Activision - Tony Hawk Ride - FAIL!!!

Bout Time!! If you follow this blog, then you must know I have a hate-on for Activision. Well now, its good to see them fall on their face. It starting to feel like the early 90's all over again with the power glove (or was that late 80's) Nintendo pad, Sega CD X turbo super duper combo gigiMc-goo!!

The new ride looks and feels like it should. If you already know how to skateboard, then you will have a easier time learning this than someone who doesn't. But games arn't suppose to be like that, they are suppose to give people the feeling of being able to do things that they can't normally do in the real world.(like get hands from hookers and then beat them to get your money back in GTA)

This is a great review of the game, I love it. I can watch it over and over!

Video Games | Tony Hawk: Ride | Review

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

I especially like the video of the dog on the board. Great, that really shows how well built this shitty ass piece of hardware is. It can be played by a Dog!! (Or is this suppose to support the game and show people, just how easy it is? IF that's the case, are you saying consumers are just has smart has dogs?!. I don't like where this is going Mr Activision!!

Top 50 Horrible Voice Acting

Since listening to the horrible voice acting in Conan I came across this video. I don't know if its a trend, but the majority of the bad acting comes from anime type games. Big head, big elaborate hair, Outfits that look like they are made from 2-3 other outfits, giant eyes, little tiny mouths, small noses and can't tell if they are a boy or girl syndrome. Or I could just be looking for things to fuel my hate-on for Anime. ( I do like some, a teeny tiny bit)

Video Games | | Top 50 worst videogame voice acting

XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii

Conan - Xbox 360

Just got finished Conan. I gotta say, its not a bad game. It was alot more enjoyable than Dark Sector, not that "that" game was bad. I just enjoyed Conan alot better. I have a few gripes with the game, but overall, its not bad at all.

Yummies, (couldn't think of a word for pro's)

1. The gameplay is pretty fun, very god of war like, but without the polish. Very rough around the edges in regards to hit detection and the like.

2. Conan has 3 skill sets he can choose from, sword and shield, double weapons, and two-handed fuck you weapons. I went with the sword and shield. I like to play a little defense. Each skill set can be played on the fly. He can he caring a sword and shield and then pick up a two-handed weapon on the ground. Pretty simple, and of course each weapon has their own set of skills to learn. Kinda like ninja Gaiden, but no where near has involved.

3. There is enough variety with weapons and kills to keep the gameplay fun and feeling new.

Grips or Grips (Kinda like wind and wind, record and record)

1. Jumping. Conan I guess was never known for his jumping skills. LOOKOUT , CONAN IS JUMPING TOWARDS US!!!!! No worries, he will just misjudge the jump and fall to his death or just not jump at all and run of the ledge to his death. WoW, the game really captured that part of the comics. I soo remember reading all the times Conan jumped to his death, or tried too.


2. The loves cheap hits, not since streets of rage or double dragon have I come across a game where enemies will surround and punch you to death, no matter what button you press. You cannot move or dodge or run, nothing. You bounce around like a pinata from one sword to another.

3. The graphics arn't that great. ok, that's being nice. This looks more like a PS2 game, cut scenes and all. They really didn't pull their weight on this game.

4. The voice acting is some of the worse I've heard in a long while. Half the time I couldn't take it seriously and just chuckled through what was saying. Even the very last lines of the game when the woman was telling the last parts of teh story, I still don't know what she said. I wasn't listening, all I heard was a over the top,"NOW HEAR ME CONAN, blah blah, blah, blah!!
Through the whole game I am going, "I've heard Conan's voice before, AAHH, that's right, it's Ron Pearlman!".
God did he never not want to do this project. I like Ron Pearlman, but did he ever drop the ball on this gig. I think he phoned in the dialogue while he was taking a shit, its just plain BAD!!


With that, the games not half bad. I enjoyed it more than Dark Sector and I finished the game in little over 6 hrs. One thing I didn't like and this was Xbox related. During Quicktime events, they would flash, B,Y,A,X and I don't use the Xbox controller alot. So when the buttons would flash, I would quickly glance down to see where the buttons were. But of course you only get a split second to tap the correct button. And that second that it took me to look, made me die, ALOT!!!

I had the same thing with Kung-fu Panda, but that one was a little more forgiving because its a kids game. But this was hardcore, there were titties in this game, BOOBS!!


So with that, if and when a game does come out for both systems, I will probable stick with the PS3. I am just more familiar with the controller, dieing all the time cause I hit the red button and not the yellow button gets old fast.

So, Conan - Good - like boobies and toast.

PS3 Firmware 3.10

So an updated started last night and my first reaction was ,"oh crap!" I got it confused with the 3.01 update that made alot of PS3' not able to play blueray disc.

It updated and I stuck a disc in and it played just fine. So with that, I went to explore what was added.

1) Facebook linked with PS3 account. ummmm, no thank you. Its all optional, you can have your account linked to your facebook. So it will show your trophies has you get them, store purchases and gaming. I'm glad that its optional, this and home are the 2 most useless things on the PS3.


2) It updates how you view photos. So instead of a big list of photos, there' a selection of thumbnails in a selection box. Much more navigable. But because I don't have any photos, this is pretty blah. I mean its more efficient if you use this feature, but were that many people complaining that they had to scroll to look at their pictures?!.

3) My favourite, you can change the color of your PSN display card. So where it use to be grey, now you can select from of selection colors. So now instead of a list of grey where your friends list is, now its a rainbow of colors.

No Cross Game chat like everyone was saying, with the rumors and all. That's very sad. I like the new color feature. I hope eventually that they make a more elaborate feature to snazzy up the friends card. It starts with colors to eventually theme cards, which we will probable have to buy. But you know what, I will happily buy a theme or 2 for the right price.

Dark Sector - Xbox 360

I've finally gotten some time to play one of the two games that have been sitting on my shelf since Christmas of last year. Mainly because these aren't games that I was interested in, they just came has bonus games with the Xbox 360 bundle. Not to say they are bad games, they are just games that I would not buy on my own.

So is Dark Sector Bad?..No. Its not the best FPS I've played, but by no means does it fall into the category of some of the worst FPS I've played. Haze, Fall of Liberty comes to mind for Bad FPS.

So here is me trying to keep it simple( I doubt that)




Good.

1) Using the Glaive and all its powers is a really nice and new take on the FPS genre. Throwing that thing and slicing enemies heads off is very satisfying. Its just not a throw mechanic, but you can control it in a slo-mo event, you can charge it with fire, electricity and ice. Each having different effects on enemies. My favourite by far is the Ice, throwing a ice glaive into a group of enemies and then detonating your glaive to instantly freeze them all.

2) Adding powers to the character is a nice touch to game play. You can create shields, make yourself invisible, supercharge. It adds that little bit of more to a game that otherwise would make it just another FPS.

3) Upgrading you weapons. You have slots in weapons that you buy that you can add, more damage, stopping power, accuracy, clip extenders, etc. Its just a nice little touch that I enjoyed doing. (what I didn't understand and I still don't. I don't know if I missed a part in the story but when you pick up weapons on the ground dropped by enemies. You can only hold on to the gun for a certain amount of time before they dissolve in your hands. I never understood why. But if you buy your own gun from the black market, then that gun will always remain with you. IT was funny cause when I would pick up a gun from an enemy, when it started to dissolve it would start to beep. This beeping drove my dog,"Moose" insane. He would stare at the TV and growl and little half barks. It was quite funny.

4) Vehicles and BFG's are always fun. This game has a fun little machine for you to drive around in plus a fantastic gun that you get way late in the game. It makes you slow has hell, but with fire power like this you don't need to run.


Those are the things that I liked in the game. Then we have the standard FPS which has nothing special. You played one like this, you've played them all. Its the glaive and its powers plus the upgrading of your weapons that makes it different and keeps it from becoming stale.

Bad.

1) Again the same problem that I was having with uncharted. The covering system and dodge are the same button. So lots of times I wanted to dodge gun fire quickly by tapping the dodge button and instead, because I was near a wall, box,etc he would take cover. Often times taking cover on the wrong side of the item. So there I am out in the open crouched down infront of the box with all the enemies on the same side has me has they shoot and kill me. Its like running the wrong way down the football field has my team looks on in amazement and the opposing team stand around and say,"no, leave em alone, hes doing well.


2) Not being able to get around enemies. I learned early in the game that you can't go around a enemy quickly with a dodge. Instead I just slammed into a invisible wall. With a group of enemies, mainly the ones that melee you. I became trapped in a corner has they punched me to death all the while I was unable to do anything but die. It felt like an old fashion stoning.

Other than that, there weren't really too many things that kept coming up. I mean, there were times that I couldn't tell where I was getting shot from, some areas were really dark and I couldn't see. It had that grey gun metal feel to the over all game, not has bad has gears of war, but there none the less.

The game is not bad. I doubt I will ever play it again but I did enjoy myself. The game is 19.99$ if you want to buy it, I got it free. If you are a big fan of FPS and have to play all FPS. Then you'll be happy with this buy, its ok. Point Being, the game didn't want me to make me rip my eyeballs out at anytime.

I can't give it a score. Its ok. Scores don't matter anyway, so I will give it a "Q"

What's wrong with my connection?

This has been happening from time to time, but now it's full-blown constant.

My PS3 keeps not being able to connect through my router.
Without changing anything, it suddenly .... stopped.

All the lights are on, on the PS3 end and the router.
The wire works (I checked it).
Sometimes, I'll be able to suddenly log in.
And then it will stop for no reason. And won't connect back.

When I try to configure the PS3 to reconnect, lights on the router flash, so there IS SOMETHING happening. But then it always times out, saying it can't obtain an IP address. The shit?
I've tried automaic IP, I've tried entering it manually. Nothing!

All the other things connected to the router don't have that happening. They work!
My wireless things also keep working.

But both my wireless and wired connections from the PS3 just crap out.

WHYYYYYYYYY?!!!
This is frustrating! I can't log on and I didn't DO ANYTHING to change anything!

My First Chat on Xbox Live

Wow! A couple nights ago I had my first chatting experience on Xbox live. I was playing Dark Sector while talking with Jaison while he played Modern Warfare 2. I see what all the hype is about. This is a fantastic feature.

I understand what pat was talking about, when he said why did our voices drop between loading screens while playing resistance 2 online. I've always taken that has,"that's just how PS3 online is. Most games lose the chat when the game loads". I can see after being on Xbox where you can talk through everything and then all of a sudden losing chat because the game is loading would be annoying. And it is.

I'll admit I didn't know what I was doing. Jaison sent me a message saying he wanted to chat. So I rushed in the closet to find the 360 box and get my headset which was still in the plastic. Then I couldn't find where to plug it in. Poking at all the holes on the Xbox until Jaison says, "its on the controller". AHHHHH, I see, that's pretty cool. Probable eats up my batteries faster now since its powering the headset and controller. I still don't like that about the controllers, batteries. I have bought a charagebale set and a charger, but now seth uses them. So I have to get him his own set has well.

But Sony needs to get off their asses and get this feature on the PS3, there's no reason they shouldn't have it on there. no more god damn home shit! I don't care about new furniture for my apt or new pants.

I did hear from a podcast that someone from Naughty Dog was talking with a Sony rep and let it slip that cross game chat will be coming with the next update for the PS3. But I expect a lot of bugs and just weird shit happening. Anyway, great stuff. I'm still not paying 60$ to play online.