inFAMOUS Prelude

Okay I think I am going to try another one of these game reviews. The last one started with a Prelude, so it only feels right to tell a little story for this game. The last thing to interest me about inFAMOUS was how Sony is going to give it away for free because of their fuck up with the playstation network. This isn't going to be the first time I played this game, though.

One day back in the mountains, I was going over to my good buddies place. I didn't know, but he had the day off and went into the city to buy a Playstation 3 and like five or six games. I was pretty stoked and haven't really played many video games in the last few years. I lived in a party town in the middle of the mountains, full of young attractive girls and lots of fun to be had. Video games really didn't seem that important then. I did live with a few people that had systems, and did play once in a while. Really I was too busy, chasing pussy, hiking, snowboarding, and getting fucked up.

So we grabbed some booze as for is tradition. The plan for the night was to stay in and play video games, instead of going to the club and trying to get some tail. I remember we tried some games like Killzone 2 and Bio Shock. Then we put in inFAMOUS, at this point we finished the beer and was starting to drink the rye. This is when my buddy's roommate took out a little clear bag filled with powder. He start to dump it out and asked if I wanted a line? Of course, I said I did and he chalked one up for me, it looked a little small for what I am used to doing with him. Just figured he was saving it, and I snorted it. I am pretty sure my eyes filled with tears instantly, I remember saying "Fuck, that's rough stuff".

I remember that the intro was pretty awesome. It was cool running around beating up on people, but found the missions very difficult. Finally my buddy executed a jump, right on to the side of a building and stuck like Spiderman! It is very hard to do the missions without knowing, that the protagonist "Cole" was a master free runner. Now we really knew, it really made the game more enjoyable.

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Well, I just got back from the bar. It is most likely better to have this,... um, mind set, to tell this part of the story. We started to get into the game quite a bit. Around this time I noticed that I was feeling a little strange. High, but not a cocaine high. Something familiar, like ecstasy but better. I knew what it was, I asked "Is this MDMA?" Sure as fuck it was. Shit, I only done it twice before... The first time was great, the second time I took about six hits, instead of one. The second time I thought I was going to overdose on the shit and have never been so high in my life.

Once I figure out, that I was doing MDMA instead of cocaine. I quit taking it, I did about four or five line before my stupid ass realized that was going on. Last time I did that shit was like Fear in Loathing in Las Vegas or some shit. I was way out of control, it was scary. Well this time it wasn't so bad. All I really remember, was that is was really funny how Cole ran, and that pretty much everything else in the game was super trippy and badass. None the less, I stayed up till nine in the morning, playing the fucking game. I am pretty sure that I got to about 40 percent completion in about ten hours maybe less.

I have mentioned before, that drugs and video games have mixed well in the past. Well it is true, in this moment. If it wasn't for the video game, I would haven't had something to focus on. Sort of like my mushroom trip with God of War II. That is a different story all together, though. I will tell that one soon enough. Well hopefully soon, playstation store will be back online and I can download inFAMOUS and beat the game again. The best part is that you can choose to be evil or good like fable or similar games. This makes for a great game that can be played more then one time through.   

PSN restoration and customer appreciation

Does Sony  not care about Canada... Fucking Racists

Okay as you may know that PSN is back up, and we are still waiting for full service. Playstation Store and some other services like Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment are still offline. Of course you can get all this information on playstation blog, like this extremely useless map with Canada completely ignored. None the less. I for one am glad Sony is releasing more info then earlier in the outage. Even if they can't tell us exactly when the additional service will be up, they are stating with in a few more days. What is their word mean to us anymore, first they told us that this was going to be fixed May 4th or some shit.

Okay because Sony isn't a complete asshole. They are giving us a bunch of free shit to try and win some loyalty back. I think it is a smart tactic, my friend who is a xbox gamer, will be dusting off his PS to get some free games. These are the free games you get;
Each Playstation Network user can select two PS3 games;

• Dead Nation
• inFAMOUS
• LittleBigPlanet
• Super Stardust HD
• Wipeout HD + Fury

Each of these games are worth about ten to fifteen bucks, I would suggest inFAMOUS and LittleBigPlanet if you don't already own them. I already have LittleBigPlanet and Dead Nation, so I am left with three choices. Okay PSP owners also get to choose two to PSP games;

• LittleBigPlanet
• ModNation Racers
• Pursuit Force
• Killzone Liberation

I do not own a PSP, but I am planning to buy a PSP Go soon. I am not sure if you have to have a registered PSP or not, but I am going to try to download them anyway. This isn't all you get.

Non Playstation Plus members will be receiving a free month and existing member will receives two monthes free, considering we missed a month already. Same goes for Music Unlimited Premium members. A selection of movie rentals will be available over one weekend, those titles will be announced soon. Playstation Home  will be offering 100 free virtual items, Additional free content will be released soon, including the next addition to the Playstion Home Mansion, and Ooblag's Alien Casino, an exclusive game.

I don't really care about the Playstation Home shit but the rest is pretty sweet. The games mentioned above are available for shortly 30 days after Playstation Store is restored. Well guys, that is pretty fucking sweet and should give us gamers a lot more play time in the next couple of monthes, then the month before. I just check, and as of May 18, 3:11 pm Mountain Time the store is still down. I got to go, see if I can get a few COD rounds in before the second half of my split shift. Game on.

Playstation Network back up!

Holy fucking shit fuck, we can play online again. I heard that yesterday, May 14th Playstation Network for North America is back online. No word on when the Playstation Store or Sony Online Entertainment (DC Universe) will be back up. As I said in a earlier post that this would happen. I didn't hear about it till today, when I did my daily check. I have lost hope in Sony's word and didn't know what was going on. Hold on, I need to grab a slice of pizza or something, maybe those pork short ribs, I don't know I have the munchies.

So today before work, I checked to see if I could get online, with doubt in my mind. To my shock and awe, it said I needed to update. I heard about this fabled update. In the writings of the future, one told of this update to ale all ill of this PSN outage. Fuck was I stoked, unfortunately the update wouldn't be finish before work. I left it on then when to work to slave away over a hot stove.

When I got home the urge to have some firewater in my belly was strong, so I went out to the local watering hole. I left home with the thought of playing online in the back of my mind. Luckily for me, the bars were pretty dead, unluckily I have to work early and can't stay up all night and jam out. I did play three matches of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, fuck was it good. It was like a junkie finally getting his hands on a rock. Even if I sucked ass, like a new born noob, it was one of the best COD sessions I have had.

I am still upset about what happened with Sony, I paid to have a three month membership to Playstation Exclusive. Well I missed almost an entire month of it because of this outage. I heard that Sony will be giving away some free shit, including a month of Playstation Exclusive but I want at an extra month on top of what I paid for. None the less I am glad I can play online once again. Well I should probably go, want to play another round before passing out. I working in about 5 hours, fuck. Well have fun Playstation users, and welcome back.

Apology

Another Cooking Job...

 Sorry guys, I haven't been posting that much recently. I was looking for a job and found one, so I have been a little busy. With the PSN outage, it really make me feel like, not playing Playstation. Also I have tossed the new release posts in the garbage. I really didn't like doing them. If a good game comes out I will mention it and hopefully rent it and do some sort of mini review.

I am glad I got a job though, it has been way to long to be without one. It is a okay paying job, which I can't afford to send a little more on gaming stuff. I also decided to stay in town for the summer. This old town is full of garage sale and really good for finding old games. Collecting is going to go up ten folds this summer. Most people are excited for the sun and tanning and shit. Me, on the other hand... I am  excited for more games.

Seriously Sony

Okay Sony is really pissing me off now. Still the network is down, fucking still down. There has been rumors that Japan has been back online for about a week, but these are just rumors and I have not found any solid proof of this. I don't know anyone in Japan right now and haven't been able to find information online either. Got a little bit of information from some Japanese sites. Unfortunately I can't read any of it, and google translater really sucks at Japanese.

 None the less, I presume Japan will be the first country back online. As for Canada, I have no fucking idea. We have been hearing that May 3rd was going to be the last of the outage. Now we are hearing that it will be fixed by May 31th. A call bullshit, I think Sony should not mention what date they suspect the problem to be fix. Just keep us updated on how things are going. We haven't hear much about anything.

The PSN outage has cause me to play less video games, it's was pretty rare for me to go a day with out playing video games. Now that is pretty normal, I have been playing a bunch of retro games and been working on my NHL 09 be a pro career. This doesn't match up to online play though.

You may have noticed I didn't post a new release post yesterday, I think I am done with that. It was boring and if you want to know what coming out it is easy to find out. The PSN outage is affecting Playstation Store releases, some of my favorite games to check out early in their release. Well that seems like a thing of the past now. I also use the Playstation network for other things like chatting with friends from all over the world.

Another Sony related issue is bothering me right now. I want get the new Sony Ericsson Xperia Play phone. It is the first phone Playstation certified. Play some sweet game and have all the features of an android smartphone. The problem is that in Canada, Roger's is the only phone provider that offers the phone. I am with Telus. I haven't found any information is I could buy it and unlock it then hook it up through Telus. No matter I can't afford it right now anyway. 

More PSN bullshit

"But a Sony spokeswoman confirmed with Reuters that relaunching within the original expected time frame would not be possible, and there is no firm date for the return of online services" "We were unaware of the extent of the attack on Sony Online Entertainment servers, and we are taking this opportunity to conduct further testing of the incredibly complex system,"  "...Additional comprehensive system checks and testing are still required, and we must complete that process before bringing the systems online."

These are some of the things I am reading right now. I am getting dishearten on this matter. There another few new things I found out.

"Personal details of some 2,500 people were posted, including names and "some addresses" that were in a 2001 database. The security breach has affected 77 million PSN and Qriocity accounts, and 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment accounts." "Personal details of some 2,500 people were posted, including names and "some addresses" that were in a 2001 database. The security breach has affected 77 million PSN and Qriocity accounts, and 24.6 million Sony Online Entertainment accounts"

Only later to find out...

"the personal information was on a Sony-affiliated website, which the company was unaware was accessible to people outside of Sony.The information was made public by cyber intruders and was from a 2001 product sweepstakes contest. No credit cards, social security numbers or passwords were revealed. The company took down the website on Thursday.The website was out of date and inactive when discovered as part of the continued attacks on Sony,"

Well aint that some shit...

"Sony confirmed that PSN would not be relaunching some network services as soon as planned. Previously, the company said it hoped to start a relaunch within a week of a PSN press conference that occurred April 30."

I have heard, people are still getting billed for some Playstation services. This is fucked, I have heard much about what actually was stolen and why. Sony has mention a reward for any information directed at "people familiar with the matter." Later to state "The reward may or may not be implemented, the report said, as Sony executives are weighing the pros and cons of such a move, which would be made in coordination with law enforcement."

I am very confused and concerned on what the fuck is going on. What really was stolen, Sony can't even figure out what websites are restricted to them or the public. Are our Credit Card numbers safe if they are still billing them.

More Movie Business

I watch another video game movie this time it was Street Fighter: Rise of Chun Li. It was done really well, there was a few thing I really didn't like. First and foremost, there are her hair buns? You see them twice in the movie for a combined time of half a second. Second of all, don't you think she doesn't look Japanese enough, in the movie she has a Caucasian Mother but still. She looks really good in parts in the movie, like when she gets to Bangkok the first time as an adult. The boots are spot one to the game but I have very disappointed that see never wore the spiked bracelets of the tights, dress combo from the game.

The movie from stray from the game plot, I couldn't tell you to much. I play the games not become a fanboy. Well Chun Li's father is kidnapped right before"...Additional comprehensive system checks and testing are still required, and we must complete that process before bringing the systems online." her young child's eyes and the rest is history. There is a few other characters form the Street Fighter series involved with some B list celebs. Some you wouldn't expect, unfortunately they have similar characteristics, but don't look exactly like the their video game counter parts. None the less I place this movie high on the Video Game Movie List, it is an all around decent movie, but it won't blow your mind.