Tuesday, August 19, 2008
It's been a while since i posted last. Many things have happened, most minor some major. Root cause is still under investigation, Public Safety and Security Section is not involved, I think. I shall try to list some of the oddness.
1. EA (motto: we make shitty games on yearly bases and never support them properly) has released some info on some very interesting games they have their minion studios working on. Mirror's Edge and Dead Space frankly look quite good, and that is very scary to me. For some reason I fully expect EA's crack team of management experts to somehow ruin what could be fun games, because they most likely won't sell well. These two aren't coming out for quite some time, so there is plenty of time for both the studio making them and EA themselves to screw it up. And if they somehow not manage to screw it up, I might have to change my opinions about EA's capacity to make games in general.
2. Mass Effect, rpg that I almost bought Xbox 360 for, but then remebered Jade Empire on Xbox, and how quickly that got ported over to PC. Looks like it was good decision to wait for PC version. As from most account PC version is much better than Xbox version. I finished it, and I must say, while it is a fantastic RPG (compared to current crop). It sort of fails when compared against Bioware's previous rpgs. Kinda saddening, I think I enjoy Jade Empire a lot more than I did Mass Effect. Not to say I didn't like Mass Effect, if they make Mass Effect 2, I'd buy it without bothering with reviews. Just when you play the game, you know, despite taking their sweet time on the port, there are many aspect of it that just aren't suited to Keyboard and Mouse control scheme.
3. Played demo for "Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI", kinda puzzled by it. Normally I don't go for Koei games, learned my lesson with Dynasty Warriors. But this one is odd, kinda like 4x but with unique Duel and Battle systems, that I think would be great in small enough dosage. Guess I'll take a wait and seen approach with that one.
4. Apart from RotTK11, there aren't any games coming out this year that interest me. On any platform, which is kinda distrubing, and sad. I hope there are some gems hiding somewhere. This Valkyria Chronicles looks interesting, purely from Artistic style prespective, guess I'll keep my eye on that one, although it is for PS3 (don't own it), so that could be an issue. Has no Money Tree.
5. They finally released specs for OpenGL 3.0, what a disappointment. And to think I was holding out on using DirectX 9/10 for that. Bah, I am now in process of relearning DirectX, so I can convert my projects to use it instead of OGL. And hopefully in the process of learning I can get some thing entertaining going. I'll try to post progress updates on that front as they happen.
6. Just got the results back from the Finals I gave earlier this month. CSE2001 (Theory of Computation) was the exam I was sure I failed, but somehow managed to get C+. Which prolly means that Data Structures class which I thought I did ok on, isn't going to meet my expectations. I wish York U, would give results faster, currently it takes them 2 months AFTER examination to post final results. That means its well into next semester, idiotic.
Well that's about it. In retrospect there is nothing about about these events at all. Seems to be very normal.
