Half Life 2

5/24/2024

Half Life 2 (hl2) is such a good game omg I love replaying its so gooood. Something I don't like about the game is that the scenes where characters stand still and talk can't be skipped, I just want to play through the entire game with no interuptions and this stuff kills the replay value of such a great game. I think I'm on my 3rd replay of the this game cause its genuinely so gooood.

The world design and atmosphere is genuinely so good and the graphics haven't aged a day (probably because they UPDATE the game...), something is just so cool about traversing the open abandoned settings in the game, I really like how its typically daytime during most of these sections to it adds to the half life character if you get what I mean. The natural environments of the game and the mixed architecture is so cool, I love the cops in the game they've got such simple yet cool designs and the way they pursue the player throughout the game is invigorating.

Half Life 2

I would say my FAVOURITE part in the game would be near the end where you're with the rebellion and you've got your own squad of people and you gotta take care of them or you can abandon them. I always feel sad when one of them die even when they're not in my squad, every death feels like it means a lot considering how sparse the human race has become in the lore, with the birth of children being impossible until Episode 1. I hate how the striders so effortlessly kill so many people with one lazer shot. In the hard difficulty by the time you kill all of them everyone around you will already be dead, returning you back to the loneliness that you've felt the whole game only to then experience one of the best parts of the game where you meet up with more rebels.

Genuinely the best chapter in the game, if someone says its ravenholm they can fuck off that shit stinks.

Overlord

Edited 2/16/2023

Overlord is a very cool game, I definitely wasn't at the appropriate age to play it, I was like 7, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

I think the reason my parents bought the game was because of my obsession with Pikmin, we didn't have the game, but my grandparents had a Gamecube with Pikmin 2, and I'd play it whenever we visited them. I'd watch lets plays of Pikmin, Pikmin skits, people playing with Pikmin plushies a bunch of weird stuff.

I remember for one of my birthdays my parents made a "Pikmin" cake, which was actually really cool, they printed out like images of the Pikmin and it was great.

I don't really get the hyperfixation I had with Pikmin, I guess it was just such an intriguing and unique concept, it felt so rewarding to grow a group of Pikmin and take down enemies. The world felt so real and beautiful. Recently Pikmin's been on my mind and for some reason its made me feel that everything will be alright.

Anyway weird Pikmin rant aside I went into this game expecting the same type of enjoyment I had with Pikmin, this was definitely a "we have Pikmin at home" scenario. Okay I'll really try to stop saying Pikmin starting NOW.

In Overlord you play as an evil demon person that wakes up in a ruined castle. You're greeted by pi- minions you're greeted by goblin like creatures called minions and an old one tells you the plot of the game and that you need to do all the stuff and to do the stuff you must command minions. The game's 3rd person and over the shoulder, you control pik- MINIONS with the right stick and yourself with the left. You start with a cap of 5, but this can grow to 50!

There's a morality system for some reason which also for some reason determines 1 out of 13 separate endings which is ridiculous, the game is like 20 hours long and is pretty unreplayable which is made worse by the fact that endings are mostly determined by stuff at the start of the game, so you HAVE to replay the whole game if you thought your ending sucked and wanted something else.

Yoko Taro would see this and would become so inspired by how much it sucked he decided to base Nier Replicant's remake off of Overlord's unreplayable nature.

Anyway Overlord is on GOG for like 5$ (15 Australian dollars) so check it out if you'd like.

Eyepets

Edited 2/16/2023

Eyepets is an absolute joke. E-y-e-p-e-t-s? What? Eye Pets. I pets? What does that even MEAN? More like eye despise you. Who thought this was a good idea?

They played the "fireflies" song for the trailer. Terrible.

This game revolves around taking care of STUPID "Eyepet" pictured below:

I actually like the design, I like the organic formed fur contrasting the geometric shaped ears. I'm glad they didn't make his eyes all big. Something about this design irks me though, I think it'd look better if its face skin was a perfect circle instead. It reminds me of a certain character design, I can't really put my finger on it

Anyway even though this thing is adorable something about it creeps me out.

The main gimmick about the game is that you can use the PlayStation 3 camera(?) on a little board that it gives you, and it creates the Eyepet egg. You rub the Eyepet egg till it hatches the Eyepet. After that you do a lot of awesome stuff.

JUST KIDDING!! You get stuck on the tutorial because the camera would prevent you from doing a required activity. Basically it wants you to draw on a piece of paper and show it to the camera, but the thing is that it would never pick up on it. Because you can't finish the task and because the game won't unlock new features till you do you can only play with the things you've unlocked. Have fun showering your Eyepet because that's all you get.

I remember I had this dream where I scratched the Eyepet board and it killed the Eyepet. When I summoned it only its skeleton popped out. I can't remember if the skeleton came to life and attacked me, or it just died and the dream ended. Pretty morbid but looking back on it now its so stupid it's a bit funny

You know how people say "if a child harms animals that means they'll grow up to be a psychopath". I have a confession. As a child I would kick the Eyepet. I can't remember if it actually reacted or not but for some reason I found it funny to pretend to punch and kick the Eyepet, my siblings would join in on it too. Evil.

I remember when I was young we had a baby sitter and my brother wanted to play one of the Halo games on the Xbox 360 (think it was the 3rd one). Me and my sister voted to play Eyepet instead. I now understand why he was so upset. Apparently Halo is a good but I literally would never know as I never played it because I thought it looked boring.

Like most people I forgot that the game uses the PS3 stick thing. It was kinda cool to be honest but also pretty lame.