Black Ops War Journal: No, Ghost Doesn't Beat Motion Sensor

So it's been awhile since I last checked in on my blog. I need to come back more often I guess, so I'll come back with more casual updates such as what I'm playing recent games, and maybe an experiment in Indie Gaming Tonight!

Oh yeah, speaking of Indie Gaming Tonight! Christmas is coming up and I'm very interesting in investing in a HD PVR for myself. Then I can really make my YouTube account shine! Like real good commentaries, a revisit of my Street Fighter IV stuff but in HD and maybe commentaries as well. And to really make something special and regular, the concept of Indie Gaming Tonight! is to download a different indie game demo every week and go through the demo blind for as long as I can. Thinking about the set up, it'd probably benefit from a live commentary format.

King Of Fighters XII embarrassingly marked down to $11 in Japan

Reported over at Kotaku, the game touted as a revival to classic fighting franchise, King of Fighters XII, has been marked down to ¥980 yen or $11 in US dollars. Even games a year old don't go down that harshly and KOFXII is barely three months out.

NBA Live proves how unpopular it is with failed 1,000 person achievement

Remember NBA Live 07? Course you don't! A three year old basketball game? My god, that's like a mediocre 10 year old game! And for salt in the wound, people still love games from the NES and the Atari, By god those are old! This game is three years old and People still play Goldeneye!

"Ooooh! Sick burn dude! Wicked sick one bro. Brofists!"

Truly this was the opposite of some of the more whore-ish achievement games out there. Avatar has a reputation of being an awful game, and yet you can get 1,000 points practically with no trouble at all. You just need to mash a button over and over a few minutes, and free points to brag about. But this one? It's nearly impossible to get, and failing to get it even worse, just proves how unpopular the game is and how stupidly ambitious the developers were.

For more, hit the link for Kotaku's post.

Boosting session gone awry via Kotaku

Re-entering Oblivion: Top 7 thing I'm gonna do.

Oblivion went up for Games on Demand and it was a nice thought. Then I got into Fallout 3 seriously because of all the DLC they had released for it. Then I remembered Oblivion was made by the same guys as the dudes who made Fallout 3. Then I got a coupon for 20% off any used game at Gamestop and promptly forgot about the meagerly overpriced digital download version.
I bought Oblivion again for three reasons.

Wasteland Journals: Sarge

If my characters from Fallout 3 kept dairies, I'm pretty sure it would go like this...

Name: Sarge
Alignment: Neutral
Wasteland Occupation: Mercenary
Bio: When Sarge left the safety of the Vault, he quickly learned two things: 1) It's hard to make friends and 2) Money's the only friend you really need. Sarge quickly picked up a gun and made himself a gun for hire on the Capital Wasteland. He doesn't think too much about good or evil, or rather, he won't. He's only concerned about how he's getting paid.

Day 14: Picked up a distress signal from some Brotherhood Outcasts. Figured those guys always have some neat tech to shoot dudes with, so I'll help them out if they loan me one of their sweet laser rifles.

Day 16: Finally out of that simulation of "Operation: Anchorage" those Outcasts wanted me to finish. It was fun and all but knowing I was just a cog in the wheel of the American army was annoying. Luckily, the Outcast let me pick up the Chinese stealth suit that was locked in their vault. You know, after dealing with a slight mutiny and all.

Day 24: Deathclaws are getting more and more active nowadays. This stealth suit let's me skulk around and plug holes in the back of their skulls at least. Figured I'd put their corpses to good use and make me a Deathclaw gauntlet.

Day 25: I should probably lay off the gauntlet. It's easier to track me even when I'm invisible since this Deathclaw gauntlet just turns people into a fine red mist all over me.

Day 29: Hving som trubl typin. radiashun Poisinin hurt bRaiN. Pit have lots.

Day 31: Finally finished my business in The Pitt. The arena games in The Hole were murder on my body. Not only did those gladiators mean business, but my geiger counter was going crazy while I was in there. Luckily that's all I had to worry about. These so called "trogs" are pretty weak sauce compared to super mutants. Plus this silenced assault rifle called the Perforator works wonders with my lifestyle.

Day 44: Decided to take down a Mutant Behemoth on my way over to town. Decided to lay down a mine field of bottlecap mines and sprung the trap he set that would make him come barreling over the hill over. Stealth suit didn't fool him though, so I had to turn on a Stealth Boy. Boy do I love laying down mines and luring people over them!

Day 51: Heard from another merc one day how there's some nice swag down in Vault 106. Boy was he wrong. Air tastes purple and freaky hallucinations. Not going down there again! And all I have to show for it was this cheap bobblehead!

Day 55: Running out of ideas to make more money. Either I've already worked the contract or the person's dead. Well, I can either help get Project Purity running or head down south. Heard there's a steamboat. I think it's heading to Maryland or something.

TF2 Jukes Us All With the Spy Update

After some lunch at In n Out, I head back to my computer to check on day 4 of the Sniper Update. I punch in the words in Firefox's handy Awesome Bar and expect one of two things: the sniper update on page 4 or Google giving me the sniper update as the first hit.

Neither. The first hit is a perplexing Spy Update link. Did I hit a virus? Is someone hack me? Shenanigans?

Lo and behold, the Spy from yesterday who discovered the joy of the Sniper's new Razorback shield had in turned backstabbed the Sniper thanks to the new Dead Ringer watch.

It's certainly has me excited even more then before. The Huntsman's bow sounded cool giving the Sniper more medium-range ability because sitting back in my Sniper perch and headshotting fools just isn't my thing. All in all, the Sniper is near the bottom of my game time ratio (mainly medic/soldier) but the Spy? He's near the bottom too but at least for good reason (I suck).

This hybrid class update will be the first of it's kind. Typically, there's a huge rush of one class rushes trying to get the achievements and unlock the new goodies. I see Valve didn't want half it's servers with people playing seriously get stuck with 6 snipers when you're on offense. With two classes with an update, there might just as many spies backstabbing just as many snipers. Like, cycle of life anyone?

Gamestop Shenigans

When Aksys announced the premium package to Blazblue, I was excited to preorder the game myself in order to guarantee myself something that was only on a limited run. Simple right? It's been announced for a around 3 days and this is a consumer product with potential, so surely its order forms the world over have changed to add it.

I drive down to the Gamestop I regularly go to preorder it with the help of my copy of L4D for store credit. When I arrive though, I'm informed they didn't have it available to preorder. I could preorder the regular edition, but as far as they know, there's no premium pack.

Sure enough, I double check their own website. It's right there and in fact, it's being advertised on the main page. They even have exclusive art books for online orderers.

I decide to try my luck at another location after business I had that day. Ok, not only did they not have it available to reserve, it was on their upcoming games list, right in front of the cashier.

Either there is a massive cover up conspiracy on the existence of this game, or there is just a bigger then usual amount of incompetency going on at Gamestop now.