The Rantings of a Mad Muse.

Woot!!! PSN Trophy signatures!!!!!!

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:39:58 GMT

Now I feel special. :P

Games, Games, Games, Games!!!!!

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:55:20 GMT

So for my birthday this year I walked away with 3 PS3 games!!! I asked my parents for Resident Evil 5 and a Dual Shock 3 control pad (as I only had the regular 6 Axis one and I have missed the added element the vibration brings of the gameplay). My mother's parents then gave me a $100 note that I spent at JB Hifi on two second hand games. Dead Space & Condemned 2.

I have played RE5 heaps. I hired it for about a week months ago. Also when I bought it (tradition in my family when it comes to gifts is that we tend to buy our own and then get refunded so that we get exactly what we want) it wasn't sealed, so I was able to play it before handing it over to my mother for wrapping. I played it heaps while Jo was down south helping her parent's move and as it stands I only have to complete 1 level on the Professional difficulty to have finished all the levels on all difficulties. Though to get all the Trophies I need to buy the downloadable expansion pack...... GAH!!!! No credit card.... Though my brother has offered to lend me his so if I'm desperate, I can get it.

I only got the second hand games a few days ago. I've played Condemned 2 a little, but most of my focus has been on Dead Space. It's been reminding me of Silent Hill an many ways. Mainly because it actually makes me jump at times. Even though the game is 3rd person, the aiming system controls more like a FPS. Much more than RE5 does. When I started playing I thought this would be a problem because over the years I have sworn that FPS belong purely on PC due to the lack of control when it comes to aiming. I still feel that this is the case, but I have become a lot better with using the control pad to target. I think that RE5 helped with this "evolution". There are moments when it's annoying. Especially fast targetting on a fast moving creature. I use a trackball on my PC and I find it so accurate.

Anyway, I've played Dead Space quite a bit and I've been loving it! Despite the controller issues.

Dead Space is a great game. It does have it's issues though. The story line is predictable. I saw the ending coming pretty much from the start. The "Boss" fights were easy. Especially the final one. Having used a hell of a lot of Health Packs on the beginning stages of the last level, I then used none on the final fight. In fact I only got hit once and it was by a spawn, not the boss. Though I think this tends to be the issue with games today. The final boss tends to be big, pretty and scary looking, but not much of a challenge.

I completed Dead Space for the first time last night on the Normal setting. I only used 3 weapons though out the whole game and I discovered that I had spent my upgrade points stupidly. I fully upgraded the Plasma Cutter and then discovered I should have put points into my armour to up my HP. I thought it would only be a small increase, but then again I always tend to focus on offense rather than defence when it comes to games.

It's going to take me a while to get the Trophies. Completing the highest difficulty level while take ages. With RE5 your bonuses carry over to all difficulty levels. If I were to start a new game on Dead Space, it starts from scratch. If you Start from a Completed Game save THEN you get all the gear you had acquired. So my idea of finishing Normal and then taking on Easy with all my gear I had acquired was failed. I wanted to get the Trophies for getting all the equipment upgrades. Looks like I'll just have to do it on Normal. There's also a trophy for completing the game by only using the Plasma Cutter. I'm attempting this on the rehashed Normal save, but I may have to try this on the Easy setting. Currently on 49% of the Trophies. Will be a while before I get more because I'll be putting the focus into trying to complete the game just using the Plasma Cutter. You can get a Trophy for each weapon by killing 30 enemies with said given weapon.

Haven't played much of Condemned 2. Focus has been on Dead Space. No Trophies for Condemned 2 though..... I like having the trophies. It's the "Look at me!!!!" school of gaming! :P

I also want to get my hands on Prototype. The vid Jason posted a few days back has made me yearn to play it.

Also if anyone has a PS3 and is using the PS Network, my username is HelvaTion. Feel free to throw an add my way.

Enough ranting. Back to gaming!!!!!!

HT

Writer's Block: You're a Winner!

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:18:44 GMT

Have you ever won a contest, drawing, or lottery? What was the prize?

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I won the Primary School Easter Raffle in Grade 1. I got a MASSIVE cane basket full of chocolate. This things was MASSIVE!!!!

Lasted about a week...... If I was to win the same basket today, I wouldn't eat any of it for I am no longer a fan of chocolate.

Repo

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:03:57 GMT

Just finished watching Repo. There were good bits and bad bits. I decision about it is pretty much a "Meh".

At least I was less disappointed than when I watched Gene Generation. That's a plus.

HT

The continuing Saga of my (more than likely) Dead PC.......

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:33:37 GMT

Insanity is repeating the process over and over again and expecting a different result. This has been my day so far while dealing with Big Black (That's the name I ever so lovingly gave my lovely PC many moons ago).

Things looked up early on the day, but just kept heading downhill. I'm about to smash the fucking thing. I'm still pretty sure that the video card is the issue, but without a spare to run some tests, I can't say "Yah" or "Nah". Lovely loud beeping noises now fill the air when I try to boot the fucking thing up.......

So I grabbed an old PC that I was trying to set up next to the TV as a video & music player and also use as a file server. All was going well with it apart from the fact that I couldn't configure the resolution correctly on the TV. It's am old school (chunky) 16:9 widescreen bastard. I reconfigured it to output to regular moniter and it's now sitting where Big Black used to sit. It'll have to do to serve my purposes until I can do something about the video card. Might give the guy who put it together for me to run some tests. He stills owes me a few favours and he'll have spare parts lying around.

Currently PC has half the CPU speed, half the memory and about a quarter of the Video memory of Big Black. It used to run WoW for my ex, so it should still be able to do the job. Plus it's recently been formatted, so it should run OK. Plus it has SATA ports on the Motherboard so I should be able to stick the Hard Drives from Big Black in it. Only thing worse than not having a PC is not having access to all that music you store on your PC!!!!!

Time to power down this puppy and start pulling PCs apart..............

GAH! I'm annoyed!!!!!!

HT

The Gene Generation

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:15:39 GMT

I just finished watching The Gene Generation. Like Repo, it was one of those films that I had found out about while they were shooting and was excited about seeing.

To be perfectly honest I was very disappointed. The script was crap and "typcial". The CGI that was overlaid over the real action shots were done poorly (especially the blood and shadows). There seem to be a lot of holes that they try to cover. I think they may have found that a lot of footage was unusable when they got to the editting room. Niether that or they just didn't have the money to afford the time in the editting room. I know that the film was plagued with financial difficulties towards the end and they were even asking for donations to get the film finished.

Also add to it the fact that I felt over half the soundtrack was Combichrist. I like Combichrist, but there are other acts that would have worked just as well at those moments in the film. Perhaps once again this was a case of $$$ and Combichrist being generious in donating their music or perhaps the filmmakers just overdid it on the Combichrist factor because their popular on the scene.

It's not all bad though. Some of the shots were very nice. The concept was also very good, but just executed poorly.

Rather disappointing. I think that I still would have been this disappointed with the film even if I was completely, mindnumbingly, horrendously stoned. Normally that makes these things easier to handle.......

Still haven't watched Repo. Jo downloaded it for me when Jason posted the torrent link. I just hope that I'm not as disappointed with Repo as I was with The Gene Generation........

Think I should also try to find Daywatch and grab that. Have seen the DVD about a few times but just didn't have the cash to grab it, nor will I have the cash for a while. If I have leftover cash that I could spend on a DVD, I'll spend it on booze instead!!!! Priorities.

HT

OMG!!!! I'm SOOOOO Happy!!!!

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:59:32 GMT

I've been playing WoW since I got home. I'm on a long flight, so I Alt-Tabbed to check my mail.

There was 1 in the inbox and it said that Leæther Strip had posted a Comment on my MySpace!!!! A Comment from CLAUS!!!!!!!!! I am SOOOOOOOOO overjoyed!!!! My Hero has posted a Comment on my MySpace!!!!!!!!!!!

Dance Dance Dance Dance!!!!!!!!!!