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its_game_time) wrote2011-06-24 10:00 pm
its_game_time) wrote2011-06-24 10:00 pm
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SO, I actually found out through someone at Amazon that Best Buy has an awesome deal on Mercs: pre-order it and you get a $10 gift card. Hullo. So I cancelled my pre-orders at Gamestop and ordered them at Best Buy instead, bwahaha. ♥ Hey, man. That's $20 towards my inevitable purchase of Tales of the Abyss in the fall. :| That's srs biznis.
That said, I've been in a gaming funk lately. 8[ I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum (AWESOMEFREAKINGGAMEBTW) and hung around it long enough to get all but the most difficult achievements; I need to get back to Mirror's Edge and Bayonetta, but the former puts me in a bad mood more often than not (my own fault, lmao, since I INSIST on going through without shooting anyone. Very unlike me.), and the latter... idk. It's just. Really feeling more like a chore, the further I go along. It's not hard, but I'm not really enjoying it aside from the occasional "WOO CAPCOM REFERENCE" and "LOL WTF WAS THAT MOVE." It's just so full of male fanservice, and while I normally don't mind (because let's face it, that's just the video game industry in general and I've grown up on it), it's just really obnoxious to the point where I feel like it's going "OH HEY BAYONETTA'S HOT. DID WE MENTION BAYONETTA'S HOT. LET US DEMONSTRATE WHY BAYONETTA'S HOT. DO YOU THINK BAYONETTA'S HOT?" in every aspect of the game. B| Again, I normally just ignore the obvious flaunting of females in my games, but something about this one just irks me. Overall, though, it just hasn't clicked with me like games should.
I'm aware that I need to finish Tales of Vesperia on my profile -- having done it the first and second time on my dad's, so THERE'S A FREE 825 G FOR YA -- but. Ugh. That is one game I do not wanna go through again. If I do, there's no way I'm doing all the extra side BS for costumes and props. I'd just do enough to get the most (easiest) achievements, but aaauuughhhhh Idon'twannaplayitagain. DDDDX It's just so long and tedious and boring in so many areas, especially when you spend more time wandering one area than you do in the Spencer Mansion foyer. v_v If you could turn off the cutscenes, I'd be much more willing to replay it, but I'm lazy and hate even constantly mashing the A button to get through all the dialogue boxes.
I also (STILL) need to start Dead Space; my dad took about 13 hours on his first playthrough, so it's a short game, but I know I won't have time to finish it before the 28th, in which case I won't touch it for another month, at least. |D;
/lol EXCUSES LIKE WOAH. So I've really just been playing RE5!Mercs on and off under the pretense that I'm practicing for Mercs 3D, although my sisters got LEGO Batman and it is seriously so awesome from what we've played so far, hahaha. I keep telling myself I should at least make another go at Chris' story in the original RE, butIT'S HARD AND I'M A WUSS AND HIS STAMINA IN THE ORIGINAL IS NOT WHAT IT IS IN THE REMAKE I keep getting sidetracked like the pseudo-ADHD person I can sometimes be. Instead, I've been burning a lot of time on XNALara, reading, and fanfiction-writing -- the last being a huge improvement activity-wise from a long period of being idle. BUT IT'S SOMETHING.
...And I kind of just answered the meme of the day, actually.
RE5, specifically MERRRRRCSSSSSSSS. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ You sexy, sexy minigame, you. From your maddening bosses to your annoying chickens, your awesome melee attacks to your sexay third-level physical combos, your goofy alternate costumes to that WTFH character art for BS!Jill that I still roll my eyes at -- I love you so, so, sososososo much. *_* To this day, I still gigglesnort at Wesker's "YOU WILL GIVE ME A FIRST AID SPRAY," and at Chris' and Jill's GENUINELY GRIEF-STRICKEN cries of "WESKEEEEERRRR!!" Although, really, Chris pulls the STELLAAAAAAAAA thing, while Jill sounds like she's seriously about to burst into tears, lmao. Her "SHEVAAAA!" scream, on the other hand, is seriously so freaking sad, if a bit dramatic.
I can literally sit and play this minigame for hours and never get bored; it was all but MADE for my gun-and-blood-loving, virtual-mercenary self. |333 As my dad said, "Thank God your [Mercenaries 3D] game is on the 3DS [and not the XBox]." lolol.
I should go back and play the Mercs levels in RE3 and 4, just for the fun tiemz. Even though the RE4 Mercs now feels SO STIFF AND ALMOST BLAND compared to RE5's mechanics. D: YO, LEON -- PLZ TO BE HAVING A MOVE OTHER THAN SUPLEX AND KICK?AND BETTER GUNS? THIS IS WHY I MAIN ADA.
That said, I've been in a gaming funk lately. 8[ I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum (AWESOMEFREAKINGGAMEBTW) and hung around it long enough to get all but the most difficult achievements; I need to get back to Mirror's Edge and Bayonetta, but the former puts me in a bad mood more often than not (my own fault, lmao, since I INSIST on going through without shooting anyone. Very unlike me.), and the latter... idk. It's just. Really feeling more like a chore, the further I go along. It's not hard, but I'm not really enjoying it aside from the occasional "WOO CAPCOM REFERENCE" and "LOL WTF WAS THAT MOVE." It's just so full of male fanservice, and while I normally don't mind (because let's face it, that's just the video game industry in general and I've grown up on it), it's just really obnoxious to the point where I feel like it's going "OH HEY BAYONETTA'S HOT. DID WE MENTION BAYONETTA'S HOT. LET US DEMONSTRATE WHY BAYONETTA'S HOT. DO YOU THINK BAYONETTA'S HOT?" in every aspect of the game. B| Again, I normally just ignore the obvious flaunting of females in my games, but something about this one just irks me. Overall, though, it just hasn't clicked with me like games should.
I'm aware that I need to finish Tales of Vesperia on my profile -- having done it the first and second time on my dad's, so THERE'S A FREE 825 G FOR YA -- but. Ugh. That is one game I do not wanna go through again. If I do, there's no way I'm doing all the extra side BS for costumes and props. I'd just do enough to get the most (easiest) achievements, but aaauuughhhhh Idon'twannaplayitagain. DDDDX It's just so long and tedious and boring in so many areas, especially when you spend more time wandering one area than you do in the Spencer Mansion foyer. v_v If you could turn off the cutscenes, I'd be much more willing to replay it, but I'm lazy and hate even constantly mashing the A button to get through all the dialogue boxes.
I also (STILL) need to start Dead Space; my dad took about 13 hours on his first playthrough, so it's a short game, but I know I won't have time to finish it before the 28th, in which case I won't touch it for another month, at least. |D;
/lol EXCUSES LIKE WOAH. So I've really just been playing RE5!Mercs on and off under the pretense that I'm practicing for Mercs 3D, although my sisters got LEGO Batman and it is seriously so awesome from what we've played so far, hahaha. I keep telling myself I should at least make another go at Chris' story in the original RE, but
...And I kind of just answered the meme of the day, actually.
RE5, specifically MERRRRRCSSSSSSSS. ♥♥♥♥♥♥ You sexy, sexy minigame, you. From your maddening bosses to your annoying chickens, your awesome melee attacks to your sexay third-level physical combos, your goofy alternate costumes to that WTFH character art for BS!Jill that I still roll my eyes at -- I love you so, so, sososososo much. *_* To this day, I still gigglesnort at Wesker's "YOU WILL GIVE ME A FIRST AID SPRAY," and at Chris' and Jill's GENUINELY GRIEF-STRICKEN cries of "WESKEEEEERRRR!!" Although, really, Chris pulls the STELLAAAAAAAAA thing, while Jill sounds like she's seriously about to burst into tears, lmao. Her "SHEVAAAA!" scream, on the other hand, is seriously so freaking sad, if a bit dramatic.
I can literally sit and play this minigame for hours and never get bored; it was all but MADE for my gun-and-blood-loving, virtual-mercenary self. |333 As my dad said, "Thank God your [Mercenaries 3D] game is on the 3DS [and not the XBox]." lolol.
I should go back and play the Mercs levels in RE3 and 4, just for the fun tiemz. Even though the RE4 Mercs now feels SO STIFF AND ALMOST BLAND compared to RE5's mechanics. D: YO, LEON -- PLZ TO BE HAVING A MOVE OTHER THAN SUPLEX AND KICK?