Man, the fond memories I have playing Vandal Hearts and Vandal Hearts II on my PSX. I loved the story, characters, and most of all, the music. Sadly, Vandal Hearts had fallen silent for over 10 years after the release of the second game. This changed early this year with the announcement of Vandal Hearts: The Flames of Judgment.
I'll be honestly, I was actually quite shocked that Konami was making another one. I figured that they where just gonna let Vandal Hearts slip in to obscurity like many of their older, lesser know titles. Naturally I was excited by this news and eagerly awaited more info on what the story and what not. When Konami started releasing info and screen shots of the game, I was less than impressed.
As I expected Konami, like many other Japanese developers recently decided to go with a western development studio with a spotty recorded. The first thing that struck me was the gaudy art style. The art style struck me as bad deviant art level, and the characters are pretty bad as well. Judging by the characters seen so far, we have quite the list of sterotypes. Tobias is your generic Japanese styled plucky young solider, shy looking magic user with glasses, calm and cool guy with a spiffy uniform, and token black character, but wait, this time it's a woman.
Visually, the game leaves alot to be desired. Look, I know it's a game for PSN and XBOX Live, but this game could pass for a budget PS2 game. It's apparently going to be a short game as well with about 20 levels the developer said.
Come on Konami/Japanese Developers, this is getting old. I mean, yeah they have had success with Silent Hill Homecoming and Silent Hill Shattered Memories, but their luck is gonna run out sooner or later.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Liberal Scumbag Monthly: Harry Reid.
Before I start, if is inspired by The Angry White Dude and his awesome awesome site. Check it out one day!
You know, I don't talk about politics enough here, so I figured I'd offer some opinions on what that worthless fucktard Harry "Illegal Immigrant criminals are undocumented Americans" Reid said some rather vile, and of course, untrue things on the senate floor this following week.
"Instead of joining us on the fight side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is "slow down, stop everything, let's start over" If you think you have heard these same excuses before, your right". Reid said Monday. "When this country belated the wrongs of Slavery, there where those who dug their heels in and said ' slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough."
And you know who those people where Reid? Fucking Democrats! Remember the Civil War Reid? You remember who was the president of the south? No? It was Jefferson Davis, a Democrat. Ever head of a little group called the KKK? Again, started by Democrats. Not to mention nearly all anti-slavery and civil right legislation was opposed by the Democrats. Seriously Reid, fuck off.
Of course Reid goes on about Women's rights and more talk about civil rights, of course forgetting that Democrats have done almost always blocked civil rights. It's also the Democrats/Liberal of today that act as if Blacks are to stupid to think for themselves, which is a shame, because black people are every bit as capable as anyone else. However, since most "black leaders" have profited on this victimization such Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, who are also two cry babies that find racism in everything, blacks continue to be fooled that Liberals actually care about them.
Reid is also a big fan of Anti-White racism as well. Reid, like many Liberals does his best to make every white person out to be a racist if they don't support his insane views. A personal favorite of mine is his calling the gang banging criminal Mestizo's that enter this country illegally every day "Undocumented Americans" or Anti-Immigrant. Not only are the Liberal Immigration Reform (Amnesty) bills a slap in the face the face to people who try and come here legally.
It's time to wake up America!
P.S: If you wondering what a Mestizo is, it's a person of mixed Indian and European blood. They make up a majority of the so called "Hispanics". Regardless, Hispanic is a bull shit term invented by Richard Nixon to lump anyone that speaks Spanish in to one group regardless of their race. Not that I'm saying all Mestizo's are gang banging criminal, not at all. Most Mestizo's in South America are hard working, decent people. The ones in the US, not so much.
P.S II: Another interesting thing is that despite most Americans thinking Hispanic = Mestizo/Cholo/whatever. Most of the rich and successful people in South American are Criollo's or people that are directly descended from the Spanish Conquistador's/European's or other Criollo's. Criollo's also take extreme pride in the fact they are of European blood.
If you found any of this "Racist", then your probably a Liberal shit.
You know, I don't talk about politics enough here, so I figured I'd offer some opinions on what that worthless fucktard Harry "Illegal Immigrant criminals are undocumented Americans" Reid said some rather vile, and of course, untrue things on the senate floor this following week.
"Instead of joining us on the fight side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is "slow down, stop everything, let's start over" If you think you have heard these same excuses before, your right". Reid said Monday. "When this country belated the wrongs of Slavery, there where those who dug their heels in and said ' slow down, it's too early, things aren't bad enough."
And you know who those people where Reid? Fucking Democrats! Remember the Civil War Reid? You remember who was the president of the south? No? It was Jefferson Davis, a Democrat. Ever head of a little group called the KKK? Again, started by Democrats. Not to mention nearly all anti-slavery and civil right legislation was opposed by the Democrats. Seriously Reid, fuck off.
Of course Reid goes on about Women's rights and more talk about civil rights, of course forgetting that Democrats have done almost always blocked civil rights. It's also the Democrats/Liberal of today that act as if Blacks are to stupid to think for themselves, which is a shame, because black people are every bit as capable as anyone else. However, since most "black leaders" have profited on this victimization such Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, who are also two cry babies that find racism in everything, blacks continue to be fooled that Liberals actually care about them.
Reid is also a big fan of Anti-White racism as well. Reid, like many Liberals does his best to make every white person out to be a racist if they don't support his insane views. A personal favorite of mine is his calling the gang banging criminal Mestizo's that enter this country illegally every day "Undocumented Americans" or Anti-Immigrant. Not only are the Liberal Immigration Reform (Amnesty) bills a slap in the face the face to people who try and come here legally.
It's time to wake up America!
P.S: If you wondering what a Mestizo is, it's a person of mixed Indian and European blood. They make up a majority of the so called "Hispanics". Regardless, Hispanic is a bull shit term invented by Richard Nixon to lump anyone that speaks Spanish in to one group regardless of their race. Not that I'm saying all Mestizo's are gang banging criminal, not at all. Most Mestizo's in South America are hard working, decent people. The ones in the US, not so much.
P.S II: Another interesting thing is that despite most Americans thinking Hispanic = Mestizo/Cholo/whatever. Most of the rich and successful people in South American are Criollo's or people that are directly descended from the Spanish Conquistador's/European's or other Criollo's. Criollo's also take extreme pride in the fact they are of European blood.
If you found any of this "Racist", then your probably a Liberal shit.
Friday, December 11, 2009
"But, bethesda didn't have anything to do with Rogue Warrior."
Of course they did. Rogue Warrior was announce way back in 07' as a joint effort between Zombie Studios and Bethesda Softworks, billed a a robust tactical shooter. Originally set in near modern day North Korea and focused on Richard Marcinko and his SEAL team trying to neutralize North Korea's nuclear launch capabilities. It also offered 4 player offline co-op and 24 player competitive online play with randomly generated maps built around the Unreal Engine.
The game then resurfaced in early 09' totally revamped as Bethsoft scrapped the original third person shooter game play, co-op, and random mulitplayer maps. This time focusing on Marcinko's personality, kill moves, the fact that Mickey Rourke was in the game, and other "cool shit" that Bethsoft is know for.
Since the games December 1st release date, the game has failed to score above a 3 from numerous gaming sites. I personally have been getting a kick outta the Bethsoft fanboy's trying to say Bethesda just released it, but as I noted above, they had a lot of say in the games development.
I played this on the 360, and boy was it a nightmare. Constant freezing, PS2 level visuals, constant swearing, short (like as in 2 hour's short), and... fuck it, you get the point. You can tell Bethsoft had a good deal of input in this game honestly. It's not even worth a rental, as the single player mode is beaten in under 2 hours, and forget about online play. You have two online modes, Death match, and Team Death match. Doesn't sound like much of a deal does it?
In closing I would also like to say the dialog is beyond retarded. I'll summarize if for you. Fuck fuck fuck fuck god damn fucking shit fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck. I wish I was kidding but the level of swearing is childish. I've never read one of Mr. Marcinko's books, but even hardcore fans of his, please stay the hell away from this game at all cost!
The game then resurfaced in early 09' totally revamped as Bethsoft scrapped the original third person shooter game play, co-op, and random mulitplayer maps. This time focusing on Marcinko's personality, kill moves, the fact that Mickey Rourke was in the game, and other "cool shit" that Bethsoft is know for.
Since the games December 1st release date, the game has failed to score above a 3 from numerous gaming sites. I personally have been getting a kick outta the Bethsoft fanboy's trying to say Bethesda just released it, but as I noted above, they had a lot of say in the games development.
I played this on the 360, and boy was it a nightmare. Constant freezing, PS2 level visuals, constant swearing, short (like as in 2 hour's short), and... fuck it, you get the point. You can tell Bethsoft had a good deal of input in this game honestly. It's not even worth a rental, as the single player mode is beaten in under 2 hours, and forget about online play. You have two online modes, Death match, and Team Death match. Doesn't sound like much of a deal does it?
In closing I would also like to say the dialog is beyond retarded. I'll summarize if for you. Fuck fuck fuck fuck god damn fucking shit fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck. I wish I was kidding but the level of swearing is childish. I've never read one of Mr. Marcinko's books, but even hardcore fans of his, please stay the hell away from this game at all cost!
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