Funeral

Last night I was playing Ninja Gaiden 2, chopping heads off and enjoying my evening. The pizza had just arrived, the beer was frosty – all was right with the world.

Suddenly my xbox decided it hated the color black and turned every shadow in the game green. It then decided green made it look fat and turned them all blue. And just like my mother in a department store spent the next few hour trying to decide which looked best.

Needless to say Microsoft is sending me a coffin in the mail.

BEHOLD! CACTUS MANS!

The Spore Creature Creator is out. Forgiving the half hour I spent trying to make a large moving penis with this the tool I was able to make a lot of really cool weird aliens.

One thing that sort of bugs me is that it lends itself to round body parts making everything look sort of a balloon-y. But you can get around that with little effort.  I can understand the logic though of people not being very good at using a 3d modeling tool and having it default to easy shapes.

Can’t wait to see this thing when it is finished.

Update:  Meet the family…

The post about Ninja Gaiden

I got Ninja Gaiden 2 over the weekend.

It’s ok so far, it really reminds me of the old stand up arcade games like TMNT and Golden Axe.

The Good: I really enjoy lopping limbs and heads off.

The Bad: The camera sucks.

What I would have done differently: maybe I am just getting old but I would have slowed the combat down just a hair. I have never really enjoyed games where the baddies attack you faster than you can blink. I would rather savor a the combat a bit rather than just finding out at the end that I happen to still be alive.

HHHEEEYYY! NIKO!

GTA IV is losing steam for me. Sure running people down with a car is fun, shooting hookers is a always good for a laugh but you know… that was never what most captivated me about this game.

This game should have taken all that raw violence and freedom and really funneled it into a compelling Sopranos style story. I have spent hours playing this game and I am sick of working for a bunch of retard wannabe gangsters.

The story has moments of harshness that make it brilliant but most of the time I just spend waiting for the opportunity to shoot the dumb shit who keeps invading my cut scenes.

Also one thing that really needs to change is having to drive half way across the city to repeat a failed mission.  At least put me within a block of the event.