Thursday, November 10, 2011
Traffic
This is just a quickie and I need to get this point across. People at school DO NOT know how to WALK. It's so simple, just WALK FORWARD. Like, I have to go to class or go somewhere and mind you, some people are going at a reasonable speed but others are taking their sweet ass time and there's no way to get past them because the halls are so jam packed full of people. But they're not the worst, there are some that just decided to stop DEAD right in front of you, causing you to come to a screeching halt and somehow find a way to move around them. On one incident, I had 3 different groups of people stop dead in front of me in the SAME hallway. Geeze, we need to fix this or something.
Animals, Animals Everywhere.
For a school trip, we went to the Zoo yesterday. Why? Well, why not?
We left school at about 8:30 and arrived at about 10:00. There were about 5 classes from our school going and I could see other schools there but even with all these people, the zoo was DESERTED. At some points, I felt like I had snuck in or I was in areas that were restricted, it was that empty. Me and my friend decided not to go to the Canadian section for it was too far away or the Eurasia section (Camels and what not) for it was too big for only a handful of animals. So besides those two, we checked out everything else. One of the high points for me was where the penguins where only because there was one swimming underwater and we would tap on the glass and move our hands around, and it would follow our hand therefore resulting in excellent pictures. The other highpoint was the Australia section. KANGAROOS EVERYWHERE, ENOUGH SAID. Oh and there were JELLYFISH and WALLABIES and KOMODO DRAGONS and ECHIDNAS. AUSTRALIA! AWWWW YEEEEEAAAAHHH!
We left school at about 8:30 and arrived at about 10:00. There were about 5 classes from our school going and I could see other schools there but even with all these people, the zoo was DESERTED. At some points, I felt like I had snuck in or I was in areas that were restricted, it was that empty. Me and my friend decided not to go to the Canadian section for it was too far away or the Eurasia section (Camels and what not) for it was too big for only a handful of animals. So besides those two, we checked out everything else. One of the high points for me was where the penguins where only because there was one swimming underwater and we would tap on the glass and move our hands around, and it would follow our hand therefore resulting in excellent pictures. The other highpoint was the Australia section. KANGAROOS EVERYWHERE, ENOUGH SAID. Oh and there were JELLYFISH and WALLABIES and KOMODO DRAGONS and ECHIDNAS. AUSTRALIA! AWWWW YEEEEEAAAAHHH!
Double the Speed, Double the Fun!
Okay, I've been waiting for this moment for years. It's Sonic the Hedgehog's 20th Anniversary and to celebrate, Sega has released a game titled "Sonic Generations" where "Classic Sonic" and "Modern Sonic" world's collide.
The game features levels derived from 20 years of Sonic history, ranging from the Sega Genesis era, through the Dreamcast era, to the Modern era. There will be a level taken from each Sonic game to represent the different times. Each level can be played with either Classic Sonic or Modern Sonic, each taking their own routes throughout the level. Classic Sonic's levels are strictly two dimensional side scrolling stages, using classic moves like the Spin Attack and the Spin Dash. Modern Sonic's levels, on the other hand, carry on the modern 2D/3D game play of recent titles such as Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors, featuring Homing Attacks, Combo Tricks in the air, Drift, the Stomp Attack, Light Speed Dash, and Speed Boosts. As well as classic power-ups such as Invincibility and Speed Shoes, certain levels have unique power-ups, such as skateboards in City Escape and Wisp powers in Planet Wisp. Each zone consists of a main act for each Sonic, as well as several side-missions with various challenges such as beating an opponent to the goal. A Skill Shop allows players to use points earned from high scores to unlock upgrades such as abilities, shields, and even the original Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis game. Completing challenges, as well as finding Red Star Rings hidden in each of the main Acts, unlocks additional skills, as well as bonus artwork and music.
I already own and have beaten the game and I must say that Sega has done a fantastic job. A round of applause for them if you will.
The game features levels derived from 20 years of Sonic history, ranging from the Sega Genesis era, through the Dreamcast era, to the Modern era. There will be a level taken from each Sonic game to represent the different times. Each level can be played with either Classic Sonic or Modern Sonic, each taking their own routes throughout the level. Classic Sonic's levels are strictly two dimensional side scrolling stages, using classic moves like the Spin Attack and the Spin Dash. Modern Sonic's levels, on the other hand, carry on the modern 2D/3D game play of recent titles such as Sonic Unleashed and Sonic Colors, featuring Homing Attacks, Combo Tricks in the air, Drift, the Stomp Attack, Light Speed Dash, and Speed Boosts. As well as classic power-ups such as Invincibility and Speed Shoes, certain levels have unique power-ups, such as skateboards in City Escape and Wisp powers in Planet Wisp. Each zone consists of a main act for each Sonic, as well as several side-missions with various challenges such as beating an opponent to the goal. A Skill Shop allows players to use points earned from high scores to unlock upgrades such as abilities, shields, and even the original Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis game. Completing challenges, as well as finding Red Star Rings hidden in each of the main Acts, unlocks additional skills, as well as bonus artwork and music.
I already own and have beaten the game and I must say that Sega has done a fantastic job. A round of applause for them if you will.
Spooky Scary Skeletons
So two weeks ago was Halloween and it was a pretty fun night for me.
I'm at that age were I can't and don't go trick-or-treating so that night I just decided to walk around the neighborhood to see what was going on. As I expected, there were tons of kids running around knocking on doors for candy. And as all ways my neighbor was in his classic costume, the great pumpkin, a giant inflatable pumpkin suit. I felt obliged as I do every year to go give him a few jabs in his giant inflatable stomach. So after that I decided to head over to my friend's house to see what he was doing. We both suggested that we should check out Nightmare on Elmore Street, a giant annual haunted house. I've never been on the street itself so as we tried to make our way over there we got lost. I knew the where it was generally and we got so close (about one street away). We decided to give up and back home to give out candy. After about an hour or so, we heard a man talking on a megaphone and we instantly knew it was from Elmore street and that we had to try again. So we finally made our way there, but we couldn't go in since the line was all the way down the street. However, it was a fantastic show with people in amazing clown costume walking around and scaring people around the area. Overall, it was a really fun night.
I'm at that age were I can't and don't go trick-or-treating so that night I just decided to walk around the neighborhood to see what was going on. As I expected, there were tons of kids running around knocking on doors for candy. And as all ways my neighbor was in his classic costume, the great pumpkin, a giant inflatable pumpkin suit. I felt obliged as I do every year to go give him a few jabs in his giant inflatable stomach. So after that I decided to head over to my friend's house to see what he was doing. We both suggested that we should check out Nightmare on Elmore Street, a giant annual haunted house. I've never been on the street itself so as we tried to make our way over there we got lost. I knew the where it was generally and we got so close (about one street away). We decided to give up and back home to give out candy. After about an hour or so, we heard a man talking on a megaphone and we instantly knew it was from Elmore street and that we had to try again. So we finally made our way there, but we couldn't go in since the line was all the way down the street. However, it was a fantastic show with people in amazing clown costume walking around and scaring people around the area. Overall, it was a really fun night.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
What a Scoop!
The other day a new Dead Rising game came out, Dead Rising 2: Off the Record. This is the 3rd game in the series and it combines both the elements of Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2 into the game.
In the first Dead Rising, the player is Frank West, a photojournalist who sneaks into the fictional town of Willamette, Colorado, which has been quarantined by the military. The main objective of the game is to investigate the Willamette Parkview Mall and complete "Case Files", missions that advance the storyline and reveal the cause of the zombie outbreak. The player has three days to do this, at which point a helicopter will arrive to retrieve him. If a player fails a mission, it does not end the game, but different actions result in different endings at the end of the 72-hour period. In addition to the Case Files, the player is offered the opportunity to rescue other survivors of the zombie outbreak, either from the zombies themselves, or from "psychopaths", boss characters who have either been driven insane by the zombie attacks, or are using the outbreak as cover for their own purposes. Alternately, the player can ignore all missions and play as a sandbox game; wandering though the mall (modeled on stereotypical American shopping malls, trying outfits and food, and killing zombies with a variety of objects. Dead Rising is notable for the hundreds of weapons that the player can find in the mall and use against the zombies. There are over 250 items that can be used as weapons, ranging from powerful to near-useless. Weapons will break down or run out of ammunition with use, and will break or be discarded (some of which break into usable pieces). Others can be changed by the environment, such as frying pans, which can be heated on a stove to both increase damage and gain access to a special move.
Dead Rising 2 takes place five years after the events of Dead Rising. Former motocross champion Chuck Greene is in the fictional casino town of Fortune City, Nevada, to take part in Terror Is Reality, a sports entertainment game show where contestants kill zombies. Chuck needs the prize money to buy Zombrex (a daily medication that suppresses the zombification process) for his daughter Katey, who was bitten by her zombified mother during a previous outbreak in Las Vegas. While backstage after the show, the show's supply of zombies is released; Chuck rescues Katey and makes his way to an emergency shelter, which is sealed after their arrival. Ray Sullivan (the only security guard to reach the shelter alive) is initially reluctant to let the infected Katey in, but Chuck promises to keep her supplied with Zombrex until the military arrives in three days. The game includes several new objects that can be used to attack the zombies. Up to 7,000 zombies can be seen onscreen at the same time.
Dead Rising 2 allows players to manufacture their own custom weapons at various points in the game by collecting items and combining them together in maintenance rooms scattered across the game map. The player also has the ability to unlock "combo cards" that reveal weapons that can be combined together. Such combinations include the "Hail Mary," a hand grenade duct taped to a football, "Dynameat," a stick of dynamite duct taped to a piece of meat, the "Paddlesaw," two chainsaws duct taped to a kayak paddle, and "Spiked Bat" which is a baseball bat with nails hammered through the item.
Now take all that, and put it into one massive game. It's going to be a bloodbath.
In the first Dead Rising, the player is Frank West, a photojournalist who sneaks into the fictional town of Willamette, Colorado, which has been quarantined by the military. The main objective of the game is to investigate the Willamette Parkview Mall and complete "Case Files", missions that advance the storyline and reveal the cause of the zombie outbreak. The player has three days to do this, at which point a helicopter will arrive to retrieve him. If a player fails a mission, it does not end the game, but different actions result in different endings at the end of the 72-hour period. In addition to the Case Files, the player is offered the opportunity to rescue other survivors of the zombie outbreak, either from the zombies themselves, or from "psychopaths", boss characters who have either been driven insane by the zombie attacks, or are using the outbreak as cover for their own purposes. Alternately, the player can ignore all missions and play as a sandbox game; wandering though the mall (modeled on stereotypical American shopping malls, trying outfits and food, and killing zombies with a variety of objects. Dead Rising is notable for the hundreds of weapons that the player can find in the mall and use against the zombies. There are over 250 items that can be used as weapons, ranging from powerful to near-useless. Weapons will break down or run out of ammunition with use, and will break or be discarded (some of which break into usable pieces). Others can be changed by the environment, such as frying pans, which can be heated on a stove to both increase damage and gain access to a special move.
Dead Rising 2 takes place five years after the events of Dead Rising. Former motocross champion Chuck Greene is in the fictional casino town of Fortune City, Nevada, to take part in Terror Is Reality, a sports entertainment game show where contestants kill zombies. Chuck needs the prize money to buy Zombrex (a daily medication that suppresses the zombification process) for his daughter Katey, who was bitten by her zombified mother during a previous outbreak in Las Vegas. While backstage after the show, the show's supply of zombies is released; Chuck rescues Katey and makes his way to an emergency shelter, which is sealed after their arrival. Ray Sullivan (the only security guard to reach the shelter alive) is initially reluctant to let the infected Katey in, but Chuck promises to keep her supplied with Zombrex until the military arrives in three days. The game includes several new objects that can be used to attack the zombies. Up to 7,000 zombies can be seen onscreen at the same time.
Dead Rising 2 allows players to manufacture their own custom weapons at various points in the game by collecting items and combining them together in maintenance rooms scattered across the game map. The player also has the ability to unlock "combo cards" that reveal weapons that can be combined together. Such combinations include the "Hail Mary," a hand grenade duct taped to a football, "Dynameat," a stick of dynamite duct taped to a piece of meat, the "Paddlesaw," two chainsaws duct taped to a kayak paddle, and "Spiked Bat" which is a baseball bat with nails hammered through the item.
Now take all that, and put it into one massive game. It's going to be a bloodbath.
Oh Lawdy Dem Zombies
Past few weeks have been dull, but the Season 2 Premiere of The Walking Dead at the end of the week made up for it.
The first season of The Walking Dead starts off with Sheriff Rick Grimes waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma where he finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth.The season on ends with the characters in the middle of a struggle to survive, escaping the CDC as it burst into flames. In Season 2, they are still on the move, facing more threats and obstacles than ever.
This show is just fantastic. The acting is amazing, the makeup is realistic, the sets are beautiful. It is my favorite show as of now and I highly recommend it.
The first season of The Walking Dead starts off with Sheriff Rick Grimes waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma where he finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by a zombie epidemic. The Walking Dead tells the story of the weeks and months that follow after the apocalypse. A survivalist story at its core, the series explores how the living are changed by the overwhelming realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth.The season on ends with the characters in the middle of a struggle to survive, escaping the CDC as it burst into flames. In Season 2, they are still on the move, facing more threats and obstacles than ever.
This show is just fantastic. The acting is amazing, the makeup is realistic, the sets are beautiful. It is my favorite show as of now and I highly recommend it.
Dissappointing Thanksgiving
So Thanksgiving was *checks watch* like forever ago and I have a little dandy story about it.
So on Thanksgiving day me and my folks along with my grandpa headed down to my uncle's for a good ol' Thanksgiving dinner. Now normally, my cousin's usually piss me off so this wasn't going to be a happy go lucky occasion to begin with. So we get there and we're chatting it up and what not until my parents ask what's for supper. My uncle's girlfriend says: "Oh we're having Greek tonight". Now that right there was the first strike to the major problem, but what was next was much worse. My dad asks what that entails and she says that we're having L A M B, P O T A T O E S, and M O U S S A K A.
Now for me, when I think of Thanksgiving I think of Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, etc. But when I hear we're having Lamb not even the size of my palm, boring potatoes (not even salted), and eggplant lasagna a little voice inside me says "That's it, I'm done with this family". The main reason I'm mad is because I haven't had turkey all year and when I finally get to the moment where I can and it's given, I don't. The only saving grace was that there was pumpkin pie but even that had problems with it.
1. It went along with other pies and desserts
2. It was completely shunned except for me having a slice or two
3. The only reason it was there was because we bought it, knowing that I would be the only one who would eat it.
I just hope there will be turkey at Christmas, or you can just count me out at other family gatherings.
So on Thanksgiving day me and my folks along with my grandpa headed down to my uncle's for a good ol' Thanksgiving dinner. Now normally, my cousin's usually piss me off so this wasn't going to be a happy go lucky occasion to begin with. So we get there and we're chatting it up and what not until my parents ask what's for supper. My uncle's girlfriend says: "Oh we're having Greek tonight". Now that right there was the first strike to the major problem, but what was next was much worse. My dad asks what that entails and she says that we're having L A M B, P O T A T O E S, and M O U S S A K A.
Now for me, when I think of Thanksgiving I think of Turkey, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, etc. But when I hear we're having Lamb not even the size of my palm, boring potatoes (not even salted), and eggplant lasagna a little voice inside me says "That's it, I'm done with this family". The main reason I'm mad is because I haven't had turkey all year and when I finally get to the moment where I can and it's given, I don't. The only saving grace was that there was pumpkin pie but even that had problems with it.
1. It went along with other pies and desserts
2. It was completely shunned except for me having a slice or two
3. The only reason it was there was because we bought it, knowing that I would be the only one who would eat it.
I just hope there will be turkey at Christmas, or you can just count me out at other family gatherings.
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