Odyssey on Zinax's midnight train

Friday, August 6, 2010

Funny Warning Signs

Here's a collection gallery of some of the world's bizzare warning signs found throughout the land. You are likely  not going to find these on your front door. Enjoy!

WTH??
Hmm... Don't eat kids?
wait... something's definitely wrong here
Hey! a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

Story of a Lost Odyssey


 

For Those Who haven't heard of this game. This is a game created by the mistwalker company(Blue Dragon) for Xboc360 Exclusive made in 2007. It was voted the best RPG of the year with the soundtrack composed by our very own Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Series, Blue Dragon). The gameplay relies on turn-based battle system and free roam around towns, villages, and dungeons with breathtaking landscape around the world map. If you haven't played this game, I strongly suggest that you play it now, because the most appealing aspect is it's story and plotline of an immortal protagonist. I have been working on it's fan-novel containing all his journey's and such, so here it is. Please let me know by comments if there's something I need to improve on or fix. This work is not by any means related to the mistwalker company, it's purely fan-based or hobby based if you like.

Chapter 1: BEGINNING OF A LOST JOURNEY
  
The ever so cloudy sky grew darker as the lone emptiness of the barren wasteland that’s surrounded by rocky cliffs, was overcame by a horde of advancing armored mobile carriages. The sound of silence then was broken by the sound of the bumping wheels and heating engines of the vehicles. Then the vehicles stops right in front of the opening of the surrounding cliffs which is stretching to the sky with a straight road in the middle that is overlooking a huge barren field. The field was filled with bodies of soldiers, broken swords, and stench of blood which would indicate a place of battle.
       The back of the vehicles opens and there came out groups of golden armored soldiers equipped with a lance which was longer than a grown man’s height. Marching out as they were facing across the field. In a distance was an army with black armors equipped with a giant broadsword and grey human-sized shields. The golden army charged towards the black army ready to strike, countless broadswords came pouring down from the sky, piercing the golden army soldier’s armor which was impaling them to the ground. The black army’s soldier retrieved their swords and readied themselves for a head on assault. The moment of battle on the battle field was started by the clash of swords, shields, and lances.
    The killing begun, slashing, stabbing, piercing, all kind of ways were used. War cries of both armies echoed loud enough even to resound throughout the battlefield. The golden soldiers which had fallen on the face of the battlefield, were instantly revived by the chanting of nearby group of magicians. Such was the scenes of the decisive battle,
yet there’s one soldier who stands out amongst the rest. wearing a light armor armed with a sharp blade, having wavy long hair rushes through hordes of black warriors. One by one, the black soldiers fell by his blade. they tried to assault the man, though in vain as he gracefully avoids the enemies blade by a show of great agility and speed. Then a tank appears with each side equipped with flamethrowers and the middle attached a giant blade. The man faced the tank with a fearless face, he dodged the fire, avoided the blade and aims for the heavy tank’s left and right unit. After a series of continuous attacks both the flamethrowers are deactivated and fell off. The blade fell down, seeing this as a perfect chance he ran and climbed the blade, then at the final moment he jumped and pierced the tank’s sensor unit. The tank, which was now destroyed, fell and exploded.
    Suddenly an eerie sound was heard, a great crimson shadow looms over the entire battlefield.
All the soldiers were in a state of confusion, they all stopped fighting at that moment. Then a huge meteor appears, it’s surface cracked huge fragments fell down onto the battlefield. From the crack, lava pours down endlessly, consuming all that stand in it’s way. Sea of lava occupied the battlefield, as quick as the soldiers panic, which're soaring endlessly accompanying the lava flow. The soldier just stands there dumbstruck as the explosions blow all of the soldiers away. A few moments later, the dark cloudy sky began to shed some of its light down the ash-worn plane. There stood the soldier, unscratched just walking aimlessly on top of the remains of what once was a battlefield. Countless corpses of soldiers, machines were lying on the battlefield, as the ashes rains down upon them.  He makes his way back, walking steadily while holding his sword. The dawn overlooking the cliffs shines brightly, signaling yet another day at the Highlands of Wohl.

well that's a preview of it. I've been working on other works as well. I just want to share the wonders of such story to everyone out there. I want to show that even beautiful stories exist within a video game, within a fantasy that's all based on reality.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Parasit Eve 3rd Birthday


Can't Get any Sexier Than This


With The new trailer Square Enix released of Parasite eve The 3rd birthday Shown on E3 2010, It's hard to believe that the game's is developed on the psp console. This 3rd installment in the Parasite Eve franchise features an improved real-time action battle system, where as the ever so sexy Aya Brea can possess soldiers located throughout the battlefield. With Producer Yoshinori Kitase (Final Fantasy 7,8,10,13) which provides the story, Artist Tetsuya Nomura (Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts), and Composer Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts, Xenoblade, Last Ranker), The quality of the game will no doubt be spectacular. That though remains to be seen until Fall or Winter This 2010. I personally hope that there'd be an improvement on the story plot of the game, as I think that there'd be little material to write on after 2 prequels.

Mostly Anticipated Movie On September 2010

On September 2010 , one action movie is highly anticipated by all of resident evil fans across the Globe. Yes, that's right, the movie Resident Evil: Afterlife is to be shown on Theater on September 10th 2010, showing once more, Milla Jovovich from all the previous resident evil movies. This presumably last movie of the Resident Evil Franchise shows much promise compared to the last 3 movies. With much of the resident evil game character making a comeback to the movie, including the one and only Ultimate badass villain Albert Wesker which is played by Shawn Roberts (Land Of the Dead). The movie is said to be in 3d, which I think that it's not a good idea considering this years 3d movie effects failure. The storyline takes place after a major outbreak of the zombie virus. Alice must battle the Umbrella Corporation to prevent a race of clones called the "Undead" from completing the extinction of mankind.
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Produced by Paul W. S. Anderson
Jeremy Bolt
Robert Kulzer
Samuel Hadida
Bernd Eichinger
Written by Paul W. S. Anderson
Starring Milla Jovovich
Ali Larter
Wentworth Miller
Sienna Guillory
Shawn Roberts
Spencer Locke
Boris Kodjoe
Kim Coates
Kacey Barnfield
Sergio Peris-Mencheta
Norman Yeung
Music by tomandandy
Cinematography Glen MacPherson
Editing by Niven Howie
Distributed by Screen Gems
Release date(s) September 10, 2010 (2010-09-10)[1]
Country Germany
United Kingdom
United States
Budget $60 million
 Screenshot:
Seriously...Looks better in RE5
Wut? The Wesker here looks gay

Fallout online In 2 years??

It's such as shame for all the fallout fans out there, that Fallout-online is due to be released in 2 years. Anticipations are piling up as the beta website are officially launched which only contains the screenshot and registration. The website http://www.fallout-on-line.com/ only offers such limitations aside from the usual jazzy fallout music. One of a screenshot of a concept area are shown below:

 This Would indicate that we're playing using a Third person point of view. Having the possibilities of choosing between a human or a super mutant, though this's only my speculation, seeing as there're super mutants just sitting there beside the fire.


 Chris Taylor (creator of original fallout and director of this project) posted some interesting new posts from the official Fallout Online forum yesterday on July 3rd 2010:
  • There will be lots of PvP, but that won't be the only activity.
  • There will be restrictions. Our vision of PvP requires player consent.
  • PvP can occur pretty much anywhere in the world, but not all players can partake in PvP. This goes beyond the /duel command; there is a whole different system in play here. It's not the old EQ-style PVP switch. It's something new. We're just not ready to give details at this time.
  • If you heavily commit to PvP, you will be rewarded. It will be risky, but the rewards are designed to make it worthwhile. If you'd like to dabble in PvP, you will still be rewarded and won't risk as much. We hope to entice more people to be involved in PvP, without making it a requirement. 
The new pvp system gives something to be anticipated from this project. It nearly took 6 years on this project to be completed with 2 more years on the run. Hopefully This will be a huge success and further increase our love for the fallout world. Now Here's some Concept art from the fallout wikia website