Happy New Year! I hope you have had a wonderful holiday season and was able to spend time with those who matter to you. Queen Tinus and I had a quiet and lovely Christmas Eve - until I got terribly ill, and was plagued by a horrible stomach bug for the remainder of the holiday season. As for new game acquisitions, well, let's see what I added to the collection over the month of December.
Just Cause 3
Just Cause 3 is an open-world action game positioning itself as an expansive sandbox wherein one can indulge in chaos and mayhem. If I recall correctly, the studio head at Avalanche Studios has said that narrative aren't important--if even necessary--in video-games. While that is a sentiment I wholeheartedly oppose, I do, however, agree that
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The short and sweet of it is that Rise of the Tomb Raider would definitely have made my top-ten list of 2015 had I played it last year. With its simply gorgeous design and enjoyable action-adventure gameplay, Rise of the Tomb Raider is, in my opinion, one of the best games released in 2015. I hope Naughty Dog are paying attention because Crystal Dynamics just set the bar for what we ought to expect from Uncharted 4.
Thank you for the, as always, amazing Christmas gifts Queen
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Developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo at the tail-end of 2015--with localization provided by 8-4 Play--, Xenoblade Chronicles X is a humongous action role-playing game that strongly encourages exploration of its massive open-world. The sheer size of Xenoblade Chronicles X is, quite frankly, intimidating, but I am beginning to feel an RPG-itch I hope it will be able to scratch.
Outlaws
Outlaws is a Wild-West-themed first-person shooter developed--with an enhanced version of the Dark Forces engine--and published by Lucas Arts in 1997. There is a rather curious quote by Computer Gaming World on the back of the box saying, "this may be the first 3D shooter with a real plot", which I find simultaneously funny and encouraging. According to the box, Outlaws' revolutionary real plot boils down to a genre-appropriate revenge story. I am cautiously optimistic about this one.
Freedom Planet
Freedom Planet was my Indiebox for the month of December, and it is a 2D sidescrolling platformer developed and released by Stephen DiDuro's GalaxyTrail. It was originally released for the PC back in 2014--and ported to the WiiU in 2015--Freedom Planet serves as a loving homage to the 16-bit Sonic games. Curiously, Freedom Planet actually began life as a Sonic
A narrative is the revealing effect of a story from the first person point of view, which describes an experience, story or a set of events. In the story, the narrator tries to engage the audience to make the story further compelling. The narrator’s job is to take a point and a stance to display the significant point of his or her’s view.
Billie Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915 on the 7th of April. Her real name is Eleanora Fagan Gough. Her mother was named Sadie Julia Fagan and had Eleanor as a teenager. Her dad name is Clarence Holiday who became a successful jazz musician as well. When Eleanor was a child she often skipped school, leading her mother to court because of truancy. When holiday was younger she said, "I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was 6 years old." She was sent to a school for troubled girls when she was 9 years old. Before her teen years, Billy and her mother moved to Harlem, N.Y. because her mother was searching for a job. Her mother was arrested after that. Billie married and remarried a couple
How many Americans recognize the man on the back of the one hundred dollar bill? Do you know who he is and why he is on the back of that bill? If you said George Washington then you are right! It is said that when one begins something that others will follow behind you and in George Washington's case that is correct. George Washington paved the way for many other presidents that followed after him up until the one we currently have today. Without our first president we would not have our current president. George Washington made huge contributions and achievements to our country that still stand today.
In our world, there are people who judge mostly on everything or anyone. Living in a world which people judge on people’s appearance is an unfair judgment towards the person due to the fact of not knowing who that person is. That’s why segregation was a huge part in history during the pasting of the Civil Act of 1964. The definition of segregation is the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment. During the segregation it was basically a battle between the white people and the black people. This battle made it where at the point blacks had their own school and the whites had their own school, so they wouldn’t have to be near each other during this time. The story “Battle Royal” is a story that can relate towards segregation. In the story “Battle
The Quinceañera is a celebration in Latin America that is very comparable to our Sweet 16 celebration, also know as the fiesta de quince años. The origination of the word comes from the feminine term of fifteen-year-old in Spanish. The overall celebration marks the transition from childhood to becoming a young woman. In earlier times this celebration was meant to be a teaching point for young women to learn how to cook, weave, and the art of becoming a mother. Depending on the family specifically, some can carry a religious tone, and some can be more traditional and casual.
As a result from extreme hard work and perseverance followed by an unmatchable drive to succeed, Donald J. Trump has earned the right to be known as a multi-billionaire, real estate icon, and President of the United States of America. Reflecting on his life, he has faced many challenges and overcame them all. To understand how he rose to success and his journey to the top of the kingpin, it is important to recognize how he saw the american dream and pursued it. Today, many recognize him as the president but very few can fully grasp all that he has done in his life. From his start as a real estate mogul, to his impact on media, there are many questions as to how he became so recognizable today.
The importance of a story is to have a purpose and meaning, through this, people are able to engage and learn with what is being told to them, it has to have a connection to the past, bringing it to the present and to involve both the body and mind senses. Through storytelling the audience should gain an understanding and have a sense of emotion touched and come alive, they should also be able to explore the possibilities within their culture and feel a deep connection to country.
Everyone wishes for a magical day in their life where they could be a princess for a day. Some wish to have a fluffy, long and pink dress, or a crown on their head. I always wished and wished that I could be that princess. On March 28th of 2015, that wish came true.
The narratives is a necessary component. The narratives lead the audience to think about the event that the speaker talked about. Expression of values and goals is the main aim of narratives. (Hampton, 2004) stated that stories provide frames for understanding experiences, explaining and solving problems, and giving emphasis to moral value.
A narrative is specified to amuse, to attract, and grasp a reader’s attention. The types of narratives are fictitious, real or unification or both. However, they may consist of folk tale stories, mysteries, science fiction; romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, and personal experience (“Narrative,” 2008). Therefore, narrative text has five shared elements. These are setting, characters, plot, theme, and vocabulary (“Narrative and Informational Text,” 2008). Narrative literature is originally written to communicate a story. Therefore, narrative literature that is written in an excellent way will have conflicts and can discuss shared aspects of human occurrence.
There is no arguing Walt Disney practiced what he preached. In fact, he did what he did so well that people continue to bring others to see what he did to this day, that being Disneyland. First, we’ll start by learning about the background history of Disneyland. Next, we’ll compare Disneyland from when it first started to what it has developed into. And finally, we’ll explore all the eight parks and what they have to offer.
Attention getter: The Great Pyramid at Giza is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, still standing.
Do you know which the leading causes of death in the USA are? If you have guessed heart diseases and cancer, you’re right. Next on the list are chronic lower respiratory diseases and accidents. However, a new study has emerged, which states that medical errors might be the third leading cause of death in the US, right after heart disease and cancer.
The growth of the indie game sector has enabled smaller developers to produce work on a budget than AAA titles and still reach an audience. Recent games such as Undertale (2015) and Stardew Valley (2016) can find major success online, despite being developed by only a few people. This is a result of digital marketplaces such as Valve’s Steam platform, which encourages the dissemination of indie games via its Steam Greenlight system (“What is Steam Greenlight,” n.d.). By Nature, Indie Games stand outside of large corporate Developers, which act as the mainstream producers. Lipkin (2013) suggests that the nature of indie as a notion exists solely to oppose mainstream products. Thus, in the graph, only Indie Developers have the ability to produce such
Dystopian video games merit the same critical analysis as their literary and film counterparts; providing meaningful site in which questions about the future of technology play out against the logic of dystopian alternative histories. Irrational Games’ video game series Bioshock represent an important example of video games that have the potential to be thought-provoking and complicated texts. This essay will address the alternative histories that the Bioshock series presents, understanding these alternative histories through scholarly exploration and ?. Bioshock is an exceptional exemplification of a video game that simultaneously celebrates and investigates dystopian notions of technological progress and free will.