Monday, November 30, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Zombie Headshots
NOTE: The post was written on 11/22/09. This note was written on 11/25/09. Look what I got! Yay, I've finally gotten myself a mobile gaming device, and a spectacular deal for the PSP, game, and some vouchers. Fun stuff. And, it'll be here before my birthday! Perfect.
Original Post:
Nothing better than Left 4 Dead 2, eh? Well, I promised for a Dragon Age: Origins review, but Dragon Age takes over 50 hours, and the Left 4 Dead 2 campaign took... well, about 45 hours less. So I'll be giving you my review in the next few weeks, and then shortly after, Dragon Age. Also, I want to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving!
I've been busy in WoW (for the first time in months)and I'm officially Pilgrim Epicphoenix.
And my birthday is on November 30th. So... Yeah. Four days!!! Excitement!!!
Additionally, I would like to annnounce something.
Je deteste fan-made trailers!
If you don't speak French, I hate fan-made trailers. Really. Take for example...
New Moon Trailer 1
New Moon Trailer 2
New Moon Trailer 3
WoW Patch 3.3 Trailer
See the pattern? Any asshole can stick in the green rating screen, mash together previous trailers with dramatic music and some Arial text for "drama" in between clips.
But really, if they actually released the fan-made trailer as the official trailer, how would people react? Something along the lines of "WTF, we saw this shit, DIAF"
Take in consideration that 3.3 trailer. All I saw was Warcraft 3 trailers with cheesy lines with no meaning in between reused clips with some dramatic music. Fail.
Monday, November 23, 2009
WoW Raiding 101's Glorious Return
That's right, on January 15th, WoW Raiding 101 will return as EpicPhoenix's solo podcast.
WoW Raiding 101 is your weekly gaming podcast talking about WoW news, raiding and general gaming. Mark your calendar for the epicness.
Also, WoW Raiding 101 will indeed be part of SSEP Network, seeing as how it is EpicPhoenix's vocal project.
WoW Raiding 101 is your weekly gaming podcast talking about WoW news, raiding and general gaming. Mark your calendar for the epicness.
Also, WoW Raiding 101 will indeed be part of SSEP Network, seeing as how it is EpicPhoenix's vocal project.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Gaming = Nerd AMIRITE
I’ve seen people who are overweight, who do nothing with their lives, who don’t ever clean their ears or comb their hair – and frankly, I’ve also seen people like me – skinny kids with friends who are also “popular”, engaging in healthy activities while also being a hardcore gamer. Now, the definition of a video game nerd has changed. Now, a video game nerd is simply anybody who is “lame” or “uncool” and just so happens to play video games. No longer is a person uncool because they play video games. Why? Because they conceal it, or they are casual gamers. Casual gaming is fine – if you have a 360 and play Madden and Call of Duty, good for you. But if you play World of Warcraft or “nerdy” games that only hardcores would play, then you’re considered a nerd. Why is gaming considered to be such an invaluable hobby?
Hate to break it to you, but it’s because people aren’t familiar with such hardcore games. Their idea of a game is a fun, short, burst of entertainment. They don’t have the mind to contemplate a calm before the storm, or any lack of edge-of-your-seat fun. Thus, Wii Bowling may be fun, but games such as WoW might get boring in the middle of a leveling slump. They’re just not familiar with how in-depth games are, and second, they consider games to be fake. They say you can’t get anywhere with video games. Well, they’re idiots. What’s their hobby? Watching TV? Even take for example BMX biking. Sure, you can become a pro – but how many kids at the skatepark become pros? They think that I spend my nights pretending to be an elf, or pretending to be a knight. And last but not least – the loneliness.
This is a big one. Sure, there are single player games, but there are hundreds of amazing multi-player games. So, the idea of a gamer is a fat dude with no job who sits in his basement in the dark. But non-gamers have an idea of gamer isolation that is simply ridiculous. Take for example my friend’s opinion. This is from a teenage girl who plays casual, online multiplayer games – such as Maplestory, Club Penguin, Gaia Online – the point is, the games have no real combat design or intense gameplay. It’s for talking to your friends online and having short, casual fun. I told her the games were poor excuses for Facebook, she said it wasn’t her fault that I spend my life alone in my basement. Oh, stereotypes. Games like World of Warcraft have you surrounded with all sorts of friends and people of which you never would have known until they bust that hilarious one-liner in Ventrilo. With WCRadio, I’ve already met many friends from the IRC and community forums – and we’ve got together to play Borderlands or Left 4 Dead. Gaming isn’t about sitting alone, you have tons of friends – virtual friends, but there’s always a face behind a monitor, many of which can be seen at BlizzCon.
The idea of this gamer stereotype should extinguish as Madden games continue to make their annual $2 million from casual gaming teenage boys, and as games like Call of Duty which survive off an easy-to-learn shooting/war simulation gameplay, designed to slap your friends with your e-peen, rise to the top, this stereotype will no longer become one, but become fact, when PC gaming dies out so Valve can produce Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Episodes from Liberty City 7 for the Wii.
Hate to break it to you, but it’s because people aren’t familiar with such hardcore games. Their idea of a game is a fun, short, burst of entertainment. They don’t have the mind to contemplate a calm before the storm, or any lack of edge-of-your-seat fun. Thus, Wii Bowling may be fun, but games such as WoW might get boring in the middle of a leveling slump. They’re just not familiar with how in-depth games are, and second, they consider games to be fake. They say you can’t get anywhere with video games. Well, they’re idiots. What’s their hobby? Watching TV? Even take for example BMX biking. Sure, you can become a pro – but how many kids at the skatepark become pros? They think that I spend my nights pretending to be an elf, or pretending to be a knight. And last but not least – the loneliness.
This is a big one. Sure, there are single player games, but there are hundreds of amazing multi-player games. So, the idea of a gamer is a fat dude with no job who sits in his basement in the dark. But non-gamers have an idea of gamer isolation that is simply ridiculous. Take for example my friend’s opinion. This is from a teenage girl who plays casual, online multiplayer games – such as Maplestory, Club Penguin, Gaia Online – the point is, the games have no real combat design or intense gameplay. It’s for talking to your friends online and having short, casual fun. I told her the games were poor excuses for Facebook, she said it wasn’t her fault that I spend my life alone in my basement. Oh, stereotypes. Games like World of Warcraft have you surrounded with all sorts of friends and people of which you never would have known until they bust that hilarious one-liner in Ventrilo. With WCRadio, I’ve already met many friends from the IRC and community forums – and we’ve got together to play Borderlands or Left 4 Dead. Gaming isn’t about sitting alone, you have tons of friends – virtual friends, but there’s always a face behind a monitor, many of which can be seen at BlizzCon.
The idea of this gamer stereotype should extinguish as Madden games continue to make their annual $2 million from casual gaming teenage boys, and as games like Call of Duty which survive off an easy-to-learn shooting/war simulation gameplay, designed to slap your friends with your e-peen, rise to the top, this stereotype will no longer become one, but become fact, when PC gaming dies out so Valve can produce Hello Kitty Island Adventure: Episodes from Liberty City 7 for the Wii.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
November 17
Second most important: My birthday in 13 days.
The most important: It's November 17, release date for L4D 2 and AC 2! I've been excited about this for months now.
Planning on getting twenty hours of Dragon Age in this week and playing through Left 4 Dead 2's campaign over the weekend. Awesome stuff.
Speaking of L4D2 - here's a video from my friend and fellow SSEP founder, Snickersnee.
The most important: It's November 17, release date for L4D 2 and AC 2! I've been excited about this for months now.
Planning on getting twenty hours of Dragon Age in this week and playing through Left 4 Dead 2's campaign over the weekend. Awesome stuff.
Speaking of L4D2 - here's a video from my friend and fellow SSEP founder, Snickersnee.
Monday, November 16, 2009
2012
Well, on Friday I saw 2012. It was a heartwarming tale of five underdeveloped characters in a race against a giant cloud of fucking death. The story starts with a man who’s name I’ve already forgotten, a single author. He is going on a camping trip with his children and goes to Yellowstone National Park, where he discovers the park is heating up and becoming unsafe – and he leaves. Meanwhile, a scientist discovers the earth’s core is heating up, resulting in the crust shifting and stuff. So, he hears some crazy guy preach about the end of the world and how the government built big ships for people to survive on, and when the single author guy – who is apparently a limousine driver – delivers two fat, spoiled Russian kids to a plane and “accidentally” drops a suitcase on their foot, one child tells the single author guy that “they’re going on big ships to survive and that he will die, haha!”. So it begins. The single author guy rents a plane and drives to his ex-wife’s house to rescue them. They think he is crazy, until their house asplode. Then, cut to an action scene of a limo jumping over chasms in the road, and then followed by a plane dodging falling buildings, then that plane landing in Yellowstone, them getting in a car and dodging falling meteorites, and then more plane / building dodging. Then they land, find another plane, dodge more buildings, and crash in the Himalayas. Then they ride a pickup truck to the crazy ships, and long story short – they sneak in, and stuff happens.
The movie was awesome, I was on the edge of my seat. Waiting for it to end. Every close call I knew they were fine, and they would save dramatic death scenes for the end. The story of three people – a Chinese boy with a pickup trick, an Indian scientist, and our good ol’ Californian single author guy – are all tied together very well in the end. It just makes me wonder – did they really pay a guy, to come in, work morning to afternoon, just so he can faceroll in AutoDesk Maya and create maybe half of one frame? Think about it, this was a three hour movie.
Overall, the movie was okay. It was like Transformers 3. Just like the second Transformers, this movie had a shit ton of special effects with no real story or motivation. Maybe a 7/10. You should rent it. And this doesn’t mean I’ll be doing movie reviews frequently, I’m just really bored while Dragon Age: Origins installs. Also, to quote my friend, “Dude, Bill Cosby was the President!”
The movie was awesome, I was on the edge of my seat. Waiting for it to end. Every close call I knew they were fine, and they would save dramatic death scenes for the end. The story of three people – a Chinese boy with a pickup trick, an Indian scientist, and our good ol’ Californian single author guy – are all tied together very well in the end. It just makes me wonder – did they really pay a guy, to come in, work morning to afternoon, just so he can faceroll in AutoDesk Maya and create maybe half of one frame? Think about it, this was a three hour movie.
Overall, the movie was okay. It was like Transformers 3. Just like the second Transformers, this movie had a shit ton of special effects with no real story or motivation. Maybe a 7/10. You should rent it. And this doesn’t mean I’ll be doing movie reviews frequently, I’m just really bored while Dragon Age: Origins installs. Also, to quote my friend, “Dude, Bill Cosby was the President!”
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Dragon Age: Origins
My thoughts on the movie 2012 tomorrow... But on November 27th I'll be reviewing Drago Age: Origins. Got it today, as well as some new Nikes. Good stuff. See you tomorrow!
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