| Jul. 18th, 2008 @ 04:27 pm E3 apathy; white-haired pretty boys as opposed to apathetic ninjas; and gyabo mukyu |
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I have not been following news of E3 at *all*. All I've been doing is catching bits and pieces, and seeing Penny-Arcade's hilarious take on the Big Three's keynote speeches.
What kind of gamer do I think I am, huh? Huh, punk? Who do I think I'm looking at, little punk twerp that I am?
More importantly, FF13 on XBox 360! I'm not the biggest FF fan in the universe - I've only played two FF games ever, and have the GBA remake of FF4 waiting patiently somewhere on my game queue. (My steadfast refusal to have anything to do with the playstation had a bit to do with that.) But FF13 looks interesting... especially since the main character is, for once, a girl. Not a girly-looking boy, but a girl. These uncharted waters are new and interesting. Or something.
I might be enthusiastic about the Rock Band 2 announcements if it weren't for the fact that a) we *still* do not have a release of Rock Band ONE here in Australia, and b) I probably couldn't get enough people together for Rock Band sessions anyway.
It strikes me that I should go hunting around for E3 news.
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In other news, I am finally playing through Dante's missions in DMC4.
Nero was fun, but Dante is being a pain in the arse. The targeting and rapid on-the-fly mid-combo switching of weapons and styles equates to far too many buttons inputs to deal with for my tastes. The button chording of Street Fighter ain't *nothing* compared to all the shoulder triggers and buttons and control pads you have to deal with when dealing with Dante in DMC4.
I must say I prefer Ninja Gaiden 2.
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In other non-gaming news, I'm finally getting through Nodame Cantabile. Nodame's plight at the end of volume 11 was awful. In very brief: Her first day at the Conservatoire in Paris has a bunch of theory and analysis classes that confuse her thoroughly, there's lots of administrative crap that she was supposed to have done earlier, and her personal instructor - who put her up to coming to the Conservatoire in the first place - listens to her play a piece and says it was crap.
It was a little too close to home as well. I had some crises of confiedence at university. Reading something like that, after some annoying days recently, was not a good combination. |
