Oh right it’s Halloween

Fuck you.

You want to be scared?

You want to go trick or treating?

Here’s your scary.

Here’s your treat.

Which reminds me, comic page was updated ages ago.

Honestly if I get any trick or treaters I’ll probably dip a kitchen knife in ketchup, put on a hockey mask, open the door and be like “Yes?”. Then, when they go running down the street I’ll chase after them screaming IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE, TRICK OR TREATERS!!!!!!!! whilst smashing them into the pavement countless times.

So, to summarise, I don’t like Halloween, nor do I get it. Infidels, they must be purified!

How not to do an OP

What’s wrong with that? Well, the song is not only J-pop, it’s SQUEAKY AND GRATES YOUR BRAIN. That almost made me stop watching way back when, of course I could skip it, but there would be the second or two when the video starts of SCREEEEEEEEEEEECHHHHH FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK. Of course, the song should sort of be relevant to the show, and considering Naruto is a show about annoying little kids being retards and emo, it’s sort of fitting.

Bleach OP’s have generally all been good, and relevant to the series. As for the actual songs.. well.. it’s still J-pop but it’s not terrible, it doesn’t scrape your eardrums with an audial-knife. Of course, they suffer the problem of uh.. the new OP seems like it should be for the manga. It was the same with the ORETA AWAI TSUBASA one or whatever, it was way too far ahead of what it actually was showing. SHE’S A SHOOTAN STAR notwithstanding, Bleach OP’s have, as I said, generally been good.

Apachai forced me to put in the DTB opening because he loves HOWRING IN DA SHADOWZ.

Still, the best OPs are ones without any J-pop in, if you ask me. I’m sure there are some.. people out there who like J-pop.. I can see the appeal of listening to music where you can’t understand the words if you’re like.. trying to relax (like classical music?) but not for J-pop. That’s just me, though. Or of course, don’t HAVE an opening. FLCL didn’t have an opening if I recall.

Still, I’d have to go with

As my favourites.. of course, even they pale in comparison to:

FUCK YES CONAN.

This was basically an excuse for me to dump loads of videos as I like doing that, it makes it seem like I’ve made a big post, when I’m really just rehashing what I’ve said before, whilst allowing me to be overly critical on my other posts which’re better. KIND OF LIKE NINTENDO.

Dennou Coil Review

It’s turning into review central ’round here, apparently.

Okay, so Dennou Coil, an anime that aired in 2007 for 26 episodes, by MADHOUSE and all that other boring stuff. What’s it about? Well, I’m going to be cheap and just paste a summary.

In 2026, eleven years after the introduction of internet-connected augmented reality eyeglasses and visors, Yūko Okonogi moves with her family to the city of Daikoku, the technological center of the emerging half-virtual world. Yūko joins her grandmother’s “investigation agency” made up of children equipped with virtual tools and metatags. As their research turns up mounting evidence of children who have been whisked away to the mysterious “other side” of reality, they find themselves entangled in a conspiracy to cover up the dangerous true nature and history of the new technology.

That makes it easier than if I tried to ramble on about the confusing plot, oh and it WAS confusing. It started off confusing, and just when I thought I’d made sense of it.. it got more confusing.

That’s what it’s about, yet what is it like? What’re the themes? Huh, it’s essentially about kids growing up. Again. Much like FLCL and E7, I seem to have a penchant for liking these sorts of things. Of course, the themes are alot more subtle I would say. Ah, yes, and it’s pretty much 80% set from the view point of girls.. there’s like.. two male characters who have any substantial screentime, Kenichi and Daichi. (Ironically they are also easy to remember names, Kenichi as in Kenichi, and Daichi as in the Daichi legendary katana from Fable 2). Kenichi is sort of a main character.. or.. well, alot of the actual storyline in the series is prompted by his characters motives. Oh, Nekome is a sort of important male character too.. near the end. Ehh you get my point.

As for familiar voices.. uh.. Yuko is voiced by Rukia (although I failed to hear that myself), and Kenichi is voiced by Hitsugaya/Ed Elric person. Overall the voice cast was pretty good.. there were just some dumb moments, for one, they all sound way too old. If my guesstimation is correct, all of the “main” characters are 11-12. Some of them sound alot older. Not really a huge problem I guess, I just figured I’d mention it. Uhh.. oh yeah, and when Isako cries near the end it sounds really.. dumb. “WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” quite literally like that, it was kind of hard to take it seriously when it sounded so..stupid. Yet, I’m just pointing out the bad points as I couldn’t really think of many and giving stuff a perfect review is dumb, you’re meant to pick out the good points and bad points.

Okay, so as for the pacing, it was somewhat bizarre. It starts off pretty slow and you’re not really sure what the storyline is, indeed, there doesn’t seem to really be one, there are vague hints towards mysteries such as the “4423″ stuff and so on, but it’s pretty non-linear until around hmm.. episode 15? Then it all speeds up incredibly. I wasn’t really bothered with the pacing, it didn’t seem drawn out or rushed. Characters growth wasn’t as good as I’ve seen in other things (E7 and FLCL, I’ll use them as an example again) but it was somewhat believable. It was interesting relatively near the end when Yuko’s mother gave her a speech about living in the real world, where things are “warm, soft, and might hurt a little”, as opposed to the virtual world they were essentially living in. Believe in what you can touch with your own hands and so on.. I did think it was a tad pointless as they just continued using the glasses anyway more or less. I’m sort of struggling with this review ‘cos well, I can’t really think of anything WRONG with Dennou Coil, but I didn’t exactly really enjoy it LOADS.. it was good just didn’t really capture my attention all the time. It was enjoyable.. just not at the same level as other things. If that makes sense. I guess it’s more a matter of taste, then anything. Oh, another thing that was a tad hard to swallow was Kenichi’s relationship with Kanna (who’s dead), I just think it’s sort of weird to think that they were “in love” at the age of 10. It just seems kinda..weird. Speaking of which there wasn’t really much romance in the storyline, if there was I missed it and it was very subtle. Aside from the cacklings of Yuko and Kenichi, Daichi and Fumie and uh.. yeah. It wasn’t really a major factor in the show.

All in all, it was a show about children refusing to believe adults, researching urban legends, and to their suprise(?), the urban legends were true..in a way. Ruuugh I give up trying to explain it so onto the music/animation and such. Soundtrack? I liked it, it did seem a bit inappropriate for such a show at times, but the main “omg dramatic stuff is happening” music was fitting and good. I’m listening to it now infact, and it’s a pretty good OST. As for the OP.. well, I can’t say I really liked it, but I don’t really like J-pop/rock and so on, it was certainly not BAD. I didn’t skip it that much, which is rare. I find myself skipping OPs alot because they are overbearing and..loud. It did seem to fit with the show to a certain degree. ED was just a dog spazzing along heartily. Animationnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn. I have read that people anticipated Dennou Coil having very high production qualitys, and as such, amazing animation. Urgh.. I guess? I can’t say I really LIKED the style of animation, not that it was “ugly” per se (like Geass) I just found (like Geass) it stood out, as opposed to me just staring at it normally.

Uh, I got distracted for like an hour, a new record. Where was I? Oh right animation. Well, aside from the fairly odd style, it was pretty good, nothing amazing, but it flowed well. Backdrops were nice, of course it wasn’t really an action-packed thing so the animation looking nice was generally just related to people talking and moving. That’s all there’s to say really, animation was fine. No obvious QUALITY and it looked fine pretty much the whole time.

Uuuuuuuh, I think that’s everything.. so.. the score? 7 or 8/10. That’s a pretty high score, as I mentioned earlier, there’s no real huge flaws with it, but it’s not perfect. It’s enjoyable, and episode 12 (again with the episode 12) was pretty funny. I would reccommend it.

Abayter, buddycho.

BOKU SATCHI

If Apachai was a robot/software program.

Fable 2 Review

I think I’ve probably played Fable 2 enough to review it now..soo…here goes.

Of course, it’ll be interesting to see how it turns out..’cos..well..just read on.

Okay, so Fable 2, sequel to Fable, the action RPG of 2004 that was hyped ABSURDLY much from what I understand. Now.. back then I didn’t really read much gaming news, I followed magazines but that’s about it. I didn’t really get the hype and so on, but I really liked the first Fable game. Of course it had its flaws.. yet I liked the story, I liked the music, the humour and the graphics. Jack of Blades was also awesome. (The original one, not TLC grimdark voice)

Thus, I was excited for Fable 2 when I heard of its existence in like.. 2006 or so, I followed the hype this time, but apparently it was alot smaller. That is to say, more or less everything the Molynator said would be in the game IS in the game.. apart from the length, I’ll touch on that later though.

Alright, so, first things first. Fable 2 is an action RPG. Yet..well, to go off on a tangent, it depends on what you think when you hear “RPG”. RPG stands for Role-playing game, does that mean you’re playing a role you created, or playing a set role? Generally I would say the former. JRPGS are the latter. It’s something I’m sure most gamers have noticed, many WRPGS feature tons more character customization and choices that affect the story than JRPGS.. JRPGS are more like a story that you happen to be witnessing first hand. Is that a bad thing..? Not really. It’s just not really an RPG in the traditional sense. Another thing about RPGS is that they tend to have lots of stat management which is “complicated”. Well, Fable isn’t complicated in stat management.. or just about anything. It most certainly does have you creating your own “unique” character though. Which leads me onto my next point, I said it isn’t complicated, it isn’t. Combat is simple, puzzles are simple, real-estate management is simple, it’s all simple. Is that a bad thing? I wouldn’t say so. Let’s take the combat, for example..

Combat in Fable 2 is mapped on three buttons, X for melee, Y for ranged, B for magic. You can smash away at X and win, you can smash away at Y and win, and same with B. Yet there is some slight depth to it which makes it “casual” friendly as well as not becoming boring to “hardcore” players. I, at least, did not find myself getting bored and I love DMC/DW type games. You can further upgrade each of your three combat schools (Strength, Skill and Will) to make them more versatile. Strength you can get new moves, counters, blocking and so on, Skill you can roll, get better aiming, get psuedo-FPS aiming, and faster reloading etc, Will pretty much powers up your spells. Now, on the subject of spells.. I find the magic system in Fable 2 very interesting. You can have 5 spells equipped at one time, and they go in a strange sort of.. tower configuration of 5 levels. Say, you hold down B for 1 second and you get level 1, hold it down for 5 seconds and you’ll get level 5 etc. It’s hard for me to explain, but I like it, it’s different to the normal kind of generic spell-casting.

As much as I like the combat.. it’s way too easy. Fable 2 has no difficulty settings, there are no challenging enemies, there are some which are ANNOYING, but never really a challenge. Will is, much like in the first Fable, absurdly powerful (perhaps rightly so) and makes the game trivial. Ten or twenty hollow men coming at me? No problem, I’ll just charge up to my level 5 inferno and BAMWHAMASLAM. You do take double damage whilst charging but.. shrug. Having infinite mana (or well, there’s NO mana) also doesn’t really help the situation, but I don’t really care about that. So that’s bad point number 1, game is too easy.

Bad point number 2? It’s so short! I completed the story after about 32 hours..but of course, most of that was me screwing around with the other things to do, exploring, buying shops and houses and so on. I had heard that the story was “12 hours if you rush”.. but I’m highly doubtful of that, I think I could do it in 6 hours if I rushed. To be honest, 6 hours is way to short for an RPG.. it feels like JUST as the story is beginning to kick in.. it suddenly ends (there’ll be spoilers in a paragraph below where I’ll discuss the story). I was a tad disheartened by that, yet I’m sure there’ll be an expansion or DLC.

As for the additional things to do other than the story, they are sure fun.. but again, I’ve had the game since Thursday and I’ve almost completed it 100%, I’ve got 40/50 gargoyles without actually specifically hunting them down, not sure how many Silver keys, but probably alot.. and ALL the demon doors opened. Speaking of which, I was expecting something great in the last demon door.. but.. 50k gold, are you serious? That’s like the cost of one master weapon.. and I had 2.5 million gold at that point. (No, I didn’t cheat or exploit to get it, either – owning every single building nets you ALOT of money) So meh. It’s stupid to finish an RPG almost completely in under 40 hours. I know it’s sort of asking alot for such a long game but come on, GTAIV’s story mode took me over 30 hours to finish (I did alot of screwing around as well but still) and even then I’ve got another play through to see the other ending.. AND the multiplayer and general tomfoolery. So yeah, Fable 2 is too short.

Ah, the multiplayer, the co-op. Fable 2 being co-op made me VERY excited when I heard about it, it had potential to be so great.. yet..it..wasn’t. Why? Well, look at the tagline of ads for the game: WHO WILL YOU BECOME? Gee, well, apparently a generic henchmen. Seriously I can understand the logic of not wanting two heroes or whatever but come on, is summoning a henchmen from another universe any more realistic? You should just throw stuff like that out the window when it comes to co-op, it doesn’t really matter. So yeah, you don’t get to show other people your hero properly, then there’s the shared camera. That’s.. not really a HUGE issue but uh.. what’s the point? It just serves to annoy. Maybe the game engine can’t handle you being in two different regions, okay, just make it so you have to stay within the same region. Simple. Having to share the camera online can be tricky as you’re not in the same room and it’s just.. well.. it doesn’t work properly. Aside from that, the co-op is a nice addition.. just not as great as I thought.

Hmm, that leaves story, graphics, music and general thoughts. Story I’ll leave until last, with spoiler warnings etc. Graphics? I liked them, the lighting system was impressive, the world was beautiful, but what made it stand out was the foliage, the flowers and grass. It really adds alot to the general feel to be able to run through flowers and see them get brushed aside, as opposed to sprinting across a blob of texture that stretches out for miles. Just uh.. the amount of bloom is ridiculous at times, the motion blur affect when you’re running can be pretty annoying too. Characters models aren’t bad, but the civillians suffer from “we all look the fucking same”. For a game with a relatively wide amount of different clothes.. there could be more variety. Overall I’m fine with the graphics though. Spells look nice. Music? Good enough, but there’s not enough of it, I get really annoyed when I’m playing a game and then suddenly notice that music has started playing (Gears or War, Half Life, I’m LOOKING AT YOU WITH A HUGE TELESCOPE OF FIRE). It aggravates me.. music should be playing ALL the time. Like in DW! Uh.. I’m not really sure what else to say, the dog is a nice addition though if you choose any end other than Love.. yeah. I spoke quite alot about the DAG in my other post of Fable 2 (which was like a preview, if anything) It’s nice.

SPOILERS BELOW, APACHAI SPOILER DEFENSE SYSTEM ACTIVATED.

As for the actual story of Fable 2? Hmm. I liked it, yet again, it was very short. Your sister is killed and you are left for dead, you grow up and then start a quest to recruit three heroes, on your venture to rescue the second, you are captured for ten years. You then escape and recruit the third hero.. then you get your revenge and it’s over. That’s pretty much it. I loved the world and feel of Albion 500 years later, I liked the characters, I liked the general feel of the story, a mix of fantasy and fairy tale. Watching as Lucien’s tower grows taller and taller, being able to see it from pretty much any region? That’s awesome. It should have lasted longer though.. there are plenty of ways you can make it longer without making it TOO long like GTAIV was. So onto specifics.. Hammer was a faggot character. Garth was pretty interesting, although I think they could have made a stronger emotional bond considering you spent ten years of your life trying to rescue him. It felt a tad weak there. As for Reaver? Well, Reaver was awesome.. oddly alot of people seem to dislike Reaver. I can’t really understand why. Sooo he destroyed Oakvale, forced you to choose one of the toughest decisions in the game, shot Barnum and then killed Lucien. Pft so what. Unlike Hammer he had an awesome backstory in his journals, unlike Garth he was actually somewhat human-like. Unlike either of them, he was also voiced by Stephen Fry, which made him doubly awesome. Yet it irritated me, the moment I had “recruited” Reaver, the game suddenly ended. Ah yes, the ending, I’m of two minds about this. So you essentially have your “final boss fight” on a beach, against a Giant Shard and waves of enemies.. yet it’s not really a proper climatic fight.. it’s just there. No sense of urgency or peril, and indeed, it was easy. You then screw about for a bit and get spooked out by the NOoooooOOOoooooooooooooOOOOo scream.. then.. you teleport to the Spire, walk dramatically through the light..where Lucien is channeling the energy from the three heroes, oh god is he going to become a demi-god of Skill, Will and Strength? I better shoot him with my magic box to free the others so we can beat him down. Okay.. he’s talking and I can attack him. I’ll just wait for him to finish talkin- oh, Reaver shot him. It’s.. over.

Yeah.. it was sort of anti-climatic. From a storytelling point of view, I liked it..just, the game needed a proper climatic ending. It seemed rather stupid, if Lucien was so weak as to die from a single bullet, why didn’t Theresa just teleport to him and shoot him or something..? Eh, they could have kept that bit, but they really needed an actual boss fight, let’s see.. here’s what SHOULD have happened:

After you destroy the Great Shard, three Commandant-style people would emerge and you’d have to fight them, one for each of the four heroes, each with a corresponding skill-set, one who uses melee, one who uses ranged, and another who’s been infused with spire energy and can use Will. Then after you beat them, a fourth “mega” Commandant would come out and you’d have to fight him, he’d use all three skills at once. After that, cue the blah blah dream stuff, then you break out, end up in the Spire.. where.. you fight a HUGE MONSTAAAAAA. I don’t know what, just something big and epic. Then, you do the end bit, which would be different as it’d be ONTOP of the Spire. As in, you’re ontop of this ridiculously huge tower, and below you stretches the entire world. Much more fitting.

Yet, even so I’m pretty sure the story isn’t finished. There have been so many hints that it isn’t.

• There’s all the mentions of Samarkand and the Northern Wastes.
• Obviously, Theresa saying “The Spire is mine, begone” and the fact that it still stands.
• All the “we will meet again for sure” stuff they say.
• Jack of Blades wasn’t in it.

Hence, I think there’ll be DLC/expansion which will add the following to the storyline:

Theresa is using the Tattered Spire to ressurect the Hero of Oakvale, her brother, ‘cos she’s crazy. Yet, in doing so something bad will happen etc etc. You are told this by a mysterious figure, who guides you on your new quest to stop Theresa, under their guidance you travel to the Northen Wastes to find and recruit Hammer once more..however, an ancient evil has been brought back by generic plot-reason X and Jack of Blades is ressurected! You then fight Jack of Blades who is depressingly easy to kill, due to the fact that he isn’t used to BOOLETS, however, he then changes into his dragon form, cue epic battle. You destroy him and can either destroy his mask or keep it for yourself (putting it on would boost your power but make you fully corrupt or evil or something) anddd then you sail to Samarkand to find Reaver and Garth, Garth you do find. Then you help him do generic plot thing Y and he joins you again. Reaver however has returned to Albion for his shadow stuff, so you go down and generic plot thing Z happens which makes him want to join you in killing Theresa. Cue the storming of Tattered Spire, battle against Theresa, then she ressurects Hero of Oakvale, who is the opposite of you. If you’re good, he’s bad, if you’re bad, he’s good. If you’re neutral than uh.. I guess he’s neutral too. He’d be using the Sword of Aeons if bad or Tear of Avo if good and some of the real good armour from Fable 1 too, light/dark and so on. You fight him one on one, win, then Scythe would pop up with Rose and be all dramatic, you’d have a choice of destroying the Spire or making it your own, if you make it your own you’d have to fight the other people or something. Aside from all that, they should add new weapons, new clothes, new spells and so on. Simple simple.

SPOILERS HAVE ENDED YOU MAY LOOK.

Okay.. so, the score?!!!!!!!!!!!!??????

7/10.

I’m not really sure WHAT to score it, I have enjoyed Fable alot, yet.. it’s just too short.

PStripple

I get the feeling I should pointlessly talk about something as I currently have nothing to do. (Actually there’s tons of stuff I could do, but I want to play Fable, thus I’m waiting for either Thors or that swedish kid to hurry up and get it, I like to procrastinate though) So.. I thought I should talk about the PS3.

Before that, it struck me that I say “so…”, “hence”, “well…” and stuff like that, way too much. Oh we– uuh.. Nevermind. I also have a weird use of paragraphs.

Or so I’m told.

S-ahem, onto the PS3. I do tend to ‘hate’ on it alot, but well, it’s not that the actual console is that bad, and by no means am I a “fanboy”, indeed, last generation I had every single console. GC, PS2, Xbox, PSP, DS and a PC. Why? They all had great things on them.. GC only really had Melee, in fairness. PC back then was actually pretty good (yes, I’m implying it’s shit now, cope with it). This gen.. meh, Wii dominates world-wide, 360 dominates the ‘hardcore’ market, and in Japan the PSP fucking DOMINATES. They love it SO much.

Eh, as I said, the PS3 isn’t exactly a bad console, it’s just Sony are a terrible company at marketing. Why do I buy Sony TVs? I know that my 20 year old TV still has better picture than modern day SDTVs that cost tons. It’s a matter of experience. It’s different for a console though, you buy them for the games, not for the consoles capabilities. Take the Xbox for example, it was amazingly powerful at the time. Yet I didn’t really want one, aside from the controller being fucking stupid until they released the S-pad thing.. it had no games. Halo, whether you hate it or love it, was an amazing innovation for console FPS games at the time. It brought things that made PC FPS games so great (I’m talking about Unreal Tournament mainly) and put ‘em on a console. Vehicles, GOOD controls for a console FPS (the first since like Perfect Dark) and grenades were just a button, you didn’t have to swap to them, believe it or not that was a pretty big impact at the time.

Halo was good, it had vehicles, amazing graphics, great music and a fairly interesting story, all thrown together into a game with tight controls and awesome multiplayer and co-op. Halo 2 later became one of the first console games to use Online play (at least it was the first to do it successfully afaik). So yeah, Halo was enough to interest me in an Xbox, later on came the remake of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, and Fable (which a certain somebody STILL HAS cough cough).

Indeed, Sony went backwards and Microsoft went fowards, they released the 360 early, made it visually more appealing, and improved many of the other flaws the original had. Aside from that though, they made sure they had a killer line up of games, not only that, they catered to Japanese and bought tons of JRPGS (more so this year really, but you can’t deny it was effective). Sony? Sony released a bigger version of the PS2 which was apparently as powerful as a PC. Yeah, uh, no. People don’t buy a console because they want something to be as powerful as a PC or w/e. Not only did they overhype the power of their console, they failed to deliver upon said hype. There are no games that are on the PS3 that look significantly better han on the 360. There are no games that are on the PS3 that COULD NOT be made on the 360. Okay, maybe MGS4 because Kojima doesn’t understand what compression is. I can’t say I really care, I have MGS1 and MGS3, the best games in the series. I watched MGS4 on youtube. Sony did a Microsoft and focused on the console, not the games. Ergo it failed. Oh sure, you can say “haha it’s not a failure look how many it’s selling!”, yet.. I don’t think Sony have made much profit, if any.

Still.. I’ll commend them for focusing on the niche market of “omg ultra powerful” console, and not just making a shitty Wii ripoffoooooooh wait. Home. Yeah I know MS is copying Miis or whatever, I’m just saying. The other thing the PS3 has going for it is uh.. the Blu Ray. Aka the “let’s milk money outta people with our obsolete media storage device YEEEEEEEEEAH”. In this day and age, there’s little to prevent people from being able to stream a movie in HD quality, or indeed – download it. I don’t really understand it, but from my point of view, if I can have Sword of the Stranger sitting on my HDD in a 720p encode with hi-bitrate and amazing quality, at around 3.5gb….why can’t a movie fit on a dual layer DVD? Again, I don’t understand so it must be something to do with the speed the disk is read at…but..aren’t DVDs faster than Blu Ray? I’m nonplussed. The only thing I can think of is that they use some form of shitty .avi container that isn’t compressed at all, at 1080p, meaning it’s like 9000gb. Well whatever – I think it should be digital. Who honestly doesn’t have broadband and a HDD over 200gb nowdays? It also cuts down on production costs surely.

If the PS3 had an amazing lineup of games, I would certainly CONSIDER getting one, as of right now it has uh.. POTENTIALLY Zone of the Enders 3 and erm, White Knight Story which’ll probably be shit. Don’t get me wrong, MGS4 is pretty cool but it’s not a system seller to me. Little Big Planet is a piece of shit, I can get something more advanced using technology that’s 4 years older for a fraction of the price in the form of Gary’s Mod. Sackboy indeed. There’s also uh.. Resistance and that other game..uh…uh…no good, I can’t remember it, the jungle game with treasure and shootings and so forth. Resistance is just another Sony-clone though, much like Crash Bandicoot and Killzone before it.

So that’s why I don’t have a PS3, DS I do have, mainly for pokemon, yes, I like pokemon. I’m not a raging poke-fan or anything, but I do enjoy the games, even if they are essentially the same thing every generation. I like it. PsP I sold ages ago because I never played it. PC? That’s a relatively tough’ish one, my PC can play every single game I have well enough (apart from BF2, but I never play that) so I’m not really bothered. My PC is by no means a great gaming rig, but I rarely game on it. Now, having some more ram for photoshop (non work related) and autoCAD (very work related) would be nice, but I’m not really too bothered. I mainly use my computer for music playing, browsing, irc’ing, photoshopping and CAD’ing, and animu watching. It can do all of them without any trouble. (Aside from photoshop and CAD which can be a bit slow due to lack of ram etc etc blah blah) Soooo.. I’ve been very hesitant on replaing my PC. I think I’m lucky in that I was never a huge PC gamer, so I’m not stuck in the past stubbornly defending the PC as the superior gaming platform. Sure, you can get amazing graphics…IF you have the right spec of PC, even then it’s not assured, as everyone’s PC is different. Specs become more and more demanding.. it’s really much more simple to just get a console, everything works. PC is great for MMOs, that’s true, but I have little hope for the MMO market as everything’s just a WoW clone.. and WoW itself. Yeah I can’t really see myself wanting to honestly play it again. Controls aren’t really better than console games apart from on RTS games and some FPS games. I say some because not all FPS games are a twitching spazzfest of spinning around like a lunatic. OHHAWHHH BUT HALO’S SO UNSKILL BASED IT HAS AUTO AIM AND SHIT YO. Yeah, yeah that’s true. I don’t really care though, I have more fun playing Halo than I do playing CSS, because I suck at FPS games and CSS just consists of me spawning, maybe killing one person, and then somebody shooting me in the dick and getting a headshot. Pretty fun that is. Still, I’ll admit I have periods of playing CSS alot.. yet in general I only find it fun to muck about and make it so when I shotgun people they go soaring across the map. RTS games I have AoE2 for, I don’t really think I’d ever need another one. Sci-fi maybe.. but I can always download a red alert/C+C game or something.

PC may have the potential to be the best gaming system again, but it isn’t right now. Why? Piracy and compatibility mainly. If more companies start (and I think this is the only time I can condone something EA has done) selling computers that are ACTUALLY GOING TO WORK WITH NEW GAMES for a cheap price, I could see PC gaming become more popular again. What do I mean? Crysis-team worked together with whoever to make their game fully runnable on a mid-range system and then sold said system for $600. That’s reasonable. What is not reasonable, is having to pay like £700 for a mid-high range PC, which might not work with game X or have performance issues with game Y and then I need to pay like £100 in a few years to upgrade it, if not buy a new one altogether. Oh sure, I have to pay £200-300 or so every 5-6 years for a new console.. it still works out cheaper. PC games are always striving to push the boundaries of graphics, which is why this problem emerges. I don’t really see the point, Far Cry 2 has amazing graphics on the 360 which has the same hardware as in 2005. My PC from 2005 couldn’t even run Far Cry 2 on ultra minimum mega giga settings. Okay so sure, PC games can look nicer than 360 games, 360 games have texture pop in and lack of AA and run at a lower resolution. So? 360 is designed to be played on a HDTV, when you look at a HDTV, you generally sit a good 5+ feet away from it, at that distance you’re not really going to notice the jagged edge of a leaf in the middle of a gun fight, I assure you. So yes, I’d much rather play a game on my 360 which I know will run it at 60FPS constantly than my PC which “might” run it at 60FPS.

That’s not to say I’m a 360 fan boy. I get pissed off just as much (probably more) as everybody else when I get the RRoD, and I think it’s a tad ridiculous having to pay for online and getting so few “extras”, I also dislike that the wireless adaptor was so pricey. Theses are things Microsoft will hopefully address in the next Xbox.. along with having such a tiny HDD from the get go.

• Free online, or make it so gold accounts give me something REALLY worth it.
• Bigger HDD.
• No RRoD.
• Wireless adaptor built in.

Easy! I’d go for Wireless as well, I get as good a ping/download speeds as people who use wired connections, without the hassle of actually having the wires. So.. I say Wireless. I don’t think it’s really an issue for the 360 anyway.

Whoo, that was a pretty good way to waste time. However Thors and the swefriend still aren’t here. Woe is me etc. I shall now proceed to the post-office to mail my dipshit friend his phone back.

I won’t say anything like “later, buddy”!

I’m off, pals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!135862623423oprssarapachai.

(Oh yeah more Kenichi please scanlators. History’s Strongest Thai: Apachai! Strongest in history, but he’s just the Apa?!)

Fable 2 Demon Doors

A guide to the Fable 2 demon doors.

I did say first of all “you may as well ignore this”, considering I pasted it from a guide I found somewhere – that is to say, I didn’t write this. So.. it’s not written by me. I wrote some of it as I found it out but uh..yeah. Not that giving credit over the internet really matters.

However, considering I’ve got like 15k views in the space of a day or too.. figured I should mention that.

Anyway, enjoy the hopefully useful guide.

LEGENDARY WEAPONS

—MELEE—

THE MAELSTROM
Dmg: 58, Type: cutting, Attack speed: Normal, Augment: Scourge
Location: Temple of Shadows.. make the most unholy of sacrifices (husband/wife) between 12-1am. This is after reaching 2k points.

THE RISING SUN
Dmg: 61, Type: cutting, Attack speed: Normal, Augment: righteous violence
Location: Make a large donation to the temple of light between 12-1 once the monk starts telling you about the harvest donation thing. K-NOTE: 10,000+ gold seems to work, I’ve not tried less.

THE CALAVERA
Dmg: 67, Type: Blunt (Mace), Attack Speed: Slow, Augments: Flame
Location: Westcliffe Demon Door.

THE HAMMERTHYST
Dmg: 78, Type: Blunt (Hammer), Attack Speed: Slow, Augments: Barkskin
Location: Oakfield Demon Door

THE DAICHI
Dmg: 96, Type: cutting, Attack speed: Fast, Augment: Devastation, Bewitching, Killerwatt
Location: From Brightwood tower jump into Archon’s Knot tomb and make your way through it. Coming out of the exit there is a chest containing this weapon, impossible to miss. K-NOTE: You must complete Wraithmarsh first, after you come back from the Spire.

THE CHOPPER
Dmg: 96,Type: Cutting, Attack Speed: Slow, Augments: Discipline, Stoneskin
Location: Score 7 perfect rounds in the crucible.

—RANGED—

THE RAMMER
Dmg: 119, Type: Arrow, Attack Speed: Normal, Augments: Ghoul, Flame, Bewitching
Location: Gargoyles Treasure (Shoot all 50)

THE RED DRAGON

Dmg: 41, Type: Bullet, Attack Speed: Fast, Augments: Devastation, Lucky Charm
Location: Score 175 or more at the Westcliff Shooting Range.

THE ENFORCER
Dmg: 177, Type: Blunderbuss, Attack Speed: Slow, Augments: Barkskin, Luck Charm
Location: Complete the quests “cold Comfort Farmer” and “the Blind Date”. This will let you buy Farmer Giles farm which contains a key that will let you down into the farm cellar. It’s at a dig spot at the end.

THE PERFORATOR
Dmg: 81, Type: Turret Rifle, Attack Speed; Normal Augments: Fear Itself, Discipline, Barkskin, Augments: Fear Itself, Discipline, Barkskin
Location: Wraithmarsh Demon Door.

——————DEMON DOORS——————

Winter Lodge
Location: The path leading from wraithmarsh to Bloodstone
How to open: Play a lute
Reward: Master Longsword

The Arid Sea
Location: Bower Lake
How to open: Respond to his script using expressions… The ones needed are: Bloodlust roar, fart, middle finger, worship, blow kiss, growl, point & laugh, dance, laugh, thrust.
Reward: Lucky Charm Augment

Forgotten Keep
Location: Bowerstone Cemetery
How to open: Kick a couple of chickens at the demon door.
Reward: Balverine strength potion, Practiced skill potion, and Infused will potion.

The Sepulchre
Location: Brightwood
How to open: This is a real pain… First, he wants cheese at first.. Second, You must get dreadlocks (bloodstone) or a mullet and mutton chops (bowerstone) or a handlebar moustache.Thirdly, he will want you to wear a tokel hat or bandana, tart shirt or noble trousers, and a noble gent;s shirt or corset. If you show up wearing any of those items he will ask for different ones. (K-NOTE: Bring him cheese, get dreadlocks, mutton chops, put on yokel hat, tart skirt (bought in bloodstone) and noble gent’s shirt)
Reward…. Merchant’s cap, Knotted Shirt, and Harlequin Trousers.

Homestead
Location: Oakfield
How to open: Wants to see a marriage proposal (K-NOTE: Or blow kiss at him, worked for my male hero who was fully good/pure)
Reward: Serenity Farm ( a nice house ) which contains “Come Hither, Dear” and Hammerthyst (legendary mace)

Memory Lane
Location: Rookridge
how to open: Have you dog do tricks ( Tricks are triggered by your expressions )
Reward: Potion of Life

The Vault
Location: Westcliff
How to open: Be halfway corrupt or more
Reward: Calavera (legendary mace)

Terry Cotter’s Army
Location: Wraithmarsh (NE corner)
How to open: Bring a large audience to him (have people follow you then fast travel to The Drowned Farm) you need 10 followers.

The Sanctum
Location: Fairfax Gardens under the castle
How to open: Won’t open until he is the last demon door left.

(If you need help check the comments, apparently)

Fable 2 Arrives

..and I REALLY want to play it.

Oh god I’m both thankful and annoyed at the same time, thankful I don’t have a shitty 9-5 job, annoyed that today is the one day I had a survey in the morning, yet – when I got home, there it was, next to a box of “natural beauty” or some such crap for me mom.

The box is nice. I want to play. Must light-speed through writeup and e-signing.

To quote Fox:

HEREICOMEHEREICOMEHEREICOMEHEREICOME-FABLE!

Hah.

It’s real good so far, I’ve not actually done any of the story thus far (apart from the opening tutorial style bits) so I’ve just been screwing around in Bowerstone and exploring the few zones I could actually find my way into. I’ll wait for Thors or Frahlo or whoever to get the game before I start on the story mode, fo’ mad co-op’ing. Even so, I’m suprised that I managed to play it for about 5 hours today, and only an hour tops was actual story stuff. I don’t know if even GTAIV could keep me occupied for 4 hours just running around blowing stuff up (maybe San Andreas) but yeah, it was pretty fun. I’m not generally a huge fan of simulator games, yet I like Fable so far.

So, aside from the actual main story, I’ve begun building up my characters empire, transferring a few thousand gold over from my pub games patron, I then promptly invested it all in buying some real estate around Bowerstone, then renting it out for -25% the price it was before. Why? ‘Cos I want to be a nice guy. Indeed, my character is a “Saint” right about now, just from all the nice stuff I’ve been doing around town. Of course, that doesn’t mean I haven’t done some.. morally questionable things.

Ahem. Such as getting married twice, yet that’s not really evil.. maybe a little corrupt because I did it for greed (delicious dowrys and bigamist achievment). Yet, I wave it away as having TOO MUCH LOVE FOR JUST ONE PERSON. I will marry the entire population. Oh, I also killed a man. It wasn’t my fault though, Bard follows me into Bowerstone, then he apparently got bugged and just sat there in my house forever. Alternatively, he just got bored of being a bard and considering he knew I can’t actually shut or lock my door to my own house, he just stood there on the staircase forever. A swift rifle shot to the face soon sorted that out. Then, of course, one of the peasant cretins came soaring in to scream OH MASTER CHIEF YOU LOOK SO AWESOME IN THAT COAT (yes, my title was Master Chief at the time) and then wandered up the stairs, and saw the rotting corpse. Sadly it didn’t despawn and I had no way to move it (which is a shame as I even had a back entrance to my house prepared, I was gonna dump it out there at night and nobody would be any the wiser). Yet, she saw it, and went soaring off before I could spam SORRY at her. Guard came in, demanded I either pay, do community service.. or well, resist. Being the good natured man that I am, I did community service, which saw me shipped off to the Graveyard to clear out some bandits. Even so, my character is still good and has a pretty halo on his head. Sadly being good also made his eyes blue and his hair really light, which ruined my plan of him being Montolio, aka the friendly neighbourhood Paladin (who has dark hair and purple eyes). Even so, I just used dye on my hair.. as for the eyes, well. There’s no contact lenses though that would’ve been a neat feature. So yeah, although I haven’t made a profit YET and have had to take up a job as a blacksmith to get MO MONEY. Eventually, the rent will break even and I’ll start making a nice profit. As it stands, wife #1 costs about 55 gold a day in upkeep, whereas wife #2 is about 20 as she’s a poor tramp who I put in a tiny caravan. Of course, that’s the only thing they want. Money money money. Oh, and when you check them out in the family tab it always pops up with WANTS SEX. No. You got your children to keep you occupied and I’m sending you money, you get nothing else. Fairly realistic, in that aspect. (You can, however, teleport to them, which is actually quite handy, even if it gives you a disturbing profile message)

I’m also getting like 1600 gold every 6 ingame hours, or so, that’s my guess. That’s from rent, cheaper rent which then makes the villagers happier and gives me purity points. The pub was the most expensive thing I bought, but it also brings in the most amount of money, about 700 gold on its own. Some places only bring in like 7-14, but it all adds up. Fairfax castle will be mine.

Hmm, as for the other things in the game.. the combat? I like the combat. It seemed a bit bizarre to me in demonstrations, but when you actually play it, it feels right. It’s not as fast paced or challening as say, DMC4, but it’s very enjoyable in its own way. You can seamlessly intergrate all three aspects of fighting into moves (Melee, Guns and Magic) In a way that I’ll admit, I don’t do very often. In Fable 1 I was melee only, with a cure spell for when I needed it. In DMC4, I was pretty much melee only, never used the guns. In Fable II I find myself using a good mix of them, which is another reason why I think the combat is a success. Example? Well, I’ll be punching one guy with my sword, when another comes up behind me, by tilting the analog stick at him and hitting B, my character sort of points one hand behind him and force pushes the other guy far back, then I spin around and shoot him in the face whilst he’s stumbling back. Apparently you can decapitate people (or at least it says “decapitations: in the stats screen) yet I’ve not done it yet.. nor have I done any “crotch shots”. I think I need a higher level of Skill so I can free aim or something.

Magic is neat too, infinite, aka no mana – it’s good. I have 2 main ways to do every spell, AoE (area of effect) or directional. I would say it’s more like 4 ways though. I have a quick tilt/tap which is a weak force push which sends people flying back, I can tap with no direction and do a crappy yet fast ground pound style thing, which also pushes people back. Or I can charge it up 2 levels, which do the first two things, but stronger. It’s pretty satisfying to charge up a level 2 force push and send someone flying. Yet it’s even more satisfying to go into the third-person style view of gun-aiming and shoot a bandit in the face. Indeed, it’s a complete opposite in that I’m using guns and magic more than melee. Or well, I still use melee alot, it just doesn’t really feel as impressive. In fairness I only have it at like rank 2-3 and all I have unlocked are flourishes. I likey the guns though. Alot. I’m currently using an Iron flintlock rifle or something, it’s awesome. I’ve yet to try the turret, clockwork and blunderbluss rifles. I had a pistol I got from pub games that I used for all of 5 seconds.

Uhh…the customization of characters is alot better too, what with more clothes, people actually encouraged to try different outfits as they don’t affect AC (armour etc) and only matter in terms of attractiveness. You can dye them too, which is great. My character is currently running around in a full white ensemble with a long jacket and awesome eye patch. Silk gloves too.  Before that I had him in a slightly cheeky, rogueish looking outfit of the Highroller’s coat mixed in with some of the Hal suit. (Master Chief/Halo armour) Which is what I wore at the start when I got it outta the chest. For like, 5 minutes. Then I got to Bowerstone.

I’ve depressingly yet to find a proper Montolio hat, yet I think the Guard one might do, if you can indeed get it, which you should be able too, I’ll just get it, use my tan leather dye on it, and voila. There’s also a face/mask option, which has stuff like eyepatches etc etc. Hopefully I can find an awesome mask for when I do my evil Lant/red run through. In Fable 1 TLC you could get Jack of Blades mask.. so there’s some hope.

Whoo, I’ve yet to get into the real meat of the game, that is, the story, and I’ve not done co-op yet either, indeed, I’ve only seen Bowerstone, Bower Lake, Brightwood and the Bandit Coast. Hence I’ll add that in when I do a review of it later on. Oh! Dog is good too, I was going to name it Apachai but it wasn’t violent or Apary enough and all it seemed to like doing was finding me treasure (Apparently dogs can smell treasure chests, and things buried under the ground) so I called it Thors. It’s a happy light furred doggy. I can’t say I really like dogs, yet I like the dog in Fable II, it’s useful and funny to watch it soar along as you sprint around. Oh, and it can teleport and fly god-like when you jump off stuff. Interesting. I’d rather have a big-cat (tiger/panther) though. Of course, then there’d be hundreds of shoulder length white dyed hair black makeup’d people called Drizzt running around with panthers called Guenhwyvar. Pft.

No work tomorow.. which is bad as I’ll want to do story mode.

Abayo, buddy.

Swing and a “it sort of grazed it, yet didn’t really affect the trajectory much at all”

So I was watching TV as I ate dinner, as you do, and up on this random show came:

“More women would cut back on food than beauty products”

That is to say, if they only had enough money for food, or lipstick, they’d rather get the lipstick, even when they phrased it like that and asked people, they said the lipstick.

I’m quite frankly very nearly speechless, I can’t even work up the willpower to rant about that.

It’s just mind boggingly stupid.

…

Fun

That was probably the most interesting and at the same time irritating thing I’d ever seen in WoW, of course, it’s like the last day of my 10 day trial thing so it’s good to have something especially retarded to end on.

So I’m happily plugging away in WSG smashing stuff, after a while I notice that “this match has been lasted for fucking ages” so I have a look at the scoreboard, I’m second, like 14 killing blows and a few deaths, then first is a Blood Elf paladin with a name that’s some HILARIOUS typo of Mary, Maeriye or something, I forget. So they have over 50 killing blows and 0 deaths, at this point I’m thinking “huh”, perhaps they are godlike, so I go hunting around for them. ???? I can’t find them anywhere! Oh, then I find them, in the horde flag room with a priest and shaman healer, the shaman also has WF down. Huh, I think, inspecting their gear from afar. What looks to be full S3 with S3 sword. I give a shrug and jump on down, I manage to kill the shaman before the other two even notice, somehow. So then I start fighting, I was winning until the priest broke out of repentance and began healing, perhaps I should have killed the priest, but either way I think it was hopeless. Right, so they had tons of KB’s because obviously the retarded alliance couldn’t kill them.

Hmm, what made it more interesting, was the fact that as soon as I hit hammer of justice, it lagged. Not FPS lag, not latency lag (as I had 18MS, which is a darn sight better than most people) just.. lag, nothing was happening. When it unlags, a few other begin whining about lag, and I’m dead. Huh, I think in annoyance, how lucky can you get? So I manage to call a few of the other morons together and we go charging in, about 7 of us, I have berserker buff and so on, with the buffs I was sitting at almost 40% crit and 2200AP. We head in, kill the shaman as I wasn’t keen to get WF’d. Then there’s a warlock and a rogue there, so it was more of a brawl than last time, but we manage to wipe them out, or rather, everyone else did. I meanwhile had popped wings and was beating down on “hahamynameishilarious”, to no avail, why? Because of the priest spam healing them, and the paladin themself spam healing Holy light, which I had limited ways to remove. I got in one HoJ near the start, which they didn’t trinket or BoF out of (….) yet it wasn’t enough to kill them, despite my huge crits. Soooo, after about 2 minutes I’m STILL BEATING ON THEM to no avail, everybody else is dead apart from me, the paladin and a human warrior who’s also beating on them with me, so at this point I’m cackling thinking “all right this fucker’s gonna die”, and we chase them outside, at this point they have about 500 mana. We get outside slightly and……it lags. (Not that it wasn’t lagging earlier mind you, it was lagging throughout the whole duration of the fight, the moron was just standing still spamming Holy light and everyone else was affected too) soooo after that lag spike wears off, I’m dead. Warrior’s dead. Horde paladin is halfway across the map with full health. Right.

At this point I could still pass it off as coincedence, but it then happened a further 12 times. 12. Every time I would attack them, the whole BG would begin lagging, never at another time. Gee, that person was either the luckiest fucker in the world, or was doing some crazy hax. It frustrated me, why? ‘Cos I get confused by people who are obsessively avoiding getting a death. It’s pointless you don’t suffer any penalties. Maybe it was for some faggot achievment, but by the end they had over 100 killing blows and 0 deaths. Congratulations at winning at your serious e-sport, I guess? I’ll admit, if this was last year or when I was properly playing WoW I would’ve been SO FUCKING ANGRY, instead my anger was limited to lots of “HUH”‘ing out loud and “WHA” and the occasional “NOOOOO, DIE” and such.

It amuses me more than anything though, how serious people take WoW in general. It’s like, sure you can take a game seriously, even more so if you play it professionaly, so why doesn’t that take WoW into account? What are you meant to train for in WoW? Get the timing JUST right on that spell which’ll get resisted? Yeah. WoW as an e-sport is a huge joke and people who take it seriously are kidding themselves. Won’t be, can’t be. RPGS =/= skill based and RPGS =/= competetive.

On the one hand, considering WoW is played by everyone and their mum, perhaps it being a psuedo e-sport is a good thing, it’ll make professional gaming popular. Oh, wait. Yet that’d make it a shitty form of professional gaming (far worse than it is already) and it’ll just be tournaments of WoW and Wii fit. Hence that would be another thing ruined to WoW. Gaming in general, MMOs and the introduction of “casuals”. Ugh, it’s so sad, the newest content patch for WoW adds quite alot of neat stuff, the bad thing is, they copied it from everyone else, now everyone else will copy WoW. It’s a vicious circle, something is good -> WoW copies it -> everything else copies it. Look at the new Star Wars MMO, a Star Wars MMO could be fucking awesome! It’s made by KOTOR peoplet too! Oh wait! This trailer!!! Welcome to Star Wars: Kids of the old Wowpublic. Shitty cartoony graphics, oversized weapons and no doubt combat and interface ripped right out of WoW, oh and course, EA are strung on to pull its bloated corpse around like a bizarre wagon.

I really hope I’m wrong, but from the little I’ve seen, it looks terrible.

You know what would be great for the gaming industry? If Nintendo and Activision-Blizzard were shut down. That’d kill Wii shit, WoW and Guitar Hero, I think Activision publishes that anyway. Fucking Guitar Hero, it’s another ridiculous game that, whilst it may be fun, doesn’t give a company the excuse to print out 100 expansions a year for full price. OH WAIT, YES IT DOES. It’s like the Sims all over again. WOW GUITAR HERO 45 EXTREME MEGA BRITNEY SPEARS VERSION COMES WITH 5 NEW SONGS FUCKKKKKKKKKKK.

Yeah you can argue I’m being hypocritical because I buy DW games, but uh. Last I checked, the gaming industry wasn’t being ruined because people buy DW games. Besides, I don’t blindly pick them up, I’ve missed quite a few of the expansions, and if you’ve read any of my other posts you’ll have seen that I REALLY WANT KOEI TO PULL THEIR FINGER OUT AND MAKE A PROPER “NEXT GEN” DW. It’s hardly the same. If DW starts selling millions of copies, becoming so obsessively featured everywhere and coming out with DYNASTY WARRIORS: ONE NEW CHARACTER edition, yeah, I’ll stop buying it.

Don’t even get me started on EA their DRM is a joke, yeah, let’s punish people who buy our games by inflicting upon them a useless protection system that fails to stop people pirating it. Good job you complete and utter hacks.

Arrr…I was in a good mood when I started writing this, hence the title. Tomorow is Fable 2, assuming my copy arrives, if not, Friday. I’m quite looking fowards to Fable 2, it looks pretty enjoyable after all. However many people are under the laughable assumption that because the combat is ‘easy’ to get into, or ‘simple’, that the game is a casual game. Uh, newsflash, casual =/= easy game. Casual = simple game that lacks any depth and/or caters to retards who throw money away. Guitar Hero is a tough case to pinpoint, as one can argue it takes skill to do Dragonforce on mega ultra extreme difficulty. Maybe so, I think that comes down to how you define skill. Regardless, I think GH is a casual game, and back on topic. Fable is a good example of how people should try and make games, however I’m pretty sure there’s no difficulty option, which is a tad disparaging. I like a challenge that suits my level in stuff I play.. sooo that’s potentially one issue. Fable 1 was piss-easy anyway, especially if you were a Will user. It was fun though. I think Fable 2 will be as well. Co-op isn’t as good as I hoped it would be, seemingly. You apparently can not play as your actual hero when you join anothers session/game, rather, you play a henchman with a preset look and items based on the level of P1′s hero. You do retain all your skills and so forth, and you get to take EXP/money back to your own game, but meh. I’d rather go with my ACTUAL hero. Not a huge issue though. What is an issue, is that apparently alot of the CE’s aren’t actually coming with the DLC card for the extra content.. in AMERICAAAAA. This will no doubt affect the UK as well but whatever. M$ have said they’ll have a way to fix it by the 28th, so I’m not too bothered, long as I get it in the end.

As for the actual game, it’s looking good so far. I like the concept of the combat, one button for magic, one for melee, and one for ranged. It’s a nice simple idea that seems to be a simplified version of DMC4′s combat engine (which was real good and versatile, in my opinion) Yet as I mentioned earlier, the apparent lack of a difficulty option is.. potentially annoying. Games should have easy, normal, hard and mega hard. Easy for those who don’t want a challenge and just want to see the story, normal is obviously normal, hard for those who want a slight challenge and mega hard for those who want to test the limits of their patience. I think COD4 had a pretty good difficulty system. I started on easy because I suck at FPS games and wanted to see the story (granted, the game suggested I play on veteran mode, first time, uhh.. no thanks) and I did enjoy the story. I then played through it again on each difficulty over the course of this year. I have to say, veteran mode drove me nearly insane at times. Yet I did complete it. I’m doing the same with DMC4 (though I think that might actually be impossible, getting killed in ONE hit?!?! Sounds tough bro).

Same with Wo/DW games, I generally start on Normal (unless it’s Hu Lao gate, at which point I go to Easy to save myself from Lu Bu one shotting me) and then work my way up. Of course, Wo2 has an achievment thing for doing every stage on every difficulty. Yeah, I can’t tell you how much fun it was to rampage through on Easy on levels using my level 99 Himiko, Musashi and Toshiie all using Tenbu. Speaking of which I need to do more Wo2 later.

Uhhh…anime-wise I’ve not really been watching anything, I’ve actually been suprisingly busy lately, which ruined my plan to watch Denno Coil, which i’ll start.. whenever. Oh, I was re-watching TTGL a bit. Yet mostly I’ve not done much this week, played a bit of GTAIV, played some WoW today before the 10 days are up.. that’s pretty much it in terms of vidja.

I’ll also add that writing this whole post with keybored open makes it 1000x more interesting, it also makes it hard to rant.

Later, buddy.