The last week hasn't been great and quite frankly been rather sucky. So to start things off lets talk about blizz and why they even have a support team. Anyway just over a week ago blizzard brought out an update for the  mobile authenticator and it fucked everything up and was taking down but not taking down quickly enought, So like a lot of people I got locked out of my Battlenet account. So that weekend the guys at blizz basiclly said not our problem wait till monday locking everyone out who downloaded the app till monday. Luckly my sub ran out on the saturday for my warcraft account so it wasn't a big deal. Now fast forward to Monday night, most people reported that when contacting the billing support team to fill out a web fourm so i done that. Now fast forward to Wednesday, Blizz contact me and tell the problem been solved so I log on to my account page and guess what its not fixed and its still not fixed. I sent another fourm that night and they still have not got back to me so end up sending another one Monday night if they still haven't got back to me.
 
So the morale of the story is not to use the moblie authenticator (thing has been a pain). Even so it makes me angry its been a week now and the problem is still not sorted. What makes me even more angry is how the problem got fixed when it didn't. the lack of weekend support it such a big pain in the arse thought. I mean my dad sat nav went up the shoot , sent an email to the support team saturday and they got back to him today. It makes me wonder where the money I give these guys goes to. The only good thing is that the account ran out so at least i'm not paying them while not playing. I think this is most likely the nail on the coffin for my wow account now. I only heard about the tales of the bad support blizzard has but man its fucking shite. 
 
Carrying on I got GTA 4 for the PC yesterday and wow if there a reason games shouldn't be ported then GTA is that reason. First of the graphics settings are messed up, I'm actully one of the luckly ones who can get it running at a fairly high setting but even then i don't know anyone who can run it full settings. I mean why is it such a system hogg? WHY IS IT 14GB? I now its a big city but 14 gigs jesus. But the mulitliplayer, I thought this would be the big selling point. The mp on the PS3 and 360 were pretty bad imo simply because people are dickheads. I thought it might be better cause well PC gamers are more mature then your average 360 or PS3 gamer but fucking hell its worse. Still seems to be many dickheads as there were in the other versions but its made 100 times worse cause of people cheating and hacking, adding on the fact that people still use freeroam as a DM its pointless. I really dislike useing the a keyboard and mouse maybe I need to get used to it I don't know.  Even so the biggest selling point of GTA4 is still here fairly intact which is its story and you know what playing it again isn't that bad (who knows i may fin it this time). But even then you don't get the same feel playing it on a PC then playing it infront of a big screen tv.
 
Even so I have played some good stuff this week, I got into the jap version of the new Pokemon game Soul Silver, i have'nt played enought of it yet but going from the hour its the best pokemon game they made yet which isn't really surpiseing considering that gold and silver were the best pokemon game ever made. I wana get more into the game yet but early on I wish this game was coming out in english this year but it Def but up for GOTY in 2010 (wow thats a long way away). Also played scibblenauts and again another great game i recommened. Anyway I be going back into champions online in a bit which is also a very good game it has it problems like all MMOS but even so its been worth the money so far. Well I'm done going to wait for my interent to speed up so i can actully play so games or fall asleep, whichever comes first.
 

 So on Saturday I picked up Batman Arkham Asylum and well yeh. Maybe i'm the only person in the world who things this but has anyone actully found it as good as the reviews say it is. I mean don't get me wrong , its not a bad game at all but calling it best superhero game or game of 09? For me Batman was a average kind of superhero game just a little bit above the Wolverine game that came out early in the year.
 
 The Combat is good but then again its basic there nothing amazing about it , its what you would expect. Boss fights are pretty bad, they use the titan mutants about 4 or 5 times and Bane is no different to them, Finally the last fight doesn't really bring that kind of epic final boss feel. Killer Croc was by far the most fun even thought it wasn't really a fight, more like run for life. But even then some villans don't even equal to a fight in the end. Scarecrow levels were great and they just come out of no where the way that was done was really good but then nothing really becomes of it in the end and epic fight between him and yourself never happens. The same goes for Harley Quinn, It a cutscreen of batman pretty much one shotting her and its over. 
 
The voice acting on the other hand i give a big thumbs up for, obscure people like guard 1 or 10 you meet isn't really all the that impressive the Villans and Batman are great. Also if you ever wondered why The Joker is such a big villan as he is play this game , he is a a totally nutcase. dialog between him and Batman is really good. The  Riddler (note you never actully meet in person ,sigh ) also has some pretty epic lines of dialog.
 
I think I most of clocked about 5 or 6 hours when i beat the game so it wasn't a long game and it does have it problems, Imo if your thinking about buying it then rent it first , you most likely be able to fin it in that time also. I might do a review for it at some point but for know this is what i think of Batman Arkham Asylum

 

I woke up about an hour ago and watched a couple of the new trailers that gone up and yeh everything that was shown at the Microsoft event looked pretty impressive. The Crackdown 2 trailer looked great and I really wana know if it was in game cinamatic or CG. While I still have yet to watch some of the other trailers I can't wait for forza 3 and i heard Alan Wake looks good to , we got a release date to boot. I really wana know more about Halo reach and MGS Rising, thought i'm finding it odd its called Metal Gear Soild and not just Metal Gear. Its most likely that Snake will be involved with the story in one way shape or form. . I'm still expecting Metal Gear remake or at least something between Metal Gear Soild 3 and Metal Gear story at some point due to the Big Boss thing.

But I wan't to to talk about Left 4 Dead 2 and yeh when I first heard about it I was like great but after watching the trailer and some gameplay footage I'm totally not impressed anymore. It looks like Left 4 Dead a game that yes while the core gameplay was good the content was pretty piss poor. Now there releaseing a brand new game with get this ? 5 CAMPAINS !!!! thats 1 more then last good fucking job valve you be able to put 1 more campain then last time. Ive always belived a lot of people gave Left 4 Dead an easy ride cause hey its Valve you know the guys that seem to care about making there games but how can anyone defend this move. I mean how can someone go oh look another tomb raider game or look another need for speed , they keep churing them out when L4D is'nt even a year old, hell its only just over half a year. Even then it looks more like a content update! you know the thing people been asking about so they can actully have more to what was very little in the first.

Right now I'm more angry about the fact it seems there done with L4D which yeh it might not be the case and they may have a whole heap of content planned out for the coming months. But even then come on, people who seen the gameplay know that this looks no different to the first, I mean NO DIFFERENT and if another person goes oh well its in Day light now i'm really going to have to punch them in the face. Its early days yet and i'n praying for them to say that they have a ton of content coming out or hey guess what people who brought L4D will get the second at a major discount but at the moment my hopes aren't that high. Like a ton of people of said , this just doesn't seem like the Vavle we know and love and my rage has now turned out to sadness :(. brb gona go cut my wrists.

so yeh apprantly Sackboy is living in my house at the moment. If you did'nt know the guys who made LBP had a competition to win one of these little guys. All you had to do was be one of the first 5000 to subscribe to there youtube channel and send them a email with your details. It was as easy as that and It also seemed that not many people new about this so they weren't gone with in like a day which is how fast i expect these things to go because there actully pretty well made to boot.

Guess I have to thank a couple of people who made a post about it on the fourm about 2 weeks ago or I would of never heard about this at all. I should think there still sending these things, I would of thought i been at the end or end of the line of the 5000 so i think there going to probs gona be a couple more batches to send out yet. So if you still haven't got one yet it might just be on its way.

Also the fable 2 DLC that came out this week is duff but I wana keep this all about sackboy for now so I talk about that another time. So see you next time :) .

So its been a while since i did a blog and well i play quite a few games and there some things i want to get off my chest. So first about a month or 2 back my 360 finally died and it wasn't the rrod (E74 error) so it wasn't covered by the rrod warranty so like yay.... Anyway i tried to fix it myself cause thats the kind of person i am and i got it to turn on once before it decided it needed to leave and go to the place where all machines go to die, the tip. So it wasn't great news even more so that It fucked up the week i got fable 2 which i have to say is one of the best games i played in a long time but more on that later. So i was thinking did fable cause it because it been fine till then. Anyway i decided to go and get a new one the same week and its been good ever since. I decided against going for a elite at the last minute becasue I didn't really need it so i got the arcade and I have to say its does feel much better built then then the old model which is good. I still belive that rrod and scatching disks ect is still more caused by how one treats the console. A couple of weeks back watchdog did somthing about 360 scatching disks which wasn't a untold story to start with, I thought most people understood that if you have it up instead of down its more likely to scatch anyway. I mean hell if they really wanted a story they should of went with the E74 error because i read about that a ton of people got it the same week I did.

Anyway now im going to quickly just list all the new games i brought now Kotr 1 and 2, Fable 2 ,Battlefield BC, COD5, Shadowrun,Smackdown vs raw 2009. I may have missed one or 2 there but oh well. So i want to talk about each game as quickly as i can. So lets start with Fable 2 cause its most likely going to take the longest.

So Fable 2 was by far out anything i played last year the best game. (game of 2008 imo , only 3 months late XD) and I can't really give you a good reason why. I think mostly because it was the first real game that the things i did really did make me actully think and actully did chance the game unlike a lot of the other so called moral choices u get in other games. The cast is just great and maybe because imo is a very british game is why i like it so much. People like Zoë Wanamaker (My family) and Stephen Fry (Blackadder , a Bit of Fry and Laurie and yes that is Hugh Laurie if you your wondering) are all Legends of British TV. I don't really have one bad thing to say about the game either , the story is great, the combat while simple works really well, The Dog much more useful then u think (really go play Fable 1 and find out for yourself) and it was just a great game , expect a review from my self sometime soon.

Right next is Bad Company, Is it good ? Yes, is it as good as BF2? Nope. I don't wana get into this to much But I've had this problem where any BF game that comes out is always been good but never battlefield 2 good and i don't really know why that it is. I mean don't get me wrong Bad Company is no a sub par game but it just doesn't have the kind of bang that even 2142 maybe its cause i grew up with Battlefield games being on the PC and PC is always where its going to best , maybe its simply just not as good. I don't really know but I think I'm going to go back and play it a bit more before i make my mind up.

I guess i should talk about COD5 and again its the same deal with BFBC really, its good but its always going to be in its big brother shadow , that being COD4. I think i talked about it a lot but i always knew it wasn't going to be nearly as good as COD4, Final word its still the same old shit no matter what stuff u put into into it, zombies were pretty cool thought . (everyone hope on zombie train people)

Smackdown i get to down to a little later on when i talk wm25 and other wreslting stuff. I also need to put more time into Kotr a bit more but from what i played of 1 , i really didn't enjoy it at all. I think am about an hour in or so but dam i just don't know. Maybe i give it a little more time but i did end up playing mass effect again.

So i made a review on gs and give it a score of 5.6 or somthing like it cause i really hated it. After playing the Kotr game i hate it a lot less. More so that in fact i ended up playing the whole game which i admit it was pretty good. So i'm going to redo the review i did a year or 2 back and put it here. Even thought I did enjoy it more, a lot of my points still stand today. The controls are'nt great , cover system still doesn't feel right, your AI are still pretty fucking stupid and we won't go in to the vehicle controls but I tell you , if they can sort out them problems in Mass Effect 2 then oh boy it could be a really great game which i'm now looking forward to.

Right so on to Smackdown vs raw then and well idk really. Its still Smackdown and plays well and the controls work well. And the new Tag team options are pretty good. But its seems with smackdown now its always two steps forward and one step back, they do some really great things but let down one thing which is just down to lazyness in the end. This year is still the case while the done all these small improvements they really let them selfs down in others. The new area layout for a fact has taken a step back all the way to 06 , that little bit where you could go out into the crowd is now gone which really does suck, The commtery is still so lame which you can't blame on THQ tbh but still its fucking annoying as hell. The voice acting in this is so lame thought by far Mr Kennedy put the most into while all the others maybe from 1 or 2 just sounded so wooded and fake.  

Which brings me to the RTOW which sounds good and works and paper but again it sucks tbh. No matter how much to story mode sucked in the past it was always fun to take your caw in there and play that why now your stuck with cena, cm punk and a couple of other storylines , its wouldn't be so bad but the acting like i said sounds awful and just get boring. And instead of gm mode or or the normal story mode we have career mode which has sucked all the fun but you need to do it if you want to build up your caw and even give it abitlys like diveing from the ropes ect.  I haven't tried the online but i'm guessing at bad as ever. Its seems to be the problem with smackdown they try all the new ideas and such but when it comes to things the fans ask for like better online or backstages ect they never do it, Its a shame really.

Speaking of wreslting i wanted to talk a little about TNA and the WWE. For starters what has happend to TNA they gone totally downhill they PVP apart from the last have been totally crap , they can't seem to keep a storyline for 2 mins or just make a totally U turn into insane land. The gimmicks again what the hell. It goes on and on. The booking has been so poor lately really thought and yeh i mean Sting vs Mick Foly at Lockdown i mean come on they great sure but here the thing sting in ring skills have been lacking bad as of late and Mick Foly hasn't really been in a real match in like 3 years i mean have kurt angle vs sting or joe vs sting . I mean i can really see someone fall over dead in this match.

WWE storylines as of late have been pretty good which is a surpise the Hbk and JBL thing was good and now im really looking forward to watching the Taker and Hbk match because of the build up. Y2J and the Legends has to be one of the better ones they done in a while and Orton HHH storyline has been great as well. Still they somethings i don't get , There use Rey mysterio thought has not been all that great mind , they just don't seem to have a clue what they want to do with him which makes me feel sorry for him , same with Christian as well even thought i can understand him going to ECW it be intreasting to see what happens at wm25 and the draft.

Anyway i been watching the persona 4 thing and man i really wana play it now so i think i might go and pick up on my next vist to the city. Well i guess this well do for now , Its has been a while since i did a blog and they and ton of stuff thats happened i forgot to write about but i try and get on a bit more now . anyway laters .