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Silly
Video Games Category
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
100 Reasons Fanboys hate RPG
There are a few titles that I have played and somewhat liked- that’s after dealing with all the crap in this genre that causes me to stay away for the most part.
Rather than being alert and writing my own list of things I hate about RPG, the following video has done a nice job of condensing it for me and I can go back to actually DOING something.
Agree or disagree, but if you disagree, do it on your own site. ~Okay, just kidding, I’m always up for a good debate, but I’m getting tired of the snarky RPG player’s snarkiness. Damned snarkitude. There is also a chance I am soured on the genre because most of the games developers would send me for review were RPG games that seemed to be identical to the one I had just completed for review. There was a time when I just wanted to copy/paste a review on a different title from a different developer and just call it good. I’m still on RPG burn out.
I am an action/adventure gamer. I like going in full on, assessing the situation, solving the problems, leaving behind some corpses and moving on somewhat swiftly. Give me God of War, give me Arkham Asylum, give me Tomb Raider, and Prototype, and some Halo (not 3), Spider-Man etc. Call me a simpleton if you must, but it’s fast, fun, frustrating and freaking fantastic.
The title I’m popping in tonight is ‘Saw’- I’ve read mixed reviews and soon I’ll be able to give my own. I play so that you possibly don’t have to.
Current Mood:
bored
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
I Beat Arkham!
I hopefully can write a full review after I’m finished going back and getting all of the Riddles Solved.
I realize this game came out over half a year ago and the majority of gamers out there got the chance to play and beat it eons ago. Some of us took a little longer to jump on the new generation console, but praise for this game is still deserved.
I have to say though that the last 25% of the game began to go downhill [only slightly]. The game play that made this a phenomenal game were replaced by repetitive fighting scenes. Give me puzzles! Give me chances to be stealth and use my intellect to figure out how to get the bad guys while hiding in the shadows and using my awesome toys!
Over-all score: 9.4 Replayability? Hell yes.
Monday, February 15th, 2010
My Bane. My Hand. ACK!
The action continues through Batman Arkham Asylum and my poor hands are in so much pain right now! I’m stuck at the end of the (back) To The Batcaves! level right before you meet up with Ivy.
I made it through the Control Room, the Pressure Control Junction and now I’m stuck with a maniac mutant Titan, a horde of henchmen and I can’t seem to fight my way out!
I FINALLY got the Titan down to the last sliver of his health and only ONE henchman left- and then died. Again I died. I always die! Five times I’ve attempted to make it through [including spraying explosive gel before he bursts through the door and setting it off when the first round of henchman made it through]. NOW I’m going to have to start ALL over again and my patience is tried, my nerves are shot and I’m ready to throw in the towel for the night.
Earlier in the day I felt the frustration of the Croc’s Lair and after the pattern registered, I finally made it through after several failed attempts. Will I be able to muster through this annoying section as well? Will this game doom me? Is this not the best superhero video game EVER?
If you’ve made it through and you’ve got some helpful tips for beating this area, please share the love [and don't say, "Don't get hit"]
I believe the hardest is yet to come and I don’t know if I can make it! If the fights weren’t bad enough, I’ve had to deal with the fear inducing mind f’cks from Scarecrow, puzzles, riddles, deadly plants and electrified floors.
ACK!
UPDATE: Turn on ‘Bodies’ by Drowning Pool and you have it beaten before the song is over. Seriously, it was a breeze.
Current Mood:
UPSET!!!
Tags: Batman Arkham Asylum, Fight, HELP, Titans
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Two Day Weekend- DAMN IT!
This is not the game you are looking for
I’m not very fond of these two day weekends. The winter holidays spoiled me with 3 day weekends along with my sons school enabling the lengthy time spent away from the grindstone. The downside of the latter is that I use up all my PTO, but the additional day of sanity is worth it. — I just hope we don’t get sick!
Yesterday was spent impatiently fidgeting on the sofa sounding child like as I asked my son, “Can I play Batman Arkham Asylum yet?”
“No– be patient”
“But I am patient!”
“You aren’t.”
“That’s because I want to plaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!”
During my ‘time out’, I had a chance to think of the next game I wanted to get:
I wound up going to the neighborhood Gamestop to pick up a copy of DOA 4. Since finally getting an Xbox 360, I wanted to find a fun fighting game that would allow me to kick the butt of friends around the area and DOA has proven to be a decent game with fluid movement and breathtaking atmosphere [no- not the DOA girls]. I was so excited to find that it was reduced to the low price of 12.99, picked up, ran home and I practically tore it out of the case when I discovered they put a DOA Xtreme 2 disk instead of DOA 4. For those unfamiliar with the game, the Xtreme versions are when they take the DOA girls, put them in skimpy bikini’s and place them on a beach volley ball court. :-\ No wonder the girl who took my purchase looked at me funny.
Back into the car- I rushed to the store to find out that the person who brought in the game for resale had brought in the wrong disk. DOA 4 did not exist there. I traded it up for a Soul Caliber IV and as the guy was ringing me up, I asked, “Now this isn’t going to be the Soul Caliber bikini version… is it?”
“Noooo- I don’t think they’d make a game with Yoda in a bikini”
“Good, I also think that might be illegal.”
I did bring home the right game, however, due to the visual of Yoda in a bikini I can’t bring myself to play it yet.
Jonathon had more game testing to do [the wonderful part of the new consoles is the ability to download demo games and even some full version games for free]- It was like his birthday all over again, only better… in comparison to this past one at least.
While he was doing that, I logged onto to FSTDT for my daily dose of fundie stupidity. One in particular led me to a religious thread on Gamefaqs [why they have a religious section on Gamefaqs is unknown to me]. I’m flipping through it and I haven’t really been a voyeur in forums for religion in years, especially after I became a non-theist. Previously, although I wasn’t a theist or Christian etc., I did spend my times on forums about Buddhism, Wicca, Paganism and La Vey Satanism. That of course was many many years ago while I was still trying to educate myself on the various religions- why people believed certain ways and in a way I was still deprogramming myself from the cult like upbringing I had from being raised “non-denominational” evangelical raptard Christian.
Back to the story at hand… [sorry for trailing off]. I came across a thread inquiring if any Christians believed in evolution. Most non-f*cktard Christians actually do believe their deity did have a hand in evolution and see the evidence towards that theory and their idea of a creator do go hand in hand. On this particular thread it was created by a YEC [Young Earth Creationist] and they ignorantly bashed the concept of evolution at every turn, sounding like a complete idiot towards every atheist, agnostic, Christian and possibly other [I assume some people were probably Hindu and Buddhist as well, but it wasn't stated].
Example of stupidity from the original poster:
Calling atheism a religion. Fact: Atheism is as much as a religion as not collecting stamps is a hobby. An atheist is quite simply one who does not believe in a god, any god. He kept insisting that ALL atheists followed a dogma, that we all believed the same thing, that we’re a ‘type’– and many people constantly tried to correct, “The ONLY thing that atheists have in common is their LACK OF BELIEF in a deity.” Period.
Page after page I read feeling mesmerized by the ignorance and watching as it went from him discussing evolution to attacking atheism, going off topic even after everyone tried to get him to stay the course. He’d scoff at the debaters ‘lack of evidence’ despite them giving examples and sources. His stupidity became hypnotic.
One of the things that had me shaking my head and almost drawing a comic for was this:
The moron’s argument was that the book he’s citing is 2000 years old!! It has to be true!!! It’s two freaking thousand years old!!! [let's forget about all the lost literature due to burnings and destruction of civilizations over the course of those 2000 years-- What? They didn't run it through a printing press and make copies? Sucks to be them!
So after he's laughing at everyone for not believing in a TWO THOUSAND year old fable, he's presented with a poll and other resources dating back about 10 years and dismisses it, "Seriously that's from 1997- that's outdated!" :-\
It lead to the other clichés:
Moron: "HA HA HA I can't believe you guys believe that something happened out of nothing. You guys are idiots!" [paraphrasing]
Poster: “Okay then, who created the creator?”
Moron: “I can’t believe how stupid you are. No one created the creator. It’s too complex for us to understand.”
Poster: “So basically he just happened out of nothing… and you just believe that.”
Moron: “Well yeah.. the bible is 2000 YEARS OLD and it says so right in there!”
After that I finally got to play the game for about an hour, then I watched horrified as I stumbled across “Toddlers and Tiaras aka Strippers in Training” and then finished off my evening on Netflix with Penn and Tellers “Bull Shit”.
Bull Shit is full of profanity and gratuitous nudity- which I’m not a big fan of either, and although most of the things he was debunking, I already knew– it’s a decent watch. I think the only episode I saw that seemed sloppy and poorly executed was the one from Season 6 about ‘The Good Old Days”.
So that’s my weekend up until now. Currently I’m sitting on the sofa, fidgeting and asking Jonathon, “When can I play?”
“Be patient.”
“I am being patient!”
“Then stop asking…”
“But I want to play noooooooooooooooow!”
Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Rise to Honor PS2 Best Cheat Code/Hint/Tip
My butt was being completely beaten on a certain part of the game where the automatic save did not apply. You dodge, jump and fight a bunch of baddies but the baddies kept killing me and I had to start all over again.
In a desperate attempt to get past the level I resorted to looking up cheat codes. I know, I know– cheat codes are bad [but sometimes necessary]. In various areas I read and tried to apply multiple codes to no avail. None tested obviously and it was apparent they were randomly thrown into the cheat section without credibility.
FINALLY I saw a question in the cheat code forum that matched mine “Is there a cheat for not losing health?” and the answer was a straight forward: “Yeah, don’t get hit.”
Brilliant :-\ So brilliant in fact that I decided to post it for others who are in the same desperate state that I’m in.
Needless to say I tried the tip and I’m now playing “Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights”.
Current Mood:
Amused
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
The Art of G-rated Video Game Cursing
Playing video games my ENTIRE LIFE (starting with Pong…) has me swearing up a G-rated storm due to the fact that I began playing video games whilst visiting my Grandparents, then in the family home, I was a teen mother so I had little ones as I moved on my own and now my video game buddy is my son. Through the years my curse words have had to be unique enough to assist me through the frustrations of being stuck on a level, having a bunch of baddies ambush me and I’m low on life or just realizing the game SUCKS and not tainting the ears of the innocence around me.
Today I noticed my odd ‘vulgarities’ after I finished cleaning the floor with a ton of gun toting aliens and I looked over at my son who was staring at me wide eyed and then he started cracking up. What had him cracking up?
My foul language that spilled out with each hit, punch, kick, me jumping up and down trying to get past the barricade of extraterrestrial assassins.
Here are a few of the more colorful ones that I caught myself screaming for the love of the game.
1. Eat this you turtleneck wearing banshee bashing son of a creepy crawling egg toting thunder thigh!!! GAAAAAAAAH!
2. DIE you slimy snake sniffing jack rabbit bunder head!
3. Oooh so you think you can take me you no good lizard looking squishy cow tipping rednecking …MONSTER FACE!
You get the picture. When you’re playing an intense video and you have to ‘watch the language’, what words do you use to substitute for “DIE YOU GODDAMNED SON OF A F*CKING *S*LICKING A*SH*LE!”
Photo found on Google Images
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
More quick sketches
This latest was inspired while waiting for a game to load. I bought Jonathon MBL Power Pro’s 2008- And while I’m not a huge Baseball fan or a fan of any sports… I was reluctant in playing but I *promised* I would give it a shot on Sunday. I met the challenge with some scowling and muttering under my breath because for the first few innings I SUCKED- then all of a sudden something clicked and I got it! 
Current Mood: Silly
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
World of Warcraft: The culinary expansion pack
I admit that I never made it to the game play circle. I had a free trial offer that expired on me before I could use it (thanks to that brief moment of having a life right when the trial activated until it ran out) and then upon just going for the paid account sight/site unseen… there were issues with their payment page and I never got activated. I figured it was a sign from the cool Gods not willing to fully let me go to do the dork side. Ha ha ha get it, dork side? Yeah, I think it’s too late for me also.
Anyway, I was surfing around on my laptop that is fixed, INCLUDING the keyboard, and I saw on an RSS page that someone in Beijing has opened a WoW restaurant. Huh? I haven’t played the game but …really? There’s a need for it? People will eat there? There’s nothing in the game that might put off someone’s appetite say like… carnage and poor hygienic habits that I picture most players to… Oh come on, the South Park homage to the game is still playing fresh in my mind:
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The restaurant actually does look pretty cool and although the cuisine isn’t something I’d imagine in the game (I picture mead and slabs of raw meat) it doesn’t look horrible.
Should one not be CLEAR ACROSS THE FREAKING WORLD, I’d actually go to it. Let’s just hope this trend doesn’t catch on, I’d hate to a chain of GTA restaurants. I mean I don’t want to be off’ed or anything in the middle of my meal or get b*tch slapped by the wait staff.
Photos from CCTV
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Tags: Beijing, World of Warcraft
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
A Sith in time saves nine and my wacky weekend hijinxes
I didn’t want to help the Rebel Alliance. Truly I did not, and I don’t even care if this can be seen as a spoiler **WARNING STAR WARS UNLEASHED SPOILER** I was under the impression (due to my inability to research before I play a game or watch a movie) that I was going to be Lord Vader’s’ Apprentice. You know… wash the Death Star, fuel up the Tie Fighter and polish the helmet. Typical stuff that gets me into the dark side. I didn’t think that would be a Sim’s type of game where I do tedious tasks for the motions of “Wax on wax off” that would assist me with saber fighting or choking the enemy from across the room… but I thought I was going to be taken under Vader’s cape (not in the dirty sense) and assist him in fighting the Rebel Alliance.
No such luck. For the first two decades of my life it was hopeful that I would be part of the magnificent 3- Vader, the Emperor and me. I even drew pictures and stuck them on my fridge as a daily motivator. The game had a horrible twist and the next thing I knew I was working FOR the Alliance, and not against them. Sadly I continued with the game play, apologizing as I kicked the Dark Lords butt and then sobbed uncontrollably when I had to take the Emperor down. “NO!!!!!!” It was a traumatizing game to say the least.
The game is completed. 11 hours and a lifetime of traumatize, I suggest you rent it if you really want to play the game and avoid adding it to your collection. I highly doubt there’ll be a decent resale value, unless PS3 has a completely different experience than the PS2. The levels are wash, rinse and repeat. There’s absolutely nothing challenging, nothing to figure out- you move forward across the storyboard, kick bad guy butt (while dealing with the annoying camera that causes tons of frustration because you’re losing life while trying to get the damned camera turned around so you can see who to attack as you’re cornered.) The controllers caused the same frustrations “I was trying to levitate the Storm Trooper to the right not the chair on the far left!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!” “DAMN DAMN DAMN!!!” <- I said that a lot this morning while ending the game. My fists also hit the floor several times due to the shoddy controls and camera angles.
Finally when you’re at the final boss stage, there are no special tricks or techniques to taking them down… just keeping doing it and follow the pattern and then voila, you’re finished. I miss the games where each take down requires different skills sets- the rare games that call for intellect and arsenol/skills that vary depending on the level and baddie. Unleashed is pretty much your run of the mill “Why was there so much hype surrounding this” game that had so much potential and no follow through to the promises that began about a year ago.
I didn’t feel sorrow when Jonathon and I walked over to Hollywood Video and I dropped it in the bin. I was not sad to see it go.
Speaking of Jonathon… he’s once more anxious for Halloween to arrive because Halloween = Darth Vader costume 
He wants me to be Ben Kenobi so we can fight. He doesn’t need Halloween for that! We did spend a portion of the weekend going through our NYC pics. He kept sighing while we went through the sights and our friends, “That was the happiest day of my life… wait- THAT was the happiest day of my life… no that was the happiest day of my life!” “Sweetie, how about it was happiest week of your life?” “That was the happiest week of my life *sigh*” “Mine too.” And then of course we came across the pic of him and Ben standing by the “In case of Sith, Break Glass” (squeal) I think until Jonathon finds another media created passion, we’re stuck with SW for a little longer.
Television season has arrived- and I’ve yet to be impressed by anything I’ve seen. Chuck- meh. Knight Rider- nuh uh. How I Met Your Mother (yawn), Big Bang Theory- nope, My Name is Earl- twas okay… The Office- Ooops I forgot to watch, Heroes- Yeah it was good… and I think that’s it so far.
Iron Man comes out on DVD and Blu-Ray Tuesday. YEE! That’s my highlight. I need something to pump my blood and get me working out again. This weekend was a total binge weekend. Because of the car frustrations I completely wanted to revert- grab a cigarette light up and fall prey to the evil that is the stinky stick. I didn’t. I instead stuffed my face full of everything I could. I swear if it wasn’t for running into old lovers I’d probably weigh 300 lbs by October 1st. After this weekend I feel like it’ll be close to 290lbs though.
The new Simpson’s is on so I’m going to go watch that and say thank you for not waiting two months into the new television season this time before airing it.
In the meantime- NKOTB, I saw their video today… I just have to say, “Please go away. Please?” I also tried the Dominos Subs because when I went into work yesterday I over heard some people poking fun of the advertisement… but it did sound good…. I got the Philly for me and Chicken Ranch for Jonathon… not bad and worth the price, HOWEVER, I think Quizno’s sensed the new gimick because apparently they can’t make pasta.. and now Quizno’s is going to deliver. I keep going to the Quizno site to see if they’re doing it in my area yet… or even my work location… no such luck. 
Ciao for now bellas.
The living room I haven’t rearranged in two months and the cat I didn’t kill.
Current Mood:
Angelic & Angelic & Angelic & Angelic & Angelic & Angelic & Angelic
