Archive for October, 2007
The 100 Greatest Gore Moments in Movies
Oct 31st
When you’ve got a few minutes spare take a look at this. It’s most entertaining. The sad part is i’ve seen most of these movies as horror films kick ass.
The most disturbing moment in a movie, to me, is one you don’t actually see anything of. It’s the whole ‘testicle’ section in Hard Candy. It’s the only film i’ve ever stopped halfway through to go sit in the bathroom coz i truly felt sick. Proves that the imagination is the most powerful tool Hollywood has got.
I find this funny but hate both the references
Oct 26th
If youve ever played katamari you should find this amusing. I played it but couldnt bring myself to enjoy it, just seemed very annoying. Bit like Star-Wars the other reference in the picture, everyone else seems to love it but I really cant stand it, is it just me or is it the biggest piece of overhyped rubbish ever?
The adventures of Portal Bill
Oct 26th
Completed Portal last night. Most entertaining although the entire final level can only be described as a bitch. I think most of the stuff i did in that level was flukey and nothing else.
You can’t beat the song at the end though. Worth completing it again just to hear the song another time.
Apparently near the very end there’s a massive tv on the wall with orange text on it and within the garbled text it actually has the ingredients and directions for the cake. Great little easter egg, that.
BAVGA
Oct 24th
Or the British Academy Video Game Awards. Now in its second year and people get an actual Bafta for winning so it’s not like the TV Quick Awards where it some shite that doesn’t really matter.
It was on last night and it looks like a big night for Wii Sports taking home a shit load of awards.
* Action and Adventure – Crackdown (Realtime Worlds, Microsoft, X360)
* Artistic Achievement – Okami (Clover Studio, Capcom, PS2)
* Best Game – BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia, 2K Games, PC, X360)
* Casual – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Gameplay – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Innovation – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Multiplayer – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Original Score – Okami (Clover Studio, Capcom, PS2)
* Sports – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Strategy and Simulation – Wii Sports (Nintendo, Wii)
* Story and Character – God of War II (SCE Santa Monica, SCE, PS2)
* Technical Achievement – God of War II (SCE Santa Monica, SCE, PS2)
* Use of Audio – Crackdown (Realtime Worlds, Microsoft, X360)
* BAFTA Ones to Watch Award (Independent Dev) – Ragnarawk (Voodoo Boogy)
* The PC World Gamers Award (Public Voting Online) – Football Manager 2007 (Sports Interactive, Sega, PC)
I agree with quite a few here, God of War II kicked some royal ass and it certainly the best game ever made for the PS2, hell of a swansong to go out on. Bioshock for best game, yep, i’d go with that one. Never actually played Okami, it looked very good but i just never got around to it. It’s coming out on the Wii at some point so might have to give it a good checking when it does.
Nice to see the PS3 got some recognition. I’m sure this’ll do their games production and console sales a lot of good…
Didn’t play anything last night as i watched Ratatouille. Really great movie, thoroughly enjoyed it. Brad Bird (director, writer) is Midas at the moment. Be nice if he could do the hat-trick and make a third cracker (first was The Incredibles).
:~(
Oct 22nd
There’s only been 2 games in the last 25 years i’ve ever got a bit choked up.
The first one was Shadow of the Colossus when Agro slips and falls near the end and the second is now HL2: Episode 2. I defy anyone not to get a bit watery on that very last line when it fades to black.
If you don’t then you’ve got your emotions chip turned off or something geeky like that.
You know a game is better than good when you actually get enough emotional attachment to care about the characters.
Now you’ve got to excuse me, i’ve got something in my eye…
Exmas is coming, my game collection is getting fat
Oct 22nd
Aaah, i’m just dribbling over everything that’s coming out between now and Exmas.
Fuck the dark nights, fuck the morning frost outside and all that crap associated with winter, who cares about whats going on outside when you’ve got a veritable smorgasbord of games coming out over the next couple of months:
In chronological order we’ve got:
Oct 26: Clive Barker’s Jericho
Nov 2 : Simpsons Game, Timeshift, Call of Duty 4
Nov 9 : WWE 2008, Lego Star Wars complete saga
Nov 18: The Biggie -> Assassin’s Creed
Nov 23: Guitar Hero III, Kane & Lynch, Mass Effect, NFS ProStreet, Army of Two
This week i have mostly playing…
Oct 22nd
Orange Box, duh!
It’s really really good though. Episode 2 is fantastic and i think i’m nearly at the end of as it’s only supposed to be 5 hours long.
For one achievement you have to get a Gnome that sits near the beginning of the game. Then carry it with you all the way through the entire game up to near the end where you have to put it in a rocket so you can send the Gnome into Space. 30 points well earned methinks. Although i haven’t done it yet, the game’s short enough to do it again just for that achievement alone.
Portal: Fiendishly tricksy.
Apparently the automated voice in Portal is hilarious but i’m going deaf so i couldn’t really hear what she was saying. It will be cool if they incorporate the portal gun into Ep.3.
In case you’re not 100% sure of what it’s about, your left trigger shoots an orange oval onto a wall, your right shoots a blue one. You walk through one, you come out of the other. It’s pretty much that simple. But the puzzles are sodding hard. Or maybe i’m just thick, i’m not sure.
Team Fortress 2: Foo-kin mental. Tried it with some trepidation last night as it’s online only, no bots. Don’t like online that much. But you know what, it’s brilliant! The class system is so much fun and the Spy is a work of genius.
You push left on the d-pad and disguise yourself as any class of the opposite side. Your team mates see you as a their spy with a cardboard cutout mask on your face but the opposite site see you as one of their own.
Of course, if you’re running along with a bunch of your own side steaming in to claim a point, it’s pretty obvious what you are so you have to play it cunning. Act like the enemy, hide in the shadows then come up behind them, if you can get up behind them you can literally back stab them and kill them in one hit. If you miss then your cover is blown and they waste the shit out of you. You’ve also got temporary invisibility and the ability to disable gun turrets set up by enemy engineers.
Absolutely great fun, and i’ve only tried 2 of the 9 classes so far. Think i’ll be playing this game for a while as (amazingly) i’m actually not too bad at it.
Bundle that all together with the best game ever made and the first expansion pack for the best game ever made all onto one shiny new disk, then add in the fact that you’ll have a semi bonk-on for Alyx and there’s no reason on earth not to get this.
Getting better all the time
Oct 19th
There’s an article on IGN about the vocal section in Rock Band. To activate star power (which is now called Overdrive) you sing in a bit where you not supposed to sing. Like during a guitar solo you can shout ‘Lets here it from all the bitches in the house’ or some other suitable singer type shout. Then in overdrive mode the crowd will actually sing along with you in the chorus and stuff.
How frickin’ cool does that sound?
Coz i’m wanted, WAAAAAANTEEEEED… [everyone!] DEAD OR ALIVE!
On the down side the sarky i made earlier about it not coming out in the UK until Spring is actually looking likely. Load of foo-kin bollocks, that’s what it is.
The Future’s Bright
Oct 19th
Got hold of the Orange Box last night. So i’ll be portaling it up tonight with a delicate splash of Team Fortress 2 and an Episode 2 on the side.
Tried Tiger Woods 08 last night coz Simpeeer was pestering me to play it. Well i say tried, i played 2 holes then turned it off and continued Conan. You really can’t play golf with a little thumbstick. Doesn’t feel right at all. Skate; yes. Golf; hell no.
It was great on the PC as it really felt intuitive swinging the club with the mouse. But on a joypad there’s definitely something missing.
Tiger Woods + Xbox 360 = Bit shit really.
Simp seems to like it though. I think it’s coz he’s so shit on Skate that he’s trying to compensate…
