Well, that’s it for 2005. Happy New Year!
Well, right now I am at my friend Cutter‘s house, having a sleepover party. Only problem is…these people don’t have Uru, and I suddenly am really really bored. The kind of boredom that can only be cured by Uru.
So here is my solution to Uru (and other game) withdrawal: A Western Digital 80gig portable hard drive. Install Uru directly to that, then simply boot it from any computer at hand! 😀 It’s crazy, but my sleep/Uru-deprived brain seems to think that I’m a genius, and I feel like believing it. I’ll probably either find some flaw in the plan, or realize its complete stupidity tomorrow morning. 😛
This is so cool. The guy got 1/8 of a ton of silly putty. I want that. 😀
My family is Jewish, so we (obviously) don’t believe in Mr. C, but due to the recent barrage of holiday movies (mainly The Polar Express), my little brother has a bit of ‘the magic’ in him. Today he brought up the whole idea of Santa Claus and his enterprise, saying this:
“So is Santa the leader of the present factory?”
And I replied “Yeah I guess,” (an easy way out of the conversation which would probably end in me telling him that Santa doesn’t exist). He thought about this for a minute, then said:
“But in Polar Express, there’s that leader elf. So what if Santa is just the delivery boy?”
That surprised me. I guess I never really thought about it, but it makes sense in a way. Why would the guy who leads all the elves bother delivering the presents himself? Why not get the elves to do it for him? The answer: The big C is actually employed to the elves, who are too small to deliver all the presents themselves. The big, jolly, red-suited man we’ve come to know and love is actually just the delivery boy for the elven empire!
Here’s a vocabulary lesson:
Today’s word: Loyalty
L.O.Y.A.L.T.Y. (LOY-ahl-tee) n 1. Something that athletes need. 2. Something that fans have. adj Loyal (ex. Johnny Damon is not in any way loyal. He needs to get some loyalty.) (See antonyms at greed.)
I’m gonna do a retro vs. modern thing now. Buckle up.
Ok so despite the mind-numbing repetition of the LoZ series, most of the games were different enough to be worth money (yes, I said LoZ has lots of repetition. When is Zelda going to learn to just not go outside? How many times do you have to kill Ganon for him to die?!). The first ones (thats a funny trailer for a LoZ Snes game, thanks to Cutter for it) were really all the same game, possibly with updated sprites/maps. The best LoZ game thus far (I’m sure almost all of the LoZ fans will agree with me on this point) was Ocarina of Time, for N64 (sorry for the quality of that trailer, it’s the best I could find). Best gameplay (IMO), and extremely good graphics for the N64. Then we got Majora’s Mask, which required so much overclocking of the 64 that you needed to buy an extension to even play it. That right there signifies a game that should have had more time devoted to development and a release on the next-gen console, the Gamecube. But no, we got Master Quest for the Gamecube. Master Quest was pushing it in my book. It was a re-release of OoT with maybe a new level or so. Along with MQ we got that little disk with the old games (the really old ones, that I mentioned at the beginning of this whole thing) and a preview of the next game, The Wind Waker. I never really played this game as much as the others, but it gets the stamp of approval for the cartoon-style graphics, which set it apart from all of the LoZ before it. Plus the fact that (correct me if I’m wrong here) the characters weren’t Link and Zelda, but some other tight-wearing elf and his sister. OK. Now for the second best LoZ, Four Swords Adventures. This game is (obviously) an awesome multiplayer. It’s fun to betray your friends by nabbing some level 2 bombs and making them go splodey. The next LoZ game is going to be called LoZ: Twilight Princess (watch official trailer 3). This trailer is amazing. I don’t like the swimming part, the transitions are a bit choppy from 1 animation to the next. But other than that, this game looks like it will be the best Legend of Zelda game yet, even better than the legendary Ocarina of Time.
So here’s the retro/modern ratings:
Graphics:
Retro: Meh. 2D sprites, mainly unvarying from game to game.
Modern: 3D models/animations, varying by a lot from game to game (OoT > WW > 4S > TP)
Gameplay:
Retro: Got boring after a while. Only so much repetition is tolerable.
Modern: A bit more variance, but still not enough to really satisfy me. 4S had that interesting twist in the gameplay, though.
Story:
Basically the same as Gameplay.
Trailers:
Retro: Mad funny commercials. But not really enough shots of the gameplay to count as a good trailer. (Ha ha…here’s another one!)
Modern: Not really as funny, and if the graphics aren’t good they shouldn’t be shown in an ad. But for twilight princess, that trailer could be for a movie, man.
I’d say that the modern games are probably better than the retro ones, but that much was obivious. I’d recommend the retro ones if you like playing old stuff, because LoZ was the king of the old games.
(This post was inspired by Cutter.)
Happy , everybody! My school just released us for a good, healthy 10 day break. And man, am I glad about that. I plan to do a lot of work on my Uru age, Galamay. *Sigh* we really needed this break.
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How sad, to see a good forum crashed in its prime…
Kato says the good old Guild of Age Crafters should be back up sometime soon…until then, here’s to a great forum lost to the tides of the internet.
I think its time to write about culture. I think its a bit funny to look back at what humans used to be, and see how much we’ve progressed…And then sharply declined. I’ll start at the beginning:
Cavemen- primitive, lived out very short lives. Some tools.
Iron age- more tools, some religion. Lives still short, feudal system.
Ancient Rome- many tools, technological advancements. Democracy, medicine, longer lives. War.
Mideval- Lots of sickness, decline in medicine. Much religion, feudal/monarch system. More war
Reniassance- Advance in arts, religion, medicine- longer lives. Less war.
Colonial- Much more religion, a few wars. Lives are still short, medicine remains average.
70’s- Hippys! Woot! War. Lots-o-war.
Modern- Ok here we are. Obescity, video games. Computers. War over nothing. Dancing? Simply shuffling back and forth. Music is just people complaining about love, without any melody. Even the quality of our video games has declined, as proved by this poster.
I apologize for this post, I know it’s poorly written…but I’m tired. Deal with it. 😛
I just re-rendered my star/tentacle thing using an awesome raytracer, which came out looking awesome. I added Myst Otaku in the corner in a cool font, and voila! A wallpaper. Click the title to download it! (Or you can click here, if you are lazy.)
(Woot! I got a Maj account to host this one!)
