The Art of Fear

After watching this video, it makes me mad to see horrible scary movies nowadays. If video game designers are trending on a 15 hour game and making it feel fresh, movie directors can keep fear coming at the audience for 2 hours. I think it would be interesting to see a interactive movie brought to the theaters. Like a movie theater that allows the audience to choose the outcome of the movie. The theater would also need physical props or people in customs to grab a few scares. If done well, the audience would come back for the other ending which they didn't choose before. It would be a Cloverfield effect in which, it could only happen once before it looses its charm. Anyways, forget my rant, watch this video about how to create a sense of fear in a video game. Enjoyski!

Design and Overall look

I look at this house and I love the overall look and design. Here are some pictures from the website (more pictures @ the website below).








I love the house's indoors look. It contains a sort of complexion with the use of windows. The windows are placed in spots in which the sun will come in during sunrise then over the house and pass into the shades of the other side. Along with that is the numerous different types of windows placed around the house which look amazing. I love the way the house is presented on the hill it's on. The houses I have seen on a hill like that doesn't allot the shape of the hill to reflect onto the house. What I mean is this and the house is shaped normally. The house doesn't angle outward to the beach like the house shown at the top! The only problem I see with a house way above is that window cleaning would be a bitch to clean. hahha but with a sight shown in the bedroom, who cares.


[ source = http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/29/casa-11-mujeres-by-mathias-klotz/ - A link found from pownce.com/soapsuds ]

Little Big Planet

Little Big Planet is one of those games in which just makes the player smile uncontrollably. Even when I watched this trailer, I sat there with a smile on my face. I also love that Media Molecule is actaully taking the time to develop trailers that makes the viewer want to play the game. Here's the trailer in which I'm talking about. Enjoy!

Red Faction

I saw this Red Faction gameplay footage and it blew my mind! I played the first and second Red Factions and I love them both. I like the first one because it allowed the player to blow up more walls and also had a different feel to the game. The second one was still fun but didn't have the same "magic" the first one did. Memories of these games appear when I saw this trailer, enjoy!


I've been watching this game but I didn't see all(this video + other gameplay movies) of the E3 footage till today. All I can saw is WOW. Wow in the ammount of destructibility the game allows the user to do. Wow in the third person view (I miss FPS view). Wow in the vechicles (awesome looking). Lastly, wow, this would be awesome in multiplayer (think of a building crashing down on you and your enemy while you guys are shooting rocket at each other, awesome, YES!).

First impressions: Far Cry 2!

Let's talk about this company. Last game they did was Crysis aka the destructor of computers. Coming from that, comes Far Cry 2. Looking at this, I am in love with the game's mechanics. The whole idea of the wounding your target to gain more kills is awesome(and also reminds me of shooter! Marky mark, your awesome). If you have no idea what I'm talking about, watch this video.

My Reaction to E3/ New Phone / Dunanananna BATMAN!

Hey everyone! I'm just dropping in a reaction to E3 I had over the past couple days. I must say, thanks G4 TV for providing not just trailers and the conferences. Thank you for providing the viewers demo play (even it was short as hell)! But, hey here's a video I posted up on youtube a couple days ago. I will put up more thoughts later on the week.


Oh ya, I picked myself up a LG Chocolate phone. I was debating between some other LG music phone and some random black berry. But when I heard about Black Berry Thunder(), I didn't want to fall victim to "OH man, why did I pick up this Black Berry when a new one just came out a year after". From what I've played around with it, the LG Chocolate is fun! Here's a picture w/ me using it!


I also saw the new Batman last night (midnight showing). BEST super hero movie of all time, hands down. The joker's character is something that will get you to the actual edge of your seats (I hate when people say this about dull boring movies but I actually was at the edge of my seat). The movie rewards your patience with climax in and out and then slaps you in the face with more danger. It is going to suck because Heath Ledger is dead (R.I.P.) which makes me wonder if anyone could out do a performance like that. When you read about how people on set thought he was going insane, you see it in the movie. Well, why are you reading this blog post. GO OUT AND WATCH IT NOW.

Old Video I did

I went on my myspace (yea, I still have one!) and I found a old video I did for my Junior year of Highschool. I still love this video b/c after all the hard work I put in (hehehe), I didn't get any credit! Ya, turns out we couldn't have more than 2 people per group. oh well!
New Berlin video part one

Hello world.

Hi anyone!
I use to do a weekly review of game news and I think this blog will show a more of my personal view about video games. Be sure to look out for "Mike's Rants" and other fun writings I do. I'll be sure to post a reaction to the E3 conferences soon. Till then, see ya guys!