Stupidest Ideas in the 21st Century: Game Related Movies

I'm not talking about video game related movies; I'm talking board game related movies.  Battleship huh?  Really?  Are we really going to take a step in that direction?  I mean there are thousands of books that could be made into great movies, but I guess board games are way better.

So yes this is not a lie.  If you haven't heard already (it was all over the Internet news sites), Battleship is going to be a movie.  Great idea, Hollywood.  But honestly even though many are upset over this, we have no idea if this will be a hit or not.  But I swear to God, if I hear "You sunk my battleship!" anywhere in this movie, I'm going to strangle the nearest person sitting next to me. 

But another movie that is also looking as a board game rip off is Real Steel, which many believe to be a version of Rock Em Sock Em Robots.  Now I can sort of see why toy/game movies are starting to become a norm now.  If you think back to the announcement of Transformers, people laughed in Bay's face.  But after just a week of that movie being out, it was a HUGE blockbuster.  And it also spawned to "successful" sequels (successful in quotation marks because some will argue). 

However, Transformers was also a show not just a line of toys made.  These other movies; no television shows at all.  So these game movies...it could be a waste of money.  Or the best idea ever.

But I'd like the differ.

Awesome Games in the 21st Century: Infamous

Damn I am so late in the game here...

But I really want to blog about Infamous.  While this game was released years ago and the sequel has also came out, the game was up for download on Marketplace as a welcome back package.  After not playing this game and playing this game, I have to say that I was really getting into it until the last boss.

I won't go into storyline since I'm pretty sure everyone knows about this game already, but I will go over what I do like about it and what I don't (final boss mostly).

So I love the sandbox aspect of the game.  It's really hard finding a good sandbox these days besides Borderlands and Dead Island (there will be a review for this soon, too).  Most games today are very linear, and it makes you forget about the good old days with optional quests and running around the city healing people.  Well maybe there really aren't a lot of games where you just...heal people, but Infamous really does give you enough sandbox play without being too big.

The powers and upgrades work well; experience isn't exactly given to you neither is it too out of reach.  But while some powers are useful, I haven't really found that much time to charge up that "cannon" power.  Just takes too long.

Now the biggest part that pisses me off: final boss.  Isn't it funny that the rest of this game doesn't have health bars for any boss except this one?!  It takes a long fucking time, too, and I haven't got around to beating it, but patience really gets tested during this fight.  Otherwise I was able to get all the drop deads and finish all of the missions on the first two islands.

Some missions are kinda crazy such as the "tower defense" missions.  I must have died about three times each before I got the hang of it, but other than that, I feel that the missions are well diverse, giving you a break every once in a while, and of course, not that hard to complete although they do get a lot more challenging.

Now what would be so bad ass is if Jason Statham played the role as Cole if this ever becomes a movie.  I was driving somewhere yesterday and thought how awesome it would be if Infamous was made a movie, but unfortunately I feel that the only way if it was successful is if the director will follow the original story line and not screw up by using their "creative plot device skills".  Although there is some room to have these plot devices, but just not in the entirety of it.

Alright pretty much a random blog post but just wanted to get something up here.  We've been a little slow lately with all of our projects.

Over 100

Well Duke pretty much cut the cake by posting our 100th post, and by the way it is almost a year since Your World in Hard Copy was made.  Anyway here are some updates for the future!  Meaning really just...one thing:

AHA!  You see that?  Well that's like two of us from Port 2.  The other guy was just part of this project...

Anyway post-production has started and hopefully will be done pretty soon for Tenchi's first Dragonsoft project Lord of Video Gaming, a short fan film on some super top secret plot lines.  Regardless everyone has worked hard to do this despite some actors with lack of experience (*coughs and points to myself*), but hey.  It was fun.

According to Tenchi he will be posting this project up on Gametrailers eventually when the whole product is done and everyone who worked with this is able to do a full screening of the finished project.  I don't have any clips for you besides pictures in our Flickr Account! 

More information will be updated including links to Dragonsoft's short film.

Rockstar Uproar Festival featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace and Seether review

I had the distinct privilege to attend the 2011 Rockstar Uproar Festival on 9/11/11. I was mainly going so my girlfriend wouldnt kill a friend of hers who kinda forced her into going to it. I agreed to go since i liked a few of the bands playing so it wasnt that much of a bust for me.

The venue is the old Meadows Theater, now named the Comcast Theater. I am never a huge fan of venues that have corporate sponsors like this, but it was nice to be there again. I havnt been there since 2001 when i attended 104 Fest (found this, a video of the band tHrOnE, who were amazing at this show). The place changed slightly from what i can remember, but it was still the Meadows Theater.

The bands other than the main headliners i didnt really care about much, many of them i didnt know about to begin with. Bands like Bullet for my Valentine, Escape the Fate, Sevendust, Black Tide, Art of Dying, Hell or Highwater, made up the lineup of this fest, wasnt overly impressed with their "darkness and damnation" look and heavy guitar distortion rifts many of these hardcore bands are, never was. My girlfriend, as girly as she is, is darker than these guys by a longshot, come on, she went to school for funeral service management.

I was happy to see Seether and Three Days Grace. Was a good show overall. I actually dont remember a lot of Three Days Grace songs other than their singles from 2003 when i first found out about them. Seether i saw back in 2001 at 104 Fest. I got to say, Three Days Grace, gave the better performance of the night. Their energy on stage was second to none. They even attempted to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11/01. They where only interupted by chants of "USA USA!" which to me was incredible.

By my standards, a show can be one of two things, an enjoyable night and a great crowd. While i didnt like the crowd much, i liked the night. I didnt like all the kids who think their all hardcore, but that just might be me being an old man. Overall, it was a good fest, but not the best. I think the band lineup could have been better though. I found it was kinda off being 9/11 and there was a night of bands that had death in their names.

i give the Rockstar Upraor Festival: 3.5 out of 5 Stars

Jeff Hardy Returns...Again

Jeff Hardy came back two Thursdays ago on TNA and then appeared this last Thursday on television announcing his request for another chance from the fans.  Question is, will wrestling fans still forgive him?

This isn't the first incident when Hardy was pulled out of his job due to his own personal problems.  While he did have some needed time off before working for TNA for the first time, Hardy was also under two suspensions throughout his career in TNA and the WWE.  Hardy came back from his suspension in 2008-resulting to being pulled from Money in the Bank at Wrestlemania-and announced that he was ready and willing to wrestle again and had a very successful series of events for himself such as winning the WWE title.

He went back to TNA in 2010 during the first live edition on a Monday.  He won the Heavy Weight title and was top card for the greater part of that year.  During Victory Road, Hardy was found in his trailer stoned and still competed in his title match.  While he did only last about a minute, fans and officials were more than just angry with him, and he was let go from his duties.

But now he's back, again.  The drug bust he received from more than a year ago finally went to court, and he received a 10 day sentence, probation, and a fine of $100 k.

He came back announcing how deeply sorry he was for giving up on himself especially at Victory Road, a pay per view fans around the world have ordered and attended.  But now that he is back, fans are questioning whether to give him that extra chance.  While the ending of the taping to TNA this week had a chant in the background saying "one more shot", this fan is wondering if he'll just get burned out again if given another year.

But like it was said in the promo during the beginning of the show, "Jeff Hardy has an opportunity to change this tragedy into a wrestling success story."

What's New in the 21st Century? Neurotically Yours

Web cartoonist Jon Mathers decided to reboot his already popular series (it's been around for years) Neurotically Yours.  So if you're wondering exactly why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev2aTi9sWAE&feature=relmfu.

While the new animation is extremely different, it's pretty much the same stuff.  Another cool thing he has done differently is combine all of his side projects into one thing; which is great for those of you who are 4Y Records fans.

Check it out.

Vlog of Awesome #39: Santorini Greece adventure

August 2011, I traveled half way across the world to fly to Santorini Greece, to see my only sister wedding. This is the story, with some errors in the opening crawl, so dont mind that.

Be on the look out, i have to do a new one, a more serious one for my sister and new brother in law.