The Horror

Starting the first of October it will be "Horror Month," soon to be Halloween the most spookiest day of the year. I thought it would be great to have a video game horror theme everything from what makes a good horror, different types of horror and so forth.

On October 31st, I will hopefully have completed a game that I set out to conquer. I decided to make the game Cold Fear, the first horror game I was actually looking forward to playing when I first saw trailers of it. I never managed to defeat it, due to not being good at Third-Person shooters at the time. Hopefully this year I will complete it.

Gamers Block

After playing Bullet Witch, I decided to take a small break from gaming. I want to catch up on my reading and other various activities. Including working on my very neglected LiveJournal that my friend has been pestering me about.

Gamer At Heart: 1 Year Later

It's already been a year since I made this blog, of coarse I kept changing the name of it because nothing really satisfied me. Hopefully I will keep Caffeine Addicted Gamer. It is not only the year since I created my blog. But with a lot of pinching and fast postings, I managed to make this post my 100th post.

It all started a year ago when a personal blog of mine accidentally got deleted when I was trying to save the settings. I was thinking about abandoning Blogger because of this, but due to hard times that were happening in my personal life. I decided to make another blog dedicated to mostly my interest, video games to help me keep my mind off certain things. I didn't know how long this blog would last and it wasn't till recently that I started taking it more seriously and gave it a new remodeled layout.

One of my favorite blogs out there that inspired me to do my own blog is American McGee's blog. I think he is an really intelligent person with his observation and strong feelings from stories, folklore, and video games.
I also like Girls Don't Game mostly for their articles I can relate to. They talk about games in old and new, which I wish more blogs would be like. Because reviewing new released games are over rated.

I also find videos from The Angry Video Game Nerd to be some of the best. But in all comparisons, I would have to say I like That Guy With The Glasses a.k.a. Nostalgia Critic. Mostly because I too dwell in the past, missing the good old days of movies and games.
My favorite Nostalgia Critic episodes are The Wizard, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie, The Top 11 Naughtiest Moments in Animaniacs, and Captain Planet.

Why do I play video games? I've been playing games back since I can remember, earliest game that I loved and still do is Mario Bros. 3. Back then I was nothing more then a casual gamer, and due to past events it eventually led up to what I am right now. I don't know where I am, I'm not hardcore but I'm not casual either.

I also have a special thanks going to Peter Chen, his blog helped so much with my own.

EDF! EDF! EDF!

Just defeated one of the most difficult games I have played in a long time, The Earth Defense Force 2017. It's a long running series in Japan that started on the Super Nintendo, and has build up into multiple games. Unfortunately most of the games never came to North America, but one of them The Earth Defense Force 2 was released in Europe for the Playstation 2.

What I played seemed to be a simple third-person shooter, with hardly storyline except that giant bugs and robots have attacked the world. The nameless hero who is part of the E.D.F. (Earth Defense Force) is stationed in Japan, among a lot of very weird comrades. These guys get hyped over everything, and some of their conversations and out bursts of speeches are all laughable. With that I post some of my favorites:

"Those damn aliens making holes in my backyard!"

"Tiny is dead!"
(That one was yelled a lot, how many Tinys are there?)

"I feel like a mole or something."

"I can kill these things with my eyes closed!"
(Maybe you should open them so you can stop shooting at me!)

"Fight with honor and don't die, got it!?"
Everyone: "Sir, yes sir!"

And of coarse the well known war cry of all: "EDF, EDF, EDF!"

The graphics are probably one of the best things about the game, colourful with good graphic buildings and houses. The spiders look grossly real, and the robots are very shiny and bright.

Without mentioning the difficulty part of the game, the only thing I have issues with is the vehicles section, mostly with the helicopters. I know that helicopters are probably very hard to learn and steer in real life, but why make it that realistic in the game? A lot of the missions that I done probably would have been a lot easier if the helicopter was used. But steering and moving the damn thing is a new difficulty itself, let alone trying to attack something.

The only thing I wish they would explain was who was attacking? Who was the mastermind behind this attack? Was it the ants, robots, spiders, or the Godzilla ripoff?

Other then that this game is pretty fun in a love to hate sort of way, as long as you are not looking for something with an in depth storyline. Earth Defense Force is one of those games that are fun to play till your hair is pulled out from the frustration. I just wish that I had a Player 2, unfortunately I played solo. Congrats to anyone who actually played the game with the difficultly Inferno.

Siren, Forever And Eternity

Spoilers

Siren: Curse Blood is a game that is as confusing as the first one. If you don't find all the archives, it becomes very hard to understand the game itself. After reading a forum about the game, I manage to understand the timeline and story of the it.

Despite it being a good game, it is one I am unable to even think about writing something of my own. That's why I applaud Siren-Hill for being able to tell and reveal certain misunderstandings and confusion in detail.

Here's basically the gist of of it:

-Everyone goes to Japan
-Sam stumbles on ritual
-Sirens start to roar
-Everyone is stuck in a time loop
-If Bella and Howard die the time loop restarts
-Bellas mom dies
-Sam discovers the secret of the town
-The Dr. finds a ancient artifact thingy to fight the god
-Amana preforms the ritual and kills Miyako
-Howard fights the god
-Bella, Sam, and the god get sent to different time periods
-Bella eats the dead god, and is cursed with immortality
-Sam being a selfish asshole, waits to send Howard a letter telling him to go to the town so Howard can kill the god again and again and again so Bella can live forever
-With that everyone are forever in a time loop that will never cease all because of Sam

Ending video

Review

My Supernatural Game

I am probably one of the biggest fans of Supernatural. I have all their magazines, comics, DVD's, and I am even planning on ordering from the magazines T-shirts, posters, and novels of Supernatural.

What is Supernatural?
It's a television series, that is launching it's forth season today. It's about two brothers Sam and Dean who set off hunting anything paranormal. It's a mixture between X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, and here's why. The first half an hour or so it's investigations, the duo investigates what they are hunting, they look for clues and hints to find out what they are dealing with. The last half an hour they do some ass kicking, as they hunt down and kill whatever is plaguing the world, whether it's a vampire, demons, ghosts, or something else.

Then there is the folklore involved, and unlike Buffy which has folklore on common monsters such as vampires, werewolves, and demons. Supernatural has some monsters that are forgotten legends, myths, gods, or folklore, that not many people heard of, such as one of my favorite a Tulpa. I was really excited as they hunted down something I thought not many people knew about.

With all this hype that is shown towards this show, especially at Comic-Con, why not make a game out of it?

After all there is tons of games about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and some about X-Files like my favorite "Resist or Serve." It has the styles of Resident Evil and Silent Hill, but also has it's own uniqueness as well. Or do something like they did with 24 The Game, where the story timeline takes place between season 2 and 3.

So why not make a Supernatural game with the same concept as a third-person shooter, having to investigate certain areas. Have driving playthroughs with Deans car, and some classic 80's music to go with it? It can be a horror game starting off with small things like a house filled with ghosts, and work the way up to a fight with a demon or some sort of god. Then to make the fans scream have all the actors lend their voices to the game. I am sure anyone who is or isn't fan of Supernatural will buy a game like that. I am not the only person who feels like this either with these links of forums.

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Hopefully sometime in the future it will be.