Noi #15/Noi hates on #2 – Sundays September 6, 2009
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I hate sundays.
Shitty TV programming, most commercial places close early, you’re full of regrets over stuff you couldn’t do over the weekend, and in most cases, despair over having to go to class the next day because of some project that’s due the next day, yet you haven’t quite finished.
Now, it’s not /all/ bad I guess. If you don’t have anything else to do, then it can be a nice last day of relaxation before the weekday starts. But EH, that’s not always the case, at least not for me. Even right now I’m working on other college dealings and papers and stuff, but I need a break from all that. I seriously don’t know why it is, but this college trimester for me has felt the most tedious and overworked, yet I’m doing nearly the same things I do every other trimester.
But enough about the hating on sundays part.
Admittedly, a lot has happened since my last post. I’ve grown to hate my SDTV (I was ignorant about 1080p until I went to a friend’s house and hooked up my PS3 there. I hate him now.), I’ve been lazy and bored towards every one of my classes except Computer Programming, I’ve got a backlog of work to do, I seem to only have the patience to play games on the go, and whole fuckton of Dissidia: Final Fantasy. Heck, if I fail any classes this trimester, I blame this stupid game. It’s so addicting that I can’t even go to sleep without having played the game for a little bit. I should finish up my own Dissidia review, but I’m having much more fun actually playing the game.
On another note, I actually got started on my 100 things section! It only took me 7 or so months, but hey, at least I’m halfway there.
….And I’m fresh out of content, so here’s a random video that made me laugh. You could say it’s related to the TF2 hat thing, but it’s not.
Noi hates on :: Achievements July 28, 2009
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*Disclaimer – Any opinions in these categories are not the opinions of all the DRE: Insert Disc 2 crew. They only belong to moi, and as such, any hate should be directed only to sole person.
New category for new segment. While the main posts should technically be for “rants”, I’ll be using this category for more focused hate, though it’s entirely opinionated.
Now, to start this off, I like achievements. I like achievements done right. This however, is not the case for the majority of games that have them.
Are there games that shouldn’t have achivements? Yes, there should. It only makes it slightly awkward to have gone through some dramatic story arc that may or may not have ended up with a plot twist or character death, only to see the “Achievement Unlocked” box pop-up.
Now, achievements done right? Take Mega Man 9. There are only one or two achievements gained from just beating the game, while the rest are done through what really are “achievements”, such as the infamous Mr. Perfect run, taking down the robot masters as quickly as possible, or clearing a stage without using a weapon.
Now, type of achievements I dislike? Resident Evil 5. Don’t get me wrong now, RE5 is a great game and I rate it a full 4 stars, 5 stars, 10/10 or whatever rating system you go by. But I’m always less than impressed with “achievements” that are given just for beating the game. They aren’t so much achievements as much as they are progress markers. RE5 gives you an achievement for every chapter segment you clear, making for a total of 16 achievements gained for just beating the game, with a final one awarded depending on the difficulty the game was beaten on. There are also achivements for things that, odds are, you were going to do while playing anyway, such as getting 20 headshots, defeating X number of enemies with X weapon, or helping your partner in X situation.
Given the current gaming generation’s mindset, it’s a bit of a shame that “no achivements” can’t be enforced, since every new X360 or PS3 game is required to have them. Still, these are just ramblings of a retro gamer who wishes things were as simple as they were way back when, when “achievement” meant beating a Mega Man game without using a continue, rather than today’s “Beat the game on easy mode”.
