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The Many Distractions that Plague Me

Wed Aug 26, 2009, 3:17 PM
  • Mood: Drooling
  • Listening to: MC Frontalot "I Hate your Blog"
  • Reading: Dresden Files
  • Watching: Spoony Expirament
  • Playing: The new Batman game
  • Eating: Not enough
  • Drinking: Cream Soda
I just got a few new games yesterday.

And already I'm starving for even more Batman: Arkham Asylum, as last night's excursion (incursion?) was cut short by the action of my "Night Time" cold medication. Things got progressively more surreal until I was blacking out, losing time between scenes and waking up in places unfamiliar. It was actually very convincing; maybe I should do it again tonight.

I'm still early in: I wanted to beat the new episode of Monkey Island that I also just got, and then Section 8 had a surprising demo, two more reasons to resent linear time.

Similar to Final Fantasy, an image of Batman brooding on the cover is probably sufficient to sell units, but that's not what happened here either. What they did was create a Batman game firmly in the Metroidvania milieu - a striking choice - marrying it to a combat system which is like a ballet where people die. Even in a voice cast already masterfully selected, Mark Hamill's Joker, he's the guy from the animated series remember?, vacillates between ridiculous and horrifying with terrible speed. In what is ostensibly a "superhero" game, they chose instead to emphasize Batman's fragility and humanity, which is the kind of counter-intuitive choice that seems obvious after the fact.

Now I've worked myself into a Goddamned lather. I'm just taunting myself with its virtues now; launching geysers of unpaid marketing saliva. Let's finish here: the game is ridiculous, in the best possible way. And now I must play it more.

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  • Current Residence: Some House, Some Street, Orange Park Florida.
  • Interests: I usually like what I'm doing. Unless I don't. But then I wouldn't be doing it now wo
  • Favourite movie: ... Off the top of my head? Um, 300? Ferris Bueller? V for Vendetta? Ooh! All Kevin Smith's mov
  • Favourite band or musician: Reel Big Fish! mc chris! Black Sabbath Blue Öyster Cult! Rush! Architecture In Helsinki! The Pi
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock and Roll! And Nerdcore Hip hop to a lesser extent.
  • Favourite artist: I'd hate to suck up...
  • Favourite poet or writer: Christopher Moore. Fer' Sure.
  • Favourite photographer: Ummm... Peter Parker?
  • Favourite style of art: The one's with the pictures and the cool art and the color (even if it's just white and bl
  • Operating System: Windows
  • MP3 player of choice: Ipizzle. I mean Ipod.
  • Shell of choice: ... Koopa?
  • Wallpaper of choice: *Cough* I'm not the one who chooses. >_>
  • Skin of choice: ... I'm no racist.
  • Favourite game: I can dig all the games. Except Racing. And Hunting. I mean seriously. Hunting?
  • Favourite gaming platform: Wii. I'm just a Nintendo Fanboy at heart. But props to the XBox 360. Sony is the devil.
  • Favourite cartoon character: Slick Daddy; Monique. Gabe; Tycho. Sam; Fuzzy! David; Dale. Drayla; Josophina. Kimiko;Tiny Carl Jung
  • Personal Quote: 'I have no quote. And you can quote me on that.'
  • Tools of the Trade: Massive imagination (And intellect) shall give me the strength to weather through my mediocre skills

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:iconshouhda:
Thanks for the favourite.
:iconaxlwisp:
Mm, thanks for the watch, sir! ^^

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:iconveranforscythe:
That's a good song, the one you got your signature from.

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Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

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:iconsilenteric:
That it is. It's partially to poke fun at Karbo, but I don't think he realizes it. :D

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Yeah, well you say a lot of things. And how's that work? You're a bicycle.
:iconveranforscythe:
I wouldn't have realised it. I'm not really sure how it pokes fun at Karbo...

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Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

I don't fail; I succeed at finding what doesn't work.
:iconsilenteric:
In his meme thing he did. He can't draw bicycles. It's his one weakness. So I figure The Writing Writer's demonic bicycle is his arch enemy. I make weird connections like that in my mind. :D

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Yeah, well you say a lot of things. And how's that work? You're a bicycle.
:iconveranforscythe:
:lol: That's excellent!

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Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

I don't fail; I succeed at finding what doesn't work.
:iconsilenteric:
In his meme thing he did. He can't draw bicycles. It's his one weakness. So I figure The Writing Writer's demonic bicycle is his arch enemy. I make weird connections like that in my mind. :D

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Yeah, well you say a lot of things. And how's that work? You're a bicycle.
:iconidkura:
Thanx 4 the FAV!

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:iconmukatkikaarn:
Thanks for the favorite ^^

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