Hey.. there IS a GOD!
And that God is Common Sense! and desparation! WOOHOO for murdering the franchise BlackBox! I hope you'll be paying attention (and that I Won't Have to Eat These Words Later)
A couple of things made me happy just now
1, iPatch
Yes it's silly but hear me out: (just skip to 2, )
Because the new iphone is coming very soon, and is supposed to be cheap, and has bluetooth and 4G it has just about everything it needs to have a small OLED display attached to a normal headset.
I have this little samsung one which has fit better than any that I've tried so far which doesn't have a clip or anything around the ear. I wear it at work all day ostensibly for Skyping with contractors. But because it does fit well I'm sure adding an LCD display or OLED display on it wouldn't kill the weight and comfort, and ergonomics of the headset too much.
As long as the eyepiece can be dropped around the neck (imagine a little slide on sleve like sheath) it could be worn as a pendant or stuff in a pocket when not in use, just the same as a the newest tiny in ear only earpieces.
2, Criterion Games is making a new Need for Speed game
Because you see I favour Burnout over NFS*, because Burnout is everything NFS should be minus free roaming game play, seeing Burnout Paradise ruined by said roaming game play that doesn't fit well with Burnout as a franchise.. having them merged is like.. how should I put it.. disneyland full of strippers... er.. every day is saturday morning and all the shows are HDTV.. nah nevermind I can't explain it.
*sad because Underground 2 and Most wanted are good. No game is better in my estimation (of games with cars) than Need for Speed Highstakes. The burnout series raped me. And I had it's babies. And raised them. Those babies were made of love, and takedowns and road raging. It helped me understand what fuels me but was somehow missing in my life... Rage.. but constructive rage.. smashing cars off of the road. And god yes I understand how twisted that all sounds and yet it's in print. Need for Speed on the other hand again is just a tame racing game that knows its a racing game and doesn't take itself, before, as a franchise too seriously. Fun, new version every year.. there was stability there. I brings certain things into perspective.
But suffice it to say that Criterion making NFS is like one of my personal gaming: there IS a god moment. Not only is there a god but there must be an entire pantheon and they are all in disneyland cavorting with strippers.
All EA would have to do to top it is say Slipstream remake.. but I KNOW that isn't happening. And more's the pity.
Its news that follows the news earlier in the year that was like ice on my heart of NFS as a franchise being canned, by way of the disolution of the development studio. EA was shutting down the studio.. we wept. It was EA slaughtering that pantheon of gods, who'd fallen so far that their demise wasn't a total shock. It made business sense at least. But they were saying no no, we're not slaughtering the franchise, and we stopped our girlish crying long enough to be cock smacked in the face with what they were actually doing: stealing another game and rebranding it as Need for Speed Shift. Good on you. Assholes. The whore in some of us remains some little bit optimistic that the game won't suck ass.. but there isn't much hope of that. It's a clone of other games from another developer. One that I don't much like.
It's like moving disneyland to a 3rd world country. Who cares if it's still disneyland.. and if it's full of strippers.. I'm NOT traveling to xburg under any circumstances. Their crimes against humanity aren't forgotten. Besides that if the shift in developers was only so EA can have their game and pay less for it.. fuck them. It doesn't work like that.
I'd frankly prefer to eat those words when the game isn't all that bad than get excited and be all the more remiss for caring about shit from a 3rd party slut studio willing to whore out to EA an defile, one of the said (by EA) core franchise... not just in the catalogue, but the entire history of video games.
So having them then turn around to say no no, we are making a truely revolutionary NFS game by the only people in the world qualified to bother, Criterion Games.. Now the love is back. I didn't think words were that absorbant but here we are.. my being a gaming whore has once more been confirmed.
But after being cock slapped and I mean repeatedly.. It's hard to take this news without sounding out the hidden caveat. Sure there's this moment of elation.. but also the pavlovian cringe of the anticipated.. nay impending cock slap that is to follow.
Some might think that Burnout 5 being delayed for this is the carpocalypse (the caveat).. nuts to them! Paradise is a joyment platform. It can be whored. It has enough rubber left on the tires to circle the drain several more times before requiring us to flush. Besides we have Burning Need for Speed to wait for.
Is there a possibility that the game will have a new engine? That the black box team have had their fingers cut off and fed to them? and that Criterion is finally ready to ditch the Renderware training wheels stappled to their asses and use real physics and AI (Stainless and Carmageddon).. we'll see
Doesn't matter really because the prayers of many have been answered at least with a promise. The promise of hope. The promise of Criterion making the bar non BEST racing game possible.. using the tride and true, platinum plated chassis of Burnout with the legacy of Need For Speed, inarguably the best racing franchise despite the more recent heinous crimes against humanity they call games.
And that God is Common Sense! and desparation! WOOHOO for murdering the franchise BlackBox! I hope you'll be paying attention (and that I Won't Have to Eat These Words Later)
A couple of things made me happy just now
1, iPatch
Yes it's silly but hear me out: (just skip to 2, )
Because the new iphone is coming very soon, and is supposed to be cheap, and has bluetooth and 4G it has just about everything it needs to have a small OLED display attached to a normal headset.
I have this little samsung one which has fit better than any that I've tried so far which doesn't have a clip or anything around the ear. I wear it at work all day ostensibly for Skyping with contractors. But because it does fit well I'm sure adding an LCD display or OLED display on it wouldn't kill the weight and comfort, and ergonomics of the headset too much.
As long as the eyepiece can be dropped around the neck (imagine a little slide on sleve like sheath) it could be worn as a pendant or stuff in a pocket when not in use, just the same as a the newest tiny in ear only earpieces.
2, Criterion Games is making a new Need for Speed game
Because you see I favour Burnout over NFS*, because Burnout is everything NFS should be minus free roaming game play, seeing Burnout Paradise ruined by said roaming game play that doesn't fit well with Burnout as a franchise.. having them merged is like.. how should I put it.. disneyland full of strippers... er.. every day is saturday morning and all the shows are HDTV.. nah nevermind I can't explain it.
*sad because Underground 2 and Most wanted are good. No game is better in my estimation (of games with cars) than Need for Speed Highstakes. The burnout series raped me. And I had it's babies. And raised them. Those babies were made of love, and takedowns and road raging. It helped me understand what fuels me but was somehow missing in my life... Rage.. but constructive rage.. smashing cars off of the road. And god yes I understand how twisted that all sounds and yet it's in print. Need for Speed on the other hand again is just a tame racing game that knows its a racing game and doesn't take itself, before, as a franchise too seriously. Fun, new version every year.. there was stability there. I brings certain things into perspective.
But suffice it to say that Criterion making NFS is like one of my personal gaming: there IS a god moment. Not only is there a god but there must be an entire pantheon and they are all in disneyland cavorting with strippers.
All EA would have to do to top it is say Slipstream remake.. but I KNOW that isn't happening. And more's the pity.
Its news that follows the news earlier in the year that was like ice on my heart of NFS as a franchise being canned, by way of the disolution of the development studio. EA was shutting down the studio.. we wept. It was EA slaughtering that pantheon of gods, who'd fallen so far that their demise wasn't a total shock. It made business sense at least. But they were saying no no, we're not slaughtering the franchise, and we stopped our girlish crying long enough to be cock smacked in the face with what they were actually doing: stealing another game and rebranding it as Need for Speed Shift. Good on you. Assholes. The whore in some of us remains some little bit optimistic that the game won't suck ass.. but there isn't much hope of that. It's a clone of other games from another developer. One that I don't much like.
It's like moving disneyland to a 3rd world country. Who cares if it's still disneyland.. and if it's full of strippers.. I'm NOT traveling to xburg under any circumstances. Their crimes against humanity aren't forgotten. Besides that if the shift in developers was only so EA can have their game and pay less for it.. fuck them. It doesn't work like that.
I'd frankly prefer to eat those words when the game isn't all that bad than get excited and be all the more remiss for caring about shit from a 3rd party slut studio willing to whore out to EA an defile, one of the said (by EA) core franchise... not just in the catalogue, but the entire history of video games.
So having them then turn around to say no no, we are making a truely revolutionary NFS game by the only people in the world qualified to bother, Criterion Games.. Now the love is back. I didn't think words were that absorbant but here we are.. my being a gaming whore has once more been confirmed.
But after being cock slapped and I mean repeatedly.. It's hard to take this news without sounding out the hidden caveat. Sure there's this moment of elation.. but also the pavlovian cringe of the anticipated.. nay impending cock slap that is to follow.
Some might think that Burnout 5 being delayed for this is the carpocalypse (the caveat).. nuts to them! Paradise is a joyment platform. It can be whored. It has enough rubber left on the tires to circle the drain several more times before requiring us to flush. Besides we have Burning Need for Speed to wait for.
Is there a possibility that the game will have a new engine? That the black box team have had their fingers cut off and fed to them? and that Criterion is finally ready to ditch the Renderware training wheels stappled to their asses and use real physics and AI (Stainless and Carmageddon).. we'll see
Doesn't matter really because the prayers of many have been answered at least with a promise. The promise of hope. The promise of Criterion making the bar non BEST racing game possible.. using the tride and true, platinum plated chassis of Burnout with the legacy of Need For Speed, inarguably the best racing franchise despite the more recent heinous crimes against humanity they call games.
Yup I have no idea where to go shoot a set outddor, if you have any places ideas, just shoot them for me! could be very interesting