Raw Consciousness

VIDEO GAMES - Deception...

I gotta say I am really looking forward to read the reviews and buying Mortal Kombat: Deception. I just read it went gold. Why is this? Because at the last E3 it basically promised to solve all the problems and pet peeves that I had with Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.

Basically Mortal Kombat Deadly alliance was probably the best fighting-gameplay of all Mortal Kombats, but it was surprisingly a "light" on the usual myth, gore and dark art that makes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat. Imho of course (I still bought it).

But Deception from what I saw at E3 really seems to address all those concerns, so I am really looking forward to it. At this point when I play a fighting game I want to see some nice art with an "environment" and character development...

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY - day at the beach...

I went this weekend with my boyfriend to the beach (Malibu beach). Just decided to create a photo album as I think some photos turned out pretty nice....

Check out the album by clicking here.

Comments welcome!

PS: I made no attempt to crop/reframe some of these shots, which could benefit immensely from it - in particular two photos of the "living statue" woman... She rocked I gotta say!

MY LIFE - so close....

Maybe we are done, or just a day or two more. Today was more relaxed for me (finally!) and I do intend to see my boyfriend tomorrow. Ummm I guess is too early still to call it that, but, it's also close to there.

I am so tired and some bad news: I weight a lot again. ARGGH It's the eating more than anything. Gotta go back to those salads...

MY LIFE- Where is Insomniac Raist?

At work, crunching on RC3: Up Your Arsenal.

In the last weeks I have witnessed this game go from great to simply superb. I know I work on it, I know it may be taken as a self-serving comment, but really it isn't. This game has some of the funniest cutscenes, graphics and gameplay elements I have seen on a PS2 game.

I must put the disclaimer that I haven't played (or hardly played) the game for real, so aspects of the gameplay, specifically how they feel I really can't say.. but all is looking and points to be one of the best PS2 games done.

So yeah, I am still working a lot of hours. We are near done.

- Raist