Evilross

Brand new footage of UFC 09 from Dana White's video blog, featuring a trip to THQ studios.

Dana also has some comments on Saturday night's Heavyweight Championship bout between Randy Couture and Brock Lesnar.

Vid has some NSFW language, just so you know.

"Evilross said:

"Everyone with any knowledge of MMA knew that Slice would get handled by any legit MMA fighter. I was shocked that EXC let him get in the cage with Petruzelli, it was a fight they had to know he wasn't going to win.

I never hated Kimbo, I'm glad he's made some money for himself and his family, but its time he moved on. He'll never be a contender in MMA, but hes got a good head on his shoulders, perhaps a pro westling company like TNA or WWE would pick him up.

This whole Kimbo charade wasn't his doing, it was Shaw and Bas Rutten that set this crap up. EXC is a terrible promotion, I hope Affliction severs ties with them ASAP, and EXC goes away forever."

i agree with you man. he isn't skilled in this sport, he's just very strong and has very hard punches. all he had to do was connect with this guy. but this guy is fast and more skilled than anyone else he has fought before. 
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"pause422 said:

"Actually no, not completely wrong. You and a certain very small minority may wish things stayed the same throughout, but they've already evolved from then, game devs know this, reviewers know this. If this wasn't true almost every RPG made recently would still have turn based combat and random encounters. Its like saying FPS games should of never evolved to a crosshair and full X and Y axis movement. I'm done posting in this thread, its pointless- the review isn't credible at all, and your statement shows you would actually take this review seriously."

You call adapting the Elder's Scrolls ruleset evolution? Cus its been around longer than turn based combat, hero.
You need to learn the difference between stepping forward and stepping to the side. Building on the franchise's foundation to make it fresh is moving forward. Doing something completely unlike the previous games is a sidestep. Replacing one archaic battle system related to the franchise with another archaic battle system takes a step back, and to the side."

Everyone with any knowledge of MMA knew that Slice would get handled by any legit MMA fighter. I was shocked that EXC let him get in the cage with Petruzelli, it was a fight they had to know he wasn't going to win.

I never hated Kimbo, I'm glad he's made some money for himself and his family, but its time he moved on. He'll never be a contender in MMA, but hes got a good head on his shoulders, perhaps a pro westling company like TNA or WWE would pick him up.

This whole Kimbo charade wasn't his doing, it was Shaw and Bas Rutten that set this crap up. EXC is a terrible promotion, I hope Affliction severs ties with them ASAP, and EXC goes away forever.

I understand were your coming from, but I see what your saying as immersion, not storytelling.  Your talking about a player become attached to a character, or gameworld, and using plot devices and props in-game to further plots or comunicate plot points and ideas. Games like Morrowwind do this well.

I wasn't talking about any of that. I was just talking about the orginal story, and its telling. I had said I wasn't even much intrested in the Kain games themselves as much as just following the storyline. I disagree that delivery is everything when it comes to memorable experiances.

You used Narnia as an example with the conversion from novel to film, and its a good point, so I'll offer this. If the Legacy of kain series was re-written as a novel, or novel series, it would be a fantasic read,  however, Half-Life would not. I'm speaking to the story itself, not the game as a whole.

"Planescape Torment, many PSX JRPGs, Silent Hill 1 and 2, Team ICO games and the Half Life series, for me, represent storytelling at it's best in video games. There don't even have to be spectacularly complicated stories involved; it's all about telling it and immersing the player. The greatest stories can be ruined by cheap, clumsy storytelling and bad writing."

Were did you find PSX games? 

I have to go with Morgan Webb on this one... i've always though she was very attarctive.

This game was the last in this series.  It seems like the story could continue but I haven't heard anything about more Kain games being made.

This game series set the bar for orginal storytelling in gaming. Alot of games have great storylines, but Legacy of Kain was on a whole different level. I remember waiting for the next game in the series to come out, the same way I waited for the next George R.R. Martin novel in his Song of Fire and Ice saga. I didnt really care about the new gameplay, or graphics, I just wanted to find out what happened next in the saga of the vampire Kain, and his endless struggle against the very forces of fate.

I guess I'm just having fond memories days past tonight, but this series really stood out to me as a great work of art. I doubt we will ever see anything like it again, in the days of super blockbuster games, and casual gaming cash-ins.