If Blizzard doesn’t manage to do a 2009 release like they are hoping…I think a pilgrimage Ethan Macmanus style is in order to secure myself a early copy. <_<
StarCraft II is looking like it will be everything that made the first game the best damn RTS I’ve ever played and more.
- X
Here is a over 20 minute long battle report. As in two members of the developer team are describing play-by-play a match happening between two players.
Awesomeness, now…couldn’t they like release it already?
- X
Okay so there I was minding my own business checking through some links on Digg when this pops up.
Apparently during a Q&A Blizzard community manager Kevin Yu had with some Starcraft fans. He got asked about multiplayer LAN in StarCraft II and he said he could neither confirm or deny that it will be included. Considering that Diablo III is not shipping with LAN functionality it is considered likely that StarCraft II will go down the same road.
A likely reason for this is because of the lost ad revenue from Battle net.
Now I think this is a really stupid idea and even considering it is incredibly idiotic because a huge part of the popularity of StarCraft is it’s LAN functionality. It’s essential in tournament and LANs without internet. Forcing everything through Battle net will not make the job of people running the LAN any easier. I’m pretty sure that if you have a few hundred people connecting to Battle net through the same connection it can get a little lagged if it works at all.
Now, I know they haven’t confirmed or denied anything, but they shouldn’t even be considering this as an option at all, because it isn’t. A lot of gamers would be put off and take their money somewhere else and whatever ad revenue losses will be minuscule compared with lost sales from not having LAN functionality.
So there are my 3 cents on this idiocy.
Source:
http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=3165
The link is down, I guess they pulled the story since it really doesn’t have any sound facts to it other then Blizzard neither denying or confirming LAN(Of course, if they were going to have it in, why deny it?)
- X
Yes it’s coming…
In the meantime some sad news but the voice actors for both Raynor and Kerrigan will not be reprising their roles in StarCraft II. Which is a shame because they were great in the original. I hope the one they do end up picking up will do as good…Who knows maybe it will be Cortana.
Oh and one can not but laugh when you see something like this
http://www.destructoid.com/left-4-head-is-a-porno-based-on-left-4-dead-seriously-122641.phtml
Who wouldn’t want to see Zoey being tied up by a tentacle penis and sucking some zombie c*ck.
From what I’ve read this probably one of the worst porno ever made….that says a lot since 99% of all pornos are horriblfuckus.
- X
2008 is behind us and now it’s time for 2009.
Overall 2008 had a great selection of terrific games, though not without it’s disappointments.
Haze, Fracture and Too human,alone in the dark were all games many had high hopes for but in the end they turned out to be mediocre at best and riddled with bugs which is a shame because they really could have been some of the better games for 2008 if it weren’t for this.
In my personal opinion the best games that I played last year were
Metal Gear solid 4
One of the most cinematic game I have ever played. Only real problem is that it is if anything to cinematic. There are hours of cutscenes,clips,etc that you have to watch throughout the game. But if you have the patience to sit through it all, it really is an awesome experience, I love everything about this game and it’s the best one in 2008 in my opinion.
Super Smash bros Brawl
I never played the earlier titles and I regret having missed out on them back in the day. But due to me never owning a Nintendo 64 or a Gamecube they just slipped by me unnoticed. That is until I started to hear news about a Smash bros brawl in the works and at first I was like “uhh what’s that?”. I searched for videos from the game and I instantly liked what I saw. I’m a great fan of fighting games and this game was right up my alley. Just looking at it made me think of Power stone because that is easily one of my favorite fighting game ever.
When I visited Digital Overload in Providence, Rhode Island in March it just so happened to be the weekend Brawl was being released. It was due to come out on Sunday but they were able to get advance copies for sale at the event and so I got to play Brawl before it even officially released. I didn’t really do a lot of gaming at the event, but when I got back to the hotel room I ended up playing Brawl far into the night. I totally sucked at it when I first started out but I still loved it to death and still do. I just know that if there is a Wii at gaming party with my friends Brawl will be the game of choice. When I came back home to Iceland I checked when it was going to be released in EU and to my dismay Nintendo being the bastards that they are was making EU waiting an extra 5 months for Brawl to be released. I just couldn’t wait that long so I said fuck it and imported a US copy and bought a Free loader to play it on my Wii.
Castle Crashers
Major Nelson recently revealed Castle Crashers as the most downloaded Xbox live Arcade game and for good reasons. With it’s crisp 2D animation in HD and classic beat ‘em up gameplay with some RPG elements it was guranteed to be a big hit. Oh and not to forget both offline and online 4 player coop mayhem. I’m glad and a little surprised to see that the really bad bugs that plagued it(up until the update that came the other day addressing them) didn’t affect it’s success. I just wish they had done it a few months sooner, I’ve moved on to other things now and so have everyone else that I would have liked to play Online coop with me..
Left 4 Dead
Do I need to say much about this game? honestly? I’ll just put main things that make this game great.
1. Zombie apocalypse
2. Weapons to shoot zombies
3. 4 player coop Offline/online
4. Versus mode where 4 players as zombies try to kill the survivors
4. Zoey is hot.
5. braaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiinsss
Grand Theft Auto IV
I did a whole review on this game on my site. To sum it up, I thought it was very good.
It wasn’t the best year but it did have it’s share of great games that I loved to play.
Now as for this year, one can only hope that rumours about God of War III, StarCraft II and Diablo III coming in 2009 to be true because that would just be awesome. Even if that doesn’t happen the year starts of nicely with Street fighter IV coming next month. Everything I’ve seen from this game makes me want it even more and knowing Capcom they aren’t going to disappoint.
I’m going to get Street fighter IV, but only time will tell about any other titles that might peek my interest in 2009.
So happy new year to all.
- X
