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Sunday, November 11, 2012

My thoughts on "that interview" with french bread

I should explain before I even start talking about this. First there was an interview by 4gamer with the developers of the new Under the Night Inbirth Frenchbread (Here). Then beastnote covered the article in a summary of what was said. So you probably want to read what beast note covered before you can understand what I am going to talk about.

I think a lot of people are taken by surprise they wanted to do Meltyblood HD since Eltnum was leftover assets done to show Typemoon how Meltyblood HD would look like. I should also declare here that I really dislike how Typemoon works and Typemoon as a company in general. That doesn't mean I don't like Meltyblood or Tsukihime in general. (Side note I really hate the fate series. Just a personal bias thing. Not writing an article unless someone really wants me to come out and say why)

So Meltyblood HD. Typemoon's stand is that as long as Nasu is not free to write a new story for Meltyblood HD, French bread cannot work on it. This led to interesting responses from some folks who play/like melty.

First some people were displeased realizing Typemoon will on work that Mahou series regarding Aoko's history. Personally if I was Typemoon I would do that as well, it is after the new stuff they are pushing out. Second comes the very big disappointment that people realize they won't see a new melty or any beep of news for at least 2 years later knowing how Typemoon works.

Here's where I would want to explain some stuff a lot of people would not realize even if we do get Meltyblood HD or whatever title they would call it. (Meltyblood Hemihedral Dawn or something like that. Yeah I just whipped up some words I pulled from the internet). You will lose 3 quarters of the cast from the current meltyblood. Then you will be expecting a system change from the current one.

Would you as a person who been playing a game for like a few years would really want such an overhaul? Here let me explain the whole thing.

Most people are not aware what the sprite count for the current Meltyblood is. You are talking about 28 characters and 3 different Moon animations. Granted there are clones but it is still a good 20 plus characters to animate if you want to port everything to HD.

Remember when Blazblue first came out? It had only 12 characters. The current version has 19 characters. That took them about 3 years to have 7 more characters in the game. Though Arcsys has been getting a lot faster at producing HD 2D animations like the next version is 3 more characters.

With that in mind, getting a Meltyblood HD with just a visual upgrade alone would take probably 3 years if they worked and crunched like crazy.

Even if they did it, where will Meltyblood stand? A 5 year old game with old mechanics and just a visual update? Would that get more new people interested?

Melty is currently at major crossroad and to be frank, the current Meltyblood is done. I seriously hope from my explanation you can see why French bread went about to make a new game then work on Melty. First it would be something new though it will take some work to get people into it. Second it is difficulty to maintain the kind of working relationship with Typemoon if they need to listen to everything from them and get no freedom to do what they can to.

If you wondered am I sad I am not getting to see a HD version of meltyblood, personally I am fine. Though I am not fine with the fact that Meltyblood did not even a proper release or a console one (I hate Typemoon). I hope people can see why from my thoughts why French Bread shouldn't be working on Meltyblood anymore as much as I want them to personally.

As for UNiB, the game has issues. That is big topic to cover itself and I have some reservations about how the game is progressing. We will see. I need to give it a bit more time before I can say if it is fine so far.

If you have some thoughts regarding this, you can comment here  or PM me in twitter. Like to hear something different.

Monday, October 29, 2012

The newer generation of game players

Lately I have realized that the new generation of video game players will not know who my video game heroes are. Characters like Ryu, Link or Sonic may not even resonate with them at all. Think about it, most of them grew up in the age where their video games are in 3D. FPS are the biggest things around. Jrpgs or better yet Japan developed games are on the decline.


I used to have temptation introduce to them to my gaming heroes, like telling them, "You young punks and your online play". It dawned upon me recently they have a different perspective regarding video games and their characters or even how they view video games. Games that resonate a lot with me like the more retro platformers, Jrpgs and even fighting games are not even in their view of games they would consider playing.

Initially I feel sad that things I like will be forgot, then I do realize I never liked the things my parents or even grandparents loved. This made realize things we love now only lasts within our generation but I don't mind that now.

It might be selfish thinking to not minding to see a certain favorite past time / thing be replaced but we often forget that we are moving on and changing. In a sense, this is just be history in the making which I am glad to be a part in. To me that is more than enough of a comforting thought.

I never liked the idea of the future generation holding onto things that might become totally irrelevant or even wrong by future standards. I don't think anyone has the right to say a thousand years into the future things should be done in a specific way even though it hinders humanity from progressing on.

Whatever happens to my beloved kinds of video games, I will remember that I was part of it.



Side note - I do believe self discovery is more exciting than people forcing it onto you

Sunday, October 7, 2012

A lot more to juggle than expected

I guess my last blog was last month's news. I am slowly getting used to my new job and honestly I do not know if I am doing well. I tend to over worry on things. That is how I am.

I do enjoy the first 2 weeks the fact I do not need to tend to my phone anymore than totally needed. It sort of gave me my sanity back. I guess I have to be honest I was feeling pretty bad during my last job and I did had really suicidal thoughts throughout. Putting the job down was one of the things I guess helped alleviate that.

Here's came the next piece I need to juggle in my life. Pursing my degree. I have done some information search for the private universities in Singapore. I have also narrowed down the courses I would take though personally I do not know if I am capable enough of handling them. (Sigh worrying again before things even got started). I have not come into the area how I am going to handle my school fees.

I hadn't talk to my family or specifically my father regarding this yet. I wonder if I am procrastinating to avoid pursing my degree. After all, I did finally get that much cherished free time. I wanted to spend it on playing the games I stacked up over the few years.

But the most ironic thing is here I am sitting with my PS3, my Xbox 360, my PS vita and my DS, for the whole weekend I didn't even touch them. There's still the strong push away that at the back of my head, all this free time will vanish when I play games. Though once I start playing and get done with it. I feel really relieve.

It will take sometime before the tension goes down. Overall I am still feel glad and relieve.

I will sign off here for today.

P.S. I do live video stream now and then which you can check it out here > www.twitch.tv/kilvear


Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Weird angry responses to Wii U exclusives

With the Wii U announcing the exclusives it will have, there are a fair amount of angry people on the internet.

On the surface it looks like whining idiots who are whining about not getting their games. Here's my other take on it.

I am sure like quite a number of people playing games like myself bought a Wii at some point. (Hell I even have 2. 1 Jp and one for US games. Hate region locking) The thing is with the rest of the Wii owners, there isn't much in the way of games we look forward to on the consoles. Most stuff we play are from Nintendo themselves. Getting good games from Nintendo itself is definitely good.

The thing is that we look forward to more stuff from other developers than Nintendo of course. We would want to use our consoles more than just play Nintendo games. Sadly we don't get much outside of Nintendo games. In fact I have left my Wii alone for a long time.

Like only recently did we get Xenoblade, The Last Story and hopefully Pandora's Tower. Like why? Why did we only get those games only recently and only after much effort by a group of fans putting out that people are willing to buy games those games if they are translated.

For me I feel I am side lined by Nintendo. To put it bluntly I feel burnt by my Wii purchase. I am not stating I don't enjoy the Nintendo games but this few new Mario games outside of Galaxy feels like a recycled experience?

I have to admit I am totally in love with the Metroidvana games for the portables which I truely hope they will continue but have likely not any longer. Those games recycle their assets a lot but I still love them. Strangely I couldn't feel the same for the new Mario games and I feel the experience feels recycled for some reason.

With that burnt feeling, a lot of us are wary of purchasing a Wii U despite being promised there will be a lot of 3rd party support. I believe it when it happens is what a lot of folks like me are doing.

With Bayonetta 2 being a Wii exclusive because Nintendo has helped financed the game is fine by most standards. What I see is a multi console title becoming exclusive to a console which most of us are not even sure we would want to purchase given the history we had with Wii U.

The price of a console is significant enough to warrant thinking about buying it. Hence I believe folks would want Bayonetta 2 would be on PS3 or Xbox 360. The exclusive announcement really made it a downer for most people which don't have a Wii U purchase on their radar anytime soon.

To put it simply, people are not ready to commit to a Wii U purchase and would love the game to be multi console. Looks like it isn't happening and the internet with the usual response of raging and death threats to anyone related to it.

I can't say I don't agree with being angry and somewhat disappointed at the same time. Death threats seemed a bit extreme. Regardless I am having a wait and see view of the Wii U though I do expect that if I wait long enough either the price will drop or Wii U will cease to be relevant at that point.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Its been a while. A long while

As I am writing this I am actually in Japan crashing at one of my friend's place.

So what happened this year? Well mostly the same I can say, but it isn't really a good year to start with I can say.

First, one of my cousins passed away. It was pretty bad. The exact reasons I won't disclose but it is one of those things that you can see it tearing into that family.

Then work is well, work. Like the last post I did. I was generally pretty angry. What I can say is I couldn't agree with the direction of what is being done and things generally got worse. I wonder if I should say which I guess probably not. 

You know I realize there is a lot of things I couldn't say. So let me say something I can.

First I am moving to a new job starting Sept 24. Civil service. My short term plan is at least get familiar with the role then look for a place to study and get my college degree before I think of something else.

Currently I am in Japan, took no pay leave as I wanted to have that break before I start my new job. Besides it is not like my work is appreciated when I am there anyways.

For me it was weird like when I was at the airport, "maybe going over isn't that a great idea. I should like save the money for something else." I was literally guilt tripping myself. Once I got on the plane, that thought just vanished. I generally don't enjoy plane rides. It is hard to sleep and there's nothing to do.

While being bere, I am setting up some stream equipment which used to be my portable streaming setup. I have been thinking of really reducing time playing fighting games. Even with my new job I thought I want to like do something else. Also I really suck at fighting games and I seem to be reaching a place I can no longer get better. I do believe though putting more time and slowly learning I will get over that. It is just I want to spend time on other things. 

I thought I want to say something positive, I feel good now that I don't have to worry about carrying a phone with me or the servers exploding (something like that). The feeling you are like freed from a very heavy burden no one wants to take up.

I remember I had more I wanted to say when I was on the plane, it seems I have forgotten about them. I will note them down when I remember it.

That's it for now.