Get excited and get ready to run. Resident Evil 6 is coming and coming soon.
Resident Evil is a series with a few hits, a few misses, and a ton of places with hobbyist horticulture.
While the series was one of the first in the realms of survival horror the last few entries as pulled themselves away from those roots.
RE:4′s tight game play was a fantastic change from the horrid clunky controls of yesterday with it came a focus on action and utter neglect for the impending doom that is survival horror. The sales were good and many the game garnered many new fans to the series. While it’s always nice to see games going in a different direction this set forth a notion that Resident Evil should be about action more than its horror roots.
As the trend continued in the movies, Resident Evil 5, and a few of the hand held games the core fan base developed a bad taste in its mouth. Soured doubly by the newer action titles having gamely issues. To the mouth of the fan base this was acrid, RE4 was different, but accepted and gloriously praised for it’s tight concise game play. To remove both pieces of the series’s current strong points was a poison Capcom had it’s hands full trying to cure.
Raccoon City Operations appeared filling the void with a solid mulitplayer from a fresh, albeit horrific, perspective.With the release of RE:Revelations we saw a step in the right direction. The impending doom of survival right on your heals and action akin to RE:Mercenaries, but with improved elements everyone began to turn their disillusioned faces back towards the series.
They waited looking for scraps Now with Capcom being quiet for months about a new release we were treated to a surprise. A teaser for RE:6 appeared….and then finally out of the shadows appeared a ton of information at PAX East this last weekend.
Here’s the new trailer
The game will able to be played Single player or co-op, Online and Offline with drop-in and out support. There’s a new action system that will hopefully fulfill the efficient game play needed to maintain the series’s improved image in controls. The game is also supposed to feature new enemies created by the C-Virus.
With the new direction of the series, hopefully we will a combination of the improved action and game play with the lurking malice that is its survival horror roots.
I’m excited and I hope you are too…..I just hope I can run faster than you.
Kim Dotcom Interview
I have strong convictions about this whole mess, and basically agree with Kim, re that this is politically motivated. What are your thoughts?
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Dark Shadows movie
So, Tim Burton and his familiar bunch are doing a Dark Shadows inspired flick. Sounded great to me, until I saw this photo, and then thought ‘oh that’s right, it will look like his crappy Willy Wonka, with the obvious makeup. NOT the Burton I grew up watching.’
I think Johnny Depp is a great actor, but I was so irritated by his Wonka portrayal that it put me off. And the latest Pirates movie looked very meh indeed.
Well I hope I am wrong about this, as both a pre overly CGI Burton fan and huge Dark Shadows addict.
What’s your take?
10 Reasons Why I am a Gamer
I was just contemplating why I became a gamer, and stayed one. But the answers are easy.
1.) I grew up with an NES and SNES.
2.) I have fond memories of playing with my father, who has since passed away.
Even though my dad was handicapped, he was a professional classical bassist,
scientist, and sometimes gamer. Even though he couldn’t fully use his left hand,
he rocked the bass, and let me beat him at Secret of Mana.
3.) It enhances my writing.
Reading surely enriches my ability as a writer, but so do the deep worlds created in games.
4.) I adore the soundtracks, and listen to most of them when I am driving or cleaning.
5.) Most of my friends are gamers, to one degree or another.
6.) So is my husband
7.) I find the immersive worlds created in video games to be inspiring in my daily life.
8.) I love the conversations I have had with game enthusiasts, both
professional and amateur.
9.) I feel that games can be educational, and if you aren’t a moron
and let your kid play Grand Theft Auto at three, you’re good.
10.) I rock an automatic shotgun baby.
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1Q84
I am normally focused when using my audible credits; I have a wish list, and try to stick to it. But when I saw a review of 1Q84 on the site, I instantly purchased it
Since the moment I began reading it, I was hooked. I’m only maybe 2 hours into the book, but Murakami’s storytelling is so impressive; the world he paints is so immersive, one feels as if they really were the characters portrayed.
Want to join me in reading Haruki Murakami‘s book? Good! Because I am giving a copy away; all three volumes were recently released in one book, so if you want it, leave a comment down below and I will choose the winner at random!
Halloween in Nilbog
Some pics from our Halloween day.
One of the Lost Boys, and the ‘pumpkin pirate’.
Soundtrack to the day
Vinnie Rattolle’s awesome compilations (click the album)
The Monster Club ( click the album for the link)
Movies for the evening
Halloween isn’t for wimps. It’s for maniacs.
