Pixelated: Xbox One’s 720p problem is the biggest deal-breaker yet

The big story on the internet this week is watching the Microsoft XBone and it’s numerous fanboys falling flat on their collective face yet again.

Seems several of the biggest starting titles for the Microsoft XBone and Sony Playstation 4 namely… Call Of Duty: Ghosts and Battlefield 4 are showing up on the brand new platforms in very different conditions. The Playstation 4 is getting 900 pixels out of Battlefield 4 versus Microsoft XBone getting a measly 720 pixels (Much like your old DVD player!). The Playstation 4 is getting 1080 pixels from Call Of Duty: Ghosts (Much like your new Blu Ray player!) while the Microsoft XBone is getting yet another big retail game at 720 pixels Hmmmmm.

What does this talk of pixels mean to you??? Well, seems the vaporware gurus making the Microsoft XBone for a whole $500 smackers are hell bent in selling you lots of last years jagged lines while the $400 Sony Playstation 4 is obviously kicking it’s ass graphically in the first two big name games out of the retail box.

That’s all well and good but the facts are not in the pixels really they are in the easy to understand specs since what we are discussing here are simply similar reengineered computer systems. The more expensive system by about $100 with the more complicated explanations about some mystical, magical, unicorns and rainbows, “THE CLOUD” and how “THE CLOUD” would fix any of it’s lower hardware specs or flat out poor decision making from the line of managerial failures now collectively looking for a handy exit strategy and will not be getting that magical helping hand in Cloud of Dukee or Battlecloud 4.

Microsoft is soundly getting fucked over by it’s own promises of vaporware that has not appeared and probably never will.

We see plainly that hardware specs cannot be fixed by vague promises and narrative band-aids. So save yourself $100 and buy the cheaper more stable Sony platform. In all honesty I will be getting a Sony Playstation 4 for my console of choice but you know who is getting my console of the year award?

Ninetendo 3DS XL(Look! They made a gold one!)… The reason is the 3DS XL has more games I want to play. Pokemon X & Y are superb and next month we get The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and you can always go back and visit Animal Crossing: New Leaf. The secret of Nintendo is simple really when Nintendo makes a gold Zelda version of any console you know what their real money maker is.

So fuck the Wii U and the XBone and the vague promises of corporate bozos and stick with the consoles that show some real promise or at least better god damned specs because this shit does not get better by adding more code at some later date or in Microsoft’s case, more exclusives.

PS… My thoughts this week are with Adam Sessler and Jim Sterling who seem to be having issues of their own.

Pokemon X & Y

Hello out there!

Anyone home?

I just had to drop a line to you guys who still might be reading to let you know that Nintendo finally did something amazing. They got me to buy not one but two 3DS XL and 2 versions of this here Pokemon X & Y.

One for me and one for Jason so we can trade Pokemon.

Not to mention the game is freaking me out being so good.

If you ever played any Pokemonz back in the old Gameboy days this thing will blow your mind with digital pizazz and down right awesome sauce to play a brand new Pokemon game. So colorful and the animations are so cool and the Pokemon are cute and…

Nintendo actually followed through after all these years and gave us the Pokemon we all wanted when we were kids. Just do not buy a WiiU or anything stupid like that and hey if you want to save a buck get a Nintendo 2DS. My old eyes need the bigger 3DS screen but those 2DS are a pretty solid purchase there.

So um, yeah… does that make you cry over what has happened to gaming lately or what? I am proclaiming a rinky dink plastic coated handheld as if it were the hottest thing on the market right now which it actually is. A god damned Pokemon game on a proprietary 3DS is the best damn thing I have played all freaking year!

Oh and do not go looking for a 3DS emulator or any Pokemon X & Y roms out there because there are none and Nintendo wants to keep it that way. Stay safe and do not download any viruses or trojans doing stupid shit like that.

I am seriously considering playing it over again just to extend the fun I have been having with it. I wantz all the Pokemon!

Anyway, good to chat for a while. Hope everything is fine with you guys.

Looks like someone is finally putting the unmangled porn trilogy out for those of you who want to see probably the most well known gay porn series from the 70s… here is your chance to get the good stuff close to perfect as possible.

The Joe Gage Trilogy: Remastered

Mars: War Logs

Mars: War Logs a small time scifi RPG game that showed up out of nowhere this week (April 26th) on Steam supposedly from France and we are told it will soon be available for download on the Playstation Network and XBox.

So a quick summary…
Controls are primitive and a bit clunky.
Combat is again a bit clunky and sometimes a little difficult due to even more controller motion freeze ups.
Voice acting and lip synch and all general character directions and interactions frankly suck.
What you might call “the story” tends to be a bit of a scifi “by the numbers” deal.
Graphics in this game are not going to be something to write home about.
The very slow load times are down right painful.

You might think that I absolutely hate this thing but that is not the case at all. If you liked Fallout3 and maybe some of what Rage did and maybe some of what Mad Max was all about then dive right on in the water is fine. Hey, it’s filling a need I currently have for a new Fallout game without any signs of when that might come out.

But! I am in no way saying this game is ever “that good” mind you. It’s a catchy tune but it’s not very memorable.

See, the deal is this is not some triple AAA game being sold at full price. It’s a whole $20, one and done, and a digital download away, or hell, even less from what people have said in the forums. So in the end I think you might be pretty happy with what you get here is all I am saying. Instant gratification for a generic bit of scifi RPG fluff with a few obvious flaws is a pretty good deal. If there is something we need “more of” right now in gaming in general is some of these cheap mid-level non-”ground breaking” good times and less of those big budget zombie filled duds that seem to have publishers flailing around all delusional wtf right now.

So loosey goosey cyber punky post apocalyptical insanity with lots of easily obtainable leather biker outfits and baseball bats… No, this game is not remotely smooth, and no, the story is not well structured, and yes, the whole thing reminds me of a high school Bladerunner play being put on by some local teenage jocks who probably programmed this game in flash during shop class.

No matter, I am having fun and feel like I got my moneys worth out of it… your mileage may very.

Grade C

BioShock Infinite

If there is one thing that became apparent in 2012 and the beginning of 2013 is that the game developers as a whole are in a state of disarray. Except for some minor hits like DisHonored and Journey most of 2012 was spent discussing and rehashing how good Skyrim was. Out right horrid trainwrecks like the ending of Mass Effect 3 and the opening week of Simcity have shown Electronic Arts is unable to keep any of the various developers they bought and paid for making hits and in fact they seem hellbent on destroying the videogame industry as a whole.

I can summarize Bishock Infinite in four words… GAME OF THE YEAR.

Sure sure but Grand Theft Auto 5 blah blah still needs to come out… frankly Grand Theft Auto 4 sucked so bad I have no hope that Rockstar figured out where they went wrong with that series. Those demos looked like they were trying to be even more realistic which is one of the signs they still do not get it.

So since I have just completed BioShock Infinite (You can finish this game comfortably in a weekend.) I can say hands down BUY IT! The dang thing is as close to a old fashioned “red white and blue and very racist” Disney style video game as possible with far more twisted ideas kicking around and you get the original BioShock for free. Such a deal!

Probably one of the few Grade A games that will show up this year till Bethesda puts something out.

Richard Morgan ~ The Steel Remains

I was thumbing through this Gay Fantasy and it brought to my mind that whole Marquesate ~ Her Majesty’s Men thing. You know, that whole ultra masculine, ultra violent, ultra sexual, mish mash only taking all that typically modern crap and stuffing it into the usual Tolkien fantasy epic.

The reviews on Goodreads are a hoot as the self proclaimed “experts” of the reading public clutch their pearls and rant on about how dare Richard Morgan sully their gentle fantasy with this homo-manly-naughtiness and it’s awfully pornographic too! Have these people ever read any Gorean books? For a reading public they sure are uninformed to say the least. Anything that brings out the typical Goodreads mental giants to rant and rave about how nasty the language is and how disgusting the gay characters are… well that appeals to me big time.

So off we go for a new adventure!