Has anybody else noticed this? I was watching TV for a few hours yesterday and happened to see a GTA IV commercial multiple times and I noticed something that really confused me. In the beginning of the spot it shows the Playstation logo along with its little sound bite, and then at the end it show the Playstation logo again along with the Playstation 3 logo. The Xbox 360 logo is nowhere to be found anywhere in the TV spot and the system is not mentioned even once.
Maybe it is a case that some of the TV Spots have the Playstation logo and some have the 360 logo, but I only ever say the Playstation spot. Has anybody else noticed this or am I the only one that has been watching TV? The following video is the only one the one that I have been seeing. The spot that I have been seeing is just like this one except at the end when it says that its coming soon, it says that it is now available. But, they are the same commercial and if you look at the logos on the bottom of the screen, the 360 logo is nowhere to be found.
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I found the video. Also, I found videos of the exact same trailer that include the Xbox 360 logo at the bottom next to the PS3 logo. I just find it very odd and a disservice to anybody watching the trailer. Consumers are stupid and I imagine that a lot of people that see that would imagine that it is only on the PS3 and not on the 360. It seems kind of dumb for Rockstar to do something like that because it could potentially limit their possible market and it sucks because the 360 version is arguably the better version. And for somebody who doesn't own a next gen console yet and wants to get GTA IV, they should know that they have an option between the two systems and that they aren't being forced into buying the more expensive of the two.
This game is called "Things on Wheels". If this game isn't amazing, I will be very disappointed. All I have to say is that everybody needs to be ready for high speed, flower pot dodging super RC car action this summer when the game is scheduled to be released on XBLA and sometime later on PC. Steam would be the logical way to release the game for PC, but no other details are available on that.
I just heard about this movie ten minutes ago and instantly became excited. I am a big fan of horror movies but recently a lot of shit has been coming out like The Hills Have Eyes 2 and boat loads of other crap. The Orphanage was a really good movie out of Spain that wasn't really as much of a horror movie as it was extremely creepy.
I sent the trailer to a couple peeps in stickam and they didn't seem too excited about it but I don't care. The movie has Jennifer Carpenter in it, the chick from Dexter (awesome show). I don't have much else to say other than I hope this movie is as good as the trailer makes it seem. I am getting a hold of REC right now, the Spanish movie which this movie is based on.
The Daily Show with John Stuart had an excellent little piece on Monday, April 7th. It was the moment of zen at the end of the video that made me need to share this with you all; Ms. Harman of California has no fucking clue what the shit she is talking about. Seriously, its a funny little piece making fun of congress and Second Life all in one. I hope you enjoy.
Yeah, I finally am posting my entry after bitching about others. There you have it. I have a laptop that is good for everything but gaming. Right next to my newish laptop I have an old as fuck desktop that can't do anything but play music and sometime use the internet. It is an Intel Centrino R 2.0GHz and only has 128MB of RAM, its a complete joke.
If I would actually win the Turning Point Gaming Rig that would be totally sweet. I could finally get rid of my laptop. Its great being able to use the internet, torrent, and watch 720p video flawlessly, but it really sucks dick to get 12 frames per second when attempting to play World in Conflict.
Yep. That is right. This is the second time that I have been kicked from stickam within a week or two. How is this possible? Like I said, the room is named "YAY M&M'S" because of me. I'm never going into that room ever again. fuck y'all niggas.
Ok, I am getting sick of GamesRadar. I mean, they have some good stuff from time to time, but they always get these stupid "Top (instert radnom number here)" lists and they all completely suck dick. And I have finally had it with their new "13 Worst Gaming Innovations of all Time" article by Shane Patterson. It really is one of the dumbest pieces of "gaming journalism" I have read in my entire life.
Alright, I am going to put this little blurb here. When I first started writing this blog I was thinking on posting my counter argument to each one of the "innovations" that Games Radar believes is bad. But, then I decided that half of them weren't even innovations as much as they are a feature. Also, this would have been a quite lengthy post so I decided that I should shorten it a bit. So now I have chosen just a couple of these so called terrible innovations that I most disagree with and write about them.
PERIPHERALS
Oh yes, peripherals are one of the worst innovations ever. You have to be kidding me. Do the people at GamesRadar have no fucking clue what they are talking about? They say that having gaming peripherals makes you look not cool. I have a message for you GamesRadar:
FUCK YOU.
If your biggest concern is to look cool while playing games, they you need to go to hell. I am dead serious here, go straight to fucking hell. Some of the best video game experiences are only possible with the use of peripherals; Guitar Hero and Rock Band come to mind. Seriously think about it, where would gaming be without the Power Glove or the Power Pad? How would you be able to play Duck Hunt without the Zapper. And just to add, I have not met a single person that think Guitar Hero is gay after being made to play it except for Ron Workman.
LENSE FLARE
Lense flare? Are you kidding me? You are seriously going to complain about lens flares being a terrible innovation? Shut the fuck up.
QUICK TIME EVENTS
Quick Time Events are fucking awesome. Patterson cites games such as Heavenly Sword and Spiderman 3 as to why QTEs suck. That is just unfair. Citing two bad games as two why a certain feature sucks is like saying 3rd person shooters suck because Kane & Lynch and Army of Two both suck. Why doesn't he mention a god like God of War? He uses GoW for his image, that game is a great example of QTEs done right. I don't know about you, but it is quite satisfying to jump up on a cyclops and stab it in the eyeball to death when I do the button chain correctly.
I just think it is unfair to say a certain game play mechanic or feature is bad just because a game that sucks has it, it is just stupid and completely flawed logic.
3D GAMES
Ok, this is the big one. This might be the dumbest fucking thing I have ever heard. It really takes the cake. How the fuck can somebody seriously say that 3D games were a bad innovation? I'm really not sure where to start or what to say exactly. Do I really need to say anything? Honestly, I could write a 12 page paper on how the jump to 3D has propelled video games into a completely new form of entertainment beyond anything that we could have imagined when the only thing we had was the Atari 2600.
What do you guys think. Am I crazy? Is this whole article a joke that I just didn't get? Please tell me that I'm not crazy.
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I know I didn't list 13 reasons in this article. I don't care.
That's right. He kicked me from fucking stickam like the fucking dick face he is. Who does he think he is? He kicked me from the YAY! M&M'S! room. That room was created because of me in the first place. Had I not had my giant bag of peanut m&ms, we would never had it. blah blah blah.
all I wanted to do was talk in stickam, and now I am fucking stuck in vent with the puppet faggot (everybody fucking hates him, he is such an asshole).
Seriously, these fucking turning point gaming rig posts is making me go fucking nuts. I avoided the cblogs for a week thinking that they would have stopped and there are still 15 coming in every day. I am going to go fucking crazy. There has to be some other way to give away computers that cost more that twice as much as they are worth. Seriously, Falcon Northwest is worse than Dell when it comes to overpricing their high end PCs.
I mean, I just don't even understand who would buy those fucking computers. I know they sell those Velocity Micro computers in Best Buy stores so I imagine the only people that would ever buy one are really rich people that just tell the dude at the store that they want the best PC that they have so they sell them the Velocity Micro that comes with the Core 2 Quad and dual nVidia 8800GTs or some stupid shit like that.
Because honestly, no real gamer would ever spend $5k on a pre-built PC and then wait 3-4 weeks to get the fucking thing. Anybody who plays games enough that they want to be able to play Crysis at 2560x1600 resolution with all the settings set to max should know that buying a manufactured computer is a waste of money. They should at least have some knowledge of newegg and either know how to build a computer or have a friend that knows how to build a computer.
And I can understand that people would want to win one of these computers for free but honestly, if I got one of those things, I would just sell the fucker because I could build a better rig for $3000, and that includes buying a monitor. I mean, that thing doesn't even have DDR3 RAM, if you are spending $5000 you better have DDR3 RAM in the fucker.
So, can anybody please explain to me why these computers even exist and who the fucktards are that are buying them and allowing a piece of shit company like Falcon Northwest to stay in business?
