Of Steam, Steal and Murder

Yes, another SSM game! Run by me! AARRGGHH!

The peoples find a body. Then mess around a while... a long while... a very long while... LOOK, I have this island I want to have the adventure on, get over there!

Eventually we got there, and I try some different mechanics. We have a discussion about sanity mechanics, which, if I had had first, I would have incorporated far more of that into this. Oh well, next time.

Session 63: Introducing the Blue Man Group. Rapidshare. (Hotfile is too slow for me to deal with.)

Here is the map and the journal.

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Ralph Wrecked-It

I'm wondering if I'm the worst demographic for this movie? While I know a lot about the games they are referencing, I don't know them all... and it's bugging me that I can spot that it is a reference, but I don't get what it is a reference to. (Eg, is Calhoun supposed to reference bro-shooters or Samus?) And yet, I don't not know enough that I can ignore that side of it and just enjoy the rest of the movie.

Not that the rest of the movie is that terribly exciting. After some game fan service, it settles into generic 'help the kid race' movie that could be any 'feel good family summer movie'. I do wonder if the writers/directors (yes, you, Rich Moore) went soft on the game side in order to not turn off all the non-gamers. Although there are a lot of game references and contexts in this, most of them are nostalgia references (eg Donkey Kong) and the two modern games are bro-shooter and a car racing game, so it's not like they are severely pushing the envelope. So I'm saying that, despite this is a movie about a game character and set in the world of computer games... the game side could have been more, and kind of disappointed it wasn't.

The performances are good. John C Reilly sounds familiar, but I can't recall what major thing I've heard him in. Jack McBrayer and Sarah Silverman are turning in performances as... well, themselves in many ways (at least, their screen selves). Alan Tudyk... I didn't spot that it was him at all, and nearly want to rewatch the movie just so I can appreciate it. Jane Lynch didn't quite match with the character appearance, and I go wonder if she was cast because of Glee or she was cast and happened to also work on Glee.

Due to timing, I did see the 3D version of this... meh. I'm not not impressed by 3D, as it is simply faking 3D, and this didn't add anything to the argument.

Decent enough movie, but too generic outside of the 'hey, hey, look at this game, remember this?' parts.

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My First Anime Movie

This is probably the first anime movie most people saw, [was the Transformers movie Japanese originally? It's considered western anyway]. This is full on anime style. And note this is just the first one I saw. I'm not saying it is good, just that it was the first and left an impression. And howdy...



Yep, Akira. Based on a series of manga that hadn't been completed at the time, so the director made up his own ending. (I have the full manga. Annoying while the first volume (which I think was the British one) is full colour, the rest (American) are black and white.)

Now, it's long and somewhat bloated and slow. Not exactly different to other anime movies (dear gods some of the sequences in the Ghost in the Shell movies go on) in that respect though.

But yeah... it was my 'first'... yours? (As in 'what's yours?' but also 'was it yours too?' if you like.)

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My First Anime

When I was much younger, I grew up on 80s cartoons. Not surprising, considering it was the eighties. So, cartoons based on toys. American shows. Badly translated Japanese shows. Basically, not exciting fare. The most exciting cartoon I might come across was possibly Duckman (I can't entirely remember if I saw Duckman before or after below).

Then Liquid TV came along, and with it a whole new styles of animation. Including one segment in particular...



This was the first time I had seen anything like this. I didn't even know it could be like this. And it pretty much blew my mind. (Before you get all 'ha, I knew about blah' there was a point when you didn't know about blah.)

And then I hit my first anime movie... but that will be tomorrow. But anyway, this opened my eyes to what anime could be. Great stuff, and hooked on it ever since.

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DW: TEC 3

And here is the last part. Nearly four hours all up. One achievement is for doing the game in under five hours. I got that on my first play through without knowing what I was doing.

May be more play throughs to come?

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DW: TEC 2

Second part of the play through. This would have been the second half, only the game crashed at one point, and then after resuming at one point the down key stopped working. Watch me fail to get off a wall for minutes!

(Part 3 continues with me having successfully dismounting... which involved quitting the game.)


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DW: TEC 1

This is Richard and me playing the game Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Well, I am the one playing it, and Richard and me commenting on it.

Part 1, with more parts to follow.

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