http://deathsawville.myminicity.com/

That's my thriving metropolis. Sure, it has less than 10 people but that can change with tourism. If you visit, your view adds a single person to the city. The community will develop and grow more vast with every view. You can only visit and add a townsperson once per day. I think it's pretty cool and it's something to make and put on your myspace or other various blog. If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Just be sure to keep crime maintained and have pollution levels low.

http://deathsawville.myminicity.com/

Just revealed at 7:15,October 15 is the announcement of covering MLG! They will also show Lost 2.0. And the Hero's announcement? It's gonna have an interactive post show that(i think) lasts an hour long. That will show clips, interviews and all that. So from Covering Major League Gaming to getting Lost(the TV show), is it an uphill battle to the top or are they adding more soil to the grave?

To me, at least they have more gaming related content.

I can't say. There is no one game that tops them all. Sure, your opinion may say otherwise and you could come up with 100 reviewers that orgasmed over it too but that does not make it good. Just because the game your thinking of right now is still in your collection, I want you think about this. There is someone out there that hates it. Like Jim Sterling. He LOVES Dynasty Warriors. I FUCKING HATE IT'S REPETITIVE ASS! IT'S THE SAME FUCKING GAME THROUGH 18 ITERATIONS!!!!!! AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SEE'S THIS???? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! But that's only opinion. Like when someone says that the PS3 is better or worse then the 360. That's some noobs opinion that everyone blindly follows.

People who say there is a winner in this game war always chooses the side that they've had the most time with. Have you really given thought about it? Every review you've ever read has opinion written all over it. Sadly, we have people who hate game genre's review those kind of games. We have people who don't understand what makes a good game in it's respective genre review it. Let's just say, people who obsess over racing games(besides choosing a new genre) shouldn't review shooters. They have a racing expertise so they should just stick with that.

This is only what I think. Though it would be like a deli shop owner planning the Special Olympics. That guy has never even seen special people before let alone host a sporting event of any kind. That's like having bush as our Commander in Chief(I thought i'd use an easy to follow example). What does this say about me? If you don't know what makes an FPS good, stick to racing games. Go watch some Nascar too(ya redneck!).

I'm seirous. I want this man:

to have his own game. You know why? I think making insane things out of stuff laying aroung and turning it into something crazy would be refreshing from the FPS's out right now. Damn! Soo many of em. I'm exausted. Anyway, Bill nye would show up on screen and all the NCP's and enemy's would bow to him and hie bowtie of death. Then, he'd rip grass from the ground, put it in some water and toss a few pieces of tin foil in there and that would make a bomb. I'd work too. He would throw it and demolish any carnivores in his path.

Think of it. How rad would that be? Think of all the chemical mixing you could do. Think of the vinegar and baking soda grenades you could make. Think of all the grass cars you could drive that would power up by photosynthesis. Just imagine the possibility of.....ok I ran out of idea's. But it could happen!! What does Gears of War not have? A guy in a lab coat. With a polka dot bowtie. Win.

(I really didn't feel like writing serious criticisms of games today.)

As I write this, I think of the countless franchises being forwarded. I think of the 3's and 4's and 5's coming out and I wonder. Why? Why is it a good idea to rely so heavily on a franchise? Look at Naruto. Look at how many of those games come out. They're slapping names on boxes and shipping them out. So many companies rely on characters we already know to push software. They don't need to focus on great gameplay. They don't need to focus on new idea's. They can just slap on a few "new" gameplay tweaks and ship it out.

Look at Madden. How many madden games are out? How many are different from the same game of football you've played over and over. Sure... the game gets better looking and it sounds a bit better but why?? All it is is 11 on 11 Offense and defense with not many features changed at all. I was over a friends house playing Madden. It was a tied game at halftime when I said "Did you get the new madden? I'm kinda tired of playing this." He turned to me with a surprised look on his face and told me "This is new. Look at the box." If that doesn't say anything, i'm not sure what will.

Dynasty Warriors is a great example of this. There are 19 DYNASTY WARRIORS GAMES!!(dynasty warriors Mahjong?[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_Warriors_Mahjong]WTF!!/url] These games play the same as the last and all of the games RECYCLE levels. If you love defeating the yellow turban rebellion, get ready to do it 17 more times! I'm going to give you 3 screen shots. If you can tell these apart, GOOD JOB!





That's Dynasty Warriors 2, Dynasty Warriors 5 Xtreme(thats right.WITH AN X!) legends and Dynasty Warriors 5 Empires for the Xbox 360. When I look at that, I see 3 games with the same Yellow Turban level along with the other recycled levels, the same buttons doing the same spin moves and riding the same horses killing the same enemies over and over and over and ov*gunshot*. I can not stand this sin against gamer kind. Who the hell does Koei think we are, a bunch of zombies? Do they think we can get a "new" game because it's "improved"? I can go pick up a copy of the Original Dynasty warriors and get the exact same gameplay cycled through the same 18 games.

Everyone is talking about a Bioshock sequel. I say keep it the ONLY Bioshock. Look at all these games getting undeserved sequels flooding the market. It's the video game crash of 1983 all over again. Please for the love of god don't force gamers through ANOTHER crash. Put some thought in your games and maybe It'll sell better then another franchise.

I know this title evokes some hate over me even speaking(or typing), but as a fan of this series, I need to tell you this. Oblivion was nothing compared to Morrowind. I used to think that Oblivion outshone it in every way. Now I know I was wrong. Here's several reasons why:

1). No training Mission
As soon as you got off that boat, you were on your own. It only took about 2 minutes for the guard to escort you off and then, you choose your class and everything we all know. From that point on, you were no one's bitch. You had no obligation to go to the main job and you could pretty much roam around and do anything.

In Oblivion, you had to wait until you worked your way through the sewer before you could get to the meat and potato's and there were a lot of servings. Yet, the game felt so slow at that point. I wanted to get outside and get going. Yet I had to plod through voice-overs and wait until they explained everything. After that small annoyance, the game was open to you just as open to you as morrowind.

2). Auto-leveling NCP's ruin the fighting
You may reject this point, but I had a lot more satisfaction killing things 10 times higher then me in morrowind. When you explored, you got a sense of the power behind the people. You knew the difference from thugs and trained troops. You felt the mighty blows they would land on your level one ass and know not to go there until you level up. You didn't know to what level. You just leveled up and kept trying. That made the loot worthwhile.

Yet, in Oblivion, the combat always felt so one-sided. No matter what battle I ran into, I knew the weaker enemies would fall before me always and the tougher enemies would only take about 3 more blows. That's because, the feature that allows you to aim and swing without missing made the combat feel like swinging instead of skill. No matter what battle I would enter in, I knew my battleaxe would mop them up. I knew that they would die before me, like the other enemies in the other cave did. I'm, not saying the combat was a letdown, It just felt like I didn't need to think things through because I knew the enemies would be a pretty even match, even though I'd kill everything in 1 hit.

3).The teleporting made traveling nonexistent
In morrowind, I ran everywhere there wasn't a strider. I could never get to where I wanted to go. I remember swimming to Solstheim about 5 times. And I loved it everytime. I got to the point where I just said "Fuck the strider, I'm walking!" And off my Orc would go. Running saved me money and found me quests, like exchanging notes between thief and victim, unfreezing a Nord with no clothes from a witches spell, finding a Redguard to lead to a city for healing. It rewarded travel with things to do.

Oblivion, on the other hand, gave you the wonderful feature of teleporting. Traveling? Screw that. I don't need to see all these grass fields and tree's more than once. Missions were almost never stumbled upon, and the perplexing task of finding Nirnroot? The only time I explored at all. The rest of it was going to dungeons and finding the same things, which sloppily leads me to

4). You find one weapon, you've found them all
Morrowind was a weapon whore. I could constantly look for new weapons and find them constantly. I'd have to follow a turtle and dive underwater to kill a thief who stole the king's helm. I had to fight tooth and nail with 3 orc warriors in full combat armor to get any decent gear(might I add by a statue of what I think is their god). I would have to scrap and battle through waves of people to get a 10,000 pound weapon out and be nude and really drunk doing it. Then, I'd come back and rob it again to get more weapon swag.

Oblivion had weapons too, but most of them were enchanted other weapons with armor called something else but looking the same too. There was really no unique reward for fighting through the dungeon. Maybe aleyid(probably spelled wrong) statues that you could give to the collector. When that's done, then what? The statues gave you some alright gear but I always had something better.

5). The 24/7 system really didn't change much.
Morrowind had all characters that were in the game standing around outside. Oblivion had them walking around. I don't see the improvement. If I took the time to follow them, maybe they'd do something interesting. Even if they had places to go, it looked like they didn't even care. They plowed through whatever was in their way, unless it was you, then they stoped for a few seconds and moved on. Sure, they'd talk to a few people for 2 or 4 lines of dialog, but they never went to the shops or traveled anywhere. Everyday, when i'd see them, they'd be walking the same route with no variation. It's just as bad as them standing there.


Sure, Oblivion shines in some area's, but to me, great graphics and great sounds don't mean great game. It was fun for a while, but I kept Morrowind GOTY for 2 years and played it constantly. I played Oblivion for 4 months and moved on. I felt letdown. The arena was a pushover, the mages guild was easy to get into even if you weren't a mage, and the game STILL has a glitch preventing me from getting Grandmaster of the fighters guild. For this, I cannot forgive oblivion. I'm more happy with an older decent looking gal compared to it's better looking younger sister because there's more personality.