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Uncharted Among Spoilers

by Derek on October 25th, 2011
Uncharted Among Spoilers

I did read the metacritic blurbs and a teeny bit of portions of the Giant Bomb review, but I found myself in a scenario where I saw even a word related to something content or story related I threw my hands in front of my face and quickly scrolled down. The gist I hear is that the story is again totally awesome and there are some tweaks to the gameplay to add more variety to combat. I’m also pleased to hear that the stealth mechanics are supposedly better too because trying to take out as many guys stealthily is something I did a lot of in the 2nd game.

It comes out in one week, but I’ve made the commitment to wait another two weeks after that so that Anna can be here as I marathon the game. Next to Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 2 was one of the first games she watched me marathon and we both enjoyed it so much that I realized I couldn’t not do it together.

Then of course after I beat it for the first time, the next order of business will be capturing all the cutscenes and gameplay so that I can make a new trailer! CAN’T WAIT!

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Uncharted Subway

by Derek on September 29th, 2011
Uncharted Subway

The Uncharted 3 Multiplayer pre-release promotion is starting today in the United States. Unfortunately it involved purchasing stuff from Subway. Hopefully by the time you read this I’m holding a large soda and no other food item from there.

I’ve been reading the Naughty Dog forums and there have been reports of mixed success in either receiving the cup early or having the Subway employees completely oblivious to what they’re talking about. Regardless, Subway employees across the country are going to be harassed by gamers dying for some early Uncharted 3 multiplayer action.

Also for the uninitiated, “Kitty got wet” was an ad-libbed taunt in Uncharted 2 that Nolan North (the voice actor for Nathan Drake) did during one of his voice sessions. During a Comic-Con panel he told theadorable story of the phrase’s origins.

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Subway Audience

by Derek on July 20th, 2011
Subway Audience

The 4-year-old kid wasn’t actually nagging me about the game I was playing on my phone, but she was alternately interested in playing with her friend (or it could’ve been her sister) and then in random intervals she would very obviously look over to see what I was doing on my phone. To give you an idea, if I had moved my elbow slightly it probably would’ve hit her in the face. After a little bit of this I just put my phone away.

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July 4th 2011

by Derek on July 4th, 2011
July 4th 2011

For some reason my strip for July 4th 2010 has always received a lot of spam comments. Ever since July 4th of this year started approaching I noticed a spike in spam on that particular post. But I don’t think I’ve looked at that comic in a very long time. When I finally did look at it before doing today’s comic I had the reaction in that last panel.

I’ve mentioned before that while I draw I usually find myself making the facial expressions I’m drawing even though I’m not referencing myself when I draw, it’s just a natural sort of reaction. Here I didn’t really know what kind of face I wanted to draw, but ended up getting it on the first try. I know my drawing isn’t sophisticated by any stretch of the imagination, but I was particularly proud of that last panel because I thought it summed up my feeling perfectly.

Yup, it’s a full year and on the same day I’m basically playing the same game. One could argue that it’s because Uncharted is a great game, and another could argue that I’m not doing anything much different from the year before. Only difference is that I’m unemployed right now and trying to better myself as an editor. Currently I’m interested in learning about color correction which is a great skill for video editors and will be good to know in the future either for my own projects or for getting better jobs.

Uncharted 3 still continues to be fun despite having only two maps and a several modes which mostly surround deathmatch. It’s starting to get a little stale and I’m even thinking of revisiting Uncharted 2 so that I can get some more variety. I think it’s time I write up a blog post and also submit my comments to Naughty Dog on their beta forums.

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Duke Nukem For Someone

by Derek on June 15th, 2011
Duke Nukem For Someone

This is a memory I remember very vividly. I had a 14.4k modem when I was 13 and my friend had a 56k modem and I remember when he downloaded the Duke 3D demo and it “only” took him half an hour. I have a vague recollection of what the modem looked like too. Anyway it was super impressive and we played the demo a lot at his house. Not a lot of people owned the full version of many games back then because of all the shareware stuff we’d just play over and over again. Because of that I don’t remember ever seeing much further than the first levels of Duke 3D

The reviews are coming in and people are blasting Duke Nukem Forever because it seems like it’s a game very stuck in the time period it was relevant. I think Serious Sam is the only modern game so far that was able to take an old school game feel and make it relevant today. But if the buzz out there is any indication I’m going to stick with my plan of playing the demo of Duke Nukem Forever and leaving it at that. In a way it’s entirely appropriate since that’s all I really did with the original.

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End Of E3 2011

by Derek on June 10th, 2011
End Of E3 2011

E3 2011 is over, dozens upon dozens of trailers have been downloaded, hours of press conferences have been watched and even more live stream/podcasts have been listened to. After each day I was watching the Giant Bomb livestream/podcast which ran in excess of 4 hours almost every night. Seeing as they didn’t start until 8PM PDT that meant that I was up until around 3AM the past several nights, and they weren’t even done by then. I just had to stop and go to sleep. The only way I justify this is that by so compartmentalizing all this E3 stuff into these few days that leaves me free to do other stuff now that it’s over. And now, sleep time.

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Wii’re On To U

by Derek on June 8th, 2011
Wii’re On To U

Add publicity to the list of jobs I never ever want to be in. On GTTV yesterday, Geoff Keighly interviewed the president of Nintendo Reggie Fils-Aime (aka Reggie Fill-Anime), and he was doing his best to not let him get away with lots of silly publicity talk in order to avoid the questions everyone wants the answers to. Clearly, the Wii is at the end of its life, and there will be a time when Fluffy Kittenz 6 will be all that comes out for the system, but he can’t say that of course because they still want to sell Wiis until the Wii U comes out next year.

Still, it’s funny because provided the interviewer has some basic command of basic logic, they can becomes the worst enemy of the person trying to conceal the truth. This isn’t word for word but it went roughly like this:

“So do you acknowledge that the Wii did not appeal to core gamers?”

“No no no, not at ALL! We sold 80 bajillion Wiis!”

“But you said that the Wii U was designed to expand the audience to include core gamers, doesn’t that mean that they weren’t being targeted for the Wii?”

“Well… no…”

Yeah, it was kind of funny. Regardless though, I’m super duper excited about the Wii U despite its horrible name. More than even when the Wii introduced motion control I see the potential for all sorts of new game mechanics. Also, it shouldn’t be a big deal that HD graphics for first party Nintendo games is a big deal to me, but dammit it’s gonna be so dern pretty when it comes out. Yup, I will buy all the “new” sequels to your franchises ’cause they’re gonna be in pretty 1080p HD. I’m such a sucker.

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E3 2011 Fallout

by Derek on June 7th, 2011
E3 2011 Fallout

I was at my kung fu class during the Sony event at E3 so I managed to very easily miss all the Uncharted 3 footage that people are most likely talking about. All I’ve heard was that it was a highlight of the show, but I’m going to do my best to still avoid as many single player details as much as possible. Going into Uncharted 2 I didn’t know much of anything about the series except that I heard it was good, but I saw lots of cool footage before actually playing it. This time around though, I want to be surprised when the ground falls out from under me or other cool set pieces are happening around me.

That said, I’m going to watch the crap out of any multiplayer stuff that gets shown because I have only so much willpower.

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Geek News Day

by Derek on June 6th, 2011
Geek News Day

Yup, starting around 12:00 pm today I’m probably even more glued to my computer seat than usual because it’s nonstop presentations of new software, games and hardware. Then I freely admit I’ll probably watching Giant Bomb’s livestream of their discussion of the day’s events. What did I do before all this media was available in real time? Probably be productive and just skip to the commentary part.

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End Of The World

by Derek on May 20th, 2011
End Of The World

If there really were such a thing as a definite last day for the world that everyone was 100% sure of, that would be one crazy scheduling nightmare. This is all assuming of course that society was at all functioning instead of people just going absolutely crazy.

Just imagine though, wanting to go to certain restaurants for your last meals and all the others who had the same idea as you. Also you probably would have to prioritize which friends you could see, and hope that they put you into their own plans so that you could kill two birds with one stone.

I wouldn’t really spend it playing video games, but I sure as heck would try my best to meet up with friends at my favorite restaurants and eat some damn fine burgers, sushi, ramen and a nice bagel with lox. I think I can pretty much guarantee that I would do my best to be absolutely stuffed by the end of that day.

So aside from friends and family what would your priorities be for the end of the world?

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