Resident Evil 3.5: Could It Come To Fruition?

The folks over at Resident Evil 4 PC Forums have been hard at work preparing to unleash a new form of evil upon the world. If you remember a few years back, Capcom showed this video at E3 and it gave gamers a glimpse into the future of the Resident Evil franchise. Sadly the darker, survival horror asthetic was dropped for the more action oriented gameplay of the game we know and love. But sometimes, gamers want more, and this group of programers want to bring the Hookman to life for the first time. I happen to be helping out over there with the project, and we are constantly looking for people with talent to help out. If you know someone or are someone with any special skills check out this link and sign up to help!

School Year is Comming to a Close

The school year is going to be wrapping up for me over then next few weeks. This means that soon I will have plenty of time to work on the blog. But it also causes a problem. As anyone who has gone through high school knows, the last month sucks. Tons of tests, projects in every class, finals, preparing for next year, the list of things is outstanding. This means that I will have very little time to update the blog. I pledge to update at least once a week, and will try for more, but I doubt daily updates are even plausible. Sorry in advance!

New Layout

I got the new layout up much faster then I had expected. I'll be tweaking it some over the next few days, but this is just about what to expect.

New Direction?

I do believe that the blog will be going in a new direction over the next few days. I will go from only covering video game news to covering the latest in "teen news". By that I mean "How and what things happening in the world today effect teens" and "how teenagers perceive the thing happening in the world around us". My only fear is that this new direction will have my blog written off as just another teenager complaining that they don't have blah, blah, blah...

So how do I avoid exactly what I know is going to happen. I'm not really sure. But what I am going to do is blog. I'm going to share my world views, and hopefully I'm going to find someone who will want to read what I have to say about what is happening in the world today.

But more then just that, i want to make a guide for others on things like "How to Be Taken Seriously By Adults" and "How to Make Other People Respect Your Point Of View". I want to help society move forward into a world where no one is discriminated for things so petty as age.


PS:
Thanks for sticking around through all this to the three people who have subscribed to my RSS Feed. Hopefully you will continue to read my blog for years to come.

Taking a Look and Making Changes

I started to forget that this is not just a gaming blog. After a burn-out of sorts where I couldn't come up with any good ideas to write about I decided to take a look at my blog and check if it was going in the direction I wanted. It wasn't. So I took a few days to decide where the blog would go from here. The day I started this blog I knew this was going to hard. I want to blog about the mind and life of a teenager in a way that everyone can read and understand. So expect the focus to shift some over the next few days. I'm still going to report about the world of video games, but I will be covering a much larger spectrum of topics.

Expect a completely new layout withing the next few hours.

Peggle and WOW: TOGETHER?

I smell a fail coming on.

Peggle and WOW: TOGETHER?

There's a rumor floating around the good old interweb that PopCap games is working on an add-on for Nerd-Culture Phenomenon World of Warcraft. If this were to come into being it would allow for a quick vs. match between players to see who would gain exp, gain what items after a loot, and even just as a fun side game. So, are our icons just standing there vulnerable while in The Blade's Edge Mountians? Are you invinceible while you play? The smell of fail reaks in the air.

"Retro" Review - Resident Evil 4

I hate calling this a "retro" review. The game's not really all that old. 2005 was only four short years ago. But to be fair, we've come a long way as a video game community since this game first reached our Gamecubes in January 2005. This is not a spoiler free review. If you have not played the game this is not the review for you!





Story:
You play as Ex-Raccoon City Police Officer Leon Kennedy. The protagonist of Resident Evil 2 has returned to center stage as the series takes a break from the main story. Leon finds himself in an unnamed Spanish-European country searching for the President's recentaly kidnapped daughter Ashley. Leon arives in a small farming town, where he encounters the first of the games enemies. The Los Gandos are the villagers that have been infected by a parasite names Los Plagas. Leon eventually finds a shot gun, travels through a graveyard, fights a giant fish, and solves multiple puzzles all before finally finding Ashley for the first of a billion times. But before he does he meets a fellow "intruder" by the name of Luis Sera. Long story short, he resques Ashley a lot more, Luis dies, Ada betrays him, he kills The Villiage Chief, Salazar, Krauzer, and Saddler all before Ada blows the whole place up.

9/10

Graphics:
This is where the game really shines. Despite some random glitches like maces coming through doors before they even open, or how dark areas tend to lose all blending of color, these are still some of the most impressive graphics on any GameCube game.Not much else can be said.

10/10

Gameplay:
I love the game's change from overhead, prerendered environments, and bad camera angles to the over the shoulder view and beautiful 3D environments. Leon controls smoothly however I found that Ashley can be a little stiff to move. But here's the bad, the A.I. is crap. There is no nice way to put it, this game has some of the worst A.I. I have ever seen in my life. I shot a guy six times before he even turned around to see what was shooting at him.

6/10

Overveiw:
Resident Evil 4 is one of the best games in the GameCube's line up, and all the ports arn't too bad either. All said and done, this is one worth adding to everyone's collection.

8.5/10

5 More Games That Could Use A Zombie Mode

http://www.pwnordie.com/blog/posts/14749

Over at PwnOrDie a post (link above) came up on the subject of games that could really benefit from a zombie mode. Well here are five games that I think they over-looked.

5. Lemmings
4. World of Goo
3. Hotel Mario
2. Legend Of Zelda
1. Tetris