CLiX Games

     So today, I was super excited about the Resident Evil 5 demo so I hoped on my XBOX and looked through demos to download it, cause I love RE.  Anyway after a few short seconds I realized that today was not the day that the demo came out.  While I was looking I did see the F.E.A.R 2 demo.  And I, having nothing too much better to do at the time, decided to download the F.E.A.R demo.  

     Now, I have had very little experience in the realm of Horror.  I don’t like watching scary movies, and the only scary video games I’ve played are Resident Evil 4 and Shaq Fu.  The latter which actually still haunts my dreams.  But anyway I decided I wanted to try out F.E.A.R.  The demo started off like any other FPS does, except it seemed a little more like I was on acid.  So I jumped down this hole in the ground, because I had to NOT cause I wanted to, and plowed through some guys in a dimly lit room.  Actually I had taken more damage then intended to so my health bar seemed to be screaming at me.  After being alerted to my health situation, I was much more cautious when rounding corners and such.  Then I came to what seemed was a school corridor. It wasn’t creepy at all until the room started moving and all the lights were flashing.  Then there was this image of a little girl just walking down the hall.  As I mentioned me and horror aren’t usually tight, so this mildly upset me.  Oh, and then something happened like I found some guy that I didn’t even know I was looking for and all of sudden something completely destroyed him, I mean there was parts of him and blood everywhere.  Conveniently shortly after this I received an important phone call that I had to take, so I shut down my console.  

     Some people claim that games like this doesn’t scare them, well good for those people.  Actually, No not good for them.  The point of the game is being scared.  So if you’re not going to be scared of it, then thats a crying shame.   I can’t say that I will be going back to that game anytime soon, but its good to know that its still there if I want to be terrified again anytime soon.  

This image is here to objectify my F.E.A.R.

     Well Happy New Year!  I hope you’re having a good year so far.  Its almost 2 whole weeks into the New Year and things are going fine on this end.  

     So this post is about the unfortunate demise of Bob’s Game.  I really was looking forward to this game, its sad to see a grown man give up on his dreams.  Personally I think its a terrible example to set to the younger generations, not committing to his word like that.  The deal was a peaceful 100 day sit down where he was locked in his room.  Now don’t get me wrong, I can understand how frustrating it must have been being in the same room.  But when he quit on day 30 he played a joke apparently by faking his own death.  Thats bad taste.  On top of that he blames (well he claims that he doesn’t blame) Nintendo for not hearing him.  He claims they are teaching children under false pretense.  If you’re a parent and you’re teaching your children through video games, you’re more messed up then Bob.  Now, maybe Bob was just going insane, he was in a room for 30 days, but not only did he disappoint me, he crushed me.  I checked his site daily.  Watched him for a couple of seconds and then moved on with my day.  It was a cool feeling knowing someone was out there fighting for his creation, something that he had put years of time into creating.  If he had gone through with it and failed I would be soo much more at ease.  But he weaseled out of it.  Maybe I’m being hard on him.  Maybe he really is insane.  Maybe I’m right.  Maybe Bob’s game was good, but if this is really how Bob is, it doesn’t have the heart that all the games created by Miyamoto, Itoi, Kojima, Carmack, and Wright had, thats the key here, heart.  Maybe its not good enough to make a video game, maybe the video game makes you…