Month: January 2012

Resident Evil fans don’t like change apparently

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After watching the teaser, and this gameplay trailer for the upcoming Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, I can say that I’m very much on board, and looking forward to the game when it releases in late-March. I never played the versus mode available in RE5, but Operation Raccoon City looks like a lot of fun, and the dynamic of the gameplay intrigues me.

Apparently, I made the cardinal mistake of indulging what other people had to say, when I glanced down to the comments section of the most recent Kotaku post about Operation Raccoon City. Somewhere along the line, there grew to be this resentment towards the progression of the Resident Evil storyline/game style, and nowadays there is a staunch faction of Resident Evil fans that resent the series starting with RE4 on. Their argument being that the game took a turn from no longer being a “true” survival horror series, whatever that means, and into somewhat of a glorified action-packed shoot-em-up series.

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A little bit longer in the making than I had hoped, but better late than never.

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The following post was originally written on March 5, 2010. I told myself that I would not post this until I effectively gained full-time employment. The fact you’re reading it now means only one thing, which is excellent news: I now have a full-time job. The company in which I have been freelancing for over the prior eight months finally decided that paying contract rates for me was getting old, and that it was indeed fiscally more cost-effective to pay me 70% of they paid my creative agency instead.

It’s been a long, long time coming, but I am extremely pleased to be back on the path of stable employment. And with that, I present to you my swan song to the freelance life.

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An ironic note on brog programming

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Yes, I know, I’m a gigantic hypocrite, and I pretty much set myself up for this hypocrisy.

But the point really ultimately was, I simply wanted to take better quality photographs.  It simply was not possible with point-and-shoot cameras anymore.  The Canon PowerShot I got in July was okay, but it was a marginal upgrade from my prior Sony.

I’d been sitting on a giant wad of cash, accumulated over a few years of gift money, random refunds, cash paybacks, and other miscellaneous means.  Often times I find myself wondering what to do with said money; coming up with several ideas, before simply settling on nothing, letting it grow and accumulate more.

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The opposite of 300

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After watching this video, all I could really think was “holy shit.” This is kinda epic on a frightening level here, and I thought about what would be the appropriate analogy to use. Candidates were any Double Dragon or Contra game, but ultimately, I think the best description would be to flip the plot of 300 around.

Instead of three hundred Spartan soldiers playing defense, it’s instead thirty soldiers taking the offensive, invading Xerxes’s territories, and slaughtering 30,000 defenders in the process. Tirelessly, relentlessly and without mercy, mauling and slaughtering their bodies, before discarding them aside into a pit of corpses. And then they break into Xerxes’s palace, and steal and slaughter all of the his harem’s babies to feed back to Leonidas back in Sparta, who had a hankering for some veal.