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Apr. 7th, 2013 12:06 amThe only thing I really have to talk about is computer games, and I'm pretty sure no-one on my flist will know about them or care. I'm not sure what the spoiler policy is about things people probably don't care about.
But I am playing games. The ending of Mass Effect was so weird and sad and slightly unrelated to the game/s that came before it that it kind of put me off games altogether for a little while. Just in case I couldn't trust any of them. I remember what I loved about Mass Effect and mostly got over that though. I have had to sort of leave the Mass Effect fandom though, just because seeing the constant prompts for FemShep stuff was sort of making me feel like the ManShep I loved didn't exist. But. I digress.
I'm playing VENETICA. Which is amazing. I've been wanting to play it since I saw it in a CEX a few months ago, and I finally started. It's...well, it's hard to explain. If you have ever played Black and White 2, the animation and voice acting is largely at the level of the cutscenes in that. Except for certain things, like Scarlett's FACE. I love it when you can tell which is the main character and which is the one the game developers love the most because their face looks the most like an actual face. And she gets a storyline. And she gets powers. She's the daughter of death, that's not a spoiler it's on the back cover, and her true love dies in one of the first cutscenes (that is kind of a spoiler), and everyone's like 'Scarlett, you've got to go save the WORLD now', and she's like '...but my boyfriend JUST died. And I'm not really prepared for any of this. And also, what the hell is going on?'. She copes super well though. They keep giving her weird 'customised' armour, like with the back missing or her stomach showing. But I sticking with plate mail, and that seems to be covering most of the bits it should. And I LOVE IT.
Also I finally downloaded and starting playing Okami, a game I wanted to play when it first came out on Playstation 2, but I didn't have a Playstation 2. You play as a wolf. Who's actually a goddess. It's genuinely probably one of the most beautiful games, or things, I've ever seen. They do also have some problems with costuming for their female characters - except the wolf (so far) - like they just can't help putting that stuff in, because why not? But I'm trying to ignore that. Well, it's hard to ignore when it's actually onscreen. But it's not onscreen very often. And apart from that, the game is great. The only real problem is that the buttons for the game menu and the in-game inventory in Okami are the exact opposite to what they are in Venetica. But I'm hoping to just get used to that. Because it's incredibly irritating.
Also I started replaying Infamous 2 again, because I love Cole McGrath, I love New Marais and all the graphics, and I love Joseph Bertrand even though he's a massive jerk. I'm probably going to give it up in favour of more Okami and Venetica though.
( My weird dreams, featuring a few Hollywood actors )
But I am playing games. The ending of Mass Effect was so weird and sad and slightly unrelated to the game/s that came before it that it kind of put me off games altogether for a little while. Just in case I couldn't trust any of them. I remember what I loved about Mass Effect and mostly got over that though. I have had to sort of leave the Mass Effect fandom though, just because seeing the constant prompts for FemShep stuff was sort of making me feel like the ManShep I loved didn't exist. But. I digress.
I'm playing VENETICA. Which is amazing. I've been wanting to play it since I saw it in a CEX a few months ago, and I finally started. It's...well, it's hard to explain. If you have ever played Black and White 2, the animation and voice acting is largely at the level of the cutscenes in that. Except for certain things, like Scarlett's FACE. I love it when you can tell which is the main character and which is the one the game developers love the most because their face looks the most like an actual face. And she gets a storyline. And she gets powers. She's the daughter of death, that's not a spoiler it's on the back cover, and her true love dies in one of the first cutscenes (that is kind of a spoiler), and everyone's like 'Scarlett, you've got to go save the WORLD now', and she's like '...but my boyfriend JUST died. And I'm not really prepared for any of this. And also, what the hell is going on?'. She copes super well though. They keep giving her weird 'customised' armour, like with the back missing or her stomach showing. But I sticking with plate mail, and that seems to be covering most of the bits it should. And I LOVE IT.
Also I finally downloaded and starting playing Okami, a game I wanted to play when it first came out on Playstation 2, but I didn't have a Playstation 2. You play as a wolf. Who's actually a goddess. It's genuinely probably one of the most beautiful games, or things, I've ever seen. They do also have some problems with costuming for their female characters - except the wolf (so far) - like they just can't help putting that stuff in, because why not? But I'm trying to ignore that. Well, it's hard to ignore when it's actually onscreen. But it's not onscreen very often. And apart from that, the game is great. The only real problem is that the buttons for the game menu and the in-game inventory in Okami are the exact opposite to what they are in Venetica. But I'm hoping to just get used to that. Because it's incredibly irritating.
Also I started replaying Infamous 2 again, because I love Cole McGrath, I love New Marais and all the graphics, and I love Joseph Bertrand even though he's a massive jerk. I'm probably going to give it up in favour of more Okami and Venetica though.
( My weird dreams, featuring a few Hollywood actors )
