I Got My 360 to Work Blog with some Survival Horror Ranting
XBL - RaccoonusDoodus
I only have a silver account though :x and no games :x :x but hey, I got a 360!! ^.^
Just in vase you're all wondering, the PS3 is still and always will be my "main" console, due to free online play and plus I have to carry my PS3 back and forth from my mom's and my dad's houses already, I can't bring my 360 too, it'll just stay here at my dad's.
As far as a gold membership goes, there's no way in hell that I'm paying to play online. As I said, I can play for free on my PS3, so I'm just gonna stay with that.
As for games, I really don't care about any that I can't get on PS3 EXCEPT for Alan Wake, which comes out next year, so I'm really not gonna be doing much with my 360 at all until then. When I saw Alan Wake at E3 I was just in awe. And it actually looked kinda scary too. I mean, 1, I was watching someone play it, 2, I've played numerous horror games and I love them, and 3, it was just a short little demo, and it still looked scary to me. I love the concept too, a writer looking for the lost pages of his own horror novel? Genius concept.
I guess I just love games where your running around looking for pages ;)
But in all seriousness, I think it's a great concept and I can relate too. I think the demo would've been perfect if there was not gunplay, though. Why do all survival horror games make this mistake?? Look at what Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is doing, it looks like a s h i t game, but it's doing survival horror combat right. No, not combat, RUNNING. Survival horror games are much more scarier when you don't have a loaded semi-automatic handgun and when you're forced to desperatly scamper from monsters. If it was like that in Alan Wake, the game would look perfect. I just hate how all survival horror games make that same mistake. Hell, it was a JOKE in Silent Hill 3. A katana? A mace? A submachine gun? Are you effing kidding me!?! That just made this whole situation funnier. If, on the other hand, I had nothing but the pocket knife that I started out with at the beginning of the game, I WOULD have been hella scared.
Not to mention, that totally screws with the attempt to portray desperation in a character. Again, coming back to SH3, the scene where Heather finds a handgun and then a monster, she shoots at it instead of running. That just annoyed the hell out of me. Here is a completely innocent teenager (?) on her way back to her home when she comes across a monster and all of a sudden she's just shooting away?? BS. That just made Heather a completely unrealistic character and the whole thing made no sense.
And now, in Alan Wake, am I supposed to take it that this completely innocent guy desperatly trying to find his girlfriend is shooting innocent (possessed) people?? No way am I buying that crap. There is just no believability there. Shooting just makes him seem not innocent and not desperate, which makes the whole horror experience not terrifying. It makes me care about the main character and his issues much less.
IMHO.
And don't get me wrong, SH3 is a fantastic horror game, along with 1 and 2.
I'm getting way off topic here but my point is I would be looking forward to Alan Wake a lot more if there was no gunplay in the game.
Back on topic, my 360 is really just gonna be collecting dust for the next year or so. I might go out on a limb and get Splinter Cell: Conviction, but I'd really only be doing it so that I had something to do with my 360. Plus, there's enough games coming out this year that I have to buy (for PS3) so I don't think that I will. And on top of all that I have to get Kingom Hearts Days for the DS in September.
Bottem Line:
I have a working 360 but nothing to do with it until Alan Wake comes out next year. XBL - RaccoonusDoodus (Silver Account) and I hate gunplay in survival horror games.
I'm going to start doing a "Bottem Line" in all my blogs now, for all of the lazy readers :P
RIP MJ :cry:
