Random Stuff Update

Random thoughts and stuff include the following:

• Started to watch a series called Ergo Proxy. It's cyber-punk and is a bit like Ghost in the Shell which is cool. It also asks a lot of the same questions as GitS but with somewhat less stylish ass-kicking and head-scratching philosophy. The tones are different, though. In Ergo Proxy people are stuck in a dystopic future and are run by a friendly totalitarian government with robots to replace computers and security cameras. Friend or foe is a question that is often brought to mind. The robots are becoming infected with the Cogito virus that makes them, well, human. Scary. There's more to it than that, but if it sounds good so far I wholeheartedly recommend you check it out.
• E3 is releasing a bunch of new game trailers. Fallout 3 looks amazing. You can switch between a first person shooter, a third person shooter, or target specific areas on the body and have a dice roll to see if you can eliminate it in a flashy way. Heads explode! It honestly doesn't get any better.
• Resident Evil 5 looks fantastic. The dialogue is just as silly as ever, but spoken very well. Yay for competent (if silly) dubs! Also, racism! Yay for Japan and racism!
• Final Fantasy XIII looks an awful lot like Final Fantasy XII. Except the main character that looks like a girl really is a girl this time. I know, I'm shocked too. The story doesn't seem all that inspired, but there was no dialogue in the trailer (meaning it hasn't been dubbed yet). The graphics are beyond pretty, though. Hopefully the battle system is more interesting this time around. More KOTOResque?
• I miss playing Knights of the Old Republic. Is the third one ever getting made? BioWare, give up the Sonic games and make the damn game already! I want my Exile back! (Revan too, but really...)
• Anyone know Valve's progress on Half Life 2 Episode 3? Any trailers yet? Or mentions? I know that 4 Alive is almost done. It looks interesting, but to jaded misanthropes like myself it's not worth getting because I hate playing with others. Seriously, multiplayer has never, ever appealed to me. I play videogames to get away from "normal" freaks. This is why WoW would be my own personal hell.

Tony got the fourth season of the animated Batman series (when the Japanese studio took over). We've been watching it ever since. It's frickin' awesome. Gotham Knight feels like a natural step after watching season four.