Fight Night Champ

I finally became fight night champ!!! After beating my arch enemy I forget his name, but he really pi**ed me off, as he slapped me about in the press conference. I love this game, actually it’s up there with Pro-Evo, but with the Fight Night 4 rumoured to be coming out in the near future, I can’t help but wonder about the improvement that could be made.

The first improvement was to bring back the ranking system, instead of a popularity based system. This sucks, and I don’t understand why on earth they thought it would improve the Fight Night 2 game. More real fighters, whether they are current fighters or legends like Joe Louise, Rocky Marciano, Floyd Patterson, Tyson.. I know he may possibly have a few screws loose, and may well be a sexually predator, however he was a great boxer.

The 1 thing that annoys me about FNR3, is that it attempts and succeeds at creating realistic game play, the analogue controls simulate as close as possible the fighting experience, however they contradict themselves by creating an unrealistic gaming environment. By that I mean, hardly any pro fighters, I even forgot my arch arch rival's name... no if Tyson had beef with me.. I definately woudn't forget his name. Also no real belts, WBO,WBA, Commonwealth etc… lest we forget EA’s slogan, “If it’s in the Game… it’s in the game.”

Keyboard Vrs Controller

Sony have announced keyboard and mouse connectivity straight out of the box. Bold move, for a console. Some anti Sony, would slag them off saying this is an arogant move to try and redevelop perfection.. that is the video games console.

Consoles have always had controllers so why change the winning formular. This maybe Sony's attempt to chip away at Microsofts massive PC gaming market, and why not, competition is healthy. There must be millions of PC gamers who do very little with there pc besides play video games, well maybe watch a movie, use it as a file server, etc.

Well you can do this with a console so why not? Well gamers are already complaing that there is an unfair advantage to first person shooters when using a mouse over a analogue stik, commonly found on Xbox and Sony controllers. I feel with practice these advantages can be minimised or removed completely.

So finally some good news fro the sony camp, or a blind and arrogant attack on console gaming.

Sony Achievements

So turn on my console, all excited about getting stuck into the new game I bought. Been excited all day about this one….. sweet.. Then all of a sudden, I get a phone call from my friend telling me to come round to have a look at his trophy case… a group of trophies he’s won for playing video games and finishing certain tasks…. Well I cant be arsed…. But maybe I should… you see if I don’t see his… he may not come round to see my collection..

Well I cant be arsed…. But maybe I should… you see if I don’t see his… he may not come round to see my collection.. What the hell am I talking about… Well this is in response to Sony’s latest genius initiative.. and there so called trump over the xbox live achievement structure. Instead of a simple gamercard, that you can take or leave… Takes 2 seconds to see what your mates have achieved and the games there playing…… they have opted for a virtual world, second life esc, where you have an apartment instead of a gamercard.

Friends come round to your apartment to look at a group of trophies to see what you have achieved. I will be honest with you, and don’t take this personally lads, I don’t give a shit about what you have achieved…. Well definitely not enough to come round to your pad to look at… If want to massage your ego I will find a strictly homo erotic method..

This environment will almost certainly turn into a sex chat room, just like second life has, but on the downside, I can’t be arsed walking round, interacting with some gamers I don’t know in the street….. chatting to them… I just want my hit!!! A strong hit of good gaming.

Sorry Sony, 10/10 for initiative, 3/10 for practicality. Maybe it will be ok, but I guess the type of gamers who will love this will be the type of gamers I’d probably try to avoid…. So don’t take it the wrong way if I don’t answer my door!

Just waiting

Just waiting for my girlfriend to finish work.

So had quite a busy one on the weekend. Drowning my sorrows in manchester after the Liverpool game.

Started very early. I used to go to uni in manchester so was weired seeing all the old places with new young, scarely young faces.

I always remember being in the 1st year out at the union looking at the 3rd years, thinkin there just too old for the place... Crazy really.

We didn't quite go the union but still round the student areas... And i felt quite old really... Its a joke really im only 25!! .

Oh well still waiting.. Will give her a call now.

See ya.