Zeno's Paradox
November 09, 2003 - Resident Evil and Rebel Strike

I managed to beat Rogue Squadron III a few days ago. I'm still in the process of unlocking all the "extra" missions, but only one that I'm interested in remains. I managed to get a start on my first Resident Evil game: 0.

First, the good. Resident Evil is a spooky game that is outstanding visually and audibly. It creates a great suspense atmosphere with the levels and the zombies. It would be an almost perfect horror game save one thing: the controls.

I can't describe just how much the controls suck. One of the more irritating parts of Rogue Squadron III are the levels where you are on foot or in an AT-ST (a chickenwalker for those with lives). The on-foot stuff suffers from problems in maintaining the right perspective for playing, while the chickenwalker levels are not all that fun. I guess that's to be expected as chickenwalkers are probably bears to control.

That being said, let me say this: I would gladly take the controls of the annoying parts of RS III for the ones in RE 0. The controls in RE 0 are no different than the chickenwalker controls in Star Wars. Now, this may have made sense before the advent of analog sticks on the original PlayStation, but there's no excuse for it in this game. I basically have two analog control sticks on my controller that could be used, but are not. Ergh. I'll play through the rest of the game to see if the controls fall into place for me, but I doubt it. I was really looking forward to going through all those games in order, but this has placed a large damper on my enthusiasm.

In other news, Howard Dean is opting out of public financing. Good for him. I'm a fan of campaign finance reform, but I can't fault the guy for his decision. It's doubtful that he'll be able to raise and spend in the primary and general elections as Bush will spend in the general election, so he needs all the help he can get. I'd be more bothered if there were corporations or rich folk maxing out the hard money limit, but it seems that the majority of Dean's money has been raised in increments of $250 or less. I don't have a favorite in this race yet, and I don't expect to have one until after the Democratic nominee is chosen, but I have to admit that I'm very pleased at how far Dean has come. He started out as the insurgent and he's now very much the frontrunner in this race. It's nice to know that a guy can still buck the party these days.

Posted by br284 at 09:10 PM

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