It’s always fucking amazing to see things like this. Pud of course being the man with the illegal plan at E3 this year. How on earth he even got in I don’t know.
Anyway being one of the many at the show this year especially on the Culver City lot, it was cool to see Sony looking like they were going to actually bat one out for the consumers, enter The Register / El Reg with the info from SCEE about the status of the 60GB price reduction. Guess what, the $499 deal wasn’t a kindness act by them it was so they could wipe out existing stock so they can pull yet another 20GB magic show.
For those not following it’s simple.
20GB PS3 @ 499 - Sells like fucking hotcakes out the door, instant boost to overall unit sales
60GB PS3 @ 499 - Sells like fucking hotcakes because everyone waiting for a price cut went for it thinking holy shit the PS3 is going down in price!
The catch to both was that no matter what the idea behind it was, that it was destined to sell out and become yet another cut SKU from their lineup.
Good game Sony, you honestly almost had a lot of people there. While you can get the 60GB right now, don’t hesitate on that one because it wont be around for long. News from the register notes that chances are they have already cut production of the 60GB units and are running out the inventory as this is typed.
Next up! 80GB PS3 @ 599! oh well it’s 20GB of space and Motorstorm, you know that hyped up game that fell flat on it’s face when it hit Japan and then again when it hit the US because of all the bugs that were later fixed in an “update” dude when you have like 17 patches and 1 feature, it’s not a fucking update it’s a fucking patch.
Anyway, thats all. Fucking Sony fucking the fucking consumer again because they love fucking people out of their fucking money.
One of the first games to grab my attention as I walked around the demo floor of E3 was Tabula Rasa. Being an ex-UO player, I have been waiting years now for Richard Garriott to revolutionize today’s stale MMO market with something fresh and groundbreaking. Tabula Rasa is supposed to be that project. I sat down with one of the games rep’s and played for about an hour. My initial impression was that the game looked great, crisp visuals and a simple unintrusive UI. There were a few things I definately enjoyed about the game. Before I go any farther I gotta say I am a hardcore gamer, I loved the open ended freedom Ultima Online offered. I love risk and reward. First and foremost I judge a game based on how challenging it is and how potentially challenging it can be for each individual player. There has to be much more to game than visually impressing the gamer or simplifying cumbersome game mechanics.
Tabula Rasa’s strong point is definately its “Hey dont worry ill show you what to do” interface. The markers and minimaps are abundant. If you ever find yourself lost when you first log on to an MMO, that really shouldnt be a problem with Tabula Rasa. Following the standard MMO quest system, npcs are easily located by using the games built-in map system. After a few minutes of running around the starting base, I used the map to exit the city in search of some hot Mob action. As I was on my way to pwn some NPC face, the rep sitting next to me explained the games “Logos” system. Simply put, as you journey through the games instanced dungeons, and world locales, your player collects Logos. Think of them like Spell recipes. There are literally hundreds of Logos scattered around the world. The reward for collecting these Logo’s is access to high level spells. Say you are max level from grinding, but you have done no farming or questing, chances are you wont have access to some of the games best abilities/spells. Once you have acquired the appropriate Logo’s combinations however, you will be able to train said uber ability.
Onto Combat. Being now an expert on the Logo’s sytem, I finally arrived at the battlefield. Third person shooter. Best way to describe it. I attacked the first NPC i saw with complete disregard for my inexperienced Tabula life. Of course being so pro in FPS, I totally owned the unlucky NPC with tactile strafing and merciless mouse 1′ing. Nine seconds later the suckers loot was mine. Now for you noobs out there, fret not, the combat isnt all skill-based. In an attempt to quell my awesomeness, the rep explained there is a dice-roll system working in the background. The game uses typical RPG elements to determine your hit and miss ratio. So aiming alone isn’t going to determine how often you hit your target. Though it is required you actually aim near the desired target versus just having him on screen and pressing your attack hot-button. Which is nice. The interface again is very simple, and you do most of your fighting with two keys. The left and right mouse button. Left mouse triggers your attack, Right mouse triggers your Spell ability. “Q” and “E” cycle through Attack and Spell presets in your hot bar. Making for easy mid-combat access. All in all the combat seemed neat, blending action and rpg nicely.
Now, to the reason why I won’t ever play Tabula Rasa. I know that sounds like a harsh turn around. As the rep explained to me, the game is completely instanced. Dungeons and PVP battlegrounds are all completely pre-built instances. Also the PVP is purely consensual, there isn’t even plans for a PVP server. I just don’t understand why this approach would be taken by the guy who founded open end gaming. The greatest thrill you will ever find in an MMORGP comes from the unexpected and unknown danger. Walking out into a world where you know you are in no immediate danger from player attack, and that you are guarded at all times, just ruins the excitement in my opinion. Gone are the days you will see a player on screen and wonder what deviousness he may be up to. Unfortunately this is the case with Tabula Rasa, the great game mechanics and pretty interface don’t mean shit when the gameplay depth is waist deep. I’ll be busy playing Enemy Territory: Quake Wars this summer instead of paying monthly for my FPS fix thanks.
Heres a few screen shots from Sony’s Killzone 2. Sony released a preview trailer for this game a little before the PS3’s launch. The game looked incredible back then and not much has changed. Working on getting the new trailer encoded, will upload that shortly.
The internet can suck balls these days, it’s true, it was a huge explosive release of potential in the universe that brought about a lot of cool things. Unfortunately these days everything is done to death, so is scamming. As a result these days we look at our email boxes and find that fucktard morons have decided to produce greeting card spam that executes trojans. Yeah I know this is nothing new, it’s been going on a few weeks but my god are these idiots that stupid?
I mean even if someone cared about what I posted here it wouldn’t go down like that.
1. no one knows who the shit I am and I wouldn’t give any of you bastards my email.
2. even if someone did like what I wrote, they wouldn’t send me 1590581902581 fucking e-cards saying it.
3. if they had any shred of a clue about my reactions to things like that by my posts, they’d know I wouldn’t open an e-card anyway. it’s the equivalent of going “duh i like j00…” and me not opening it is the equivalent of… well me not opening it, if anything it would be “fuck you go bang your sister”
So yeah, if you get flooded with e-cards from various sites and fucking retarded messages with pdf attachments, just go ahead and ignore them or delete them. Honestly unless you’re like a 48yr old soccer mom that has 20 cats and a bunch of antique dishes on your desk, you’d probably be smart enough not to do that anyway.
Somehow I managed to make my way into E3 this year. I needed to use all of my charm and a small portion of my cunning to pull off the caper. Although I was not able to talk to any DEVELOPERS or see any cool Nintendo Miyamato’s face to face, getting the chance to play Quake Wars and Tabula Rasa early was cool as fuck It is late and I need to get some sleep. More screens and stuff to come tomorrow… for now, check out these UT3 shots
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Our latest planned feature, drunk 11yr old speeding maniac girl has been put on the back burner though, the girl was caught speeding like a bat out of hell at 100mph + from florida by alabama troopers, fuck all if that isn’t bad luck for her. We never had a contract for the bitch anyway.
So yeah, there you go, we were almost going to have cutting edge content, I mean who would fucking think of an 11yr old getting hammered then tearing ass on the highway at insane speeds. I mean yeah adults do it, but when the kid can’t see over the wheel, thats where the real excitement comes into play.
Luckily she has the brain of a pea and claimed she was going to pick up her sister 40 states away at a concert. Here’s a tip, follow the Michael Richards example, do something stupid, claim abuse, alcoholism and then go into rehab, after 3 days, find some kind of Dietiy in your life and return forgiven. Dude it’s a sweet gig lemme tell ya. Every time I drop the N bomb in massive crowds or on TV they dismiss it with that sequence taken.
Anyway if you believed that you’re a fucking moron. We have no money on this site, why the hell would we hire an 11yr old when we could strap a camera to a crackhead and get even more excitement as they chase a white bag of flour tied to the back of a car. There was such an incident involving a dumb ass cunt though yes people, some girl really did get drunk at 11yrs of age and tear ass in a car across state lines.
The internet is one fucked up arena of events. I mean jesus I come online half awake from sleeping in a coma thanks to my window being open alllll motha fuckin night and then I see that some dude who had actually good tutorial vids on youtube for learning guitar has been charged with DMCA violations because he sampled a song for his example. Thats a good one, maybe they can DMCA everyone that plays at their own homes trying to show how they learned a new track to their friends because thats reproduction to an audience right there. I mean come on now? is this what we’re working with?
I guess so though, these days if you reproduce anything remotely related to existing music you better bet your balls that someone is going to come down on you for it. I mean jesus the Sony / BMG CEO wouldn’t have been able to get a diamond studded Mercedes AMG SL55 with baby seal seats. I mean shit, have we become this owned? I think so and it’s fucking sad.
In other news, I love it when vaporware companies get in a fucking pout. Like Infinium labs and the fucking Phantom. Yeah good one guys, our machine is cleverly named on it’s existence, I’m glad they tried to sue HardOCP back in the day and failed to actually get the article pulled, the fact that they did that brought greater attention on them and their sham act. Now we have a free energy machine running around that will allegedly produce infinite energy. It was going to be on demo, but setbacks aka the fact that it doesn’t fucking work, made it so they couldn’t show it at the place. Although later it was said the lighting was fucking it up. Yeah because we all know how deadly those 35watt bulbs are to the world. I remember just yesterday night I turned on my lamp and my whole network blew up, I had to turn it off to be able to regain stability in this quadrant of the galaxy once again.
And fuck it, thats it. wait. no here’s some hard gay. enjoy it fuckers.
4th of July is about blowing shit up and having a good time right? getting drunk and chillin spending quality time with the homies? Why do the god damn cock sucking pigs always have to ruin our fun? Rolling in all these unmark cars fucking narcs; I almost got pulled over 3 fucking times last night just cruising home 3 trucks deep. Why do you gotta bother the stoners trying to get high just cruisin the streets of anaheim trying to get home to pass out in those cold clean sheets. Fuck off pigs go oink on someones else’s stew, get off my fucking nuts I aint wearing red and blue. I’m a white mother fucker just doing my thing, why don’t you worry about the god damn nigger robbing chevron across the street.
Fuck the fuck off queerbait low self-esteem mother fucking cockgobbling maggots.
Hope everyone had as much fun as I did, celebrating the 4th by blowing shit up and killing people in battlefield 2. I don’t think I actually opened my blinds let alone left my house yesterday. Its not that I don’t like fireworks its just that the show starts to get a little stale the 20′th sometime around.
Anyhow back to battlefield 2. Had a great 5 hour marathon yesterday playing with Jack, Urahara and our newest bf2 buddy Tmon8y. That brings the =LOL= clan to almost a full squad. We will be holding tryouts at 6 if you or your friends would like a shot at filling the last 2 positions. The best of all the positions… hehh hehh…
Also playing a lot of counterstrike source these days, getting better with each de_dust2 map. Seriously why are people so obsessed with dust2? On the off chance you find a server playing de_prodigy, cs_italy, de_nuke, de_rotterdam (wtf?) , or even de_aztec, the chances that the TIMELEFT isn’t :048 seconds and the NEXTMAP isn’t de_dust2 or cs_office, are slim to fucking none. Now I can stomach de_dust and i mean i don’t mind spawn camping the terrorist side in cs_office, but I would rather stare at goatse.cx for 9 hours straight than play de_dust2 nextmap. Oh and the best part about counterstrike has always been its custom sprays. Try giving this one a shot, your in game hilarity will raise 1 if not 2 bars.
I downloaded this great movie the other day. Its called Free Jimmy. Its kind of like Ratatooulie and Toy Story, but with drugs, sex and violence… and its pretty fucking great. Jimmy is a speed addicted elephant and finds himself being chased by a group of hooligans, the russian mob dressed as circus clowns, and animal rights activists. I give this movie 5 out of 5 dead babies.
Dedicated to Poptart By Cebrious Arcane of UOG.
When you hear me coming, you know I’m bringing the axe. When whispers fill the streets, when women grab their children and rush indoors, when men peek through peepholes behind strong locked oak - you know I’m bringing the axe.
“Murder, murder, murder…” and the voices come with me.
Some days are better than others, but an axe is designed for battle, for bloodshed. The more I chop, the more it sings, chopping out the melody of massacre.
“Murder, murder, murder…” the children’s voices remind me of my purpose. To kill, to end life… Until mine is ended or the world ends, whichever comes first.
And now this city has heard my approach. Already the streets are empty, the doors locked. An empty ale bottle clinks from one cobblestone to the next, winding its way towards me.
The gentle, soft, almost unnoticeable thump of the bottle against my boot wakes the children in my head.
“Murder, murder, murder…” My hand pulls the axe off my back. Flakes of last night’s kill are loosed and, carried by the wind, drift idly in my wake as I crush the bottle and move toward the tavern.
Locked.
Figures… A reputation is almost hard to live up to. Almost. A few quick swings and the door splinters out of my way.
Shoving my way through the splintered door I catch a broomstick in the face.
“Get out of here murderer! You ain’t killin’ nobody! Not in muh town and def’nitely not in muh tavern!”
The crabby old wench swings again.
Catching the broomstick I pull her close and stare into her eyes.
“Listen hag. I will do what I please, when I please, and how I please. If I wanted you dead, you’d be a corpse. As it’s your lucky day, you can leave.”
“Murder, murder, murder…” The voices beg me.
I nod towards the door.
As she passes I bring the axe down into her back and she crumples in the door frame, the blood flooding both inside and out.
Distant trumpets sound a rallying cry.
My reputation obviously precedes me.
Holding the doorframe, I lean out over the corpse to get a better listen. Leaning, the parchment fixed to the tavern wall draws my attention. Ah… The bounty board.
With a mild sense of satisfaction I see my name still tops the list. Silly bounties, only good for bringing my kills to me.
“Halt!” Oh, a city guard. How amusing.
His stalwart veneer vanishes upon the realization that I am who he thinks I am. He sees the axe. He sees the blood. He knows.
“What seems to be the problem, guard?”
“You are un…” I step closer and he stutters, “Under arrest for the murder of the tavern-keeper! Pre..” Another step, another stutter, “Prepare to be restrained!”
He’s lightly equipped. Studded leather and a broad sword. I follow his eyes as they lower to my axe. Dangling. Dripping. Both crimson crescents glistening in the moonlight.
I can’t hide my smile.
“Dro…” I step closer and again he stutters, “Drop your weapon and get on your knees.”
“How about you drop to your knees, lower your head, and prepare for my axe. At least then it will be a quick death, no?”
As I take another step closer, he shuffles half a step back.
“Embrace your death, guard. You know who I am. You know what horror awaits you.”
I nod towards the axe.
“O…oh. O…okay… I will. But you swear you’ll make it quick?!”
“May lightning strike me if I lie…”
“Murder, murder, murder…” The voices chime in.
With a look like a lamb heading to slaughter, the guard lowers to his knees, his sword falling to his side.
Taking a few steps to his flank, I align the axe with his neck. Slowly I lower and raise it to confirm the measurements. Allowing the, now cold, wench’s blood to slide down his neck as it drips from the axe with each measuring move.
I’m no executioner.
I bring the axe down into the middle of his back. Low. He coughs blood and erupts in cries of agony.
“Oh, sorry. I missed.”
Choking, he tries to speak, “You sw… sw…”
“Swung? Yes. And I missed.”
Still stuttering and spurting, the life fades from his eyes.
Oh, “swore”! That’s what he was trying to say!
Looking upward, the moonlight strokes my cheek like a courtesan’s fingertips.
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