Post by Marik on Oct 24, 2006 23:19:44 GMT -5
Well, well, well.... My life you ask? (you did ask right?.... No? well TS, you're hearing it.) After 10 hours of modeling, my anime schoolgirl is finally completed in terms of modeling, I still have to smooth it and skin it.... Why am I modeling an anime schoolgirl? Well, I'm in a Modding class in college and we're making Johnny's Xtreme Adventure 2 from G4's X-Play. Look it up in G4's site, and yes I still watch G4 even though they are furthering the spiral to hell. Comcast got rid of them, smart on their part. X-Play is still as good as ever though. Well back on the subject, I'm modeling enemies onto it and what's better than like 20 anime schoolgirls with huge guns? Yes we are ripping off Serious Sam, but Serious Sam was Johnny's Xtreme Adventure way before Johnny started to even say one of his should-be patented catchphrases, like "It'll punch your ballz off!"
Work's been pretty good lately, but until it finally happens, I can't tell you why. Or else the good thing might get me fired if I told anyone.
PSU came out today and alas, I did not get it yet. My 360 is aching for a new game too. Cause Assassin's Creed won't be one of them anytime soon. Granted it was not coming out til Marchish, but now it's been delayed further to anytime between April 1st 2007-March 31st 2008.
Sony forced Lik-Sang out of business today thinks to their lawsuits, so no good importing site anymore!
Also those who are Castlevania fans, hear this: HUGE preorder bonus for Portrait of Ruin: 20th Anniversary Box set that contains an art book, timeline poster, soundtrack of the Best of Castlevania, Castlevania stylus and Castlevania DS cart case to hold 2 DS games. The box won't come til the game comes out, so preorder it now!
And for those who are PC gamers who haven't already heard these old news, but Battlefield 2142 had advertisement spyware, but it's nothing harmful nor does it work outside the game itself. I've been hearing some scary stories like, "They track the sites you go to so they can do a poll on what kind of ads they can put in the next Need for Speed and Fight Night" or something stupid like that. EA talks about it here if you're afraid of Battlefield 2142 cause of it: battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf/BF2142_News_101906.aspx
Trogdor........ Is in Guitar Hero 2.... OMG
NEXT ON NEXT GEN WITH Marik!
IGN got their proto-PS3 and it's not as big as I thought it was gonna be, but when you put anything next to Japanese people it makes things look big I guess.
Marik's PS3 rant of the week: Their launch lineup is crap. It's very good in terms of hit titles, but there's one flaw: Other than Resistence(Good FPS), Fatal Interia (Koei's F-Zero ripoff that looks like it'll be the first next-gen game to hit a bargin bin), Full Auto 2, and Ridge Racer 7(2 not-so-notable games), every other game on launch(Sonic, FEAR, Madden, Marvel, Fight Night, Oblivion, Call of Duty 3 etc) will already on the 360! The PS3 is a piece of trash for the 2006 holiday season. And with no noteworthy exclusive hitting until MGS4 and FF13 in 2008(most likely for the US and even more likely for Europe) there is no reason you need to shell out 600 for a console, it's just not mentally feasible.
On the Wii front with IGN, they made a better Wii flash site than Nintendo's. Here:wii.ign.com/launchguide/, you can see in huge detail about the Wii for November 19th.
Marik's shameless plug for Wii this week: Wii's launch lineup is much better, because they have a AAA title with Zelda, but mostly everything for the Wii is EXCLUISIVE, cause you can really do some of the things you coulda with the other 2. Not only that, their non exclusives(Call of Duty 3, Marvel, Madden, Rayman) are really exclusive in a way because these games have an entirely new control mechanism. And unlike the PS3, Europeans and Assies will be able to get the Wii in 2006. And Zelda, beautiful, beautiful Zelda. Shigeru Miyamoto, the maker of Mario Zelda etc. stated he cannot play the GCN version of Zelda because the controls are outdated and in the end, not good enough anymore.
And the 360. People say being the first out helps and that's exactly how the 360 still attracts people, because they all know about it aready. Now I tell A LOT of people to get a 360. Why? The system is awesome, it has a great library and it's getting better. I wasn't fond of Gears Of War, but I've been seeing a lot on it lately and it's looking VERY VERY good. I can't afford it unfortunally, but I aware everyone that asks what'll be good this Xmas season and I'll say 2 things #1-Zelda and #2- Gears of War. I think I'm asking for Gears for XMas, I just gotta hold a Collector's edition for myself when it comes out. A game's always better when a friend buys it for you. Okami was one of them. Not only that, Xbox Live is great. 360 PSU owners don't have to worry about all the PS2 and PC users on dial up because the 360 version will have exclusive servers dedicated for only that one console. I save minutes on my cell phone by haveing the voice chat function for the 360. Just go on the 360's nice looking dashboard, invite the people you want and talk away! Like with the Wii, Xbox's Marketplace is great. But it does things the Wii doesn't. You can d/l demos on the console so you know how you go to a store and play a game there, well I can just do it at home. Also it does trailers so you don't have to search online and be stuck getting a 320X240 movie.
After popular demand(yea I'm shocked too), to better sell the next gen consoles, instead of going the expensive route, I'll give you the cheapest path to the consoles. No second controllers, just what you really need at the cheapest price to play 1 game:
PS3:
500 Core model console
60 One game
$560 Total before tax
Xbox 360
$300 Core sytem
20- Ridge Racer 6, the 360's cheapest new game
40- 64MB Memory card(no hard drive in Core model, so you need to save stuff)
Ironically $360
Wii
$250 Console
50 Game
40 512MB Memory card
...$340. 20 cheaper than the 360. Wii really doesn't save you much than what you get with the 360 cheapo route, but in the bright side, Ridge Racer 6 sucks and with no hard drive and no HD component cables, no headset, no free ethernet cable and a wired controller intead of the base wireless, you really lose a lot of function the 360 has. The Core model 360 is really a waste of money. The Wii wins again, but by a nose this time.
.......Or does it? There's one more possibility. A USED 360. Something the other 2 next gens don't have quite yet.
260 used Core system system
17 for RR6
30 for the memory card, with all 3 used, it's...
$307. So does the 360 win? Technically yes. The 360 is the best route for the cheapest bastard.
And to finish it all off, VGCats hit the mark on their new comic. Seems more people read their comics just to insult Scott, but there's no point to that. as I say and any webcomic artist says, DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT. Also don't insult antone who reads them because we read it, cause it's not like I payed for it. They don't make money off these comics they post online! It's for our enjoyment. I'm sick and tired of hearing that crap.
Well anyway... Phoenix Wright fans will enjoy this as you can clearly see:
Work's been pretty good lately, but until it finally happens, I can't tell you why. Or else the good thing might get me fired if I told anyone.
PSU came out today and alas, I did not get it yet. My 360 is aching for a new game too. Cause Assassin's Creed won't be one of them anytime soon. Granted it was not coming out til Marchish, but now it's been delayed further to anytime between April 1st 2007-March 31st 2008.
Sony forced Lik-Sang out of business today thinks to their lawsuits, so no good importing site anymore!
Also those who are Castlevania fans, hear this: HUGE preorder bonus for Portrait of Ruin: 20th Anniversary Box set that contains an art book, timeline poster, soundtrack of the Best of Castlevania, Castlevania stylus and Castlevania DS cart case to hold 2 DS games. The box won't come til the game comes out, so preorder it now!
And for those who are PC gamers who haven't already heard these old news, but Battlefield 2142 had advertisement spyware, but it's nothing harmful nor does it work outside the game itself. I've been hearing some scary stories like, "They track the sites you go to so they can do a poll on what kind of ads they can put in the next Need for Speed and Fight Night" or something stupid like that. EA talks about it here if you're afraid of Battlefield 2142 cause of it: battlefield.ea.com/battlefield/bf/BF2142_News_101906.aspx
Trogdor........ Is in Guitar Hero 2.... OMG
NEXT ON NEXT GEN WITH Marik!
IGN got their proto-PS3 and it's not as big as I thought it was gonna be, but when you put anything next to Japanese people it makes things look big I guess.
Marik's PS3 rant of the week: Their launch lineup is crap. It's very good in terms of hit titles, but there's one flaw: Other than Resistence(Good FPS), Fatal Interia (Koei's F-Zero ripoff that looks like it'll be the first next-gen game to hit a bargin bin), Full Auto 2, and Ridge Racer 7(2 not-so-notable games), every other game on launch(Sonic, FEAR, Madden, Marvel, Fight Night, Oblivion, Call of Duty 3 etc) will already on the 360! The PS3 is a piece of trash for the 2006 holiday season. And with no noteworthy exclusive hitting until MGS4 and FF13 in 2008(most likely for the US and even more likely for Europe) there is no reason you need to shell out 600 for a console, it's just not mentally feasible.
On the Wii front with IGN, they made a better Wii flash site than Nintendo's. Here:wii.ign.com/launchguide/, you can see in huge detail about the Wii for November 19th.
Marik's shameless plug for Wii this week: Wii's launch lineup is much better, because they have a AAA title with Zelda, but mostly everything for the Wii is EXCLUISIVE, cause you can really do some of the things you coulda with the other 2. Not only that, their non exclusives(Call of Duty 3, Marvel, Madden, Rayman) are really exclusive in a way because these games have an entirely new control mechanism. And unlike the PS3, Europeans and Assies will be able to get the Wii in 2006. And Zelda, beautiful, beautiful Zelda. Shigeru Miyamoto, the maker of Mario Zelda etc. stated he cannot play the GCN version of Zelda because the controls are outdated and in the end, not good enough anymore.
And the 360. People say being the first out helps and that's exactly how the 360 still attracts people, because they all know about it aready. Now I tell A LOT of people to get a 360. Why? The system is awesome, it has a great library and it's getting better. I wasn't fond of Gears Of War, but I've been seeing a lot on it lately and it's looking VERY VERY good. I can't afford it unfortunally, but I aware everyone that asks what'll be good this Xmas season and I'll say 2 things #1-Zelda and #2- Gears of War. I think I'm asking for Gears for XMas, I just gotta hold a Collector's edition for myself when it comes out. A game's always better when a friend buys it for you. Okami was one of them. Not only that, Xbox Live is great. 360 PSU owners don't have to worry about all the PS2 and PC users on dial up because the 360 version will have exclusive servers dedicated for only that one console. I save minutes on my cell phone by haveing the voice chat function for the 360. Just go on the 360's nice looking dashboard, invite the people you want and talk away! Like with the Wii, Xbox's Marketplace is great. But it does things the Wii doesn't. You can d/l demos on the console so you know how you go to a store and play a game there, well I can just do it at home. Also it does trailers so you don't have to search online and be stuck getting a 320X240 movie.
After popular demand(yea I'm shocked too), to better sell the next gen consoles, instead of going the expensive route, I'll give you the cheapest path to the consoles. No second controllers, just what you really need at the cheapest price to play 1 game:
PS3:
500 Core model console
60 One game
$560 Total before tax
Xbox 360
$300 Core sytem
20- Ridge Racer 6, the 360's cheapest new game
40- 64MB Memory card(no hard drive in Core model, so you need to save stuff)
Ironically $360
Wii
$250 Console
50 Game
40 512MB Memory card
...$340. 20 cheaper than the 360. Wii really doesn't save you much than what you get with the 360 cheapo route, but in the bright side, Ridge Racer 6 sucks and with no hard drive and no HD component cables, no headset, no free ethernet cable and a wired controller intead of the base wireless, you really lose a lot of function the 360 has. The Core model 360 is really a waste of money. The Wii wins again, but by a nose this time.
.......Or does it? There's one more possibility. A USED 360. Something the other 2 next gens don't have quite yet.
260 used Core system system
17 for RR6
30 for the memory card, with all 3 used, it's...
$307. So does the 360 win? Technically yes. The 360 is the best route for the cheapest bastard.
And to finish it all off, VGCats hit the mark on their new comic. Seems more people read their comics just to insult Scott, but there's no point to that. as I say and any webcomic artist says, DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT. Also don't insult antone who reads them because we read it, cause it's not like I payed for it. They don't make money off these comics they post online! It's for our enjoyment. I'm sick and tired of hearing that crap.
Well anyway... Phoenix Wright fans will enjoy this as you can clearly see:
