Love for Video Games.. renewed!
by Resid3nt_3vil on Comments
Wow, I almost forgot about good old Gamespot. I just got to college, so my Internet browsing and lounging time for games and such has gone way way up, much to my surprise. School and friends keep me busy during the day, but I'm just a night owl these days, nothing like high school. As you can see from the post date of this entry, 2:00 am is merely late afternoon these days. Anyways, thanks to all this free time and the fact that my major is New Media, games have been on my mind a lot lately. I've been playing through DMC4 and Overlord, two 360 games I've had for some time, but never got around to completing. These playthroughs, especially after having lessons oriented towards analyzing interactivity and design, are opening my eyes to all sorts of good and bad things about games. Controls and the ability to customize them to your liking is of utmost importance to me and never was before. I don't feel right starting a game unless I check out and tweak every available option. Also, voice acting in games really needs to be improved. In my opinion, if a game puts a lot of weight into it's story, there should be a team working solely on lip-syncing the entire script, otherwise you might as well tell the story through subtitles a la Zelda. Well, that's all I got for ya today. I'll be cruising the site a lot more though, so this is only the beginning. Let's see if I can't get a spot on the coveted Soapbox!