{"id":7074,"date":"2008-10-06T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=7074"},"modified":"2008-10-06T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T05:13:08","slug":"sometimes-i-play-other-games-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=7074","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes I play other games too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been pretty quiet around here lately, for witch I apologize.  But, I have a good excuse: I&#8217;m preparing to move, and not just down the block.  No, my family and I are moving to a whole &#8216;nother country next week, and I&#8217;m frantically trying to close all of my accounts, cancel all of my services, and sell all of my belongings.  That hasn&#8217;t left a lot of time for horror games, though I did recently put some time into <a href = \"?p=12600000\">Siren: New Translation<\/a> and (I am somewhat ashamed to admit) <a href = \"?p=11800000\">Escape from Bug Island<\/a>.  Also, my brother hooked me up with <a href = \"?p=12100000\">The Darkness<\/a> and <a href = \"?p=11600000\">F.E.A.R.<\/a>, so I have a lot to play.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve also been playing some non-horror games lately.  Shocking as it may be, I actually try to interleave my horror games with my non-horror games so that I don&#8217;t get too burnt out on any particular genre.  I thought I&#8217;d talk a little bit about the non-horror games I&#8217;ve been putting some time into:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Assassin&#8217;s Creed &#8211; This game got pretty slammed by reviewers, but I can&#8217;t figure out why.  The game&#8217;s a little repetitive, yes, but that&#8217;s ok because the stuff that is repeating is <i>fantastic<\/i>.  The art, particularly the animation, is fantastic, and the game really succeeds at making you feel like an awesome ninja killer dude.  The controls are a little wonky and I don&#8217;t totally understand how to be reliably stealthy yet, but I&#8217;m very happy with the couple of hours I&#8217;ve put in so far.  This is an interesting game with an interesting theme and I&#8217;m extremely impressed with the cohesiveness of its presentation.  In my day job I work on animation systems programming a lot, and the animation system in Assassin&#8217;s Creed is really, really cool.\n<li> Pure &#8211; OK, so I&#8217;ve only played the demo, but I really enjoyed it.  Pure is SSX on ATVs; the mechanics of jumping and performing tricks to get boost is almost exactly the same as SSX.  However, SSX was awesome and Pure seems like it works very well too.\n<li> Earth Defense Force 2017 &#8211; This is an ultra-budget game by D3 publisher, the hard-working folks responsible for classics THE Zombie VS Ambulance and THE Onneechanbara.  2017 is pretty budget-looking, but it was recommended to me by a friend as being &#8220;hilarious fun,&#8221; and I have to concur with that assessment.  The controls are fairly bad, the story is beyond terrible, the graphics suck, and yet I&#8217;ve played this thing for several hours already.  On level one they give you a gun that blows entire buildings up!  You can&#8217;t go wrong with this formula.\n<\/ul>\n<p>What are you playing lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been pretty quiet around here lately, for witch I apologize. But, I have a good excuse: I&#8217;m preparing to move, and not just down the block. No, my family and I are moving to a whole &#8216;nother country next week, and I&#8217;m frantically trying to close all of my accounts, cancel all of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}