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-:Trasherhead:-

[Bio]
Name : Markus J.L.
Alias : Trasherhead, Cumladen
Sex : Male
Level : 22
Birth : 1986 BC
Death : 1999 AD
ARTIQ : 115
Guardians : Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva
About : A Cynic and A Saint


[Stats]
Strength :6
Perception :7
Vitality :9
Charisma :9(+2)
Intelligence :9
Wisdom :8
Agility :6(+5)
Luck :7
Sanity :3(-5)

[SKills]
Blacksmith - "hammer that iron while its glowing red hot and duck while im welding."
Bard - "Long live Rock and Roll, Long live Rock 'n' Roll..."
Survivalist - "I believe in God, only I spell it Nature"
Veteran Gamer - "They made games befor CS and Halo, trust me."
Advanced Cooking - "Exact measurements? No Sir, true food should be enigmatic"
Berserker - "Why im dressed in animal pelt, reciting algebra in latin while stuffing marbles up this
old lady's ass? Well you know, I was cleaning my toilet and..."

[Traits]
:The Hands:
"But my luck keeps holding so strong,
even with the state I’m in.
I’m like a revolution of one, even when I stumble I win."
- Some divine entity seems to take pity on you (Luck +5)
:Psychedelic charm:
"Dan: Markus, are you hallucinating?
Markus: Oh, yeah, but not right now."
- A lifetime of mental abuse, metal music and missmatched pills have left you with
a funny smile on your face and rater strange opinions. (Charisma +2 Sanity -5)
:Confusius:
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm
not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
- People tend to go "wha.. whaT?" after speaking with you.
:Evolved:
- Once at the sanitorium the nurse droped you in the nuclear waste disposal and now your
stuck with 3 kidneys, a huge beard and a tattoo of a scull on your arm.

[Background]

Son of the Sami demi-god Rivojen and the scorpion demon Sasori, Markus was unleased unpon an unprepered world.
After years of in what they call "scholeion" where his mind was shaped through fire, radiation and faul fiends he died
only to walk the earth. For the one who has God as his judge would not let him die, for he sacreficed the
second, third and seventh to breath life back into the withered body of Markus.
Thought never quite alive again he could never fully die again, cursed without a soul to feel forth others.
In later years a woman named, who's name is sounded Bethia by the ages, colided with the lost hero of the gods.
For some illogical reason, that broke the rules of human nature, she found an intreset in this poor excuse
of a superior being and soon after they joined in cosmic battle of spirites and wits.
By some unexplained magic she was able to call back and rebuild his broken soul and give him emotions.
For years he walked the earth, like a behemuth of cosmic rage, and no mater how many times they
tried to make him stumble he could never fall and no mater how hard the choked
him there was always something there to give him air.
For he was favored by the gods of old.
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Where have all the great games gone?
Trasherhead | 3:37 PM on 09.01.2008 14 comments


When I judge a game as look at how its presented(gameplay and graphics) and how long it actually keeps me entertained.

So what the hell happened? Sure games look greater then ever (no they don't, the art sucks monkey), but they play awefull and keeps my attention for what seems like 5 minutes compared to the "Great Ones" (The Great Ones blog soon to come).
I remember games that kept me playing for months. Games like FF7, Suikoden, Tekken 3, Gran Turismo, Super Mario World, Fallout, Civilization, Monster Bash, Heroes of might and magic 3 etc. These are all games that I probably have 10s of thousands of playtime on them.

The only 2 games the last 2 years that have kept my attention to this extent is COD4 and Valkyrie Profile 2. I bought COD4 on launch and I still play it.
Now just to get it on record that I have bought almost all heavy hitters like Oblivion, Assassins Creed, R6V and R6V2, Motor storm, Bad Company, Enchanted Arms, GTA4 and Sins Of a Solar empire.
All of these had something wrong with them that completely destroyed the game.
Oblivions leveling system, R6V was crap ported to the PS3 which was the system I played them on, Motorstorm's boring environment, Bad Company was so generic that it I simply got bored, Assassins Creed wasn't a bad game per say just not a game for me, Enchanted arms... it simply sucked, the gameplay and the graphics where horrible, GTA4 was simply just GTA with a lot less of what made the other GTA great and SOASEs diplomatic system just made me hate the game.

Then you have ok to great games like MGS4, resistance, Bio Shock and Painkiller that simply can't keep my interest for more then a few days before I get bored of them.
When I pay 100 to 120 $ for a game I want it to last for a couple of weeks before I get bored of it, NOT a couple of days. And yes, that is what games costs in $ here in Norway.

So tell me i am wrong for wanting a game that actually keeps me entertained.



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Mentok the Mindtaker's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 16:40
Mentok the Mindtaker
Heres a good game for you: Smash your head into concrete until you stop moving and or breathing.

Also, cocks.
MrSadistic's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 16:40
MrSadistic
Well you can always wait until someone builds mechanized game developers who are able to go for long periods of time developing and coding games that last longer than 4 hours.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 16:57
Aaron Mxy Yost
You got older.
TheDreadHawk's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 17:05
TheDreadHawk
@Mxy

But he did not get wiser.
ZServ's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 17:05
ZServ
mxyzptlk got it.
Timmeh's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 17:15
Timmeh
Games develpoment costs balooned and publishers decided they weren't going to take risks with their money and insisted that everything be tailored to the lowest common denominator.

Or you got older, and where some games were once so affecting or epic to your juvenile mind, you have begun to see how crappily written/made they generally are with a slightly more mature perspective.

Or both. Maybe it's neither.
Alexradl's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 17:31
Alexradl
It sounds like you need to become a "retro gamer".
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 17:59
Kyousuke Nanbu
They still exist but your nostalgia goggles blind you to them.
-PL-'s Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 18:08
-PL-
lol, I like how you listed "Enchanted Arms" as a heavy hitter. That was a good one.
ajaxender's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 18:25
ajaxender
WHY DEAR GOD WHY do you not have the orange box?

Also, i think you'll find you cant go back and play the older games the way you used to. Eventually, with so much exposure to games, you immediately to see the flaws that would have been invisible to you 5 years ago.

I dont even try to play the classic games that i missed in their time anymore, after trying Half Life 1 (its pretty bad, by todays standards). You'll always be able to go back to the games that you loved first, but dont be thinking they're perfect.
Gameboi's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 20:28
Gameboi
As Mxy said, you got older --- and perhaps your taste in games has changed. Plenty of goodies out there.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/01/2008 22:13
braulio09
you're wrong for buying a game in norway....just import in bunches, like i used to do.

but seriously? i think you're expecting single player games to be eternally replayable, which is something that only extremely rare 1P games do.
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