Category: Otaku

Radioaktivität

September 19, 2011

The above song was released in 1975, and to this day remains one of my favourite songs of all time. It is, of course, by electro-rock legends Kraftwerk, and I have embedded the video here because I am somewhat dumbfounded that it has taken me almost all of my life to actually discover there is a video!

Watch this next:

In my opinion, the above is about as close as a band could ever get to a perfect live performance. That’s from their live album/DVD, Minimum Maximum, otherwise known as the best live album ever made.

The performance of Radioactivity, 29 years after the first release, is just chilling. Doubly so when we consider how easy they could replace ?? (‘Hi-Ro-Shi-Ma’) with ?? (‘Fu-Ku-Shi-Ma’)…

Dragon’s Dogma

September 18, 2011

I’ve been ignoring my PS3 recently, including almost the entire summer, mostly because I haven’t had the time to play anything. Portable games, including on the iPad, fill in the spare time well enough.

There are precious few PS3 games on the horizon that have caught my eye, but one of them is Dragon’s Dogma, by Capcom.

This is their attempt to make an open-world fantasy RPG that (apparently) matches the approach of Monster Hunter with the appeal of a western game. “Monster Hunter meets Dragon Age” in other words. I don’t think for a second it will be as good as Monster Hunter – or even very similar, based on recent views – but it does look impressive.

My interest has risen in recent days with the news that Dragon’s Dogma will contain weapons and gear based on those in the upcoming Berserk motion picture. Capcom has toyed with Berserk-looking gear in the MH games; it seems now we’ll get to use the real stuff 🙂

GoatUp

September 16, 2011

This week has been depressing for various reasons. At a time when I probably need them most, the last thing I can succumb to are distractions.

And yet a bright spot has been the new Jeff Minter iOS game, called GoatUp. Here’s a screenshot:

Gameplay is tough to describe… An infinite climbing platform game with a high level of challenge and yet an equally high level of “just one more time”. My highest score is 680,000 so far.

At $2 it’s a no brainer if you like arcade games. Another winner from Llamasoft 🙂

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