A Late Spring Cleaning
Well, I'm taking a hiatus from WoW. The housework and my other creative works have suffered long enough. I've been WoW free for over two weeks now- and heck if I didn't mop the kitchen floor two days ago. I won't mention when the last time that occured was. I can almost see the laundry room shelves again now that they aren't crammed with finished laundry. Yes, this means I'm using the closet now for more than storing my old art. Utterly shocking.
So, the technical issues aside, the XBOX is functional on my hubby's PC. Aside from having to adjust the volume each time the TV function is turned on, works fabulous. Rented Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Bloodrayne 2 a couple weeks ago.
I loved Bloodrayne a couple years ago. I see where things are a lot more fleshed out as far as graphics are concerned now with 2, but I think Majesco kinda goofed up. Rayne went from dhamiress to simply vamp trash. Please people, I can forgive seeing polys fight and flicker with the sometimes buggy in-game cloth, but what gives to making Rayne look like she belongs on a street corner? The addition of a side-kick is amiss too and a poor story crutch.
I found a lack of plot for the most part, frustrating "puzzles", button-mash fests, and full of time sinks. At times the game was too easy as a result of aspects and auras that went beyond the original. At least the original I didn't have to pull up a game guide to figure out how to get past the many ill-thoughtful encounters.
All in all, I don't see how anyone finished this game in a resonable amount of time without cheats. The design is flawed. I enjoyed a couple of things, but I absolutely hated the Carpathian Dragons. Most of the game they had little to no use. No skill needed here people, just normal teenage zeal. The only reason to pick this up is if you want to see Rayne do a couple new decapitations. Learning new 'combat' moves is there only to imply charater progression.
Rental Only, Kiddies.
Hubby on the other hand, hogged KotOR2. We haven't until recently even seen the first one (we purchased after he completed KotOR2 if that's any indication to how much he loved it) so this was a gamble. He stayed up until eight a.m. some mornings playing. I haven't seen him play like this since we first bought Neverwinter Nights. He loves his character, the supporting characters, being able to break things down to make medpacks, making lightsabers... After we returned the rental, he saw reviews saying KotOR 2 was pale in comparison to the original.
Misfortune to us, KotOR 1 apparently has fewer ways to play the character, a clumsier inventory system, and other such non-finesed features that plague first release titles. I don't doubt that he would have enjoyed it better to have played them in order, that way it would have looked like an improvement as opposed to obviously backward. He hasn't played in a couple of days.
KotOR 2 = wait til the price drops and snap this puppy home!
I saw the E3 release of the Dead or Alive 4 trailer... utterly jaw dropping. CLOTH!! PARTICLES!! PHYSICS!!
You can tell they used motion capture too.
I want an XBOX 360. and a tuner card for myself so we don't have to fight over playing it or the XBOX. I still love my Soul Calibur 2.
*cries* Square is crazy.
Kameo look pretty interesting too despite some of the chibi-ish game art.
So, the technical issues aside, the XBOX is functional on my hubby's PC. Aside from having to adjust the volume each time the TV function is turned on, works fabulous. Rented Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Bloodrayne 2 a couple weeks ago.
I loved Bloodrayne a couple years ago. I see where things are a lot more fleshed out as far as graphics are concerned now with 2, but I think Majesco kinda goofed up. Rayne went from dhamiress to simply vamp trash. Please people, I can forgive seeing polys fight and flicker with the sometimes buggy in-game cloth, but what gives to making Rayne look like she belongs on a street corner? The addition of a side-kick is amiss too and a poor story crutch.
I found a lack of plot for the most part, frustrating "puzzles", button-mash fests, and full of time sinks. At times the game was too easy as a result of aspects and auras that went beyond the original. At least the original I didn't have to pull up a game guide to figure out how to get past the many ill-thoughtful encounters.
All in all, I don't see how anyone finished this game in a resonable amount of time without cheats. The design is flawed. I enjoyed a couple of things, but I absolutely hated the Carpathian Dragons. Most of the game they had little to no use. No skill needed here people, just normal teenage zeal. The only reason to pick this up is if you want to see Rayne do a couple new decapitations. Learning new 'combat' moves is there only to imply charater progression.
Rental Only, Kiddies.
Hubby on the other hand, hogged KotOR2. We haven't until recently even seen the first one (we purchased after he completed KotOR2 if that's any indication to how much he loved it) so this was a gamble. He stayed up until eight a.m. some mornings playing. I haven't seen him play like this since we first bought Neverwinter Nights. He loves his character, the supporting characters, being able to break things down to make medpacks, making lightsabers... After we returned the rental, he saw reviews saying KotOR 2 was pale in comparison to the original.
Misfortune to us, KotOR 1 apparently has fewer ways to play the character, a clumsier inventory system, and other such non-finesed features that plague first release titles. I don't doubt that he would have enjoyed it better to have played them in order, that way it would have looked like an improvement as opposed to obviously backward. He hasn't played in a couple of days.
KotOR 2 = wait til the price drops and snap this puppy home!
I saw the E3 release of the Dead or Alive 4 trailer... utterly jaw dropping. CLOTH!! PARTICLES!! PHYSICS!!
You can tell they used motion capture too.
I want an XBOX 360. and a tuner card for myself so we don't have to fight over playing it or the XBOX. I still love my Soul Calibur 2.
*cries* Square is crazy.
Kameo look pretty interesting too despite some of the chibi-ish game art.
posted by Razorhoney at 11:59
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