Sunday, 25 May 2008

Thoughts From A Caveman Gamer

At the moment I'm doing a series of interviews with gamers for Console Heroes as part of a series im calling Female Gamers?
I thought it would be pretty funny to do an intro before the interviews as a character i like to call Caveman Gamer.

Caveman gamer is basically your average generic asshole male gamer that has the mind set stuck in the days of old. As a result his opinion is women should not be allowed to work, leave mans stuff alone and should concentrate on being a good little housewife and run around after him all day. I actually enjoyed pushing the character and trying to come up with these, although i also found them very challenging as well. Especially as I've been writing the majority of them just after I've formatted the interviews ready to post up straight away.

The results have been mixed, but i got told that some were very funny which was one of the main points of them in the first place, and i also have been told by a few people that i was an asshole. That is until they actually found out it was all just a joke and not my real opinion. So for your amusement heres the ones that i have written so far.

It turns out that we have a problem, no longer are females happy to sit at home baking cakes and having children. First they wanted to vote, then jobs of their own where they get treated equal like a male. (Pretty horrifying so far isnt it, but wait it gets worse, a whole lot worse) Now they want to invade our internetz and play our games.


Well after yesterdays set of interviews i thought the best way to calm down would be to hop on the 360 and play a game or two. So i powered on the 360 and put Dynasty Warriors Gundam in the drive and away i went . The game is about men in big giant robot suits battling to the death to save or destroy mankind or something like that. So surely its going to be a testosterone filled game with lots of violence so you thought i would be happy playing it, and i was really enjoying playing it.

Well i was enjoying the game until i found out that they have women piloting the mechs as well who also cheat and destroy my mech with a few cheap shots. As if women can pilot mechs they can`t even drive cars, so once again females managed to ruin my gaming experience.


I would like to retract my statement about females not being needed in games. I have come to realise what a vital role they play in the gaming landscape. Without Peach and Daisy Mario would have never had a inferior human being to rescue, and the franchise may never have changed the landscape of gaming to getting to the point as we know it today. There would be nobody to come last in Mario Kart. No boobs to stare at while playing Dead Or Alive and no Lara Croft`s ass to stare at as she crawled through tight spaces. So we do indeed need females in games if only to show how inferior they are and to oggle while playing games.


Most of you will agree that Goldeneye was one of the best games on the Nintendo 64, there is a reason why this is true, you played as James Bond a secret agent who is known for his kick ass skills as a spy. It was a case of right character at the in the right game. But what would happen if you replaced James Bond with a female character and set the game in th future? Well you would get Perfect Dark which despite its biggest failing of featuring a female character was rescued by Rare`s ability to make great games, it was a lucky break and as i said back then it was a big mistake for them to use a female in clearly a males role. Luckily time proved me right when they tried to emulate the success with Joanna Dork like they had the first time around. This ended up with a really bad game and storys saying Rare was finished. The game would have been so much better if it had a male character in the role instead, girls shooting guns? Dont make me laugh, its bad enough that they think they can drive, they really shouldn`t be encouraged anymore than they have been already.


Well i have had nothing but complaints about my intro the other day. I'm not sure exactly why, surely you should be happy that i finally admitted that we need females in games. I find it quite shocking that the females out there have time to read an intro and complain. When you know deep down that you should be doing the cleaning and cooking. Since some of you don't know how to be a good housewife, i think it is about time that you learned some of the basics. So put the pads down, click this link read it and then get back into the kitchen where you belong.


Well today you will all be glad to know that yet again I went out of my way to prove that females can't play games. Yesterday I got a link of someone saying you need to watch the skills of some female player on Guitar Hero 3, I don't know that I have ever heard of a female Guitar Hero player before either. I'll admit she wasn't half bad, she was all bad. So I thought, "I know ill dig out the old axe and give it a dust off to see if i still have my mad skills". And you know what...I was bringing the house down. As I shredded to Through the Fire and Flames with no trouble at all, I jumped up in the air doing an amazing scissor kick and unfortunately, my landing was slightly off and I ended up smashing through the coffee table. So not only did I beat her score, I also demolished a table in the process. Further proof that males not only play games better but also rock out better and harder as well.


Well since you females out there are continuing to play games i have some great news for you. Since Cooking Mama, the hi-tech cooking aid to teach women the world over how to cook was such a success, news has just hit the press sites that a follow up is on the way. Yes thats right yet another teaching game is on its way just for you females. So coming this fall to consoles everywhere is Cleaning Mama, with activites such as vacuuming, polishing and all other general household duties that you all should be doing.



Well i hope you enjoyed them, if not meh screw you guys.
:p

Wednesday, 14 May 2008

One Of My All Time Favourite Musicians

Well i was just sat here feeling sad as i do on occasion, with a million things going through my head, when i thought fuck it ill put some music on. Time after time i return to this song as its great and the lyrics are just awesome. Yeah i know what song is it? Well is Song To Sing When Im Lonely by John Frusciante (Guitarist with the Chili Peppers) Hes a musician in his own right as well though with 10 albums to his name to date which are all pretty awesome.

So heres the my favourite song by him with just random images, with the next youtube video being a live version of the same song.





A song to play when I'm lonely
Win and never play a game again
No one to face when I'm falling
Holding tight to dreams that never end

I'll be you
I do
I'll be you

No one's afraid to be called by another name
No one dares to be put down where they don't belong
Nowhere's anyone's reason
Everything dying and leaving

Out with these faults and you make me a baby
Faking a movement by no one seeing it
No one always finds peace flung
No one chooses to beat my pride down
Symbols pierce right through me
People fail to be drawn up
Sunlight to fade accumulates
Loving pain to be clung to
By luminous bodies
Only waiting for long signs to be wrong
And true to us
Out of place in my own time
Drowning thinking that I'm dry

Holding on to facts that will never be proven
Faking an action cause no one's looking
Hello when I'm crashing
Feel nothing when my life's flashing before my eyes

You should've threw me down
Is the content so much
You should've threw me down
Is the content so much
You should've threw me down
Is the content so much
You should've threw me down
Is the content so much



This is him just fucking about with Flea & Chad before a Chili Peppers show starts properly.



If you like his stuff he has an acoustic version of one of his albums for download free from his website.

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

We Did It, We Won The Cup!

Well the GamerScore League final happened this last weekend and we won. The final was pretty cool with some big scoring going on, with our team winning 21110 to 17150. The best thing was though that not only did my buddy Spartan break 100K on Thursday, but i also broke the mark on Sunday. Am i the first site admin to do it from all the sites out there? That could be true.

Overall my team worked as a pretty good unit and knew that we could count on each other to score when needed. Crash and Giraffe one k were beasts averaging 2,000 points a week in the normal season. Then in the play offs crash weighed in with another 4,000 points, while Girafee decided to play GTA 4 instead.
(Yes he was having fun while i was playing some random crap game, how i hated him)

The finals saw Giraffe and Crash both score over 6,300 points each. Thats pretty good for just 4 days gaming, or it would be if they both played on Saturday instead of leaving it to me. I think we all knew that we had it in the bag though and failing 4 RROD there was nothing going to stop us from winning, especially after the amount of work Crash had done in the weeks prior checking what games all 4 playoffs teams had available, and then editing it so that it displayed just ours and team 400,146.
If your intrested you can take a look at it here.

So what did we win?
Well we won the Cup! Isnt she a beauty.


We also won a 360 game each, with Crash also winning the Most Improved Award and bagging himself some microsoft points.

Overall though i was lucky to be part of this team, and would like to thank Spartan, Crash and Giraffe One K for asking me to join and be a part of it. We had quite a bit of fun over the last 2 months, theres not been a dull moment really with Giraffe telling me to score some points each week, and some very witty comments as we chatted while playing games. Including Giraffe saying how hes going to kill this developer or that developer for making a shitty game. So far on his to do list he has about 6 murders to commit, So i guess with the league season now over he will switch his efforts to that. So if you made Fifa:RTWC, Call OF Doody 2 or any other game he struggled with watch out.
lollamon

Crash did not swear at all during the league, the best we could get out of him was a few dang its, hopefully soon we can get him to say shit or boobies at least.

Spartans mic must be broken as he still isnt speaking, hopefully that will change soon and we can all get back together to laugh how bad i am at Gears Of War or some other game.

Disclaimer: Giraffe one k maybe a lot of things, but he probably wont come and kill you while you sleep,so dont worry about that happening. If your awake however watch out.
:P

You can read the write up on the final here
Also Spartans interview on breaking the 100K mark can be found here.