9/19 - Okami - PS2

[Rasix]

This game is art.  Loving every minute of it.

[schild]

Yea, I just started the other night. Would've written something about it, but A. Not Far Enough, B. Going to San Diego for 3 days. Bleh. Jew stuff.

[Yegolev]

Almost bought it last night.  Decided to pass and buy out the Atlus online store instead.  It's on the list, though.

[Engels]

B. Going to San Diego for 3 days. Bleh. Jew stuff.

I know you're probably just going to see relatives and do something at their temple, but I had this funny image from the lost book of Josiah, wherein the chosen people must journey to California in penitence for too much PS2 playing.

[Miasma]

B. Going to San Diego for 3 days. Bleh. Jew stuff.

I know you're probably just going to see relatives and do something at their temple, but I had this funny image from the lost book of Josiah, wherein the chosen people must journey to California in penitence for too much PS2 playing.

5766 really sucked, I hope 5767 is better.  Their new year starts on the first day of Ramadan this year, I am convinced this is a good omen and will herald a new era of peace in the middle east.  Maybe not.

[Signe]

Oh, he's probably going there so some Jewish great anutie is cooking something really yummy and old Uncle Moshe slips all the kids a $50 bill several times a day. 

[Rasix]

8 hours in and just finished the first major dungeon.  I love this game.  No PS2 owner should be without it.  I keep wondering how cool this game might be to play with a Wii-mote.

[Khaldun]

Easily one of the most beautiful games I've played, console or computer.

It makes me feel very acutely how unfortunate it is that most games more or less have a similar visual aesthetic--this shows how wide the range of visual variation *could* be.

The only problem I have with it so far is that the concept of the game sometimes invites spending a lot of time, in the early going, trying to solve puzzles by painting things where the game really doesn't mean you to paint things. In the cave in Hana Valley, I just spend about twenty minutes trying to paint that round thing on the altar before I decided that wasn't what I was meant to do. Then I slashed the wooden gate open, and there we go.

But still: an amazing piece of work.

[Fabricated]

A friend of mine picked up the game when we went and got something to eat a couple days ago. I watched him play it and after getting used to the astoundingly irritating jibberjabber I came to the conclusion it was a really cool game. My friend has almost called in sick to work so he could keep playing, he can't put it down.

[Rasix]

Yah, the phonetic garble that passes for speaking is annoying for about the first 5-10 minutes you hear it. Then you hardly recognize it at all and then you start to appreciate the nuances between the different characters speaking styles.

At least it's not Sims-Speak.  After about the fiftieth "mishuno!" you start walling people in rooms and letting them starve.

[Khaldun]

The jibber-jabber sounds to me very much like Animal Crossing, actually. Which is less annoying than Simglish, but is still a bit grating.

[schild]

The jibber jabber sounded like a speeded up version of Shadow of the Collosus-speak to me. Heh.

[Signe]

This was one of the games I bought the other day.  I haven't started it yet.  I seem to be playing a game where Goofy is in my group and it's really pissing me off.  Someone at the game shop told me it was free roaming and that's a lie.  It's linear as hell.  I was looking for something more like Dragon Quest VIII.  Anyway, I'm glad to hear Okami isn't a furry game.  I was a wee bit worried.  Anyone know if Valkyrie Profile 2 is free roaming?

[schild]

Valkyrie Profile 1 was...kinda. Don't know if VP2 is. Will know by tomorrow night. If you have a 360, Just Cause is some crazy free-roaming shit that no one seems to like.

But I like it.

[Signe]

Let me know about the Valkyrie one.  I guess the next FF is right around the corner.  I didn't play more than a few hours of the last one before my nephew nicked it.  I kind of got tired of them all.  They're better when they use the more realistic characters.  I can't stand the way the cartoony ones stand idle.  They look like someone who has that disease that makes you bob around inanely.  I don't mind people with the illness but I can't stand the cartoons mocking it. 

Ok... I don't know what the hell I'm talking about again.  Sorry.   

[Signe]

I picked up the Valkyrie one but haven't started it.  I got hooked on Okami.  What a fun game!

[voodoolily]

Okami is the shizzle. Love it. I especially like feeding all the wee animals.

[Hokers]

Awsome game, proves that more polygons != better graphics.  This game is almost as visually stunning as Oblivion and in such a different way.

[Nija]

I'm all for bombing Japan again if it'll stop them from making games that require you to hit a single button for 20 fucking minutes before you can actually play it.

HELLO I WANT TO TRY OUT THE GAME THANKS ASSHOLES.

Art? I'd like to hit you over the head with Art, Rasix.

[Rasix]

Ohh, did I fail to mention the intro is really long and tedius? 

And honestly, the game is too long. I haven't said this in a while about a game I've enjoyed this much but Okami is just too goddamned long.

It's still pretty, no?

[schild]

Clover does not make short games.

[voodoolily]

And any more, Clover does not make any games.

[schild]

Clover will be resurrected as something else within 4 months.

[Yegolev]

Crover?

[stray]

The furries really know how to ruin a good thing. 

From DeviantArt:

[schild]

Jesus. Christ.

[NiX]

Can I ask how you found that in the first place?

[stray]

I was looking for a better avatar than this:



Since I can't get it to work right on a black background, I Googled for Okami images....Only to find furries. After seeing the furries, it killed my desire to even use the avatar above. :(

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[NiX]

I'll believe you.. for now.