Thursday, April 22, 2004

   Point-and-click ^_~
Song of the Day: "What Can I Do For You?" - Koda Kumi (FFX-2)
Current Mood: Enthusiastic!
Current Obsession: Point-and-click games
Actor of the Day: Eric Szmanda - CSI (Greg Sanders)
Quote of the Day: "It's worth the risk of being hurt a hundred times, if you can find that once, when you're not." ~ Mamo-chan

Well, I should really be battling the moster that is revision, but I've decided you guys are good enough to be blessed with my divine and holy presence ^_~

I think, what I'm going to do today, is talk about something I haven't talked about in a good long while. Videogames

Now, as some of you may or may not know, I want to go to university to study video games technology, like the programming and modelling etc. (That, incidentally is why I'm freaking out in maths - but pfft.)

Does anyone remember a kickbutt game, around 1996, called Ripper? It was released by a company called Take2, and it had music in it by the "Blue Oyster Cult". That song, "Don't Fear the Reaper" is, by the way, the only decent song they've ever released ~_~;;

The game was basically about a reporter, who kept getting mail from a cyberkiller, way into the future. Kind of like Jack the Ripper here in England. Then the Ripper puts Jake's (the main reporter's) girlfriend and partner into a coma, and Jake takes it upon himself to solve the case. It was the graphics that first caught my attention. It runs in DOS (damn my CPU greedy XP) and does the whole 3D thing. The videos, while not the quality they are today, were pretty damn decent.

And, of course, it was a point and click in which it was near impossible to die ^_~ Gotta love those "games-where-you-can't-die" huh? It was kinda gruesome as well, which I liked. I don't like games that bathe in blood, but I like them to be mature about it. Not to be afraid of the red stuff. Just the same way that I don't like verbally abusive games, but I like them to show they know what f--k means. *shrugs* Maybe that makes me wierd.

Under a Killing Moon was another game like Ripper, but, I dunno. It didn't hold quite the same appeal. You could die all too easily in it, and if you hadn't saved you were stuffed. Action games, fair enough, you can die. That's the whole point of the genre right? Hand-eye co-ordination. But puzzle games, no. Another game, that I'd heartily reccomend to fans of the show is CSI. The second game CSI: Dark Motives is supposed to be better, but I won't know that until I've played it. I think it's at the post-office now, waiting for me to go pay a cutoms charge. I just hope they don't want, like, my week's wages or something ~_~;; And don't get me started on the Monkey Island set of games. We could be here a long time ^_~

Well, I think I've bored you guys enough by now ^_^;; Go back to whatever you were doing, hmm?
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