Sex Pistols

A punk rock version of the Red Dead Redemption closing theme Dead Man's Gun.

Original video located here. Accessed 16th September 2013

I'm sorry, what?

Trike up!

Recently in World of Warcraft, I managed to get my claws on a Goblin Turbo-Trike. Now I have no interest in generating a goblin character but I must admit it is funny to see some of my current characters use a mount that was not custom-made for them:

Rithendal may have done the hard yards to get the Turbo-Trike but it does present the problem of his feet forever touching the ground whenever he uses it. Expect many a shoe sole to be worn down

 Meanwhile, Kyuzo looks hilariously unimpressed with his new mount. 

A Heart of Iron

Here's something I would like to know, regarding the artwork to the latest iteration to the Kingdom hearts franchise.

Original image located here. Accessed 11th September 2013

Did anyone look at this and immediately think Sora was sitting on the Iron Throne?

Come on I can't be the only one's who thought this

Still I bet he made that throne from the swords of a thousand fallen enemies...

Fun with Meta

Not much to say today. However on the weekend I went to a convention - MAIcon! And it was there that i saw this:

Bottom of the Barrel (no.4): Belial

It's been awhile since I'd last done one of these so lets talk some trash.

I want to tell you all about a game called Belial which appeared on the Commodore Amiga. Now, I may be cheating this time around as I've never played this game and only became aware of it through youtube. But what there is defies belief:

Original video located here. Accessed 6th September 2013

Where do I start? The entire game is a rip-off of Ghosts N Goblins! The graphics look terrible, the PC sprite is directly lifted from the Commodore 64 version of the game, the difficulty is absurd (perhaps more so than it's progenitor), the boss fights laughable and the whole thing stinks of being done by some pirates working out of their bedroom with a half-arsed approach and only concerned with sucking dollars from suckers.
But most striking of all is, for me, the music which is a recreation of Kraftwerk's 'Das Model'. Funny. i wouldn't have associated a song about consumerism to be associated with a horror-themed game. Mind you, it is peculiar to see this game from the passage of time - it looks bizarre, strange and, in a way, comical. Still, I hope Ralf Hutter took legal action...

Armageddon it

In a way, it's kinda weird revisiting the dungeons of WoW at a higher level. For as is my understanding, it is where the bigbads reside and, subsequently, where the real narrative meat of the campaigns lie.
Therefore it is weird to go back to the dungeons now at level 90: Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Liche King and Cataclysm each faced some world-ending threat (not that Azeroth is a world worth saving) so one can imagine that because the player character wasn't there to stop it, Azeroth would've been trashed beyond recognition. So what did happen when the PC was elsewhere? Were the baddies all waiting for him/her to show up? Indeed, it is strange to consider an invasion force stagnating just because some particular sod went in a different direction. Or did the invasion force had to settle for someone else?

Fezes are cool...apparently

On the weekend I did something I've been putting off for a while: Obtain Fez from XBLA!

Boy has this game got a reputation. One where critical acclaim and behind the scenes trauma walked hand in hand. I've seen a lot of positive response and then I saw the difficulties involved in getting this game made (courtesy of ace doco Indie Game the Movie). A reputation of the intimidating kind? You could say that.

At time of writing, I've played about two hours and the game is so far proving to be charming. I like the graphics, the puzzles are challenging and so far a sense of depth is slowly creeping up behind me.

Not much else I can say at the moment but if Phil Fish has really quite making games then at leats now he has ten bucks to help him out on his way