Games, internet, the observation of.

MinecrafSpace Invaders 2

2011-09-24T14:38:00.001+12:00

A couple more invaders from my 1.8 server. Apart from the middle one, from 1.9 prerelease. I have to say the prerelease isn't overly exciting, apart from the craftable snowgolem mob. He's hilarious. Lets just say that you better be saving up all your pumpkin heads.

Oh yes, these are all done in Survival mode, creative mode is for sissies.

Minecraft Space Invaders

2011-09-17T14:31:00.000+12:00

Went on a bit of a spree on our multiplayer server throwing up invaders on cliff faces. I liked the idea of these things being found ages later by explorers.

Buy Free Wifi Now!

2011-08-15T11:07:00.000+12:00

I love buying things that I apparently don't need to pay for.

Minecraft Wiki

2011-06-04T12:54:00.002+12:00

Noticed this at the bottom of the minecraft wiki crafting page. No need to rub it in guys.

Crysis in one Image

2011-05-15T11:27:00.000+12:00

This is pretty much Crysis. A big ass pile of North Koreans anyone?
Crysis 2 is pretty much out now so I figure the price of the original was at a spot where it makes sense for me to buy it. I would have said here that I liked Farcry 2 better than this. but I found out Crytek didn't even make the second Farcry so I'm not sure I can still draw the comparison.
For 40 bucks though I'm pretty sure I have a decent amount of game. Considering it's packaged with an expansion as well as a multiplayer thingy (which I probably won't touch.)

Another great quote

2011-04-09T17:32:00.000+12:00

Nothing like a little prankery to make an essay more fun.

Last.fm

2011-03-31T20:13:00.000+13:00

It kinda makes me question who listens to more music. This guy, or his son.

Either that or he thinks that the Wiggles are the dopest shit since Bob the Builder going number one.

Greek Pt.1

2011-03-13T22:04:00.000+13:00

I have a new player, introducing Becky to DnD via the redbox. Although what follows is a custom made quest for people of the single player Roguey persuasion.

Greek, a Halfling with an Asian appearance sat in the Blue Moon Ale house in Fallcrest. She sips idly at her Pint, enjoying the company around her.

Over the laughter of patrons a plaintive cry rings out. It comes closer and closer to the Ale house, and finally words are made out. “My husband! My husband!”

Greek and a few others get up, curious to see what’s happening. They go outside and see a gaunt woman bent over in front of the Ale house, breathing hard and crying all over the place.

One of the patrons walk up to her, “What is it Ann Sprocket? What’s wrong?”

“My husband… He’s.. in the lower fields.. Coming towards us.. I saw him..”

She starts to cry.

Random tavern Goer: “Did wolves dig him up? Move him?”

“No! He’s walking! You don’t understand! He’s dead!”

Greek, her interest suddenly piqued, strolls up to the woman and asks her a few questions. She dwells to long on how Mrs. Sprockets husband died, setting the distraught woman off again.

She decides, along with a few other patrons, to check out the farm and see what’s up.

As she approach the farmstead Greek sees a person scrabbling in a nearby garden. As she gets closer she catches a whiff of a putrid smell, a man, almost completely bald apart from a few patches, is completely naked. He claws at the ground with his bare hands. She realizes that it’s not a garden he’s digging, but his own grave he’s trying to crawl back into.

A few of the people vomit and one crys out “It’s probably that God forsaken Figgens again. That man and his boy are possessed by the devil!”

With a few directions Greek sets off to find a Healer, who may know how to dispel the corpse. The rest of the villagers stay to make sure the late Mr. Sprocket doesn’t wander off.

Frieza got Schooled

2011-03-13T21:47:00.001+13:00

Wikipedia doesn't lie.

2011 Celebration Cape

2011-01-02T20:47:00.000+13:00

During minecraft multi we realized our capes went and changed. It only lasted the day though. Oh well. I didn't particularly care for the capes much to be honest.

Rare Obsidian Portal

2010-12-22T20:56:00.002+13:00

This portal was found floating above an ocean about 5 minutes walk from my spawn. It never used to be there. It looked like an odd upside down T when I saw it from a distance. I went to check it out. Cool huh?
I've gone through it. And it takes me to the Nether. Strangely it makes me appear at my own gate that I created earlier. Going back through the portal again sends me to the other end of my gate, safe at home. Meaning I now have a quick way from going from the middle of the ocean back to the safety of my base.
I originally thought it was the secret beta update. Turns out its just another rare thing that I stumbled over. Dang. Oh well. I feel like an idiot. Cheers for smoothing that out before I looked like an idiot on the internet Matt.

Common Mistakes made in Minecraft

2010-12-18T17:31:00.000+13:00

Over the last month or so I have been having a lot of fun playing Minecraft. This fun has been shown to friends and thus been passed on. Addicting everyone along the way. It's spreading like AIDs.
But over the course of my play I have also been keeping an eye on the community. And while most of them are pretty cool, there are of course, the noobs, the jerks, and the downright stupid. I wonder if they are the same set of noobs from every other game... anyway here we go with a list of things that need to be sorted out for this world to be a better place.

Reviewers: Don't review this fucking game. Not because it isn't good. But because its premature. It isn't finished. It's only just coming out of alpha in a few days time. Although this is only a mild complaint, because its been through these reviews that I was able to hear about it and start playing. But I can feel it in my elbow that there's a pile of people out there trying to make a petition to get Yahtzee to review it.

Players: Don't bitch about things not working, or something being broken. Your playing in a construction site where there are a lot of sharp brutal corners. It's going to be a while before things are smoothed out. Until then just report the problem like a civil human being so Notch can deal with it when he's good and ready.

Downtime: If your complaining about a new update breaking everything stfu. Come back in an hour, go have a wank, go outside perhaps. Eat maybe.

Ok I forgot the rest of what I was gonna say. I really just needed to get some steam off.

Red Box Pt.1 & 2

2010-10-07T23:21:00.003+13:00

I recently got the Dungeons and Dragons Red Box. I will be scribing the adventures that precede. Or whatever. Here it is so far.

Pt.1

Puddle, the wizard in training and Flange, the rouge kleptomaniac made their way from the Tavern to the lair with little incident. This was to be their first serious mission, and it was treated as such. They charged in, slaying two goblins, before realizing they would probably be ingested by the goblins pet drake if they didn't GTFO as soon as possible.

They came back two days later, a little wiser and a little wearier. Killing the drake and putting an end to the remaining goblins gobbliness. Unfortunatly the labyrinth continued further in, and a glimpse through a magical pool of water revealed a greater danger inside. "Perhaps we need someone to help us out, we're gonna get stomped if we don't." Flange pointed out. "Perhaps we need your MUM." said Puddle as he conjured a laughing live studio audience.

Pt.2

On the fourth day of raiding, Puddle and Flange met a tall slim Elf, who when asked replied that her name was Sushi (maybe with a hint of hostility).

As they made acquaintances with each other a pale, lank haired man strode into the Tavern. He stood at the door and with a rasped voice exclaimed “If you go back to the cave, you will take the place of those that you felled.”

Puddle and Sushi looked at him oddly. “Is that it?” “Uh.. Yes.. I think so.. Don’t come back.” They looked at the man disapprovingly until it got awkward and he left.

As they made their way from the tavern township towards the cave they could hear wolves howling in the distance. When they reached the crossroads two wolves emerged behind them, unable to hide in the tree lines any longer. Their snarling and howling attracted two goblin scouts who had been patrolling the area. The two wolves circled and attacked Sushi and Flange.

Puddle created sounds behind the Goblins to distract and confuse them until The more physical fighters could dispatch the wolves.

When they reached the cave they headed into the second entrance (For a change of scenery). They pushed Sushi to the front as they walked in. Around them they could see Kobolds nervously watching them, with their spears at the read.

Puddle Began to talk to one of the Kobolds. He found out they had a “master” of sorts. And when led to a second chamber the party came face to face with a young white dragon.

Puddle realized that he had seen this dragon in the pool of water earlier.

The Dragon spoke in stilted common to them, and soon the party found out that the Dragon despised Malareth, the dark magician, who had invaded part of his lair.

Two Kobolds were ordered to go with the party as they headed further in to face off with Malareth.

They burst through the door to scare the shit out of a Goblin, who ran away and called for “Kurrash”. Kurrash a tall, matted bugbear,came pushing through the door.

Him and his pals totally got whipped. But not before killing the two Kobolds.

With this done the party decided that was enough for the day, and headed home. No need to rush things.

Natural Looking Faces

2010-09-15T20:33:00.000+12:00

Unnatural Faces on the other hand are a real pain

for cutting edge technology to recognized.

Google Image Search

2010-09-12T16:04:00.000+12:00

I was doing a google search for the popsicle logo for a project I'm working on. I found this rather raunchy photo, I scrolled over it, being the curious guy I am. I found the description... Racist? and a little uncalled for. Ha ha. aaah Google, you and your indiscriminate text grabbing can sometimes yield amusing results.

Nostalgia: Duke Nukem

2010-09-04T19:31:00.000+12:00

This one comes simultaneously with the news that Duke Nukem: Forever, is actually going to be coming out after all. slated for 2011. No shit right? Source
Big news. Huge news in fact. The problem is a lot of people are going to be disappointed when this game comes out and it doesn't change lives. Nostalgia coupled with hype is a bad thing. Unlike Mario games which have been shat out by Nintendo every day, peoples nostalgia boils at a steady mediocre. the Duke soup on the other hand has been left to stew over a million volcanoes. Every game has changed remarkably. Starting with the beloved 2D ones, which my brother still does speed runs on, to 3D with titties, to 2.5D in Manhattan project (Which isn't to great really.)

Even if the new game bombs, I don't care. Duke will always be cool. His shit don't stink.

Nostalgia: Prince Of Persia

2010-09-04T00:57:00.000+12:00

Nostalgia: Cosmo The Alien

2010-09-02T23:00:00.001+12:00

Perhaps I should only do these when I actually have something funny to say...

Nostalgia: Biomenace 2

2010-09-02T20:12:00.000+12:00

Nostalgia: Biomenace

2010-09-02T20:08:00.000+12:00

Prince Of Persia: Nostalgia 2

2010-09-02T18:54:00.002+12:00

Seriously. This blows.

Prince Of Persia: nostalgia

2010-09-02T18:08:00.001+12:00

This is pretty much my entire gameplay experience of Prince of Persia. I saw it at the movies and was all "Oh this isn't the real prince of Persia. These new 3D games aren't SHIT compared to the old one." so I came running across the field of roses towards a game that frolicked in my youth, and right when we came close it punched me in the face and ran away. And that my friend, is how nostalgia really works. Just because it's from "back in the day" doesnt make it a good game (Or easier, It's going to be most definatly harder.)

If you can't read it then click on it.

2010-08-23T14:53:00.000+12:00

The Tetris Company blatantly steps Pokemon out. This will probably get ugly when you get a gym badge in Pokemon Black/White for kicking the shit out of L blocks.

Target audience of Pepsi

2010-08-11T19:19:00.000+12:00

Once again google gives me the knowledge I was seeking.

DP on steam

2010-08-03T21:27:00.001+12:00

I knew someone with a rack like that would never be on steam! D:<

Youtube Vs. Vimeo

2010-06-09T12:32:00.002+12:00

Let me make this short and sweet.

To be honest I haven't been on vimeo long. It started a couple days ago when I realized all my favourite arty vids online were all hosted there instead of on youtube. Checking out the site it's going for the really simple slick look. To be honest it looks like it was done in by the same people who designed twitter.

All the videos I have looked at so far are in high def and excellently directed. I sort of wonder if each video gets screened before it goes public because I haven't found a single shitty home video yet with kids in it telling in jokes to each other.

If these two sites were clubs, Youtube doesn't check ID, it smells faintly of urine and a million teenyboppers are pretending to be drunk on grape juice.

Vimeo is on a different street, Only people on the VIP list get in, the place smells like old spice. The people are sophisticated and talk about important things like floating houses.

Amsterdam Osdorp from The QBF on Vimeo.

Downloading stuff from steam

2010-06-08T15:06:00.003+12:00

This has to be the most epic Peak download speed I have ever had. If only it actually did, for just a SECOND, I would have downloaded S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Sigh

Everything Tetris

2010-06-08T00:11:00.003+12:00

Well, I have been holding off talking about this particular game for quite a while now, but it's been around a good 26 years so I figured its not going anywhere any time soon. I think I have to start at the begining when it comes to tetris, so you can understand why I have a fetish for it now.

My earliest memories of tetris is my brother getting one of those hand helds that played nothing but tetris, with "ten fun modes" or something like that. He drew on it with vivid to make it look bad ass. He never let me play it. I always wanted to though. I wanted to beat his score and show him how much I kicked butt. (For some reason he took it to the beach once, and I just remember it really clearly. It was a good day, a little breezy at times.)

But I never was. Later on my friend introduced me to it again. same hand held system everything. I remember arguing with him that rows dissappeared because you harddropped (When you make the blocks go down quickly.) I don't really see that guy any more, he kinda grew up to be a crazy thug thing.

Then skip forward quite a number of years, and there it is. That tetris again! My friend (Not crazy thug) is telling me how he's been playing the same game for some crazy amount of hours. And you know, that feeling of wanting to own came back again. So I got into it as well. Currently I have tetris on my DS, And I play regularly on Tetrisfriends.com . I had it on my phone at some stage as well, but it just never was as good.

Now for the review!

Tetris DS: Good well balanced game. It was an early release when the DS first came out. So a lot of the alternate game modes are showing off the touch screen. It has a nintendo theme and features the mario music.

Online play is great, super competitive, and its still quick to find opponents. Although they all have insane scores and all have japanese names.

Tetrisfriends.com: Also quite good. There are enough modes to find one that you enjoy. Don't play with a wireless keyboard, you start to notice that lag quite quickly. Most modes pit you against replays of other people. You can track how you good you are. There are twenty ranks in all, and you go up or down depending on how good you are. I'm sitting at 15 and can't seem to get much higher than that.

Multiplayer beta is out now and you can go up against 4 other people at a time, using items and maps if you're keen. I generally stick away from them. It also features chat, so if you've lost you can talk to the other loosers about how you lost.. against ME. Kiddin.

Tetris Party Deluxe: You know what!? I got all excited when I saw this being advertised! I got it! Immediately! And guess what... HOW CAN YOU FUCK UP TETRIS YOU HORE. Well it could be worse. But it looks fucken ugly. I could understand if it were made for the gameboy colour or advance, but come out. it's the tackiest thing I have seen since.. Shit. I dunno.. This website?

It looks horrendous, seriously, I can't change what the minos (the block thingy) looks like, fortunatly I can change the background to something other than a gif version of what appears to be the walt disney castle complete with fireworks.

Unfortunatly its not touch screen, which would be handy for getting around sometimes. Sometimes I bump my finger on the big inviting buttons, only to realize I have to scroll down like a gimp instead.

I'll be sticking to good ol Tetris DS for now, thanks for nothing.

On another note, check this out, it applies to everything I just said and pretty much everything I have ever done on the internet.

Magic duel

2010-02-26T20:53:00.004+13:00

The other day I got my usual craving for browser based MMOs. Something I could just leap into. And thats exactly what I did with Magicduel.com . The only way I can describe the site is "Interesting" With an intrigued expression on my face. It really is quite strange. But I enjoy it. Well, GROWING to enjoy it. It starts off on a rather slow pace in my opinion.

Let me list some of the oddities:
It randomly asks you questions to figure out what your personality is like.
There is no currency.
There is a story mode apart from the main roaming that deals with your stats etc.
Items get created for specific purposes, and specific people. So be honoured if you have any sort of item, its important.
it asks you to choose between different schools of magic, but doesn't explain what they do (Although it offers a huge paragraph about each sort)
Its PvP, and its good to loose half your battles. Balance is important in everything.

The best way to describe it to anyone is "MYST online."
And yes, to be honest, I think magicduel.com is a bad name for it. It makes it sound so gay and generic. When really its so straight and different.

I give it 5 interesting stars out of an undetermined amount of stars.

Trine

2009-09-26T11:59:00.002+12:00

Yay for Indy games. You can go buy this one off steam for like 5 bucks.

Its seems as though the old platform games are making a comeback, although now people are actually pushing boundaries. Back in the day we were happy enough to play Jazz jackrabbit, crystal caves, Duke Nukem and other such games. There was little difference in these games, other than how they looked.

But now adays we have games like trine and braid on our hands. Trine is a puzzle game that uses gravity a lot. So you can be sure there will be lots of see-saws and falling shit. You can switch between three characters while playing (Mid jump even). You have your dexterious thief, your box congering wizard (Who can't shoot fireballs), and your rather boring warrior, who can swing a sword. Or a hammer if your lucky. I used my thief for the majority of my puzzle solutions, swinging around with her grapple hook. I guess its your play style that dictates how your going to get through a level. Some people might just be happy with making some boxes, impaling them on the spikes and hoping up them like a staircase. Its really up to you how you do it.

I like the fact that the game doesn't limit you. It feels likes its almost daring you to try to find a loop hole. (Like instead of climbing really high to get an item, just make a box behing it and telepathicly push the item off the ledge with the box.)

The game itself is short, but its fun the whole way through, even if they do start running out of ideas near the end. Its also really easy. But I enjoyed myself playing it. Ew. that sounded sorta like I touched myself while playing it.. Maybe I did. While watching that theif hop about.

World in conflict (PC)

2009-07-28T22:31:00.003+12:00

I have been rather quiet lately on the game reviewing front, although in the past month or two I have bought more games than I ever have in my entire life.

World in conflict is as the title alludes, a world in conflict, World being of course, America. We fall into the story in about 1989-90. The ruskies and the 'mericans, and presumably everyone else are embroiled in world war three (The cold war heated up), at a nice safe distance in Europe. But low, on the horizon of seattles fair shores is some pissed off commies! The homeland is invaded!

I have been playing RTS games for ages. Starting off with probably warcraft II. And dude. Story lines have totally gotten better since then. Thank God. WiC is the first RTS I have played where there are actual individual people you get to know and sorta like. I found the storyline pretty awesome. The game felt very down to earth (You can zoom down that far if you wanted, but you can't see shit.)

You don't build factories and stuff in this one. Your mearly a commander of a unit of the army, ordering in your units when you need em. When they die their points go back into the pool, where it slowly gets dripped back into your usable pool. So no tedious resource gathering or the like. Just a herc or something flying over and airdropping your tanks and dudes.

You don't get the feeling your the only one in the sky. Often there are allied units flanking and helping take the village or whatever as well.

The camera is very free. You never keep it faced north like in most games, you just fling it around, swivvle it etc. If you get a bit bored you can zoom in on the tiny specks and go "oooh" at the fact they actually put detail into the tiny little troops that run around, duck, shoot, skip etc.

Overall I would say it was mint. It took me three days, on and off, to complete the campaign. So relatively short for an RTS, but apparently the multiplayer is cool to, being able to jump in on a game immediatly etc. But the CD key is really well hidden on this box 0_0. It doesnt ask you for a CD key till you try and take it to multiplayer. I guess I could use the key that came with the 10 day free trial cd that came with it.

Yea, as a marketing idea they include a trial version of the game to give to your mates. But it expires after they get hooked i guess, forcing them to go buy it.

At some point Ill probably get the expansion as well, which apparently follows the Russians and their stories. I think they could pull it off good. And undoubtedly it'l be like "gasp! The americans shot first!" or something to that effect.

Podcast 7: skate it

2009-06-10T18:50:00.001+12:00

Podcaaaarst: skate it

For the DS obviously. Its been knocking around on my PC for a while. My bad for not doing it sooner. Heh, I have been meaning to do one about chinatown wars but It seems a bit late now. Ha ha.

In other news. If your a big tetris fan check out this website, hope to kick your ass sometime.

MUD anyone?

2009-05-02T13:30:00.003+12:00

A while ago I went through a stage of hunting around for a decent mud. I never found one. I played "hollow" for a while. But the game was so badly balanced that level progression was almost impossible. Later on I went and found achaea. But it just astounded me. I couldn't get the hang of it. Then someone recommended retro mud. I can't remember why I didn't like that one. But I didn't.

And then I found Daedal Macabre. Its not as detailed As the others. And mechanically it could be a lot better. But its the community of the game which makes it so awesome! A decent MUD can't function without a cool community. A lot of MMOs are notorious for shitty communities. No one wants to grind quest for ages, and on top of that have a twelve year old telling them that they know every sexual position ever created. Fortunatly it seems that MUDs are devoid of this younger age group. Its not so hard to guess why. At first glance a MUD looks as though its stepped back into the dark ages of DOS. Kids are going to compare this with the graphics of WoW and suddenly realize that MUDs are like school text books. While WoW looks like the latest Xmen comic.

The school text book has as much fun in it as a comic book does believe it or not. Whats the point on having a medieval world if your not going to act as though your in one. The roleplay aspect is so much fun.

Questing in Daedal can be regular, like your used to. Go over and kill someone. Go fetch me a rare gem from such and such. Or you can do investigations and take part in epic battles that help to further the plot line. It always pissed me off how Maple Stories catch phrase was like "Make your own story." How? Nothing you ever did made maple story any different. You couldn't make your mark on the world unless you could vac ac the entire world into one corner and kill everyone with one stroke. Oh wait, you can't PK. Boo.

But with Daedal you could actually become more than average and a necessary part to the game by doing the custom made quests that change according to what you do.

Fuckin check it out!

Fail!

2009-02-03T22:45:00.001+13:00

tee11:

i need help to open the zip files. when i use adobe reader, it cannot open either. "adobe reader could not open beup live 0.3 final.zip because it is either not a supporterd file type or because the file has been damage (for exp,it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded). plz email me to esty_anindya@yahoo.com. lotta thanx^^

Lolololol. A noob spotting!

Episode 6 - Face book and all that sorta stuff

2008-12-26T18:30:00.002+13:00

Friends networks sites, what can you say about em? Well something actually, since I did in the latest podcast.

They aren't my thing, they may be your thing, cause A heap load of people use 'em, but heres my opinion, for your amusement. Cause no one REALLY wants to hear other peoples opinions unless they line up with yours.

Habbo Hotel (An interview)

2008-12-02T20:00:00.003+13:00

So Back in the day I joined up with Habbo hotel. I heard it was a fun place to wander around and mess with people. Great I love messing with people. Joined up. And everywhere I went there seemed to be people preoccupied, or just standing zombieish in hallways etc. rooms full of silent people, apart from maybe one or two. It was pretty sad really. The only person I could strike up a convo with was a dutch chick trying to learn english. When I asked for a pic all I got was a naked pic, hiding her face. I was rather aghast and asked if she minded showing that sorta thing off. She said it was from when she was young anyway and she didnt look like that anymore.
So I didn't go on habbo for many years. I decided to go back and conduct an interview with any random I could find. I found Kingkhalil. Here is the interview...

What is there actually to do on habbo hotel?
"annoy people"
thought so
"or in better terms, kick ass."
what are you doing on habbo?
"Kicking ass"
Do you think that everyone on this site are the most stuck up people on any sort of mmo
"Nope but because its really different Because this one is centered around social interactions, but in other mmos it is just a secondary.
but you'll find in other mmos that people will have prestige of a lot of things like lvl or weapons or whatever. Here all you can have is HC or an old account. I can still come and verbally kick ur ass. So I think that people are pretty equal as long as they can defend themselves verbally. While there are many hard factors in other mmo's dividing the mmo classes, here only varbality can bring them all down."

Man that was fun to write out
"what?"
This was an interview. Surprise!

So yea, its short. So sue me.

Geometry wars and Space invaders

2008-11-29T15:58:00.002+13:00

Episode 5 podcast
So I take a trip into space for this episode, pointing out how much square enix can do, but in actual fact DON'T. Cause Apparently their more into wacking off into Final Fantasy and how much money their milking off that, than they are into making a compelling gaming experience in any other game.
But I digress, space, right. Geometry wars on the other hand was amazingly fun. So there we go. Geometry one, Space invaders 10, but they didnt score any points with this latest remake, they get all those other ten points from my happy childhood.
P.s. The picture is in fact a screen shot of sperm fertilising the egg. RETRO LIKE.

Guitar Hero: World Tour

2008-11-19T19:54:00.002+13:00

I found this review while wandering around the web looking for stuff on "On tour."
I played World Tour today actually, and some of the stuff this guy brings up is pretty much a piece of crap. He whines about Mics being to sensitive. and he couldn't even get *4 multipliers on medium for singing. We'll I played it on medium and I got *4 multies all the time. and the Mics are to sensitive? I don't know what sort of environment he played it in, on the back of a moving truck or something, But the mic was pretty good at not picking up random sounds. I played in my mates echoey little room, with Hayden Smashing around on the drums and it didn't mind one bit. In fact the software seems to have a feature where it DOES recognize the background sound, but it doesn't break combos. Thats what I figure anyway, cause when I sing into it during the non singing pieces it shoots the meter up, but only when I sing a bit louder does it register and burn the blue line into it.
There were a few more reasons I didn't like the review, but I just forgot.. I thought it was an awesome game.
Now I should get back to doing my own reviews instead of reviewing other peoples reviews. Ha ha.

P.s. it is regretable that Harmonix is no longer traveling with us on the guitar hero path.

guitar rock tour & rock revolution

2008-11-18T14:24:00.002+13:00

The Podcast Right there for ya
Wiki article, courtesy of me.

Guitar Rock Tour is a video game on the Nintendo DS. It was released on the 4th of November, 2008. It is was made by gameloft after they saw how well harmonix was doing with guitar hero. With its release so close to "Guitar hero on tour:Decades" They are expecting huge amount of sales in the first week, then a massive decline when people realize they bought the wrong game and then return it. It contains 15 songs. The player can play in two different, Either with the guitar or the drums.

Im not even gonna bother with rock revolution.

Harvest moon & mysims

2008-11-15T21:31:00.004+13:00

Podcast anyone?

Harvest moon used to be my friend as a child. You must admit, a farming sim is a new idea. Talking about sims, Mysims sucks. Don't touch it!

Something I forgot to put into harvest moon. Isn't it funny how you drop things on people to make them like you more?

Guitar Hero: on Tour

2008-10-25T10:36:00.003+13:00

http://www.mypodcast.com/fsaudio/us4_20081025_0109-319358.mp3

Hey thought I might try a new style, going all soundy instead. Hope you enjoy the Podcast on Gat hero on tour. If you don't well screw you.
If it just asks you to install the review, you could always just get the quicktime plugin for your browser, then you can stream and listen. also, the Joke in the picture is from an earlier recording. She looks like a skinny version of my last girlfriend.

(Cheers matt for testing the link.)

More text based shinanigans

2008-09-27T20:27:00.003+12:00

So I joined a new text based MMO, Unlike hollow (Which will be leaving the set of links to the right there due to being shit), Achaea Is actually a pretty intense MUD. I have started to fall in love with it. Partly because I found out that Jesters can learn to graffiti on walls and also conjure itchy powder by throwing gold into the air.
I just had my first propper battle outside of the tutorial. And I just thought I would share it, because no matter how Serious and well written an MUD is, it still falls flat on its face.

A common red admiral butterfly flits about over your head.
Most common of butterflies, the red admiral is nonetheless a specimen of delicate beauty. Swirling black patterns adorn its bright ruby wings, pleasing the eye with their symmetry. A red admiral butterfly looks weak and feeble.
You thrust your arm out in a quick jab at a red admiral butterfly.You connect!
A red admiral butterfly reaches out and lightly cuts you.
You thrust your arm out in a quick jab at a red admiral butterfly.You connect!You have slain a red admiral butterfly, retrieving the corpse.

I then set about trying to figure out how to loot the corpses of dead butterflies.

Spore (NDS)

2008-09-12T16:05:00.002+12:00

Note that what I am say in this review has nothing to do with the PC version of the game, which I have full conifidence wont suck out loud.
Spore On the DS is a very average game. The main problem being is what I was hoping for was a game which was very wide open and had a lot of sandboxy type features. What I got was a story driven linier game, where the only decisions I get to make is what pieces Im going to stick onto my creature. But even this wont be to amazing, since obviously youl only want to put on the pieces which do the awesomest. The game doesnt move through the ages like the PC game does. Its stuck in the early creature period. So it starts at the crawling out of the water part and doesnt progress much further than that. Its also a collection game, so that makes it a bit fun. But to be honest. After playing it for two days I was already moving back to Elite beat agents to whip it on the next hardest difficulties.
Screw Spore on the DS, there are tons of better games out there than this one. Wow. What an unproductive review I just did. Well lets go into some of the things I did like. The style was cool. Even if they were all blatantly 2D. It had a bit of charm. But I think this made Response on the touch screen goofy, so I would be bashing a tree with the stylse for ages before anything would happen. Later on I found out it just took a little patients before the options popped up. Hopefully on PC it will fulfill all my wildest dreams.

The world ends with you

2008-09-04T19:58:00.004+12:00

The title of this square enix game first reminded me of that song by the lemon demons. "The world ends with you, confused destroyer of planets."
This game has revived in me the hope that square enix could actually make a decent RPG that was actually ORIGINAL. I doubt there will be a series made out of this game. It is a very good stand alone title. Although to keep the game playable after finishing the main story line it lets you skip back to previous chapters. Playing through the chapters will reveal new stuff which wasn't covered the first time through. So they purposefully leave out some of the answers you may have about the story line, so your sucked into it for another few hours. Just like an episode of lost. Thankfully this game isn't a random encounter game. Your stuck in a city called shibuya. And your main character is a player in a sick and twisted game of life and death. Players get knocked off as the week wears on. You fight these random creatures called noise. So you scan the area, and it reveals noise floating around, which can be destroyed.
Im not gonna go into the story line, because I dont want to ruin it for you. Me and my mates would have a gather fest, and all sit around the screen, reading the screeds and screeds of writing that they constantly spit out. But after finishing the game I really wanted another story driven game. I DO have to admit that this game is very cliche in some of its thoughts. "I need to trust in my friends, if I do, I can do anything." says the big eyed hermafrodite looking boy with big hair.
What this game has over most others is style. It just looks so damn cool. Its got a huge graffiti element to it, which I have a soft spot for.
What this game did have a problem with initially was when you get into a boss battle you generally spend a lot of time talking, and let me tell you, that talking gets frustrating if you have to tap through it for five minutes constantly every time you die and have to restart. Fortunatly after the first boss battle it unlocks the option to just instantly replay. I don't know why it doesn't just give it to you at the beginning like a good little game. Maybe its trying to make you thankful or something.
Wifi is interesting, You can "Mingle" by just leaving your DS on in the mode, itl connect to any other users out in the world and youl get free items and junk. You can also open a store that others can buy from. I didn't do any selling while I played, but I did mingle and got a rare "alien" encounter, what ever that is.
If your starved for something to do on your DS, and your into RPGS, I suggest you get this damn game.

Oh yea, while Im talking about wifi and the DS, I was thinking about it. Pictochat is the biggest waste of space ever, well in NZ and Thailand it is anyway, theres never ANYBODY within range to chat with, no ones ever gonna be looking for other people either, so theres never any chance of swearing at randoms EVER. Now if they could let you connect to pictochat forums for games you have, that would be cool.

Next to be reviewed is gasp, gasp, Spore! For the DS.

Elite Beat Agents

2008-09-01T17:54:00.004+12:00

So I was gonna review games that hadn't come out in NZ yet like The civilization revolution game for the DS, but it was just so dull compared to the olderschool games I found for the DS. Elite Beat Agents is just so rad. It uses the touch screen completely. I guess it could be best described as DDR for the Stylus, although you have more than just up down left right to worry about. And no Annoyingly loud asian styled techno.
I think they borrowed quite a bit of the music from sing star. YMCA, sk8er boy, material girl. Although those are in my opinion, the crappier end of the songs.
They make it rather hard as well. so on normal difficulty you can still get your ass handed to you on a silver dish. You miss a few of the beat button things and your pretty much a gonner.
I got stuck on the last song for so long. I promised myself an icecream when I finished it.. I never got that icecream. tear.. But I did thrash it. then I realized you could unlock more songs the more you played, so I was like omged, lets do this some more.

Then I was single for the rest of my life.

P.s. next time Ill review "The world ends with you" ooooooooooooh.

Tony Hawks: American Sk8land

2008-08-13T04:16:00.003+12:00

Yup, its my first DS game to clock. Its the only one thats really caught my interest. I have always been a fan of those extreme sport combo games (See the post about Matt Hoffmans.)

If you have played Tony Hawks before youl know all about this game. So Ill try not to talk about stuff that we have all done a billion times in the other games. First off, this is a hand held game(Exclusive), so we can presume its been dumbed down. When I got to the last level I realized that after doing a vert trick and then a revert/manual to link my tricks I found out I didn't actually need to press up down to do the manual, it does them automatically after the revert. lol.

Skills are easy as to get up, I got most of them maxed out on the first level purely by just riding around like a tosser it seemed. Balance is something thats seems to be something thats taken a back seat. Although its still there it poses little threat.

I put it on the easy setting, but surely it didnt make it THAT easy for me. Ill talk to someone, they say, hey find that ramp and ollie up onto that roof. then your automatically put in front of the ramp, you go up it and ollie up onto it BOOM. $250 dollars! Yours! None of this messing around trying to figure out where to go. It just plonks it there and then spoon feeds you everything. So not all that challenging for someone who has played these before, I recommend you turn up the difficulty. Youl cruise through the game easy.

Game time was only a few hours, I did it in a few sittings, I haven't finished all the side missions yet though. although they are easy to whip through.

You know how you usually slow down while doing your combo? Well the DS version messed that idea up. It slows EVERYTHING down. You can pretty much watch yourself turn in slow mo after awhile.

There are 7 levels. The last one being your own customised park, which you slowly buy over the course of the game. You deside on which ramps are installed etc. In the end You play as all the pros, making a video on the park, which is insidentilly called the same name as the game. Duh.

Touch screen features: it is mainly used for the map. When your not moving you can move the map around to take a gander. When you have special you can press the Special move button on the screen. Its like a short cut so you don't need to remember them on the keypad. Theres also a slow mo button. Which I never used, because its on the left, where im usually trying to keep my character from carreaning into a wall then spastically bouncing in awkward directions.

You also use the touch screen during freak out mode. three bars bounce up and down, you have to hit them at the top of their peak to get the highest freak out.

You can also draw your own custom board and tags. You never really see the bottom of your skateboard anyway, so I didn't bother. This game Isn't really about buying boards or new clothes. Just missions.

Although Im slaming this game completely and poking holes in it. I liked it, Even though it was short I liked it. For all its short comings it was still better than final fantasy XII.

So that means im gonna go get proving grounds for the DS now. Lets customise the world!

Buying a DS

2008-08-13T04:09:00.003+12:00

Yup, thats right folks, I got myself a sweet as little DS lite. Nice and black. Its to keep me entertained on our long treks around Thailand. Man, games are cheap here. 200 baht generally. Thats about 8 bucks NZ. Some places you go you can get them for 100 baht. Obviously most of them are burnt. Everything here proudly has "100% cracked + Keygen" on the cover. You even see people selling movies outside the movie theaters, and you can even find the movie which is playing at that very moment for sale. So awesomely braizen about it. Ill be bringing a bunch home to show the maties. Unfortunatly I got ripped off at one point. I ordered all my games (You flick through a folder and point at all the ones you want.) I presume they then go off to burn them or something, because he told me to come back in ten minutes. I was dumb enough to give him the cash first. A few days later I realized the bastard haden't given me one of my games! I was looking forward to "Mark Eckos getting up" as well. Ah well. Only 8 bucks.

So in the near future I may be doing a review on fairly new games, instead of the uber oldschool ones I have been doing. Im such a cheapo. Oh yea, I guess I have also opened my self up to the Handheld market as well. Woop woop. Bring on the nintendo!

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

2008-01-31T10:23:00.000+13:00

Ok, So I splashed out on oblivion... Well not exactly splashed, more like, sprayed a little water. I got it for $31 bucks from EB, They had it as a christmas special, but I also got staff discount, saving myself $19 bucks. Woohoo.
So even though this game came out in about 2005 with the release of the 360 it is still an awesome game. I got a good 60 hours of gaming time out of it. I finished the main quest after about 35 hours. I was about half way through, collecting all the daedric artifacts when all of the monsters suddenly decided to become balanced to my character, so all of a sudden the game was hard again, I had to go do some side quests for a while so I could actually stand a chance. I decided to be a knight. BAD IDEA, I didnt realize hand to hand was one of my major skills. HOW OFTEN DO YOU USE HAND TO HAND??? Never. What a useless skill.
Some people prefer Morrowind because it hasnt been dumbed down for the console people but I still prefer oblivion. I couldnt really get into Morrowind, something about it just didnt grab me. Maybe it was the fact the journal didnt do all the work for you like it does in oblivion, and how you also had to find a giant fle to be able to fast travel anywhere. A few skills have been taken away in oblivion, but you dont notice anyway. I DO find it annoying how you cant find master alchemy gear straight off like you could in Morrowind. Now it seems it doesnt become available in stores till your skills reachs that point.
The major flaw with this game is that when you reach the end of the main quest, chances are youl have pretty much the awesomest stuff its possible to get. After daedric armour (And glass for light armour people) theres nothing left. Stuff is just to easy to find cause EVERYONE starts wearing it.

Anicdotes about oblivion:
Izak: OMG, Two zombies! I can't kill those yet!" *dives through the falling guilotien traps and runs out of the ruins.* thank god, safe now.
matt: Im pretty sure enemies can go through doors now...
Izak: What? Really? Whatever! *Looks at door to ruins. Two zombies materialize in front of it*
"SHIT FUCK SHIT!" *Runs for miles, quickly pursued by the two zombies and whatever other monster is bored enough to tag along.*

Oblivions just like real life: Ok so I decided to go shoot some arrows out in the field just for fun. *shoots arrow, it lands in a bush* Fuck, I lost Matthews arrow.

Two hardened warriors fight each other on a windswept desolate mountain, with one last swoop of the clamore the smallest of the two goes flying. He lands on the ground and before his aponent can loot his corpse he goes sliding unserimoniously and as quickly down the hill like a newly waxed taboggen. His foe shouts down to him "You could have at least not biffed your sword and shield into the foliage!! I CANT FIND IT."

A painter slowly paints a picture of the great white towers. He slowly drops his paint brush beside him to gape in awe at its majestic hights. He looks down at his paint brush which still hovers beside him, as if it has no gravity "HOLY SHIT!"

Scene it

2007-12-13T22:27:00.000+13:00

Ok, these are first impressions of the new 360 game Sceneit. At first glance it is an expensive imitation of playstations Buzz. But first off, the controllers are hella nicer. I found it easier to mistake buttons with the PS2 buzz controls than I did with sceneits set. Playing the party version there seems not a lot of need for the top big button. It doesnt act as a buzzer or anything. Its just a nice big ornament, which also acts as a directional pad. Thats the other bonus over the PS2's ones. But all this doesnt really matter. So what, the controls are nicer. Sucks to be stuck with the yellow one.

Gameplay: Like I said, I only played that party one. Apparently it has no end. We got to round 3 (Each round takes forever) and decided enough was enough. Whats weird is that it shows your answer on the screen. You have a certain amount of time, and as time decresses so do points. So even if you see someones answer and pick it you wont get the same amount of points, which helps balance it a little. Unfortunatly none of us are hardcore movie buffs and knowing the answer was rare. So most of the time we were psycing each other into choosing our answer by going "OOOH!" And stabbing at the screen with your controller quickly. This shows that you have confidence and everyone quickly jumps in for the ride (over the cliff).

I have noticed with these trivia games it gives people the ability to be complete dicks. It should have it on the box as a selling perk "Act like a snob, Rub your friends noses in it! Show off. Dont worry, theyl get their own back in the next turn when you get it wrong!" Honestly though, everyone (myself included) LOVE to cut each other down, laugh at, and in general act like ass holes to each other. As soon as the game is turned off it goes back to normality. If the games turned off and your still acting exactly the same, then it may be time to get a new personality.

Fully ramblomatic

2007-12-12T20:34:00.000+13:00

Now I know I already tearfully told you about yahtzees brilliance. And I promise this is the last youl hear from me on the subject. www.fullyramblomatic.com Check out his essays, have a lol to yourself and enjoy. Im not gonna analyze this site for you, because its funny enough as it is.

Dont let the oldschool design put you off.

FaceBook

2007-11-30T22:50:00.000+13:00

First came Myspace. It has now been forgotten and has fallen out of trend with pretty much every one I know. Everyones converted to Beboism. I used to have a bebo. Then I realized it was GAY and SHIT and as bad as myspace. So I deleted both my accounts. Unfortunatly I did it on the spur of the moment so I lost all my short stories on Myspace. (Matthew, grr.)
So what is the next friends network trend? Facebook. ha ha ha. No no. Im kidding. I tried out facebook. Everything you click it asks me if I want to install it onto my page. Its like "No. Frig, I just wanna see what the hell you are first. What if your a hermaphrodite program. Youl have weird parts coming out of strange places and youl screw EVERYTHING (Everyone) up."
Also Its a great way to feel momentarily loved when you go to check your emails. "you have recieved a 'poke' from 'yadayada' "-_-
Oh yea, thats another thing. It doesnt let you do goofy names (which is a good thing since I hate all the Artistic ascii people do on either sides of their names. Do you ever wonder how they remember all that?)
So it deemed Izak Flash Man Inappropriate. So I stuck with Izak Flash. Oh well. Ill never use it again anyway.

Yahtzee and zero punctuation

2007-11-29T14:24:00.000+13:00

,Ok, I finally got round to listening to my friends who told me to go look at this interweb thingy. Zero Puncuation by Yahtzee, Awesome stuff. Its a simplistic flash animation with a fast talking(Hence the name) British guy who totally owns when it comes to reviewing games. I found myself laughing and saying "Thats so true" quite a lot. The awesome thing is its a WEEKLY show. Each episode is about 4 minutes long. As long as you can handle large quantities of swearing you should be fine. A couple of my chick mates have watched them and also find them funny, so you dont need to be a gamer, or have played the ,games to find them amusing.
At the time of this posting he has just released a review on F.E.A.R. So screw this blog, Im gonna go check it out.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/zeropunctuation

Portal & narbacular drop

2007-11-06T18:23:00.000+13:00

I shoulda done a blog about this one sooner. Ok, If you havent played portal yet(Because You have a dumb PS3 that waits at least 3 or so months before releasing anything+ being that little bit more expensive), or your not hyped about playing it, then you obviously dont know what your missing out on. If your not into mind bending puzzle games this may not be for you. But hey, it comes with the orange box pack, so you still get the shoot em ups of half life 2 right?
Its an awesome game, Unfortunatly you can play the entire game in one sitting, being about a three hour game at most. Fortunatly there is challenge modes to make the game more... challenging -_-.
I have to admit, the game is addictive, and fun to mess around with. GlaDos keeps the game interesting and also adds humour to the game play, as well as some form of story line.
Look out for cracks in the walls and black hand prints for some easter eggs. This game deserves a 5/5, its original and entertaining. I wonder if the PC version will release map making packs?
If you want an idea of how the game works, or you wanna see how the game originally started out (as a little freeware game made by some students) then check out www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com and download Narbacular Drop. Its so crap, but you can see so much potential in it that was fulfilled by valve. Ok, Im not even gonna bother trying to explain how the portals work, look up some Vids on youtube or something. On a final note, if you still crave portal, try out the flash version. http://portal.wecreatestuff.com/

Sims2 - Open for Business Expansion

2007-10-05T15:52:00.000+13:00

so yes, I got yet another expansion. Im not really planning on getting any more. Other than scoring one off Robby at some stage. Custom content owns!!!

Ok, lets go over whats new in this expansion, You can sell ANYTHING. I operated an art gallery for a while. If one of your sims enters the shop they actually do buy the stuff, it remains in their inventory when you next visit that sim. So I played my business sims for a bit, then went back to playing my regular family. and they were loaded up with paintings and crap. D=

You can run a salon, a restaraunt, lemonade stands, home business, or buy your own lot. You get an elevator, no more stupid stair cases. You get a bunch of new clothing, so outrageous that chances are youl never use it. Unless of course you have always wanted a sim dressed as a night or a pink ape. Oh yea, new things to be creative with, you can now make toys. Its a fun expansion. Im glad I bought it over seasons. Seasons just looks.. ugh.

Custom content place I go to the most - www.modthesims2.com/

Sims2 - Night Life Expansion

2007-09-27T21:58:00.000+12:00

Now this is a cool expansion. I Recommend it over bon voyage or seasons. If your itching to make your house into a what would resemble a gay nightclub then this is for you. The one new object (of over 125 so the blurb goes) I was most looking forward to was the DJ Booth. Its pretty neato, it puts up your creativity the same way the piano does. And the cool thing is people dance along to it.
If you decide to go downtown, to the clubs and stuff, you can actually go be the DJ and earn money, you can also tend the bar. When I tried it I only earned $5 per hour or so. So I didnt really bother much after that. Buying a car is kinda cool. Saves having to call a damn taxy when you want to go to a community lot.
The one problem I had was every time I wanted to go to a club or something It would take forever to load. So that put me right off.
Other new features is how you interact. Mainly flirting. people now have chemistry together, and sometimes they have a relationshit. You get angry at people if they offend you enough.
All in all its an Ok patch. I still wish robert would lend me University though. (it adds another phase of life, thus making your sims live that little bit longer.)

Sims 2

2007-09-23T22:15:00.000+12:00

As the great buzz lightyear once said.

So, Im a little late with sims 2, I know. The original coming out in about 2005. But hell, you have to admit, its playable for a looooong time. Twice as addictive as the original I must say. It keeps playability and avoids the "ground hog day" effect by having the new, Aspiration points system. Basically each day you have a bunch of achievements to go for, every time you complete one it changes to something else, and you earn aspiration points. This helps put up their mood, and these points help buy groovy items, like the money tree, love tub, and the life potion. Its handy, considering your sims age over time. and its not very cool having an old sim.

Ok, funny glitch. Im guiding my sims around the kitchen as you do, on the bottom floor. All of a sudden a naked streaker is climbing over the wall. not an outside wall. But the wall that seperates the house from the outside world. It was hilarious. Then I realized it was someone getting into the bath upstairs. So I clicked to go upstairs. And sure enough its a chick trying to get into the bath. When I clicked upstairs the cencor blur started to work again. So yes... I have seen a naked sim without the need for all those patchs people feel the urge to make all the time. I mean honestly, I have heard about cheap thrills, but theres a line people, And if you cross it your going to be labeled a nerd for life.. So dont cross it.

Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

2007-09-22T21:49:00.000+12:00

This was a sweet game, let me tell you. So the graphics were a bit shitty, and it would judder a bit, But thats cause they built it for XBox 360, So I cant really complain much I guess.
What I liked was how your HUD (Your health, ammo, radio, radar, all the crazy stats around the sides) is actually inside the game. Inside your helmet, as they make us believe. When you move around and turn it moves around with you. So the big bad ol Mexican rebels sometimes have jammers, cutting off all your electronics. And thats when you realize how much you actually rely on it.
The story line was clever, and At the end its kinda sad, but I was a little pissed that they left it wide open for the sequal.
What I also enjoyed was that your other squad had missions of their own. It gives you the sense your not one big dude doing everything by himself, your actually apart of a team. Sometimes you can get help from snipers, your other team, your team mate (hes around most of the time, and hes a real life saver at some points.)
All in all, this was A good shooter, its not an easy one, I dont recommend it to noobs. Its similiar to brothers in arms, the whole commanding your units thing. I found it difficult at first, but once you get into the groove it is an addictive game. 6 hours or so gameplay, its over to fast. (but thank god for sequals.)
Tom Clancy, we salute you.

*note that pic is taken from Ghost recon 2, it had the most potential for a piss take.

My new cartoon

2007-08-14T19:09:00.002+12:00

Yes, Im an amature flash animator. Check it out.

[url=http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e184/izak1399/planetone-Ep1.swf]Planet:one episode one[/url]

Its about robots, lol, this is the pilor episode. Im in the process of animating number two now, well. I only just opened a new document to start animating. But I have the script down pat.

Any suggestions would be great.

FarCry Instincts: Evolution

2007-07-08T15:25:00.000+12:00

This is an awesome game. The first things that struck me about the game was how wide it always felt, and the water. Wow... That is cool water. I so wanna play it multiplayer. Kick some ass on a home made map. Thats the cool thing, you can make your own islands to fight about on.

The Story line is pretty cool. Never leaving the view of the main character, there are some pretty awesome action scenes, they did a good job of the props and some of the action that goes on in them. I would have to say this is the best 1st person shooter since Doom3. I think thats what all these games need, ambience and some sort off theme and feel that makes you really feel a part of the game (Heh heh, WHICH part do YOU like to feel.)

It IS a rather short game, I was surprised it was over so quickly, I was expecting thousands of the same sort of thing over and over again like Halo 2. Did you ever notice that, they designed like three rooms for each level, and just varied it slightly, I think aliens would be a bit more creative than that. I think the creators of farcry knew when to stop. They made a lot of original stuff and werent going to over kill it. I guess the life longetivity of the game is lengthened by the multiplayer side of it. Which sadly I probably wont be able to enjoy much since I have no real life friends. =(
I totally need online capabilities on my xbox.

"The internet is something so vast, so pointless, that some people find it a complete alternative to life."

Singing on MSN?

2007-07-03T20:39:00.000+12:00

Ok, this is a weird confession. I love to sing over msn at people. I wanna start like a comedy thing, that would be cool. amusing people from the comfort of my swivvel chair. Wouldnt that be cool? Surfing the msn groups and seeing if any good comedians are playing, then go into their chat, and get instant entertainment, while also being able to chat like normal with others if you liked. it would be pretty swell if you ask me.
But unfortunatly msn's a twat when it comes to these things, so you can only do quick snippets to one person at a time.
Well Lets put that on the list of great things to imagine.

Dead or Alive 3

2007-07-03T14:29:00.000+12:00

Or in other words, a "Waste of Time 3". I clocked story mode with all the characters. I did find it interesting to find out the story about Omega, the random ass big dude you fight at the end. But other than that. theres nothing to dooooooo. Multiplayer would be a bit of fun though. As usual, its always better to play together(Fondle.)

I mean, yea, you can unlock a video for each character. but other than that what is there to do??? You cant buy new costumes or weapons like Soul Calibur. You Can't unlock new characters like in Tekken. This is a big empty promise. Its bogus.

It did give me a couple sittings of mind numbing entertainment slapping buttons. I was more dead than alive while watching this game.

Matt Hoffmans Pro Bmx 2

2007-06-22T18:21:00.000+12:00

Well I finally did the 8 levels that matt hoffmans consist of. I must admit, it was a real fun game. Im thinking of playing through it again to unlock some more videos that come with each of the characters.I really love the idea of the game, Road tripping around america and carving it up with bikes. The characters that feature in the game actually did this for the game, humming around in a huge yellow bus thing with The games logo blazed all over it.

Its set much the same way as the early tony hawks, you have two minutes to run around the map trying to fulfill 5 different goals. Once you complete them you unlock more, Novice, semi-pro, and pro. Each earns you about 50 points. So 150 points or so for mastering the level. You use the points to buy new levels. the challenges are a bit different from tony hawks in parts, but basically the same deal, near the end you have to pull off certain tricks, which is pretty annoying(Try out a perfect rocketqueen fakie to lookdown on for size.) Around levels are random things like cameras that take photos of you in midair, CDs that get added to your playlist (I loved the music, especially "All a dream").

Its a fun game, If you see it for 20 bucks in your local budget bin grab em up. Obviously its quite an old game so dont expect any amazing graphics.

freakin annoying, cause it IS hard

Pure Pwnage

2007-06-11T15:26:00.000+12:00

If your a gamer and the title of this post doesnt remind you of the coolest Pod cast internet show thingy out on the net then you may as well just go home and cry as you play your old jazz jackrabbit games.
For those of you who don't know what it is, pure pwnage is about a hardcore gamer called Jeremey "The pwnerer" and Kyle, the film student whos filming Jeremies life. The first episode of season 2 has just come out and its a bit more than half an hour long.
Watch them with an open mind, cause it may seem like a mocumentary at first but it will quickly morph into a series of different styles. Quite inovative and well done. I'm not going to go into it in to much depth, cause The magic of it would be spoiled that way.
So Im just telling you to go check it out.

www.purepwnage.com

Burnout 3 - and revenge

2007-06-11T10:21:00.000+12:00

So me and matt were gonna go over to hang out with the chicks, Bex has fallen in love with burnout revenge over the past couple of days. Shes also been professing she will beat me fair and square(bless her soul). I didnt really see why she couldnt but I desided to disagree on principle.

So we decided to tear ourselves away from Guitar hero to practice up our car mangling skills. To be honest I hate the Destroy everything parts of the game. Where you have to rush into a busy intersection and politically incorrectly blow the shit out of everything in sight. They just dont interest me much. Races on the other hand are what I know and love.

So we played that for about 10 minutes before I lost interest and we went off to play something else.

So the next day (Im sorry Bex but you brought this on yourself =P) we go over to the girls place with 2 half finished bottles of coke, chips and more importantly the xbox 360. We go in, watch them play singstar for a bit. Then I finally got to sit down (with the pink ps2 controller) and whip bex at burnout. and so ends the boasting. The end.

For the rest of the night we played Guitar Hero. Dude its amazing watching matt play monkey wrench without looking.

Matt when you read this, comment your longest streak and what song it is. Im fuzzy on the details.

Tony Hawks 4 - Matt hoffmans 2

2007-06-06T22:56:00.000+12:00

Well I originaly clocked most of this game on gamecube in January. So it was interesting to play it on xbox and checked out the differences. I dont remember the mini games on the gamecube version. But thats about it.
I played as Bam. His pro challenge (when you get that far) is to do 3 different types of races in a shopping trolley. It was a bit frustrating but I managed it in the end. woot I guess. Since doing the pro challenge I havent bothered going and doing all the others. I just dont see the point.
Its weird. Playing project 8 is like, ugh, completely different form all the others. and I must say, I suck ass. Perhaps its the set up, or the way the camera is pretty much pressed against the skaters back, or its just to complicated and you dont go as high as you usually do. Either way, I suck.
Well, off to play matt hoffmans pro BMX 2. Woot woot. I hated the feel at first cause I was expecting pro skater on two wheels, but Im getting more and more into it. And I love it how they bless you with videos and stuff all the time. It would own to truly go on a tour like that.

NOW TO PWN THE HOFF.

games galore

2007-06-01T10:58:00.000+12:00

ok, in the past two weeks I have had severly good luck when its come to aquiring new xbox games. Im so proud in fact I'm gonna give a list of the games I got. If you have something particularly about any of the games don't be afraid to post:

Sonic mega collection plus
Farcry:Instincts evolution
Tony Hawk's pro skater 4
Medal of Honor: Frontline
Dead Or Alive 3
Jade Empire (Limited Edition)
The Elder scrolls III: Morrowind (GOTYE)
Burnout 3:Takedown
Tom Clancy's Ghost recon Advanced Warfighter

The Beauty of all this. Didn't have to pay a cent. Me and Ben have a mate in EB who had some stock that they were gonna throw away so he nabbed 5 of the 9 games in that list for us. Tom Clancy and Farcry have the yellow "for promotional use only not for resale all over them. And on far cry you HAVE to watch the freakin intro video, but other than that their all good. The other 4 games we aquired with a chipped X Box that has san andreis on the harddrive. Some guy owed ben money. It was the only way he could pay him. mwahahaha! Im in gaming bohemia. That state of constantly switching games cause you have so much choice but no real interest in the importance of any of them.

conquer online

2007-05-27T20:41:00.000+12:00

That was a groovy game, which for most of january kept me interested in internet. it was the oldschool diablo view. can zoom in and out but not revolve around. It was balanced real weird, like monsters in the next screen over kill you in one go, but the ones on the current map give you squat amount of exp. The best plan of action is to go in a party thats not going to slay you for shits and giggles.
Yea, thats the awesome thing about the game, its pretty much PvP (player vs player) throughout the entire game. But there's some really bitchy people who will just kill everyone in sight until they get put in jail. You collect points for killing people, and once it reachs a certain point i think you get imprisioned. If you want to really get someone killed whos way to strong for you you can just put a bounty out in town, and people will go out and kill in the name of money.
Now the bad bit about the game is the grammer and the quest set up. Its as if some asian spent a week to learn english then decided to write a long complicated story line..... and failed.
and for some reason you can jump the length of the screen in a single bound, its also the quickest way to get around while simultantiously not getting killed. it makes everything look rather silly. walkings for loosers in this game.

Other than that its an ok game. I was a tiaost, their like the healers, I could usually make a pretty premo party, but there would always be the one jack ass who would be like, "Heal plz" izak:"Look, I just ran outa mana, give me some pots and i could heal you."
"heal plz!"
izak: "Obviously you didnt understand me I said.."
"HEAL PLZ!"
Izak: "NO, SCREW YOU!"

Or the people that would constantly ask to be healed straight after you healed them to maximum, they get hit by one pussy bird thing that takes off like 4hp and they seem to get worried they might die or something.

Its fun, hooking up with a friend, go train, and if some turd muscles in on your kills, just zap him for all your worth and watch him run away. That was hilarious. heh heh, still remembered the way he scampered for his life.

chain emails.

2007-05-23T10:08:00.000+12:00

yes, we all know what chain emails are. Unless you dont have any friends between the ages of about 5 to about 20 i would be surprised if you havent ever recieved a chain email. I have come to the conclusion that chain emails are things that should be torn apart and humiliated for what they really are. If I recieve a chain email I Change it so it looks completely rediculious and then send it back to every person that ever sent it. Boycot chain emails!
Oh yes, new theory. Theres a demon right, and he acts as the god of chain emails. Hes the one that rains curses down upon you if you forget to send it to at least 3 people in the next 5 minutes.

EXAMPLE:

>This really works, i swear!!
>>THE BOYFRIEND
>>AND GIRLFRIEND TEST (Dun Dun Duuuuun)>~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
>>>>This is no joke. It works (from experience, because I always send on chain emails, and I have already aquired 13 dream girlfriends.).
>>DO NOT just delete this. DO WHAT IT SAYS!!!! FOR YOUR OWN LOVE LIFE'S SAKE!!! LISTEN TO ME! EXPLANATION MARK! AAAAH! This is imperative to all mankind I say!>>Read this now or forever hold your peace.(Well, technically this sentence is used intirely out of context, Since Were going to ask you to send this message at the end of it all. So in fact, Read this now and hold your peace till the very end of the message would probably be more appropriate.)
>>This is not just your ordinary chain letter, Its a super chain email which totally isnt cliche. Every person you send it to, brings you more good luck. Wow!! Did you see it coming! Thats soooo different from our usual chain emails.
>If you send it to no one, it will cause someone you like to Like you a bit more, because they WONT be getting irritated by any silly chain emails.
>>If you send it to 1 person, your next relationship will have lots of fun times, Like falling in mud together.
>>If you send it to 2 people, you will get a secret admirer. And not the creepy, looking in your window type either, more the, read all your mail type.
>>I f you send it to 3 people, you'll get a date for the next school dance. If your out of school youl be asked by someone half your age to go to their school dance. Itl be uber imbarracing.
>>If you send it to 4 people, you'll meet the person of your dreams. the one with scissors for hands. So I say dont send it to only four people.
>>If you send it to 5 people, the guy or girl you met of your dreams will ask for your phone number. "Hey im a chick with scissors for hands... can I have your number?"
>>>If you send it to 8>people, your next relationship will be an everlasting hole of agony and arguements. Yaaaaay.
>>>If you send it to 13 people, your boyfriend or girlfriend, will become totally connected to you against their will. Youl have a copper wire strung through your hips so your stuck together.
>>>If you send it to 15 people, the person you have been crushing on for a very long time, will ask you out, I say dont say yes. Their probably jerks anyway.
>>If you send it to 18 people, your date for the next dance will ask you out. Thats when it gets even more imbarrasing. You craddle snatcher.
>>If you send it to 20 people, you'll make out with your crush at a party.. Oh dear. What will her parents say.
>>If it can do that much sending it to 20 people, imagine what it will do if you send it to more. No! thats sick. Dont think about it.
>>The consequences (Oh yes, sorry, this isnt one of those nice little chain emails that lets you get away with it):
>>If you do not send this letter to anybody, your life will suck! If it already sucks, itl probably suck a little bit more. If your a vacuum life will stay exactly the same. You have 5 days to send this letter to at least 1 person, I suggest some real annoying person that no one likes. You can send this to as many people as you want to, more the merrier and all that.. I am warning you...do not just delete this letter. It is a new chain letter and we would like it to get sent around as quick as possible. I refused to send it to many people(ONLY 38 people) when I first made it in June of 1982, because I didn't believe it would work. I do things when I dont think their gonna work. I have a low self esteem, I like to keep it that way. I sent it to 38 people(ONLY), then I got the best boyfriend that I could ever have..... I mean girlfriend.. I meant girlfriend.

>>>Romantic, Popular, or Brainy? Well We have the job for you! Spot all the grammer mistakes in this horrible chain email. (sponsored by bitchin dog food)>

Last chaos

2007-05-22T14:24:00.000+12:00

You may have seen some of the google ads around advertising last chaos. I tried it in about January I think it was. Its ok, but its far to structured (if that’s the right way to describe it?) to be able to do anything fun in. Character creation sucks. Theres only like 5 different characters. I think their releasing another couple but big whoop. You can barely customize them at all. Change the hair a bit and that’s it. You can’t even change the gender of the character type, its bogus.
You spend hours just hacking plants up. Getting the traditional armour etc. It was pretty cool finding a dragon egg and hatching it though. You can make them do little tricks etc. So while the graphics are pretty cool you feel really restricted.
Its gay. Stay away. Lawl.

The PMS incident

2007-05-20T22:30:00.000+12:00

Msn is the place of shy people acting dirty. where you could act like anyone you wanted and probably get away every time looking like a complete idiot. Something could happen to you and you wouldnt know if it was serious or a big joke.
For example(true story): Im doing my thing on msn, messing about. Some random chick is like, omg, thats a hot pic! blah blah blah. I wanna lay you right now, etc. and all this nuts stuff. and shes like, im having my period. bwahahahaha.
I was like, aight. fun, hows that working out for you?
And she kept on and on, until I eventually blocked her, then consequently deleted.
example two:
"Hi im phil, I like dick" logged in
"izak"/ so your gay??
"Hi im phil, I like dick"/ yup. lol, it makes a good conversation starter.
"izak"/huh, true.....
"Hi im phil, I like dick" is now *blocked*
*deleted*

Guitar hero 2

2007-05-18T12:17:00.000+12:00

Oh my gosh. If you havent played Guitar hero 2 yet your missing out on so much. A have noticed a hole bunch of these sorts of games are coming out, its as if their trying to get away from the whole controller thing. ok, so its not a new trend, but its deffinetly rearing its head again. Back in the day it was duck hunt and later time crisis. Then they made stearing wheels etc for grand turismo and all those other car games. jeez, stearing wheels sucked ass.
More lately is singstar, the game that girls fell in love with and guys reluctantly got into because they loved the girls.
Then there was guitar hero. I never heard much about the original. Guess it was going on in places I dont generally look. (much like, but not limited to, my anas.)
and let me say, its awesome. The whole wammy bar, the tilt sensor inside the guitar make it just that little bit cooler. Especially when you cant figure out how to make star power work so you just jump around till something happens. Im a bit of a show to watch. moving around etc, I know it makes me play worse but at least it makes it more enjoyable.
using the controller is allright, I havent dared doing it on hard yet, cause 'A' is the last key, all the rest are located on the triggers etc on the front.
all of us who have played it have also probably dreamed about it being more than just guitar hero, more like "Band Hero" perhaps? Drum hero thrown in? maybe something like singstar mixed in? well if you had you might be interested in this news clip from red octane. http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3233&Itemid=2

Does this mean that instead of the big day out we'll be holding big nights in? bands to ashamed to make their own songs or show their faces will start to become popular? Probably not. ooh, You know what would be cool! If you played online there was also a crowd mode, where you could listen to other people play, while knocking other crowd members down, doing special combos to crowd surf, or even if the band really sucks, boo and throw bottles! You could get bonus points for taking out lead! The future looks bright my friends.

Atari anthology

2007-05-17T14:22:00.000+12:00

Ok, how many people used to have an atari? Werent they kick ass? It was a little before my time, but I still have my brothers one. its one of the early early ones. The computer is part of the keyboard, the screen only works in different shades of green and black. And you get uber awesome kick ass joysticks to go along with it. Games like joust, conan, that messed up one with that ball and the holes... original mario brothers, ghost busters! Oh my god, ghost busters had a thing at the begining where you could kariokie along to the theme song. that was a revolution in gaming right there.
So anyway, Ben, my bro, decided to buy the atari anthology for xbox, so we could relive the glory days of huge floppy disks and external floppy disk drives.
Man.. The ones on the atari were way cooler than whats on this shitty CD. THAT, was my first impression, but when you hunt around the cd gets real fun. I mainly hang out in the arcade area, getting insanely high scores on the different versions of meteors. And theres heaps of two player games, making it pretty fun to do with friends. But honestly, if you go into playing this, go in with a good sense of humour, I almost laughed myself shitless at night driver. People would buy that game???
if your real sneaky, inside bonus features youl find a couple of games that were never finished or released. Also A bunch of videos of the founder of atari warbles on for a bit. Its real interesting, I guess its cause were fan boys.
Oh yea, hang man is pretty funny. especially two player, _ENIS, hmmm, this could be difficult.
After playing it for the first couple of times I felt washed out and a bit pissed off, but once you find a game you like you get real into it. Pump on your own sounds to drown out the annoying beeps and then your set.

Fun Fun. Damn, this sounded like a big plug for atari didnt it? Oh well. Off to clock driv3r again. =P

Doom 3 and bash

2007-05-17T08:57:00.000+12:00

Ok, I know this game is pretty old now. But doom 3 has and always will be the one Fps that ill be totally infatuated with. I clocked it on Xbox, twas cool. It was even fun doing it mulitplayer on xbox. They severely cut down the levels for multiplayer, got it done in like an hour I think. Wasnt nearly as scary though. It was all "MY DEMON MY DEMON YOU KILLED MY FUCKIN DEMON!"
But anyway, I got it for computer now, and wow, its a lot different, lot more interesting to. Theres heaps of different places etc. and its so awesome at night playing with the head phones on. They have really good bass so its always really awesome sounding when a demon pops up.

Also, if you havent been there, get the hell over there now, www.bash.org, freakin hilarious stuff. Not so G rated at times, and a lot of the jokes only nerds would get, but I laugh and im proud.

reptile->The first time hypr opened a box of Cheerios and looked inside he yelled, "OH WOW! DONUT SEEDS!"
hypr->wtf are donut seeds

MUDS

2007-05-15T23:18:00.000+12:00

I have recently got into hunting around for good muds (multi user dungeon, dimension, etc), and I love the idea of them. But so many of them aren't what their all cracked up to be, their unweildy and often frustrating for someone like myself. I like role playing, I dabble, im not hardcore.
most of them run in one of those java clients or.. I dont know what their called, clients of some description anyway, where you have to type in the port number etc. Those ones piss me off. Hollow is ok, but I think I screwed up my bard. Money is hard to get and I havent been training my magic, how was I supposed to know you needed magic to play songs of pain (How emo does that sound).
And to top it off, after your stats reach a certain level you cant kill weak things for experience, and all the other monsters around are kick ass compared to me. I guess ill just have to save up gold and not worry bought exp till I have a fair amount of equipment.

If anyone knows any good MUDs or RPGs please tell me. Im dying for something interesting(literaly).

first post - the manifesto

2007-05-08T22:05:00.000+12:00

Aight, so before you decide you want to even read this blog, let me tell ya'll what its about. This is the blog where ill be posting random junk on pretty much everything I DONT put on my other blog (which is dedicated to my comic series). So every now and again ill put a cool pic on here, or a short story. But this is mostly about my experiences as a semi serious gamer and internet user. So basically ill crawl back here when I want to bitch about annoying individuals lurking in mmorpg's, forums, chatrooms, whatever. Also to give you a heads up on the games I have been messing about with lately.

I own an Xbox, computer, have slight access to a 360, about to aquire a gamecube. PS fans may have trouble with me. Ill play whatever in the end. But no matter how much microsoft hurts me Ill always be their sex slave.

I have a soft spot for RPG's, and lately I have been hunting online for multi user text based games. Its wack I know.

Online games I have accounts on

Maple story - bera - izak
runescape - izak1399
neopets - izakflashman (I think, I have been banned so often I lost track.)
hollowgame - izak
conquer online - izak1399 (I think)
Kingdom of loathing - izak

There are more, but for now I cant remember them.

recommended site - www.hollowgame.com