EA games is 24 hour flu watery shit

Ok. Whenever you hear me say anything about EA... I'm talking about the publisher and probably not one of their developers.

As most people know i'm a big fan of the Fight Night franchise. I'm not really competitive with it anymore. I think I've peaked and fallen off. I'm past my prime and it's all downhill.

Anyways... EA has a history of making you pay for things usually included in the game for free (like cheats) and they ship unfinished games (game mode sold separately) and all I'm saying is we gamers need to send them a message.  I know it's easy to say "just don't buy it." But the bigger problem is my everlasting fight to save gamers from themselves. You see... If you still it, the will come.  There really needs to be a grass roots movement rallying against EAs style of monetization.

Can you imagine if you had to pay $2.99 to use the konami code?

Pre-order deez nuts bitch!

EB Games and Blockbuster think consumers are dumb.  In fact.. A lot of gamers are dumb. But places like EB and Blockbuster make gamers dumb by feeding us nonsense. EB and Blockbuster both make gamers believe that without pre-ordering the game you may not get a copy.

This is a bold face lie. Anybody who believes this lie only makes it worse for the rest of us. 

In my life I've only really had to actually utilize the pre-order option twice. Once for silent hill homecoming and once for Saw 2:Flesh and Blood.  The reason I had to preorder had more to do with the fact that EB apparently doesn't actually stock many copies of them at launch. I just wanted to make sure I got my copy on day 1.

But then it hit me. . EB games is a specialty hobby shop... They specialize in games.. I should be able to walk in and buy the game no question. So.. Last November I decided pre orders are for suckers. So here are a few games I bought incident free on either day or week 1.  Assassins creed brotherhood, fallout new vegas, dead space 2 and need for speed hot pursuit. . EB never ran outta stock on any of these items and the first print run of NFS & Dead Space 2 are marked limited edition.

Yeah I know.. None of those games are call of duty or halo. But.. Day 1 of CoD black ops coming out...After the midnight sale at best buy... I walked in to see if I could get a copy.... not only were there copies galore, but still to this day... months later...  I can find the limited edition with the Rc car in there. Gee .. I was told to pre order or i'd never get a copy.

However. Counter-point.. Pre-orders make great gifts. My girlfriend always preorders any game that will be a gift. (Thanks for little big planet 2 baby) So preorders are not completely useless...

But the next time somebody at EB tells you to pre order... Tell them to preorder your nuts

JG

Practice Makes Perfect

 I have to admit that this was a bit of an experiment for The Jaded Gamer show as well.

I make no secret that I like the Fight Night franchise and if you go back and watch episode 1, I say I will destroy anyone in Fight Night.  Well I was talking about Round 3. I reached my peak in 3… and a plateau with Round 4. That was it, my swan song and I retired from keeping my skills sharp. (Hand cramps… Lots of hand cramps)

But then I saw Champion… and the urge returned.  And in all seriousness, I don’t know what exactly they did to the game but my rhythm is off… and it feels like I gotta relearn everything.  So this is almost a training montage of sorts I guess.

It all started with Constant Eubanks
  

I wanted a Rematch…



So did he… And the thrilling abridged version of
Bishop vs. Eubanks 3: Who’s Fission Will Mail?

End result

*SPOILERS*

Im set..

I think I'm set for games till portal 2. Between back to back platinum runs in both recent assassins creed games, finishing off dead space 2, developing levels in little big planet 2, fight night champion and yakuza 4 .. I don't think I need another game. And to be honest, I don't really want one side from possibly homefront.

First off. Im driven to play fight night because I used to be pretty good. I was good enough that playing on the hardest difficulty would provide the greatest challenge. So I was not super amazing. However.. Champion is just crushing me. I stink. I'm playing it on pro and still finding it to be just as hard a challenge as GOAT was in round 4. I'm even writing this blog entry before I fight a rematch because I was robbed! Well I kinda robbed myself. I snatched defeat out the jaws of victory.

And yakuza 4. Wow. It's gonna be tough to review that game. But I gotta play more before I can even comment.

as for my little big planet levels. They are coming along nicely.  They are just delayed because of these other games I've fallen into. But I will return to them soon..

Ok back to fight night. Maybe ill twitpic my victory. Or loss...

Surrogate assassins update

I have not forgotten about this. Some games came out and I've been working through them.  Plus I have a show to do and I'm so behind.  But good news... I'll have a ton of time over the next ten days to make every thing right. So in conclusion..

Fight night owns me right now

Comeback kid... Again

So I picked up the new fight night game and once again I'm impressed with the people at ea sports.

Before I get to that.. Let me tell you a story.

Back in '04 when knockout kings became fight night I picked up the sticks and was baffled by the new control scheme and I didn't know how to recover from a knock-down. Simply said, I wasn't very good and I had to use the face buttons.  Now because of my handicap I worked hard at the buttons and learned how to not get knocked down.  I thought I was getting pretty good... Turns out using the face buttons when all your friends use the stocks makes you the odd man out. You see .. None of my friends could knock me down and blamed my button using for my victories.  They were getting really mad too. Soon they got bitter and called me names and wanted to find another aspect of gaming to beat me in. I felt stupid for even thinking I was any good...

...Until Fight night round 2 debuted. I didn't play it too heavily but I got used to the sticks and got good with throwing the heymakers. So I turned up the difficulty a little.  Then... Round three comes out and I start a winning steal that spanned years and was only ended because you can't stay unbeaten forever. But I got really good. By round 4 I'm playing it on the hardest difficulty and handing the computer its ass. Turns out that I have peaked and I am now back to square one.

Fight Night Champion is whipping me into shape in a whole new way. I actually have to relearn a large chunk my skills. My timing is all off.  Things just are not the same. But I'll persevere. The fights are way more intense and my power punches don't connect like they used to so every fight I have to dig deeper and play harder because even the training exercises get harder and I'm not any good at any of them yet. Everything is such an uphill trek from here. But with these online gyms being what they are I'm sure somebody will train this former champ

JG

Ps. Not a bad entry considering I wrote it using public transit.

Droid styles

Alright so now that I have this droid and it's ridiculously easy to write with... I can now drop nuggets of truth in remote locations provided there is a signal.

I'm sure I'll figure out some way too put this til good use.

In truth I've been out of the gaming loop for a little bit and been a huge epic fail in releasing episode 4 of the show so this android should help me organized and stay in contact with everything. I'll be takin tons of notes and making a bunch of tweets so stay tuned.