{"id":244,"date":"2009-02-15T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-02-15T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T11:37:19","slug":"dashdefenceburnout-majoruga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"DashDefenceBurnout: MajoRuga"},"content":{"rendered":"

A return visit by my UK friends led to a rather drunken flurry of gaming on Monday night – the Resident Evil 5<\/em> demo, the R-Type Dimensions<\/em> demo, Ikaruga<\/em>, Dash of Destruction<\/em>, and EDF 2017<\/em> all got a look in.<\/p>\n

My gaming pal, Andy – prior to his backpacking odyssey, he was quite<\/em> the prolific GS accumulator – was keen to check out Resi 5<\/em>. I’ve never played any of the series, even the “second best game ever” (according to Edge) Resident Evil 4<\/em>… “survival horror”, as a genre, doesn’t appeal to me in the least. Mostly because I know I’d have trouble actually watching the screen, such is my scaredy-cat nature (I couldn’t play through the demo of Bioshock<\/em>, remember?) So it was quite a treat to have a Resi<\/em> fan accompany me as we co-opped the demo levels.<\/p>\n

Our opinions couldn’t have been further apart, either – he loved the graphics, I thought it looked depressingly dry and dusty. He loved the action, I felt hamstrung and helpless. He felt immediately at home, I didn’t have the slightest fucking clue what I was doing – though once I figured out how to knife zombies, I was good. For about ten seconds. Before they ate my brains<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Erm… no. Not buying that one.<\/p>\n

R-Type Dimensions<\/em> will also remain unpurchased; I was never really a fan of it in the arcade (though I recall applying plenty of blood, sweat, and tears to get through the bastard on freeplay during a lock-in at the TimeZone around the corner from my old Uni digs). And whilst the XBLA version certainly looks pretty, and plays faithfully, I can’t deal with the psychological weight of it. Christ, Ikaruga<\/em>‘s bad enough.<\/p>\n

Apart from the abovementioned – and a Valentine’s Day bash through Paradise City with my online chums – nothing else really got played this week… except Majora’s Mask<\/em>. Which, it must be said, has turned into a mechanical sufferance. The Water Temple (or whatever it’s called) has been conquered, all the fairies therein have been captured, and I step-by-stepped a walkthrough to do it. I’m not proud of that, but the sad truth is that I no longer care; I just want that game off my List<\/a> soon and forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A return visit by my UK friends led to a rather drunken flurry of gaming on Monday night – the Resident Evil 5 demo, the R-Type Dimensions demo, Ikaruga, Dash of Destruction, and EDF 2017 all got a look in. My gaming pal, Andy – prior to his backpacking odyssey, he was quite the prolific … Continue reading DashDefenceBurnout: MajoRuga<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,36,49,48,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oc-gamer.moobaa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}