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Finally played RE4 yesterday afternoon. Totally awesome. The controls and camera are a huge improvement over the previous games. And you can hold more. And your knife doesn't take up any inventory slots! And its egg-citing! Anyhoo, the part where you're in the village and everyone starts attacking you that's been shown in the commercials and various trailers on line is freaky! I mean, sure, you have a gun, and they have pitchforks and knives, but they're unrelenting! And hard to kill. Yeah, you can make headshots in this one, but that's actually not a one-shot kill! They'll get stunned, but they'll keep on coming. I actually died a few of times before getting it right, twice by some freak in a hood decapitating me with a chainsaw! I dunno, the gameplay videos they had online shows Leon holing up in the two story house and having to fight them all off. Which while pretty cool with having to block the windows and kick down ladders, it spawns chainsaw guy, who is hard to kill! Or mebbe I shoulda tried using the shotgun on him.
The time I finally got it right though was scary. I just backed into a house with just one doorway and put my back against the wall so they'd be in a bottleneck and I didn't have to move that much to aim. Which was fine, until I ran out of bullets! so I had to run through the group and get some distance. Luckily, I had a grenade and that killed the remaining villagers. I think you're supposed to use the grenade more in sitches like that. You know, whenever they get in a big clump like that, toss it. Its just I'm always wary of using grenades. Its like I should save these for something else since I have so few of them, when this is the case I should be saving them for. Though I was always skeptical of their effectiveness in games like this. I'm always thinking that I'm gonna toss it and they're all gonna walk out of the blast radius before it blows up. But it worked.
It does have many similarities to MGS though! I mean, you don't have a codec, but you do have a walkie talkie that keeps you in contact with some hottie glasses wearing techie. And there's freaking claymores you need to detonate, much like having to shoot out the sensors on the c4 planted on the ship in MGS2. And there is a lot of sneaking around to do.
Wednesday night TV:
A very interesting ep tonight. Does Walt have weird powers? And Link wasn't an absentee dad by choice. And I guess Walt's mother didn't really want Link to have the kid when she died, this Brian guy is just a dick. Although in his defense, not only is Walt not his real son (and of a different color!) the kid seems to have creepy powers! Just like Claire's baby! Speaking of, that was a shocking twist, Claire reappearing, sans baby! But getting back to Walt, it woulda been amusing to see the conversation when he asks, why is this a picture of a guy in a full body cast blowing out the candles on a b-day cake? Also creepy is Boone being the loyal disciple of Locke now.
Just a normal run of the mill ep. I swear I saw the chick who played the Irish chick (Kelly Macdonald) somewhere besides Trainspotting and that movie with Stephen Dorff doing the video for U-2. Entropy, I think? I mean, I thought when watching Entropy, I was all, "Isn't that the chick from X"? Or mebbe when I saw Trainspotting (which I still haven't seen all the way through) I was all "Isn't that the chick from Entropy?" Sad that her brother accidentally killed her. The whole picture thing was interesting. And Jack's such a liar its hard to believe what he says, but the story was believable. But is there a third sister or a cousin out there?
Finally finished the latest Kare Kano last night. Its good to finally see this dark side Arima keeps on talking about him having. It was getting a little confusing when he'd be all I can't let Yukino know about my dark side in previous issues. I was all, what dark side? I mean, he has loving step-parents, a great girlfriend madly in love with him, lots of extremely loyal and talented friends, the adoration of everyone at school (hell, most kids his age!) he's the top of his class, and a star athlete. Surely that had to show he overcame the supposed bad blood of his real parents, I was thinking. But now it makes a lot more cents! I mean, they've shown his cousins to be dicks before, but showing part of his motivation to be so great was so he can have the upper hand in the twisted family politics was really interesting. I was wondering where this control issue that was hinted at several books ago was coming from.
But I like this story line, its something I can totally get. I know exactly what kind of games his family plays are like. So I can see why he's so mad and why he wants revenge. But I don't see why that takes him on a different path then Miyazawa. I think he needs her to temper him, so he should try harder to stay together rather than be all, "You're gonna leave me!"
The time I finally got it right though was scary. I just backed into a house with just one doorway and put my back against the wall so they'd be in a bottleneck and I didn't have to move that much to aim. Which was fine, until I ran out of bullets! so I had to run through the group and get some distance. Luckily, I had a grenade and that killed the remaining villagers. I think you're supposed to use the grenade more in sitches like that. You know, whenever they get in a big clump like that, toss it. Its just I'm always wary of using grenades. Its like I should save these for something else since I have so few of them, when this is the case I should be saving them for. Though I was always skeptical of their effectiveness in games like this. I'm always thinking that I'm gonna toss it and they're all gonna walk out of the blast radius before it blows up. But it worked.
It does have many similarities to MGS though! I mean, you don't have a codec, but you do have a walkie talkie that keeps you in contact with some hottie glasses wearing techie. And there's freaking claymores you need to detonate, much like having to shoot out the sensors on the c4 planted on the ship in MGS2. And there is a lot of sneaking around to do.
Wednesday night TV:
A very interesting ep tonight. Does Walt have weird powers? And Link wasn't an absentee dad by choice. And I guess Walt's mother didn't really want Link to have the kid when she died, this Brian guy is just a dick. Although in his defense, not only is Walt not his real son (and of a different color!) the kid seems to have creepy powers! Just like Claire's baby! Speaking of, that was a shocking twist, Claire reappearing, sans baby! But getting back to Walt, it woulda been amusing to see the conversation when he asks, why is this a picture of a guy in a full body cast blowing out the candles on a b-day cake? Also creepy is Boone being the loyal disciple of Locke now.
Just a normal run of the mill ep. I swear I saw the chick who played the Irish chick (Kelly Macdonald) somewhere besides Trainspotting and that movie with Stephen Dorff doing the video for U-2. Entropy, I think? I mean, I thought when watching Entropy, I was all, "Isn't that the chick from X"? Or mebbe when I saw Trainspotting (which I still haven't seen all the way through) I was all "Isn't that the chick from Entropy?" Sad that her brother accidentally killed her. The whole picture thing was interesting. And Jack's such a liar its hard to believe what he says, but the story was believable. But is there a third sister or a cousin out there?
Finally finished the latest Kare Kano last night. Its good to finally see this dark side Arima keeps on talking about him having. It was getting a little confusing when he'd be all I can't let Yukino know about my dark side in previous issues. I was all, what dark side? I mean, he has loving step-parents, a great girlfriend madly in love with him, lots of extremely loyal and talented friends, the adoration of everyone at school (hell, most kids his age!) he's the top of his class, and a star athlete. Surely that had to show he overcame the supposed bad blood of his real parents, I was thinking. But now it makes a lot more cents! I mean, they've shown his cousins to be dicks before, but showing part of his motivation to be so great was so he can have the upper hand in the twisted family politics was really interesting. I was wondering where this control issue that was hinted at several books ago was coming from.
But I like this story line, its something I can totally get. I know exactly what kind of games his family plays are like. So I can see why he's so mad and why he wants revenge. But I don't see why that takes him on a different path then Miyazawa. I think he needs her to temper him, so he should try harder to stay together rather than be all, "You're gonna leave me!"