Monday, April 11, 2005
THAW'D
Yes, it is full-on Springtime here in Albany. I've seen my last snowflake for a long time. How long? Well, that all depends on whether or not I go to Japan. No, still no news in that department. One way or the other I plan on knowing something by the end of the week though.
The last two (postless) days have been unremarkable. Friday I was kinda busy, I got invited to a "curry party" held by some of the Japanese students whom I know. There are pictures at Nao's blog and Momo's blog. I couldn't stay very long because I was going to my AGA meeting so I'm not in any of the photos. I did eat some of the curry though, which was delicious. Very different than Indian curry though.
At the AGA meeting we watched a very serious film, 火垂るの墓 (a.k.a. Grave of the Fireflies). It's a very sad story about two children starving to death during World War II. It falls into that category of films that I recognize as "good" but I can't say I "enjoyed" it because the subject matter is so miserable.
After the sadness we all needed to get our game on to lift our spirits. We played a little Capcom Fighting Evolution. It's a "new" 2D fighting game featuring characters from various older titles. The results were very interesting. For "older" gamers like myself or Mikhail (the president of the club) we had little trouble remembering the older characters and got right into it. Most of the other members, however, were only familiar with 3D fighters like Soul Caliber. They were just as confused by the control system as I was when I first tried Soul Caliber II in February. In some ways, I felt the experience verified my suspicions that 2D and 3D fighting games are totally different and it is very hard to make a transition from one to the other. On the other hand, I was disappointed that the "legacy" of the 2D fighters I grew up playing seems to be lost on most younger gamers, even though these 3D games wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the 2D games that preceded them. It's like finding out no one remembers Orwell's 1984 yet they all love Equilibrium.
Hmmm...it's probably time to lose the iceberg at the top of the page.
The last two (postless) days have been unremarkable. Friday I was kinda busy, I got invited to a "curry party" held by some of the Japanese students whom I know. There are pictures at Nao's blog and Momo's blog. I couldn't stay very long because I was going to my AGA meeting so I'm not in any of the photos. I did eat some of the curry though, which was delicious. Very different than Indian curry though.
At the AGA meeting we watched a very serious film, 火垂るの墓 (a.k.a. Grave of the Fireflies). It's a very sad story about two children starving to death during World War II. It falls into that category of films that I recognize as "good" but I can't say I "enjoyed" it because the subject matter is so miserable.
After the sadness we all needed to get our game on to lift our spirits. We played a little Capcom Fighting Evolution. It's a "new" 2D fighting game featuring characters from various older titles. The results were very interesting. For "older" gamers like myself or Mikhail (the president of the club) we had little trouble remembering the older characters and got right into it. Most of the other members, however, were only familiar with 3D fighters like Soul Caliber. They were just as confused by the control system as I was when I first tried Soul Caliber II in February. In some ways, I felt the experience verified my suspicions that 2D and 3D fighting games are totally different and it is very hard to make a transition from one to the other. On the other hand, I was disappointed that the "legacy" of the 2D fighters I grew up playing seems to be lost on most younger gamers, even though these 3D games wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the 2D games that preceded them. It's like finding out no one remembers Orwell's 1984 yet they all love Equilibrium.
Hmmm...it's probably time to lose the iceberg at the top of the page.
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