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— 読み聞かせ屋サチエ (絵本) (@yomu556) April 3, 2018
He looks like a happy old man. :happy: Why would I want to rob a happy old man of his 8 legged life? He looks like he’d be happy scurrying across a Monopoly board with a top hat on.
The latest thing in the gaming world for people to be really pissy about is the new upcoming Doom movie. My memories of the original Doom movie were never really that great, but like when most movies are announced or coming out I take all information with a grain of salt. It already sounded a bit off that it was going to be a straight to DVD/Blu-Ray movie… but that’s not what the big focus seems to be. There have been arguments in the fanbase over one detail… the protagonist is a woman. Oooh! How horrible! These same people have even been posing the question: What would happen if Hollywood cast a male to play Lara Croft? Considering Tomb Raider is actually heavily inspired by Indiana Jones, who last I checked was a dude… that argument is invalid. Plus there is a male Lara Croft out there, his name is Nathan Drake and he’s part of the Uncharted series… Not that it matters to these people, these extremely manly men need their safespaces unlike the rest of us. :zorak:
Throughout the Doom lore (yes, there is actual lore believe it or not, even more than I realized) there are female characters. Maybe not directly involved with the original game, but in the novels there was Arlene Sanders, and one even existed in Quake III Arena by the name of Crash (not the bandicoot). Of course that still isn’t enough for these so called manly men. I personally could care less if it were a male or female leading in a movie, hell I still don’t understand the anger around last years Ghostbusters being all female.
Back to the argument about gender flipping and how we should all totally be outraged about it. I could name a few movies ideas of my own. What about Pretty Woman, Driving Mr Daisy, Marvin Poppins, or lets really get crazy and make a male version of Juno where the guy gets pregnant, and maybe Legally Blonde where the guy is a bleach blonde surfer dude trying to become a lawyer, or my personal favorite The Brotherhood Of The Traveling Pants! The point I’m trying to make is that like many things this can go both ways, so why not have fun with it? :v:
I’ve been mentally gearing up for my return to work tomorrow. I have all of my clothes laid out, tea has been brewed and the laptop and tablet are charged and ready to go.
I played a bit of Doom Snapmap today which turned out to be more entertaining than expected. Snapmap is a built in map editor/community version of the 2016 Doom you could say; people make their own maps and share them with the community. Some of them ranged from awesome, to what drugs were these wanks on when they made this? At some point I’d like to go into CoOp in these maps and have a good time.
Then I did another stream of MGR, nothing noteworthy there… Or at least I’ll be the judge of the footage I captured. As short as the game is I somehow manage to have fun with it still. I think it’s because there are multiple ways to attack people, like distracting them with 3D porn and running into them with a barrel and then finishing with some epic poledancing. I have to say, playing this after playing DMC1 and DMC3 feels more like a cakewalk, an extremely fabulous cakewalk, and Dante is fabulous to begin with… or at least he was until they Justin Biebertized him.
Taking a break from one metal gear game to play another. I only have one question: Will I get my five dollars? :happy:
I wasn’t aware there were dedicated flying levels in Spyro. I’ve been having fun trying to get all of the treasure. I’m not sure yet if there is a dragon to free in this level, but it has been amusing trying to grab all of the rings and other stuff. It also looks like everything is made of giant gems. :happy: Of course up in the top right is a counter, you have a limited time to collect everything and everything you can collect time for each item you destroy/fly into. That I have yet to properly time. :zorak:
It’s kind of a weird transition if you think about it. For most of the game you can’t really fly, glide yes but never fly… Now all of a sudden for this level you can fly? I wasn’t aware there was a Spyro that could put the entire Superman64 game to shame. :v:
I always heard that Devil May Cry 2 (unless you count the reboot with a Justin Bieber’d Dante) was the worst game in the entire series, and after playing it today I can see where people are coming from.
The Devil May Cry series is notoriously known for stylish hack n slash, and encourages you not to use the same moves over and over again to defeat your enemies. In Devil May Cry 2 however it seems the best way to defeat enemies is to do just that… So far all of the boss fights I have encountered have been rather simplistic, a chop here and gunshot there, definitely seems off-putting compared to the other games. I mean I knew something was amiss when I realized I wasn’t getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter. :v:
I can’t say it’s a terrible game, but at the same time I have to say it comes off really lackluster. I still have a bit of a hard time with the other games, but when I finally defeat a difficult boss it feels much more satisfying than anything I’ve encountered thus far. The last boss I fought was an infected helicopter, which was basically a helicopter possessed by a demon. To get through that boss battle I mainly just kept shooting the shotgun over and over again. Another boss was a giant gorilla orangutan hybrid demon. The game seems to have a thing with monkeying around as I’ve also found small monkey looking demons, as well as other animals and abominations.
Dante’s personality also seems too serious to me. In all of the other games he has a laid back personality, even tries to eat pizza while being stabbed at by a bunch of monsters, but in DMC2 he’s all serious all the time, and has the whit and charm of a wooden plank. No sarcastic lines, no comical retorts, no terrible puns that make me want to throw a shoe at my computer screens. It’s no wonder they made DMC3 similar to DMC1.
I guess now my remaining question is which is really worse? DMC2 or DMC: Devil May Cry (The Reboot)?
So, over the last week I’ve mainly been playing Metal Gear games, Okami, and today it was The Devil May Cry Trilogy. I’ve been on a Japanese game kick, what can I say? :melon:
I’m finding that for me the Devil May Cry series lives up to its difficulty curve, you simply don’t wave your sword around like an idiot (my default strategy) with most of your enemies. The best way I’ve been able to think of it so far is that Devil May Cry is like an extreme game of Simon, an extremely deadly version of Simon. When this enemy attacks here do this. When enemy runs after me press left and Y. I left off at a point now where I need a second Rusty Key, and I didn’t feel like continuing any further due to the traditional sweaty hands and tired button presses. #FirstWorldProblems
I remember when I tried to play Devil May Cry 3 from the 2006 PC port and being extremely disappointed. Granted you could mod it to fix some of the issues, but it still wasn’t quite right. While this HD remake isn’t perfect DMC3 in this years remaster is definitely a step up with better controller support and resolution up scaling. I definitely like the combat in both games, although if I were to complain about anything it would be the camera. I’m sure I’d still have the same problem if I played on console, but in certain areas of each level the perspective changes, and sometimes the direction you’re running may or may not change when you want it to. This makes it really annoying for me during boss fights, I’m actually surprised they don’t list the camera as a final boss for the game. 😛 Of course if I can learn when what position shifts to which angle I can eventually figure it out. Streaming this publicly would be an embarrassment for me, though I could say that for just about any hack n slash… or most games I’ve played.
I keep telling myself I’ll stream more public stuff one of these days, and I think it’ll happen. The planets just haven’t quite aligned for me yet.
Not much to write. Played a bit of Okami tonight and came across a very important item.
I was reading a thread over on the Steam forums, people were complaining about the 30fps cap, and honestly… as someone who likes getting as many frames as possible (60 or up) I didn’t really notice. Maybe it’s the art style but the 30fps seemed fine for me, granted I would be happy if they or someone modded the game to run at a higher framerate, but the game performs fine enough that I’m glad I bought it. People were boycotting it because it wasn’t 60fps though… pffffft. :melon:
I’ve finally caught up on all of my video editing, although in my foolishness I’ve somehow overwritten one of my videos. So that particular one will never see the light of day… it was one of the MGSV ones. Fortunately MGSV is a large game, I should be able to find everything I lost naturally, still doesn’t stop me from kicking myself in the head over it.
I’m now back at a point where I can start doing other stuff.
In pursuit of a new BBQ sauce recipe to go with some chicken nuggets tonight I turned to the internet and caught wind of this little recipe.
To give it a little more kick I added a couple drops of hot sauce and some grated ginger. I’ve never had Sweet Baby Rays (Last time I checked they didn’t use real sugar), but this was sweet as the name it was trying to mimic. Has a nice bit of tang to go with it too, it was pleasing to all of the senses. I even had it all over my chicken and even dipped fries in it.
Highly recommended overall. :meeseeks: