Playstation 3 Game Round-Up

So, I'm pretty much a n00b gamer, and I don't dedicate that many hours to slugging it out, so these reviews are going to be fairly basic.

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 2.5/5
I got this game thanks to Jobsey's recommendation. I think the graphics stink. Sure it's high-def, but the FMV parts look crap. I find it a boring game. The game is too open, and I don't feel any connection with the characters. Maybe I don't play it enough. Maybe I haven't put enough time into playing it. Maybe the characters are just too ugly. I think I prefer the multiplayer feeling of WoW. Thanks for the crap advice Jobsey.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 4/5
This game is cool. I want to play it more. The story is a bit too disjointed. The female character "Racheal" needs a breast reduction.

MotorStorm 3/5
As a dirt racing game this is cool.

Super Stardust HD 4.5/5
This seems like a simple game, but it's incredibly addictive. It's an easy game to jump in and start going for it. That's my gaming style. And it's cheap!

Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection 3/5
Fun and cheap.

Calling All Cars! 1/5
This game had good reviews, but it's shit. Maybe one day I'll try it on multiplayer.

Splinter Cell 2/5
I bought this game on the recommendation of Trappa. I expected a sneaky spy game, but it's more like a lame game. Thanks for nothing Trappa!

No Country for Old Men

The new Coen Brothers film looks like it might be good...

Blu-Ray Round-Up

Well I've got a few BDV movies now, so I thought I'd do some reviews:

Casino Royal 4/5
Looks great. The movie is good... until he restarts his own heart.

Kung Fu Hustle 4/5
Very clear. Defaults to the English dub soundrack. Good for repeat viewings.

The Last Samurai 3.5/5
Tom Cruise trying too hard to act cool.

The Searchers 4/5
This John Wayne movie is great in high-def. Very cinematic. The Duke has some pretty funny lines. The extras include Scorcese talking about how great this movie is.

Mission Impossible box set 3/5
I wish there were more blu-ray movies so I didn't have to buy Tom Cruise movies. Mission 1 is great. Mission 3 is excellent. Maggie-Q is pretty hot. Mission 2 is pretty stupid.

Hellboy 4/5
Surprisingly good movie. And the picture is very clear. Quite good for repeat viewings.

The Dirty Dozen 0/5
This movie sucks. It's just too dumb, and the video quality is terrible. It's worse that watching a DVD.

Hyori vs Alba

Who do you prefer?

I Hate this..

Totally agree hahaha

Wozniak

Pwnage underwear

So you've pwned all the games you have. But you want to pwn even more. Here's a start. Pass this out to the ones you've.. pwned

Jonathan Ive drops the ball

Disappointing.

YTF!!!

The Target centre in Melbourne has one of the best curry yong tau foo known to man. The taste and texture of the crispy tofu skins after they've soaked up some of the laksa soup is goddamn freaking phenomenal... Jobsey abuses the sh*t out of me for eating it out of pure jealous rage!

4 Player Co-op on Halo 3!!

Tears are in my eyes as I heard this news!

Prediction : 4 player co-op on Halo3 will be like totally revolutionary in terms of a satisfying co-op experience! At the very least it will reach the heights set by the "Banshee Run"!

Top 100 Videogames (as per Edge magazine)

I just picked up the special mag that Edge released where it lists the top 100 videogames.. anyways here's the top 20! There's some surprising results! It's also not a bad read too especially if you're into videogames and want to fondly remember games of the past where you probably spent way too much time on!

20. Civilisation 4 : God I love the civ series man its super fking sik!!! tho actually I remember this game 10 years ago would be in the top 10.. hmm.. surprising

19. Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion : man are you fking kidding me? yeah I know the game in terms of rpg's is pretty extensive and really exhaustive and really free flowing (I played it like 6 hours straight once haha) but how the fk can u get pass those fking fugly character models man!! fk!

18. Final Fantasy 7 : hahaha!!! For many westerners this was their first ff game (was for me) and ushered in many good (j-rpg's!!!) and bad (FMV which plagued videogames ad nausem for a decade plus). It also had probably the most emotional moment in gaming history - the death of Aeris!!

17. Goldeneye : god! wat a game!! The first awesome fps console game that will probably never be achieved again considering most FPS games nowadays are built upon the PC-way of FPS.

16. Street Fighter anniversary : fighting games.. meh.. but I guess its good if you're into these games

15. Pro Evolution Soccer : See! Edge! They're fking class man to recognise PES/WE within the top 20 games.. u rarely see any major gaming site including this fking awesome sports game EVER!!

14. Super Mario Kart : geez I dunno about this one.. but then I was never a big fan of this game.. This is the only driving
game in the top 20 hahaha!

13. Ico : artsy fartsy game hahaha i remember I watched Matt play this game i think I feel asleep.. but i can see why its here I
guess

12. GTA : yeah! Sure the graphics were crap, the collectibles sh$t was annoying but wat a great world it created man!! And a top class music soundtrack too!

11. Yoshi's Island : Edge loves this game and I guess I love this game too haha fking hell yoshi was damn fking cute and so was little baby mario and the crayon like graphics was so bleeding edge for the SNES.. YOSHI!!

HERE WE GO.. THE TOP 10!!

10. Super Metroid : I tried playing this before recently... but old games man its sometimes hard to play them if there more than 10 years old.. oh well I'll just take their word for it.. Also has a quite stunning reveal at the end of the game where you find out Samus is.. A GIRL!!

9. Tetris : MAN!!! Why the fk is this game only at number 9!! It should be in the top 5!! What the fk is going on here man?!?! But aside from that what simple game with such depth and replayability. And this game it just keeps on giving cos nowadays you can play online!!

8. Final Fantasy 12 : ha! I guess this game must be good!! But since I've never played it I can't really say anything

7. Halo Combat Evolved : well.. I'm glad they specified halo1 and not halo2.. that's all I can say.. haha.. tho yes I grudgingly agree its a top 10 listing mainly cos it had the most awesome control system ever for a fps console game.. But like FF7 it brought on a whole load of copy cats to the point where MS entire strategy is just built on pumping out more FPS games than you can count..

6. Zelda : Link to the Past : ha! There's tons and tons of articles on how great this game is so I won't even bother

5. Super Mario World : Here we go!!! The ultimate platform game ever!!! geez maybe I should go play it on the wii I actually dl it a few months ago but only played for a few minutes haha

4. Half Life2 : I always forget about hf series but yeah this game is pretty much is the ultimate and complete fps game that has been copied but never equalled.. It has the most awesome single player campaign ever (It finally got rid of FMW and cutscenes!!) and that games engine Valve has? Well.. it created a little onlne game called.. Counter Strike.. legend status confirmed

3. Super Mario 64 : god man I fking love this fking game!!! It was the only mario game I've ever finished and it was just a joy to finish man I didn't even mind having to find those stupid red coins n sh$t which I normally hate.. go mario!! itsa me!

2. resident evil4 : WWWTTTFFFFF!!!! serious!!?? man I should really play this game then man!!! i have a gamepube version for the wii!!! fk I might go play it tonite!! Can it really be that awesome?! Anyone here played it?!

and number one.. da-ta!! and I bet it is!!!

1. Zelda Ocarina of Time : wat a surpise.. not hahaha

Greatest Hip Hop Track.. ever?

When you have a line "I'm never fake and I'm never phoney, I've got more flava than a packet of macaroni!".. yer pretty close to have the most awesome hip hop track ever!!

The music video though is not even in the top 10,000 clips.. shame..

Night Trap!

Want to know why in the early days of videogaming Japanese games had such superior cut scenes? Cos Western games wanted to use live action sequences.. cos you know it's more believable right? Case in point.. NIGHT TRAP!



Awesome song tho!

3D Mailbox

One name spells excitement...

PWNED!

Here is the Hexic equivalent of headshotting 36 Hongkies with a single bullet... be amazed!

N-Pretensions or how I Pwn Myself

1. I installed the n-draft enabler on the macbook - PWN MYSELF #1



2. Macbook grounds to a halt with current router (DG846G). I thought I'll be leet and update the firmware on the router. Instead I bricked it - PWN MYSELF #2 (Though Netgear should take some of the blame here for a lousy way of updating firmware)



3. Next day I got to buy the sik modem/router DG846N which has draft n-pretensions!!



4. I install it. It works well! Increased speeds from my macbook to imac! Margin increase of internet speed on macbook!! How joyous!! Though I do notice the macbook crashes for unknown reasons..



5. Next day (Friday) all hell breaks loose. The macbook continually crashes. There are some instances where I'll just let it sit there and 2 minutes it'll freeze! WTF?! After staying up to 4am I conclude that its the DG846N that's causing all the problems. it just doesn't work well with the macbook on any wifi network setting!! PWN MYSELF #3



6. Saturday I investigate if I can un-install the draft n (can't). I investigate if I can replace the card (can't its built in).



7. I decide to hell with this. I'm stuck with n-pretensions. A lot of the mac forums have said there's issues with being draft n. So the solution? Go get the fricking airport extreme!! That's guaranteed n-pretensions will work!! So I go do that and get a basic adsl+2 modem from netgear DN1111.



8. I promise myself the first thing I'm going to do when my n-pretensions is setup is to ebay my stupid DG834N.



9. First I setup the modem to install my ISP settings. Works a treat! Sik! Now all I need to do is install the airport extreme! I have this great meal of Shanghai food too ready for me to eat and celebrate; Dumplings, red bean pancake, noodles.. YUM!!



10. 4 hours later I still can't get it to freaking fking work!!!!!!!!!!!11



11. I find out that the modem I got is a POS device that has documented issues with the airport extreme. I can't fking believe it! In fact I find out that there's a few modems out there that don't really work well with the airport extreme. So much for plug and play. PWN MYSELF #3



12. Solution? I use the DG834N as the modem! And guess what it works. Though I can't exactly say I'm thrilled about the solution. Anyways. Network is up. Macbook runs fast and doesn't crash. All is well. I go eat my cold dumplings.



13. I have the airport express that I use for airtunes. Due to changing of networks its disabled. So I need to update the password.



14. I spend another fking hour trying to get this to work. I later find out I was connecting it to the wrong network PWN MYSELF #4.



15. At this stage I'm starting to hate apple products.



16. Next day I thought I'll try that virtual disk functionality with airport extreme with my external hard drive. I switch it over and sigh with relief as it works! Though I noticed tfr files from my imac is slower due to the USB 2.0 connect (previously I was on FW400).



17. It should be noted my entire itunes and iphoto library is on this external hard drive.



18. I'm on itunes and with a lazy Sunday arvo I'll go listen to the 1UP Yours podcast. So I go download it via itunes. And. Then. itunes. Crashes. FFFFCCCKKKK!!!!!!111 PWN MYSELF #5



19. I reboot my imac multiple times and I cannot for the life of me find my fking external hard drive on the network!!! WTF?! Yet on my Airport utility program it shows it recognises my external hard drive!!!!



20. I thought fk this. I re-configure my external hard drive back to what it was again. I'm really hating apple and especially the airport extreme. I conclude it a buggy POS from both a hardware and software perspective. Though it looks nice.



PS. I later find out that not all external hard drives work with the airport extreme and also find that itunes will crash like nuts if you try to download stuff from itunes store to your external hard drive via the airport extreme. I'm just fking speechless when I read that.

Nasi Goreng

One of my favourite fried rice combos.. Nasi Goreng!! At the old favourite restaurant Ayam Goreng just down the road from UNSW you can pic yourself up probably one of the best nasi goreng dishes in the whole of Sydney. Add the grilled chicken and the sambal chilli that will probably blow your ass off your butt, this is one great meal

Iphone

Hkd$9xxx! Still unusable in hk, but the sales guy are saying that they are about to break the lock any day now. Me and Lg is thinks he's trying to bs us into
buying it. Any one interested?

You want Fresh?! We got Fresh!

What happens when reel (haha pun intended!) men go fishing?! we eat stuff RAW! thats right.... fishing ain't complete unless you eat what you catch.... so here we show you... the boat, the fish, the sashimi! It doesn't really get any fresher than this!

Oh and in case you were wondering, the Yellow Fin Tuna tasted marginally better than the Slipjack Tuna

Wagu

Jobsey and Tash took me for Wagu beef at Rengaya in North Sydney.



I've had wagu beef before, but it was never as nice as this.