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Nerd Wants the World

By Ustaiden On Sep 24, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , ,

If this game ever gets made it will be the best online game ever made.  Now there is just the problem of making a game this complex without it taking years and millions of dollars.

I’m disappointed because the game allows me to do nothing creative in terms of powers and abilities and items in Star Wars.

Non-destructible buildings/no real cutting of the environment itself with lightsabers or thermal detonators; no creative uses of Force powers going beyond what the KOTOR games had (i.e. weak but finite control – squeezing an artery or synapse, for instance; or strong, like ripping a tree or homestead out of the ground).

No ability to nonchalantly plant Thermal Detonators on people while walking by, no truly grey-area characters (i.e. a Jedi that isn’t good but isn’t a Sith/dark-sided), and I never got a chance to see about Force Speed yet but I doubt it’s as fantastic as it should be.

Part of the problem is not knowing whether they want to pursue classical/original trilogy style Force abilities, where raising a small light ship from a swamp took concentrated effort and rage alone could be all you needed to win a jedi-sith fight, or if they’re going for a prequel level of craziness.

Yes, it’s a standard, by-the-book-and-no-real-deviations MMO, and you normally shouldn’t expect more from them. But when you claim to revolutionize the genre, and you’re jumping into a genre that’s already massively oversaturated (and living on top of the corpses of tons of pretenders and failures), you’d expect them to actually deliver on such a bold and frequently-repeated statement.

When you promise to bring color to a greyscale world, it’s quite disappointing when the final result is a white sheet of paper that looks red under certain lighting conditions.

EDIT – One thing I forgot. I don’t know how PvP will/does work in the final product, but (assuming prequel level of jedi/sith threat, or even just Vader level of abilities) it would seem pretty out of place if taking down an experienced Jedi or Sith didn’t take a good level of tactical planning from a dedicated group of any non-Force class, but I quite doubt that they bothered to be so in-depth or outside of the MMO norm, sadly.

EDIT 2 – There’s another thing I forgot to mention. The graphics and animation.
Understandably, they have to scale the graphical capabilities back a bit to make the game play better with a few million players.
However, that doesn’t mean that the graphics should be at only Xbox 1 level, nor does it mean that they shouldn’t at least be trying to push the envelope a bit.
OF course, I have not seen the final game yet, and maybe it does have a graphic level not in the test version that is far superior. I doubt it, but it’s possible.

Then we have the animations – I really hope they’ve touched them up a LOT if not outright replaced entire segments. Bioware have always had problems with idle into action and action into idle animation but it seems to have gotten worse since Mass Effect.

Tony Danza Hates Star Wars: The Old Republic

By Ustaiden On Sep 24, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

Today it was announced to the world.  Its on all the big gaming sites, in your email if you signed up on swtor.com, on facebook, and I’m pretty sure that tonight there will be a neon message on the moon.  December 20th is the moment that any former WoW player that quit 5 years ago has been waiting for.  Now here is Tony Danza severing up the truth.

And it’s still going to suck. I can’t wait till a month after release when everyone looks back on this game and realizes how bad it is, and regret not listening to the people who warned them.

Truly, truly 29:30.

Some nerd responded with that he’s in the beta and it’s a lot of fun.

Keep lying to yourself bro. I can’t wait till this turns into Warhammer 2.0 just so I can laugh

Another nerd says how can he say someone is lying to themselves about their enjoyment

I actually think you’re just in denial, and aren’t even in the beta, and are just pretending to be to get positive hype for the game. It’s not uncommon in the MMO world. Like I said, no doubt 1-2 months after release you’ll regret wasting your money too.

Some trashcan noob says he played the game to level 8 and it was badass

Know what else was really fun till level 8? Aion. Actually, Aion was reaaaaaally fun till level 20 when you had to start grinding. That’s how they trick you, the earliest parts in MMO’s are always the best. Every. MMO. Ever.

Another trashcan noob says it will be as good as KOTOR and he gets spolierblasted

Seriously kid, it’s at least gonna be as good as KotoR…

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH…

You know they kill Revan and HK off in a leveling dungoen right? Just thought I’d let you know that, if you’re a fan of KOTOR.

And to wrap it up

What’s even greater is, with one post, I’ve attracted a legion of the Bioware Defense Force. I refreshed Kotaku after an hour and had 16 new replies. I can’t wait till January, just so I can laugh at them all. I should write all these names down and contact them in Feb to see if they’re still playing, but I’m too lazy.

Fucking Shapap’d

 

This is Fucking Terrible…

By Ustaiden On Sep 19, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , , , , ,

I knew this was going to happen but I still was not prepared for it.  The Bieber Fever that has swept the world was going to produce lesser(all though I don’t know how you can get much lower than The Biebs) knock offs that will ride the wave of popularity.

Seriously, its the same formula.
1. Little white kid writes song about trying to get to second base with a girl
2. Add some simple hook
3. Add some washed up/overrated rapper in the middle
4. ???
5. Collect money from 10-17 year old girls. 143! 143! 143! 143!

All of my rage aside, I got to give it to this little cornsilk, 143ing, corporate produced accessory.  He will never become a phenomenon like The Biebinstein but in 10 years he will still be able to travel around and play small gigs and fuck the loyal fan base of his youth.  That seems like a pretty sweet deal to me so go ahead and iyiyiyiyiiyiyiy.  You are still fucking terrible though.

Everyone knows that if you want to be a successful child musician and continue to make music after your balls drop, you need to be black.  Or you need to at least start out being black then you can become white if you want to, although that is not a requirement though.  Stevie, who became famous very early in life, will show you kids how to do it by playing a song by of the most famous child musician of all time!  And everything turned out fine for the both of them!  Well other than the pedophilia, early death, and blindness but at least they got stinking rich.  Don’t try to fix whats not broken Music Industry.

P.S.
That song makes me sad every time I hear it :(

mmoQQ exclusive .gif.  Come at me.

Not Enough Bosses=Slap in the Face

By Ustaiden On Sep 19, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

I believe at the last blizzcon it was said that their goal was to start releasing two raid zones per tier. And yet for this expansion out of the three tiers we only got that once.

T11 had 14 bosses! That is the perfect amount. T12 had half of that, really? And now T13 is going to have 8, only 7 bosses though.

This seems like a slap in the face to the players. WoTLK we had tons of bosses in all raids except ToC. In BC every tier except Sunwell (which was really just an extension of T6) had a minimum of 11 bosses.

What gives? It seems this is how wow is going to be from now on. Takes them the same amount of time to release new tiers and yet they are essentially cut in half. It wouldn’t  be such a slap in the face if they were at least releasing content at the same pace as they did in Vanilla. MC and BWL both didn’t have as many bosses per tier as any of the tiers in BC, and yet BWL was released faster than most after MC.

This is a give and take situation, if you are going to keep giving us 7-8 boss tiers they need to come out at the 5 month mark AT THE LATEST.

If you are going to take 8+ months to give us new tiers then they should have a minimum of 11 bosses. Just because you are at the top of the summit doesn’t mean you can coast.

Whats the Big Deal?

By Ustaiden On Sep 19, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , , ,

Nerd on the WoW boards talking a lot of smack on Bioware/SWTOR.  Come on guys why would you play WoW when it is just copying Everquest.  It has the same raiding, combat is similar, and has a lot of the same classes!  Its like they came out with a Warcraft mod for EQ!  I HATE THIS GAME!

Has anybody seen ToR so far?
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the original KoToR games, they were !@#$ing great. I can’t even count how many times I’ve played through them when I was younger.

But…in all honesty, this game looks like a HUGE WoW copy. I loved the idea of a good Star Wars MMO when this was released, but every time I see footage of it now, I just get annoyed and stop watching halfway through.

It’s like the developers weren’t even trying to make the game different from WoW except in terms of RPG elements and other in-game stuff. The combat, hell, the raiding is the exact same damn thing as WoW.
Just look at this.

http://www.swtor.com/media/trailers/eternity-vault-developer-walkthrough

Hey, that’s a pretty cool Star Wars mod, isn’t it? Actually, it’s another different game, weird, I know. I wouldn’t be surprised if it had talent trees, and a dungeon finder. The casting bar is even in the same space for God’s sake. Seriously, if I wasn’t told otherwise, I literally would have thought this was some kind of Star Wars expansion for WoW.

There are plenty more videos on their site, I encourage you to look at more if you wish.
In all honesty, I really don’t see this game getting far. I could go on for a long long time about the other things I’ve grown to despise about this game so far, but I felt this was good enough for the time being.

You are NOT the Father!

By Ustaiden On Sep 14, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , , ,

Ya ya ya, I know this is old hat now but I fucking love these videos.  They even spawned YTMNDs (Brought to my attention by our MuscleBear Twinsite Terminocity).  Anyway, the  best ones are with music added to them.

Go big Wilbur

Sorry for the shitty quality but it lines up perfectly…

 

So this got me thinking, what would my you are NOT the father song be?  And here it is.

I just need to make sure I wear bike shorts and a blazer onto the show.

And here is my PIC Painkiller’s

Here is WJE’s

And mmoQQ’s songbird Fep has one as well

Remembrance Rage

By Ustaiden On Sep 11, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , , ,

I want to start off this rant by saying that I am in now way belittling the events of September 11th.  I know it was a horrifying and confusing time for everyone in our country.  That being said; I feel like traumatizing events like September 11th should be remembered in a way that is not influenced by any agenda.  Read on.

I knew the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 would bring an exorbitant amount of television specials and“ special reports from the major news networks but I was not prepared for this.  Now I know it is not a good time to berate Capitalism, but can’t we all agree that these assholes are just trying to profit off of the events of 9/11?  I mean it starts off being a 100 dollar “value” and it goes all the way down to 29.95 (19.95 online!) and a free silver edition of the coin.  But wait there’s more!  You also get a special Seal Team 6 mission pack.  I am against any commercialization of the despair or hardship of others and this is just the sleazy, dishonest examples of this.  Im sorry but that coin will NEVER be worth 100 dollars.  Sorry folks, it is a mass produced coin that is not even issued by the U.S. Mint.  It is literally only worth its weight in gold, so unless Glenn Beck starts buying up these coins you are not buying a piece of memorabilia.

After I saw this commercial on television I thought, “Hey why don’t I antagonize myself further and Google “9/11 remembrance memorabilia”.  I sure got what I asked for.

Now come on Lieb Cellars…really?  It uses grapes grown 90 miles from the World Trade Center?!  Well in that case why wouldn’t I want to get drunk on a cheap chardonnay on this Sunday!

This next one I will give it to them that they are donated money to charity…but….

I’m sure the Phoenix and Scottsdale Firefighter’s Association could use the donations and donating to a firefighter’s association is better than buying a gold coin or wine but you lose creditability on the name Stingray Sushi.  Anyone eating your crab and avocado roll, without seeing the name of it of course, will not be thinking about 9/11 or firefighters they will will be trying to remember WHY THEY PAID TWELVE DOLLARS FOR THIS SHIT!

On the other side of the coin (had to do it), these people are not dumb; well not entirely at least.  They know that invoking the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 will help them sell their product.  I just want to know: why do people feel the need to remember by buying something?  I know everyone feels it is important to show how much you care in this day and age, but that’s not what Sunday should be about.  It should be about how you personally feel about 9/11 and how it affected your life.  If you really want to spend money there are plenty of charities you can give to, but I know that doesn’t “show” how much you care.

I have been to Ground Zero and Pearl Harbor; they are both places that everyone should visit.  But it is tragic to see Pearl Harbor as a tourist trap where you pay 40 bucks a person to go to the memorial and pay for 7 dollars for a corn dog.  Its not even a Bachmanator corn dog!  Then after you go to the Arizona Memorial and really see how insane that day must have been and feel the weight of the Pearl Harbor Attack you are led back to a gift shop filled with shit.  The 9/11 Memorial that is opening this weekend will be exactly the same.  For now it is free to get in; you just have to reserve a ticket in advance.

I hope it stays that way for as long as possible because just seeing the gap in the NYC skyline really puts it all in perspective and makes you think.  I bet the museum is really well done and hopefully helps people realize how traumatic that day was.  But I fear that it will just be another hallow landmark used by a small few to exploit the many.

 

This is Fucking Terrible…

By Ustaiden On Sep 8, 2011 Uncategorized 2 2 Comments Tags: , , , ,

Last week I saw a story about someone named “Kreayshawn” and how she is a “celebrity” that was hacked by an offshoot Anonymous group.  They are targeting celebrities to air out their dirty laundry and whatever else they can find in their emails.  Anyway, this is all old news now but they found naked pictures of Kreayshawn and a quick Googling of “Kreayshawn naked” will get you the fap fodder.

This story gets more interesting once I looked up Kreayshawn to see who she is.  This is fucking terrible…

What the fuck is this? I don’t even…. there is just too much going on in this terribleness.  First off, girls can’t rap; there I said what everyone was thinking.  Second, is this what hip hop and rap has become?  This song is all beat and hook that is pretty bad but with crazy shit terrible verses and rhymes.  Lastly, and this helps redeem her a little bit, she looks a lot like Casey Anthony.  Oh my lanta, Casey Anthony and Kreayshawn threesome here I come.
caseyanthonykreayshawnlookalike
Drop some G’s Busta

The Everyman of the New Millenium

By Ustaiden On Aug 31, 2011 Uncategorized 0 No Comments Tags: , , ,

No, it is not any of Matt Damon character or even anyone from one of the the 100 movies Bruce Willis has been.  It isn’t Nic Cage either, thank God.  It is Al Bundy.  In this age of ragers and red shirts; there is only one man that can make sense of it all. 

A man with enough one liners to quell the biggest nerd blast or nugatory crusade.  A man who portrayed the response we all wish we could provide when we just could not stand another rambling from sweathog.  He also hated fat people which is another feather in his cap.

If there is anything that the Internet Age has taught me, it’s that we are now in a world where anyone can drone on about whatever they want.  At mmoQQ, we focus on video game forum post which are one of the most explicit examples of the freedom of the Internet Age.  We don’t have to take it anymore; there is an appropriate response.  What would Al Bundy do?

Yes you will be ignored, just like Al was, but at least we said something.  Maybe if enough people drop a clever response on the next loremaster or hissy fitting kid; we can rid the world of Maddie McBaddies.

It doesn’t matter if you are a Parts-man, Accounting Professional, or Stimulation Specialist.  Deep down we are all Shoe Salesmen in one way or another.  Now is the time to use our pain as weapon in the fight against the crying and whiny of the Internet Age.

At the very least, we will have more clever responses to worthless forum post that can be posted on the website.  Everybody Wins!  This one is for you Al, respect.

How About This…

By Ustaiden On Aug 31, 2011 Uncategorized 1 1 Comment Tags: , , , , ,

So the human blimp, Rush Limbaugh, said this on his radio show the other day:

I’ll guarantee you Obama was hoping this was going to be a disaster as another excuse for his failing economy,” he said. “If he’s out there blaming tsunamis, blaming earthquakes, this one [was] made to order, but it just didn’t measure up.

Now this isn’t really anything out of the ordinary but it got me thinking.  Didn’t some of the other Conservative talking heads say that all these natural disaster’s are part of God’s “punishment” for everyone being gay.

Glenn Beck:

How many warnings do you think you’re going to get, and how many warnings do you deserve? This hurricane that is coming thorough the East Coast, for anyone who’s in the East Coast and has been listening to me say ‘Food storage!’ ‘Be prepared!’ If you’ve waited, this hurricane is a blessing. It is a blessing. It is God reminding you — as was the earthquake last week — it’s God reminding you you’re not in control.

mmoQQ’s darling, Michelle Bachmann:

I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’… Listen to the American people, because the American people are roaring right now, Bachmann continued.  They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending

Bachmann’s comments are being defended by saying she said it as a joke, video here.  While people are laughing (I dont know why, it’s a pretty lame joke if you believe she is just horsin’ around) it isn’t too much of a leap to think that she believes that God is sending a message right now in the form of killing innocent people.  That will show those gay liberals!

Now I know Obama is secretly a Muslim, but he still claims he prays to the Christian God.  During his prayers, asking for a hurricane on the east coast or a couple earthquakes around the world to help out his approval ratings probably came up.

So answer me this: if Obama prays to God for natural disasters so that people forget how bad he is, are all of the recent disasters still a message from God that we should all stop being gay?  Is Obama secretly a conservative now?  Or are we just going to go with that he is praying to Allah who is the bad God that is doing all these mean things and that’s why we can’t be gay anymore.

On a related note, Pat Robinson still takes the cake for how God uses natural disasters.

Got to love the “true story” drop in there.

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