A film that just was begging to be made I guess. Love the 80’s cars and “costumes” you can see from the trailer. It seems odd that this would be in California as I would choose a place like Flint, MI or (of course) Waukesha, WI as a better place. Actually in Waukesha’s case there are still plenty of heschers walking around resplendent in high top black Reeboks, stone washed jeans and painters caps.
Author: littlemute
Rough reviews on Brink
Brink, a new TF2/Monday Night Combat style FPS from the creators of Quake Wars and Wolfenstein Enemy Territory, has hit the shelves today with much hype and happenstance– and then some brutal ass reviews! The synopsis from reviews so far (some posted at 12:01 AM): single player sucks ass, it’s got some broken maps due to choke points in multiplayer and some weirdness with unlocks and team roles. Ok, not to defend a game that just came out and could be shitty, but how long did these guys actually play it? How many times have we heard this in games like TF2 or BF2142 with new maps, new weapons, patches that X tactic doesn’t work any more or ‘because they made X change to this class, this map is impossible to win on for the Attackers!” Then a month later people trying to defend the same map will say–“oh this is impossible to defend now because the attacker just does X to win.” I seem to remember some similar criticisms leveled at TF2 early on, though no one now can say anything but it’s a ‘living’ classic of a game even with all of it’s fucking HATS. Again, I’m not saying Brink is on the same level, but I think that some reviewers may look back and rue the early reviews they did: oh except it made their site some ad revenue right?
Despite all the negative press, I’m really looking forward to getting into this one due to the core gameplay, i.e.: jumping around like a jack ass all over an urban environment while shooting guns.
Guardian Heroes coming to XBLA!
Remember, if you ever go to sell back a video game at one of the various intake centers and it’s worth more than 20$– don’t sell it back. I learned this the hard way specifically due to this game. Note the sound isn’t too good. It is the Saturn, 1995, so that’s to be expected (Though the PSX sounded great).
New Cosmic Encounter box cover
The Mraaking Blood Bowl League
After much ado ado, we finally got an even number of players for the Mraaktagon Blood Bowl league (not with miniatures this time but via the Legendary Edition online). Here are the teams.
Steveformer – Amazons
Sensless – Skaven
Littlemute – Chaos
Nodamage – Undead
Turftoe – “High” Elves
Ultrasmurf – Norse (!?)
My guess for the winners? We have two heavy hitting teams and four agility/passy teams (yes the Skaven are a bit of both).
High Elves and Skaven in the final. High Elves 3, Skaven 2.
Anathema with Lunars and Abyssals (and Sidereals) oh my!
Ok well my job as a GM just got a shitload easier. Exalted antagonists are troublesome to create at best and extremely time consuming at worst. While appreciate some of the other efforts to digitize the creation process, Anathema has by far the best usability and resulting character sheets, but has been stuck with Solars and Dragon Bloods for years now– many years actually, due to the original development team backing away from the project. Well, as hinted in an over-exuberant post last summer, Anathema 2.0 has been released and includes Abyssals and Lunars AND Sidereals. I’m just grabbing it now to give it a go.
In addition to having the new splats integrated, ANATHEMA is the place that best collates all the extra charms for Solars and DB’s into one handy dandy program. So if you are just a player (and I envy you if you are because you get the easy part) this is still worth a download. You will need to procure or enter your equipment data in the system still, and the charms have no text (just page numbers in whatever tome contains them), but still it’s quite an asset for players as well as GMs.
Sturgeon are doing some swimming
http://www.wolfrivercam.com/Shawano%20Dam.html
Lots of ads on that page, but if you look very closely in the middle of the page is a live video feed of the sturgeon swimming. Today is the day as I’ve seen 4 or 5 already this morning just glancing back every few minutes.
David Lynch Music Company
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King of Fighters 13 announced for Console (finally!)
This is make or break time for SNK as a purveyor of the fighting games. KOF 12, while it looked and played awesome was extremely stripped down and was missing some key features (no win poses at the end? no end boss? missing moves for characters? for shame!). Despite the gripes, the fighting engine for KOF 12 is extremely solid and fun. Always more of a fan of KOF than Street Fighter, there’s been a worry, and a very persistent one based on the news in the last year, that SNK was done with fighting games and was going to focus on their pachinko machines (we’ve heard this before too). However, KOF 13 has been in arcades for almost a year and people are just flat out loving it. The super-solid gameplay of KOF, updated with what feels alot like Garuo Mark of the Wolves influences and all new hand drawn sprites a la Blazblue make this a must have. Here is more on the scoop.