Fuck Quick Scopes

I have been playing a little of Modern Warfare 2 the last couple of days. Let me just say fuck quick scopes, fuck it in its dirty ass. I don't get the appeal of it all, if you want people to die in one hit, play some hardcore or something. Or is the fact people can push two buttons in recession to get a one shot kill. It is fucking stupid. Do whenever you want I guess.

My brother only plays with the noobtube and actually he does okay with it. Sucks ass with everything else. Shit, sometimes I like to have a riot shield and a throwing knife. These sort of tactics piss people off. Actually if you want some good videos of pissing people off, check out this Machinima video series. It's really good and has one of my favorite piss off moves, the corner trap. Try that out, next time one of your teammates is bitching about your gameplay.

Another video series I like on youtube is Cr1TiKaL's channel. He has a video series entitled Fun Tactics, it is about some funny shit you can do on Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. Mostly I like this other videos of retro games or games that aren't that popular with gameplay commentary. They are hilarious, his sense of humour is almost dry and he tell wonderful stories so check that out.

Okay, back to my Call of Duty experience, I am sucking at Modern Warfare 2 lately. I think I like Black Ops better to tell you the truth. I like the levels better, the weapons, the currency system used. I love the customizable emblems and I have seen some fucking sweet ones. Right now mine is the stepchild snowboards logo. I got one compliment so far, it's sort of a smaller snowboard company. I really miss Black Ops, I only borrowed it for a few months from a friend, hell I even bought the new map pack. Sometime I will get it again, might wait till the next Call of Duty is out, so I can get it cheap.

New Releases April 19th 2011

This Tuesday has a couple big releases, mainly SOCOM 4 and Mortal Kombat!!!!!! There is a also a theme I noticed. Remakes and squeals are in this week. There is only one original game coming out Tuesday and it sounds like it isn’t a new idea. We must have thought of everything and have to resort to reusing old ideas, or was it that these games there so good that we needed more. Game series are getting very big lately with Final Fantasy having over 45 games including I through XIII plus side stories and spin offs. Reminds me of porn, like back door sluts 9, really?… there was eight before that?

Kratos Bitches!!!

Mortal Kombat (PS3/ Xbox 360)
Developers: NetherRealm Studios
Publishers: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
April 19th 2011

I am super fucking pumped about this game, and I have been arguing all weekend with my friend about it. He likes how the last few were, completely free 3D movement and sidestepping. He also liked how they could change weapons and stances. We both played the demo, he just wasn’t impressed. My defence was pretty much all the hype and buzz around the game. The most I was pumped about going back 2Dish side scroller.

Them titties be nice but I don't know about that fac

I think most of the games in the series didn’t do well outside this realm. This isn’t the only change to Mortal Kombat, this game has been completely redone. Nearly all the original characters are there and not many of the new ones but some are make it. One of the cool things was that every character has his own movements and characteristics, so it’s not like Reptile, Sub-Zero and Scorpion are just the same ninja with different colors.
The environments are straight out of the first two original games and look fantastic. The combat is good and feel natural, combos flow nicely, and contributes to a special meter. This special meter has three bars to fill, the first is a combo breaker, the second is a enhanced special attack, and the third is a special combo called a X Ray move. This is fucking cool, as the name suggest, as you do powerful attacks in your combo, you see bones breaking and organs rupture. At the end of a round the fighter looks really  beat up and at the end of a fight, one of the fighters is not getting up. The fatalities are fucking insane and must guarantee a solid Mature rating. Multiplayer has a few options, there is tag team mode. Tag teaming has a cool way of having one player start a combo with one player and end it with another. Also there is online multiplayer, I heard of a few game moods, but one caught my attention. That was some sort of round robin style tournament, some what of a fight club feel. A group of players watch two others fight it out and after someone fights the winner. It reminds me of friends at home passing around controllers and calling “next”. NetherRealm said they worked hard on the game’s online gameplay and I hope it shows. Mortal Kombat is a must have for any fan of the series and still holds up for a newbie. Make sure to get this one.

SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals (PS3)
Developers: Zipper Interactive
Publishers: Sony Computer Entertainment
April 19th 2011

I am pretty excited for SOCOM 4, I have been playing the multiplayer beta for the last few weeks and I wasn’t very impressed, but it was fun and entertaining. I did enjoy it, but it was too much like a third person version of MAG. It was pretty much a facelift on MAG, but still a solid game. I was playing a lot of Black Ops before and the third person was a good change of pace and the added cover and shooting techniques were great. I was fucking terrible at this game though, the different zooming modes confused me. Handling the camera I thought was difficult, and the fact that, the players names shrunk down to a diamond when they got far enough away. The screennames period, got in the way, but this was a Beta test, right? I am sure they have fixed plenty. Using cover and combat game tactics to get multi kills is almost, more satisfying then Call of Duty. Using the Playstation Move was weird but not too bad, I am sure it would be kick ass with the Playstation Sharpshooter. SOCOM 4: U.S. Navy Seals is almost a must buy.  

Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection (PSP)
Developers: Square Enix
Publishers: Square Enix
April 19th 2011

A compilation game consisting of remakes of Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. “Interlude” is sort of a short episode linking the two games together. I loved Final Fantasy IV, or was it Final Fantasy II….wait…or was it Final Fantasy III or wasn’t that really Final Fantasy VI. Fuck Final Fantasy is confusing.

Prince of Persia Classic Trilogy HD (PS3)
Developers: Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers: Ubisoft
April 19th 2011

Get all three Prince of Persia games in one! I never really liked the Prince of Persia series, seemed liked a watered down version of God of War. I do have respect for Prince of Persia though, it is a good game. It’s a spin off of 1989 Apple 2 game of the same name. I would consider picking this one up if it was a good price, the fans must be stoked.

Portal 2 (PS3/ Xbox 360)
Developers: Valve Corporation
Publishers: Value Corporation
April 19th 2011

I heard lots about Portal, don’t know why I never played it. I am sure the squeal will be talked about just as much. Portal 2 adds more features to this highly acclaimed platformer. Plus, the smartest move they made in this squeal was making the heroine less clothed and thus sexier.

Conduit 2 (Wii)
Developers: High Voltage Software
Publishers: SEGA
April 19th 2011

A first person shooter for Wii, I am kind of intrigued for this one. I am not much of a Wii player and never played The Conduit. So I can’t say much about the squeal Conduit 2. I am thinking about finding a cheap Wii somewhere but I can’t actually see myself paying full price for a new Wii game. 

The Kore Gang (Wii)
Developers: Zionk Games, Unique Development Studio, SnapDragon Games
Publishers: Pixonauts, Games Foundation, Atari
April 19th 2011

Apparently this game has been passed around from publishers and developers for roughly ten years. Originally The Kore Gang was set for the X box in 2003. That is quite a delay, I hope in eight years they put a shit ton of work into it. The gimmick of this game is that you can change between the three antagonists to use different abilities. This is the key to solving puzzles in this jump and run action adventure game. By the general look of this game, it might fly beneath my radar.

Section 8: Prejudice (X box Live Arcade)
Developers: TimeGate Studios
Publishers: TimeGate Studios
April 20th 2011

Section 8 is a first person shooter using the unreal engine. Of course, Section 8: Prejudice is the squeal. Unlike the first, Prejudice will be a download-only and promises to have more content then the first. I don’t fully understand this concept, but ok, sure. An Playstation Network version will be coming out this summer.

Retro Sundays

Metal Slug is one of my favorite arcade based series. There used to be a Metal Slug SNK machine in the corner store in my hometown. I used to spend tons of quarters to beat it in a single sitting. I remember being quite young, must have been around 10 years old. There was also a pool table in this back room of the corner store, lots of the local teenagers hung out, playing pool. I because so go a Metal Slug, that the other kids would pay for my quarters, to help them get farther in the game. It was impossible to get far on your own.

The infamous Super Vehicle

Well the Metal Slug series has been around since 1996 as a SNK produced, Nazca developed arcade machine. It's a classic run and gun story, and the fun factor is very high. I fucking couldn't tell you a thing about the plot or story of the game. Player one plays as Marco Rossi, he is the only character I can remember out of the four. It is clear who the enemies are and it is your job to shoot them in the face, anyway possible. Along the way, are prisoners of war which you can free, in return they grant you bonus items or weapon up grades. Let's not forgot about Metal Super "Super Vehicle", a controllable tank that has a gun turret and a cannon.

They are ridiculous

Metal slug is a 2d left to right side scroller. The objective is to blast your way through hordes and hordes of enemies to get to a boss battle. Enemies include various types of foot soldiers, tanks, mobile artillery, aircraft, boats, armored personnel carriers and more. One thing I really like about this series, was when you didn't come in guns a blazing. The enemies are usually doing leisure activities like; sunbathing or cooking over a fire, often they are startled to see you. The bosses are over exaggerated monstrosities of death. Mostly they are a big ass tank or plane, that has tons of killing power. Sometimes it is enemy character like the boss of the third stage is a big black guy with a chain gun.
 

Nom Nom Nom Braiiinssss......

Metal Slug get high praise for its humor, and fluid hand drawn animation. Metal Slug was so successful, that it spawned six squeals. The squeals come on a varied amounts of ports ranging from arcade machines to the new Metal Slug 7 on Nintendo DS and Playstation Portable, released in 2008. The series in my mind played well and added new vehicles, weapons and enemies including aliens, mummies and zombies. With Metal Slug 2 came some character transformations, like get fat and slow when you eat to much food, or turning into a zombie in the zombie level.

I'd tap that...

I love Metal Slug and I think you should too. Metal Slug Anthology is availible for Playstation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS and a swear I have seen it on X box. There is a good deal now Playstaion Network right now. If you are a Playstation exclusive member you can buy it for 5.99. So go out there and get a copy. Hell, go out and get the newest on as well, it is not included in the anthology.

NAT type.....

I have spent hours on the phone and computer trying to change my NAT type on my router. I am by no means a computer tech, I just watch DIY videos on youtube. What is a NAT type, I do not really know, but mine is NAT type 3. When ever I check my connection on my PS3, it says "When the NAT type is type 3, chat or communication features of games may be restricted." It is hard to hear or talk sometimes, but gameplay seemed good enough.

That was untill SuperTeeJ and I, would try to game together online. We could never join into each others lobbies. First it was Little Big Planet, now Red Dead Redemption. Thing has happened with out friends online with Call of Duty and various other games. Not all the time though, SuperTeeJ was almost impossible to play with. So I called up Sony to see why the fuck I didn't have the best in online gaming. The Sony rep said that it's because I had a NAT type 3 and Playstation is more compatible with type 2 or 1. He said I need to get a hold of my internet provider and router manufacturer, they would have to change it. Then he gave me a bunch of TCP and UDP port numbers.

At this point it was too late to call Telus. A would have to do it in the morning. Now we are at today I called telus and they lead me through my router settings and all they could do was change one option and that didn't work. I call the router manufacturer Gigaset, the guy said he was not the right department and transferred me to the right department which is only open from 3am to noon. He also told me to go to portforward.com. I went there and it seemed really helpful and could fix my problem. I had me back again in my router setting and this time changing ports addresses and making my IP address static. I could change all of the ports I need to except for one, this I think is why that didn't work.

My last resort was to call Geek Squad and ask some questions. They were surprised I want to change my NAT type, Apparently NAT type 3 has been the norm for routers for the last couple of years. Find a place that sells old routers would be hard. He said he has a new router and his Playstation works fine with it. He has a Linksys E300, valued around 140 bucks. I told him how Playstation is more compatible with NAT type 2 or 1. His response was that the Linksys router is most likely backwards compatible. I checked out the stats online for the E3000 and it mentioned a lot about online gaming, dropping Playstation and X Boxs' names.

By the sounds of it, I am going to buy a better router then what I have now. Hopefully that fixes my problem. For now I guess NAT type 3 will have to work.     

Piece of shit

My friends has been talking shit about my blog. SO.... I have decided to give out his gamertag for X box Live. It is Green Goblin69. I do not know if you need spaces or capitals. He says you do. I have no idea why he would give me his gamertag for X Box live. He knows that I don't have an X Box.

Red Dead Redemption Review

  
When I picked up this game, the clerk told me that it was in his top 3, that is a bold statement. As a gamer with 22 years of experience, it is hard to say what are my top 3. He was right to have this game in his top 3 list, for sure. Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar is a unbelievably good game. I am not a huge fan of Grand Theft Auto 3 and up, it was fun to run around, carjack people and go on a killing spree. Just the story and missions really disappointed me. Red Dead Redemption is based after Red Dead Revolver, which was a really good game for PS2 or X Box, and is set in the turn of the twentieth century.

    You start in New Austin, which is located just above Mexico, as John Marston. A former outlaw gone straight, but his past soon catches up with him. Blackmailed to locate three of his former gang members, after a short altercation with Bill Williamson (one of his former gang mate) you are shot and left for dead. Luckly for you, Bonnie Macfarlane discovers you on the side of the trail and brings you to a doctor, saving your life. The story unfolds quite nicely in three or four chapters, depending how you look at it. Being a rockstar game means open world sand box type environment, and I believe it is the best I have seen so far.

    There are element of good and bad in the game, sort of like the Fable series, you can choose if John Marston is good or bad or a little of both. You can help people or just double cross them or better yet, just shoot them in the face. Be careful though, there is a law system in place. Breaking a law with result in Sheriffs and Lawmen that will chase you down and, well either arrest or (remember this is the wild west) kill you. If you manage to outrun the sheriffs and loose your “Wanted” status you will have a bounty on your head. This means Bounty Hunters will also track you. Rockstar did a great job with the Fame and Honor systems. I always play a game like this as “good” as possible for the first run. Sometime you just fuck up and do something evil and the game notices. Fame on the other hand is different, it doesn’t matter how you go about your actions. The more you do the more famous you get and there are perks being a celebrity.

    I have said this before but I am not a western fan, never cared for the movies and there really are not many game devoted to this genre. Red Dead Redemption is by far the best adaptation of a western since Gun Smoke for NES. The under lying theme of lying, cheating, deceit, sex, drugs, and racism still stand true in modern North American life. Want I found in this game is that John Marston is a little too modest and puts his trust into some sketchy characters. Every character in the game, no matter how major or minor, have a great deal of depth and personality. Another thing I really enjoyed was the look of the characters, not as boxy as the GTA series.

    There is so much more then just the main story to indulge in. You kinda have two themes of play, Gunslinger and Rancher. The first few missions are ranched based followed by some hired gun work for Sheriffs and others. Beside the main story there are “stranger” side missions and countless amount of other “hobbies”. Hunting and gathering plants can be very fun and useful. You can search the wild frontier for lost treasure or to clear out gang hideouts. Maybe you want to do some jobs in towns like like night watch or break a horse for an rancher. Try your hand at Bounty Hunting and make better money if you can bring them back alive. If this is all wearing you down, kick back and have a drink, play some poker or blackjack, or catch a cutting edge moving picture (movie) show. There are plenty of mini game through out the game and depending on the mini game, are available in towns only during the day or at night.

    Graphic are great and the environment is stunning. Even the time change in the game felt real. Shops and most missions are playable during the day, while others are only available at night. Some animals are more active at  dust or dawn. It rains and are storms sometimes, the thunder sounds super good on my surround sound. The game world is vast, ranging from the desert of Mexico, bog land that resembles New Orleans, to wooden glens and my favourite a trading post in the mountains (I am Canadian and this reminds me of our old ways). The building and characters are done super well and I have no complains in this department.

    The controls can be a bit tricky at first. There is a few different control schemes for different actions like walking to riding a horse. Shooting in this game has a auto aim, which can be turned off. I suggest you keep it on till maybe your second time through the game. If you are familiar with Red Dead Revolver, Dead Eye aiming is back, as well as duelling. Duelling is toned down since the first Red Dead, I think its nice considering there was a lot of duels in the first one. Don’t worry if you haven’t played the first Red Dead, because it’s not a direct squeal and follows different characters. I did have a few complaints with the controls of John Marston. Just moving around can be a challenge. You can cover yourself from bullets behind almost anything and jump and slide to other spots of cover, it works well. Sometime it can get confusing with the separated crouch button. Also switching weapons is a weird at first and is right next to the aim button. In the middle of a gunfight I sometimes switch weapons instead of aiming, this is not good. Horse riding was a little tough at first, but easy to get used to. While the horses are not too bad, the carriages for some reason I found  are a lot harder. Also with auto aim I have accidentally shot my own horse in the head, trying to shoot at someone else. These are small problems compared to the whole of the game.

The landscape is breath taking

         The soundtrack is pretty amazing too, the music is mainly composed by "Friends of Dean Martinez" member Bill Elm and ex member Woody Jackson along with contributions from various musicians. Jose Gonzalez, Jamie Lidell, and William Elliott Whitmore to name a few. The soundtrack add to the overall feel of the game, and I am actually considering buying it.

    Let’s get to the online multiplayer aspect of the game. Unfortunately, I didn’t play much of the online and had a hard time find other players. Looks like lots of potential in there. When you start, you only have a donkey and not many weapons. There is a “free roam” where you are free to roam the open world and fight gangs and cause chaos for experience points. Experience point are used to level up and earning different characters, horses and call signs to use. There are a few game modes, but really I can’t let you much about them because I haven’t played much. I did do a couple co op missions which are pretty fun. You can find a friends and just have a shoot out with theme in free roam, but it is a lot better to team up and take on gang hideouts or just simple town folk. There are some major different between online and story mode. No money, honor or fame. You can still hunt but not collect the meat and hides, because there are no shops to sell them in. The item menu is gone replaced by your game options where you can invite friends or change game modes. I think my favourite part of online, was the poker. It feels pretty real and not cheaply done like most poker mini games in other titles. All mini games in the story mode carries over to online and kick ass.


    I think it’s time for my final thoughts on the game. Beside my lack of multiplayer experience, this game is fucking off the hook. One thing that really pisses me off is that through out the game, Marston is trying to get his family back and it makes him look like a pussy sometime. There are whores everywhere in this game, back in a time, when it wasn’t unheard of to find some “company” in a saloon and it is no different in the game. If you walk close to a whore she will sometimes offer you a “date”, John always turns it down mentioning he has a wife. Sex does play a good role in this game and spoiler alert! There are a shot of nipples in this game. This game isn’t you the kiddies, there are drug references, sex and plenty of F bombs. One other thing is that the first of three parts in the game is really long and in depth. The second part is shorter and the third is even shorter, when I think it should be the longest.

    Some tips I got for you are; carry lots of medicine for yourself and your horse. Break tons of wild horses, you might luck out and get one of the fastest three early in the game. Hunt lots and pick tons of flowers, and try to complete the Hunter and Survivalist challenges early. Try to do the all the challenges early as there are perks that are really sweet. I did them later in the game and they were not too much help for me at that point. There is sort of a quick save glitch. After hunting and gathering for a while if you die before completing a mission or saving at a safe house you lose everything you worked so hard for. To fix this, buy two cheap horse deeds, when you switch horses the game will save. Also to skip the annoying loot or skinning cut scene, park you horse right on the corpse and you can collect from it with out the cut scene, this is very helpful.

    All in all, this is a brilliant fucking game. Everyone should have this one in there collection. Hell, you’d be a fool to over look this one. After the game is over (it took me around 30 hours to get to 92% complete), the main story is 65% of the game. With online leaderboards for some missions and a ranking system for all mission will give plenty to replay for months. Getting 100% completion is a good challenge and great for once the story is over.  Everything about this game is unbelievable and have very few complaints. Overall I give this game a 9/10. It is almost a perfect game, if the control scheme was 100% it would get a perfect score. One of the best 3rd person action games I have played in quite a while. So with that said, go out and get your cowboy on.

Obsession

There SEGA goes with plugging my Blog

I have be obsessing with my Genesis since I got it and started looking up sites to buy used SEGA games. There is about 10 titles I really want; the Sonics up to Sonic and Knuckles, Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 and a few others. Mainly I want to get the Sega 32x add on for my Genesis and I kinda wish I had a Genesis 1, instead of of the model 2. There are just cooler looking and say 16 bit right on the front. The only reason I want a 32x is for Doom 32x, Doom is pretty close to (if not) my favorite game series. Doom 3 I didn't really impress me much, I wish it looked different or something, the demons needed to look more like the originals. Really missed Pinky, that guy actually gave me nightmares. I will get to the Doom thing later, save a whole entry for Doom. Back to the 32x, I have been looking online and found some floating around 40 to 60 bucks. Going to check the pawn shops too, might luck out. Garage sale would be nice but the town I live in right now is too small and it's a little early in the year for garage sales.

By friday, I am going to try to write my first actually review. I finally completed Red Dead Redemption to about 92%, I have tons to say about it. I am trying to create a structure for this blog. Tuesdays are easy because new releases come out, but I want Friday to be a solid full review. Somewhere in the week I also want a Retro day. Somewhere I give the background on a game or series, something like I have been doing all ready. The number of veiws are are growing and I thank my readers for there time. Please tell any of your gamer pals to check it out. Also comment, let me know what games you are playing right now, or what your old favorites are.

Look at that scary MotherFucker...

I have been looking into recording games from your TV, and found some good stuff. Thinking about starting a youtube or BlogTV channel. Maybe I live stream of me playing the games I am going to review. Plus there are tons of other things I would like to record and put up here on SixteenBit. Like SuperTeeJ and I were playing Little Big Planet and just our banter doesn't belong on a kids game, we also had an epic race on and I pulled a back flip out of nowhere to my death and he high centered on a cloud. It was a nice double fail and got a good reaction. Soon you will see videos.