Got you by the Bolls

Okay, I am tring with these titles for the blog posts. Yeah I'm getting creative here.

Me and my friend are talking about the legendary film maker Uwe Boll. Yes that guy who has butchered many good video game films. I have made an open challenge to him and we will brave the video store and rent House of the Dead. THERE, I SAID IT. But in the process of watching this horrid piece of shit, we will attempt to make fun of it any way possible. It shouldn't be that hard seeing as there are several scenes that are from the video game.

When will Uwie Balls realize that his movies aren't good at ALL. It must be that European movie director ego that has him going. Anywho his next 2 failures will be comming to a googooplex near you: Postal and FarCry (and from my friend..Dungeon Siege). I will laugh with amazement when one of his movies becomes #1 at the box office. It would be a sad day for movies then.

The way I see it, Paul Anderson is a way better director than Uwie Balls. Paul Anderson isn't a good writer though, many people confuse the 2 apart, his directing in the first Resident Evil was very artistic, just like in Mortal Kombat and I'm sure the rest of his movies. RE:Apoc's directing was way more action baised,as a RE fan, I look foward to seeing the 3rd installment of the movie series. I believe RE and RE:Apoc made the top of the box office at least once so Anderson has some magic in his shoes with the series. Now we just gotta make MK3 and froget about that MK2 movie..

But there is one thing good about Uwie Balls that I like. (Yes, how the fuck is that possible Zodiak?) Simply put it, he is making movies when the industry is trying either remakes or sequels as seen in the 2005 year of movies. Some orginal stuff floating around here and there, most getting overlooked.

Or if your bored with my rant, I'll simply put it like this. Video game movies should have never been made. I saved you 5 minutes of your life. =p

New Skin

Getting around to establishing a new skin for the blog made by the same guy who made the last one! I love his skins.

So there will be some construction in the process.

The Steam Room

Jeez what is with this week for me? I'm in a writing mood and so I shall continue to write. Lets talk games, lets talk episodic games. Now, I don't really see a reason behind it, why can't the developer just release a full game. I mean, come on, I want the whole game now. Just seeing the "To be continued" screen really makes it less enjoyable. Now, lets say Half-Life 2's episodic material ends which leads up to Half Life 3. What will Valve do? I think they will have to release the full episode in 1 box for a lesser cost (retail about $50 to $60) and get even more money from people who didn't buy it becuase they saw it coming.

Now, I like Valve simply because of all the independant games that the infamous Steam has online. Can we see more indy games get a grand future online for a cheap price? I think we, the indy producers, will have a much easier time to get a game out to the masses via the PS3, X-Box360, and the PC. It will be quite interesting to see what 10 years will have for indy producers down the road.

When Steam came online in 2003, I believe, it was full of lag and the interface was very crappy. 2 versions later, we still have a bit of a lag issue, but now has a lot of things to do within the interface. Counter-Strike: Source is getting to be better despite having crappy hitboxes (AKA Headshot!) and new skins and maps. Seriously, I am eagerly awaiting some new weapons, maybe a rocket launcher because I mean....AWP vs. Rocket Launcher.

More Sports Games...Seriously...

Okay gang, I dunno if its me or what but I am getting sick and tired of seeing all these sports games out on the market. Flooding the market would be kind of harsh to say, but they make for a huge percentage in the pie of video games. Now, I've played Madden and 2k sports games and I have to say that they are 2 of the best franchises to handle sport games...EA and Sega. Now seeing other companies try to mold that Madden-like feel, which doesn't always come out perfect.

One of my most hated companies in the late 90's was Sony's 989 Studios. Now only did they butcher sports games, but also destroyed Twisted Metal by putting out TM3 and TM4. Yes I have both of them and yes I don't play them because it was total garbage...except for Club Kid in TM3, his special was pretty cool (consisted of a huge worm hole that sucked up everyone in the area and pulled them in the middle and exploded them in one huge firey ball of...well....fire! Not only that but you could combo homing and power missles and get your enemy down to nothing and finish him off with some machine gun fire...geek mode off lol.) So where was I?

Oh yes, the fact that there should only be 2 companies to run sports games, but what about not flooding the market with yearly roster updates? Because what else can we do to a fucking football game after making a sim mode, a create a player mode, a create a stadium mode, a roster switch, a training mode...you get the idea. Seriously though, limit the sports games to PS3 and the 360 and give the option to pay for roster updates or if you want to just get 1 character from last year's roster update so you can create a dynasty team. With the power of online content, both Sony and Micro$oft can deliver. Did I mention online tourney mode?

EA and Sega both release 1 "game of all games" for the game stores. Every 5 years or so release another "game of all games" so it will introduce new players to the game and will get the up-to-date roster and stuff.

Why do this Zodiak? Why? Well because of my PS2 game shopping experience during the launch of the system, half the fucking games were sports games! So I decided on Dark Cloud for a few months, cool game IMO. If the sports companies keep going at this rate, we will have create a cheerleader mode. Hey, is that even out in sports games yet?