To the cunt who hacked my xbl account and purchased Fifa dlc.
 
May you burn in hell.

BLOG - MIA

First Blog in months.

I really need to sit down and actually finish both GOW and GOW 2.   
 
Both sitting on the pile of shame giving me the evil eye whenever I look over at my 360 collection.

Ok...After playing Test Drive Unlimted 2 on my PS3 I have come to two easy  conclusions. 
 
1.  The game is shit.
2. The game is racist. 
 
Why? 
 
No. 1.  is pretty easy due to the poor handling, poor physics engine, wooden avatar models, broken online servers.  Atari continues to impress! /sarcasm. 
No. 2.  The cockpit views are modelled so the driver is on the left hand side.  Racist!  Us Brits drive on the right hand side.  This indifference to our culture disgusts me. 
 
Not only that but last time I was on holiday in Ibiza the locals didn't speak with yank accents.  Now albeit when I was in San Antonio  for that 14 days I was either drunk on vodka, speeding, or copping disco biscuits but I know a Spanish accent when I hear one.   I have yet to witness one Spaniard in that game.  The map is inaccurate too.
 
Atari.  Please stop releasing games.  Thanks. xoxo,

This is probably weekend one of the wallet being hit for games.  Sure there has been Halo Reach, and Dead Rising 2 [meh], but today marks the first new release day where multiple games have been bought. 
 
Castlevania 
Front Mission Evolved 
Enslaved 
 
Looking forward to playing them more tonight after things get quieter.  

Only 24 hours after the British pricing  of Kinect and already Microsoft have their tank ready.  Can anyone seriously be surprised?  Gamer's comments have not been positive.
 
£130.00 is a ridiculous launch price point. The pricing of the peripheral was always going to be in one of two schools. 
 
1.  Higher price point - an increased profit figure per unit, with a decreased install base. 
2.  Lower - less unit profit, but higher installed base to sell secondary products to. 
 
Microsoft's argument is all based upon a simple fact.  It is more expensive to play two/ four player motion controlled games on the Wii/Move than on the Kinect.  With their product solution 1 - 4 players are covered out of the box.  Fair point, however how many people are going to jump into immediately playing 2/4 player games with the Move?     It is a messy stance since Sony's product is [at this stage]  being marketed for core and casual markets with Software coming for both sides of the coin.  Plus it removeschoice, forcing the consumer to invest heavily at the start.
 
Here are some choice sections of the EDGE article today.  And honestly LOL at using the "analyst community" as a defense of the pricing strategy. 
 
     “We researched it heavily,” Chris Lewis, VP of Microsoft Europe’s Interactive Entertainment Business, told MCV. “As with most things, we do massive amounts of consumer research. Not only did we consult with people like yourselves, but also the analyst community. We think this is great value.

“Look at our pricing versus what we’ve seen from Sony,” he added. “If we take their US Move details for example – obviously we’ve not seen their Move price-points for EMEA – but we expect Move will cost €150. But when you look at a two player Move experience, we think we will be around €150 less for the equivalent two-player experience.”  

So update 3.40 has hit, and Playstation Plus launches today. 
 
I was interested in seeing how Sony approached the area of a subscription based online environment without damaging one of the unique benefits that PSN has over XBL which is of course free online gaming.  Content is their approach which could be a nice added bonus. 
 
Ffor this to be worthwhile the content must be relative now, not 12 months ago which unfortunately Sony appear to be doing.  I have no qualms about subbing to Playstation Plus alongside my XBL Gold subscription and had every intention in doing so today.  However after looking at the release schedule for the first two months of the service it appears to be completely worthless to a gamer such as mysekf. 
 
Lets see  
 

Month 1: June 29th – August 3rd
• Intro offer: LBP (standard edition) 
• PSN PS3: Wipeout HD 
• minis: Field Runners, Age of Zombies 
• PSone: Destruction Derby 
• Full Game Trial: Shatter, Savage Moon 
• Discounts: LBP God of War Pack – 50%, LBP: LocoRoco costume pack – 50%, Gravity Crash – 20%, Fat Princess DLC – 20% 
• Premium Game Element: KillZone 2:  Steel & Titanium DLC 
• Push demo: ModNation Racers, Heavy Rain 
• Themes: LBP Theme, SCEE produced: PlayStation “Game Is Just The Start” Dynamic Theme 
• 2 x Fat Princess Premium Avatars

Month 2: August 4th – September 1st
• PSN PS3: Zen Pinball 
• minis: Blast-Off, Alien Zombie Death 
• PSone: Medievil 
• Full Game Trial: Inferno Pool, Mushroom Wars 
• Discounts: Zen Pinball Earth Defence Table – 20%, Warhawk Triple Combo Pack – 50%, Super Stardust HD  - 20%, WipeOutHD Fury – 20% 
• Premium Game Elements: Motorstorm Pacific Rift: Adrenaline Pack 
• Push Demo: Flower, Pixel Junk Shooter 
• Themes: “SCEE produced: PlayStation + Dynamic Theme (in production), Heavy Rain Crime Scene Theme 
2 x Heavy Rain Avatars (Bird and Butterfly)

I am so fucking bored. 
 
Just thought I would share.