I feel guilty about the site not being updated, so here’s an update!
Ok, not a great update, but still…
Been working on ideas like crazy, as well as getting things organized.
Hm. As for news…
Well I guess were getting closer to winter, when all these legendary games will come out. And there’s already been announcements for great games that won’t be out until NEXT year.
It turns out Hellgate London sucks (or I should say it’s a great game, it just happens that that great game that it is is Diablo II), Halo 3 is…well Halo, overhyped but not without it’s merits. Jericho is far more cartoony than Undying,
Looking forward to Mass Effect and Fallout 3…
And then games that won’t be out until next year or even later, like Spore and that Diablo-esque sci-fi post apoc wild west game with the bajillion randomized gun generator.
Have there been ANY decent RPG’s recently? I guess Soul whatever, the latest game from Nippon Ichi, might count. Heck, the only memorable RPG I’v had contact with before that was that rather inventive game about the singing robot girls (very very very anime, but it was a good game with a rather epic take on the overused “floating islands, giant tower” type setting). Had a mechanism where you “dove” into the consciousnesses of your robot girls to fix their psychological problems and thus unlock new powers for them. Rather Evangelion-esque with a bit of Paprika thrown in.
As for movies, 30 Days of Night, how was it? I liked the first graphic novel but more and more just seem to keep coming out, ala the not-so-great Silent Hill comics.
American Gangster comes out this week, for some odd reason Denzel Washington as a badass gangster has an allure to it
oooh, the most interesting movie thing I’v seen recently is that commercials have started to air advertising an upcoming Sweeney Todd movie starring Johnny Depp.
I wish we had a forum or something to discuss webcomics, as that’s a subject I could talk about all day, but I don’t participate in the Penny Arcade/PvPonline driven webcomic drama community of the internet. Ironically the PA guys and Scott Kurtz neither encourage nor participate in that stuff, but it’s mainly centered around their fandom. I guess it’s the community of people that listen to that heirarchy, and who really believe that PA and Pvponline are the most popular/best webcomics on the internet.
I simply don’t get the idea of people arguing over the digital equivalent of newspaper serials and sunday morning funnies.
I’m much more interested in the online graphic novels, which range in quality of art from clearly someone’s first attempt at drawing to epic-level proffessional art. They range from teenagers still in school trying to tell a cool story for the first time, to fan-works, to proffessionals who do it for a living, off of the merit of their art and story not on high-updating serialization and lots of merchandise, like the so called “big names”.
Really, outside of the art communities like Deviant Art that have a lot of these people, there doesnt really seem to be much internet community around the online mangas and graphic novels that don’t really qualify as the same beast as the constantly ranked sequential cartoons most people limit their webcomic experience to.
Anyways, part news part rant, that seems like a good update.
This is Coyote, signing out.
