Random Events/Thoughts of the WeekIt's like the week of video games or SOMETHIN...
- It costs $7 flat to park in the school's main parking garage. So I paid, went to the car, and..oddly enough, there was a line to get out at 9:00PM. Well the guy in front of me paid..or used his ID whichever...and the arm went up. So I pull up next and wait for the arm to drop before I feed my ticket into the machine...except the arm doesn't drop, and I drive out having paid $7.00 for nothing. ^_^d .... . . . -_-q That was enough to pay for Friday's dinner. I threw such a fit in the car. You can ask M.
- The Road is a really good book. For its 300 pages, it's a fast read. Go read it. It takes place after the end of the world and is about a father and son who travel along a road nonstop, searching endlessly for food and dodge cannibals.
Vidya Gaemz
- So lyk..u no hau i wuz complaining about vidyah gaemz in newspapers n hau i had bettr c...I CAN'T TYPE LIKE THIS...Assassin's Creed. How I had better see Assassin's Creed if they were gonna print a little something something for every anticipated game? Noap. I saw WET though...in the "Things that Turn Us On" section. If a disappointment like THAT can make it into the paper, then why NOT AC2 or T6 or the GTAIV: Ballad of Gay Tony?
- That was Monday's RedEye. Tuesday's had a 2-page feature of Tony Hawk's RIDE. Wednesday's had Left 4 Dead 2 in the "Things That Turn Us On". I wonder what Thursday and Friday will bring.
- Thursday and Friday brought 3-pages of Twilight hype and 2-pages of Twilight flop, respectively. Btw.
- Seriously though, video games do not belong in a morning newspaper. Leave the video games to video game journalists. At least they know what they're talking about...granted L4D2, Brutal Legend, and CoD4:MW2 WERE good games...but c'mon...WET?
- To prove my point: IGN gave Tony Hawk: RIDE a 5.0 out of 10.0. Whoever interviewed Tony Hawk and published made it sound like the game was great and awesome. Now, now, I know it's ultimately up to the player to decide, but a lot of time, the reviewers are right in some places. Personally, I already hate RIDE. It's just moar money-making schemes and plastic. Srsly..I'm tired of all the peripheral controllers that keep coming out with every other video game these days. It's just an excuse to make the players fork over more money.
And a Rant
OMG. I LAFF. I LAFF HARD. Not really. But IGN posted a little news bit that said the government of Russia recalled Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2. Because of a mission called "No Russian"...which is basically where the player...I'm guessing infiltrated the terrorist group and has to shoot up a bunch of Russian civilians in an airport.
People online have been making "suck it up", "it's just a game". But that's like me telling the hardcore Christian's they're soft when they cry during Passion of the Christ.
And then there are those comments that say "those Commies just don't want to be portrayed as the bad guys" or something to that extent. I hope those comments weren't serious...god no wonder no one likes gamers. Notice, though, how Russia didn't pull the game because Russians were the bad guys. They pulled it because it was Russian terrorists killing Russian civilians in a Russian Airport. Video games, like books and movies, can be very powerful things with very powerful messages. And...if a bunch of American terrorists stormed an American airport with American civilians in a video game, I'm sure America would have a problem with that.
Another thing. Activision? You're trying too hard to make the audience hate the main villain. First off, you made the villain Russian. People probably hate them already...notice the goddamn racist comments above. Or they already think they're a bunch of drunks. Seriously, in every other video game that is based in the real world and involves guns 'n whatnot, the bad guy is either German or Russian or some Latin American drug lord. ENOUGH. I want to see a game where an AMERICAN or BRI--oh wait. Uncharted's main bad guy was British...or at least sounded British--is the bad guy.HEY AMERICA. PICK ON SOMEONE ELSE. -huff-
Or at least make the good guys imperfect. Valkyria Chronicles did. The head of the Gallian forces was a complete douche. He was incompetent, had a superiority complex, and used low-handed tactics on the battlefield..and STILL LOST. I seriously had more respect for the bad guys. Ezio's another Ezio's a little cocky playboy..ya no. The kind I would detest irl, but I admire the character...and I haven't played Assassin's Creed 2 much. My opinion might change. But thus far, I really, really like the guy.
American games are so terribly ethnocentric. -_- No wonder a lot of my favorite publishers are Japanese or European.
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