Crysis woes/ VGA trailers/ Go 2010 gaming!
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Concerning Crysis
Today Crysis simply decided to stop working. I don't know why. After messing around with it for a few hours, trying every troubleshooting method in the book, I by chance found a solution buried deep in a web-forum. There seems to be a bunch of people having the same problem, the game simply goes to a black screen without bothering to load. There's no real indication to what causes this to happen at all, but the solution I found was deleting my profiles folder, specifically the folder named "Default". (Another is made in it's place when it starts working again.)
Again, really no idea why it simply decided no to load. Why a profile folder can make a game stop working is beyond my comprehension, let alone at random.
Funny thing: I finally got my free upgrade to Windows 7.
The problem actually started while using Vista, and continued to persist while I ran 7. Everyone online who seems to share this similar problem point at either it being a 64-bit issue (I don't think the Steam version runs at 64bit) or a Windows 7 issue. Both seem wrong.
I also got Crysis WarHead sitting around on my desktop, running that makes a dialog box wanting to download and install some Visual Studio 2005 redistributable program, which is all fine and dandy, but why it keeps trying to install it onto my fucking CD/DVD Drive instead of my C Drive (No option to change?) is about as confusing as it gets.
The hell have you been?!
My gaming has been quite....spastic as of late. I finished up Tales of Monkey Island the other day (RECOMMEND) and I've been contemplating writing a review. Crysis is almost done, I'm no where near anything resembling an ending in the Witcher. Stalker has sadly been put on hold, but I most certainly will revisit it in the future: Mark my words. Christmas is coming, which means I'll finally have the opportunity of diving into Assassins Creed 2. I'm really interested in playing that, as I hated the original and it seems like every aspect of that sequel was made to address the first games numerous faults. Dragon Age will also be played.
While I've practically played most of Modern Warfare 2 at a friends house, I'll finally have my own copy of that as well.
ONWARD INTO THE FUTURE!
I hated just about every VGA trailer that was posted a few days ago.
Even Arkham Asylum 2 with it's interesting hints strewn about all over the place had reused art assets abound. The Halo trailer was quite possibly the weakest Halo trailer I've seen Bungie produce. Don't get me wrong: I am most certainly a Halo/Bungie fan-boy. I've read most of the books, and my legendary edition helmet of Halo 3 is signed by Bungie developers I cornered during the midnight-launch. (I can prove and show this off with pics if anyone cares) It's great to see that Halo: Reach will be running on a new engine, but that's a given. People now have natural faces and things look detailed, in other words:
Modern game looks like modern game.
Congrats? Underwhelming compared to past trailers. From a narrative perspective, they could have done/showed so much more in regards to the source material. I hope The Spartans are not portrayed as stereotypical character archetypes like ODST. Anyone who has read the books know that the Spartans don't have time cracking jokes. They are all business, which is what makes them interesting because at the same time the carry subtle idiosyncrasies.
The new Prince of Persia trailer is one of the worst trailer I have seen in years.
Usually when a game relies entirely on CG for it's trailer it can go both ways, but the new Prince of Persia has the audacity of not only not showing you anything but being completely interchangeable with every entry in The Sands Of Time Trilogy. Even the first.
Technically this should make sense, given the fact that it takes place during the Sands trilogy. But the lack of any, and I do mean ANY other viable visual of even spoken difference with the rest of the three fucking games. Seriously, take off that stupid subtitle and the end and add either Sands of Time/Warrior Within/Two Thrones, and voila: You have a trailer for said games.
Also: What the hell?! Why are we dropping what was critically acclaimed and commercially successful last year? Anyone? Why the hell does the story between The Sands of Time and Warrior Within need to be told? Why focus on the story that brought us to the least interesting entry in the Sands of Time trilogy? The Sands of Time trilogy ended just fine thank you very much.
Of course everyone is pointing to the new movie being the culprit and change of perspective. Awesome-sauce.
2010
I'm looking toward 2010. Final Fantasy XIII has me strangely pumped, as well as Mass Effect 2 and just about every big profile game pushed back for next year. I'm excited no less. Red Dead Revolver probably has the most effective trailer I've seen in years, my interest changed within a few minutes of watching it.
Anyway, that's it. Nothing else to see here.
Wonder what my next Brain Dump/Public Blog be? I've been think of doing something about the end of the year.