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Mood: Shocked ]
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Currently: Listening to Deerhoof ]
My life is Hell. Listen to this over and over again for an hour to find out why. Goddamn you, insidious indie rock! Starts off all cute guitar riffs and apathetic percussion, and then, "Panda panda panda panda panda, panda panda panda bye bye." It’s like Bjork teamed up with Raffi and Reel Big Fish to make an entire album of songs that will get stuck in you brain, FOREVER. This is the kind of thing what drove Hunter Thompson over the edge. This is a dozen times worse than Loituma. And there’s nothing that can get it out of my head. I’m listening to The Cure and still humming "Panda panda panda" over and over again. I beg you, reader, kill me and eat my brain. It will give you power.
Sigh. I guess I can keep on living, considering the epic release list November has coming up. F.E.A.R., Gears of War, Dead or Alive X2, Marvel Alliance, and probably a dozen other titles are all coming out in the next couple weeks. The purpose of this is two fold: To cockblock the PlayStation 3, and to have enough copies of games on the shelves that when December 25th comes, people like you can spend money on those games for your friends like me.
F.E.A.R. has been out on PC for about a year, but when it was first released, people were crying about the system specs so much that its sales didn’t really impress. PC gaming is kinda stuck in a slow downward trend, much like the western European economy and population index. I’m hoping that the console version catches on with 360 owners, because the developer is really talented. They shipped a launch title, Condemned: Criminal Origins, which was sort of a clash between C.S.I. and The Ghost Whisperer. Okay, so I don’t actually watch those shows and therefore that previous sentence is probably in no way valid, but if you also don’t watch those shows, then you know exactly what I’m talking about. Condemned had a lot going for it in the drama, storytelling and psychology department, so it should be pretty interesting to see what the producers did with a game that actually got good reviews in F.E.A.R.
Gears of War, I haven’t followed too closely. For all the praise its been getting, it looks really generic to me. I’m afraid that it’s going to be something akin to GRAW, which was so super realistic that it made playing it with a controller instead of a M16 seem oddly frustrating. I’m sure its going to be good Sci-Fi, but watching the trailers, I can’t help but feel like I’ve played this game before, or at least have seen its analogue on a Sci-Fi Channel Original.
And Dead or Alive X2. Mediocre dating sim with CGI titties! Woohoo! I am buying that so hard, but there are a few things I’m concerned about. First of all, the new hair system from Dead or Alive 4 still sucks. It looks like strips of fabric glued to their scalp. Secondly, the boob physics seem more cartoonish than they did in the past. I’m guessing this is customizable like it was in all the previous Dead or Alive games, but its a bit distracting in the new trailer. I’m thinking Itagaki should’ve toned things down for the demo, because its drawing a lot of critique from the fanboys, and the game ships in about two or three weeks.
panda panda pan pan, panda panda… GODDAMNIT!