{"id":1023,"date":"2005-02-09T21:06:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T02:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1023"},"modified":"2011-10-28T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:49:28","slug":"much-apost-about-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1023","title":{"rendered":"Much apost about nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve got nothing to do at the moment, and I really don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m posting. I&#8217;ve got nothing overly important to say, and I&#8217;ve no new junk to review. I could review old junk, but bah to that. Too much work. Oh, I did the coolest thing at work yesterday, and I&#8217;ll tell you more of it as soon as I can recapture the magic in picture form. While I&#8217;m on the topic of work, I&#8217;ve been applying for jobs at other places, so if I&#8217;m lucky, I won&#8217;t be working at Timmy&#8217;s much longer (&#8220;Roll up the Rim&#8221; season is just around the corner).<\/p>\n<p>I guess it there&#8217;s anything to talk about, it&#8217;s Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. I rented it, and wasn&#8217;t overly impressed. The dudes at Penny Arcade whined about how Prince is no longer the great charcter he once was, and I was surprised that they do actually explain the reasons for change in the manual. Nevertheless, his new persona is much less likeable than before. -2 points. The game is now more heavily based on fighting, and it&#8217;s damn hard too. It was nice and simple in The Sands of Time, and while the new system is nice, I wish it were more centered around the swinging and jumping stuff. -1 point. The bosses I&#8217;ve faced so far have been really dull block-fests. It&#8217;s just block, block, block, and hope maybe there&#8217;s an opening here or there. -3 points. The soundtrack is all hard rock\/metal, and while I like it, it doesn&#8217;t go from the arabic ambiance to battle rock. It&#8217;s just always shoveling metal into your ears. -1 point. The nice thing is that there are plenty of secrets to be found, and some hilarious secondary weapons, like a hockey stick and a plastic flamingo. +2 points. I can&#8217;t be certain, but I think the graphics actually got worse&#8230; No points awarded\/lost. Overall, it&#8217;s a solid game, but you&#8217;ll probably want to go with The Sands of Time if you&#8217;re only gonna get one. At least the story is pretty cool and fits in well with that of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and I finished Resident Evil 4 a while ago. Twice, in fact. And pretty far in my third game. The final chapters are very Resident Evil, contrary to some people&#8217;s complaints about the game. You know who you are. Not to mention it implies (as explicitly as possible) that RE5 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">will<\/span> be along eventually. And the credits scene is really cinematic. When it was over, I got up and for a moment, thought I was leaving a movie theater. The unlockable bonuses are awesome. The mini-game Assignment Ada is cool, though a bit too easy. The Mercenaries, however, provides a great challenge and the opportunity to play as several different chracters, including the mysterious HUNK and long-time villain Albert Wesker. It&#8217;s all great fun and adds much to the replay value of the game, which is already unfathomably high.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty good for a post that wasn&#8217;t premeditated at all. I guess the next time I&#8217;mma gonna post will be around the 15th or so, when I pick up the new Wario Ware game and possibly StarFox: Assault. Until then, here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/pixelated.sytes.net\/vgm\/starfox%20assault\/\" target=\"_blank\">SF:Assault soundtrack<\/a>, in download form!<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM- Oh yes, I forgot to tell youse (though some may already know) that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moa-online.com\/forums\/index.php?\">Mists of Avalon Online forum<\/a> is now all prettied up. It&#8217;s got a starry background. &#8230;Yeesh. I usually don&#8217;t promote other people&#8217;s stuff so often&#8230; (at least not those who don&#8217;t have a widely known web presence)<\/p>\n<p>And I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torrentialequilibrium.net\/misc\/stew.swf\">this thing<\/a> out on the net and was sufficiently charmed by it, and couldn&#8217;t resist putting it on my own site. Don&#8217;t act like you aren&#8217;t charmed by it too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;ve got nothing to do at the moment, and I really don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m posting. I&#8217;ve got nothing overly important to say, and I&#8217;ve no new junk to review. I could review old junk, but bah to that. Too much work. Oh, I did the coolest thing at work yesterday, and I&#8217;ll tell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=1023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Much apost about nothing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-video-games","category-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}