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Sep. 24th, 2012 12:31 amI LOVE OGLAF.
Also, there are about 5 million films I want to see on at the moment. At last count, Judge Dredd, Lawless, The Sweeney, When The Lights Went Out, Killing Them Softly and Savages, although maybe not Savages, because apparently it's directed by Oliver Stone, and I'm not terribly in the mood for a lot of blood and gore. Unless I am thinking am Sam Peckinpah. But anyway, the fact remains that I don't have time to see them all. I'd still quite like to see Ted, but I think that's gone from cinemas now. Which is nice, because this week it was only on at Xscape at about twenty to nine at night, and Xscape is kind of a bitch to get back from late at night. And maybe the only thing worse than it being impossible to do something, is for it to be possible but massively massively inconvenient.
Also in film-related news, I accidentally saw most of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last night. The remake in English, but still set in Sweden. I say accidentally, because I came down to have tea, and my dad put it on, and by the time I was finished with tea I wanted to see how it ended. I didn't realise it was about 3 hours long. Anyway. ( Spoilers and mention of rape )
In videogame news, I am quite happily get along with Fallout 3, Overlord and Bioshock. All of which are great. The only 'issue' is that since playing Fallout 3, I'm kind of assuming my characters are female in all other games as well. Or at least in those two games. I don't know, I'm just used to playing as a female character, and characterising my characters as female. I MAY NEVER GO BACK. In Overlord, they call you a man a lot, but you're wearing quite a lot of armour, and you never speak, and your main weapon is your minions who you direct to attack other people. So you could literally be anyone under there. And Bioshock is in the first person, all you can see of your character is your hands, and you have no name so far and you never speak, so it's pretty easy to assume you're a woman there as well. And if people keep calling you 'son' and 'mister' and sort of hitting on you if they're a woman while implying you're a man, WHAT OF IT? Everyone's crazy in Rapture. What would they know?
I'm really enjoying Overlord, also. It's probably actually better than Dungeon Keeper, but I still miss Dungeon Keeper. I think that's the one downside videogames and videogame fandoms have compared to books and films and stuff - when you feel nostalgic over a book you used to love as a kid, you can read it again, but that's not always the case with vidoegames. Or at least PC games. I know there's issues with films and VHS and stuff, but they seem pretty happy to bring out quite a lot of things on VHS back out again on DVD, and with games not so much. IDK, maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. Although talking about nostalgia is sort of making me want to play Morrowind and Ghost Master again. Sigh.
Also, there are about 5 million films I want to see on at the moment. At last count, Judge Dredd, Lawless, The Sweeney, When The Lights Went Out, Killing Them Softly and Savages, although maybe not Savages, because apparently it's directed by Oliver Stone, and I'm not terribly in the mood for a lot of blood and gore. Unless I am thinking am Sam Peckinpah. But anyway, the fact remains that I don't have time to see them all. I'd still quite like to see Ted, but I think that's gone from cinemas now. Which is nice, because this week it was only on at Xscape at about twenty to nine at night, and Xscape is kind of a bitch to get back from late at night. And maybe the only thing worse than it being impossible to do something, is for it to be possible but massively massively inconvenient.
Also in film-related news, I accidentally saw most of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo last night. The remake in English, but still set in Sweden. I say accidentally, because I came down to have tea, and my dad put it on, and by the time I was finished with tea I wanted to see how it ended. I didn't realise it was about 3 hours long. Anyway. ( Spoilers and mention of rape )
In videogame news, I am quite happily get along with Fallout 3, Overlord and Bioshock. All of which are great. The only 'issue' is that since playing Fallout 3, I'm kind of assuming my characters are female in all other games as well. Or at least in those two games. I don't know, I'm just used to playing as a female character, and characterising my characters as female. I MAY NEVER GO BACK. In Overlord, they call you a man a lot, but you're wearing quite a lot of armour, and you never speak, and your main weapon is your minions who you direct to attack other people. So you could literally be anyone under there. And Bioshock is in the first person, all you can see of your character is your hands, and you have no name so far and you never speak, so it's pretty easy to assume you're a woman there as well. And if people keep calling you 'son' and 'mister' and sort of hitting on you if they're a woman while implying you're a man, WHAT OF IT? Everyone's crazy in Rapture. What would they know?
I'm really enjoying Overlord, also. It's probably actually better than Dungeon Keeper, but I still miss Dungeon Keeper. I think that's the one downside videogames and videogame fandoms have compared to books and films and stuff - when you feel nostalgic over a book you used to love as a kid, you can read it again, but that's not always the case with vidoegames. Or at least PC games. I know there's issues with films and VHS and stuff, but they seem pretty happy to bring out quite a lot of things on VHS back out again on DVD, and with games not so much. IDK, maybe I'm just not trying hard enough. Although talking about nostalgia is sort of making me want to play Morrowind and Ghost Master again. Sigh.
