Knight Plug

Sports. I like tennis and pool.

I have been on X to look up information on local sex workers, but I think their attitude sucks. In fact, social media, like YouTube, Facebook, FetLife, etc, is all just toxic as a whole.

Usually daily.

I haven't a clue. Capcom seems to enjoy jumping all over the place. Even I have difficulty making sense of where it's all heading. RE7 just revealed Umbrella had returned, seemingly benevolent this time, with a blue logo. During RE8, Chris finds out the BSAA was using bioweapons. So he's supposed to go to Europe to investigate that, but so far, nothing has become of that cutscene. Then they jump ahead in time, showing Rosemary as a teenager. So none of it adds up. If you ask me, they're 'carrot dangling' to get people to keep buying the games. If they aren't going to fill in these holes, it's kind of pointless to have so many angles in the franchise that goes nowhere.

I started watching The Embalmer.

The second game was better than any of the recent RE games. Yet not one person supported it. I thought it had more to it than RE7, for sure. The game also has loads of Silent Hill vibes. You basically explore a town in a world called STEM, and the gameplay is just like RE4, really, but it definitely feels like you're in Silent Hill. I didn't notice any difference in how this plays and any other big budget horror game. So why nobody cared for it, I have no idea.

I think she has potential to be the main villain. But then they get silly and go with the likes of Alcina Dimitrescu. A vampire mistress. LOL. Apparently, RE9 will feature a villain known as Mr. Simon. He's probably the guy who was talking to Lucas Baker in RE7, who is working for the Connections. This is seen in the Not a Hero DLC. I honestly think they are working on bringing back Umbrella as the primary threat, but how they go about doing it is a bit too slow for my liking. It could even be that the BSAA is not as good as they seem. But this is all rather confusing, giving how they introduce these story aspects in a vague manner. Because Chris working for Umbrella doesn't feel in any way right.

This is something I only just found out about this morning. This is after initially hearing about Tango Gameworks being closed down. Microsoft still has the rights to The Evil Within IP. I'm relieved to learn about Krafton buying the company. The Evil Within will (hopefully) return, because I love the series! 😋

I hope everyone on VGR has a nice Christmas, followed by a great start to 2025. 👍

Police Story with Jackie Chan has the best stunts of his whole career. His Hong Kong movies were always better than the pre-Rumble in the Bronx crap he did in the US. 🤓 I also recommend Project A, as he does some awesome things in that film. And in one scene, he literally falls from a clock tower while he is handcuffed. 🥶

This is pretty LOL. An evil elevator that causes the deaths of people in it or close to it. Really? 🤣 It's by a Dutch director, known for directing Golden Earring music videos.

Last night, I downloaded this YouTube app that halts those irritating ads. I then watched 1981's Ghostkeeper. It's a very obscure Canadian film about three people who meet an old lady after being out in the snow, but she's a strange one. Then one of the group is soon killed. It's a bit slow moving, but watchable.

Since RE9 is likely far away from coming out, what are you hoping becomes of the series in general? I recall some new game with Rebecca Chambers set in a med school was supposed to be the third Revelations game. However, it was likely just gossip. Nothing has been officially confirmed, so maybe it was completely axed. I definitely want the storyline with Alex Wesker to return somehow. Barry Burton adopted Natalia, and you could see the girl was reading a book, with a sinister grin. This suggests Alex is controlling her mind. So despite her death on that island, her body swapping experiment seems to have been a success. But as it is, Capcom often introduces new story aspects, then chooses to ignore much of it. Thus constantly creating a big mess in the canon.

That's becoming normal with games in this era, unfortunately. They show a trailer and then no news arrives for a year or more, making you think it was quietly cancelled. Like for example, Abandoned. I don't think we can expect that will ever be completed, let alone even released.

Tonight, I watched The House of the Dead. It's an obscure 70's film about a guy who meets a mortician. He explains how people died, but all of the stories are rather unusual. But I doubt many people know of this movie.

Here is the full list of the films that were once prohibited in the UK. https://www.imdb.com/list/ls051364249/

Capcom milks the cash cow all the time, so maybe ask them. 😅

I have seen a lot of movies more than 10 times. But Home Alone is just so funny. Christmas ain't the same without it. 🏠

Rambo: First Blood Part II. The way Sly wipes out the enemy camp is awesome, and peak 1980s. 😉

I honestly don't know. I have no idea when the likes of Silent Hill f is even coming out. Konami hasn't had any further news on it since the fall of 2022, for some reason. But I don't believe there's any games lined up any month soon, which is unfortunate.

GameFAQs is so bad, by the way. It's not just multiplayer games either. The users basically waste their time engaging in flame wars, and then saying you made a new sock account if you disagree. And it's pointless to retaliate, yet people do. The threads then get derailed.

As with any horror game, you learn to preserve ammo. Especially if it's rare. The thing with RE4, etc, is that they kind of partially skimped on that rule and introduced action oriented gameplay. No longer was ammo really a concern. I mean, it's the polar opposite. You kill enemies and then they gift you extra bullets. So why worry about finding ammo? You see, old PS1 horror type games never really focused on that. You always searched for important key items by looking in rooms. If you needed a key or a password to advance, your goal was to look for it. But in a lot of modern games, you kill a monster to acquire the key instead. Or they have it where you just obliterate a wave of enemies to get a door somehow unlocked. You will probably agree that old RE was the best example of survival horror. But games today are not that scary. You usually just spend the majority of the game having to constantly shoot at stuff. Then to make it a doddle, they actually add numbers on the screen to indicate where the next exit point is. That's just laziness. There was a time when you had to find the exit. And nobody had to depend on numbers or merchants, or stuff that makes the job a breeze. It simply served to ruin the genre, well and truly. But it did improve with RE7, I suppose. So that's a plus. But besides the gameplay, the storylines started to move beyond what they had conceived in the first place. Thus, people noticed that move was questionable and decided it was becoming too far removed from what it is meant to represent.

I enjoy videos on YouTube, where people like myself notice how dumb Resident Evil is now. Just copying stuff and everybody bar a few, seems to accept it. I just got done listening to someone saying RE has dumped science for fantasy. LOL. And that's absolutely true. RE7 was dumb. As dumb as it was, it had some RE style elements, being more survival horror in tone than that crappy RE6 ever was. But RE8 came out. LOL. I guess I've already repeated all my points about it, but holy hell, is that game just so dumb? It really has nothing to do with RE at all. Chris doesn't even look nor act like the Chris of old. He's an iconic character. One of the key personnel who battled Umbrella with Jill Valentine. Now he is just lame. Everything about that RE8 just cries 'farcical' to me. Because RE used to be about viruses, and you were dealing with the corporation that basically caused these outbreaks. Then it ended up being a franchise about cultists, hillbillies and vampires. LOL. RE5 and 4 are just shooters with the RE name on them. Once Albert Wesker was killed off, that was it. RE wasn't even really RE anymore. Yet I continued because, as you know, you get attached to things you grew up on as a teenager, or maybe even beforehand. But yeah. Capcom definitely ruined RE.

I seen Corruption with Peter Cushing. It is about a doctor who is in a club and some hippies begin to misbehave. He gets offended at a guy taking pictures of his wife. Something falls on her during a fight, which causes her to suffer an injury which leads to facial scarring. They go deranged and kill women for to obtain further skin grafts, as her face doesn't stay perfect for long. But then they rent a house by a beach and a group they encounter gets suspicious because of a lady they are looking for.

Days Gone will probably never receive a sequel. And that's sad. It was the best game of 2019, and like nothing I'd ever played before, except for The Last of Us. But you know? If a game is expensive to produce and it doesn't quite hit the mark, executives get pissed. You cannot blame them. But as a fan, it sucks.