Favorite Video Games

I got the Commander Keen games for 5 bucks, its been fun going back to that series of games.

Personally, I only really like the second game because the only thing that drew me to RE was the Romero theme it had, and while the third had it as well, they focussed more on Nemesis, and he was just a mutated beast, plus I prefer Claire over Jill when it comes to the women in the franchise, but I can't stand Ada. Ada was used to sell the game on the "sex level" like the chunky and huge Marilyn Monroe vampire thing in the newest game is being used, I mean merch wise, there's more Ada merch than Leon merch even though he's the main character.

Well, I wouldn't say Lady D is only a sex prop. Sure, they definetly were very strategic in showing her early on, but she's also a very well written/acted character. She has got to have the greatest motion capture I've ever seen in anything that uses Motion capture animation for characters, right down to the fact her face and hair looks very realistically like a middle aged woman (which makes sense as she was 44 when she became a vampire and stopped aging physically in the lore) asides from the fact that her skin is pale white. I've only seen Ada once in game so far, I don't really know much about the other female characters (no spoils pls), except for the iconic "Jill Sandwich" line. 

Playing Resident Evil 1 (Gamecube remake) at the moment, well it's certainly neat I have to say the limited save system is kinda pissing me off. I've seen people argue it adds tension, but I've seen it done much better in other games, it just gets annoying. Although, unlike a lot of older survival horror games, the location of Resident Evil 1 is more centralized for the most part, so I can understand wanting to have some limit on saving so the player just can't just book it to the safe room every few minutes. I do like the remake having a decent punishment for not thoroughly taking care of enemies you kill by having zombies you already disposed of, but neglected to burn the body of afterwards, reanimate as the Crimson Heads, a much faster and dangerous enemy (though their name just sounds like they're obsessive King Crimson fans). The thing I hate most about the limited saves is that I always have to redo multiple tasks and puzzles every time I get snuck up from behind from an annoying zombie in a tight corridor, I think it's better when the enemies are a threat to the current tasks and not tasks you've already completed. Silent Hill 1 did this really well by having save points let you save indefinitely but in turn making them few and far between, taking much effort to backtrack to so you just try your best to progress at the task at hand. 

Though Resident Evil 1 is just something to pass the time right now until I finally get a job (a goal that's currently in an endless rut of no responses from applied jobs) or eventually (if all goes to plan) get to borrow a peer's PS4 for a month or so to finally play Bloodborne, and see if it really is as amazing a (technically) Dark Souls spinoff as I've been told it is, and the fact it's heavily Lovecraft inspired excites me. As a big Dark Souls fan who also really enjoyed Sekiro, I'd love to finally play it. Speaking of Dark Souls, Elden Ring finally got a release date announced, so that's very exciting. The trailer certainly delivered on the anticipation of finally seeing bits of the game that was announced and then went silent for 2 years. (Which I'm glad they're taking their time, to be honest, the people who complained about the devs going radio silent for 2 years with no updates on progress were just asking for another ambitious game released too early and being an unfinished disaster like No Man's Sky or Cyberpunk)

Can't fault the flippers for taking advantage of Sony dropping the ball, and its nothing new really.

I mean remember Cabbage Patch Kids? They retailed at 15-20 I think, but they didn't mass produce, so people flipped them outside of stores, and they did the same with Transformers. If Hasbro mass produced properly, wouldn't have been an issue, I mean parents got into fist fights over Cabbage Patch kids, and you know damn well, within a year, if that, the kid had the damn toy stuffed in the closet or tossed in the trash. I love goodies, but we let non essentials have to much control of us.

Anywho, its gonna be almost 110 degrees tomorrow, not sure if I can game much due to that heat, the fans should handle things unless the others agree to turn the AC, its a democracy after all, I'll be hiding in a cold place.

Beat the first disc of the Gamecube remake of RE1, at first the limited saves seemed daunting (it is), but I've gotten used to it and have managed to enjoy the game, at least when I'm making significant progress without dying and having to redo everything since the last save. I don't know what it is with Resident Evils on Gamecube requiring 2 discs, especially when it's not even and even split, the second disc usually only coming in during the last 2 hours of the game. I mean, Resident Evil 4 is a pretty big game for gamecube standards, so having to split the data between 2 discs makes more sense, but Resident Evil 1 has a really small file size, so I would assume they'd be wasting money having to make 2 discs for every copy of the game, especially when way larger Gamecube games like Twilight Princess managed to be crammed into a single disc. 

Although I understand why the fixed camera angles for late 90s/early 2000s horror games works due to the limited hardware and the fact it creates more tension, I wish the Resident Evil 1 remake, which came out 3 years after the first Silent Hill, changed the way the fixed camera works to how the Silent Hill games did it, where instead of sharp and sudden transitions, the camera had a more natural fixed angle that smoothly followed your character and panned in and out when exploring most open areas. Granted, I understand sharp camera transitions when turning in a narrow hallway, which is a lot of Resident Evil 1 considering almost the entire game is spent inside a Mansion, but even Silent Hill had managed to have more natural and smooth camera even in narrow or cramped locations like the hallways of the elementary school level. I am glad to hear the more recent remakes of Resident Evil 2 and 3 changed the 3rd person camera to instead be constantly looking over the character's shoulder, like Resident Evil 4 does, I personally feel it works better for horror games when you see what the character sees instead of a camera that has angles not even focused on the character. 

When I finally get a PS4, should I play the RE remakes?