Besides the terrible movie and the good times, I've played through Layers of Fear.
Honestly, a very, very good time. I can't say a lot of bad things about this game, besides the length.
The atmosphere really sold me on this one; silence in one room, with nothing but your footsteps, mimicking a heartbeat, being heard over the sound of a woman's cries, or the times where the music kicks up bringing the tension along with it.
If you haven't played the game already, I would recommend to do so soon.
finish it
you deserve it
I've also checked out a documentary on steam called "Branching Paths." Honestly, I was hoping to see more on the industry with Visual Novels and the likes with a title like that, but you mostly get insiders on the stories of Japanese indie developers. Don't get me wrong, it was a very interesting as well, but I'm a huge weeb and like to learn up on the stuff like the struggle of developing visual novels. The stories were heart warming and interesting, and some were a bit sad. :( but really good watch anyways. Hope some of the movie money goes to the developers.
I've bought a few games on steam these past few weeks. Quite a few actually. I refunded Day of Infamy for them. Day of Infamy fucking blows.
Anywho, with the extra cash money I got back from doing so, I bought Grim Dawn.
Grim Dawn is Titan Quest with a grim european fantasy setting, but post apocalyptic. After the fall of civilizations.
To be totally frank, it looks like any other fantasy setting? So I'm not really sure what that's all about, besides giving a central plot point.
What I do love about the game is extra strong. Dual classing, great auto inventory management, among other features that you would want in a Diablo 2 clone. What's also included is called the Devotion Tree, which is a secondary skill tree which can be grown by purifying temples you find on the map. Besides encouraging exploration, I feel that it's a neat way to challenge a player with a wave of monsters to fight, or burn a resource you gain from killing a monster den. It's neato.
I got the game for about 15$, but I feel like I walked away with a game heavy with content. No buyer's remorse this time.
Not like the time my friend made me promise to buy 25$ worth of tickets to see Suicide Squad. Fuck that.
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Sunday, August 7, 2016
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Miitomo Miishmomo
There's been a rising trend in the mobile market, and that trend has called itself Miitomo. I have never done this much sitting around and doing nothing deliberately in my life, excluding the times I sit on my rum and play video games all day. I'm a social media twat, meaning I expunge the use of any kind of social media in my life, for it has changed. I blogged and whined about this a couple of weeks ago, so I won't go into detail, here. The miracle of Miitomo is that it actually has me involved. Twitter had my attention for a week, then I sort of forgot it was there for anything besides logging onto websites easily. Facebook I didn't even choose to make; my friend had to make it for me. Even then, I was chose to have a hipsterian attitude and maintained my reluctance.
I might not be saying this later down the road, but Miitomo is thoroughly engaging. I actually enjoy reading people's answers to benign questions. I especially love seeing photos made through the ingame Miifoto app, which lets you pose Miis in different ways, even allowing you to go through your phone's library and making that a background. As you can guess, this is the gateway to all sorts of tumblr esque content, with a few gold pictures here and there.
To be totally honest, I didn't think I would be writing about this today. I try to keep my blogs at a higher class, but it's pretty fun. Feel free to add me if you're reading this.
https://twitter.com/bryanuntalan
A game I've been checking out is an MMO called Tree of Savior. Besides the title's english being really broken, the servers, quests, and stat progression is broken as well! I'm glad they're keeping a theme here, else I'd be clueless to the actual plot. Other than all the problems aforementioned, I'm putting a lot of time into it. Found a pretty good group of players already, and they have accepted my social awkwardness! Yayyyyy! Also Rag2, yadda, yadda, it's really pretty, yadda yadda.
Anywho, that's really it for today.
Goals:
Eh
Honestly, I'm just burning myself out with these. I should chill. And I shall.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
The Guest (Game Review) and More!
Here we go.
Again.
Banner sized picture.
Anywho, today I wanted to talk aboot The guest.
Actually before that, I'd like to recap on my week.
It was an okay week.
Okay, back to the review.
Actually, before that, I want to talk about Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
It was an okay movie. Just kidding.
This movie was poor. I can't believe it took me this long (a day) to decide on my own personal opinion on this, but my feelings were pretty negative. Honestly, I wanted to skip on this movie and just read rotten tomato reviews, but my friend dragged me along for the ride and boy was it a draaaaag.
None of the scenes were cohesive at all. Transitions between one moment to another were a mess. Imagine shooting a movie, right? Cool, it's time to take it to post. Slap it in sony vegas tonight and call it a day, you've earned yourself a wank session. Come back the next moment and you find out that a toddler (Zack Snyder) has jumped on your computer and decided the movie's fate! And nothing makes sense!
Too proud is he to let you change it up! You just smile and nod and post it on Youtube for the world to see, regardless of the impending harsh criticism of your peers and strangers on the internet!
And that's what happened to my home videos and career as a director.
But Zack Snyder then grew up to be an asshole! Who fucked up Batman vs. Superman! Wow man have some chill!
Scene to scene, nothing lasts more than a minute. Really. Check it out. This is the outcome of stuffing anything and everything you could into a movie. The 'impactful' moments of the trailer? Snuffed. They had NO impact in the movie at all. Lex Luthor's character is absolutely poor. Who tries to come off as crazy becoming more crazy is just plain awkward. Jesse Eisenberg :( Shame on you. BUT Ben Affleck? He destroys Batman's character. Stern, decisive, and thoughtful, Ben was the opposite. I'm not sure what he thought of as Batman's character, but he decided to act like a plank for most of the movie. Also what the fuck, just throw in more DC characters why don't you. I get that Marvel is ahead of the game, but you really don't need to play catch up to be a great franchise. Still, there were some really good scenes. Batman's parents being killed? I am not being facetious, it was very well shot and the trauma on the kid's face was pretty accurate to how a kid would go about that scene. The ending was really good, too, where the whole team finally gets together for a pretty rompous fight. The banter was playful, and the fight scene was very well made. The rest of the movie is just gloomy and broody, like the other DC movies. Honestly, this would be a terrific direction to take these movies, I would not mind it at all. Too bad the rest of the movie just blew. Introducing Wonder Woman and the rest of the League later would have been better for me, rather than sprinkling them through out the movie. Please, if for the sake of the movie, don't forshadow the fucking sequel for two hours. Focus on the actual plot and deliver something memorable you fucking twat.
WHATEVER
Oh yeah, the game.
The guest is cool.
The end.
Just kidding though.
The game is basically a first person point and click adventure. Think of one of those escape room games in real life, and put it into a game perspective. If you haven't been to an escape room, I recommend it. It's actually pretty fun, and sometimes you get matched with a group of randoms. Making friends has never been this awkward and suffocating before!
Still prreeeetty cool.
Anywho, storywise, it's okay. Pretty neat things happen, and you wonder who you are the whole time. But you find out eventually. That's pretty much it.
Uh, soundwise, nothing really memorable.
Gameplay, holy shit some parts were absolutely frustrating. Fucking forest dream maze bullshit, and some of the puzzles will need a walkthrough. And then some are so blatant and trivial. The difference between the difficulty ramps is frustrating at times. BUT, for the puzzles that are really difficult, solving them yourself feels so damn satisfying. I'll give it that.
Score? uh
7/10
Despite my heavy bitching, I view the game in a positive light. Really, I do.
Goals
(*)Got my testing done! Yay!
(x)Uh, will do tonight I promise.
Next Week
*Will get back to working out, work out with gym guys at least once, and go running at least once
*Get college transcript electronically sent to UH
*Release a new video
yayyyyyyyy
As always, thanks for reading. With much love, Bryan out.
Leave some love by +1'ing this! Or commenting. Either or.
See you later, space cowboy
Again.
Anywho, today I wanted to talk aboot The guest.
Actually before that, I'd like to recap on my week.
It was an okay week.
Okay, back to the review.
Actually, before that, I want to talk about Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice.
It was an okay movie. Just kidding.
None of the scenes were cohesive at all. Transitions between one moment to another were a mess. Imagine shooting a movie, right? Cool, it's time to take it to post. Slap it in sony vegas tonight and call it a day, you've earned yourself a wank session. Come back the next moment and you find out that a toddler (Zack Snyder) has jumped on your computer and decided the movie's fate! And nothing makes sense!
Too proud is he to let you change it up! You just smile and nod and post it on Youtube for the world to see, regardless of the impending harsh criticism of your peers and strangers on the internet!
And that's what happened to my home videos and career as a director.
But Zack Snyder then grew up to be an asshole! Who fucked up Batman vs. Superman! Wow man have some chill!
Scene to scene, nothing lasts more than a minute. Really. Check it out. This is the outcome of stuffing anything and everything you could into a movie. The 'impactful' moments of the trailer? Snuffed. They had NO impact in the movie at all. Lex Luthor's character is absolutely poor. Who tries to come off as crazy becoming more crazy is just plain awkward. Jesse Eisenberg :( Shame on you. BUT Ben Affleck? He destroys Batman's character. Stern, decisive, and thoughtful, Ben was the opposite. I'm not sure what he thought of as Batman's character, but he decided to act like a plank for most of the movie. Also what the fuck, just throw in more DC characters why don't you. I get that Marvel is ahead of the game, but you really don't need to play catch up to be a great franchise. Still, there were some really good scenes. Batman's parents being killed? I am not being facetious, it was very well shot and the trauma on the kid's face was pretty accurate to how a kid would go about that scene. The ending was really good, too, where the whole team finally gets together for a pretty rompous fight. The banter was playful, and the fight scene was very well made. The rest of the movie is just gloomy and broody, like the other DC movies. Honestly, this would be a terrific direction to take these movies, I would not mind it at all. Too bad the rest of the movie just blew. Introducing Wonder Woman and the rest of the League later would have been better for me, rather than sprinkling them through out the movie. Please, if for the sake of the movie, don't forshadow the fucking sequel for two hours. Focus on the actual plot and deliver something memorable you fucking twat.
WHATEVER
Oh yeah, the game.
The guest is cool.
The end.
Just kidding though.
The game is basically a first person point and click adventure. Think of one of those escape room games in real life, and put it into a game perspective. If you haven't been to an escape room, I recommend it. It's actually pretty fun, and sometimes you get matched with a group of randoms. Making friends has never been this awkward and suffocating before!
Still prreeeetty cool.
Anywho, storywise, it's okay. Pretty neat things happen, and you wonder who you are the whole time. But you find out eventually. That's pretty much it.
Uh, soundwise, nothing really memorable.
Gameplay, holy shit some parts were absolutely frustrating. Fucking forest dream maze bullshit, and some of the puzzles will need a walkthrough. And then some are so blatant and trivial. The difference between the difficulty ramps is frustrating at times. BUT, for the puzzles that are really difficult, solving them yourself feels so damn satisfying. I'll give it that.
Score? uh
7/10
Despite my heavy bitching, I view the game in a positive light. Really, I do.
Goals
(*)Got my testing done! Yay!
(x)Uh, will do tonight I promise.
Next Week
*Will get back to working out, work out with gym guys at least once, and go running at least once
*Get college transcript electronically sent to UH
*Release a new video
yayyyyyyyy
As always, thanks for reading. With much love, Bryan out.
Leave some love by +1'ing this! Or commenting. Either or.
See you later, space cowboy
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