Favorite Video Games

Yes, I have, many, many, years ago when it originally came out.  I really liked the first game but wasn't as into 2 and 3.

However, its been a few years since I have, may give it a shot again down the road if it ever gets a true wide screen fix, last time I played it, it looked odd on a wide screen display.

The first Max Payne was all about being a solid crime noir with the slow bullet time like the Matrix, and it was an original and fun game to play.  For the PC I used the keyboard and mouse, I found it to be easier to get kill shots using the mouse to aim rather than a game pad, the PC version also had a lot of other cool features the console versions didn't.  The second game would have been just as good but they spent more time on the story than the game play, its still a fun game though despite the fact it could have been better.  

The question is, where in the hell did the film come from?  I remember hearing Wahlberg would play Max Payne and it sounded interesting, but then I watched it, I mean it had nothing to do with the games.  I guess one could see it as a another story in Max's life or something like that.  I swore there were demons in it but I can't remember if they just appeared to be demons because of the drugs they were taking, its been awhile since I've seen it.  

Anywho, been playing Aliens Vs. Predator, I tried the Predator section of the game, I can't get past the first 20 seconds of the first level, I'm stuck trying to jump from one ledge to the next, I managed once and died and just can't do it again.  I'm still surprised that the Aliens look as good as they do for a game that's 21 years old but they don't look bad at all.  One flaw, the subtitles are really, really tiny and go by really, really fast so when they tell me what to do next, I usually miss it.  I'm going to see if there's a way to tweak the subtitles and make them larger and slower, it may be possible, may not be.  

Thankfully, I found a way to add tweaks but it is still very hard since now I'm where there's face huggers, and they instantly kill the player.  I was like, "this game doesn't have that many levels, this is going to be over quick" but I'm still on level 3 because its pretty hard to find the objectives, it doesn't give players a map with an arrow pointing them in the right direction like lets say Skyrim, it makes the player do all the work on their own.  However, once I do finish it, the second time around will take less time but still take a decent amount, lots of mazes and I'm not memorizing them.  

I started New Vegas over today and this time I'm seen as a "dark hero" by the Powder Gangers and did one quest different already which changed the story already, not sure how I'll play things with the different groups this time.  As for Super Mario 3, its been eons since I've played it but it was fun.  I only had Super Metroid, Dracula, and Aliens 3 for the SNES, I rented everything else.  I worked for Blockbuster Video back then so I got free rentals so I was like, "why buy the games when I can rent for free?".  But then after I quit that job I was like, "damn, I should have bought more games", so I did get Street Fighter 2, I almost forgot about that one.  I played that and Alien 3 the most, go figure.  Oh, and I rented Terminator 2, talk about a let down, great film but what a lousy game.

San Andreas and GTA5

Oh, I realize that, I was just saying that more people would have been into the fact there were ninja's in the game had it come out when ninja's were still considered really hip.  The ninja genre was really hip in the mid to late eighties but then it burnt out pretty fast, except for TMNT.  TMNT came out in 1984 but they didn't get the cartoon until many years later, and the films were even later but they've been around for almost forty years now, hard to believe.

As for MK, there's some very brutal games like it but they're made by indie companies in Japan, some even have sexual overtones but Japan, over 80% of game sales are adult game sales.

The US is radically different money wise.

I forgot about Reptile.  He's a lot cooler in MK 8 than he was earlier on, more powers and what not.  Rain is probably my favorite ninja in the series, I think that's his name.  

I usually don't double post but there's another reason PC gaming is hip, modding.  Someone made a Vampire the Masquerade mod for New Vegas, I may give it a shot.  I think there's the option to be a vampire or hunt them, I'd going with hunting. I already have Bloodlines to be the vampire but it would be cool to be the hunter in a game.  But I need to check it out to make sure its totally finished.  Some modders will put out mods before they're totally polished and then ditch them.  But well, mods are free so its not like one can complain.  But I hope it is finished, I'll check it out tomorrow maybe since its going to rain all day, I still have to walk to do my errands in the morning but after that, I'm done with the outdoors.

As for good TMNT games, the TMNT Arcade game for the SNES is good, and I liked the last one but I can't remember the name of it.

I used to always call him Drano but he was cool, I didn't like Sonya or Cage however, I felt they were way too corny and their moves bored the hell out of me.  I primarily used Sub-Zero and Scarlett though in the last game I played, and in the first, it was always Sub-Zero and Raiden or Rayden, those were my three favorites.

Going back to the TMNT games, I got the names of the ones that I think are cool.

Turtles In Time (1991), Mutants in Manhattan (2016), TMNT (1989).  The 1989 TMNT game is hard as hell and for the NES but it's a lot of fun if one doesn't mind jump platform games, which you obviously like them since you like the Mario games and those are the definition of jump platform games.  Mutants In Manhattan was a lot of fun as well but for some reason, some didn't like it because they said the online stuff was boring.  I don't play games online very much but I did play that one online, I saw no issues playing online, it was fun.  There's so many Turtle games though, they also have a few that are like Mortal Kombat but with Turtle characters, and of course no fatalities, then there's numerous others for various platforms.