The Blackangel

God, I hope they don't try to bring back Guitar Hero. It's a love/hate relationship with that game. It was one of those games that was so stupid and horrible that it was good. Corny as hell. I'm chuckling right now as I'm writing this. I got sucked into it. I haven't played it in more than a decade, and honestly don't even know where it or either of my Wii's are. I made it to one part that I just couldn't beat. I think it was a character challenge against a character named Lex. I'm not sure, but I couldn't outplay him. This was on Guitar Hero 3, if I remember correctly.

I spent 4 years in a shooting gallery. I did everything I could get my hands on. Blow, angel dust, rock, tar, grass, molly, acid, caps, and nutmeg when money was tight. I have even ground up aspirin to do a couple lines of it. If someone was to pass me something I wasn't familiar with, or was too strung out to recognize, I only had 2 questions. How do I take it? How long until it kicks in? I watched a guy I knew die. He was standing up in front of me talking, got a weird look on his face, and was dead before he hit the floor. I have seen people killed over a gram of blow. If I was running an eSports team or league, I would make drug tests mandatory. The only exception would be medical marijuana. I have a card for that, and use it for pain and anxiety. But it's rare that I go for that. Drugs are not something to fuck with. That's 4 years I don't remember and can never get back. I have flashbacks, and they're not pretty. YOU DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SHIT.

I thought about Pitfall too. But there have been several different Pitfall games made over the years that could be in the running for that one.

There's a better one than this one, but I can't find a clip of it. And there's just one line in this one near the beginning that's comical.

If their library wasn't 99% war games I could pick one. Every fucking thing they make is CoD. They have an extremely minuscule amount of games that aren't CoD, most of which have been abandoned for a very long time. An entire company focusing on ONE game? Pathetic.

My girl has one. It's a Joust cabinet. I've been working on it to get it running for a while, but it's starting to look like an issue with the motherboard, or a processor. i've fixed wiring issues, and replaced capacitors and fuses, but it still won't run. If anyone is curious, I have training in electronics.

I'm extremely near sighted. Anything more than 2' away is a complete blur if I don't have my glasses on. One of the major problems in RDR2 first person, is the movement. Making Arthur turn, can be a challenge because he wants to walk sideways a lot instead. Think original Doom movement. Yes, you can get a front row view of something so close you're scraping your nose, but at the same time, you're not seeing the area around you. Riding is extremely difficult in first person. Forget hunting and fighting. Another thing that makes third person a preferable choice is the rate at which it switches automatically in cut scenes. It leaves first person to show everyone involved. Most of the time it will return you to your chosen view afterwards, but on a rare occasion it will put in the other. I've come out of a cut scene confused because I couldn't see anything, only to realize the game put me in first person mode. Your view of the surrounding area is wider in third person, at least with this game, whereas in first person, all you can see is what's directly in front of you. I won't lie, there have been a couple rare instances where I have switched to first person intentionally. That was so I could get a closer look into a tent in a camp I was looting. After I was satisfied with that, I instantly switched back to third person. First person also defeats some of the features of the game, such as outfits. You can buy different outfits for Arthur, and groom his hair and beard to your liking, but if you play in first person you'll never see it, so there's no point in that. And if you lose your hat, how are you going to know it? You have no real way to know except to open third person. You can get on your horse and check to see if it has a check mark by it in your item wheel. If it doesn't you can select to put it back on, but in reality, how often are you actually going to be checking that? The same goes for your horse. You can customize his/her mane and tail, but you'll never see them in first person. And you have to keep your horse clean to keep it healthy. You don't really have time to constantly look down while you're riding to make sure it's not completely filthy. Dutch rides a solid white horse, the same as me. So I colored my horses tail black as an means of telling them apart. There is other customization you can do, but that's just guns. The only ones I carry in the beginning are the Springfield rifle and varmint rifle. That's just to get the hides needed to get the Legend Of The East satchel. After I get it, the varmint rifle is stowed away in my weapon locker. You can choose the metals, the wood of the stocks, carvings and engravings, and it goes over every last part of the gun. You can have a solid gold gun if you want. If I remember correctly there are around 16 or so woods and 8 metals. And you can mix and match all you want. I have a pearl gripped pistol. And if, like me, you have a hard time playing a game the employs a dual joystick, the third person can help you learn. I was never able to do it prior to RDR2. It was one of the reasons I didn't like Skyrim initially. But I've learned pretty well to utilize them both, and I have no severe issues left, only minor ones. Basically what I'm saying is that for this game specifically, third person is the best choice. It's nothing like the first and third choices in Skyrim. It's a hell of a lot different. In Skyrim, you can always see your hands in front of you. That's not here in RDR2. Not any time I have played it anyway. In the video below, he was in Bloger Blade when he made camp and looked at his legendary animal map. At the 15:00 mark, you're able to see one of the bigger issues when riding in first person. That was in St. Denis. It was difficult to find a video that gave no spoilers, and all of the ones I found, that featured third person views included spoilers.

Tried them. They strain my eyes, and they're a bit too bright. I worked in a darkroom a lot when I was a teenager as I was into photography, and the only safe light in there was red light. It hurt my eyes, and made things immensely harder to see when I came back out from the darkroom.

And people thought I was twisted when I would order a pepperoni and potato chip pizza.

Black light bulbs are a pain to find anywhere other than Spencers around here, and they’re expensive as hell there. I wish to hell Walmart sold them.

Zelda II Most everyone hated it, but I loved it. It was the sole reason that a side scrolling Zelda was never attempted again. There’s more, but I’m on my phone and it’s a pain to try to type on this thing.

The phone. I need say no more.

Enraged. It’s bullshit being attacked with no way to defend yourself because there was no slight indication of an oncoming attack.

I like the way RDR2 went about it. There are enemy gangs, and small camps with 4-6 enemies there pop up completely randomly in completely random places. The gangs will never be completely killed off, but they don’t respawn 153’ south of Rhodes every time.

RDR2 First person is visually impossible at the best of times, regardless of the game, but it’s even worse in RDR2. You can see absolutely nothing. Only the terrain. Not Arthur, not your horse, nothing. You will spend the entire day stuck because you’re walking into a tree because you couldn’t see it in first person. Switch to third person and you will find out that you somehow ended up in a thick forest and didn’t know it. The only use for the first person view in RDR2 is if you have a death wish.

Forgetting to save regularly. I’ve lost massive progress in RDR2 due to playing several hours, forgetting to save, and getting killed by a lucky shot from an ambush. I’ve been ambushed countless times, and can count on one hand the number of times I got killed. The main thing that costs me the time and progress is if my horse is killed and I have to reload to get her back. Yeah, I carry horse revivers, but at times she either took a bullet at a spot that was an instant kill, or I couldn’t get to her in time to save her. She’s irreplaceable as she’s a unique horse. She’s a wild horse that can’t be bought at a stable. She’s the only white Arabian in the game, and has abilities that stable bought Arabians don’t have. As I’ve said before, she’s incredibly stupid, but aside from that, no horse can rival her in any way.

I haven’t followed wrestling in a while, but I remember the kind of piece of shit that Vince was and is, so wouldn’t he be the one with the copyright on GI Bro, and not Booker T? McMahon tries to copyright everything even remotely related to wrestling. He has been known to try to copyright wrestlers legal names, for fucks sake. So unless he is dead or things have changed drastically, I would think he would be the one holding the copyright.

It's not a central theme, but there's a part in Conker's Bad Fur Day where he rolls a joint and gets stoned. If you want games that are awesome as hell when you're stoned (I know from experience) then here's a short list of a few: Earthworm Jim 2 (SNES) Beavis & Butthead (SNES/Sega) Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64) Banjo Kazooie (N64) Ren & Stimpy Veediots (SNES) South Park (N64) Spyro The Dragon (PS1) Sonic The Hedgehog (Sega) Family Guy Back To The Multiverse (PS3)

When I got on disability. I had 24 hours a day to fill and nothing to do. That's when I realized how important gaming would be. Later when I ended up in the wheelchair, I knew it would forever be an important aspect of my life.

God that's a hard one to answer. Several have done it in rather significant ways. For example I have the exact same tattoo that Zell (FF8) has, only on the opposite side of my face. But if I was forced to pick one game, I don't know if I could. Maybe Pac-Man & Donkey Kong on Atari, Ladybug on Colecovision, or the original SMB on NES. Because they are some of my earliest gaming memories, and those games mean so much to me. I really can't put one above the other.

That’s not an answer.

I like psychological horror games. Layers Of Fear: Legacy is one of the best ever made.

I don't join online services. It's why I buy physical media and don't allow my systems to access wi-fi or any other online input. I block them from that for that very reason.

FF8 and RDR2 would be my top games. Actually, screw YouTube today. I'm getting back on RDR2.

I've never seen the acronym JRPG. I know what RPG is. I know what MMORPG is. But I don't know what JRPG is. Is it Junior Role Playing Game? That's the only J word I can think of that could fit there. but then again I have a somewhat limited vocabulary at times.