Resident Evil 2 is FINALLY getting a remake????

(using my Silent Hill icon because I can't currently get at my RE one...*sigh*)

I...appreciate it, and think it's overdue, but I'm not sure I want it. I love the original, and I've loved it for twenty(!!) years now. I will probably still check it out once it arrives, because Resident Evil.

(I want there to be the alternate scenarios like there were in the original because hello guess where my love of Rashomon style storytelling came from*. And I'd like Claire's original VA. I'm sure Ali Hillis does a good job, but Alyson Court just is Claire for me. Which, I realise, makes me sound like a whiny five year old, but I'm very tired and feel like stamping my feet, so I guess I am a whiny five year old).

Talking of which, I was in CEX today, and considered picking up 5, 6, and Operation Raccoon City, even though I won't play them at all because I'm a massive scaredy cat (why I like this series at all is BEYOND me). Maybe next time I'm in there. I want them just to have them, if that makes sense?

(which reminds me: I still need to pick up the films I'm missing, and that includes Damnation).


*Though I suppose the alternate A/B scenarios aren't Rashomon style in the strictest sense, but I do like the differences that occur depending on which way you play the game.

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In other games news, I've been keeping up with E3 even less than usual but new Halo game??? That is not Halo 6, but will apparently continue Master Chief's Adventures IN SPACE!™ (I get the feeling 343 are trying to eke out the story as much as possible at this point, as 6 should, rightfully, be the finisher, but who honestly knows).

ALSO KH3 FINALLY! (not that I have a PS4 to play it on, but whatever, right? People have been wanting this since I got into the games a good decade ago. I am happy for them).

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In non-game news, I went to the dentist on Monday, and he was actually nice to me this time! Well, nice for a dentist, anyway. I didn't exactly mention the sore teeth, as they'd calmed down, but he had a look, and said it was probably a nerve or gum flare-up, which sounds likely. I was dreading him saying I'd have to have a tooth out (or worse). Thankfully, that didn't happen.

I've also started working on paying off the Other Debt, and it is less than I thought, so hopefully it will take me less time to pay off! \o/
Two Some things that are vaguely related:

A. In the entry about my birthday memories, I completely forgot that I watched the Halo 5 cutscenes, and Cortana made me cry, damnit.

B. If you are wondering about influences for the abominations story (probably not, amirite?) - it started off with Pacific Rim, but from the perspective I'd thought the film was going to be from*. Which is why it's called the abominations story anyway. Then something made me check out the Halo story, and we took a violent swerve down from that (in that holy moly, I don't think I've ever been so influenced by something in my life? I wrote a heck of a lot of background detail over the course of about a week after reading up on games).

B2. I also think this story is going to end up somewhere different than I originally intended it. Although it's already done that once, so I guess I shouldn't be so surprised at this point in time?

C. Writing blogs are great and everything, but I now find that I more often than not get bogged down in having to plan everything out, and follow writing advice slavishly to the point that it paralyses me from writing.

D. I've planned out this whole sci-fi story now, and that's great, except that because I've world-built (which I don't normally do), I'm now bored, and that's stopping me from writing the story. Also what's stopping me is that it's going to rely on a lot of action, and I am rubbish at writing that and need to get better.

D2. I need to shut that little voice up in my head that tells me science doesn't work that way, because some of my favourite sci-fi stories are extremely unscientific and don't explain anything. And I like it that way.

D3. I might either try noodling with an AU of this universe (I have one I'm particularly struck by), or just writing some random shit set in this universe and seeing what happens. Because WHY NOT. I might not end up with the story I wanted, but at least I will have written something.

E. I really like the Deus Ex: Human Revolution soundtrack.

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*i.e. that humans were invading an alien planet and the aliens were understandably pissed off about this. Because that's how the trailers I saw made it look.

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Nov. 11th, 2015 06:35 pm
muladhara: (writing)
Feedback required:

If you are reading a book, and a character who is an alien is referred to only by a tag that makes it evident what animal it reminds the humans of, would you find that annoying?

(So what I'm saying is that the text would be "Blah blah blah," said the animal, for example. Or, The animal cautiously shifted the book in its arms). (It is an it because its race doesn't have genders, btw, not me being excessively lazy or whatever).

I know some people don't like this sort of thing. I don't mind it myself, but some of the Goodreads reviews of Alif The Unseen brought the one character up (I think she's called the convert?) as annoying because it was as though the author couldn't be arsed to give her a name. Anyway, that's what this was making me think of as I was writing it.

(I spent two hours writing on Monday evening! I wasn't even going to write at all! Especially not the abominations! It was amazing!)

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I started transcribing some music, and it is slow going (aside from the fact that I rarely have occasions where the computer's on and it's quiet. Also my ear is...not good for this. I could do with my friend's brother who could play stuff by ear). I'm working from Cold Blue Light, although sometimes I listen to the other versions as well.

I keep getting frustrated, because it's a really simple tune, and it's less than two minutes long. I know it's just because I'm not better. I'll get there, eventually. (And then, like all things, I'll look back at this and wonder what I thought was so hard in the first place).

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Aug. 12th, 2015 09:11 pm
muladhara: (writing)
All right, so the magical girl story is slowly taking form. I know what happens at the end (in the broadest strokes ever), and it...is not what I had in mind when I first came up with this idea, although it certainly shows where one of its influences lies.

I am actually thinking about writing it for NaNo. Which could be a good idea, or it could be a bad one. But since I've spent two non-consecutive months on the abominations story, I know I can spend a month writing, and I know I can get a lot done in that time. (Because I know I've been working on this story a long time, but each month I worked on it consistently, I was working on two different stories that form one whole. Which makes me feel more positive that I totally could do something like NaNo).

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Aw yiss, I've found all the Halo cutscenes, so I don't have to watch the gameplay. (Look, I know there's people who enjoy that sort of thing. Those people are not me).

(I love Cortana and Master Chief's relationship; they snark at each other and it makes me smile).

(Oh but 343 Guilty Spark can go fuck himself).

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Aug. 9th, 2015 04:24 pm
muladhara: (brb gaming)
Help, I'm watching a longplay of Halo: Combat Evolved, and it's really boring. How do people play these things for fun? I don't understand how going around shooting shit up all the time is fun, I really don't (I know that's essentially Mass Effect, but this is why I don't - in general - play shooters. And ME has other stuff going for it anyway).

I picked the wrong series of games to really get into the story for, didn't I? *cries*

(I suppose I could just watch compilations of the cutscenes, but I feel like I'm missing something if I do? But if that something is constant shooting that is a) boring and b) gives me a headache, maybe that's the best thing to do...)
~ I'm reading Halo: Cryptum by Greg Bear, and it's all right! I don't think that anyone coming to it not knowing anything about Halo would get anything out of it, but I know some and I think it's OK? Apart from the author having no grasp of the subjunctive whatsoever, but eh. That's a minor niggle, compared to the last book I tried to read, and the last book I actually DID read.

~ I have sorted my worst ever world state for DA:I. Not only that, but I'm going to attempt wreck as much shit as possible, just to see how badly wrong it can go (except for mage boyfriend shenanigans, because MAGE BOYFRIEND).

(It's going to be bizarre. It's also my only world state where both Anders and Loghain are alive. Everyone else that can die has done so. Yeeeeahhhh).

~ I've been doing lots of writing and yaaaay, but mostly all I want to do is write about my story's OTP (because I totally have an OTP for my own story, I mean why the hell shouldn't I? It's my bloody story!) None of it will make it into the finished thing because ninety percent of it wants to be smut, and the remaining ten percent is made up of arguments (or the like) and yeah. (I mean occasionally I do write the rest of the story - I've got the ending done already - but right now I just want to write these guys being fluffy? Because I can, and I want fluffy things right now).

~ I had a dream the other night where I was out on the moors with some friends. We got this place where rocks rose up from the landscape, to an almost impossible height, except they spiralled around, and joined together near the top, but you could see the sky through a gap. It made me feel dizzy looking up at them, but at the same time it was really kind of awesome.

I don't know why, but it made me think I've been playing too much Dragon Age (is that possible? There's people who've played the game(s) more times than me, right? And to a bigger degree of completion - I lose the will to continue once I sort of get to the Emerald Graves/Exalted Plains. Anyway, there's nowhere actually like that to my knowledge in-game).

*flailing*

Feb. 25th, 2015 10:12 am
muladhara: (gabranth)
I've had the main theme for Halo going round in my head for, like, three days at this point (but why would you not? it's freaking EPIC. And was apparently written in three days)

So then I wondered if there was a piano version because all the piano in THAT version sounds like it would be hella fun to play.

what do you know, there is (there's a bajillion on Youtube, but there's bum notes everywhere and ack. This one is the best I've found. And she's amazing, because she included a tutorial on how to play it - she even says her version is not the definitive one, so you can play it how it suits you).

I'm still looking for sheet music, though.

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Feb. 18th, 2015 10:48 pm
muladhara: (reading)
I am actually contemplating buying the Halo games (raise your hand if you didn't see that coming). HOWEVER, as I've said before, first person POV makes me nauseous and headachy like whoa. So to test if the games did that to me before I spent any money, I've downloaded the Halo: Reach demo. (I could've gone for Halo 3, I realised belatedly, but Reach was the first to feature a sprint button, so testing that will probably test my nausea response, right?)

(Also I said to a work friend when Reach came out that it sounded interesting. You know why? Because the whole thing is a downer ending, and dang if that trope isn't like catnip to me. But I knew I'd never buy it because it was a shooter and I don't play shooters *cough*Mass Effect*cough*).

I also requested the only two Halo books that my library has. One is the first part in a trilogy, and the other is short stories (I think? I can't remember which one it is). I was hoping they'd've had more of the books, but sadly not.

Yeah. I am in WAY TOO DEEP NOW, I think.

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I AM WORLDBUILDING. IT IS AWESOME AND INTERESTING. I need more characters, though, and some of them need to be non-human. I should work on that tomorrow.

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