people bragged about such features like they were amazing things, but to me, it's been done in fucking 1990. Maybe just shows I'm old compared to the majority of gamers.
Oblivion had a lot of elements that Ultima IV had, but it looks so fucking horrible I could not get into it all that much. After playing Oblivion for an hour, you start craving fucking color diversity.
And I know people will tell me it's the ambiance of the game, and I'll tell them to fuck your ambiance it looks boring at hell. Skyrim does not look interesting in the least to me either.
Any game that has to have no visual style and has to go with realism is fucking boring to look at. I see realism every day when I wake up and it doesn't give me a hard-on anymore. You can make 3d games and not make them look depressingly realistic, invest into a fucking art director.
Another thing is how 3D actually makes any task you have to perform much more complicated and a chore. Everything takes longer and requires more effort because it's all done in real time. They kinda get how traveling is fucking boring and implemented fast travel in Oblivion, but it's really everything that is too slow and boring.
Ultima IV can take a rather long time to beat, but it plays fast. If it played like Oblivion, it'd take a fucking month of continuous playing.Ironically, Ultima IV doesn't have that problem. I don't get this modern need to waste everyone's time walking, dealing with NPCs and even cutscenes. These "problems" were actually added over time for some strange reason and serve no purpose other than to annoy.
Want an example? doesn't even have to be 3D, the pokecenters. Fucking why?
There is literally something like the pokecenter in Ultima IV, it's Lord British himself. He asks you if you're ok, you say no, and bang, healed. You have to navigate the menu but it still won't take half as long as a damn pokecenter.
Well, I'm done. Hope someone found this interesting.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Hylian Horde 1
Just some Zelda-related doodles to celebrate Zelda's 25th anniversary (I'm lying. I did these for fun a while ago).
First one is Link, obviously. The other two aren't supposed to be Navi and Midna; just alarmingly similar characters, as the series is want to do... but you can say that's them if you want. I don't really care.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Autumn Steam sales
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up about it. Most people I know rarely check Steam, and there's nice deals in there.
Check daily for new deals. Hope y'all find something ya like.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Forsaken World Thanksgiving event
Not much of an event in a sense. But really good prize to save up if you intent to stop playing for a week+ and idle for exp.
I say not much of an event since the requirement is so simple
How to qualify for the prize:
- Be over level 40
- Log in on 11/24 for a minimum of 1 hour
Prize:
- 1 VIP card
That's it.
What's so good about the a VIP card you ask? Well, you can earn one by other means, so I've used one before. Here's what a VIP card does:
Enhanced training grounds time – Memory Berries will be used more efficientlyThe main focus there really is the "enhanced training grounds time" and how effective it is with memory berries, even without playing your character you'll still gain a decent amount of exp.
Decreased cooldown on town portal – return to your home base faster
Enhanced prayer system – Praying will give better results
Gem polishing – 100% chance to get a different gem when using the polishing system
Field vendor – access a shop anywhere in the world to buy items for you or your pet
I could go into detail about optimal use of the VIP card, but this post is about the event.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Game of the year right there
Maybe I'm the only person Skyrim doesn't appeal to. Still, seems to be a source of really weird bugs:
Monday, November 21, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Parental guidance: West VS East
By Bitten:
I feel partially responsible for the concept behind this pic:
See, a while back, Bitten told me about an idea where Xiao got spanked cause she got a B on an exam, Which was hilarious to me seeing as a B to me would be a really good grade and my parents would be really proud.
It was a lil shocking to me that the stereotype about Asians being extremely demanding of their kids' grades in school was pretty much dead on. Me and Zach may have teased Bitten about it quite often.
With that said, Ginger's dad looks like the coolest dad ever. Seems like a real nice guy.
I feel partially responsible for the concept behind this pic:
See, a while back, Bitten told me about an idea where Xiao got spanked cause she got a B on an exam, Which was hilarious to me seeing as a B to me would be a really good grade and my parents would be really proud.
It was a lil shocking to me that the stereotype about Asians being extremely demanding of their kids' grades in school was pretty much dead on. Me and Zach may have teased Bitten about it quite often.
With that said, Ginger's dad looks like the coolest dad ever. Seems like a real nice guy.
Friday, November 18, 2011
Late-Ass Halloween
I sorta missed out on Halloween this year, so I did this lazy bullcrap to "make-up" for it. Wanted to do something naughtier and involving Dana, since "around Halloween" is sort of her anniversary. But I should know better than to be ambitious or try to do anything more complicated than a scribble. Trying to do a large project is a sure-fire way to guarantee I'll never finish it. Which is sort of humiliating considering how simple the crap I do is.
No, I'm serious. The power was out for the whole street, and the next day we had a bowl full of candy, which I quickly relieved of all it's peanut butter cups. The entire block decided to have our own Halloween about a week later. It was pretty neat. It was kinda like one of those lame family movies that are really feel-good and cheesy. Except it really happened.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Magicka: Free weekend and 75% off
Me and Zach got Magicka around last Xmas, it's a funny lil game and sorta challenging.
I liked it enough to recommend people to give it a try. Price is very affordable too.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
American Internet censorship system
I'm not seeing as many sites getting into this as I thought I would.
Tl;dr: Today there's going to be an hearing for an American censorship system.
The system would block... Pretty much anything interesting on the internet. Anything that lets users post freely would be shut down.
Honestly, I'm having trouble thinking of stuff that would NOT be shut down by this.
Now, I can't be sure of what exactly would be blocked, but by the description, it sounds like it'd shut down/block:
So... mmm... I can't imagine what I'd even do online with all of these options out.
In short, this would throw back internet evolution 20 years into the past. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but maybe it would be even worse.
Well, Being European, I probably wouldn't be affected by this too much, but still, I think if this passed, it'd sink Google on the spot as it's entirely built on services that enable people to post their own content. This could potentially make the economy worse for everyone and in time, other countries could follow up on that example and pass censorship laws that are similar.
Doesn't the American government have other more pressing issues then fucking up the internet for the world? such as their economy?
The rest of the world already thinks that the USA calling itself "the land of the free" and always promoting the concept of freedom is a huge joke because it's one of the most restrictive governments I know of when it comes to freedom. This really is just the latest example of that.
Isn't "freedom of speech" in their fucking constitution? How dumb does a people have to be when their founding members say "Whatever the fuck happens, these basic rules must endure for our country, otherwise we're no better than the British" and then just fucking forget about it and become exactly like those whom they got their independence from?
Doesn't China have a system like that? and wasn't it highly criticized because of it? That's what the USA is reduced to: Copying china terrible ideas.
Tl;dr: Today there's going to be an hearing for an American censorship system.
The system would block... Pretty much anything interesting on the internet. Anything that lets users post freely would be shut down.
Honestly, I'm having trouble thinking of stuff that would NOT be shut down by this.
Now, I can't be sure of what exactly would be blocked, but by the description, it sounds like it'd shut down/block:
- All video hosting sites, such as Youtube
- All social network sites, such as Facebook or Twitter
- Art communities such as Deviant Art
- Wikipedia and all other wikis
- Practically all forums
- All Blogs
- Oekaki boards
So... mmm... I can't imagine what I'd even do online with all of these options out.
In short, this would throw back internet evolution 20 years into the past. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but maybe it would be even worse.
Well, Being European, I probably wouldn't be affected by this too much, but still, I think if this passed, it'd sink Google on the spot as it's entirely built on services that enable people to post their own content. This could potentially make the economy worse for everyone and in time, other countries could follow up on that example and pass censorship laws that are similar.
Doesn't the American government have other more pressing issues then fucking up the internet for the world? such as their economy?
The rest of the world already thinks that the USA calling itself "the land of the free" and always promoting the concept of freedom is a huge joke because it's one of the most restrictive governments I know of when it comes to freedom. This really is just the latest example of that.
Isn't "freedom of speech" in their fucking constitution? How dumb does a people have to be when their founding members say "Whatever the fuck happens, these basic rules must endure for our country, otherwise we're no better than the British" and then just fucking forget about it and become exactly like those whom they got their independence from?
Doesn't China have a system like that? and wasn't it highly criticized because of it? That's what the USA is reduced to: Copying china terrible ideas.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Lord Phobos
Lord Phobos is the leader of his planet/colony/place-that-he-reigns-over. His primary duties are the usual monarch-type duties people in his sort of position are meant to do. When he's not doing any of that political stuff, he's...well, he's expanding the population.
Phobos, as a Lord-caste, is the sole male in his colony of producing offspring. Thus, he spends most of his free time with his harem, which consists of the colony's breeder-caste. For most colony lords, this would be part of the job. Phobos has somehow come to enjoy it for some odd reason...
However, Phobos is primarily what most people would call a tyrant. His ambition is to have the entire universe under his heel, and he sees a perfect opportunity to expand his empire when a certain four-armed purple space vixen lands in his throne room one day. By copulating with Io, he hopes to make a means to take over her planet without a fight.
...He has no idea what he's getting himself into...
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Takin the day off in Minecraft
Well, not really. I never made a sprite in Minecraft before, so thought I'd try it at least once. Creative mode was the excuse I needed.
Once you've played out minecraft, there's really nothing fun to do in it. It had been maybe more than 2 months since the last time I gave it a go, and honestly, after 5 mins I was already asking myself "wtf do I do now? there's no objective in this stupid game"
I know, I know... That's the point. It's a sandbox game in it's purest form, but I started playing it cause I didn't know what else to do.
Colors available are rather limiting to do sprites, which makes it sorta challenging to pick your palette.
Minecraft is a neat engine, I just wish there was some sort of goal to the game. Either that or way more blocks to make more elaborate things. I like the concept but I find the execution lacking.
Bonus points if you know which game that character is from btw.
Once you've played out minecraft, there's really nothing fun to do in it. It had been maybe more than 2 months since the last time I gave it a go, and honestly, after 5 mins I was already asking myself "wtf do I do now? there's no objective in this stupid game"
I know, I know... That's the point. It's a sandbox game in it's purest form, but I started playing it cause I didn't know what else to do.
Colors available are rather limiting to do sprites, which makes it sorta challenging to pick your palette.
Minecraft is a neat engine, I just wish there was some sort of goal to the game. Either that or way more blocks to make more elaborate things. I like the concept but I find the execution lacking.
Bonus points if you know which game that character is from btw.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
New Bro Team Pill: Modern Warfare 3
This one is really short
I never played any MW game, but I'm reading that the joke is the footage is all from MW2.
This really isn't one of their best.
This really isn't one of their best.
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Didn't take long for people to learn how to break Skyrim
I gotta admire they coded merchants having to actually see you steal their stuff to accuse you of such, but facepalm at the fact no one in the world will object to have you stuff their head inside something.
Amazing.
This next vid is just a compilation of "stuff over the head".
I played tons of oblivion, and honestly, thought it was boring as fuck. I probably won't try Skyrim unless there's an amazing mod made for it or something.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Hedgehog Hammer
One thing I've been hearing a lot is how disappointed people are that there's no classic version of Amy in Sonic Generations. Could there have been? Sure. Is it a huge detriment that there isn't?...Well no. Not really. I'm gonna go off for a bit here.
Now, the game uses classic versions of Sonic and Tails as separate characters. In Sonic's case, it the entire point of the game. Tails arguably didn't need a classic version, but they decided the fans would prefer classic Sonic to be completely devoid of a voice, and thus classic Tails exists solely to speak on classic Sonic's behalf. That, and tell people what to do. And fanservice.
Tails is a bit of a special case, as he offers a bit more variety in terms of gameplay. They seem to have omitted the entire arc of Tails' character arc in Sonic Adventure where he mans up and actually starts to stand on his own instead of being reliant on Sonic all the time. Classic Tails acts like he's always been that way, and they kind of missed an opportunity for classic Tails to be inspired by how confident his future self is. They basically have classic Sonic do it instead. Apparently he thinks his future self is pretty damn cool.
But we're here to talk about Amy. A classic "original Sonic recolor" version of Amy might've been nice. But really, in the long run what would be the point? Classic Amy is a Sonic-obsessed girl that chases after him and swings a giant pervert-repelling hammer. Modern Amy is...a Sonic-obsessed girl that chases after him and swings a giant pervert-repelling hammer. Classic Amy was basically a minor character that mostly only showed up in spin-off games. It really wasn't until Sonic Adventure when she became a more substantial recurring character. What would classic Amy offer the game's playability? What about cutscenes? Does the cast really need to be bigger than it already is?...Do you really want more than one of...THAT running around trying to glomp Sonic? What would be the point?
I'm sure there's probably artwork of her you could unlock somewhere in the game. You'd actually have to, you know, PLAY IT, though. Or you could just Google it.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Way to go Valve, finding new ways to disapoint
This is rather self explanatory:
tl;dr: Valve was hacked into and everyone's info was accessed, including credit card info, account passwords, etc.
Credit card info was encrypted, so it's potentially safe still. But as I tend to say: the seed of doubt has been planted.
That's just what I needed today: A nice feeling of insecurity.
tl;dr: Valve was hacked into and everyone's info was accessed, including credit card info, account passwords, etc.
Credit card info was encrypted, so it's potentially safe still. But as I tend to say: the seed of doubt has been planted.
That's just what I needed today: A nice feeling of insecurity.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Yet another Forsken World event: Devotion
In the last expansion, FW introduced tons of very advantageous features. This event uses one of them, namely the devotion system.
In short, it's a system that rewards you for logging in on consecutive days with tokens, exp, soul coins and, after the 3rd consecutive day, you get to re-randomize one of your gems. The later also enables you to get Goldspark gems (increases crit chance), which normally don't drop from gemboxes.
The tokens are used in a new "shop", which has TONS of very very useful things you can claim. normally you get more as you level up. But you're able to claim a free one each day as well.
This event gives you a lot of bonus tokens.
Duration of the event:
- From 11/9 to 11/14
How to qualify for the prize:
- Retain their position on consecutive login days.
Prize:
- For 1 consecutive day: 50 Bonus favor
- For 2 consecutive day: 75 Bonus favor
- For 3 or more consecutive day: 100 Bonus favor
The "Favors" are the tokens used in the shop.
Once a day, log in, and that's it.
If you got multiple character, you'll have to do it with all of them, but still, barely any hassle at all. Great event.
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