by SonnyBone
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SO I SAW THIS MOVIE RIGHT. SOME BITCH WAS ALL WORKING THESE SHITTY JOBS AND SHIT AND FUCKING THIS DUDE ON THE SIDE RIGHT. HER SISTER WAS ALL STUPID AND DUMB AND SHIT AND THEN THEY TRIED TO GET RICH TOGETHER CLEANING UP DEAD BODIES AND SHIT SO THEY BUY SOME CLOROX RIGHT. YEAH THEN THIS FUCKING ONE ARMED DUDE MAKES HELICOPTERS AND SOME OLD MAN SELLS SHRIMP TO MEXICANS AND SOMEBODY'S HOUSE BURNS DOWN THEN IT GOES OFF.
IT WAS FUCKING RAD.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Kuon
I needed to post something else. So I decided to review a video game that in all likelyhood none of you have ever heard of: Kuon.
What the fuck is Kuon you ask? It's a PS2 Survival Horror game based on Heian-era Japan. It's also been localized by our good friends Agetec, so the odd obvious translation error is present.
The story is simple, yet confusing. You control one of two characters: A preist's daughter who is a total shut-in, who finds herself seperated from her sister, or a female excorsist who is investigating the dissapearance of the former's fuedal lord. All Jigoku breaks loose, and gaki and ghosts overrun a castle. You complete the story with one character, then you play as the other in a slight variation of the other story, then you play as a third character, another excorsist who is the rival of the person who turns out to be the main villain of the game.
Also, the story centers around some weird spell that can bring someone back to life by turning them into a famished undead who has to feed on creatures to come back to life, but instead of coming back to life as a human they are reborn as a mulberry. The preist's daughter accidentally killed her sister, but doesn't know the sister is actually dead, and the priest used the spell to try to bring the daughter to life.
And how does this turns the fuedal castle into an ancient Racoon City you ask? I'm not sure. Apparently the trees are evil and the silkworms that grow on the trees are sacred or something.
Overall, it's an okay game. You can set the difficulty between three modes, it's not too hard to beat the medium setting though you might die a couple times because the characters are a quite a bit fragile. Luckily you can heal them, in-combat by using items and out-of-combat with meditation. Outside of combat you travel the map in typical 'you need the red key to pass this door, the blue key to pass this other door' fashion, and there are a couple puzzles which you can solve in simple trial and error fashion. You can only save by using a limited item in certain locations on the map, but in all likelyhood you will rarely find yourself unable to save regularly.
Replay value is very very limited though. The entire game can be beaten in about eight to ten hours, and while there is a challenge mode where if you are hit nine times you die there's not really much else to make you want to play the whole thing again. There IS a minigame you can unlock, which is essentially a heian-era version of backgammon... in that it's EXACTLY like backgammon without the part where you take your stones off the board at the end.
So, if you have seven bucks, like a decent but not memorable story, and REALLY REALLY like Backgammon, get Kuon. Otherwise, get yourself some Chik-Fil-A.
What the fuck is Kuon you ask? It's a PS2 Survival Horror game based on Heian-era Japan. It's also been localized by our good friends Agetec, so the odd obvious translation error is present.
The story is simple, yet confusing. You control one of two characters: A preist's daughter who is a total shut-in, who finds herself seperated from her sister, or a female excorsist who is investigating the dissapearance of the former's fuedal lord. All Jigoku breaks loose, and gaki and ghosts overrun a castle. You complete the story with one character, then you play as the other in a slight variation of the other story, then you play as a third character, another excorsist who is the rival of the person who turns out to be the main villain of the game.
Also, the story centers around some weird spell that can bring someone back to life by turning them into a famished undead who has to feed on creatures to come back to life, but instead of coming back to life as a human they are reborn as a mulberry. The preist's daughter accidentally killed her sister, but doesn't know the sister is actually dead, and the priest used the spell to try to bring the daughter to life.
And how does this turns the fuedal castle into an ancient Racoon City you ask? I'm not sure. Apparently the trees are evil and the silkworms that grow on the trees are sacred or something.
Overall, it's an okay game. You can set the difficulty between three modes, it's not too hard to beat the medium setting though you might die a couple times because the characters are a quite a bit fragile. Luckily you can heal them, in-combat by using items and out-of-combat with meditation. Outside of combat you travel the map in typical 'you need the red key to pass this door, the blue key to pass this other door' fashion, and there are a couple puzzles which you can solve in simple trial and error fashion. You can only save by using a limited item in certain locations on the map, but in all likelyhood you will rarely find yourself unable to save regularly.
Replay value is very very limited though. The entire game can be beaten in about eight to ten hours, and while there is a challenge mode where if you are hit nine times you die there's not really much else to make you want to play the whole thing again. There IS a minigame you can unlock, which is essentially a heian-era version of backgammon... in that it's EXACTLY like backgammon without the part where you take your stones off the board at the end.
So, if you have seven bucks, like a decent but not memorable story, and REALLY REALLY like Backgammon, get Kuon. Otherwise, get yourself some Chik-Fil-A.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Halloween II Review
First off, I'm a huge fan of the original Halloween and the sequel. After that the series fell off, but the later editions of the series were still kinda stupid fun. When I found out Rob Zombie would be re-making the original, I was skeptical to say the least. Figured it would either be really good, or fucking awful, with no middle ground.
Saw Rob Zombie's Halloween opening night, and was ready to walk out five minutes into the flick. The whole changing of Michael's family from ordinary middle class folks to white trash scum was goofy enough, but I can't stand the dialogue Zombie writes. I have no problem with swearing in a movie, but there needs to be an element of realism in my opinion, and he goes way overboard. Basically, the movie just went downhill from there. I hated it.
Now why the hell would I even bother watching the sequel? Guess because I'm just a fan of the series. I Netflixed it last week, and watched Friday night. There will be spoilers here, so if you haven't seen the movie but intend to, don't read any further. Plus, this review will probably suck, so just stop now.
The main problem I had with a sequel was the fact that Zombie himself said he was doing his version of Halloween the way it should've been done, with Michael dying and that being that. But, wait, here we are with a sequel. Money talks, I guess.
Halloween 2 actually started off with some potential, with Michael rising up from the back of an ambulance and decapitating one of the paremedics, complete with close-up of the knife sawing through the guy's neck. Once Michael starts seeing visions of his dead mom speaking to him and giving him direction to find his sister, the retardation sets in. Then, you get Michael sans mask, with a long coat and hood on. He's also somewhere along the line grown a huge ass beard and instead of being the silent killer from the original series, he grunts and snarls when killing someone, and even speaks at the end of the movie. Fuck you, Mr. Zombie.
Then there's the obnoxious Lorie, who's all traumatized and doped up on anti-depressants, yelling fuck you to everyone she comes across in the movie. After awhile I was ready for Michael to find her and chop her damn head off.
It was just a lot of silliness and lame dialogue, with some decent kills sprinkled here and there, with the stupidity of Michael's mother popping up and talking to him. I pretty much lost all interest halfway, through but kept on and finished.
I give Halloween 1.5 stars. Barf.
Saw Rob Zombie's Halloween opening night, and was ready to walk out five minutes into the flick. The whole changing of Michael's family from ordinary middle class folks to white trash scum was goofy enough, but I can't stand the dialogue Zombie writes. I have no problem with swearing in a movie, but there needs to be an element of realism in my opinion, and he goes way overboard. Basically, the movie just went downhill from there. I hated it.
Now why the hell would I even bother watching the sequel? Guess because I'm just a fan of the series. I Netflixed it last week, and watched Friday night. There will be spoilers here, so if you haven't seen the movie but intend to, don't read any further. Plus, this review will probably suck, so just stop now.
The main problem I had with a sequel was the fact that Zombie himself said he was doing his version of Halloween the way it should've been done, with Michael dying and that being that. But, wait, here we are with a sequel. Money talks, I guess.
Halloween 2 actually started off with some potential, with Michael rising up from the back of an ambulance and decapitating one of the paremedics, complete with close-up of the knife sawing through the guy's neck. Once Michael starts seeing visions of his dead mom speaking to him and giving him direction to find his sister, the retardation sets in. Then, you get Michael sans mask, with a long coat and hood on. He's also somewhere along the line grown a huge ass beard and instead of being the silent killer from the original series, he grunts and snarls when killing someone, and even speaks at the end of the movie. Fuck you, Mr. Zombie.
Then there's the obnoxious Lorie, who's all traumatized and doped up on anti-depressants, yelling fuck you to everyone she comes across in the movie. After awhile I was ready for Michael to find her and chop her damn head off.
It was just a lot of silliness and lame dialogue, with some decent kills sprinkled here and there, with the stupidity of Michael's mother popping up and talking to him. I pretty much lost all interest halfway, through but kept on and finished.
I give Halloween 1.5 stars. Barf.
Monday, January 18, 2010
He's a Cop, AND a Samurai?
It's TheDenizen again.
OK, enough of the lists. The Year's Best Milkshakes, Top 10 Diseases of the Decade, Greatest Celebrity Haircuts, etc. etc. I've seen a zillion of them in the past month, and I'm sick to death of them. They're usually stupid (in that they list shit I don't care about) and wrong (in that they don't agree with my opinions). I don't need to know the Top 5 Ways to Shave a yak, just tell me the best one. I'm probably only gonna need that kind of information once. So today in the interest of brevity, I'm just going to talk about one movie, but it is unquestionably the best of it's kind.
I like shitty movies, and I've seen a lot of really bad ones. Knowing my unusual cinematic tastes, people often ask me "What is the best 'bad movie' out there"? It's important to state that when I talk about shitty movies, I don't mean overwritten big budget Hollywood star driven ego-projects that tanked, like Ishtar or Gigli...I mean Z-grade schlock filmed for next to nothing that tries really hard to rise above it's limitations and fails spectacularly.
There are lots of great bad movies. 80's slashers produced for short drive-in runs, amateurish Italian and Turkish knockoffs of popular American films, exploitation sleaze churned out for the 70's grindhouses, etc, but one film rises above the creme de la crap. That film is Samurai Cop.
Samurai Cop is about a white cop named Joe who comes to LA to fight the evil Japanese gangs taking over the streets. Despite the fact that we're told several times that Joe has "trained with the Japanese masters", he talks about the code of "Bushida" and cannot pronounce the name of the main bad guy Fujiyama (played by a Latino). The Katana gang (which appears to only have one actual Japanese member) doesn't take kindly to Joe's intrusion into their racket peddling smack to grade school kids, so they send wave after wave of goons to die by Joe's hand.
Samurai Cop is truly wretched in every way. Filmed in the mid 80's and starring Sly Stallone's bodyguard, it never actually played anywhere, only getting a direct to DVD release in the 90's after being discovered in a vault somewhere. Everything is completely amateur hour, from the clunky writing, to the awkward direction, to the wince-inducing acting (Samurai Cop is the only acting credit on imdb for several of the principal actors). This movie wants to be a knockoff of Lethal Weapon so badly, it even has Joe exchanging painful chummy racial banter with a black partner.
Joe dodges bullets during a car chase by ducking and bobbing his head in the driver's seat. The main girl has a giant crocheted lion head on her office wall for no apparent reason. A villain uses a katana to slowly SAW the head off an unconscious guy. One of the female gang memebers only has one line: "The boss is coming", but she gets to use it in about five different scenes. The climactic katana duel was obviously filmed in slow motion and sped WAY up. It's got glaring continuity errors, poorly choreographed fight scenes, ridiculous plot devices, laughable editing, cheesy 80's synth music throughout, and three of the most painfully uncomfortable-to-watch love scenes I've ever witnessed.
It's a fucking classic.
OK, enough of the lists. The Year's Best Milkshakes, Top 10 Diseases of the Decade, Greatest Celebrity Haircuts, etc. etc. I've seen a zillion of them in the past month, and I'm sick to death of them. They're usually stupid (in that they list shit I don't care about) and wrong (in that they don't agree with my opinions). I don't need to know the Top 5 Ways to Shave a yak, just tell me the best one. I'm probably only gonna need that kind of information once. So today in the interest of brevity, I'm just going to talk about one movie, but it is unquestionably the best of it's kind.
I like shitty movies, and I've seen a lot of really bad ones. Knowing my unusual cinematic tastes, people often ask me "What is the best 'bad movie' out there"? It's important to state that when I talk about shitty movies, I don't mean overwritten big budget Hollywood star driven ego-projects that tanked, like Ishtar or Gigli...I mean Z-grade schlock filmed for next to nothing that tries really hard to rise above it's limitations and fails spectacularly.
There are lots of great bad movies. 80's slashers produced for short drive-in runs, amateurish Italian and Turkish knockoffs of popular American films, exploitation sleaze churned out for the 70's grindhouses, etc, but one film rises above the creme de la crap. That film is Samurai Cop.
Samurai Cop is about a white cop named Joe who comes to LA to fight the evil Japanese gangs taking over the streets. Despite the fact that we're told several times that Joe has "trained with the Japanese masters", he talks about the code of "Bushida" and cannot pronounce the name of the main bad guy Fujiyama (played by a Latino). The Katana gang (which appears to only have one actual Japanese member) doesn't take kindly to Joe's intrusion into their racket peddling smack to grade school kids, so they send wave after wave of goons to die by Joe's hand.
Samurai Cop is truly wretched in every way. Filmed in the mid 80's and starring Sly Stallone's bodyguard, it never actually played anywhere, only getting a direct to DVD release in the 90's after being discovered in a vault somewhere. Everything is completely amateur hour, from the clunky writing, to the awkward direction, to the wince-inducing acting (Samurai Cop is the only acting credit on imdb for several of the principal actors). This movie wants to be a knockoff of Lethal Weapon so badly, it even has Joe exchanging painful chummy racial banter with a black partner.
Joe dodges bullets during a car chase by ducking and bobbing his head in the driver's seat. The main girl has a giant crocheted lion head on her office wall for no apparent reason. A villain uses a katana to slowly SAW the head off an unconscious guy. One of the female gang memebers only has one line: "The boss is coming", but she gets to use it in about five different scenes. The climactic katana duel was obviously filmed in slow motion and sped WAY up. It's got glaring continuity errors, poorly choreographed fight scenes, ridiculous plot devices, laughable editing, cheesy 80's synth music throughout, and three of the most painfully uncomfortable-to-watch love scenes I've ever witnessed.
It's a fucking classic.
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Best of 2009: FishHook Edition
Yeah, I return to Kidnapped by Ninjas to steal a gimmick that SonnyBone, Deli, and FNK did a few weeks ago....it's the cheesy, unneeded Best of 2009 awards!
BEST WII GAME
For the vast majority of the year, the Wii was the only current-gen system I had, as my Xbox 360 was dead and buried via RRoD and I had no access to it from about July to December, when my brother finally put up the money to buy a new one. So, 2009 was the Year of The Waggle for me, and the Wii I recieved for Christmas got a major workout that turned me into a major Nintendo nerd all over again. However, I spent most of the year playing games that were actually released in 2008, such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the first three episodes of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes, and an assortment of other WiiWare games.
As far as games that actually came out in 2009, my Wii collection comes down to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Excitebike: World Rally, MadWorld, Pokemon Rumble, and Mega Man 9. I haven't played enough of MadWorld to really call it the best Wii game I played this year, and I really found the all black-and-white graphics disorienting. Feels like there's nothing to do but follow the trail of blood you leave in your wake, as it's the only distinguishing feature on any level to tell you which way to move forward or back. Pokemon Rumble and Excitebike are OK games, but not game of the year material, and TMNT is basically a Smash rip-off. That leaves us with Mega Man and Mario, and it's really a toss-up. Both games are great throwbacks to old school platforming of the early 90s heyday I grew up with. And although my fast-twitch platforming skills (which weren't great in the first place) have diminished greatly since my youth, leading to a great deal of frustration with both games on my part, there's no doubt that New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the one Wii title of 2009 that is an absolute must-buy for everyone, and I think it's the tremendously fun multiplayer options that put it over the top compared to Mega Man, which is a great, if unforgivingly difficult, return to the classic 8-bit Mega Mans of the day, before all the games released after Mega Man X killed the series dead. But Mario is head and shoulders above, with simple but challenging platforming and fun new power-ups.
Also, a special shoutout to Punch-Out!! Best game I ever played for only 2 days on a rental.
BEST 360 GAME
As I stated earlier, my 360 was dead for most of the year, and I'm not a big fan of shooters, so my 360 games library is quite different from most 360 gamers: it's older stuff that's more non-traditional from the typical "shooters and more shooters" mentality. With the limited time I've had with the 360, I basically only played two major games for my 360 this year that consumed a major amount of my time: UFC Undisputed 2009 and Batman Arkham Asylum, both multi-platform releases. And while I've only just started playing Arkham, it's already an A-list experience that gives me no reservations in calling Batman Arkham Asylum the best the 360 had to offer for me this year. It's the simple but fun Freeflow combat system and the immersive world that you're dropped into puts it over the top. While I'm not even the biggest Batman fan in the world, you become a Batman thanks to this game: you always feel like the Caped Crusader with every motion you make, and all the villians are perfectly portrayed. Arkham is a tremendous example of how to properly use a license for a game.
BEST NINTENDO DS GAME
I'M ALL BIAS in this section, because I have only had my DS for about a week of 2009, and only had one game for it. So in a not so shocking upset, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was my favorite DS game of 2009. This might change when I actually start playing some more DS games from '09, but it may not, as Spirit Tracks is a truly great experience. I found the puzzles intuitive without being mind-bendingly difficult, and really, they didn't need to be. You don't have to break someone's brain with mind-numbing furstration to be a good game. Also, control with the stylus felt natural after a little 15-minute or so learning curve, combat and movement felt really natural on the touch-screen, and I think it's going to feel weird eventually when I actually have to use the d-pad and buttons to play other DS titles thanks to this experience. Also, the boss battles are really super-fun, and the music is phenomenal, as always from Zelda. Definitely a title deserving to be picked up.
BEST BARGAIN BIN GAME OF 2009
Sure, it came out in 2008, but how can I say anything less than No More Heroes? It's easily the best I've felt purchasing a $20 game, and the quality for the price was through the roof. No More Heroes' quirky sense of humor and tremendous stylized graphics make a world worth spending quite a bit of Waggle-time on. And not only is the sequel coming out soon (which will fix the problems the game has with the boring side-jobs and exploring, it will be worth the full $50 price tag it should recieve), but there's also talks of a 360 and PS3 port coming soon. If those two ports make it to America, there's no excuse not to play this game. A great experience, and I can't wait to play Desperate Struggle.
BEST WRESTLING MATCH OF 2009
I know this will seem obvious, but I watch a lot of pro wrestling. A lot. And I watched basically anything that I could get my hands on this year, and I still didn't find a match that topped the drama of Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker from Wrestlemania 25. In a match that basically saved the show, these two put on an absolute masterpiece. But what I'll remember more is how my friends and I reacted as the match went on, going along this roller coaster ride up and down, emotion with every count. THAT is pro wrestling: taking the fans on a ride.
BEST MUSIC OF 2009
I spent most of my year listening to Jonathan Coulton. Nerd rock FTW.
Well...that's about it. I hope everyone enjoyed 2009, and 2010 is shaping up to be an even bigger year in gaming and wrestling, my two main habits/obsessions. Hope the days are as good to you as they are to me, and I'm sure I'll be doing this list again by about mid-Janurary of 2011 for the 2010 stuff.
- FishHook
BEST WII GAME
For the vast majority of the year, the Wii was the only current-gen system I had, as my Xbox 360 was dead and buried via RRoD and I had no access to it from about July to December, when my brother finally put up the money to buy a new one. So, 2009 was the Year of The Waggle for me, and the Wii I recieved for Christmas got a major workout that turned me into a major Nintendo nerd all over again. However, I spent most of the year playing games that were actually released in 2008, such as Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the first three episodes of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Mario Kart Wii, No More Heroes, and an assortment of other WiiWare games.
As far as games that actually came out in 2009, my Wii collection comes down to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Excitebike: World Rally, MadWorld, Pokemon Rumble, and Mega Man 9. I haven't played enough of MadWorld to really call it the best Wii game I played this year, and I really found the all black-and-white graphics disorienting. Feels like there's nothing to do but follow the trail of blood you leave in your wake, as it's the only distinguishing feature on any level to tell you which way to move forward or back. Pokemon Rumble and Excitebike are OK games, but not game of the year material, and TMNT is basically a Smash rip-off. That leaves us with Mega Man and Mario, and it's really a toss-up. Both games are great throwbacks to old school platforming of the early 90s heyday I grew up with. And although my fast-twitch platforming skills (which weren't great in the first place) have diminished greatly since my youth, leading to a great deal of frustration with both games on my part, there's no doubt that New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the one Wii title of 2009 that is an absolute must-buy for everyone, and I think it's the tremendously fun multiplayer options that put it over the top compared to Mega Man, which is a great, if unforgivingly difficult, return to the classic 8-bit Mega Mans of the day, before all the games released after Mega Man X killed the series dead. But Mario is head and shoulders above, with simple but challenging platforming and fun new power-ups.
Also, a special shoutout to Punch-Out!! Best game I ever played for only 2 days on a rental.
BEST 360 GAME
As I stated earlier, my 360 was dead for most of the year, and I'm not a big fan of shooters, so my 360 games library is quite different from most 360 gamers: it's older stuff that's more non-traditional from the typical "shooters and more shooters" mentality. With the limited time I've had with the 360, I basically only played two major games for my 360 this year that consumed a major amount of my time: UFC Undisputed 2009 and Batman Arkham Asylum, both multi-platform releases. And while I've only just started playing Arkham, it's already an A-list experience that gives me no reservations in calling Batman Arkham Asylum the best the 360 had to offer for me this year. It's the simple but fun Freeflow combat system and the immersive world that you're dropped into puts it over the top. While I'm not even the biggest Batman fan in the world, you become a Batman thanks to this game: you always feel like the Caped Crusader with every motion you make, and all the villians are perfectly portrayed. Arkham is a tremendous example of how to properly use a license for a game.
BEST NINTENDO DS GAME
I'M ALL BIAS in this section, because I have only had my DS for about a week of 2009, and only had one game for it. So in a not so shocking upset, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was my favorite DS game of 2009. This might change when I actually start playing some more DS games from '09, but it may not, as Spirit Tracks is a truly great experience. I found the puzzles intuitive without being mind-bendingly difficult, and really, they didn't need to be. You don't have to break someone's brain with mind-numbing furstration to be a good game. Also, control with the stylus felt natural after a little 15-minute or so learning curve, combat and movement felt really natural on the touch-screen, and I think it's going to feel weird eventually when I actually have to use the d-pad and buttons to play other DS titles thanks to this experience. Also, the boss battles are really super-fun, and the music is phenomenal, as always from Zelda. Definitely a title deserving to be picked up.
BEST BARGAIN BIN GAME OF 2009
Sure, it came out in 2008, but how can I say anything less than No More Heroes? It's easily the best I've felt purchasing a $20 game, and the quality for the price was through the roof. No More Heroes' quirky sense of humor and tremendous stylized graphics make a world worth spending quite a bit of Waggle-time on. And not only is the sequel coming out soon (which will fix the problems the game has with the boring side-jobs and exploring, it will be worth the full $50 price tag it should recieve), but there's also talks of a 360 and PS3 port coming soon. If those two ports make it to America, there's no excuse not to play this game. A great experience, and I can't wait to play Desperate Struggle.
BEST WRESTLING MATCH OF 2009
I know this will seem obvious, but I watch a lot of pro wrestling. A lot. And I watched basically anything that I could get my hands on this year, and I still didn't find a match that topped the drama of Shawn Michaels vs Undertaker from Wrestlemania 25. In a match that basically saved the show, these two put on an absolute masterpiece. But what I'll remember more is how my friends and I reacted as the match went on, going along this roller coaster ride up and down, emotion with every count. THAT is pro wrestling: taking the fans on a ride.
BEST MUSIC OF 2009
I spent most of my year listening to Jonathan Coulton. Nerd rock FTW.
Well...that's about it. I hope everyone enjoyed 2009, and 2010 is shaping up to be an even bigger year in gaming and wrestling, my two main habits/obsessions. Hope the days are as good to you as they are to me, and I'm sure I'll be doing this list again by about mid-Janurary of 2011 for the 2010 stuff.
- FishHook
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Best of the Decade
So here's my best of list of the past 10 years.
BEST SPORTS GAME:
NBA STREET VOL. 2
The pinnacle of the series, and an overall blast. Plus Larry Bird is in the game, and he's a bonafide badass.
BEST RASSLIN' GAME:
FIRE PRO: R
All of you know why, so we will skip.
BEST DREAMCAST GAME:
SHENMUE
Lots of people went ape shit over this game. I played FPD more, but my gawd Shenmue had me hooked. I tried to re-play the game not too long ago, and I can't do it. It's not fun, but the initial 80 hours or whatever I poured into this game were so satisfying that I can't put it anywhere else.
BEST GAMECUBE GAME:
LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER
So a lot of people hate this game. I think it's my favorite in the series. The sailing was fun, and by god that ending. Oh that ending.
BEST PS2 GAME:
GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY
I love the 80s. I love bashing people to death. I love this game.
BEST PS3 GAME:
UNCHARTED
Never has a game captivated me with such brilliant cinematic and story.
BEST WII GAME:
SUPER MARIO GALAXY
This isn't even hard. It's worth owning the system over.
BEST X-BOX GAME:
BURNOUT 3
I got a X-Box to buy multiplatform titles only. Burnout 3 is the game still in the damn system, and I have a lot of X-Box games.
BEST DS GAME:
MARIO KART:DS
The reason I bought a DS. I still play this.
BEST RESTAURANT:
THE DINNER BELL(Corinth MS)
I got three words for you: Corn Bread Salad. BEST THING EVER.
That concludes my list. WD
BEST SPORTS GAME:
NBA STREET VOL. 2
The pinnacle of the series, and an overall blast. Plus Larry Bird is in the game, and he's a bonafide badass.
BEST RASSLIN' GAME:
FIRE PRO: R
All of you know why, so we will skip.
BEST DREAMCAST GAME:
SHENMUE
Lots of people went ape shit over this game. I played FPD more, but my gawd Shenmue had me hooked. I tried to re-play the game not too long ago, and I can't do it. It's not fun, but the initial 80 hours or whatever I poured into this game were so satisfying that I can't put it anywhere else.
BEST GAMECUBE GAME:
LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER
So a lot of people hate this game. I think it's my favorite in the series. The sailing was fun, and by god that ending. Oh that ending.
BEST PS2 GAME:
GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY
I love the 80s. I love bashing people to death. I love this game.
BEST PS3 GAME:
UNCHARTED
Never has a game captivated me with such brilliant cinematic and story.
BEST WII GAME:
SUPER MARIO GALAXY
This isn't even hard. It's worth owning the system over.
BEST X-BOX GAME:
BURNOUT 3
I got a X-Box to buy multiplatform titles only. Burnout 3 is the game still in the damn system, and I have a lot of X-Box games.
BEST DS GAME:
MARIO KART:DS
The reason I bought a DS. I still play this.
BEST RESTAURANT:
THE DINNER BELL(Corinth MS)
I got three words for you: Corn Bread Salad. BEST THING EVER.
That concludes my list. WD
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