Lack of activity...

[Garnet281]

Hi guys... sorry for the lack of activity (on my part) here, but I've been bogged down with work. I will be starting my 3rd and final gemology class soon. But before I start, I decided to catch up on a hobby I haven't enjoyed for a while due to time & money: renting videogames!!!   Yes sir... the past couple days I have engrossed myself in the world of: Dead Space, Bayonetta, AND I also managed to snag a cheap copy of BioShock 2 ---Awesome...! 

But Anyway -sorry for getting off topic that's what I've been up to...

Now FreakyLinks -wise, I'm kind of blue to see that Chiller did not air FreakyLinks as much this month, as they had in previous months   and I checked Chiller's tv schedule, and I saw the show listed for only 1 day next month.  Geeze, I hope they're not thinking of putting this show back on the shelf...  But, that's all I got for now.... Catch you guys later, hopefully with a more Freaky-Related topic  

[FreakCentral]

Nice choice on the vid games. Don't worry about becoming scarce... we all do it from time to time, and then you'll see the random resurgence among us. As for Chiller, yes it's sad to see FreakyLinks getting less and less airtime. We've noticed this last year as well. They dwindle it a bit. They used to overplay (yes, it is possible to overplay FreakyLinks) it, and then it wasn't on Chiller for near dear a half a year. But then it came back on to steal the attention of the new blue Freakers out there (yourself strongly included). So don't worry FreakyLinks isn't likely to be going anywhere... and if it does, maybe we'll all get back on the "DVD" horse and try to get this thing out there.

[Garnet281]

  sheesh... if they had to pick a show to put back on the shelf, why couldn't it be: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ?    That show makes me want to catch some zzzzz's

[Garnet281]

I'm trying out Alien VS. Predator  ech! It's okay... I wouldn't spend $30 to $60 bucks for it, but at least you get to play as the ALIEN and the Predator.   

 I'll be perfectly honest with you guys... I've never liked the Predator! I always thought he was nothing but a great big cheat! Hunting and killing humans with fancy gadgets and cloaking devices...  "Oh wow, so amazing..." But anyway, it's not a bad game... it's playable 

[Dib]

It's just supposed to be a comparison to us hunting animals with camo gear, tree stands, bait and calls, and fancy rifles and such.  If it were even, bear hunters would go hunting with nothing but their bare hands.

...totally resisted a bad pun there.

[FreakCentral]

Unlike our good friend, Mr. Dib, I did not resist.

[Garnet281]

LoL I tried playing one of those Big Game Hunter games for the PS2, and I was a little disappointed 

I didn't like the fact that you had to get a license before you started hunting animals... That's STUPID!!! A person can do all that stuff in REAL LIFE! I play games to be entertained... nonsense! :-) lol

[Shadow]

You want to hunt? Red Dead Redemption is the game for you. That's been my time sponge this summer. Words fail me at what a FANTASTIC story and game that was. It was a privilege to live that game/movie.

~Shadow

[FreakCentral]

Shadow, do you have Xbox or PS3?

[Shadow]

Shadow, do you have Xbox or PS3?

PS3. There are times I wish I had a 360 as well. The new "sexy" model is tempting. It's stuff like the first Call of Juarez, Left 4 Dead, Dead Rising, and Alan Wake that tempt me.

Presently I'm catching up on my Silent Hills with Homecoming. Silent Hill Shattered Memories was fun in a one off kind of way but I wouldn't want to see the franchise go in that direction.

~Shadow

[Garnet281]

@ Shadow: Red Dead Redemption is the most AWESOME GAME EVER!!!!  I just acquired the knife-throwing ability in Mexico, but I had to put this game on the back burner, so I could hurry up and solve Fall Out 3 before the new one comes out.

As for the Silent Hill franchise, I'm really disappointed with the direction it's gone. Granted I haven't played Shattered Memories yet, but I've heard a lot of bad things about it from some other die-hard fans. Until I get a chance to play this game, Silent Hill: ORIGINS will stand as the last best game for this series, in my opinion. I found Homecoming both frustrating, and incredibly depressing (and that's saying ALOT, considering the nature of this series). But I loved the graphics, and of course, I was happy to see my boy: Pyramid Head

[Shadow]

As for the Silent Hill franchise, I'm really disappointed with the direction it's gone. Granted I haven't played Shattered Memories yet, but I've heard a lot of bad things about it from some other die-hard fans. Until I get a chance to play this game, Silent Hill: ORIGINS will stand as the last best game for this series, in my opinion.

Well, Garnet, I finished Silent Hill Homecoming a few days back and I've got to agree, it is disappointing. Too much trying to tie-in with the movie, too many random "normal" people, not enough town of Silent Hill proper.

The story did zig and zag on me a little, which was a good thing. First I thought the father was a bastard, then I thought I was wrong, then nope, he was a bastard. There were sub-stories and moments that I'd have liked to have seen expanded on, such as the notes about the cheating wife in the hotel and the fantastic woman behind the jagged broken door there. The unseen person behind the door had shades of Born From a Wish sub-game, my absolute favorite tragic Silent Hill story.

I found Homecoming both frustrating, and incredibly depressing (and that's saying ALOT, considering the nature of this series). But I loved the graphics, and of course, I was happy to see my boy: Pyramid Head

There's also this migration away from the "rules" of how Silent Hill works. Now it was great to see Pyramid Head again but Silent Hill is each main character's personal hell. That's why games 1-4 and Origins had no real repeat monsters. Even the nurses varied. The problem is they made too iconic of a character with him. Even "The Butcher" in Origins was merely a knock off or early version. Sadly, I didn't feel anywhere near as threated by Pyramid Head in Homecoming as I did in 2. Remember getting trapped in the stairwell with him?   

I honestly don't know where to rate Silent Hill Homecoming next to Shattered Memories. Both are---- disappointing. If neither had that same great Silent Hill music and soundtrack, one of the saving graces for the movie, I really don't know if I'd have gotten the entertainment I did out of them. I honestly can't say how I feel either about them compared to similar type games like Clock Tower 3, Haunting Ground, Siren, Obscure 1 & 2 and the Fatal Frame trilogy.

I did like the combat system in Homecoming, once I got used to it--- near the end of the game. I liked the way the game played your decisions in Shattered Memories and modified the game to suit those answers. I never really felt the profound sadness of each character's story though like the earlier games.

How is Fallout 3 going with you or have you moved on to another game?

Next up for me is this!!!  I wasn't even aware that it was in the works until I went searching for news of future downloads. The Wild West and Zombies---- I'm there!

~Shadow

[Garnet281]

@ Shadow: I beat Fall Out 3, but I kind of got bored in the middle of the: Broken Steel download... I just hurried up and beat the main game, so I could play: Fall Out New New Vegas...

My current muse, right now, is: BioShock 2..  I'm at Fountaine Industries, right now, racing madly to rescue poor Eleanor from the clutches of that sick twisted witch: Sophia Lamb! GOD I LOVE THIS GAME! MUSIC AND ALL!!!! I'm trying to hurry up and solve it before NEW VEGAS comes out... But I really do Love this game. I'm DEFINITELY reserving a copy of BioShock: Infinite.

OH! Shadow did you know? Apparantly Konami's making ANOTHER SILENT HILL game?     All I can say is: "seriously...?"

They should have quit while they were ahead... Origins was DEFINITELY the last best Silent Hill game. Even though you and I BOTH know Pyramid Head could easily wipe the floor with The Butcher 

Oh and that bath tub ending in Homecoming... I felt so sad and frightened for poor Alex 

[Garnet281]

  OH...MY...GOD...!!! Sophia Lamb did NOT just do that to her daughter!!!! I was playing BioShock2   last night and I Finally reached Eleanor, my "little sister" only to watch  my nemesis, Sophia, smother her with a pillow!!!  This game is just nuts! I ended up playing until 2a.m. I'm going to pick it up again after mum's done watching the sports highlights. I helped Eleanor build a Big Sister suit and now she and I are going to find a way out of Rapture....

  LOL i'm sorry guys... I know this isn't FreakyLinks related, but I couldn't help myself. I love both videogames and FreakyLinks with a passion. So I thank you all for humoring me in this thread. You guys are wonderful     

[MondoStrange]

Keep it coming, keeps the freakiness alive!

[Garnet281]

  Okay... since my last post in this thread, I beat BioShock2 in under an hour, but I'll have to play it over again eventually, because I got the bad ambiguous ending (all because I harvested JUST ONE little sister )...

Monday around midnight, I attended the Midnight release of Fall Out New Vegas, where I got my hands on an excellent limited edition pack, including: the game, a dvd-documentary, a "platinum" poker chip, normal poker chips, Fall Out caravan cards, AND a graphic novel!!!

This game is out of this world! My character's name is GARNET (of course), and I designed her to look like the actress Kim Novak from the movie: Vertigo. I'm exploring the Nevada wasteland as we speak LoL...

[Dib]

I can dig it.  All I have is a PS2 because I'm too cheap to buy a 360...  normally I'd say I'm a gamer, but these days I just can't compare with most guys these days.  I generally sit down to an hour of Halo on my PC (played Halo 2 all through college on an old XBox I don't have anymore, but I got the first one free for my PC, so what the hell) or lately I've been spending time on Lord of the Rings Online since it went free to play.  Though I think I'm pretty much up to the point where I can't go any further without dropping some money.  It's a great game, I'm just not sure if I want to get into the habit of buying my way through the rest of the game.

In terms of Silent Hill, I played through... 4, I think?  The one where there are two buildings right next to one another that are identical except one is hellish and the other is normal.  I own Silent Hill 2, but I just really, really hate the camera angle thing.  Can't get past it.

[Garnet281]

  Don't feel bad Dib re: being too cheap to buy a new system. Honestly, if I had NOT gotten my xbox360 for Christmas, I would probably not own one, OR (at the very least) i would STILL be saving up for one as we speak...this is a hard time to be a gamer... I actually reserved my copy of FallOut [and made small payments on it] over a 3 month period.

Silent Hill 4 was okay.. (that's the one where the guy was trapped inside his apartment, right?)

...and it's too bad you're bothered by the camera angles in Silent Hill 2. I guess I loved the game and the story so much, that I didn't pay much attention to the camera angles. Silent Hill 2 is THE BEST in the series After SH 1 of course   and SH 3 was excellent too... It had a lot of good "Extras" once you solved the game...