Favorite Video Games

It varies from game to game and the type of mod one is making.

Hard to explain really since it varies so differently from game to game.

Sims 2, super easy though, very easy clothing modding was possible and scripting, the scripting was also rather easy.

Hardest mod to make, animations, and creepy or not, those who make sex animations for games like New Vegas, some may see them as pervy but we're talking about hours upon hours upon hours of work to make those animations and to align the bodies perfectly. I saw some sex animations for Fallout 4, those who made them must have spent months, they are beyond life like. But there's also non sex animations made, I use a smoking animation mod in the Sims 4 and even that took the moodder awhile to align the arm, hand, cigarette and mouth just right.

There's a reason it took so long to get realistic rag doll physics in games, its just very time consuming to do the animations and most game companies didn't want to spend the money on the time it took, but then a few game companies did and the others had no choice to stay competitive.

But damn, the Sims has some funny mods, that drug/smoking one is beyond amusing. You can give Sims traits now so if you want them to be good and nice, they act good and nice, but if they start hanging with other sims with bad habits, the drug/smoking mod will make them start smoking or drinking a lot, and the mod even adds addictions, so I have a Sim who is an alcoholic now. There is a rehab option however, so the Sim is currently in rehab. They did such a great job with the AI that it made the modders able to add so much.

We're gonna go retro for a a bit..

Not too long ago they made a brand new Double Dragon which was a remake of the first but with modern "goodies", not a really good sounding 80's pop rock soundtrack and updated graphics. It wasn't bad but it had a few bugs and the space levels were a bit annoying, but it was still fun.

Well Streets Of Rage 4 came out last year, and now its on GOG, DRM free..

The graphics of course are more modern but they don't look too fancy, which is what I'm confused about because Streets Of Rage 1 and 2 were like 5 megs, while 4 is 10 gigs, and while it has improved graphics, the graphics alone, there's no way that's even 4 gigs of the 10. I heard it has a lossless 80's sounding soundtrack, that can eat up a few gigs. But it does look like fun and the Steam reviews are outstanding in regards to the game, while the GOG reviews, not so much.

I'm in the mood for a retro brawler and I do prefer Streets Of Rage over Double Dragon, Rage had Blaze and she rocks... Sure, she's dressed like a girl in a 80's rock video but it was made in the late 80's.

Well its December and I xmas and all, so maybe I'll get it for myself..

BTW, love the snow..

Is anyone here excited for the Game Awards on the 9th of this month?

I found out Dot Emu, the ones who make Streets Of Rage 4, also re-did the original TMNT arcade game, looks like they just made some minor tweaks to make it a bit more modern. The down side, they only made it for the Switch, which is a shame. But who knows, maybe they'll port it down the road, it'll be a half assed port but that kind of game, its just a button masher, so no big thing.

I finally caved and got Streets Of Rage 4.

Played for a whole 15 minutes and then ran errands and haven't played it again since Monday. I love old school brawlers and while I only played it for 15 minutes, it has the same charm as the first SOR, never played 2 and 3, and the same three characters and two new ones. Plays like the first one, a few basic fighting moves, which may be upgrade-able later in the game, not sure just yet, and the city looks like the an 80's gang land city just like other brawlers. I'm not sure why it has such high requirements, wile the characters look very 2000, the backgrounds have a really in depth look so that may be why. Anywho, Axl (gee, wonder where they got that name from), Adam, and Blaze are back and then they tossed in a few newb characters to use if one was to. Did anyone who played the original ever use Adam? I always went with either Axl or Blaze...

Those who've never played the games, imagine Double Dragon's scrolling brawling action but with Street Fighter 2 like moves, like Blaze, she lives up to her name and can summon a blue blaze that does a lot of damage.

So far, based on 15 minutes, its a solid old school brawler and Blaze does kick a*s. One odd thing about the game, it always reminded me of the first TMNT film, not sure why. Could be the fighting style, could be the city they're in, hard to say.



Is it worth 25? Not normally but I support the DRM free movement and therefore I support GOG.

As for Marvel's Avengers, haven't tried it yet but probably won't. Their only good moment came when they did a crossover with the X-Men in an attempt to boost sales of the Avengers comic, which lead to an iconic fight between Wolverine and Cap, people always wondered if his claws could cut through Caps shield. If I remember right, they couldn't but that was over 30 years ago.. I remember his claws catching fire from the sparks, and he just went even more rabid. At that point in his history, it wasn't revealed yet that the claws were actually bone laced with admantanium, most just assumed there implants, don't even think Wolverine knew until Magneto stripped the metal off of his bones.

I'm aware the Avenger got better later, heard good things about Civil War and whatnot but in the 80's it was beyond tame, in between G and PG. Alan Moore dragged me to a non super hero place with Watchmen first, I mean on the surface they were heroes but he showed deep down they were a mess, and I loved how human he made them. Then the Batman stories he wrote, fantastic stuff. But then I took a break from comics for awhile and came back when Walking Dead was in its infancy, heard it was something totally different and those who said that were right. When characters died, they stayed dead, and there were no good guys or bad guys, just people trying to survive in different ways. Such a great comic for quite awhile... and the show was solid as well, it was the introduction of Negan that things kind of went south for both, the readers started to drop off, and the ratings started to swirl. But they should have had a quicker fight with Negan, quick time jump to where they had rebuilt communities and how the zombies were basically gone for the most part. I mean Eugene said in the comic, and I believe the show, they couldn't last forever since they were decaying as time went on, so all the living had to do was stay alive and hidden until nature did its job.

Bringing this back to games, I still think Telltale's The Walking Dead, just the first one was great but when it comes to zombie games, State Of Decay wins because of how the save system works, when it works right, I mean it calcuates the days since the last time the player played and adds that time to how much time passed in the game. There's a sequel but I haven't bothered... don't seen the need for a sequel....

Hard to read all the text on the cover but from what I made out, it sounds like a blast... have to check it out.

I haven't read all of his stuff, still need to read some Swamp Thing and League, and From Hell. Most of his work that I've read would be V, Watchmen, and Batman, think he also did a few issues of Spawn if I remember right, I know Gaiman created Angela but pretty sure Moore did something as well. Been such a long time since I've read a comic, be weird going back to them.

Wish there was still a local shop, I liked to browse, the online thing, its just not the same.

I've only ever played the first, which was a blast.

They ran a clever marketing game with the first, they pledged that all RPG lovers would love it and that they were so sure of that, they offered it up for half the price a game went for at that time, with a money back guarantee. I dug it though so I never found out if they were legit on the refund thing or not, I mean no game company had ever done that before.

I have seen what the newer games look like, talk about a difference...

That reminds me, I haven't been keeping up with Alice. As I said earlier however, he's still in scripting mode, its gonna be quite awhile... so not gonna get all hyped up by always checking for updates.