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Top 10 Best games (Non Online)

April 18th, 2008 by chewy
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#10 CastleVania: The Symphony of the Night
A masterpiece.  A good challenge.  This beat out all the other wonderful CastleV games because this was the one that had it all.

#9 Blaster Master for Nintendo Entertainment System
This game was HARD.  And huge.  And simply bad ass.  What else is there to say?  Not to be confused with “Master Blaster” from Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome (Thanks Steams).  By the way, how can it be  “beyond” thunderdome, if all the events happen at or around the thunderdome?

Anyway…

#8 Metroid for Nintendo Entertainment System
This game was HARD.  And huge.  And simply bad ass.  I guess this was a trend for some NES games.

#7 Aliens Versus Predator for Atari Jaguar
This game was scary and was basically 3 games in one.  I must have beaten this game more than a dozen times.

#6 Metal Gear Solid for Sony PlayStation
A loved game.  I could not put this one down.  Some of the best PS1 graphics.  and an AWESOME story.

#5 Resident Evil for Sony PlayStation
It was so cutting edge, nothing was like it.  There was Alone in the Dark, but RE was cooler.  I actually created a “survivor” mode in this (before there was survivor mode) where I put on a cheat so I could run around and not kill any zombies but collect all the weapons and ammo.  Then I challenged my friends to try and survive as long as possible without using health spray or herbs.  I had 4 levels (from 4 sections of the game).  I may still have the saves…hmm.

#4 Resident Evil 4 for Nintendo Game Cube
This is by far the best RE game ever made.  This also is one of the best action games ever made.  Period.

#3 Mercenaries for Microsoft Xbox
GTA3 impressed, but this is better simply because I had more fun playing it.  The explosions were some of the best seen on the Xbox and you could call in all sorts of toys and military air strikes.  Mercs 2 will be awesome!

#2 Perfect Dark for Nintendo 64
This is Goldeneye but better!  The first game I could play co-operatively with “Bots”.  Think T-hunt if you could program a hand full of respawning terrorist and create literally 100’s of game modes.

And the #1 game…
The Legend of Zelda for Nintendo Entertainment System

By far this is the best Zelda IMO.  There was not much of a story as it was a huge adventure.  This beat out LOZ: Orcania of Time because of a personal story with this game.  As a kid I actually went on a quest to get this game (and it had to be the gold cart), I searched for it two whole separate days in the snow (okay up to the time I was allowed to go out to the time I had to be home).  It was a great day when I finally found it.
The Gold Cart

Honorable Mention
River City Ransom for Nintendo Entertainment System.

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10 Best and worst scenes in Starwars

March 28th, 2008 by chewy
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Best

#10 “Negotiations” on Trade Federation ship.
When those sabers busted out, I almost jumped from my theater chair and yelled, “Oh yeah, it is time, get ready droid jerks, you going see what’s up, come and get some bitches!”  They were wrecking up the ship until the droid dekas showed up with freaking ray shields…(WTF!)

#9 Grevious versus Kenobi
Kenobi was bad-ass to jump down in the middle of it all to bust up the joint.  Nice finish with Kenobi going against his beliefs and using a blaster to kill him.

#8 Arena battle on Genosis
Some Great, chariot gladiator-esque heroics.  Yet another Yoda bail out (dude, he rocks, but can keep doing it all).

#7 Vader Versus Kenobi 1 on Mustafar
This was an epic battle, some of which mimic the other epic battle between Vader and Luke on Cloud city.

#6 Jabba sand barge
Excellent battle, sneaky R2 saber launch (eat it Jabba!), Bobba Vette, Lando, Chewie, oh and Leia in Slave outfit.

#5 Hoth battle
Best battle scene ever.  The best being Han Solo still throwing down the mack on Leia, while Vader was right around the corner.

#4 Jango Vett Versus Obi-Wan Kenobi
This has to be one of the best one on one battles in the entire series.

#3 When Anakin turns to the dark side and is named Darth Vader by Darth Sidious.
“Do what must be done, Lord Vader. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy!”  There are possibly the greatest lines in the new trilogy.

#2 When Yoda agrees to train Luke.
It was pretty bone chilling when Yoda asked Luke if he was scared, then said “You will be, you…will be”

And the #1 best scene in entire series…
The first Vader versus Luke battle in “The Empire Strikes Back”.
This is where we see Luke encounter his biggest struggle, both physical and mental.  He looses his hand and can not handle his father being Darth Vader.  He would rather die than take his fathers hand.  He tries to off himself.

The Worst

#10 Mace Windu v. Palpatine
Mace and 3 other bad-ass Jedi are going to take down a possible sith lord.  I am fine with Palpatine taking them all out, but what the F was second Jedi looking at when his bud was sabered up.  The dumbass just watches as his bud just bites it.  Watch it again, if you missed it, he is LOOKING THE WRONG FREAKING WAY…weak dude…who coria-craped that horse donkey shite.  Then to end the scene with some of the worst lines ever “I am going to end this once and for all”, “no, don’t kill me, I’m too weak”, “Power, Unlimited power”…Bollocks!

#9 Yoda v. Dooku

While it was sorta cool, it still bites because it was not a saber fight.  It reminded me of a guy trying to swat a crazy fast jumpity frog.  Nope not fun.

#8 Battle Droids versus Gungans
Ouch time?! wtf, “we’sa have a grand army”, shut the F up Jar Jar, your weapons are shite, who the F is afraid of blue dodge balls.  Kiss my ass with that load of crap.  Their should have been ZERO Gungans left and the freaking battle should have lasted like 2 minutes.  Also, can someone tell me why deactivated droids falls apart…Who wrote that down and who did not say “idiots, they were just turned off, all the freaking screws are still in there, so no, that is dumb, your fired you nut and take the idiot with “lets try left, yeah that seems like a good move” with you”.

#7 Droid foundry on Genosis

We see R2D2’s hover jets for the first time, great, but what the hell was that garbage with C-3PO?  Again some of the worst CG and totally unbelievable situation with 3PO.  How can a stiff walking reject protocol boy be able to hold on for dear life and how come his head pops off so easy?

#8 Vader versus Kenobi 2 on Death Star 1
Why, two old men moving so slow, that after watching how fast a saber battle should be (Yoda v. Dooku), this is just too geriatric for me.  They should have just stopped and sat down and talked about old times until the sun went down.

#7 R2-D2 versus the Super Battle Droids in the hanger bay of Invisible Hand
This was some of the hokiest CG and some of the dumbest behavior of droids.  In fact, this had to have set back movie robots like 10 years.

#6 Jango Vette v. Mace Windu
Either Mace should have killed him like the badass jedi he is supposed to be or Jango should have handed him his ass but gets balled out by Anakin.  Jango should have not died simply because his “loaner” jetpack was busted up.  This scene left piles of dung in another scene just to set up this ill conceived wardrobe malfunction.  They had to show him loose the “good” jetpack when “some-freaking-how” his jetpack just pops the hell off (WHAT!?) in a previous battle with Kenobi.  This scene reminded me of the WWE when none of the big names wanted to loose straight up, so they set up some gimmic (like the brass knucks in the shorts trick) to let one win while the other still saves face, sorta.  So they kill Boba Vette like a puss, then kill his father the same freaking way, give me a break.  Even Mace was surprised that Jango bit it that fast.

#5 Order 66
While the idea was good, the scenes seemed so forced (except Yoda’s), pelch!
How come Commander Cody just needed to say “Blast em” to get the gunner to shoot his General (Kenobi)? DUMB.
Why was Ki-Adi-Mundi charging ahead like a freaking civil war general? DUMB.
Why did Aayla Secura impelish her fall (before a blaster hit her) like a NFL punter? DUMB.

#4 Anikan “flying” naboo fighter (At end of Episode I).
Because it was crap.  There is no way an armature (at best) star pilot can accidently destroy the entire freaking droid command ship.  His ass would have been shot down as soon as he released auto pilot.  No, this is NOT pod racing, you little bastard.  I keep telling my self that R2-D2 did all the work, and little Anni was just playing with fisher price buttons.

And the #1 worst scene in entire series
(and also sucks donkey spit)…
When Anakin talks to Padme in her apartment on Coruscant.
Look how stupid this looks on paper…how did this even make it the set?
ANAKIN: You are so beautiful!
PADME: It’s only because I’m so in love . . .
ANAKIN: No, it’s because I’m so in love with you.
PADME: So love has blinded you?
ANAKIN: Well, that’s not exactly what I meant . . .
PADME: But it’s probably true!

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Steamweasel avitar progress

March 13th, 2008 by chewy
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Here is a quick screen capture of the steamweasel avitar body.  The Yellow things are features of the animation rig.  The rig is a work in progress (a “lot” of work in progress).  More to come.

Steamweasel-basemodel

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Blender

March 13th, 2008 by chewy
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Blender is a freeware 3D modeling package.

Check it out at www.blender.org

It works similar to 3D Studio Max and contains an amazing amount of features and tools.

I am currently using it to build Steamweasel models for animation skits.

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Modular intelligence

March 10th, 2008 by chewy
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With the invention of the now vast internets, I can be as knowledgable as I want to be in nearly endless subjects.  Then when I am done with that information, I can dump it for more information (this happens naturally due to not using the information).

We can actually do what Neo did in the matrix (at a much slower spead however) when he learned how to fly a helicopter and learn Kung Fu.

I have learned/learning how to Blog, use 3D design software, about animal speices, just to name some of top of my head.

We all know there is false info in the vast internets.  Learn to use the tool and you will know what is false and what is truth.

I propose that the internet is the next evolution of the mind.  We have basically brought all minds together into a hive of intelligence that we all can tap into.

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Top Ten Movie Antagonists

February 24th, 2008 by chewy
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My choices were based on..

  • How delighted I was when the Antagonist met demise and/or got the ass beat.
  • How many nightmares I had after watching the movie.
  • How bad of an ass beating could I imagine receiving from the Villain.
  1. Bill the Butcher, Played by Daniel Day Lewis in “Gangs of New York”.
  2. John Doe, played by Kevin Spacey in “Se7en”.
  3. Queen Xenomorph, Portrayed by various puppeteers in “Aliens”.
  4. Xenomorph, Portrayed by Bolaji Badejo in “Alien”.
  5. Darth Vader, Played by David Prowse, voiced by James Earl Jones in “Starwars” original trilogy.
  6. The Yautja, portrayed by Kevin Peter Hall in “Predator”.
  7. Pinhead, portrayed by Doug Bradley in “Hellraiser”.
  8. T-1000, portrayed by Robert Patrick in “Terminator 2 (T2): Judgement Day”.
  9. Skeksis, SkekUng, The General, portrayed by Jim Henson’s Puppet masters in “The Dark Crystal”.
  10. The Creature, Portrayed by various puppeteers in the movie “The Thing”.

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Chewy’s “Get Down” place

February 24th, 2008 by chewy
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When you see me online, there is where I am.

Beware, my whole house is under construction so the backdrop will appears a little rough.

Also, I found it hard to unclutter my desk since this is what it normally looks like.

Game station shot 1

Game station shot 2

Game station shot 3

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Forgot how to log-in…

February 21st, 2008 by chewy
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I lost where the log-in link was…because this theme did not have one…silly me.

I will add the log-in back so I do not forget that again…

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Shite, it is hard to blog when you do not know what a blog is….

February 14th, 2008 by chewy
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A blog (a portmanteau of web log)

Good, now I know…wait, what does portmanueau mean…

A portmanteau (IPA: /pɔrtˈmæntoʊ/), plural portmanteaux, is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning.

So a blog is “web log” but with a loaded meaning…wha…

Anyway, from what I can tell, this is a place to post stuff that interest me…well that’s what shall do.  Excuse me as I fumble with some controls to make this thing work (I would make a terrible wizard behind the curtain).

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