| Bayonetta |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|10:01 pm] |
I'm sitting here trying to type up the next TAY - it's a long and arduous process. Mainly because of its subject matter. But a few days ago, I was lucky enough to manage to score a Japanese copy of Bayonetta. It's a game I've had my eye on for quite a while now, due to the absolutely ridiculous premise in an industry so unwilling to fund ridiculous premises, and the game director being the original creator of the Devil May Cry series. The demo dropped a while back - I played it to death, gaping at the huge variety of moves, wondering about how it felt being both familiar and new at the same time, and making a big fuss about the game's claims to "non-stop climax action", a title it truly deserves. It's a fantastically over the top action game, and we haven't seen the likes of it - since... since, well, DMC3.
( Her feet are on fire. ) |
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| Thinking About Videogames #1: Immersive Immolation! |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|05:48 pm] |
To talk about the current state of videogames is almost a redundant action. There are dozens - hundreds - of blogs out there all covering content second by second in a race to have the most hits before the others catch wind of it and emblazon it all over their own sites. Forums are alight with discussions, most of them to no real purpose, and of the few, there are even less that give serious thought to the actual route videogames have taken. In retrospect I've seen many things, growing up glued to a monitor or TV, and some of these things shock and surprise me. Technology jumps forward in leaps and bounds, and with each new generation of hardware comes great jumps in software, each with their own little ideas. People are always looking forward, knee-jiggling excitedly with even the rumor of a "new sequel" as oxymoronic as the term itself may be, in an endless race to be the first to emblazon comments on a new game or console. Such is the race to stand still on the cutting edge of electronic entertainment that many things go unnoticed, especially by the people who create and play these things. Therefore, in hope that I may encourage retrospective thought and an attitude of self-awareness in the gaming population spread across this fast food nation, I bring you a series of articles. Thinking about Videogames. And if one more person reads this than yesterday and starts thinking - *thinking* about what they're engaging in when they're playing a videogame, I will have accomplished something at the very least.
Chaos Presents
Content from the New Era, the Current-Gen-Nextwave!
Ledgehopping Projectile-Spamming Snaking Wavedashing Reloading Pill-Popping Entertainment!
Thinking About Videogames
( READYSTEADYGO )
KO you next time. |
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| No Prawns Allowed |
[Oct. 6th, 2009|06:32 pm] |
I am completely floored by how something so amazing escaped my notice. In came the giant robots, with their complete lack of a storyline and anything approaching intelligence, and bludgeoned me into submission. In came the toyline action heroes, who wowed me with their stunts and special effects and blinded me with sheer dazzle.
And quietly, modestly, the aliens came, and they left a mark upon my soul.
( THIS SPACE FOR HUMANS ONLY )
Best scifi I've seen in years. Go watch it if you haven't already. |
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| 2009: Year of the Fighting Game |
[Aug. 14th, 2009|05:25 pm] |
Sure, it's all to easy to whine about the complete overdose of SHOOTANS and DAKKA in our current videogame generation, what with a console *built specifically for* a genre of game and the total sales domination of FPS blockbusters like Modern Warfare or dare I say it, Halo. No offense to either of these games (although Halo 2's ending was a dickslap and Halo 3's campaign was ridiculously short), but I don't think much of the userbase, or the complete and total abandon with which game company after game company has tried to score that one elusive FPS gold card that'll ensure them a load of sequels and a solid online community for at least the next five years.
Hello, 90s arcade fighting games. There were a lot of you guys, too.
Now you're back and you look amazing. How's the ol' arcade mode looking? How's the broken bosses, the competitive spirit, and the series of mixups and super moves that'd send an opponent crumpled to the ground?
Seeing them come back - and in such force, too, is like finding an old friend. You sit down, you pick up the controller, and the game remembers your touch, and before long you're tapping out some familiar combos and chipping away trying to find a hole in an opponent's defense that'll let you rush through in a barrage of hits.
But I am also fully aware of how the fighting game genre died. They got increasingly technical, they got complicated, they became impossible to play or understand except by an exceptionally talented (and isolated) group of people. Not to mention the death of arcades in the West, but that's an entirely different kettle of fish.
( kof vs blazblue ) |
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| Chaos Show: BACK IN ACTION |
[Aug. 4th, 2009|04:34 pm] |
( HEY CHAOS HOW'S IT HANGIN )
So here's to a new show. Hopefully stocked with such crowd-pleasing, vapid, intellectually dead material such as ultra-violence, opinions and thoughts on visual entertainment, audio recordings of copulation with animals, and what is occasionally referred to in the vernacular as "dead baby jokes".
After all, if you can't make yourself feel better by reading about a cross-cultured socially maladjusted just-graduated NEET with what amounts to a degree in *literature*, your life must *really suck*, and I have the greatest of sympathies for your plight.
We're back in business.
( catch up ) |
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| yet another rebirthing |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|09:56 am] |
Journal reworking in progress.
It will probably not exist in any way shape or form as my old blog, and there will be something new attached.
For the two of you who still pay attention and actually wonder where I've been, long story short I have no computer and am slowly working my way up from ground zero. I also lost a hell of a lot of data, so I ended up having to scrap a lot of stuff too. No idea when I'll be finally up and running again but until then this space will remain pretty much blank.
unrelated: Mai-HiME turned out to be good, I hate you world |
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| Chaos Picks 2007 (Part 1) |
[Jan. 8th, 2008|03:27 pm] |
It's the time of year where I get to shoot off my opinions on the media of last year as a study on the development of modern visual culture, as a whole. 2007's been a mad, mad year, and as a university student with free time, as usual I'll find some way of wasting said free time, whether it be on the internet, on an IM, or marathoning an anime/playing a videogame until my eyeballs start to pop and dribble out the cavities in my skull, the microwaved organic spheres dangling around by thin strands of nerve tissue - I digress.
( Part 1 of God knows how many ) |
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| I said I'm gonna live forever or die trying, either that or just pretend |
[Oct. 3rd, 2007|05:23 pm] |
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| | "sorairo days" - gurren lagann OST | ] |
When we are young, we think ourselves invincible.
When we are old, we know ourselves to be mortal.
If we are caught between the two, we live on the edge, knowing one day that we will inevitably change with the times, and eventually get old and die. It is this edge - of knowing the taste of mortality but holding on kicking and screaming, clawing at those last remaining fragments of thinking you can do anything, even kick the moon out of orbit if you merely believed in it enough - which I now stand on.
( life in rewind\\fast forward\\play\\pause ) |
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| it's a drill that breaks through heaven. didn't you hear me the first time? |
[Oct. 1st, 2007|10:33 pm] |
I love it when I'm wrong.
Simon, you've not only broken through heaven, but all my expectations after the episodes leading up to the finale slowed down a little, had slight pacing problems, and your team started dropping like flies. But you've always thrown caution to the wind, kicked reason to the curb, and carried on making your own way with your drill.
That's what Tengen Toppa means.
That's what Gurren Lagann means.
Your drill is the drill that breaks through heaven.
I finished Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. I feel proud to have been witness to the glorious final moments of the best anime this year, and definitely a benchmark of post-2000 anime. Gainax, y'all some bad dudes. Respect. |
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| I leave for a few days and... |
[Sep. 23rd, 2007|10:02 am] |
I picked up a GAMEWAVE mag the other day for $10HKD after something on the cover caught my eye.
I go out and the world goes to pot.
Kingdom Hearts games for DS and PSP.
Ninja Gaiden 2 trailer and Dragon Sword spinoff for the DS.
Shin. Sengokumusou 5 (Dynasty Warriors 6)
MGS Portable Ops Plus.
Archaic Sealed Heat SRPG for DS.
NightS: Journey into Dreams confirmed for December 13.
Infinite Undiscovery (?) for X360.
Final Fantasy IV remake for DS. |
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| buwah |
[Sep. 19th, 2007|07:04 pm] |
Just something short because I felt righteous flames of fury rise up in me over something I saw in Racewing's eljay, and just for five short minutes my shriveled husk of a soul wanted to make something in direct opposition to that.
That something?
Yes, it's fanfic. Shut *up*. I know.
( water meets rock ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|12:33 am] |
LAIR sucks.
Not that it doesn't look good. Holy crap the game is GORGEOUS.
Not that cool shit doesn't happen.
It's just impossible to WHOA CRAP WHAT'RE YOU DOING AUGH CAMERA FLYIN EVERYWHERE READJUST IT READJUST IT MOTHER F- PULL OUTTA THAT TURN, FOR CHRISSAKE-
Sometimes I really, really wish Nintendo could have gotten their hands on this game. It might have had a chance to not suck with a Wiimote+chuck quite as much as it did with the Sixaxis.
On the other hand, Bladestorm is entirely too good for a game that just basically boils down to slash slash slash bam bam bam, move units there slash some more bam bam bam same thing koei have been doing for years
Is Nintendo the only company that can do innovation in videogames these days and have it not suck? Metroid Prime 3 Corruption is freaking incredible... and I don't even like the Metroid Prime series. |
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| yippee-ki-yay |
[Sep. 4th, 2007|01:13 pm] |
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| | taishou.a (Higurashi KAI) | ] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chaos_r: ...You know - a lot of Canadians I meet are really polite.
chaos_r: I think it's something in the water.
big_wired: Well, we grow up right next to the Americans... so we gotta distinguish ourselves from them.
big_wired: But basically, in the Canadian Parental Guide, we're all raised to be polite.
chaos_r: Quiet, subdued, polite, kind...
chaos_r: It's like the way people normally describe stalkers.
big_wired: *snort*
big_wired: Come on, you must have met some mean Canadians.
chaos_r: I've seen them on TV and in picture books and in educational programmes, but never in real life.
chaos_r: Unless by "mean Canadian" you mean "American".
big_wired: I asked a fellow English teacher what the Canadian accent was. He said a softer, politer American.
So I asked what an American accent was, and he said LOUD.
chaos_r: I always thought it was sharper.
chaos_r: More grating.
big_wired: And I can be mean too!
big_wired: Here, I'll insult your clothing...
chaos_r: ...
chaos_r: ...which you've *never seen*.
big_wired: You have a... ... a... You have a bad tie!
chaos_r: That's not an insult! That's a goddamned fact!
big_wired: Sorry... I'm not so good at this.
chaos_r: It's okay. As long as you're in Canada.
chaos_r: The rest of the world is like one big warzone.
chaos_r: The day Jolt insulted me shall be forever engraved into memory.
big_wired: But I thought you said I was merely stating fact. Wouldn't that be lying?
chaos_r: Conveniently my internet lie detector is broken, isn't it?
big_wired: Is it?
chaos_r: Would you rather I call this the day Jolt TRIED to insult me?
chaos_r: And failed like a snowball in hell?
...I think work makes me fill up to the brink with snark since I can't let it out on customers. |
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| chaos is taking nominations for '07 |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|01:05 pm] |
See, it's past the mid-way point of the year, fast approaching the ninth month of the seventh year of the second millenium after a particular kid was born on Christmas. And it is with a sad realization that I have not immersed myself in anywhere near enough media this year to do a completely biased and unfair personal favorite list. It's a tough year to do so -entire slew of next-gen videogame releases, a lot of shiny new anime series that don't suck, a few mangas... So I'm asking for help and some advice.
Got any series (manga, anime, videogames) at all that came out in 2007 so far that I should seek out (while I still have torrent)?
Categories/nominees so far (list updated as we go)
( still taking nominations, bitches )
In return I shall write the awards up properly. With images! Submissions ongoing until end of November. Disclaimer: I'm biased, bitches. Get over it. =D |
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| reraito |
[Aug. 20th, 2007|09:33 pm] |
First up if you haven't seen the July trailer for Resi Evil 5/Biohazard 5 you need to. Sadly we're not getting it until 2009, awesome as it looks.
Second, Gurren Lagann is still awesome. Don't let me down in the home stretch, please; Episode 15 counts as one of the *greatest* things I have ever seen, I shit you not.
Third, I'm gonna drop this summer job like a man caught humping his Bridget by all his friends as soon as I pay off my folks for my plane fare to and from HK, not to mention my living expenses. I miss the time I normally get to *write* - and maybe, I'll - yanno - play a videogame every now and again. |
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| rock 'em sock 'em robots |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|12:54 am] |
Man oh man it's been a while since I last posted. Just checking my friendspage and seeing What I've Missed On The Internet (multiple cases of ADD, probably an internet death or two, cockfights over E-penis, fangirls going on holy wars) and it's like coming back to a whole different world.
( ANYWAY. )
( But this post is about ROBOTS! )
AND BONUS MEME LAWL
Reply to this with your name and I'll tell you what I think of you - no punches pulled, all honesty.
Afterward, post this in your journal so I can see the same about me satisfy my insecurities. |
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