Whats next..."Bugs Bunny, He's Significant! More Significant than YOU anyhow!"...
Anime:
In the 80's I was really into it, trouncing upong any mecha-space-scifi I could find (yeah, Robotech peaked my interest just as GForce and StarBlazers did a decade earlier).
Sadly, today all the anime I see makes me generally cringe. Much in the same way American movies feature the same stereotypical characters, so does much of the Anime I'm seeing now.
They all have the same cast of characters and I've grown weary. The brooding anti-hero, the gender-ambiguous guy/girl/silent character, the screechy young female character....the fat "comic relief" character...and must every anime film on earth have at least one pantyshot per episode?
I mean, I'm starting to thinkt hat all anime is good for is Tentacle Pr0n.:P
I've tried watching the incredible Gundam series (all of them), and find the animation on the newer ones to be jaw dropping, and the stories to be convoluted and ridiculous. I guess I dont buy "kids in giant mecha suits".
Oh, and voiceovers....dubbing basically destorys anime, period. Then again, you might get tired of hearing every single character in non-dubbed anime sounding like a gravel-throated Japanese warlord.:P
I love the Japanese culture, or rather...Japanese Pop Culture.....but at the same time, I'm finding all that made Anime so great to me back in the day to be tired and rehashed today. Oh well, I'm jaded;)
Ahhh..the Boston Globe, where I turn for all my hard-core gaming news.
Consoles will take over the PC Gaming industry when you can no longer easily define what is a PC and what is a console.
The article touched upon the same points that EVERY ONE of these articles has always touched upon year after year. "Easier to develop for, non-changing specs, etc, etc".
Yes yes......this is all true. Add to the mix now that Consoles have finally reached a point where the games dont look inferior to their PC-based cousins. Lower resolution on a TV screen is being made up for with prettier effects and such.
But at the same time, I play games on my PC that either require high resolution (lots of small things on screen that would get lost on a low-rez TV) or require a mouse and keyboard. Grand Theft Auto III is one of the few exceptions of a game that really made me want to play my Playstation 2.
But its still the exception to the rule. I like my driving games on the consoles and my first person shooters and rpg/strategy games on the PC.
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Whats next..."Bugs Bunny, He's Significant! More Significant than YOU anyhow!"... Anime: In the 80's I was really into it, trouncing upong any mecha-space-scifi I could find (yeah, Robotech peaked my interest just as GForce and StarBlazers did a decade earlier). Sadly, today all the anime I see makes me generally cringe. Much in the same way American movies feature the same stereotypical characters, so does much of the Anime I'm seeing now. They all have the same cast of characters and I've grown weary. The brooding anti-hero, the gender-ambiguous guy/girl/silent character, the screechy young female character....the fat "comic relief" character...and must every anime film on earth have at least one pantyshot per episode? I mean, I'm starting to thinkt hat all anime is good for is Tentacle Pr0n. :P
I've tried watching the incredible Gundam series (all of them), and find the animation on the newer ones to be jaw dropping, and the stories to be convoluted and ridiculous. I guess I dont buy "kids in giant mecha suits".
Oh, and voiceovers....dubbing basically destorys anime, period. Then again, you might get tired of hearing every single character in non-dubbed anime sounding like a gravel-throated Japanese warlord. :P
I love the Japanese culture, or rather...Japanese Pop Culture.....but at the same time, I'm finding all that made Anime so great to me back in the day to be tired and rehashed today. Oh well, I'm jaded ;)
Ahhh..the Boston Globe, where I turn for all my hard-core gaming news.
Consoles will take over the PC Gaming industry when you can no longer easily define what is a PC and what is a console.
The article touched upon the same points that EVERY ONE of these articles has always touched upon year after year. "Easier to develop for, non-changing specs, etc, etc".
Yes yes......this is all true. Add to the mix now that Consoles have finally reached a point where the games dont look inferior to their PC-based cousins. Lower resolution on a TV screen is being made up for with prettier effects and such.
But at the same time, I play games on my PC that either require high resolution (lots of small things on screen that would get lost on a low-rez TV) or require a mouse and keyboard. Grand Theft Auto III is one of the few exceptions of a game that really made me want to play my Playstation 2.
But its still the exception to the rule. I like my driving games on the consoles and my first person shooters and rpg/strategy games on the PC.