My friend trolled IGN

This article is a quickie, but it is funny

http://au.ign.com/videos/2010/10/20/medal-of-honor-black-beta-video-wrap

Watch the whole video if you can stand the obnoxious retard with the microphone. But at exactly 2 minutes you will see a guy who says "this one kicks THE CRAP....out of the other ones" and acts overly enthusiastic when popping someone with a headshot. That is a old college friends of mine, who is NOTHING like that when he plays games. He was mocking the host by acting as obnoxious as he was, and not only did he not notice, but they put the footage on the website. You know what that means IGN:

I have congratulated him on Facebook, so hopefully you enjoy this too, because IGN fucking sucks.

Why Angry Joe's MvC3 review sucks

The biggest problem with Joe is that when he reviews games outside the mainstream shooter market he doesn't know what the fuck he is talking about. And this review is no exception. Now I am not going to disagree with him about Capcom being money hungry or the lack of modes he complained about, he has the right to his opinion on that. My problem is that he doesn't even talk about the FIGHTING in a FIGHTING game. I'm dead serious, he spends so much time talking about the modes that I forgot what he even said about the gameplay, so I watched it again to try and get what he said, and here is what I found.

The first part is this howler:

"I am not doing to be able to tell you all of the technicals, which characters have the unlimited unbreakable combos, and which ones need balancing"

In other words your not going to tell us a fucking thing about the gameplay. At least I can't say I wasn't warned. At 0:53 he says this

“The pure fighting in MVC is exactly what we demanded”

Ok cool, what do you have to say about it:

"The animations are so buttery smooth......"

He goes on like this. From 1:00 onwards he goes on a little tangent about it looking nice. That isn't gameplay Joe, no wonder Asalieri thinks your a retard.

After a long bitching session about the modes, he finally says something about the ganeplay at 4:52, after almost 3 minutes:

“Fighting is excellent, it's a lot more offensive based than SF4, less of a chess match”

Surely he fucking realises that anyone can come to that conclusion by watching some gameplay footage. Even a casual fan knows that the MvC games are more offensive. And after that sentence, he bitches about modes again. So after 5 minutes, he has said only THREE FUCKING SENTENCES ABOUT THE FIGHTING. Maybe he will talk about it later......oh who am I kidding.

At 7:33, he talks about simple mode:

“It introduces simple Mode and it also simplifies the punches and kicks down to low, medium and high attacks with a special move button”

And does he explain if it is good or not? Of course not, he only complains that when playing online he bumped into too many people who kicked his ass while using it and that they should have a way to filter it. While that point is fair enough, he barely talks about it rather than stating what it is. No opinion on it Joe? No surprises here.

At 8:15 (HOLY SHIT, HE DIDN'T RAMBLE FOR TOO LONG) he talks about the control changes:

"and with these new buttons, MvC is now TvC. For the first time in this franchise they change everything”

The only reason he says this is bad is with his long winded analogy that everything you learned from other Street Fighter games is "invalid" and that you have to learn how to play it again. Weird since I played it a bit at a JB HiFi and it felt like your standard Capcom fighter to me. Then he rambles about a lack of a classic mode. So you know what, I won't count that to him talking about gameplay, since he bitched about it being the only option rather that it being bad.

At 11:08 (lol, here I was thinking he was going to change) he says this after giving it a 6/10:

“The fighting is great, your going to have a ton of fun when your doing it”

WHY IS IT GREAT??? The closest we have gotten to an explanation is that the fighting is more offensive and faster than SF4 (and when you explained it, it sounded like you were stating is was different and didn't say why it made it good) and that the animations are pretty at the beginning of the review. THIS is why I think this review is absolute shit, in fact I am going to time myself saying everything about the gameplay right now......

35 SECONDS???? The revIew goes for 12:53 seconds, and he spends 35 FUCKING SECONDS ON THE GAMEPLAY the most important part of a fighting game. My issue with this review is not with the fact that he complains about the modes, that is perfectly acceptable and I have no issues with that, in fact many people have said that about the game. And he could have spent MOST of the time talking about these issues, but he has to at LEAST talk about the gameplay and describe it more than he did, especially since his review is meant to be for "more casual players". The fact that he spends a mere 35 SECONDS talking about the gameplay makes it look like he didn't play the game other than his match with Doug. In fact let's look at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_vs._Capcom_3:_Fate_of_Two_Worlds

EVERYTHING he said about the gameplay can be found here and more. The only thing he couldn't get from Wikipedia and watching a youtube video of the gameplay was the online issues he had. That is downright pathetic of him and why his review is just shit.

Did Metallica sell out? And when?

I thought I would post a blog for all the metalheads on here to discuss if you think Metallica sold out or not, and when you think they did. For the people who think they sold out, they are generally dumped into 3 camps:


1. They sold out when Cliff died

While most people don't agree (including me) this argument holds some weight due to the fact that when Cliff was around, Metallica were VERY anti music video and vowed to never do it. Yet after Cliff died they made this clip:

Some have declared that because they went back on their vow, they sold out at this point. Also since Cliff was an important part of the band, and was most likely the one who discouraged music clips since he specifically demanded Metallica move away from LA and it's glam scene if they wanted him in the band, many label this the point they sold out. I disagree because ...And Justice for All is not even close to a sell out album since the songs are so fucking long and proggy and the One clip was ahead of it's time and looks like a disturbing early 90s clip.

2. The Black Album


Most people get dumped into this camp, and while this was easily their most commercial period, I have to say that I disagree again, though this argument has string merit.

First of all, many people point to the songs being shorter and therefore more radio friendly. It is understandable for them to feel this way but I don't think this was them saying "Let's make songs for the radio and make more money". It had much more to do with the fact that the songs on Justice were very long and the band hated playing the songs live, and the fans didn't enjoy them much either compared to previous albums. Because of this I think they wanted to scale it back as musically they had no need to get more proggy because they would only get worse.

They also point to more music clips being done, but by that time music clips weren't anywhere near as douchey and everyone was doing them for more artistic reasons. Ok, some of the Grunge bands made weird clips for the sake of being weird and disturbing, but Metallica's clips at the time were actually very bare bones compared to Load and Reload.

And finally, Bob Rock. This man cops it from so many Metallica fans and I agree that he is a corporate asswipe (watch Some Kind of Monster and tell me he isn't one when he and Lars tell Kirk to not play solos) but on this album he actually made the album sound better, like their live shows. Listen to Justice and the live versions at the time, they sound nothing a like, while the Black album songs performed live sound the same in terms of guitar sound and drums.


3. Load/Reload


This is where I fall into. First of all, Load/Reload should have been ONE FUCKING ALBUM. Half the songs on each album are terrible and are full of filler, something Metallica would have never done in the 80s. The pop world does this shit all the time by having 3 or 4 good songs and sells that as an album but Metallica actually had a full album length of material and decided to be whores and split it into 2 for more money. I am so glad Lars got pissed off with Napster.

Also, they changed there image for the Alternative crowd. Look at them in 1989:

Now in 1991, after they "sold out":

Looks the same to me, but lets looks at them during the Load period:

GO FUCK YOURSELVES. The sad thing is that Hetfield was uncomfortable with this shit:

From this an interview about the image:

Lars and Kirk drove on those records. The whole "We need to reinvent ourselves" topic was up. Image is not an evil thing for me, but if the image is not you, then it doesn't make much sense. I think they were really after a U2 kind of vibe, Bono doing his alter ego.

I couldn't get into it. The whole, "Okay, now in this photoshoot we're going to be '70s glam rockers." Like, what? I would say half — at least half — the pictures that were to be in the booklet, I yanked out. The whole cover thing, it went against what I was feeling.

And from the same interview about the cover of the album:

How can I put this? I guess when I talked [earlier in the interview] about the resentments of being left out of the band that they had through their drug use — Lars and Kirk were very into abstract art, pretending they were gay. I think they knew it bugged me. It was a statement around all that. I love art, but not for the sake of shocking others. I think the cover of "Load" was just a piss-take around all that. I just went along with the make-up and all of this crazy, stupid shit that they felt they needed to do.

Right here:


http://www.eddietrunk.com/index.cfm/pk/view/cd/NAA/cdid/410409/pid/400512

If that isn't evidence of selling out, I don't know what is. If you have anything to add (or you violently disagree), feel free to comment.