• 13Oct 08

  Timewarp 2002

  I recently relocated a TV of mine to another location in the house. I hadn't used it in a while and the remote was a little dusty so I cleaned it. All of a sudden, I dropped the remote and to my surprise, this is what lay inside...
  
  
  
  WOW. Talk about random. Me at age 15. I had completely forgotten about this note.
  
  Back in high school I had a bottle of Coke every day. I dunno how I didn't gain a butt-load of weight from that.
  
  Anyway, what else happened in 2002? Well, with the help of Wikipedia I'm gonna pick out a few things that stand out to me:
  
  - Ansett Australia died.
  
  - Queen Elizabeth died.
  
  - Kath & Kim debuted.
  
  - CNNNN debuted.
  
  - Spider-Man released.
  
  - Xbox LIVE launched, but no one cared until Halo 2 came out.
  
  - The WWF officially became the WWE. N00bs would still call it WWF to this day.
  
  - Kung Pow! Enter the Fist. They are yet to apologise for that one.
  
  - 8 Mile released, and 8 miles of rip-offs would follow for years to come.
  
  - Minority Report. This pre-dates the "Let's hate Tom Cruise" bandwagon.
  
  - The South Sydney Rabbitohs crawled back to the NRL. They wasted so much money on "We're back!" bumper stickers that they couldn't sign players that were actually good.
  
  - Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne released, and people worldwide got just a little bit angrier.
  
  - The Bourne Identity released. Michael J. Fox was the cameraman.
  
  
  
  Man, that US Kath & Kim sucked.
  
  elektrixxx.
  • Posted Oct 13, 2008 12:00 am PT
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• 21Sep 08

  Reversal!: Wussy Topic Title Edition

  I've kept myself out of the wrestling videogame world after getting sick of SmackDown! Vs. RAW's slow motion gameplay. Every year their only new feature was some awful minigame within a match to slow it down.
  
  After a few years out of the wrestling game loop, I caved last week to TNA iMPACT!: The Video Game.
  
  I've been a fan of TNA since it's inception, and although I'm not as dedicated to wrestling a I used to be, I still manage to catch it since it's been on FOX8.
  
  TNA's gameplay and mechanics were good for the most part, but that's basically all you get on the game disc. The game lacks moves, wrestlers, custom wrestler options, weapons and MANY other small things which would normally make for a decent wrestling title.
  
  To top things off, my Xbox 360 would freeze whenever I tried to join an online game. Midway customer support rounded it down to being a faulty game disc as this was a unique case.
  
  So, still with a hunger for a wrestling game, I'm now gonna come crawling back to the WWE SmackDown Vs. RAW series. I have no idea what the WWE series has done over the years, but at this point I don't care.
  
  This whole deal isn't all bad though. The reason why I gave in and bought the game in the first place despite knowing of it's issues was because of the extra content that came with it. Inside the case was a bonus disc with three matches and a documentary on the making of the game. What also lay inside was a card to send away for two free TNA PPV DVD's. I didn't waste any time sending that away when I bought it.
  
  
  So in summary:
  A free six day rental of TNA iMPACT!.
  345 gamerscore, which took me over the 10000G mark.
  Two FREE TNA wrestling DVD's, which should be coming soon.
  
  
  
  A better deal than renting!
  
  elektrixxx.
  • Posted Sep 21, 2008 1:03 am PT
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• 15Sep 08

  MicroComments #3

  I had written most of this weeks ago, which is why I mostly refer to games released last month. I didn't really get a chance to post; getting suspended twice over would do that.
  
  
  Console Crashers
  
  I wanted to show Castle Crashers to a friend of mine, so I took my hard drive to his house and plugged it into his 360. When I fired up the game, I was shocked to see that my game save didn't exist when it was in his console, and when I got home it didn't come back either. I had since started a new, completed game save (and isn't the game just so awesome!) but they really should have noticed and fixed this before release.
  
  The exact same issue is in Braid as well, so I couldn't show off one of the later levels to the same friend. My save wiped for it too, but luckily not only have I already finished it but I really enjoyed finishing it again.
  
  
  Olympic Cheater Revealed
  
  My friend that I spoke of earlier is a highly proficient button-masher. He played a bunch of Track & Field while signed in with my gamertag.
  
  He thrashed all of my records and half the achievements were unlocked by him. I feel kinda bad about that.
  
  Since then I haven't been playing it at all. The fact that they aren't really my records on the leaderboards actually makes me feel worthless when I play it now.
  
  
  D-Pad Of Death
  
  I've never had a problem with the Xbox 360's D-pad. This was only because I was yet to own a game that should mainly use the D-pad.
  
  My day has finally come.
  
  After playing a good amount of SoulCalibur IV, my D-pad has become a hideous monster. It's forced me to use the control stick in Bionic Commando Rearmed.
  
  I guess in a way it's good timing that these new controllers with the fixed D-pads may be obtainable, but damn that Microsoft. They should've fixed all these hardware issues a lot sooner.
  
  If my D-pad had red lights they would've burnt out by now.
  
  
  Playstation NotWork
  
  I've come across a seemingly unimportant issue, but for someone who likes his internet alias to be the same everywhere, this is big.
  
  The letters "XXX" are not permitted within a PSN ID, and as a result the global name of elektrixxx will never be on the Playstation Network. I've had to settle for the horrible alternative of "elektrixx".
  
  I've tried to get some PSN AU support staff to register the alias for me, with a small hope that they can bypass banned phrases, but they can't do it.
  
  A simple thing like this means that the Xbox 360 will definitely be my main outlet for multiplatform games. Sorry Sony, you've lost me for yet another generation, and possibly forever if these PSN ID's are a forever type thing too.
  
  
  Double-D L C-Cups
  
  The latest SoulCalibur IV bundle comes complete with a school girl outfit, sailor outfit and other junk. This goes perfect with the previous DLC consisting of maid outfits and other stupid garbage.
  
  First of all, don't get me wrong, I dig hot chicks in games, but they really need something better in their DLC than what they're rolling out now.
  
  I don't really need to rant about this in particular. I've already bought a game which features Ivy, Sophitia and other eye-opening women so I can't talk. Instead I'll just conclude with:
  
  When creating custom chick characters you can't lose when you set the physique to max and set the muscularity up a slight amount. The only reason for that is so that their skin shines a little better. You'll see...
  
  
  
  You're welcome.
  
  elektrixxx.
  • Posted Sep 15, 2008 1:00 am PT
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