Diablo III

Hell just froze over!!!!

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Diablo III

Simply put Diablo 3 has just been announced today and the official site has been opened, so I guess I have to eat my own words from a previous post; and I do so happily.

this announcement was definitely the most stunning and unexpected of the year, truly not even the announcements of a couple other sequels of great decade old games (StarCraft 2 & Fallout 3) didn't even compare. The release of this game screws up several of the count downs I have made namely The wanted games and the unlikely sequels. The secrecy of the game's development was what truly surprised me; the only mistake was asking the diablo 3 rumor site to change It's IP 'quietly' which was later blurted out of the sites mouth like some gargled turrets click ..... But you don't want to hear about my reaction to blindly stumbling across this you want to hear the so far mentioned details; and I will for all of you who are lazy enough not to click on the link and go to the official site to read it for yourselves (you lazy bastards).

First of all the game is still an isometric hack 'n slash RPG that takes place in the world of Sanctuary (twenty years after the events of the last game), but you could figure that due to the title. Now to the known differences; first and most obviously the game will be I 3D, It also appears that your hero will not be fighting the prime evil this time around; but rather a completely new enemy. There will be five classes, but only two have been revealed: the old limb-chopping, head-removing, spleen-eating barbarian Is back, and a new comer: the witch doctor, the name says it all a cursing, murdering freak-from -way-back. Many characters featured in previous titles will make a come back in this installment (hopefully not as a zombie though). According to Blizzard there will be more randomly generated events, quests, and encounters throughout the game. The sound design has been significantly improved, of course just about anything would be an improvement over the crappy sound of the original two.

From what I have read this gore coated, testosterone filled (an interesting term considering all classes so far can be played as a female), and loot covered Installment will challenge the masculinity of the previous two, and them crawl down to the bar and order a couple of Shirly temples.

And the chunks start flying!

Could've been better

I have recently downloaded the free version of the Spore creature creator and it was....... uninspiring; the editor was a little to simple and I was just a little to cute and fluffy. I admit I was fun, and probably would be even more enjoyable If I had bought the full version, but I won't For I am a cheap bastard, I will just wait for the the full version of the game to come out, though at this rate I will not buy it until the price has plummeted. My Opinion of the game has changed though; It is no longer on the list of 'games that I really want but do not want to wait for' but relegated to the sub layer of 'games that I sort of want and am willing to wait for' due primary to the excessive cartoonishness and the sharp turn away from the original semi-realism of the game seen in the original trailer(original Spore Official Trailer), my only question is wtf happened, if it had stayed to that formula It would've been awesome not just the sugar coated game it is shaping up to be........ sigh.

Semi-Historical Awesomeness

I was Browsing You Tube a while back when I came upon this awesome video, have a look(It's nine minutes long):

Crusader - Chris de Burgh

Don't Mess with the Zohan

This movie can only be described as a 'hilarious sex-filled parody of the modern world with an equal bashing for all, Huzzah!', but on a slightly more objective note; this movie was 'good', just a few flaws shy of 'great', (I would normally use the segue "due primarily to the fact," but I won't because that would be to obvious so I'll settle for a simple) "because" of It's extensive use of crude bedroom romps, bedroom humor, hummus, and Adam Sandlers Bare ass (the worst of all). What Don't Mess with the Zohan did well though was giving every ethnic and social group involved an equal and well deserved bashing, not caving into political ravings, and fake Yiddish swear words, I mean seriously : oi lok at that boottahken over there......

..... agh! not again!

But seriously I believe Zohan is was an attempt by Sandler to see how far he could push the movie rating system as he could, there will probably be an unrated edition with only one or two things that just didn't fit under the bar of rated R. But enough of this pointless speculative soliloquy, you as a (friend, consumer, 'Regular reader' hopefuly) want to know whether to watch it or let It gather dust in the bargain bins of tomorrow; first of all I'd tell you to jump off a cliff or stop being so Black and white then I'd tell you that It is a movie that should be seen, not a movie to form a cult about, not one to buy stolen tickets, or even to love (unless you have a fetish of Sandlers Bum or hummus). If your are uncomfortable with any of the afore mentioned thing then you had best stay the hell away.



Avoid the dvd!

Schools Out For Summer!

Well schools been out for About 9 hours and fifteen minutes, and do you know what that means.......... well for one thing it mean a lot more non-intellectual work (even though school could hardly be considered an intellectual exercise), also it means more posts more often (my non-existent readers).

This song just about sums up my feelings on this matter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_vVy0g4ZQ

Indiana Jones: and the Carnival of Unlikeliness (spoiler alert!!!)

Indiana Jones: and the kingdom of the crystal skull was a poor substitute for an Indiana movie, whilst it was a top shelf movie it does not stand amongst the pantheon of truly great movies in which the first and last (crusade) Indiana Jones are members of. Over all the movie was good but flawed.

Let me explain, the story was crafted of only the strangest conspiracy theories , Russian alien/psychic research, el Dorado as an alien Built city, Roswell, flying saucers, inter dimensional beings, most blatantly the crystal skulls, and the list continues on. The only reasons I think are possibly for this idiotic dribble of a plot is either; 1. It was just a ploy to get money, 2. the entire premise of making the movie was to make fun of good ol' Indy, another possibility is that (3.) they just stamped the story with the good professor's name and called up Harrison(this is probably the most likely), or my personal favorite (4.) they hired a Invader Zim fanfic writer to come up with the premise or maybe they got high just before they started discussing plot, any way the result was the same, a really good movie that should not have been created using the Indiana Jones license. Second was (SPOILER ALERT!!!!) the most obvious plot twist in the history of plot twists the (don't recall his name) is Indiana Jones' son, I mean c'mon they were setting him up the entire time, the friendly (yet not fatherly advice) gave the entire thing away; I mean hay his first appearance I pointed him out and said " thats probably Indy's son". BAt my biggest grievance was the fact it was a carnival of unlikeliness, from all the senseless theories that come from college students and raving lunatics that will go climb mt. Everest if you said there was a UFO crash site at the top, to the increased dependence on Indy's Incredible luck, to the crazy spider monkey-ninja-unread-amazonian things, and surviving three 100 foot drops in a histrionically inaccurate Russian amphibious boat. But all this is nit picking, unless you cannot tolerate conspiracy (In a similar manner to my hatred of their senseless idiocy), if not you will love this movie: just don't think of it as an Indiana Jones sequel, and even if you can't stand conspiracy theories you will like this movie still.