Harvey Birdman and Nintendo's Wii Zapper

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Dubious Honors Page 3

Lousy Cliffhanger Endings:

Mass Effect, Ratchet & Clank : Tools of Destruction, Assassin's Creed

God Of War-Button Mashing:

Examples: Clive Barker's Jericho, Silent Hill: Origins, Beowulf, Mass Effect

Hold the phone! Mass Effect had a Lousy Cliffhanger Ending and God Of War-Button Mashing? Wait.... no it didn't. It had neither, and if someone was playing through Mass Effect and thought that.... wow. You must have been drunk and on LSD. I believe the whole idea of getting together for the Game of the year awards were to put ideas in front of each other and say yes or no.

Really? Come on! I can see those problems in every game except for Mass Effect. The combat was slower paced and did not rely on those furious "Hit the button at the right time/QTE" that God of War made famous (Even though those kind of elements were kind of introduced in Shenmue, I will let that slide.) I believe the combat was "Shoot the dude in the face without being shot, or pistol whip that guy."

As far as the ending is concearned, hardly cliff hanger.

I know I am nitpicking, but really?

Sure I read 1up now and again. I have always found some of them to be a bit more brash and not as professional as the GameSpot staff. Regardless, both the teams are still in the same ball game and to see these pictures, makes the bottom of my cockles warm up a bit.

1up showing their support to GS

Maybe it's a publicity stunt for their show, whatever, I still found it nice of them to do that.

That is what we all need to be reminded of though, even though CNet made a horrid decision on releasing Jeff, life will go on. Jeff will find a new job, a better one and we will find him where ever he ends up. Maybe Cnet will redeem themselves in some way shape or form though I have always had an axe to grind after CNet sold TechTV to G4, ugh. I really can't watch that damn channel.

What we need now is support. What CNet did not only upset the users at this site, but sent a strong message to the editorial site. You can insert some random analogy here. Alex did a fine one over at his blog which I am sure you all read.

Yeah, do that. Cancel your subscription. Send your message. Viva La Jeff. Boycott this damn site for all I care.

I am coming back as long as there are those faithful to the original GS vision. The editors need our support. Whatever they do next, we need to tell them, it's fine. If they stay and provide the same great content without catering to fatcat jackholes with business degrees, that shows me something. Integrity.

You want to know the funny thing about all this, Jeff was right. I can only take so much of the F bomb before I wanted to shut the game off. I was completely disappointed with that game, it looked promising. Oh well, glad I didn't buy it. I feel bad because I really wanted to like that game.

8.8 forever. No fate. Cakepie.

Three reasons

1.) Top Gear

2.) Doctor Who

3.) Life on mars (Sure it was a limited run series, but it was brilliant.)

It would be great if I could get more great British programming here in america, but I don't have BBC america. I have to resort to other means.

I found out two things nifty the other day.

1.) I work right next to a Coca-Cola factory here in Providence.

2.) Salt water taffy is best when it's fresh.
- When going to Martha's Vineyard, be sure to stop in those little chocolate/taffy shops and get some right after they get done pulling it / chilling it. So freaking good. DON'T mix it with Diet Coke. My stomach has a cap of foam on it right now.

I am on the third disc of the heroes set. Hopefully I will be done by the end of the week.

On a sad note, my buddy Tom is coming to the east coast from LA. His grandfather passed away, so I am going to drag him around and cheer him up.

Rivera is still a great closer despite making my heart skip.

- Joe

.... not really.

Another fun update for y'all.

This past week, I went crazy with picking up some dvds.

Heroes Season One: Got a great deal on this. Thirty five bucks. Awesome. Seven discs of it.

It's Always Sunny In Philidelphia Seasons One and Two: I love this show, even though I have seen about two episodes. For twenty-four bucks, I couldn't say no to myself.

Robot Chicken - Season Two Uncensored: This show is VERY hit or miss. Some episodes, I just dismiss it. Other episodes, my jaw drops and I laugh as deep as I want to. I still love the show and the concept behind it, I just hope it gets even better with time and they get some more running gags. Twenty bucks and not a penny more.

Hotel Dusk - Room 215: I have not been able to find this game on any shelf until I stumbled into this Best Buy and saw it. Thirty bucks later, I was smilingly handing my money to the cashier.

I have to finish Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin before I start on Hotel Dusk. I know myself and adventure games, I get sucked in deep. I have not been this excited to play an adventure game since Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive on my old computer. Ah. Good memories. I should bust that out and play it. Thanks reminiscing about great games!

Me = John Woo fan

Stranglehold = Max Payne Ripoff with John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat

Me + Stranglehold = HOURS WASTED

I will just end this by saying the free demo was worth the download.

So watching the little video before the conference, you get to see all the press members 360 gamertags whom are in attendance. Either a great idea for all of us who want to harass people, or a bad idea.

On that note.... they updated the graphic. Now it looks like a silly slideshow. Guess it's better than having some random people in the gaming press.

Alright, back to peeping tom and working.... speaking of work, I have no audio so I am going to have to read Peter Moore's lips. Creepy. Very creepy.