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Post by kitten on Mar 30, 2011 20:12:25 GMT -5
You gotta respect him. For some reason it feels like he deserves to be kicking your ass. He looks like he got over-enthusiastic about painting his team's colors on him when going to a game, and then wore a thong to show off as much paint as possible. Like, seriously, he strikes me as an overenthusiastic football-fan who somehow doesn't have a beer gut. |
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Post by kitten on Mar 30, 2011 18:17:47 GMT -5
I dunno, man, the demo for the 360 game was reaaaaally boring.
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Post by kitten on Mar 30, 2011 17:44:09 GMT -5
I very seriously cannot force myself to read what is written there. It is terribly, terribly written and ellipses overkill. I try and try, but I glaze over after reading just the smallest bit each time.
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Post by kitten on Mar 30, 2011 1:23:56 GMT -5
Hilariously, they sometimes even go up in price. Look at Metroid Prime Trilogy.
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 10:33:53 GMT -5
You should have really included a "playing it fairly regularly, and for more than just one purpose" option, to see how many people are actually getting a lot of use out of it as opposed to the amount of people who rarely do anything with it.
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 10:13:56 GMT -5
Meanwhile on Call of Duty 4 ;D The first one of those videos was on Halo 3. If I remember correctly, they were playing on The Pit (which is one of Halo 3's very few okay maps), and I made a joke about how that's a 4v4 map on a YouTube comment when there were 9 boxes with people in them at the end (however, what I failed to notice was that one girl was in two boxes just to fill in the screen!). Agh, man. I'm a dork  |
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 7:33:57 GMT -5
I'll probably have one sometime the month after next. Maybe. It still has no games at all that even slightly interest me :S
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 7:25:35 GMT -5
It's not that think I RE5 was a bad game, it's just that I think it was incredibly mediocre (and inexcusably poor when compared to its predecessor). It had no idea whether or not it wanted to be single-player or co-op and it suffered massively on both fronts because of it. I've played it through in co-op and single player on both normal and professional and had extremely little fun no matter how I played it.
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 7:18:52 GMT -5
Would you say that it's "more" of a Contra game than Hard Corps: Uprising is? Yes. I would even say the same about Neo Contra being more of a true "Contra" game. The pacing, speed and mechanics in Uprising make it play like a different beast than any other previous Contra game. The walking speed being much slower and the levels being considerably larger, alone, make it feel like it's from an entirely different series, and even familiar weapons like the Spread Shot barely perform like their counterparts from previous games. The new mechanics, like dashing and vaulting, also seek to give it a feel unlike any of the previous games. The change in aesthetics is definitely worth noting in how its changed the series, too, but even if it "looked" Contra, I'd still be arguing that it doesn't feel it. The developers clearly felt the same way, otherwise they wouldn't have opted to remove "Contra" from the game's title. It's clearly Contra-inspired, I'll give it that much, and it bears similarities, but it's not a Contra game, both from a figurative and literal standpoint. I do like their attempt at freshening things up, though! It's a pretty rad game, and I think the fact it borrows so very little is most of what impresses me. It really is its own game. I just wish Castlevania would do this. Contra wasn't stale to me yet, but man has Castlevania been boring the last several years  |
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 6:46:53 GMT -5
What worries me, are the amount of frat boys that will be playing the game, giggling and cracking "yeah, back in the kitchen bitch" jokes Why would this worry you? Idiots are going to be idiots. It's like people making sexist jokes when they teabag somebody in Halo, but it's no reason to consider removing the crouch feature. I realize that crouching has no inherent sexism like slapping a woman's body may, but getting worried about the extraneous comments it might generate is just as ridiculous in both cases. The slap has been reported as a joke slap on the girl's rear. I don't really see anything to get alarmed about, here, and I'm generally the first one to get upset about sexism. It's tongue-in-cheek and ridiculous. Moreso, it's not derogatory toward the entire gender and rather just the specific floozy, which Duke has always been full of. It's definitely worth rolling your eyes over, but it's not sexism bad enough to bother getting pissed about, especially when everybody knows it's a joke. The types of sexism that really piss me off are the types that are outright hurtful, the types that are hard to detect because of how our society is structured (and therefore perpetuate sexism, as it feels harmless to reproduce it), and the types that are both. This doesn't fall anywhere in there. If you want to fight against sexism that's actually harmful like those types are, take your fight against crap like Grand Theft Auto. On another note, one that I'm tempted to make an entirely separate thread over, I think some games do help promote equality among sexes (and different sexualities) while not having to rid themselves of any sexual content. Fable III's a great example (II is as well, as is the first game if I remember correctly), and even though a lot of people may believe it's a disappointing, shitty game (I'll admit I loved it), I really think other games should take note and follow the example with its treatment of sexuality. Both men and women in that game are equally poked fun at and celebrated, and gays, bis and lesbians fit entirely into the norm without patronizing them with the drama of a gay character struggling in a straight world. This is a poster you'll regularly see in Fable III's loading screen -  In Albion's fantasy world, neither sex is made out to be any less than the other, and a poster like this would be just as acceptable with the genders of the two characters reversed as it would as it is. This character is likely carrying her man just like Duke is going to be carrying some floozy, and I wouldn't be surprised if she ends up slapping him on the bottom to calm down. Duke lives in a moderately offensive world where playful sexism only goes one way (even still, that's arguable, as Duke is a parody of extreme masculinity and a character that is portrayed in a playfully sexist way, himself), but I think the fact a poster like the one above could be perfectly acceptable to us in one fantasy world is a good indicator that Duke's sexism is still, at its heart, silly fun. Anyway, my point is that I think this ordeal is blown way out of proportion, and that Duke is definitely within acceptable parameters of silliness. |
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Post by kitten on Mar 28, 2011 1:53:47 GMT -5
Huh, I thought I posted in here. My net must have went down hours ago when I tried to post it, I remember some message not going through.
Anyway, I don't think I've played a Wii game for more than an hour since No More Heroes 2 (aside from test-running Other M, which I'll go back to when I get back in a gaming mood). It's pretty much strictly Virtual Console and Rebirth games, now, and I only play those a couple times a month, tops :S
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Post by kitten on Mar 27, 2011 22:00:27 GMT -5
So it's a Run n Gun but it's not Contra? Yeah, pretty much. I wouldn't expect a fan of one to necessarily like the other. The removal of the name was for more reasons than just trying to make "Hard Corps" a brand name. Pacing, level design, weapons, platforming, abilities - it's all quite different. |
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Post by kitten on Mar 27, 2011 20:28:49 GMT -5
Uprising actually has some meat to it's action sequences I'd argue it has about as much meat as any other Contra, only it's spread thin over the lengthy stages. I really like Uprising a lot (although I've hardly been playing games since it came out), but I kinda struggle even calling it a Contra game due to the drastically different pacing and modified mechanics. I wouldn't argue that it's necessarily any better or worse, but it's more up to one's taste whether they'd prefer Uprising to one of the better Contra games (I say "better Contra games" referring to things like 3, Hard Corps, etc... I don't really count Uprising as a Contra game, itself). It's a quality game, definitely, but it's pretty different. |
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Post by kitten on Mar 27, 2011 20:00:17 GMT -5
Sotenga, I think, actually. I've known him for quite a few years from another forum I go to.
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Post by kitten on Mar 25, 2011 17:43:15 GMT -5
Actually all the accusations are of it being boring and not pretentious but brain dead. I saw Watchmen but I don't think I could see another film like that, especially one so gray. Boring? Seriously? Half of the movie is some of the most over-the-top and gorgeous action I've ever seen. It's much more action-packed than either 300 or Watchmen. I suppose the scenes in-between the action scenes could be considered a bit boring, but I enjoyed them well enough. Sucker Punch also has much more vivid colors than Watchmen, give the trailer a go. |
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