I was going to buy it anyway (during a sale, still not worth the full price to me), but now I have more of a reason to get it. In fact I feel like if Konami made this instead it would have improved their PR.
All aboard the nostalgiagasm train
I’ve read more exciting news today! First, for some odd reason the newly remastered Crash Bandicoot will be coming out to PC July 10th.
Funny timing, as I’ve been contemplating getting out my Crash Bandicoot CD’s to play in an emulator (even though I could use my PS3 to play them), and comes as a surprise to me as that has always been a Playstation Exclusive. Of course I’m not going to complain, I’m just hoping it’ll be a good port. This was probably one of my favorite platforms when I was growing up. In fact this and Tomb Raider were probably my most played games during that particular period. It would be funny if that also got a remaster… oh wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-21TCbJF3g
Tomb Raider 1 looks the most impressive to me. Tomb Raider 2 not so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuo3BCY91wo
Although I’ve had issues running it and Tomb Raider 3 on my newer hardware, so at least there’s a chance of me being able to play them again and maybe even stream them., which I already had planned for Tomb Raider 1 after I’ve patched it recently to run natively in Windows. Either way, between these and the soon to be released remasters of Devil May Cry I’m pretty stoked.
Boss… harder!
Today I told my fellow co-worker about my exploits through MGSV, and I mentioned how funny it was to practice CQC on your staff and see the following dialogue:
Then he had to tell me that of course they were happy to be manhandled by Big Boss, and that he’d even love to be in the same position. Mind you, the guy I’m talking to is practically a male clone of Bayonetta. Add onto that my bizarre imagination and access to a computer and you get this:
I’m not kidding, he has a similar hairstyle. Another one of my co-workers and I keep trying to convince him to wear high heels for us and he keeps refusing. Not because he doesn’t want to, he just can’t walk in them. :v:
Every time I work with him it’s another adventure. I almost feel like making illustrations of our encounters… :melon:
Valve is going back to making games
GAMERS REJOICE!!!! Valve is coming out of software hibernation to make… games!
Speaking at the press presentation for Valve’s latest, Artifact, Newell said: “Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us, so that’s sort of good news. Hurray! Valve is going to start shipping games again.”
As someone who owns just about everything made by Valve I’m not sure if I’ll be interested in this particular title (unless it’s for SFM resources), but I do look forward to seeing them get back to their roots. Any speculations on what their other projects might be? I’m kind of nervous about Half Life 2: Episode 3/Half Life 3 being made, it’s reached Duke Nukem Forever status.
Evening Open Thread
It’s always inevitable, the last day of vacation… It’s been nice not having to talk to the stupids. Tomorrow I’ll be getting back to work, was nice to take a week off though. I definitely needed it.
I’ll see what hell awaits me. Open Thread!
From Phantom Pain to Phantomile
I’ve been playing Klonoa for the past couple days; Made it to the moon kingdom, I can tell that level is going to take a lot of patience to get through the damn vision. I’ve attempted it a couple times today and kept dying endlessly. Best to take a break and head onto another game. I even tried playing the Wii version and my hands seem to be fatigued. Here’s a comparison of the two versions:
I’m not sure which version I like better to be honest. I like the style of the PS1 version, but at the same time I like the updated graphics on the Wii version… Then again I also like the hybrid 3D with sprites for the Playstation version. Plus the pre-rendered cutscenes… something about them seems more magical. Then again pre-rendered cutscenes from that era were fun to watch, look at the original Tomb Raiders. 😛
And oh god… If you ever play this game do NOT use the english version. Switch it to Phantomese or Japanese, you’ll be doing your ears and mind a favor.
Cat Pictures I Kan Haz
Been awhile since I’ve posted some good cat pics. Today they proved to be quite photogenic, moreso than usual in the sense they let me take pictures of them without moving too much. 😛
OverlordTomala Plays: MGSV: The Phantom Pain
First video of the new year… only took me three months in. :v: :melon:
From the creators of Myst and Riven yada yada yada
It seems Cyan is wanting to start another project:
The video doesn’t seem to show much other than it’s a puzzle type game (Cyan’s specialty) with some nice looking graphics and a creepy voice. Of course unlike their last games Cyan wants to make this a VR exclusive title because so many people play VR… That’s the reason, right? Obviously there are waaaaaaaay more VR gamers than those zombies that stare at their multimonitor setups with drool rolling down their faces.
The team has developed what Miller called a working “experience,” similar to a demo, that will be shown later this month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in an attempt to garner interest and financial backing. It features the Mead-based company’s signature puzzle-solving gameplay, he said, in a world built from the ground up to be experienced through a virtual reality headset.
Well, that leaves me out. There aren’t enough games out to justify me getting into VR, plus I’m still pretty miffed about Obduction’s poor optimization for AMD GPU’s as well as overall optimization (broken LOD’s). Plus if I take into consideration how the last Kickstarter took place, and some of the more dramatic moments I’d rather not mention during their update posts, I really am reminded that I should play other games instead. Heck, I’ve been playing Quite a bit of The Phantom Pain lately, and that’s an NVidia Gumworks title.
That said I wish them no ill will. I would like for them to succeed and return to their former glory, but it seems unnecessary to leave people out if they can’t afford VR. Plus I would think they would make money if they developed a non VR version of their game. As it is Cyan’s core fanbase consists of about 7 people who still have use to run a Pentium III setup. :v:
The Republic of Chia
I just think it’s funny to hear of a country banning a letter of the alphabet because it’s a “subversive and intolerable character”. Now all I can think of is a campy superhero cartoon where N is public eNemy #1. :v: