Resident Evil 5 trailer
posted by Mel O Rama
Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 09:25:04 AM EST
- Mel O Rama's diary :: Permalink :: Comments » (2 comments)
Brad Bird's best? Can't really say, but when critics call him the Miyazaki of the West I laugh, because critics call Miyazaki the Disney of the East... So I wonder why they don't just go ahead and compare him directly to Walt.
Oh... And the short animated film that plays before ratatouille... Really good.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Melmus/forza2handler.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Melmus/forza2handler-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Melmus/forza2handler-2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/Melmus/forza2handler-1.jpg
Also Zoso if you could send me your mario car I'd appreciate it. I want to steal you 1up mushroom.
Another one of the cool new features is how you can combo ghosts, it's not like in pacman where it's grab the big dot and eat all 4 ghosts, it's grab that dot, eat all 4 ghosts, and then try to grab another big dot and eat them again before the power up wears off. This can lead to some HUUUUUUUGE scores. Also changed is the point value of the dots, it used to just be a static 10 points, but the longer you stay alive the more points you get from each dot.
The games problems are no endurance mode, Yeah, racing the clock is fine and adds a new level of urgency to the game, but I'd kinda like to see how long I could go. Multiplayer is also missing, after pac-man vs on gamecube I was hoping for some xbl multiplayer fun. 10 bucks is alot to spend on a pac-man game, especially when you can get the original for around 5. But make no mistake, this is no mere rehash, this is pac-man zilla and if you're into besting your buddies high scores in Geometry Wars then you're going to love this just as much. At the very least try out the demo, because it doesn't seem like the excitement for this arcade title is very high, which is a shame.
Ghosts and Goblins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iZecmEsVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfeSrT946hU (He interviews Suzuki during the whole clip so if you're just looking to watch the poor guy suffer you should probably just skip this.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeKc1yXqXds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLOeRVIvkzU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgUOamlLXk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOi_OrX_xOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25LceCPO1ys&mode=related&search=
I turned on the game and was treated to some awesome Nobuo Uematsu classic remixes, Both main FF themes, the most well known now includes an angelic choir and what I refer to as the "The beginning the quest fanfare". I start the game and I'm treated to an AMAZING cgi sequnce that involves a royal wedding and some sweet victorian era esque backdrops. Think Gears if everything was really gorgeous and not destroyed and that's kinda what they went for. Then there is a big epic war where the guy who had just been married is shot through the heart with an arrow. Really all I could say was wow.
So I'm hooked, the game begins and I go through a tutorial esque mode to be treated to a "HOLY CRAP AWESOME!" moment that probably wouldn't have worked out like that had I been paying attention to the games message board.
The game is awesome, at least awesome for the first 6 hours. Because then the difficulty ramps up to 11. I thought that I was going to be able to play though the game and pull in a neat story, just because that's what I've always thought rpgs were about. And it really wouldn't be so hard if it wasn't for the new battle system. Frustrating is the only thing I can say. I got my ass handed to me by a boss, so when I beat him (Took me 2 times.) I decided I'd quest to get my level up. For some reason this is when the game got really, really, really, frustrating. There is this thing they call the gambit system, which is where you program your party a.i. So if you want a healer you'd say "Hey bitch, heal anyone who goes below 50% and if no one is below 50% target and attack what the party leader is attacking." Seems awesome in theory, but in execution not so much. My party keeps getting wiped, all 6 members. Which is fine, the crap I'm fighting for the quests is tough but what isn't fine is that when I start replacing my dead meat with fresh meat they decided maybe the best course of action is to stand around like morons for a good 10 20 seconds. It normally takes me about that long to notice they're not doing anything because I'm busy controlling the party leader, that totally thows me off my groove and while I'm saying to myself "Wow, if those assholes would have done what I had programmed them to do I would have beaten that guy." I get kind of angry.
That's not where my frustration with the game ends. Oh no, the new class system is complicated too. You get points aside from exp for each monster you kill, you use these points to better your character, but not so much in the way you'd think. Lets say I want to use a long sword, well I have to make sure I put points into that, then I have to go and buy the sword. It's the same thing with armor and spells, only if you have 3 people who you point points into black magic you don't have to buy fire three times, but you do with weapons and armor. So right now I have the feeling that because I don't understand the system I've totally screwed myself over and I think my entire party is severly illequiped to do anything I need them to do.
So really what it has boiled down to is am I patient enough to try and get through a story that I'm interested in even though the gameplay is frustrating me to the point where I want to throw my controller though the screen. I like challenges, but when I get killed in Ninja Gaiden or Ghouls and Ghost I know it's my fault. In this case it really hasn't been like that at all, if I've wipped it's because my party members weren't doing what I had programmed them to do, in most cases my party members weren't doing anything at all.
This is another Mel bitches diary.
I found these on the official forum. I've only watched one of the videos but someone got sawed in half. It was awesome. There is a curbstomp on vid 4. I guess this is just random people playing and lots of people behind them yelling but, it's entire matches which is really cool. From what I've seen so far though not a huge amount of people using cover.
All my life I've thought we, humans, are the smartest living things on the planet. I was obviously wrong. Houses, computers, airplanes, cars, trains.... Mean absolutely nothing when there are people alive and able to breed who would pay for/create a service like this. Man kind, you're sooooo dead to me... I have no more faith it's all gone. This proves there can be no God, because God would surely smite someone who is this stupid.
Sure some of you might say "Don't you think you're taking this a little to hard?" To which I will respond "NO YOU FUCKING MORON! PEOPLE ARE PAYING FOR FUCKING POINTS THAT DO NOTHING THAT DON'T SERVE ANY FUNCTION! THEY'RE JUST FUCKING THERE AND THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING! THEY DON'T GET YOU ANYTHING! IT'S LIKE THROWING MONEY INTO A BIG HOLE BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO BUY DIRT TO FILL IT!" and then I'll slap you across the face.
| Next 12 » |