It's a boring night at work, so I decided to kill time by whipping up a post containing various random tidbits I've been wanting to write about, but couldn't think of a common thread to tie them all together.
-I believe I have found irrefutable proof that IGN cannot be trusted for reviews. Remember Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood? The IGN review says a lot of things I agree with (I've linked to the last page since all you need to see is the Closing Comments section). For instance, the reviewer felt that the game hasn't improved enough over the original to warrant a full fledged sequel less than a year later, and even declared that he got bored with the it. Yes bored.
So he gives it an 8.2. How can any game that makes you bored warrant a score of "Great"? I won't accuse their writers of being payed off, but somebody there needs to grow some balls and have the guts to give hyped-up/popular games a score below 7 if they deserve it. Otherwise I simply can't trust them.
Won't even go into the horrible quality of the review's writing. Let's just say that it looks like something I would write, meaning incredibly amateur.
- I finally got to see Dead or Alive Volleyball in action this weekend. The game is nothing more than a virtual pet simulator where the pets are replaced with women. You buy them gifts and try not to hurt their feelings, then you take pictures of them sitting on the beach and falling into a pool. Oh, and there's volleyball there too, though it seems to require all of two braincells to operate.
A sad, degrading "game" for both genders. Why do people continue to defend it? Just admit that you're a horny male who wanted some interactive soft core porn? Its not that hard to say.
- I lost disc 2 to Final Fantasy 8. I don't know how I lost just one disc, or where it could be, but there you have it. My brother says its god telling me to stop trying to beat a game that I don't even enjoy.
-Red Sox are out of the playoffs, but this time I don't really care. The White Sox got a lot of crap for their somewhat poor performance at the end of the season, but by sweeping Boston they have reminded me of why they were the best team in baseball for most of the season.
Interestingly enough, and old friend of mine who attends school at Brown told me that compared to last fall, the excitement level of Boston fans was at an all time low even before the first game of the playoffs. Apparently all the bandwagoners didn't come back, and the diehards were just a little too cocky about their team. Take it from a Mets fan guys: always stick with your team, and never underestimate anyone or any situation. Otherwise fate will come and kick you in the face
-They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what happens when a webcomic artist rips himself off? Is he flattering himself? Or is he simply an architect by trade who really doesn't know how to write? Though if we are to listen to the MT fans the answer is neither: the truth is the comic is equivalent to Shakespeare...
-Now that I have you laughing, here's another dinger: J Allard of Microsoft thinks that no one loses by not having a harddrive as a standard component of the Xbox 360. I guess two of your most popular games, Halo and Knights of the Old Republic, didn't use the Xbox harddrive for caching textures and other things. Oh wait, they did. I guess that's a bad thing to have eh J?
-Over at Battle.net they had some sort of teaser during the weekend. It turns out it was for nothing but a site redesign. Sorry fans, but no Starcraft 2 announcement for you. Don't forget: Blizzard hates you unless you play Warcraft.
And that's it. Thanks for getting to the end. And if you cheated to get here, good job on being clever.
P.S.- Blogger just enabled a new feature that requires commenters to enter a string of words for verification. I just enabled the feature in order to eliminate those stupid spam bots. Guess they were reading my mind.
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