Basically, Dragon Ball Z meets Star Trek mixed with Medieval Fantasy stuff. You have... #1- Humans that can fly thanks to built-in jetpacks in special suits. Powered by solar energy and backed up by nuclear (a low-keyed nuclear) batteries. They can activate this by a push of a button on the breastplate (Kinda like how Buzz Lightyear can activate his 'wings' in the Toy Story movies.) #2- Humans fighting with guns, swords (not laser swords, mind you. Actual metal swords), and other weaponry. Oh, and they're able to shoot blasts from special gauntlets. Oh, and there is magic involved...somehow. #3- Set in a steampunk Victorian-style world with aliens. (It's not our Earth, but an Earth-like planet in a fictional galaxy in the year 2941 AD. Earth had long been destroyed, with only a few million survivors who managed to flee. These humans are descended from those survivors.) A weird idea, yeah, but I felt like putting it in my blog. What do you think of it?
I just watched the trailer for Naughty Dog's newest game in development, The Last of Us. Basically, it shows us two characters (a middle-aged man and a teenaged girl) trying to survive in what was once the United States, now plagued by spore-infected people. My inner fear here is that it'll be just like Dead Island. The trailer for that game was moving, and I thought the whole game would be centered around that family we saw. It was not. In fact, the parents are in a very easy to miss hotel room, already dead. The daughter is nowhere to be seen, and the window is not broken. My fear is that it'll be the same thing here. We think it'll center around the middle-aged man and young girl, but the game's just you playing some random guy killing spore-infected people. I know, it's stupid to think like that, but considering Dead Island, I can't help but wonder. Anyway, what I hope to see from this game are the following: #1- Our playable character is the teenaged girl. Since she was the narrator for the whole thing, and the man appears to be a mentor/guardian for her, it could make sense. After all, Uncharted has that menter/guardian and kid thing in Sully and Drake. Obviously, they're in a totally different universe, but you get my meaning. Of course, I don't have a problem if we end up playing the guy, 'k? I just think it'd be a breath of fresh air if we got to play as the girl this time around. #2- Open-world. This is a post-apocalyptic setting! I want to explore the city and its surrounding areas, see for myself how it's been affected by this thing. Though whether they'll let you ditch your partner or you'll have to drag him/her (depending on who's the player character) with you remains to be seen. #3- Being able to store supplies in the backpack. I mean, that's why the girl presumably has it, no? So she and her mentor/guide can store whatever they can find in there.
I’ve had at least two dreams involving characters from the anime show called Dragon Ball Z and those two times, it featured Gohan in his teens (circa Cell era), blind, his eyes a flat bluish-green and glazed over with a film. The first dream, he had just been blinded and was training with his father, Goku, and friend, Krillin in how to use “chi” to sense things. Krillin tests him by chucking a pinecone at him, which Gohan catches without effort. This moves Goku so much that he walks out and gives Gohan a big hug. The next dream involving blind Gohan takes place a bit later. Apparently, something happened in the timespan, as he’s now bitter and feeling helpless. He is in a desert traveling with a Bedouin-esque girl. He suddenly flies up into the air and says with determination: “I am Gohan…and I am strong…” before he begins to power up with a loud yell. The girl, shocked at the spectacle, asks him what’s going on. Moments later, a hovercraft appears. It’s Goku and co., and they were apparently looking for him. Goku sees what’s happening and is genuinely relieved that his son’s safe while amazed at how powerful the boy had gotten. It was clear to me that Gohan, at some point, ran away and had been missing for a month at least. I've had those two dreams within a month. I wonder if that's my brain's way of trying to tell me something? Have you all ever had two seperate dreams that had a common theme to it?
Okay, apparently insomnia has decided to screw with me in a big way. Normally, I'd go to sleep around 10:30-11:00 pm when I have insomnia, but this time, this time, it decides to frickin' blitzkreig me as now I am incapable of falling asleep. It's 12:18 am now. I doubt I'll be able to go to sleep any time soon. So I'm just doing some school work, surfing the internet. God, I think I need sleeping pills. If that's what I'm going to have to take, then that's what I'm going to have to take. Why does it do this when I'm in a school semester? It had all last summer to do it, where it would be completely inconsequential if I wasn't able to go to sleep. However, it decided to do it now. At least Monday's class doesn't start until 9:00 am. At least there's no big exams tomorrow.
Yesterday, I got an email from Gamefly that stated that my first game I ordered, Alice: The Madness Returns was being shipped. Basically, the game is a gritty spin-off of Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland and Alice: Through The Looking Glass. I don’t know why, but I just love those kind of gritty reboots of classics. Know what other gritty reboot they could do? Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I even did a little art on MS Paint. Pretty cool, huh? I’m not sure of the premises though. All I know is that in this hypothetical gritty videogame reboot, you’d play as Oliver Twist himself…only instead of watching him cry and be miserable 99% of the time, you’d be killing everyone that had wronged him. What he lacks in physical strength (as he’s, what? Ten?) He excels in cunning, stealth, and tactics. No hesitation, no mercy. His first victim? That guy in the orphanage that beat him because the kid “wanted some more food”. Then followed by Bill Sikes and Fagin and Monks who are all trying to keep Oliver from his family fortune. *LOUD AUDIBLE GASP* That would make an epic gritty reboot! The corruption of the poor house business, etc. Of course, someone would have take this little ten-year-old SOB down, right? So…maybe reports go to Queen Victoria that some little orphaned boy is running around London killing people and is threatening to destabilize her rule. What is she going to do? Send an agent to take him down and fast!! Since he shows no mercy to his victims, the agent must not show mercy to him. Hmmm...I wonder if someone should write this. Would anyone object to someone taking the themes of poorhousing corruption and injecting assassins into it by turning wee lil' Oliver Twist into a cold-blooded killer?? Oh, and the game will have to be set in an exact replica of 1830s London, England, not a building misidentified or misplaced because I'm hopelessly OCD like that.
Why would I live in Dover, Kent, England? Cliffs of Dover http://www.glogster.com/media/4/34/60/7/34600778.jpg Um, I just noticed that there are no rails. Has anyone actually...fallen off the cliffs? Dover Castle http://www.uk-photos.co.uk/aerial/kent_dover_castle.jpg Incredibly close to France. Want to go to France? Get in my boat and we'll sail the Channel! Plus, it's not as cold as it is in Scotland, I don't think.
Long ago, back in the Christmas holidays, I posted a little poem called "I Love Math" when discussing the proper use of irony. Well...ironically I have now come to respect the very thing I use to scorn and detest. When I leave PreCal and math forever, it'll be as friends, not enemies. Math has taught me something. Sure no one will stop me on the road years from now and ask me to help them compute the total area of a football field, but it's taught me how to think logically, critically, step-by-step. Math, as my grandpa and Cogito told me, is like a language. Once you crack the code, it all starts to make sense. Well, Gramps and Cogito, I never believed it. I honestly thought you two were just fooling with me, insane even. But the both of ya were right. It is a language, so to speak. A language of numbers and formulas. It's actually pretty fun! Though I won't be taking Calculus.
I feel like I've entered a time warp. One minute it was January 18th, the first day of the semester and now it's May 1st, just 11 days from summer. How did this happen? Jesus, next thing I know, I'll be 42 years old... It'll be the signs of time when I wake up one morning and say "Wait, I'm 40 now? Can't be, I'm 22..." Oi...
Why, when for once in my life, I could pretend I was mute, did I open my damned mouth and ask my Fiction Writing teacher if I could hand in yet another story for critique? Don't get me wrong, I don't mind writing (generally), but I've already handed in two mysteries (The Amos Garnier and Heridon Copper things). I don't know what to write!! I had considered my sci-fi story, but the prologue, where Helen Chert meets Kenthew as a baby, I find it too nauseating. They may not like that prologue, although it's kinda important as I can introduce the conflict of Devonians vs Altrans, etc. I am also considering writing the first chapter of the Memoirs of Omar Bailey, but while I'm cool writing about dear Omar, I am afraid I'll just be making crap up with the plot of the first story. I have to turn it in this Thursday. Why did I do it? WHY??
I just realized that I might be turning into a British person: #1- I love and respect Queen Elizabeth II, even though I know she doesn't exactly hold any real power. #2- I've adopted some British slang into my vocabulary and have found myself muttering them under my breath. #3- I love and respect British history. #4- I've taken an interest in British politics. #5- I'm reading British literature. (ie, the Master and Commander series.) ...I should just go on ahead and move to Britain, then. XD
http://booksandpals.blogspot.com/2011/03/greek-seaman-jacqueline-howett.html Long story short, a guy named AL posted a review to Jacqueline Howett's book and it apparently didn't suit her tastes. What does she do? She logs in and starts ranting and raving about how she writes just fine and no one on there understands her. She even tells one person to F-off when they don't defend her. Basically, she acts like a spoil child that no one treats as the princess. Seriously, follow up on it. This is what every beginning writer should think about before they even put pen to paper: "Can I accept the fact that some people may not like my work, even go as far as hating it and mocking it at every turn? Can I handle reading a review that doesn't praise it? Can I handle it like a rational human being, learn from the critics and make my futue stories better?" If the answer is no, then the beginning writer should consider not publishing until he/he is ready to face reality. Thoughts?
*SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!!* Okay, in Fable III, you basically create a revolution to oust your evil tyrannical brother of a king named Logan. #1- This is the big one. Logan later reveals that the reason he was being such a dick to the people of Albion for the past four years before the game started was because he was trying to save the country from a unexplained shadow force hell bent on eradicating their way of life for some inexplicable reason other than they "hate the light". Uh, Logie? D'ya think that was important when you first heard of it!? What, you'd think the people would pull a Mass Effect by saying: "Ah yes, *finger quotes* crawlers *fnger quotes*. A sentinent race of shadow beings hell bent on eradicating all life as we know it. We've already dismissed that claim."? If my country were being invaded, I'd damn well hope Obama would tell us! That's...that's just what rulers do in a situation like this! "Hey, just fyi, we're about to be invaded so we'd better prepare and FAST!!" #2- It's not exactly a revolution if you're just ousting the leader, is it? That's called a coup, right? A revolution when you're tearing down the entire government structure and constructing a new one. Because it seems that the problem wasn't the monarchy, it was the monarch in power. #3- Speaking of Crawlers: Just...what the frell are they? They do nothing but hiss that they hate the light, love darkness and the children embrace everyone. Aaah, so confusing. Still a great game, though.
WARNING!! MASSIVE SPOILERS!!! Don't come in if you haven't played the Mass Effect series or haven't played Mass Effect 2. Before we begin, I'll refer to Sheperd as a female, because that's who she is in my game. As I was playing Mass Effect 2, running around the Normandy, various odd things just hit me. They are: The Death and Resurrection of Commader Sheperd Short version of what happens in the opening cinema: A big ass ship that looks like a demonically-possessed potatoe owns the first Normandy hard. Everyone evacuates except your character who is killed in the blast trying to get the stubborn Joker (the sarcastic dude, not Batman's villain) into an escape pod. A team known as Cerberus collects your rotting corpse and initiates a project called "Lazarus" where they spend two years rebuilding you. Issues I have with this: #1- We very clearly see Sheperd's body descending toward a nearby planet. Why did her body not burn into a crisp as she entered its atmosphere? #2- Think they put those clothes on your skeleton before they built you? Nope. Chances are your Shepard spent two years lying naked on an operating table, only to be clothed for the final tests. #3- I can get rebuilding/reviving someone to look exactly how they were before they died, but what I can't wrap my mind around is being able to restore Sheperd's personality. Like Scott and later Ethan from CTRL+ALT+DEL said about Zeke, they can rebuild Zeke's physical body countless times, but Zeke's personality, what makes Zeke who he is, they can't replicate that. So how is Cerberus able to replicate Sheperd's personality? Were they just that lucky? Joker #1- It's revealed in the first Mass Effect game that Joker has a condition that makes the bones in his legs hollow. In the next game, we see him move just fine with a limp and a hunched position. Okay, so he joined Cerberus and got them to fix his legs up a little. Question: Why not, instead of just a little, they said "Know what, Joker? We'll rebuild your legs so you can walk just as well as the rest of us." and did it. If restoring someone to life was possible for Cerberus, having Joker be able to use his legs properly should be by no means a difficult task. Just use implants and inject chemicals to strengthen the bones in his legs and feet and presto! Well, those are the reasons the game makes no sense to me. Feel free to add in any comments. =D
Irony. Not a lot of folks are good at this. Let's see if I can master it. Now, before I start this little ditty, let it be known that I hate Math. I am not good at it and I'm worried about Pre-Cal for next semester. Okay, with that said, let's begin the song!! I love Math. Math loves me. We are good at everything. With a great big mind, and a pencil at the side. We can accomplish everything.
It is that time again, ladies and gentlemen for the reviews! Today I shall review Uncharted 2: Among Thieves for the PS3. I know, I was supposed to play the first one...first since I have it as well, but I figured "Aw, what the heck, I love this game too and am almost done. I'll beat this and play the first one." I really love this game. It brings to life eveything I expect from an adventure game. It's what National Treasure and its sequel should've been. (I liked the movies, but it was...kinda bland.) I actually feel as if I'm Drake. I mean, I catch myself whispering words of encouragements like I'm in that situation and talking to myself. As for the cons? I couldn't find any racist undertones of the game the critics spoke of unless the critics think having an argument with your black/Asian female companion is racist. Some minuses from me are that some events can be predictable. Nate finds a big clue and gets caught by the bad guys. Sometimes it gets old fast. I also noticed that it also has the cliche where the bad guys have British/Russian accents and the good guys have American ones. This game manages to have both evil British and evil Russian accents. Of course, the British accents sound very Australian to me. So maybe evil Australian accent? At any rate, here is my final score! 9.5/10 Can't wait to play the first one. XD