Archive for November, 2007
Tis the season to be a robbing bastard
Nov 30th
Take a look at this.
Now bear in mind that the Wii has a rrp of £180, these pikey ass-raping fucktards decide to pile a load of crap with the console and whack it out to you, the poor consumer, at fucking monkey prices.
Gamesbuyer: £289.94, no games, bunch o’ CUNTS!
Kikatek: £334.95, 3 games, mario party 8, big brain academy and wii sports, mario party is ok, big brain academy is a cheapo and only good for 15 mins and wii sports comes in the box as a freebie. Fucking leeches. Amazingly they’re even selling an ex-demo console for £285.
Even Dixons are jumping on the ‘fuck em’ bandwagon and selling it for £350 with 4 games, all shit by the way.
The worst culprits are micro direct who are selling it for £352.49 with no games. Bear in mind that this is more expensive than xbox elite with 120gb hdd.
For anyone who’s going to pay these stupid prices you need to listen to me now:
They’re not that good. They’re certainly not worth £350. The gfx are far inferior to the xbox, the motion control is but a novelty that wears off after about an hour and your wrist gets tired pointing at the screen constantly.
There’s approximately 3 good games out for it now and none of them have that all-dayer staying power, not even Mario Galaxy.
Wii Sports is good, don’t get me wrong, but you’ll get bored of it after about 2/3 hours of playing. The golf and boxing are rubbish, the tennis is fun but very simple, it’s only really the bowling that’s any good.
Save your money until after Xmas, yes your kids will probably be disappointed, after all it’s them that make us go out and get raped by these high-street fucks, and smile all the way through it. But these prices are just stupid. You’d be better spending £20 on a load of boxes and building a fort with your kids.
This is like when we had the petrol strike and the few remaining petrol stations that had any left saw the opportunity and bumped up the prices to £1.50 a litre. Of course, when the strike was over these places soon went out of business as everyone hated them and didn’t buy there any more. I’d love for that to happen to micro direct and all the other cunts who are profiting from your desperation.
Sodding XBL
Nov 28th
Had a dream last night that i got banned. It was one of those wake up and can’t work out if it’s real or not.
Need to plug it back in the network tonight just so i know. It’s not like i use XBL for much but it’s nice to have it there, you know. Just. In. Case…
Great piece of trivia
Nov 26th
Just finished watching Futurama: Bender’s big Break. It’s the new Futurama movie, they’re doing 4 over the next few years and Comedy Central has picked them up, the first one’s out on dvd and i would recommend watching it. Either that or wait a short while and i’m sure it’ll be on Sky One soon enough.
Aaaaanyway, the great piece of trivia is:
The guy who plays the voice of Bender; John DiMaggio, is the voice of one gruff Marcus Fenix from Gears of War!
Not bad that is it?
Now how many people will be whacking in GoW to have a quick listen…
Oh, the film’s very good by the way, typical Futurama standard.
A big bunch of crap
Nov 26th
There’s bog all out at the moment that i actually want, it’s so frigging boring…
Let’s just go through the list:
Blacksite: Area 51: Woo, just what the world needs, ANOTHER generic shooter.
Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal: Load of wank.
Mass Effect: I would, but having a child i just don’t have the time needed to devote to a game like this any more, it’s one of those 100-hour games so bollocks to it.
Kane & Lynch: Saw a video review on Bravo the other day. They weren’t impressed and they said that you’ll just repeat most of the levels about 10 times for each one due to the amount you’ll get killed and then have to restart the level only really completing it when you’ve worked out the pattern of all the baddies. Bit upset about this one as it looked really good.
Guitar Hero III: Doesn’t interest me in the slightest, that novelty has passed, roll on Rock Band.
Need for Speed ProStreet: Christ, another sodding street racing game. How many do i need to play in one lifetime. Need for Speed: Most Wanted was the best one, everything else was shite.
Ace Combat 6: Not really that bothered about this. Dogfights always sound good in theory but in practice they just get boring and tedious very quickly. Never had one that i’d actually stick with for more than a few goes.
And you’ll be annoyed to know that there’s absolutely frig all coming out between now and Exmas that might possibly be good, there’s a new soldier of fortune game out next week but whoopie doo, doesn’t exactly fill me full of excitement like Skate did.
Ho hum, looks like it’s back to being bored on Assassin’s Creed or getting frustrated with Smackdown ladder matches until Xmas day.
Unplugged and not live
Nov 22nd
I’ve unplugged my 360 from my network at the moment so i won’t be popping up at the moment until i can do some research into this.
The time has come, the end is near
Nov 21st
Looks like i’ve got something to look forward to when i get home…
It looks like Microsoft started a new wave of bans against modified DVD firmwares or DVD+/-R DL discs.
Several users on our forums and on IRC report their Xbox 360 has been banned from LIVE today. We get reports of Toshiba-Samsung and Hitachi-LG drives banned with both Xtreme and even the newer iXtreme firmwares. However we also see many reports of people who are currently on LIVE and have no been banned (yet). No reports of banned BenQ drives yet (but few of these drives have been flashed yet).
If you have the ‘Z Code’ 8015-190D it means you are banned. As always Microsoft bans the console serial from LIVE, not your LIVE account.
If your console is banned or if you have been playing on LIVE today with modified FW without getting banned, report you findings in this thread (include at least your live status, full drive model (swapped drive?, spoofing?) and firmware version used).
*UPDATE*
It appears that modified fw is NOT being detected, and is instead once again due to ‘bad’ discs. Keep in mind that the only full proof way to make a 1:1 backup is to do it yourself. iXtreme is as fullproof as it can be, in that it validates everything it possibly can from a firmware point of view, but a game can have slight data change somewhere, most commonly in DMI. Or it can be due to early copies being watermarked so to speak.
This is why you run the risk of being banned on xbox live if you pirate games. Always remember that you run a risk doing such actions.
In regards to game data being properly validated, xdvdmulleter is a tool that has a constantly maintained database to validate backups against retail copies to ensure full stealth. If you have a samsung SH-D16x and would like to contribute to the project to prevent future Live bans, please join #stealth360 on Efnet, IRC.
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A serious cry for help
Nov 21st
I was listening to Moyles interviewing Jeremy Clarkson on Radio 1 yesterday morning and they were discussing the time on Top Gear where they all made limos out of cut n shuts. Clarkson then drove Moyles to the Bafta’s or some show like that.
Anyway, they were saying that they stopped at the garage to get some nibbles. Moyles came out with ‘a very popular brand of snack’ that he obviously couldn’t mention by name. They then let leak that it was a crisp or crisp based style snack.
Clarkson told him that he doesn’t ever want to eat them, took one off him and put a lighter to it. It then dripped a shit load of kryptonite style green fat to which Moyles expressed his disgust and said he would never eat them again as long as he lived.
I have to know what crisp or crisp based snack that was so can everyone, every time they open a bag of crisps, try and burn one with a lighter.
I know it’s not Pringles coz we bought some especially this morning. They just go black and stink a bit. I’m reckoning now that it’s Doritos coz they have so much fat and sugar in them. John in the office reckons it’s Walkers. Something different like Wotsits would probably be a good bet too.
Help me out peeps. I’m getting obsessed.
Yet more scraps from the table
Nov 21st
Harmonix have announced the prices of the downloadable content and also the dlc that’s coming out between now and the end of the year
Rock Band will still feature preselected three-song packs for download, but they will instead cost $5.49 (440 Microsoft points on Xbox 360). Songs will also be available individually for $1.99. Harmonix has said future songs will be sold individually for as little as $.99 (80 Microsoft points), and as much as $2.99 (240 points). However, “the vast majority” will come in at the standard $1.99 price point. The developer did not say how much full-album downloads would be, or when the first albums would be released.
The DLC (Some rather nice stuff here, gotta admit, I may even actually spend money):
Week of November 20, 2007: (*–asterisk denotes a cover version)
Metallica Pack
“Ride the Lightning”–Metallica
“Blackened”–Metallica
“And Justice for All”–Metallica
The Police Pack
“Can’t Stand Losing You”–The Police
“Synchronicity II”–The Police
“Roxanne”–The Police
Queens of the Stone Age Pack
“3′s and 7′s”–Queens of the Stone Age
“Little Sister”–Queens of the Stone Age
“Sick Sick Sick”–Queens of the Stone Age
Individual Tracks
“Fortunate Son” as made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival *
“Juke Box Hero” as made famous by Foreigner *
“Bang a Gong (Get It On)” as made famous by T-Rex *
“My Sharona” as made famous by The Knack *
“Cherry Bomb” as made famous by The Runaways *
“Joker & The Thief”–Wolfmother
Week of November 27, 2007
David Bowie Pack
“Moonage Daydream”–David Bowie
“Heroes” as made famous by David Bowie *
“Queen Bitch” as made famous by David Bowie *
Week of December 4, 2007
Black Sabbath Pack
“N.I.B.” as made famous by Black Sabbath *
“Sweet Leaf” as made famous by Black Sabbath *
“War Pigs” as made famous by Black Sabbath *
Week of December 11, 2007
Punk Pack:
“Rockaway Beach”–Ramones
“I Fought the Law”–The Clash
“Ever Fallen In Love” as made famous by Buzzcocks *
Week of December 18, 2007
Individual Tracks
“My Iron Lung”–Radiohead
“Buddy Holly”–Weezer
“Brass in Pocket” as made famous by The Pretenders *
The show must go on
Nov 21st
I went to see Lord of the Rings stage show last night at the West End.
It was a bit wank, really.
It’s supposed to be the most expensive stage show ever made costing £12.5m and it’s certainly impressive to look at. The stage is completely circular, revolves and breaks apart in segments so they can climb and descend. Looked pretty cool. The choreography was great, costumes looked good.
Only 2 things prevented it from being excellent. The actors and the play itself. Some of the actor choices were rubbish, Frodo had an awful whiny voice, Gandalf was bouncing around the stage like a 35 year old and Boromir sounded like Willie the Groundskeeper.
And because everyone’s now seen the movies and they were so vivid there’s no way you can sit and watch the stage show because the movie actors were so perfect for the characters, you just see Elijah Wood as Frodo, Ian McKellan as Gandalf, no-one else.
Imagine how truly awful it would be if they did a stage show of Harry Potter replete with the obligatory singing and dancing. That’s exactly what LOTR was like. You wanted to like it, but it would really be a travesty if you did.
I wanted to see Spamalot anyway.
Ocarina of Time has finally been pummelled into second place
Nov 20th
Sorry Link, there’s a new ‘highest ever rated game’ and that game is, drum roll please… Super Mario Galaxy. It has an AVERAGE rating of 9.7 out of 10.
Which is pretty damn impressive you have to admit.
I do have it, and it is good. But the only thing that lets it down is something the game has no control over, the controller. My wrists still ache after pointing the wiimote at the screen for over 2 hours so i have to play it in bursts.
Then i just put smackdown 2008 back on.
I’ve been playing Smackdown for, at a guess, over 10 hours so far and how many achievements do i have to my name? None, nada, zip, zilch, bugger all, Planck constant, the square root of zero, any number minus itself. In one word, fuck all.
Then i had a look at the achievement list for it. It’s bloody stupid. How hard do they want to make it. Some of them i don’t even know how to do!
Below is the list of achievements for Smackdown 2008 (i didn’t know the secret ones until now, some of them might actually be possible):
1. That’s gonna leave a mark
Powerbomb an opponent on top of a steel step in any match type. 20 Points
2. Possession is 9/10 of the law
Steal your opponent’s taunt 3 times in any One on One match. 20 Points
3. Put’em in a body bag
Turn your opponent’s entire limb damage meter red in any match type. 20 Points
4. I’d like to thank the academy
Defeat a Powerhouse Superstar with the Possum Pin in any match type. 20 Points
5. You’ve got a bit of red on you
Get busted open by your opponent on legend difficulty in any match type and win. 20 Points
6. Who says originality is dead
Create an original CAS, ring entrance and created Championship. 20 Points
7. King of the mountain
Place first in every type of tournament in Tournament mode. 20 Points
8. If it bleeds..
Bloody every ECW Superstar on the roster. 20 Points
9. Submission-sensei
Win a Normal Submission match without having your Struggle Submission hold broken once. 50 Points
10. Stop yapping and fight
Argue with the referee 4 times in a match and win. 20 Points
11. That’s one for the record books
Eliminate 20 opponents in a 30-Man Royal Rumble. 20 Points
12. Now that’s hardcore
Bloody and defeat a Hardcore Superstar on legend difficulty in an ECW Extreme Rules match and win. 20 Points
13. The best there was..
Win a 20-minute Ironman match on legend difficulty without surrendering a point to your opponent. 20 Points
14. A fighting champion
In ranked online matches, defend a CAC title 5 times against 5 different players within 24 hours. 75 Points
15. Gold digger
Win a Created Championship 10 times in ranked online matches. 70 Points
16. On fire
Win 30 consecutive ranked online matches. 75 Points
17. Escape Artist
Wiggle free from every Ultimate Control Grapple at least once. 20 Points
Secret
18. What The…”
Preview the Mexican Stretch Turnbuckle move in Create a Moveset. 10 Points
Secret
19. Secret Achievement
Secret achievement. 10 Points
Secret
20. You’ve got guts
Complete a ranked online title match. 20 Points
Secret
21. Send’em back to Louisville
Lose to an opponent who has more limb damage than you. 10 Points
Secret
22. Now offering non-stop flights
Stand on a ladder and suplex your opponent out of the ring in a ladder match. 20 Points
Secret
23. Rope a dope
Perform a succesful springboard attack off each side of the ropes. 20 Points
Secret
24. This year’s inductee
Play as a GM in 24/7 Mode and obtain the GM of the Year Award. 350 Points
Secret
25. On The Job
Lose 5 consecutive ranked online matches. 10 Points
Secret
26. Better luck next year
Be the first Superstar eliminated in a 30-Man Royal Rumble. 10 Points
Secret
