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I
still hate winter...
Once
again we have been dumped upon... a heavy snowfall combined with
high winds dumped on us something fierce on sunday... i spent the
better part of 3 hours digging out sunday evening... it was a nice
night, i took my time, and amidst the rythym of the work i did a
fair bit of creative thinking... Odd enough no? I'm still struggling
with what direction i want to take several ideas in, I'm still hammering
out an e-comic... i have about 10 unfinished reviews in various
states for the guys over at Daily-reviews who i've been forsaking
for the last two months or so, and on top of that i'm back into
writing, trying to piece together a coherent screenplay, and in
the early planning stages of a little add-on for this site... anyway,
my thoughts, while clearing snow out of my driveway, were on how
to tackle these things... I figure work had calmed down enough to
maybe get some time in there, but i just can't see myself doing
that... The e-comic - i've done a bit of plotting, re-imagining,
and have even entertained the thought of going in a completely different
direction than i'd originally planned... my reviews... they're a
bit of a mess, it would probably take a good three or four days
of focus to straighten that out... and screenplays... well... i
won't get into that stuff. I'd started thinking, maybe i have myself
spread a little too thin... and i need my playtime... just to sit
back and chill with a movie or two or a game... just to keep me
sane... i mean i can't work a 40 hour week, FORCE myself to get
into this extracurricular stuff and not expect the output to suffer
can i? Hell no! So i finished up my shovelling, and the snowplow
roams right past the end of my driveway... thankfully the guy cuts
out so's not to dump me in again, i coulda kissed him for that...
but the next day... more snow, and today? guess what?
I
fucking hate winter...
Musings
on Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Baldur's
Gate: Dark Alliance II... where to begin... ok here goes... magazine
reviewers, and some of you web based reviewers... you guys don't
know shit... in particular the freakin retards at EGM and Official
Playstation Magazine... you call yourselves fucking video-game Journalists!!!!???
Get a fucking clue... The first game was heralded as one of the
best games on the Playstation 2 when it was released in the fall
of 2001... now the sequal, which improves on the predecessor in
every concievable way i might add, is trashed by these idiots!?
EGM i can't take without a bottle of antacid due to their elitist
pretentious writing anyway, but OPM??? Their output has been nosediving
for the past few months with no explenation... it's like they fired
all of their old staff writers and hired on a bunch of muppets with
ADD... Their chief complaint? This game isn't as good as Everquest:
Champions of Norrath... well i've got news for you crackbabies...
the game isn't called Champions of Norrath, maybe i wanted to read
a fucking coherent review of the sequal to a game you guys had labelled
one of the shining stars of the ps2 library, and not a smackdown/love
letter to sony's latest Everquest merchandise... sheesh... I don't
mind you hating a game, but hate it honestly... don't sit there
half cocked, slap a rating on a game and bash the hell out of it
with comparisons to another game... tell me what the fuck is wrong
with this one....I wonder how some of these dickheads get jobs...
ugh. My hats off to IGN.COM and Gamespot.com for being fair with
their reviews... even if there were some bones of contention for
me... they at least were honest in their critiques...
You
want my opinion? Well, this is easily about the best co-operative
multiplayer game out there for the ps2 at the moment, the action-rpg
style reminiscent of Diablo is about as addictive as it gets, the
graphics are elegant, simple but very functional, the sound design
is top notch, and there's even a pretty deep storyline to go along
with it! The game mechanics have been given an overhaul, allowing
for easier access to abilities and such, the level system remains
unchanged, though the feats you pick between levels seem to have
a more noticable effect on your character. The five character classes
are all unique and each of them is extremely cool, very diverse.
And finally the weapon customization is extremely cool... simple
to use, yet expensive so that game balance is maintained... This
one is an all around winner... solid 4.5 -5 out of 5...
Movie
time
Caught
two films of note this week...
A
Bridge Too Far - I've always been a big war film buff... ever
since i discovered Platoon back in Junior high. I'd had this one
sitting on my shelf over a year, yet i'd just never managed to sit
down and take it in... Sunday evening i finally got the chance,
and wow... what a film. Brilliantly staged by Sir Richard Attenborough,
this WWII piece tells the story of Operation: Market Garden, a daring
plan cooked up by Field Marshall Montgomery involving dropping some
35000 men behind enemy lines in Holland and taking control of bridges
allowing the allies to charge into Berlin and end the war by Christmas
1944... The plan was a clusterfuck to say the least, and the battles
fought were intense and devastating. The biggest selling points
for this one were the cast, and the action... first things first...
check this out: Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, James Caan, Edward
Fox, Elliot Gould, Michael Caine, Lawrence Olivier, Dirk Bogarde,
Gene Hackman, and Robert-freakin'-Redford!!! All in one film! And
the scenes? Hundres of planes dumping thousands of men into Holland,
tank battles, shelling, intense firefights in the streets of ruined
Arnhem... man o man... and all of this was accomplished in 1977
on a (then very expensive) 22 million budget! Any fan of a good
world war II film oughta enjoy this one. The DVD is your typical
bare bones MGM stuff... trailer and not much else... picture is
pretty good with no real errors in authoring, but the print is full
of specks, dust and scratches... and there's only a Dolby 2.0 surround
track which is passable for a film this old. There's been a remastered
2 disc set released in Britian that supposedly has an immaculate
picture and a 5.1 remix... hope we see it here some day.
House
of the Dead - yep... this sucked pretty bad. Not near so bad
as i thought it was going to be going in, but still pretty damned
bad... i'd skip it if i were you.
found
a cute little quiz online, answer a few questions and they tell
you which Finding Nemo character you are. Turns out i'm Dory, which
is cool enough i guess, she had me laughing my ass off in the movie...
kind of sucks that i'm a blue female fish though... the lesbian
part is kinda cool i guess...
props
to Kev over at Notanywhereland
for digging this up.
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