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Thursday, April 14, 2005
Be obscene, baby. | I noticed that Tony had mentioned IGN's reviews on his page. And that reminded me of the Doom 3 review I read at 1UP.com today.
I suppose my reaction was something like this: o_O
Sure, the game is atmospheric. And certainly, it has impressive visuals. And understandably, it's a good fit for Xbox. But seriously, what about the extreme repetition? The fact that reading emails gets boring after the dozenth one?
I don't know. Maybe others have enjoyed this game more than myself, but really, it doesn't do anything whatsoever to push first person shooters forward. Calling it a first person shooter is appropriate, because it certainly isn't coming close to anything else - I wouldn't flatter it by calling it a "first person adventure" or even necessarily a "survival horror" title.
Speaking of 1UP.com, some people over there are just nasty. One guy was saying that Dreamcast was the first game console to go online at all. I made the mistake of mentioning the 64DD Randnet service in Japan and, uh oh...I get told I know nothing and am an idiot. Okay. lol
This makes me think about the way that game sites let people comment on news. If you go to 1UP or any other game site that allows commenting on news, you invariably seem to find a bunch of stupid comments. Everything from "OMG!!1111 SONY'S TAKING OVER THE UNIVERSE!!!!" to "MS INVENTED IT FIRST FUK U!!"
You really don't see a lot of intelligent discussion. It's kind of discouraging. Some people seem to spend so much time talking crap that they don't seem to be just enjoying what they have.
I mean, if you look at PSP for instance, you can say it has problems. But so does DS. So does every system. Why bash it? Because you don't own it and you want to justify your purchase of a competing product? Screw you.
In terms of gaming in general, things have been pretty quiet for me lately. I've only bought two games within the last few months.
Those are Gran Turismo 4 and Resident Evil 4.
GT4 is wonderful. I don't know what else can be said. It's truly the best driving game that exists - that is, if you are interested in simulations. Even the interface in the game is fantastic - it's so so much better than GT3. Everything is so clear and easy to use, I love it.
In addition, there are finally a few more Australian cars in the game. Yay. They could have afforded to include more, however. But still, given the depth and breadth of the vehicle line-up, it's quite impressive.
And RE4...well, I posted about that on OB. Brilliant game. Absolutely brilliant. I'm so pleased with the direction they took. As a longtime Resident Evil fan, I strongly approve. I would certainly love to see a game with this type of gameplay set in an urban environment, because of the many possibilities that offers (especially if you had more interactive environments). Still, whatever they do in future...I hope RE4 is only a first step. If they can build on that, I'll be buying future titles without question.
My next big purchase will probably come from the paid freelance work I'm doing at the moment. I am planning to buy a Japanese Nintendo DS with Electroplankton. The game seems to have very minimal language, which makes it very import friendly. In addition, the Japanese packaging is simply gorgeous. A must-own, I think.
I will be buying one of those new DS colours, which launches later this month. Two colours have already launched, but the other two (pink and blue) are coming out in a couple of weeks. I'll be getting the blue one. Of course, I'd kill for that special Electroplankton version of the DS...
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