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Oct. 8th, 2007 10:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
croikSo I watched This DMC4 trailer from the TGS 07 show floor and just about peed myself. Whenever there's a new game coming out, I tend to forget about it for weeks at a time, so by the time I'm reminded, something new and awesome has been announced. And TGS never lets me down <3
I want this game so bad ;_;.
I really want it to be fantastic. I almost even went to friend the old DMC comms I used to be in, but then it occured to me why I left them in the first place: I just don't like DMC fandom.
As much as I love DMC, I've never contributed much to the fandom in my usual way, that being fics (just that old "Dante gets raped by tentacle monster :D" one that Falstaff and I did together, and a one shot DMC/Hellboy movie crossover). The fandom was mostly Dante/OFC and Dante/Vergil angst at the time, but for a while I had fun squealing over Dante like every other fangirl.
And then DMC3 came out. I couldn't stand most of the story for 3: Dante had turned from loveable goober to teenaged punk, and Vergil had the personality of cardboard. I'm not a Dante/Vergil fan, but it didn't turn me off until the game established just how horrifically boring Vergil is. And when you're irritated by canon, it's hard to stick around in fandom for long (especially when the one thing everyone loves is the one thing you can't stand). I left the DMC comms not long after finishing DMC3, and I can't say I've missed all those 14 year old OCs trying to get into Dante's pants.
So I dunno. If DMC4 comes out and is great, and I find myself desperate to write some albino slash, maybe I'll take a peek back into fandom and see how it goes. After all, by DMC4 Vergil should already be dead, so maybe having Nero around will change the fandom for the better. Or will it still be full of raging Vergil fans, each writing their own yaoi epic about how him disintegrating into nothing in the first game didn't actually happen, and now Vergil's back to make Dante jealous by raping Nero...!? Or, you know, something like that.
Or, maybe I'll finally get around to writing the DMC/RE4/Metal Gear/Hellboy crossover I've always wanted to do, and not bother communicating with the rest of fandom at all :D
On an unrelated note, I was finally able to rent Lair.
My plan had been to buy it as soon as it was out, but then I heard about the awful reviews it was getting and held back. I haven't decided yet if that was a very fortunate decision. The game is not awful. The controls take a lot of getting used to, it's true. And the story is passable, but not overly exciting. But it is still very satisfying to kill things from the back of a dragon. Dragon Riders are a pretty big thing in fantasy, I guess, and it's kind of nice to see the dragons themselves portrayed as ugly, hulking, happy-to-slaughter-for-their-master brutes, rather than enlightened companions.
Yeah, suck it, Pern, I'm gonna rip the head of this Rhino and throw it at you, ha ha ha!
Except now I've gotten to the battle where I'm trying to protect a group of unarmed peasants as they're attacked by enemy troops, giant rhinos, "War Beasts" with canons on their backs, an elite squad of other dragon riders, and the ENTIRE FUCKING ASYLIAN NAVY. It's not going very well and all of a sudden I hate the game and everything in it, because this mission is fucking impossible. I'M ONLY ONE DRAGON, GUYS, CAN'T FIGHT THE WHOLE WAR ALONE.
Anyway, the controls on the dragon being wonky is a fairly large complaint (especially when you gotta SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE THE CONTROLLER, OMG) but the music is great, the graphics are fabulous, the battles are pretty damn epic... It's pretty cool to watch two full scale armies fighting each other.
So I guess when the dragon is listening to you and things are going well, the game is great. But when your dragon acts up, and the mission is kicking your ass, it starts to suck pretty damn quick.
Also, the game is in desperate need of a map icon in the corner or something, because their little "arrow" doesn't help anyone, ever. Especially when it's pointing in the opposite direction of whatever it is the mission statement wants me to kill. Thanks, stupid arrow.
Lastly, Yuletide signups are open. I almost requested Phoenix Wright, but then I realized I already signed up for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
gyakusai_swap. I almost doubt they're gonna be able to match me with what I ended up requesting XD;;. Oh well, with Yuletide I usually enjoy the writing part more than the receiving anyway.
I want this game so bad ;_;.
I really want it to be fantastic. I almost even went to friend the old DMC comms I used to be in, but then it occured to me why I left them in the first place: I just don't like DMC fandom.
As much as I love DMC, I've never contributed much to the fandom in my usual way, that being fics (just that old "Dante gets raped by tentacle monster :D" one that Falstaff and I did together, and a one shot DMC/Hellboy movie crossover). The fandom was mostly Dante/OFC and Dante/Vergil angst at the time, but for a while I had fun squealing over Dante like every other fangirl.
And then DMC3 came out. I couldn't stand most of the story for 3: Dante had turned from loveable goober to teenaged punk, and Vergil had the personality of cardboard. I'm not a Dante/Vergil fan, but it didn't turn me off until the game established just how horrifically boring Vergil is. And when you're irritated by canon, it's hard to stick around in fandom for long (especially when the one thing everyone loves is the one thing you can't stand). I left the DMC comms not long after finishing DMC3, and I can't say I've missed all those 14 year old OCs trying to get into Dante's pants.
So I dunno. If DMC4 comes out and is great, and I find myself desperate to write some albino slash, maybe I'll take a peek back into fandom and see how it goes. After all, by DMC4 Vergil should already be dead, so maybe having Nero around will change the fandom for the better. Or will it still be full of raging Vergil fans, each writing their own yaoi epic about how him disintegrating into nothing in the first game didn't actually happen, and now Vergil's back to make Dante jealous by raping Nero...!? Or, you know, something like that.
Or, maybe I'll finally get around to writing the DMC/RE4/Metal Gear/Hellboy crossover I've always wanted to do, and not bother communicating with the rest of fandom at all :D
On an unrelated note, I was finally able to rent Lair.
My plan had been to buy it as soon as it was out, but then I heard about the awful reviews it was getting and held back. I haven't decided yet if that was a very fortunate decision. The game is not awful. The controls take a lot of getting used to, it's true. And the story is passable, but not overly exciting. But it is still very satisfying to kill things from the back of a dragon. Dragon Riders are a pretty big thing in fantasy, I guess, and it's kind of nice to see the dragons themselves portrayed as ugly, hulking, happy-to-slaughter-for-their-master brutes, rather than enlightened companions.
Yeah, suck it, Pern, I'm gonna rip the head of this Rhino and throw it at you, ha ha ha!
Except now I've gotten to the battle where I'm trying to protect a group of unarmed peasants as they're attacked by enemy troops, giant rhinos, "War Beasts" with canons on their backs, an elite squad of other dragon riders, and the ENTIRE FUCKING ASYLIAN NAVY. It's not going very well and all of a sudden I hate the game and everything in it, because this mission is fucking impossible. I'M ONLY ONE DRAGON, GUYS, CAN'T FIGHT THE WHOLE WAR ALONE.
Anyway, the controls on the dragon being wonky is a fairly large complaint (especially when you gotta SHAKE, SHAKE, SHAKE THE CONTROLLER, OMG) but the music is great, the graphics are fabulous, the battles are pretty damn epic... It's pretty cool to watch two full scale armies fighting each other.
So I guess when the dragon is listening to you and things are going well, the game is great. But when your dragon acts up, and the mission is kicking your ass, it starts to suck pretty damn quick.
Also, the game is in desperate need of a map icon in the corner or something, because their little "arrow" doesn't help anyone, ever. Especially when it's pointing in the opposite direction of whatever it is the mission statement wants me to kill. Thanks, stupid arrow.
Lastly, Yuletide signups are open. I almost requested Phoenix Wright, but then I realized I already signed up for
gyakusai_swap. I almost doubt they're gonna be able to match me with what I ended up requesting XD;;. Oh well, with Yuletide I usually enjoy the writing part more than the receiving anyway.
