Sketching - 唐詩三百首 - 宿王昌齡隱居,常建

宿王昌齡隱居,常建
清溪深不測，隱處唯孤雲。
松際露微月，清光猶為君。
茅亭宿花影，藥院滋苔紋。
余亦謝時去，西山鸞鶴群。

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Sketching — 唐詩三百首 — 宿王昌齡隱居,常建 was originally published in hetalink on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Creation video (~2 min)

春泛若耶溪, 綦毋潛
幽意無斷絕，此去隨所偶。
晚風吹行舟，花路入溪口。
際夜轉西壑，隔山望南斗。
潭煙飛溶溶，林月低向後。
生事且瀰漫，願爲持竿叟。

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Creation video (~1.5 min)

同從弟南齋翫月憶山陰崔少府, 王昌齡
高臥南齋時，開帷月初吐;
清輝澹水木，演漾在窗戶。
苒苒幾盈虛 ? 澄澄變今古。
美人清江畔，是夜越吟苦。
千里其如何 ? 微風吹蘭杜。

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Sketching — 唐詩三百首 — 同從弟南齋翫月憶山陰崔少府, 王昌齡 was originally published in hetalink on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Creation video (~1 min)

夏日南亭懷辛大, 孟浩然
山光忽西落，池月漸東上。
散髮乘夕涼，開軒臥閑敞。
荷風送香氣，竹露滴清響。
欲取鳴琴彈，恨無知音賞。
感此懷故人，中宵勞夢想。

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Creation video (1.5 min)

青谿, 王維
言入黃花川，每逐青谿水。
隨山將萬轉，趣途無百里。
聲喧亂石中，色靜深松裏。
漾漾泛菱荇，澄澄映葭葦。
我心素已閒，青川澹如此。
請留盤石上，垂釣將已矣。

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Creation Video (~3min)

佳人, 杜甫
絕代有佳人，幽居在空谷。
自云良家子，零落依草木。
關中昔喪亂，兄弟遭殺戮。
官高何足論? 不得收骨肉。
世情惡衰歇，萬事隨轉燭。
夫婿輕薄兒，新人美如玉。
合昏尚知時，鴛鴦不獨宿。
但見新人笑，那聞舊人哭?
在山泉水清，出山泉水濁。
侍婢賣珠迴，牽蘿補茅屋。
摘花不插髮，采柏動盈掬。
天寒翠袖薄，日暮倚修竹。

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Creation video (~2.5 min)

贈衛八處士, 杜甫
人生不相見，動如參與商。今夕復何夕，共此燈燭光！
少壯能幾時？鬢髮各已蒼！訪舊半爲鬼，驚呼熱中腸。
焉知二十載，重上君子堂。昔別君未婚，兒女忽成行。
怡然敬父執，問我來何方？問答乃未已，驅兒羅酒漿。
夜雨剪春韭，新炊間黃粱。主稱會面難，一舉累十觴。
十觴亦不醉，感子故意長。明日隔山嶽，世事兩茫茫。

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Creation video (~2 min)

春思, 李白
燕草如碧絲
秦桑低綠枝
當君懷歸日
是妾斷腸時
春風不相識
何事入羅幃?

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In this last part of the 3-part finale of the column, we will wrap up with 10 titles in the span of 8 years. These are mostly pretty famous titles that we continue to get sequels or the game morphed into franchises. The gaming industry continues to improve the 3D rendering capabilities, HDR, and improving shadows and some raytracing that make some of these games visual feats.

Aside from all that, the game also improves the way storytelling is done. Games such as Bioshock, God of Wars III, Uncharted were all series that pushed the limit of game stories into the realm of cinematics, where players really felt for the in-game characters.

Again, these games fall into a special category since they are either 1) ones I had fond memories of, but didn’t play enough to really write a full article for; 2) ones that are already widely reviewed and I don’t have much to add. By walking through these games with me, I hope to shed some light on the history of game design and reflect on how gaming technologies have evolved.

Without further ado…

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (a.k.a KOTOR, PC, 2003)

Back in a time when good Star Wars games were rare, this one shines like a bright jewel. It’s completed with all the great traits of Star Wars stories — the good vs evil, technologies vs spiritual power, an impressive central story with memorable characters — yet players are presented with choices from who to play and how the story plays out, which make the game worth replaying over and over.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (PC, 2004)

After the success of ‘ The Sands of Time’, Warrior Within took an intentional step taking players into a darker, grimer world where the prince found himself descending into chaos in consequence of using the power of the Sands, which connects to the inner conflict in The Two Thrones. The game impresses the player with the same fun of ‘time manipulation’ — gaining sands allows players to reverse a bit of time when mistakes are made. I remember the game came with a weird background music that threw me off a bit 🙂

Titan Quest (PC, 2006)

It’s essentially Diablo with the story of Odyssey. It’s fun and educational if you ask me. Highly recommended!

Gears of War (XBox 360, 2006)

I played through this game on a XBox 360 that’s not mine, and not at home, just because it really impressed me how well it played and beautiful (and violent) the whole experience is. I don’t recall ever running into the infamous red ring of death, but I do remember the console’s fans were full the whole time, to the point that the box worked well as a small room heater…

Portal (PC, 2007)

it’s a spin-off of Half-life, it’s an amazing sci-fi first-person puzzle-platform game. There are no humanoid enemies coming at you or the pressure to kill them before they kill you… but there’s a psychopath AI called GLaDOS 🙂 Oh, and it sings hilariously at the end of the game (spoiler)

Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii, 2007)

I can’t praise this game on Wii. The game itself is already very well done, but with the way the control is designed on Wiimotes, it made the whole aiming so realistic and the whole experience became very immersive.

Bioshock (PC, 2007)

The perfection — combining beautiful graphics, amazing music, engaging storyline full of twists and turns, satisfying gameplay that makes you want to replay it even though it’s still just a linear story/world… I can’t wait to reunite with big-daddy and the little-sisters in the next installment.

Okami (Wii, 2008)

Similar to Resident Evil 4, this is another great port to Wii that took full advantage of Wii’s revolutionary control system. It works exceptionally well for players who use the wii-mote and write various pen-strokes to summon attacks. Its cute and awesome story is created with Japanese/Chinese ink brush art and that’s just freaking amazing as it is still a 3D world in the game.

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3, 2009)

So, this game was so good they have been made into a motion picture starring the Spider-man 😀 OK, I heard that movie was just OK, but this game was impressive. I don’t remember it being particularly hard yet, they made the experience quite immersive with smooth transitioning between gameplay and the beautiful cinematics. I definitely can see how this game inspire the successful reboot of the whole Tomb Raider series a few years after

God of War III (PS3, 2010)

It’s beautiful, it’s violent, and it’s an amazing alternative story to Greek mythology. Just look at the video above, starting at 04:05, the epic first battle still leaves a great impression on my mind.

Closing words…

It’s in the can! This is the bitter sweet finale of the Nostalgic Game Review column! Thank you for stopping by. Who knows, maybe in another few years, I will restart this column writing games in this past decade 😀 Keep playing and have a lot of fun!

Originally published at https://heta.link on April 23, 2022.

Nostalgic Game Review Finale: Part III (2002–2010) was originally published in hetalink on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Creation video (~1.5min)

月下獨酌, 李白
花間一壺酒
獨酌無相親
舉杯邀明月
對影成三人
月既不解飲
影徒隨我身
暫伴月將影
行樂須及春
我歌日徘徊
我舞影零亂
醒時同交歡
醉後各分散
永結無情遊
相期邈雲漢

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