Iron Man 2, Captain America and Thor...and other things...
General | Posted 14 years ago As most people may notice, it takes time until i get to try new stuff as games and movies, mostly due to my financial situation that doesn't leave much of "Fun money" at the end of month for me to purchase movies and games...only exception being the new Batman Arkham City, which i eaven pre-ordered due to the promisse i made to myself...lets say the game is great and managed to fix sum issuses i had with arkham asylum, but it aint as groundbreaking as the first part, but hey, its batman at its best, so i wont complain :D
But yeah, the reason im complaining is the fact i watched the three movies ive mentioned in the title for first tiem last week and yeah, im aware that everyone who wanted to see em allready did dat, but i still feel obligated to share my thoughts on these. Seeing theres "Avengers" movie planned, i decided to give em all the look, but yeah, the only reason im interrested in this movie is cuz of one character - Tony Stark aka Iron man. But yush, one thing after another...
Iron Man 2 is, in my humble opinion, best of the bunch, but that said only cuz i fucking love the Tony Stark character - cyniccal, egoistic and asshole, acted over the top that much that in the end, i just have to love him. As in the first movie, they sacrifice most of the story to show how fucking rich this guy is, altho not as cheesy as in first movie...but still cheesy enough ;D The problem these movies have is, in fact, Tony stark - the emphasis is set too high on him as Character, altho he doesn't make any notable development in the course of the two movies - hes still an ass, less of it now, but still...the whole movie comes as too short and eaven if they managed to put some more action in this one then in the first part, it still feels rushed, since they tried to fit too many story arcs so that all of em seem underdeveloped: we have the story of him getting weaker and dying due to his generator, the story with the russian guy trying to take revenge, the story of how he passes the company to his skinny secretary, the story how government and other company try to get the suit and blah blah blah...the Russian guy fell completly flat as main villian, the last battle against him lasting not longer then five minutes (guess their budget ran out hurr hurr) and never seemed to impose any threat - probably cuz he only fought two tiems against iron man and bit the dust both times and also cuz everytiem we see him, hes just tinkering shit and goes fuck it all...i couldnt feel any true hatred against Tony Stark nor the wish to carry out his revenge - he was just doing it, as if he had no other, better things to do. In the first movie, the whole story arc was mainly about Tony Stark coping with the change and taking responsability, and i thought they're done with the whole character development, but nope, second movie starts again from point zero or tony being an shmug and does the same development again while trying to juggle as many stories as possible. Still, i enjoyed the movie - the action wasn't so bad, wobbly at the times but not transformers like, when yer lucky to catch the glimpse of fighting robots in the third act. CGI did mostly well, but there were minor sillyness, liek the silver Iron Man suit. All in all, its an average movie and I only hold it better then the rest of the trio infernale cuz of Tony :3
Captain America was next on the list. Most people...or lets say, ALL THE PEOPLE i know, told me it sucked bawls - boring and visualy bad. I would also say its boring, but i watched Thor too, but more about it in next paragraph ;3. I must say, that reading comics was never great part of my youth, expecially American made comics - i grew up with Asterix, Lucky Luke and in my teen years, ive read sum Spawn comics and bunch of Lobo :D That said, i havent had much encounters with Captain America (xcept the cover where he suckerpunchez hitler) so im not at all trying to get about the story behind the comic. That said, the story was utterly boring. Most action scenes came as montages, the main enemy was hillariously over the top and it was riddled with plotholes...I would rant about it, but the fact is, the whole movie in uninspiring "The red dude wants to destroy the world, woopeedoo..." I didnt eaven felt the patriotism wibe some people pointed out - its just an average super hero movie, thats worse then Iron man, but still better then Thor, it just leaves me cold. Eaven if the Main Hero is Jesus and doesnt develope, like, at ALL, in still go meh on this one. Two hour Epic story minus story and epic is just...two hours. But yeah, the plotholes...Why would he choose random people he saved as his "Team", seeing he doesnt know any of them at all? Why would the Bad Guy lift a cube that destroys him, unless the writers couldnt find any better use of him? Why didnt Nazi germany just wiped out the Hydra, eaven after they killed high officers? Why is the Hydra Salute so fucking silly!?!
Thor is the weakest of the bunch...its just lamest one with worst story arc ive seen in my life...well, worst ive seen in a while. What really bugs me about it is the fact that there is, or better, should be an character development, as hinted in the end of the movie, but ive seen none, zero, nada...but first things first, the visuals are really a matter of taste - I, for once, liked them. The design of Walhalla and puting it up in Space (there are just few things you cant improove by putting it in front or in nebula...), but then, the Armors and weaponry look so fake and plastic, as if none of costume guys gave two shits while putting em together. Story is another thing - its actualy more boring then Captain America. Theres not eaven an Villian worthy of that title - the frost giants? No, they got their ass handed everytiem, no matter how tought they speak. Loki? Naw, hes just an minor inconviniance. The main character, Thor, should come as hot headed excentric, that just wants action, but hes all meh, and when the finaly "change to the better" of his character occurs, you cant tell the difference - ok, he doesnt want to wipe out frost giants now, but the change is so sudden and unprovoked that you miss the whole character development. This movie is the sample of two movies in one. On one Hand, you get Valhalla and Loki, where all the story and fun seem to happen. Cut to the Earth and we see Thor doing something unrelated and being bland. Back to Valhalla, Loki does something interresting and story goes on. Back to earh, Thor does something Bland and uninterresting and so on and so forth, you get the hint. This is the weakest of bunch - Story is bland and forgettable, Action is goofy and i swear that Thor rotates that hammer for ten minutes in the whole movie length....woop woop woop woop woop...
So, in the end, ill watch Avengers only to see moar of Tony Stark, until then, ill try watching some of the lost childhood memories and classic movies - liek marx brothers...or highlander...wait, not highlander, saw it and it sucked, fucking Lambert... But on related note, i also finaly watched the Wolfman from 2010 as well as both Halloween movies by rob zombie, and i wholeheardetly tell ya to give em a shot...they arent as bad as everyone makes em to be ;3
In other news, my comic is going well and i mpiled up 20 Pages that only need linearting, since you lil' rascals asked for dat, but due to my tight scheduall, it will take tiem before i finally sit down and do the damn work...and the commissions...and the test round for Narthena RPG... but currently, i just want to draw titties :P
But yeah, the reason im complaining is the fact i watched the three movies ive mentioned in the title for first tiem last week and yeah, im aware that everyone who wanted to see em allready did dat, but i still feel obligated to share my thoughts on these. Seeing theres "Avengers" movie planned, i decided to give em all the look, but yeah, the only reason im interrested in this movie is cuz of one character - Tony Stark aka Iron man. But yush, one thing after another...
Iron Man 2 is, in my humble opinion, best of the bunch, but that said only cuz i fucking love the Tony Stark character - cyniccal, egoistic and asshole, acted over the top that much that in the end, i just have to love him. As in the first movie, they sacrifice most of the story to show how fucking rich this guy is, altho not as cheesy as in first movie...but still cheesy enough ;D The problem these movies have is, in fact, Tony stark - the emphasis is set too high on him as Character, altho he doesn't make any notable development in the course of the two movies - hes still an ass, less of it now, but still...the whole movie comes as too short and eaven if they managed to put some more action in this one then in the first part, it still feels rushed, since they tried to fit too many story arcs so that all of em seem underdeveloped: we have the story of him getting weaker and dying due to his generator, the story with the russian guy trying to take revenge, the story of how he passes the company to his skinny secretary, the story how government and other company try to get the suit and blah blah blah...the Russian guy fell completly flat as main villian, the last battle against him lasting not longer then five minutes (guess their budget ran out hurr hurr) and never seemed to impose any threat - probably cuz he only fought two tiems against iron man and bit the dust both times and also cuz everytiem we see him, hes just tinkering shit and goes fuck it all...i couldnt feel any true hatred against Tony Stark nor the wish to carry out his revenge - he was just doing it, as if he had no other, better things to do. In the first movie, the whole story arc was mainly about Tony Stark coping with the change and taking responsability, and i thought they're done with the whole character development, but nope, second movie starts again from point zero or tony being an shmug and does the same development again while trying to juggle as many stories as possible. Still, i enjoyed the movie - the action wasn't so bad, wobbly at the times but not transformers like, when yer lucky to catch the glimpse of fighting robots in the third act. CGI did mostly well, but there were minor sillyness, liek the silver Iron Man suit. All in all, its an average movie and I only hold it better then the rest of the trio infernale cuz of Tony :3
Captain America was next on the list. Most people...or lets say, ALL THE PEOPLE i know, told me it sucked bawls - boring and visualy bad. I would also say its boring, but i watched Thor too, but more about it in next paragraph ;3. I must say, that reading comics was never great part of my youth, expecially American made comics - i grew up with Asterix, Lucky Luke and in my teen years, ive read sum Spawn comics and bunch of Lobo :D That said, i havent had much encounters with Captain America (xcept the cover where he suckerpunchez hitler) so im not at all trying to get about the story behind the comic. That said, the story was utterly boring. Most action scenes came as montages, the main enemy was hillariously over the top and it was riddled with plotholes...I would rant about it, but the fact is, the whole movie in uninspiring "The red dude wants to destroy the world, woopeedoo..." I didnt eaven felt the patriotism wibe some people pointed out - its just an average super hero movie, thats worse then Iron man, but still better then Thor, it just leaves me cold. Eaven if the Main Hero is Jesus and doesnt develope, like, at ALL, in still go meh on this one. Two hour Epic story minus story and epic is just...two hours. But yeah, the plotholes...Why would he choose random people he saved as his "Team", seeing he doesnt know any of them at all? Why would the Bad Guy lift a cube that destroys him, unless the writers couldnt find any better use of him? Why didnt Nazi germany just wiped out the Hydra, eaven after they killed high officers? Why is the Hydra Salute so fucking silly!?!
Thor is the weakest of the bunch...its just lamest one with worst story arc ive seen in my life...well, worst ive seen in a while. What really bugs me about it is the fact that there is, or better, should be an character development, as hinted in the end of the movie, but ive seen none, zero, nada...but first things first, the visuals are really a matter of taste - I, for once, liked them. The design of Walhalla and puting it up in Space (there are just few things you cant improove by putting it in front or in nebula...), but then, the Armors and weaponry look so fake and plastic, as if none of costume guys gave two shits while putting em together. Story is another thing - its actualy more boring then Captain America. Theres not eaven an Villian worthy of that title - the frost giants? No, they got their ass handed everytiem, no matter how tought they speak. Loki? Naw, hes just an minor inconviniance. The main character, Thor, should come as hot headed excentric, that just wants action, but hes all meh, and when the finaly "change to the better" of his character occurs, you cant tell the difference - ok, he doesnt want to wipe out frost giants now, but the change is so sudden and unprovoked that you miss the whole character development. This movie is the sample of two movies in one. On one Hand, you get Valhalla and Loki, where all the story and fun seem to happen. Cut to the Earth and we see Thor doing something unrelated and being bland. Back to Valhalla, Loki does something interresting and story goes on. Back to earh, Thor does something Bland and uninterresting and so on and so forth, you get the hint. This is the weakest of bunch - Story is bland and forgettable, Action is goofy and i swear that Thor rotates that hammer for ten minutes in the whole movie length....woop woop woop woop woop...
So, in the end, ill watch Avengers only to see moar of Tony Stark, until then, ill try watching some of the lost childhood memories and classic movies - liek marx brothers...or highlander...wait, not highlander, saw it and it sucked, fucking Lambert... But on related note, i also finaly watched the Wolfman from 2010 as well as both Halloween movies by rob zombie, and i wholeheardetly tell ya to give em a shot...they arent as bad as everyone makes em to be ;3
In other news, my comic is going well and i mpiled up 20 Pages that only need linearting, since you lil' rascals asked for dat, but due to my tight scheduall, it will take tiem before i finally sit down and do the damn work...and the commissions...and the test round for Narthena RPG... but currently, i just want to draw titties :P
Silent Hill Homecoming
General | Posted 14 years ago...or Silent Hill: The movie - The game as i use to call it :3
Finaly came around to play it at my friends place and, hooo boi, is it bad. True, not as bad as Silent Hill 4, which i still hold as the worst of the series (altho ya can ignore it, since it wasnt planed to be released under silent Hill name in the first place, but what the hell...), but SH Homecoming aint good either. Why? Let me start... also, there will be spoilers :3
Story
The core idea of the story sounds quite interresting, but the whole thing was just made boring as hell. I cant relate to the main character, cant relate to any other npcs and cant share their love and hatred or any other feelings they try to bring over. They are trying to make us feel sad about characters they didnt eaven took time to explain, but then again, the game is short enough to begin with. The KI of the two characters that follow ya, The Girl and The Black guy (yes, i refer to them as that, since they fulfill every known gender and racial stereotype) was actualy quite good, except the few moments where The Girl blocked me expecting the hugs. But then again, the endings are quite nice, making the Boogeyman the fav of the all 5 altho i could swear i can hear the fangirls squirt around the globe as three pyramid heads stood in a line. But i digress, the Story opens its cards quite soon and all the plottwists come out uninterresting and have that strange "Allready seen dat" sense to it.
World
Ah yes, the main reason i keep calling this Silent Hill: The movie - The Game. They actualy riped out quite a few chunks of the Movie, including the nightmare world, the Grand Hotel, the Abyss and Pyramid Head design. The broken off roads in Silent Hill one were in Place, since it gave the whole Story more Mystery, wishing you to find out what catacysm happened here. Silent Hill two went with the Roadblocks, Silent Hill 3 fucked the whole thing and 4th...lets not talk about it. But in Homecoming, the caved in Roads just give me headache - not in the Parts, where yer at Silent Hill, its a deserted Town and all, but in the Shepherds Glen...i mean, the whole road is missing and the main character never asks himself or others what happened and just makes an X on the map. Fuck that, i want an explanation!
Monsters
Ok, i have to adress the Trend of people Thinking every Monster in Silent Hill has to have meaning. This started with Silent Hill 2, where every Monster had either a Guilt or Sexual concept behind it. Silent Hill 1, xcept the kids with knives (or mumblers in Pal version), never went too far with backstory, xcept as horrified versions of Persons and Things Alessa knew. Silent Hill 3 jumped the shark and forgott the whole thing - or what the Heck does Tumor Monster represent? Does heather Smoke like a Dragon? But let me come Home (hurr hurr, Pun intended) and speak about those monsters - they are silly! I mean, theres a guy with Head where his ass has to be! A guy with his legs tied together and Fanged Vagina across his face and those fucking Nurses and Pyramid Head (or Boogeyman as they call him) - last two just Fan Service. Theres also the Cult Soldiers in Mining Uniforms (as seen in the movie) and Roaches, cleverly named Swarm, that can be found in every existing Silent Hill game. Boss Monsters (every three of em) are also as silly, altho the Puppet was quite terryfying to me, since i kinda get freaked out by Monsters with - wrong- anatomy. The the last Boss just made me go "Whaaa?", since nothing in the game leading to this point justfys this design - i guess that the whole art department stood behind the Artist and just tossed their ideas to him ("Add spider legs, thats icky" "Ooo, and four tits, thats awesum...") - the same way i imagine the "Meet the Spartans" was created.
Weapons and Combat
Where do i start...Combat in this game? It sucks. Weapons? They suck my balls too... You have yer Standard Gun, Shotgun and Rifle (Helooo Silent Hill 1 and 2) and also three Melee Weapons, Knife, Steel Pipe and Axe. Why does this make me so angry? Cuz sum Nimrod at Double Helix thought, it would be a Grrrrreat idea to limit the ammo capacity, leavin us with two spare Mags and a filled weapon. It would work, if the Melee was usefull, but eaven with the axe in his Hands, Alex cant bring down a Human Opponent with 5-6 Combos - the same ammount ya need with a Knife btw. This leads us to Combat which is, to put it nicely, a total disaster. Every monster has a HUGE ammount of health, still easely taken down by a gun, but since we dont have enough ammo all the time, ya need to bring it down with the Melee weapon...and by god, is it tedious. Adding to the frustration is the fucked up dodge button, which works when the game feels like it and is mostly useless, since monsters tend to hit ya with undodgable attacks or just pound at ya until ya cant dodge any more. Shisms and Order Soldiers with guns are these special cases - shism has this double slash attack, where ya can dodge only one and order soldiers with Rifles just kick yer teeth in with the rifle but if ya come to near and cant dodge yet, since it has sum internal cooldown or sumthing. Silent Hill series never had a great combat engine, but the Combat was just there for the lulz, since the true Horror awaited in the Story and the Surroundings - sumthing that fell flat in Homecoming. Game, eaven if you dont give me enough ammo and make combat engine annoying and broken, im still not afraid of yer Head-for-an-Ass guys in yer collorfull world with mundane story :/
Collectables, Puzzles and achievements
Ok, there are just Two Collectables in this game, Child Drawings and Photographs. Collecting all 11 Photos gives ya a an xtra Sequence after the credits have played and collecting 18 Child Drawings gives ya...nuthing. Ok, an achievement, but otherwise, the game just laughs in yer Face and shows ya the Bird before racing off on its Harley. Both arent essential to the story, dont give ya any more Puzzlepieces to the plot...they are just there, since every game has to have collectables guys. Since were talking about Puzzles, letts talk about them...or rather, lets talk about IT since there only freaking one in this whole game that comes thru as a puzzle. I talk about the Pilar in the "Other" prison, which comes with the ryhmes and making ya come up with the right symbols - just like the old silent hill puzzles. But thats the only one i remember in a good light, the rest is just - ehhhh... They are either too easy or just battshit insane. The game mostly solves them up for ya, by giving every hint it can, but there are two of em that are just...god. Theres a Puzzle thats really that - A Puzzle, slide one too. I read that most people stoped playing because of that, a sad thing that also happened to Silent Hill 1 with the Piano Puzzle. I hate Slidepuzzles, You hate Slide puzzles, the whole world hates Slidepuzzles...so double Helix added it, good work there guys. The other one is the last Puzzle which, to be honest, i still dont know how it works, i managed it by randomly spining the plates until the game told me its allright - no hints, no story, just spin the plates, it will work eventualy. But yeah, why would i speak of achievements? Well, if ya want quick 1000 GS, get this game - they give ya an achievement for killing a monster (yes, one monster of every kind) and getting a weapon. There are no inspiring achievements that make ya test new ideas (like, avoiding monsters or , i dont know, beating the game in certain time) - just mundane beat the level, collect the drawings, beat the game on hard yadde yadde yadde...If ya save at the right point ya can just play on from there and get all of the ending achievements and just beat the game on hard mode with the overpowered Alien Blaster - all three events that influence the ending are in the last part of the game, so i only had to play thru it twice...
My thoughts
Well, serves me right for wanting to play every silent Hill game - Silent Hill: The Movie - The game isnt worth its price...i payed 20 Bucks for it and in retrospective, it would've been better if i Invested that in two Blowjobs by Hookers. Its not a total dissaster as Silent Hill 4, not as useless as God of War 2 and Story aint annoying as Final Fantasy 8...its just a forgetable game that is doomed to be downloaded over torrents and laughed at. I had sum fun, lots of frustration, and playing Silent Hill 2 on the same day didnt helped the whole game either. I still give it a solid 5 and can only recomend it to GS hunters, since i cant remember playing a game that gave me the useless Points that fast. Avoid and Forget...
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Alex Shepherd looks like a Douche, The Girl like a fish and his brother draws like a 4 year old :V
Finaly came around to play it at my friends place and, hooo boi, is it bad. True, not as bad as Silent Hill 4, which i still hold as the worst of the series (altho ya can ignore it, since it wasnt planed to be released under silent Hill name in the first place, but what the hell...), but SH Homecoming aint good either. Why? Let me start... also, there will be spoilers :3
Story
The core idea of the story sounds quite interresting, but the whole thing was just made boring as hell. I cant relate to the main character, cant relate to any other npcs and cant share their love and hatred or any other feelings they try to bring over. They are trying to make us feel sad about characters they didnt eaven took time to explain, but then again, the game is short enough to begin with. The KI of the two characters that follow ya, The Girl and The Black guy (yes, i refer to them as that, since they fulfill every known gender and racial stereotype) was actualy quite good, except the few moments where The Girl blocked me expecting the hugs. But then again, the endings are quite nice, making the Boogeyman the fav of the all 5 altho i could swear i can hear the fangirls squirt around the globe as three pyramid heads stood in a line. But i digress, the Story opens its cards quite soon and all the plottwists come out uninterresting and have that strange "Allready seen dat" sense to it.
World
Ah yes, the main reason i keep calling this Silent Hill: The movie - The Game. They actualy riped out quite a few chunks of the Movie, including the nightmare world, the Grand Hotel, the Abyss and Pyramid Head design. The broken off roads in Silent Hill one were in Place, since it gave the whole Story more Mystery, wishing you to find out what catacysm happened here. Silent Hill two went with the Roadblocks, Silent Hill 3 fucked the whole thing and 4th...lets not talk about it. But in Homecoming, the caved in Roads just give me headache - not in the Parts, where yer at Silent Hill, its a deserted Town and all, but in the Shepherds Glen...i mean, the whole road is missing and the main character never asks himself or others what happened and just makes an X on the map. Fuck that, i want an explanation!
Monsters
Ok, i have to adress the Trend of people Thinking every Monster in Silent Hill has to have meaning. This started with Silent Hill 2, where every Monster had either a Guilt or Sexual concept behind it. Silent Hill 1, xcept the kids with knives (or mumblers in Pal version), never went too far with backstory, xcept as horrified versions of Persons and Things Alessa knew. Silent Hill 3 jumped the shark and forgott the whole thing - or what the Heck does Tumor Monster represent? Does heather Smoke like a Dragon? But let me come Home (hurr hurr, Pun intended) and speak about those monsters - they are silly! I mean, theres a guy with Head where his ass has to be! A guy with his legs tied together and Fanged Vagina across his face and those fucking Nurses and Pyramid Head (or Boogeyman as they call him) - last two just Fan Service. Theres also the Cult Soldiers in Mining Uniforms (as seen in the movie) and Roaches, cleverly named Swarm, that can be found in every existing Silent Hill game. Boss Monsters (every three of em) are also as silly, altho the Puppet was quite terryfying to me, since i kinda get freaked out by Monsters with - wrong- anatomy. The the last Boss just made me go "Whaaa?", since nothing in the game leading to this point justfys this design - i guess that the whole art department stood behind the Artist and just tossed their ideas to him ("Add spider legs, thats icky" "Ooo, and four tits, thats awesum...") - the same way i imagine the "Meet the Spartans" was created.
Weapons and Combat
Where do i start...Combat in this game? It sucks. Weapons? They suck my balls too... You have yer Standard Gun, Shotgun and Rifle (Helooo Silent Hill 1 and 2) and also three Melee Weapons, Knife, Steel Pipe and Axe. Why does this make me so angry? Cuz sum Nimrod at Double Helix thought, it would be a Grrrrreat idea to limit the ammo capacity, leavin us with two spare Mags and a filled weapon. It would work, if the Melee was usefull, but eaven with the axe in his Hands, Alex cant bring down a Human Opponent with 5-6 Combos - the same ammount ya need with a Knife btw. This leads us to Combat which is, to put it nicely, a total disaster. Every monster has a HUGE ammount of health, still easely taken down by a gun, but since we dont have enough ammo all the time, ya need to bring it down with the Melee weapon...and by god, is it tedious. Adding to the frustration is the fucked up dodge button, which works when the game feels like it and is mostly useless, since monsters tend to hit ya with undodgable attacks or just pound at ya until ya cant dodge any more. Shisms and Order Soldiers with guns are these special cases - shism has this double slash attack, where ya can dodge only one and order soldiers with Rifles just kick yer teeth in with the rifle but if ya come to near and cant dodge yet, since it has sum internal cooldown or sumthing. Silent Hill series never had a great combat engine, but the Combat was just there for the lulz, since the true Horror awaited in the Story and the Surroundings - sumthing that fell flat in Homecoming. Game, eaven if you dont give me enough ammo and make combat engine annoying and broken, im still not afraid of yer Head-for-an-Ass guys in yer collorfull world with mundane story :/
Collectables, Puzzles and achievements
Ok, there are just Two Collectables in this game, Child Drawings and Photographs. Collecting all 11 Photos gives ya a an xtra Sequence after the credits have played and collecting 18 Child Drawings gives ya...nuthing. Ok, an achievement, but otherwise, the game just laughs in yer Face and shows ya the Bird before racing off on its Harley. Both arent essential to the story, dont give ya any more Puzzlepieces to the plot...they are just there, since every game has to have collectables guys. Since were talking about Puzzles, letts talk about them...or rather, lets talk about IT since there only freaking one in this whole game that comes thru as a puzzle. I talk about the Pilar in the "Other" prison, which comes with the ryhmes and making ya come up with the right symbols - just like the old silent hill puzzles. But thats the only one i remember in a good light, the rest is just - ehhhh... They are either too easy or just battshit insane. The game mostly solves them up for ya, by giving every hint it can, but there are two of em that are just...god. Theres a Puzzle thats really that - A Puzzle, slide one too. I read that most people stoped playing because of that, a sad thing that also happened to Silent Hill 1 with the Piano Puzzle. I hate Slidepuzzles, You hate Slide puzzles, the whole world hates Slidepuzzles...so double Helix added it, good work there guys. The other one is the last Puzzle which, to be honest, i still dont know how it works, i managed it by randomly spining the plates until the game told me its allright - no hints, no story, just spin the plates, it will work eventualy. But yeah, why would i speak of achievements? Well, if ya want quick 1000 GS, get this game - they give ya an achievement for killing a monster (yes, one monster of every kind) and getting a weapon. There are no inspiring achievements that make ya test new ideas (like, avoiding monsters or , i dont know, beating the game in certain time) - just mundane beat the level, collect the drawings, beat the game on hard yadde yadde yadde...If ya save at the right point ya can just play on from there and get all of the ending achievements and just beat the game on hard mode with the overpowered Alien Blaster - all three events that influence the ending are in the last part of the game, so i only had to play thru it twice...
My thoughts
Well, serves me right for wanting to play every silent Hill game - Silent Hill: The Movie - The game isnt worth its price...i payed 20 Bucks for it and in retrospective, it would've been better if i Invested that in two Blowjobs by Hookers. Its not a total dissaster as Silent Hill 4, not as useless as God of War 2 and Story aint annoying as Final Fantasy 8...its just a forgetable game that is doomed to be downloaded over torrents and laughed at. I had sum fun, lots of frustration, and playing Silent Hill 2 on the same day didnt helped the whole game either. I still give it a solid 5 and can only recomend it to GS hunters, since i cant remember playing a game that gave me the useless Points that fast. Avoid and Forget...
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Alex Shepherd looks like a Douche, The Girl like a fish and his brother draws like a 4 year old :V
Not going to EF after all...
General | Posted 14 years agoLast minute change - im not goin to EF after all, cuz of sum personal stuff. I wish everyone else good tiem :D
Does anyone remember this one?
General | Posted 14 years agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1hFMYc8zQ
I dont frikkin know how i remembered this :o
I dont frikkin know how i remembered this :o
Furry - fetish, Lifestyle or Escapism?
General | Posted 14 years agoExploring the depths of internet and talking with sum people it furtherly cemented my suspicion - we have an strange fandom. Not strange in a bad way tho, but people are quite sceptical about it and sum also like to bash at furry fandom I know, im chewing on an old shoe here, but theres a question i keep asking people - how do you define furry? Is it a fetish, lifestyle or escapism (hence the title)? I mean, everyone had an ready answer, from escapistic fantasies (humans are boring), fetish (its so exotic) and lifestylish (i am a shark!) - but the question remains: what of these three is the fandom?
It can be easely descirbed as fetish, since it has all the things in it fo dat. It embodies the animalistic Nature that sits in every one of us, lets us live out sum of the fantazies and provied great escapism, since the fursona doesnt represent us, but our mind. In my theory, if furry was fetish, 99% of the people would hate their body, at least on their subconciousness level, cuz imagening themselves as anthromorphic creatures surely lets em forgett their own body - its not entirely truth, but its an idea. Lifestyle is some other thing, since nobody cant really describe what a furry lifestyle is, which leads us to bunch of people refusing bath and wearing collars - just kidding, but there are idiots in every fandom, not just the furry one. True, we have Otherkinns (speaking of idiots...), but also sum stray Zoo- and Pedofiles - I wont deny there arent any in Fandom, but there are enough of those in other fandoms or as free agents (lawl) - so leaving those behind, what xactly is a furry lifestyle? Wearing collars, acting like animals? I dont know, that comes mostly as derp to me, but i can roll with it. And the last one is escapism - imagening yerself as a hulky anthro tiger is always better then plane old human. I can mostly relate to this when it comes to describing furry fandom, but then again, thats just me.
Ok, enough of my chitchatter, i like theorizing a lot and ya should take it with bunch of salt ;3 But yeah - what does Furry Fandom mean to you? One of three options mentioned before? All three together? or sumthing completely different?
It can be easely descirbed as fetish, since it has all the things in it fo dat. It embodies the animalistic Nature that sits in every one of us, lets us live out sum of the fantazies and provied great escapism, since the fursona doesnt represent us, but our mind. In my theory, if furry was fetish, 99% of the people would hate their body, at least on their subconciousness level, cuz imagening themselves as anthromorphic creatures surely lets em forgett their own body - its not entirely truth, but its an idea. Lifestyle is some other thing, since nobody cant really describe what a furry lifestyle is, which leads us to bunch of people refusing bath and wearing collars - just kidding, but there are idiots in every fandom, not just the furry one. True, we have Otherkinns (speaking of idiots...), but also sum stray Zoo- and Pedofiles - I wont deny there arent any in Fandom, but there are enough of those in other fandoms or as free agents (lawl) - so leaving those behind, what xactly is a furry lifestyle? Wearing collars, acting like animals? I dont know, that comes mostly as derp to me, but i can roll with it. And the last one is escapism - imagening yerself as a hulky anthro tiger is always better then plane old human. I can mostly relate to this when it comes to describing furry fandom, but then again, thats just me.
Ok, enough of my chitchatter, i like theorizing a lot and ya should take it with bunch of salt ;3 But yeah - what does Furry Fandom mean to you? One of three options mentioned before? All three together? or sumthing completely different?
EF Meme
General | Posted 14 years agoStolen from 
Where are you staying?
nearby Hostel
What day are you getting there?
On 16th, early arival :3
Who will you be with?
Who will you hang out with during the convention?
Mostly with Sherb - cant leave him naggin all by himself ;D
Are there any panels you might be attending?
First con evah, so dont know ;3
Are you attending any stage or public performances?
Probably :o
Will you be suiting?
mmmmnope
Which suit(s) will you be bringing?
mmmmnone
Do you do free art?
Sure, but dont xpect fully colored stuff - im digital artist after all ;3
What is your gender?
Male
How old are you?
24
How tall are you?
175 cm
Are you taken? Are you looking for a 'mate'?
Not taken and not looking :3
Can I talk to you?
Sure, meeting new people is always nice :)
Can I touch you?
As long as we stay at the handshake, its allright :o
How can I find you?
Chubbeh Guy with Glasses, Beard and with no sense of fashion - ill be all over the Place, so you can run in me sooner or later :)
Can I visit your room?
mmmmnope
Can I buy you drinks?
Im ok with that, but youll most likely get sum art in return ;3
Can I give you stuff?
Wouldnt mind a present or two, so yeah :3
Can I hug or snuggle with you?
mmmmnope
Are you nice?
Im a bit shy at first, but i guess im nice when i know ya better
How long are you going?
Early Arrival until End
Do you have an artist table?
mmmnope, doesnt quite pick my interrest :P
Do you have prints/CDs?
mmmmnope
Will you have art in the Art Show? General or Adult sections?
not really :o
If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Just say hi and start a conversation - as long as im not drinking/eating
Where will you be most of the time during the day's?
Running around Con, pestering
and 
What/where will you be eating?
Prolly sumwhere in the city
Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Depends, ask ;3
Can I look in your sketchbook?
Yush, but dont xpect anything estraordinary
Can I draw in your sketchbook?
Sure :3
Can I take your picture?
Wouldnt mind as long as ya ask first :3

Where are you staying?
nearby Hostel
What day are you getting there?
On 16th, early arival :3
Who will you be with?
Who will you hang out with during the convention?
Mostly with Sherb - cant leave him naggin all by himself ;D
Are there any panels you might be attending?
First con evah, so dont know ;3
Are you attending any stage or public performances?
Probably :o
Will you be suiting?
mmmmnope
Which suit(s) will you be bringing?
mmmmnone
Do you do free art?
Sure, but dont xpect fully colored stuff - im digital artist after all ;3
What is your gender?
Male
How old are you?
24
How tall are you?
175 cm
Are you taken? Are you looking for a 'mate'?
Not taken and not looking :3
Can I talk to you?
Sure, meeting new people is always nice :)
Can I touch you?
As long as we stay at the handshake, its allright :o
How can I find you?
Chubbeh Guy with Glasses, Beard and with no sense of fashion - ill be all over the Place, so you can run in me sooner or later :)
Can I visit your room?
mmmmnope
Can I buy you drinks?
Im ok with that, but youll most likely get sum art in return ;3
Can I give you stuff?
Wouldnt mind a present or two, so yeah :3
Can I hug or snuggle with you?
mmmmnope
Are you nice?
Im a bit shy at first, but i guess im nice when i know ya better
How long are you going?
Early Arrival until End
Do you have an artist table?
mmmnope, doesnt quite pick my interrest :P
Do you have prints/CDs?
mmmmnope
Will you have art in the Art Show? General or Adult sections?
not really :o
If I see you, how should I get your attention?
Just say hi and start a conversation - as long as im not drinking/eating
Where will you be most of the time during the day's?
Running around Con, pestering
and 
What/where will you be eating?
Prolly sumwhere in the city
Can I come with you for food/fun/etc?
Depends, ask ;3
Can I look in your sketchbook?
Yush, but dont xpect anything estraordinary
Can I draw in your sketchbook?
Sure :3
Can I take your picture?
Wouldnt mind as long as ya ask first :3
Eurofurence - Whos goin :o?
General | Posted 14 years agoSeeing its only two weeks left until then, mind as well tell the News
Yes, ill be there this year :3 And no, i wont be on artist lane either, before sumone asks. ill hang around with
sherbniz
serpentus
karakina and
yamavu mostly. Since this is my first Furcon evah, i dont have much of a plan what to do, rather then snoop around and meet new people. So, if youre there and want to say Hi, dont be shy ;3 I might eaven draw sum free sketchez while im there :D
Yes, ill be there this year :3 And no, i wont be on artist lane either, before sumone asks. ill hang around with
sherbniz
serpentus
karakina and
yamavu mostly. Since this is my first Furcon evah, i dont have much of a plan what to do, rather then snoop around and meet new people. So, if youre there and want to say Hi, dont be shy ;3 I might eaven draw sum free sketchez while im there :DTop 5 Guns in Video Games
General | Posted 14 years agoMost people dont know it, but im kinda a sucker for weapons. Not real ones ofcourse, but the ones in vidya games. I like good reloading sequences, design, feel of power, Fun using a weapon and the sound - and rarely, games get it right, with few exceptions. This is my personal list, based on games i played - so sum may be obscure, but what the hell ;3
1 - Killing Floor: Hunting Shotgun
This one sums up entirely what i expect from a VG gun. The sound is great and you can clearly see its Power as it plows thru the wave of speciments - hell, anytiem ya shot it, yer char might as well start singing Trololol song. The reload animation...gawd, that is just awesum, ya can clearly hear yer char cursing the speciments as he pops the two shells with such ANGER, its just orgasmic. Most weapons in KF have great animations and sounds, mostly the Shotguns departement - only reason AA12 didnt made it in the list is the fact, it doesnt feel powerfull at all :/ It eaven feels weaker after seeing the black guy from Expendables plow thru an corridor full of soldiers - that was at least one momerable scene from dat movie :o
2 - Black: AK47
Actualy, i could put just "Black", since all the weapons in that darn game are great - but AK47 just steals the show, i mean, ya can mount an silencer on it! The reload animation steals the show, where ya can eaven see the round in the mag, just waiting to be fired. As this game came almoust at the end of the Xbawks lifetime, people rarely remember it, altho it took really the last bit of power from the good ol black box, making weapons look and sound as great as they could possibly be - but eaven with Hollywood Orchestra Score, lacking any good story and ending on a strange...cliffhanger made this game forgetefull.
3 - Counter Strike: AWP
Ah yes, the AWP - its gunfire sound might as well be gods voice, such power. Altho the limitation of the era made the reloading look quite dull, the sheer power of this weapon and THAT SOUND, made it my favourite. Too bad i could never use it since people dont like playing with power and just baned it from every match :/ Speaking about dreams shattered.
4 - Unreal Tournament: Flak Cannon
Simply put on the list cuz the Grenade has a Goddamn smiley on it - true, ya can only see it a millisecond before yer head starts rolling around the ground, but its friendly allright :D But that aside, it was one of the top weapons of the game - sharing its top place with sludge cannon and teleporter gun. Aside of its secondary fire mentioned above, the primary shot a bunch of metal pieces, which bounced around the room and corners, liek a rain of destruction on yer enemies. As with every weapon in the UT, it has no reloading and design - i dont know, it still reminds me of VW beetle, i dont know why :/
5 - Gears of War 1&2 - Torque Bow
I can still remember running after this weapon anytiem it spawned - nice shooting sequence that resulted in satisfying swoosh, followed by most pleasing thunk and orgasmic kaboom :D True, reloading was quite dull and the design was as with every other GoW weapons - looking like sumthing, with preety lights and lots of bump maping - probably the reason why so many weapons on this list are plane old guns is the fact that imaginery always vaguely resemble a pipe with sum gun parts :o
1 - Killing Floor: Hunting Shotgun
This one sums up entirely what i expect from a VG gun. The sound is great and you can clearly see its Power as it plows thru the wave of speciments - hell, anytiem ya shot it, yer char might as well start singing Trololol song. The reload animation...gawd, that is just awesum, ya can clearly hear yer char cursing the speciments as he pops the two shells with such ANGER, its just orgasmic. Most weapons in KF have great animations and sounds, mostly the Shotguns departement - only reason AA12 didnt made it in the list is the fact, it doesnt feel powerfull at all :/ It eaven feels weaker after seeing the black guy from Expendables plow thru an corridor full of soldiers - that was at least one momerable scene from dat movie :o
2 - Black: AK47
Actualy, i could put just "Black", since all the weapons in that darn game are great - but AK47 just steals the show, i mean, ya can mount an silencer on it! The reload animation steals the show, where ya can eaven see the round in the mag, just waiting to be fired. As this game came almoust at the end of the Xbawks lifetime, people rarely remember it, altho it took really the last bit of power from the good ol black box, making weapons look and sound as great as they could possibly be - but eaven with Hollywood Orchestra Score, lacking any good story and ending on a strange...cliffhanger made this game forgetefull.
3 - Counter Strike: AWP
Ah yes, the AWP - its gunfire sound might as well be gods voice, such power. Altho the limitation of the era made the reloading look quite dull, the sheer power of this weapon and THAT SOUND, made it my favourite. Too bad i could never use it since people dont like playing with power and just baned it from every match :/ Speaking about dreams shattered.
4 - Unreal Tournament: Flak Cannon
Simply put on the list cuz the Grenade has a Goddamn smiley on it - true, ya can only see it a millisecond before yer head starts rolling around the ground, but its friendly allright :D But that aside, it was one of the top weapons of the game - sharing its top place with sludge cannon and teleporter gun. Aside of its secondary fire mentioned above, the primary shot a bunch of metal pieces, which bounced around the room and corners, liek a rain of destruction on yer enemies. As with every weapon in the UT, it has no reloading and design - i dont know, it still reminds me of VW beetle, i dont know why :/
5 - Gears of War 1&2 - Torque Bow
I can still remember running after this weapon anytiem it spawned - nice shooting sequence that resulted in satisfying swoosh, followed by most pleasing thunk and orgasmic kaboom :D True, reloading was quite dull and the design was as with every other GoW weapons - looking like sumthing, with preety lights and lots of bump maping - probably the reason why so many weapons on this list are plane old guns is the fact that imaginery always vaguely resemble a pipe with sum gun parts :o
FFFFFFFFF- (Also, Accepting moar commissions and Terraria)
General | Posted 14 years agoGod, i LOVE technology :D My PC got eaten by a worm i got as I transferred sum Data from my Old PC - i thought, Avira is goin to die with 500 infected Data every 10 seconds. So I couldnt save any Data and lost all my Music and Drawings - luckly, all the commission and gifties are safe on my Photobucket Acc, so its not an major setback, altho I lost 10 Full Colored Pages and 15 linearted Pages from mah "Seeker" comic, so FFFFFFFUUU-
Speakin of which, Windows 7 is a great Pain in the ass when it comes to formating - its not as WinXP where ya just select partition, press d and l and stare at yellow bar for next three hours, oh noooohohooo. Win7 is totaly melodramatic bout it, and refuses to format it cuz, i quote "There is still sum data on the chosen Partition" >_> Way to go Microsoft, main thing is, it looks moar like that Soulsucking Apple, amiright?
On other news, i officialy start the Campaign "Help Pav get a decent PC" and accept moar commissions atm, since my current bucket of bolts is greatly Optimized for Windows XP, but dumb enough that its Windows 7 :/ Thank god it aint Vista ;D *bagadum-tsch*. And no, i wont be goin back to WinXP, eaven if its almoust as great as my alltiemluv Win98SE - last thing i nead is 99% of proggys playing dumb on me cuz i still got that old Fuck on my HARD drive.
Also, if ya liek playing terraria, give me a nudge - altho i dislike getting bumraped by Bats, its always moar fun in Group then alone ;3 Sum people might kill me fo this, but i think that terraria is far moar superior compared to minecraft - yah, its 2D, but at least ya dont spend over 9000 hours waiting for sun to rise, since skeletons and spiders rape ya as soon as ya go outside for a minute. Support is also better, which is great, since terraria has limited content - ya can have all yer fun building stuff, but once ya obtain every thing, its starting to stagnate, so, thumbs up for moar content :D
Speakin of which, Windows 7 is a great Pain in the ass when it comes to formating - its not as WinXP where ya just select partition, press d and l and stare at yellow bar for next three hours, oh noooohohooo. Win7 is totaly melodramatic bout it, and refuses to format it cuz, i quote "There is still sum data on the chosen Partition" >_> Way to go Microsoft, main thing is, it looks moar like that Soulsucking Apple, amiright?
On other news, i officialy start the Campaign "Help Pav get a decent PC" and accept moar commissions atm, since my current bucket of bolts is greatly Optimized for Windows XP, but dumb enough that its Windows 7 :/ Thank god it aint Vista ;D *bagadum-tsch*. And no, i wont be goin back to WinXP, eaven if its almoust as great as my alltiemluv Win98SE - last thing i nead is 99% of proggys playing dumb on me cuz i still got that old Fuck on my HARD drive.
Also, if ya liek playing terraria, give me a nudge - altho i dislike getting bumraped by Bats, its always moar fun in Group then alone ;3 Sum people might kill me fo this, but i think that terraria is far moar superior compared to minecraft - yah, its 2D, but at least ya dont spend over 9000 hours waiting for sun to rise, since skeletons and spiders rape ya as soon as ya go outside for a minute. Support is also better, which is great, since terraria has limited content - ya can have all yer fun building stuff, but once ya obtain every thing, its starting to stagnate, so, thumbs up for moar content :D
Good Evening Contest Rules
General | Posted 14 years agohere are the rules for the ongoing "Good evening'" Contest, also the list of people who allready won :3
Rules
- Read the journal to find out, how you can win - mostly, its about who comments first or second, but sumtiems, theres a question to be answered too :3
- the theme of the Giftart is named in journal, so do check if its ok with ya before ya post
- You can win only once - others should get a chance too
- People who cant win are: people i Arttrade with, Have a commission going on, People who allready get free arts from me.
- Eaven tho its named good evening, the time i post the journals isnt fixed, so be prepeared.
As with the last years "Good mornin", every 15th picture will be a full colored one.
Winners so far -
1.
-> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5993408
Rules
- Read the journal to find out, how you can win - mostly, its about who comments first or second, but sumtiems, theres a question to be answered too :3
- the theme of the Giftart is named in journal, so do check if its ok with ya before ya post
- You can win only once - others should get a chance too
- People who cant win are: people i Arttrade with, Have a commission going on, People who allready get free arts from me.
- Eaven tho its named good evening, the time i post the journals isnt fixed, so be prepeared.
As with the last years "Good mornin", every 15th picture will be a full colored one.
Winners so far -
1.
-> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5993408Good Evening 1
General | Posted 14 years agoHere we go again :D Start of the new contest, and what better way to start then with sum Nudity XD First one who comments gets a nude pic of his character - go!
Good Mornin :o
General | Posted 14 years agoHeyas guys, dunno how much of ya remember the "Good Mornin'" free gifties i had goin on last year, but im startin em again :3 As always, its about how fast ya comment or answer a question and sumtiems, reading before ya post ;3 So, keep yer eyes peered and F5 button pressed, ya might be the next Winrar!
Also, im reseting the winer list, so people who won a pic last tiem can try it again :D
Also, im reseting the winer list, so people who won a pic last tiem can try it again :D
Second Life Commissions reopened
General | Posted 14 years agoSeeing that im back to SL and also worked thru great part of my commish, im reopening my SL franchise :D Ya can contact me under name Pav Rain and the prices are as always -
6k for full color
3k for Lineart
1k for Sketch
Additional chars, starting with third char, are 1k for Colored and 500 for Lineart
Sketchez xtra chars are for free, until max. 5 Chars - for every additional char from there, tis 250 each.
Bgs are free for Sketches, 500 for Lineart and 1k for Colored
All Prices are in Linden $ ofcourse ;3
6k for full color
3k for Lineart
1k for Sketch
Additional chars, starting with third char, are 1k for Colored and 500 for Lineart
Sketchez xtra chars are for free, until max. 5 Chars - for every additional char from there, tis 250 each.
Bgs are free for Sketches, 500 for Lineart and 1k for Colored
All Prices are in Linden $ ofcourse ;3
My personal top 5 worst video games ever made
General | Posted 14 years agoSince i talked once about my top five games, its only rational to talk about the five games i deem to be worst ever made. Just as warning, do not take this personaly, since its my view of the games and things they were lacking. So, lets move on, to...
1. God of War 1&2 - Usualy, people who played this game give me that awkward look when i rant about this one, since its widely considered to be best of the best on ps2. Aside its the only game that frustrated me so much i broke my controller (altho, it was broken anyways for abusing the O button) for the first and onl time in my life, the gameplay was quite mediocre and frustrating to the bone. I know, everyone needs the challenge, but i think GoW just overdid it - turning the wheel to bring the elevetor down while skeletons spawn up yer bum and interrupt ya all the time and to top it off, spikes drop down on ya - thats just silly. The story is well....eh. The first one was quite fine, but the second one was like a bad, baad comedy that wanted to come thru serious. Kratos on other side was neither symphatic nor sumone you should hate, its just a savage beast that fucking kills everyone - and they should leave it like that. I mean, seeing him crying everytime he seas his family is quite out of character and obviously implemented as the whole game was 99% done, to give the poor fellah a reason for the slaughter. But yeah, i can still hear him screamin "Aiiiiiiiiiirriiiiiiiis" and "I must kill Zus!" all the time (Hint hint: written as it is understood). Also a great downpoint for this game is for spawning a large number of God of War lookalikes that still infest the whole game scene. Damn you Sony!
2. Final Fantasy 8 - My first final fantasy and the only time i damned myself for not hearing a friend of mine telling me to play 7 first. It started actualy really well, it got me interested and then, omg, then plot twist! "We were all in the same childrens home when we were little". Way to go and spoiling all the FFs for me. Damn You, SqareEnix!
3. Prototype - the only reason this game isnt 2nd in this list is the fact, it started out..good. But damn that difficulity curve - it starts off piss easy to fun and goes up to frustrating hard as hell in folowing mission and continues to be like that until you get a new upgrade and it goes piss easy again. The story is kinda lame and doesnt want anyone to know how it goes on, the character is unsymathetic and didnt quite fleshed out. Same goes for everyone else in this buggeh game. I mean, when yer "in disguise", you can spring, super jump, float, climb up the buildings and soldiers are A-Ok with dat. But, as soon ya pick sumone up, THEN youre in trouble. God praise the stupid AI and god damn Radical Entertainment.
4- Silent Hill: The Room - Taking a name of an good Game and put it on Generic one, alther the story a bit and add few pink Rabbits - and you get this piece of crap. Aside of being an Peep Show Extravaganza, it features poor gameplay with highly uninteresting, repetative story, not talking about going thru all the levels TWICE. Damn you...or no...Konami, you just broke my heart :<
5. Fable 2 - there is quite a number of games i could come with for 5th place, but i choose fable 2 - game so uninteresting i actualy turned it off a minute after start for the first time. Trying to play it later didnt made it any good, so, fifth place for you. Also, Damn you Lionhead Studios - one Fable was more then enough.
1. God of War 1&2 - Usualy, people who played this game give me that awkward look when i rant about this one, since its widely considered to be best of the best on ps2. Aside its the only game that frustrated me so much i broke my controller (altho, it was broken anyways for abusing the O button) for the first and onl time in my life, the gameplay was quite mediocre and frustrating to the bone. I know, everyone needs the challenge, but i think GoW just overdid it - turning the wheel to bring the elevetor down while skeletons spawn up yer bum and interrupt ya all the time and to top it off, spikes drop down on ya - thats just silly. The story is well....eh. The first one was quite fine, but the second one was like a bad, baad comedy that wanted to come thru serious. Kratos on other side was neither symphatic nor sumone you should hate, its just a savage beast that fucking kills everyone - and they should leave it like that. I mean, seeing him crying everytime he seas his family is quite out of character and obviously implemented as the whole game was 99% done, to give the poor fellah a reason for the slaughter. But yeah, i can still hear him screamin "Aiiiiiiiiiirriiiiiiiis" and "I must kill Zus!" all the time (Hint hint: written as it is understood). Also a great downpoint for this game is for spawning a large number of God of War lookalikes that still infest the whole game scene. Damn you Sony!
2. Final Fantasy 8 - My first final fantasy and the only time i damned myself for not hearing a friend of mine telling me to play 7 first. It started actualy really well, it got me interested and then, omg, then plot twist! "We were all in the same childrens home when we were little". Way to go and spoiling all the FFs for me. Damn You, SqareEnix!
3. Prototype - the only reason this game isnt 2nd in this list is the fact, it started out..good. But damn that difficulity curve - it starts off piss easy to fun and goes up to frustrating hard as hell in folowing mission and continues to be like that until you get a new upgrade and it goes piss easy again. The story is kinda lame and doesnt want anyone to know how it goes on, the character is unsymathetic and didnt quite fleshed out. Same goes for everyone else in this buggeh game. I mean, when yer "in disguise", you can spring, super jump, float, climb up the buildings and soldiers are A-Ok with dat. But, as soon ya pick sumone up, THEN youre in trouble. God praise the stupid AI and god damn Radical Entertainment.
4- Silent Hill: The Room - Taking a name of an good Game and put it on Generic one, alther the story a bit and add few pink Rabbits - and you get this piece of crap. Aside of being an Peep Show Extravaganza, it features poor gameplay with highly uninteresting, repetative story, not talking about going thru all the levels TWICE. Damn you...or no...Konami, you just broke my heart :<
5. Fable 2 - there is quite a number of games i could come with for 5th place, but i choose fable 2 - game so uninteresting i actualy turned it off a minute after start for the first time. Trying to play it later didnt made it any good, so, fifth place for you. Also, Damn you Lionhead Studios - one Fable was more then enough.
:)
General | Posted 14 years agoDaily Shit, Kapparoth and CORE...
General | Posted 15 years agoFirst things first - I know I havent uploaded any Art lately and mostly kept off the Chat. Well, there are few Reasons why I did this - Work and my cripling game addiction...actualy, mostly the second one, and i think it will be time to do sumthing bout it, but yeah. Im still doing Art, mostly sketchez in my Notebook and write Stuff down for Narthena RPG, which is still on and work on it should be continued bout next week, now that I and my Group have sum more Time on their hands :3
The reason im writing this down is because of my comic series (I keep calling it like that, altho it only contains failed projects). People who have followed my work for a while might have noticed that the most stories i felt that need to find their way into the comic, kinda hang together.
Dark Angel is a story about Pax Dragonfire, an Kanid who used his fame he gathered after defeting shaits that invaded CORE, who brought down the government of CORE and started a militaristic regime which lasted for decades to come until the whole thing broke down with the death of Pax. Altho this one doesnt hang in with the folowing comics ill explain later on, its a prequel, more or less, to the stories to come, since Pax and his Rule play one of the major roles in the story to come.
Daily shit was a simple webcomic i abandoned after a while and still can be found on my old accout
, but it gave the birth to the whole story - a fallen Angel who gets his way thru normal life and finaly sacrificing himself to save the world - at least, it wouldve got there if i wasnt a lazy ass I am. Its the first chapter of the story and after lot of rethinking, i decided to change it a lot so it fits with my current view of the story.
Kapparoth, or New World order i used to call it on my old acc, was a conclusion to daily shit and was about CORE helping an overrun UCN city to fend off the angels and Pax fulfilling his old promisse, this would lead to the last comic, CORE, which story i dont want to reveal yet, since theres nothing on the net i posted about it, xcept few pics on my old acc - i like to keep it secret for a while ;3
The truth is, the story is already fleshed out after all the changes i made - daily shit will have another name and break free from lame comical storyline it had back then, Kapparoth will have a fresh start and i intend to show more of the Background of Narthena and its population, and after starting it off twice (NWO with 25 Pages and Kapparoth with 100), i think i can do this one the way i intended.
And yes, i want to bring these to an End - its been 8 years without a fineshed comic and its time to get that story down - the only question that remains is, if dark angel is to be done first or last or in between, i dont have a clue ;3
The reason im writing this down is because of my comic series (I keep calling it like that, altho it only contains failed projects). People who have followed my work for a while might have noticed that the most stories i felt that need to find their way into the comic, kinda hang together.
Dark Angel is a story about Pax Dragonfire, an Kanid who used his fame he gathered after defeting shaits that invaded CORE, who brought down the government of CORE and started a militaristic regime which lasted for decades to come until the whole thing broke down with the death of Pax. Altho this one doesnt hang in with the folowing comics ill explain later on, its a prequel, more or less, to the stories to come, since Pax and his Rule play one of the major roles in the story to come.
Daily shit was a simple webcomic i abandoned after a while and still can be found on my old accout
, but it gave the birth to the whole story - a fallen Angel who gets his way thru normal life and finaly sacrificing himself to save the world - at least, it wouldve got there if i wasnt a lazy ass I am. Its the first chapter of the story and after lot of rethinking, i decided to change it a lot so it fits with my current view of the story. Kapparoth, or New World order i used to call it on my old acc, was a conclusion to daily shit and was about CORE helping an overrun UCN city to fend off the angels and Pax fulfilling his old promisse, this would lead to the last comic, CORE, which story i dont want to reveal yet, since theres nothing on the net i posted about it, xcept few pics on my old acc - i like to keep it secret for a while ;3
The truth is, the story is already fleshed out after all the changes i made - daily shit will have another name and break free from lame comical storyline it had back then, Kapparoth will have a fresh start and i intend to show more of the Background of Narthena and its population, and after starting it off twice (NWO with 25 Pages and Kapparoth with 100), i think i can do this one the way i intended.
And yes, i want to bring these to an End - its been 8 years without a fineshed comic and its time to get that story down - the only question that remains is, if dark angel is to be done first or last or in between, i dont have a clue ;3
Happy valentines day...
General | Posted 15 years agoWell, normaly im not into these kind of stuff, since i think showing affection to sum one on one specific day is kinda cheesy and wrong, since love should be shown to eachother everyday ;3
Nevertheless, Happy Valentines Day everyone :D
For those, who dont celebrate it/dont have partner, look on the bright side - ya spared yerself sum money and bunch of stress.
!!!IN BEFORE PEOPLE COMPLAINING THEY ARE SINGLE!!!
Being single is a good thing too! Relationships are overrated and people are pushed into having one by our Society. Im not saying, relationships are bad - no, i just want to say you need to take it easy and find sumone ya really luv and who really luvs ya back, eaven if its by late 40's. As for the main reason, why 90% of the people do relationships - dont forgett, you can always buy sex, ya dont have to bind people to ya for dat ;3
Nevertheless, Happy Valentines Day everyone :D
For those, who dont celebrate it/dont have partner, look on the bright side - ya spared yerself sum money and bunch of stress.
!!!IN BEFORE PEOPLE COMPLAINING THEY ARE SINGLE!!!
Being single is a good thing too! Relationships are overrated and people are pushed into having one by our Society. Im not saying, relationships are bad - no, i just want to say you need to take it easy and find sumone ya really luv and who really luvs ya back, eaven if its by late 40's. As for the main reason, why 90% of the people do relationships - dont forgett, you can always buy sex, ya dont have to bind people to ya for dat ;3
Narthena RPG - Rulebook Alpha Version 1 is done!!!
General | Posted 15 years agoAye, its finaly done :3 The Core Book contains Rules, Armor and Weapon Tables, all seven Magic Schools, Attributes and Skill description and ofcourse, character creaton. Its currently 54 Pages long, since i decided to leave the Races, States and Classes description for later - main thing for now is Rule test, which will start this or next week. Im currently quite satisfied with the rules, they look quite playable and I tried to close every loophole i came across and do sum balancing, but the real correction will only be possible during the game tests. With the current speed, I hope that we can go Beta in next 2-4 Months and start rewriting the textes and translate em to english (managed to find 2 translators ;)). Also, another friend offered to do crash test with Fighting rules, which is quite helpfull since i want to do a full story with mine, to test other aspects of game. Without further ado, wish me luck :D I gonna need a bunch ^^
Narthena RPG - Status Report
General | Posted 15 years agoYah, tis been a month since i first mentioned Narthena RPG, game Based on world of Narthena that ive been working on since few years. Currently, first version of rules is done, together with List and description of Skills, Armor, Weapons and every Magic school - currently, its only in german, but i plan to translate it to english once we tested the rules. What still needs to be done is the character creation rules, description of few races (Exen, Drachlings, Dragons and Taurs), Wildlife and States. While these three are sumthing i just need to finaly write down, there is still an great portion of Pictures i got to draw for it, altho ill start with it once the Rules and Setting are been approved from few external testers ill ask for in future. Currently, there are two story writers and me on the Project - they will rewrite the Texts i send em and make em more... enjoyable to read ;3 Ive built in few extra Stuff like rules for dirty fighting and Armor/weapon upgrades and i hope people will enjoy it as much as I do...
With the current workspeed, i think everything will be written down by the end of next month or until end of march, testing it will take a lot of time, same as rewriting the texts and translating em to english (altho i must admit, im still looking for sumone whos willing to do this task).
Well, Ill keep ya guys informed if anything changes
cheers
With the current workspeed, i think everything will be written down by the end of next month or until end of march, testing it will take a lot of time, same as rewriting the texts and translating em to english (altho i must admit, im still looking for sumone whos willing to do this task).
Well, Ill keep ya guys informed if anything changes
cheers
Streamin tonight :O
General | Posted 15 years agoIm on Watch Tail tonight -> http://www.watchtail.com/view.php?v=Pav
I wont be doing any requests, sinc eits already late, but ya can watch me drawing sum moar Zarah ;3
I wont be doing any requests, sinc eits already late, but ya can watch me drawing sum moar Zarah ;3
Epic Horror Movie
General | Posted 15 years agoSince im siting at work and watching thru my dvd collection, ive had an idea of an most EPIC horror movie evah - it goes like this:
Characters would be Police Officer, Ex Military girl, Priest, Family father with his baby, Fat Boi (comic relief) ten year old girl and her Grandmother and bunch expandables.
Small town is being terrorized by an unknown entity that attacks teenagers in dreams and killing them there also kills them in real world. Police officer, together with the Priest manages to exorcise the being out of a ten year old girl, only to find out its an alien being, which death results in a punishment expedition from martians that spread virus on the globe that turns all of the dead into zombies. Cop, Priest, ten year old girl and sum survivors flee the city as the epidemic spreads and pick up a hitchiker along the way, which turns out to be an psyhotic murderer. Few expendables and an hour later, they manage to kill him and find sum lone surviviours (Family Father, His baby, Fat Boi and sum more expendables). They turn the buss into a fortress and continue thru arizone desert - but when they ask a gas stop clerk to show em the way, he sends em right to the trap, where a canibalistic, mutated, chainsaw wielding family wait for their prey. After a while (and more lost expendables) they flee and find themselves in a lonely cottage sumwhere in the hills (after a long trip ofcourse) - they search for food in the cellars and play a recording they find in there, only to wake up an ancient evil that slumbers in the woods. A grousome night passed, more expendables died and cop lost his right hand (and now he planted a chainsaw on it) - they are still on the move since the zombie tide is right behind them. Their trip didnt lasted long, and after a fight against an reawaken mummy of an ancient egyptian priest, they lay themselves to sleep in a small hostel, only to wake up as a plaything for dearanged murderers and puzzle masters. After they solved the puzzles (family guy cuts his own leg to escape the chains) and escaped the hostel, they enter a Go Go Bar on the mexican border - which turns out to be a vampire hideout, which they again survive sumhow (altho the priest dies and fat boi gets bitten). As they still run away, fat boi turns into a werewolf and they sumhow manage to destroy him before catching an secret space ship they took away from aliens that landed in the deserts of peru. After they leave the solar system, they found a test vessel that was trying a new way to travel great distances in space - only it traveled thru hell and is nau cursed. Now cop, Ex Militarry Gal, family father and his infant, ten year old girl and her grandmother and sum expendables find a strange cube on the ship, which when solved calls strange, demonic creatures into our reality. They survive (ok, family father is gone, tempted by the demons), they crash land on a planet that looks like earth and start an peacefull life. Cop marries the Ex Military girl, sum expendables are also there to restart the human kind. All is good until the cop doesnt flip out and runs into the woods, snatching an hockey mask and a machete - after he terrorizes the whole camp (which is on sum lake), the military gal kills him and travels northe.
The end
Ive been thinking ot make this 15 hours long, splited into 5 parts and call it Zombie Armagedon Splatter extrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrravaganza!
I think 20th century and other companies would love the idea :o
Characters would be Police Officer, Ex Military girl, Priest, Family father with his baby, Fat Boi (comic relief) ten year old girl and her Grandmother and bunch expandables.
Small town is being terrorized by an unknown entity that attacks teenagers in dreams and killing them there also kills them in real world. Police officer, together with the Priest manages to exorcise the being out of a ten year old girl, only to find out its an alien being, which death results in a punishment expedition from martians that spread virus on the globe that turns all of the dead into zombies. Cop, Priest, ten year old girl and sum survivors flee the city as the epidemic spreads and pick up a hitchiker along the way, which turns out to be an psyhotic murderer. Few expendables and an hour later, they manage to kill him and find sum lone surviviours (Family Father, His baby, Fat Boi and sum more expendables). They turn the buss into a fortress and continue thru arizone desert - but when they ask a gas stop clerk to show em the way, he sends em right to the trap, where a canibalistic, mutated, chainsaw wielding family wait for their prey. After a while (and more lost expendables) they flee and find themselves in a lonely cottage sumwhere in the hills (after a long trip ofcourse) - they search for food in the cellars and play a recording they find in there, only to wake up an ancient evil that slumbers in the woods. A grousome night passed, more expendables died and cop lost his right hand (and now he planted a chainsaw on it) - they are still on the move since the zombie tide is right behind them. Their trip didnt lasted long, and after a fight against an reawaken mummy of an ancient egyptian priest, they lay themselves to sleep in a small hostel, only to wake up as a plaything for dearanged murderers and puzzle masters. After they solved the puzzles (family guy cuts his own leg to escape the chains) and escaped the hostel, they enter a Go Go Bar on the mexican border - which turns out to be a vampire hideout, which they again survive sumhow (altho the priest dies and fat boi gets bitten). As they still run away, fat boi turns into a werewolf and they sumhow manage to destroy him before catching an secret space ship they took away from aliens that landed in the deserts of peru. After they leave the solar system, they found a test vessel that was trying a new way to travel great distances in space - only it traveled thru hell and is nau cursed. Now cop, Ex Militarry Gal, family father and his infant, ten year old girl and her grandmother and sum expendables find a strange cube on the ship, which when solved calls strange, demonic creatures into our reality. They survive (ok, family father is gone, tempted by the demons), they crash land on a planet that looks like earth and start an peacefull life. Cop marries the Ex Military girl, sum expendables are also there to restart the human kind. All is good until the cop doesnt flip out and runs into the woods, snatching an hockey mask and a machete - after he terrorizes the whole camp (which is on sum lake), the military gal kills him and travels northe.
The end
Ive been thinking ot make this 15 hours long, splited into 5 parts and call it Zombie Armagedon Splatter extrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrravaganza!
I think 20th century and other companies would love the idea :o
For all commissioners
General | Posted 15 years agoWords around, FA is goin to dissapear - it might be just an try to scare people, but ya can never be sure :o
Everyone that commissioned me, ya can contact me per Second Life (Names Pav Rain there) or by email at pavart@gmx.at...as for the people who already commissioned me, pics and descriptions they already sent me are saved at mah PC. For everyone else, contact me per IM as listed on my Profile Page.
Dunno if its true or not, i still want to thank everyone for a good run i had here - still have to see where i should move next (Altho DA SA and InkBunny are out of quiestion)
Pav
Everyone that commissioned me, ya can contact me per Second Life (Names Pav Rain there) or by email at pavart@gmx.at...as for the people who already commissioned me, pics and descriptions they already sent me are saved at mah PC. For everyone else, contact me per IM as listed on my Profile Page.
Dunno if its true or not, i still want to thank everyone for a good run i had here - still have to see where i should move next (Altho DA SA and InkBunny are out of quiestion)
Pav
FA Hacking and the Trolling that came...
General | Posted 15 years agoAltho i think the whole thing is quite hillarious, i would avoid to troll people (like our famous rapist, but who didnt seen it coming, he didnt read ED - zaush is well known for his psyhotic episodes regarding everything fuckable)
After all, remember that after the "fellow" Admins regain their power, they will eagerly start banning people - nothing is more vengefull then unprofesional Furry admins, so be aware :o
After all, remember that after the "fellow" Admins regain their power, they will eagerly start banning people - nothing is more vengefull then unprofesional Furry admins, so be aware :o
Narthena RPG
General | Posted 15 years ago
sherb, my RL friend Marius and I decided to create (or rather, i decided and pulld em both into it) to create an Penn n paper RPG based on world of Narthena ive been working on past few years. The setting is futuristic and quite dystopic - player can choose between several races and states, or build his own race based on his imagination and with the help of the rules. There will be few classes and limitations based on a state which characters choose (While UCN Exen Healers use magic to heal up wound at the cost of other players soulpoints, Core uses nanotech which can easely heal up his wounded subjects - and sometimes let sum extra parts grow from their subjects bodies, since nanotech is still an unstable technology). Magic has its own unique classes and depending on choosen class, gameplay changes drasticly - mage isnt just an guy that throws fireballs or summones monsters ;3 The story itself is already set up and just needs to be written down by me and sherb, system is almoust ready just needs to be refined by marius and tested.The reason why im writing this down: I found enough people who would like to test it who live near me, but i would also like some external People to help me test it - so if anyone is interested for this theme, id be happy the digital copy of the basic compendium - once its done and tested.
Just want to know if theres interest for such thing - altho im not interested to make any profit out of this one, it would be an great and fun project for me :3
Video Game Top 5 Meme
General | Posted 15 years agoA small meme i found interesting to do :3
1. Disciples 2
An worthy successor of the first Disciples, fixed everything that first
part lacked due to its technological inferiority, added new content and most important - kept the great art Style, Story that sucks you in and simple, yet deep tactical combat and town building. If theres an game in disciples serial people should play, then its deffinetly part two - part one might scare away new players due to its age and part three is an absolutely different game comparred to its predecessors - yet, still wort an try.
2. Morrowind
Altho the world shruned a lot compared to daggerfall, morrowind still has to offer an giant world to explore and well thought out story to follow with several different factions, loads of quests and dungeons to explore. Two Expansions followed, Tribunal being the best of both offering both creepy and fascinating story about half-gods gone insane. Editor that came with the game allows skilled users to create anything, from simple quests up to whole new worlds. Altho it stands in the shadows of Oblivion, Morrowind is still an great game with story larger then oblivions - an must have.
3. Silent Hill 2
Silent hill was an series ive played since the beginning, up to the fourth part of the instalation where it stoped being what it was suposed to be - an excelent survival horror. Althought SH 1 is the father of the series and quite atmospheric and the third part has quite an morbid scenery, Part two comes with the depest stories and the most "I almoust crapped my self" moments, like when ya go down an lenthy corridor expecting sumthing to jump from the darkness that lies in front of ya any second. Story itself is quite hidden, revealing itself only through cutscenes and allowing player to piece himself the puzzle to find out what the hell is going on. Peak of the triology (no, SH 4 wasnt an silent hill, just another game they named so to avoid creating an new franchise).
4. Hitman - Blood Money
Comparing the first Part of the series to BM is like comparing two different games. Upgradable Weapons, intriguing Missions, several different ways to solve them - the game leaves every option open for the player, be it the stealthy or rambo style. Also, the Assassin 47 is an cult figure and using this alter ego in the game is mostsatisfying :3
5. Audio Surf
Probably the best Rythm game ive played so far - several different game mods, possibility to load any music you have on PC...its like guitar hero, but just better.Most creative game ive came across in a while.
1. Disciples 2
An worthy successor of the first Disciples, fixed everything that first
part lacked due to its technological inferiority, added new content and most important - kept the great art Style, Story that sucks you in and simple, yet deep tactical combat and town building. If theres an game in disciples serial people should play, then its deffinetly part two - part one might scare away new players due to its age and part three is an absolutely different game comparred to its predecessors - yet, still wort an try.
2. Morrowind
Altho the world shruned a lot compared to daggerfall, morrowind still has to offer an giant world to explore and well thought out story to follow with several different factions, loads of quests and dungeons to explore. Two Expansions followed, Tribunal being the best of both offering both creepy and fascinating story about half-gods gone insane. Editor that came with the game allows skilled users to create anything, from simple quests up to whole new worlds. Altho it stands in the shadows of Oblivion, Morrowind is still an great game with story larger then oblivions - an must have.
3. Silent Hill 2
Silent hill was an series ive played since the beginning, up to the fourth part of the instalation where it stoped being what it was suposed to be - an excelent survival horror. Althought SH 1 is the father of the series and quite atmospheric and the third part has quite an morbid scenery, Part two comes with the depest stories and the most "I almoust crapped my self" moments, like when ya go down an lenthy corridor expecting sumthing to jump from the darkness that lies in front of ya any second. Story itself is quite hidden, revealing itself only through cutscenes and allowing player to piece himself the puzzle to find out what the hell is going on. Peak of the triology (no, SH 4 wasnt an silent hill, just another game they named so to avoid creating an new franchise).
4. Hitman - Blood Money
Comparing the first Part of the series to BM is like comparing two different games. Upgradable Weapons, intriguing Missions, several different ways to solve them - the game leaves every option open for the player, be it the stealthy or rambo style. Also, the Assassin 47 is an cult figure and using this alter ego in the game is mostsatisfying :3
5. Audio Surf
Probably the best Rythm game ive played so far - several different game mods, possibility to load any music you have on PC...its like guitar hero, but just better.Most creative game ive came across in a while.
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