New Alma Sighting

I'm a bit of an Alma and F.E.A.R. series fan. The Tattoo usually give that away.

However, despite having played Origins several times, I came across and captured an image that I had never seen before today, thanks to my new PC "Inanna's Dirk".





This image is from the swimming pool at the beginning when you are attempting to secure Genevieve Aristide

                                                                                                                                                                               
It makes sense that its here, especially given the text, and Alma's interest in your character. It's just neat / appalling to me that I've never seen it before and it took a high power PC to bring it out for me. I'm reasonably sure you can see it on the X Box version, provided you have the settings right. But I have always enjoyed the game on darker settings and I'm pretty sure I have my TV set too dark to catch this very quick image.

Can any F.E.A.R. / X Box 360 players confirm?

A Special Thank You to the Raptr Community

I'm doing a few of these and hoping I remember everyone.

I wanted to say a special thank you to the Raptr Community for all the care and support we have received while my mom has battled for her life against Lung Cancer.

Tuesday is her last Chemo (Thank God Chemo is a #$%^!!!) and after she goes on maintenance drugs.o be






Also, thanks to the people who have checked on me to be sure I was not dead from my own condition lol.

I am still staying with her, but as reported I have a new Gaming PC and despite the crappy DSL here in the boondocks, I should be getting back up to speed with my snarky screenshots and all in short order.

New PC

My New PC Came! At least the i6 processor, Sniper RAM, power supply and Video card. Now waiting on the case and Motherboard.

Retro Gaming PSX

My hours have been down in Raptr lately, been having to stay close to mom while she goes through her chemo. But that doesn't mean I've not been gaming.

I've been retro-gaming using my trusty, beloved PSX with screen. My wife gave it to me a few years ago, before Amazon and the internet. She called every place in 50 miles, and when she found a TRU that had one last unit, she drove 40 miles each way at night in the blinding rain to get it for me. It was so touching I have revered the unit, much less the giver, ever since.


My games of choice are the good old original Diablo and for me the King of video games, Doom. Well, Final Doom this occasion. They told me at the game store that both those disks are pretty rare, so here is a testament to keeping, and taking care of your disks, young gamers.


Can you see my Raptr keeping watch while I game?

Why do Star Wars games SUCK?

It's a very significant "tell" about my personality. But I really want to play Force Unleashed 2 right now. I played the into of it and had an absolute joygasm. But I couldn't play any farther. I didn't know the story and it looks so good I had to know it from the beginning.

So I started the first Force Unleashed. From the beginning

I HATE IT!

Well I hate the gameplay. I love the story I love the graphics, I love the music, I love the sound,  I love the saber battles. But the rest of it is just platform jumping trash. If I wanted to play Mario Brothers style jumping around, I'd play fracking Mario Brothers, not Star Wars.

Why is it every Star Wars game since the AMAZING Original Dark Forces, and TIE Fighter, Insists on being an elaborate version of Contra or Mario?

Now don't be offended if you love platform games. If it is your cup of tea, then more power to you. By all means enjoy...

But ALL the Star Wars games in this genre? Seriously?

Someone might want to mention the racing games about here, but don't bother. Trying to pander to the NASCAR crowd with racing games and Episode one racing is like inviting Jed Clampett to a $40,000 a plate banquet.

At any rate I've held my nose and played the game... and learning to like it despite.

After this I have to do the same thing to get to Mass Effect 2. Endure 1 for the story.

11 Ways I Am NOT Like Dan Halen!

 

11 Ways I Am Not Like Dan Halen!

1.   I never hid facts about my possessions:  No one ever asked me if my bone chess set was made of HUMAN bone or not.

2.   I have always been extremely generous. The fact its with other people’s money is irrelevant,

3.   I have never tried to cover up or conceal my age -  I do however find it offensive that no one ever considers is might be ANOTHER Maalac that signed Dan’s Yearbook.

4.   I do not constantly run around nude – Those charges were dismissed.

5.   Unlike Dan I have a large amount of  “junk”. My endowment is…O.K. you got me! On that one we are just alike in this one way.

6.   I do not belittle or mock my fellow man. That I do not feel completely deserve it

7.   I do not attempt to play God or pervert the laws of nature for profit. It is strictly for entertainment purposes with me.

8.   Unlike Dan I have never harmed an animal. I am SURE there is an animal I have not harmed out there (just waiting to be discovered).

9.   I have never owned a slave. All of mine are temps.

10.  I do not have a sinister laugh. Mine is more a laugh of malevolence.

11.  I do not have a field of sheriff clones. I think the common man’s vernacular for mine is “kitty” or something like that I don’t keep up with the utterances considered to be words that come out of those chitlin-smeared armpits that you call mouths.

Old Dog New Trick, Lost Game, Lost Planet

3 questions:

Do You like 3rd person shooters?

Do you like Mech Games?

Have you played Lost Planet?

I have lamented on Raptr how there has not been a good Mech game this generation of gaming.

As for 3rd person shooters.....

I was vehemently opposed to playing 3rd person shooters for a long time. With only an occasional exception that would come along like Dynamite Duke, Buck Rodgers Zoom, and Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.

But I have been in love with First Person Shooters since 1987 and Operation Wolf. Even before that, Star Wars the Arcade games was very much like an FPS.

I used to hurt that I wanted so bad for games to come out like Op Wolf. I was so very tired of space alien vehicles and the like from the arcade era. "Gotcha" came out in '87. It promised much, but it was lame.   It got better in 89 when Mechanized Attack, and  Rambo 3 set the stage and the mold for Arcade games like Terminator 2 and NES games like Laser Invasion, and ultimately gave birth in '92 to Wolfenstien 3D

The most I did in 3rd person during that time was the Die Hard Trilogy in '96 on the PS1.

Before I digress...

I've played so much that I've run out of games to play...interesting games anyway. It's not been until the last year or so that I've developed any skills in TPS. I've dabbled in Gears, I'm invested in the Saints Row
series, Loved Space Marine, and so on.

It started when I was retrogaming on the PS2 and got into "Path of Neo" and just carried on from there with a life of its own. As I said, I've lamented and rued the lack of a good Mech game.

Then a couple of days ago I rediscovered Lost Planet.

I got it when I got my first 360 a couple of years ago, when my god son dragged me kicking and screaming back into the world of platform gaming. But I immediately dismissed it because it was an TPS and I didn't have the skills back then.

Now that this old dog has learned a new trick I'm having a blast, and have the best mech game I've found this generation so far to boot.