... online, you'll meet some unfriendly people there. And me.
Just yesterday I got my PS3 from Sony (the newest update screwed up the system in my original machine and it didn't play games anymore) and spent the entire day playing GTA IV online.

So, if you have GTA IV and online for PS3, add me. My PSN ID is OscarPhyre.
I suck ass, but enjoy playing anyway. Would be more fun to play with people I know rather than complete strangers I meet in random matches.

Been a long time, but lots has happened, too.
I got myself a professional webhosting AND a real domain now.
JohnnyDFox.com

That's where all the cool kids are not going.

On YouTube, I've uploaded nearly 1500 videos and got over 1600 subscribers.

And I got GTA IV months ago.
Life is good, aye?

The title pretty much explains what this blog post is about, so fans of that particular game should not expect to be pleased with the following rant.

I had my birthday last month. Just like pretty much every birthday, it was nothing special. I can even say that there's been better Tuesdays than what my birthdays usually are.
Anyway, I got Genji: Days of the Blade for PS3 as a present.
My review: It sucks. There's nothing more I have to say, the game is a flop.
I honestly don't understand how anyone at Game Republic or Sony Computer Entertainment thought that this game could be a hit. You don't even have to take just my word for it, check the gamespot score. I know, GS rarely gives games the scores they really deserve so you can't trust that alone, but compare the GS score with the Critic score and User score. See? Even the user score is only 7.0, and the Critic score is 5.8. Everybody seems to think the game is awful.

But more important than scores other people gave it is what I thought about the game. I mean, this IS my blog after all.
First of all, like I've told people numerous times, I like beat em ups and hack'n'slash games. I really do, I even like 7 Blades which isn't anything spectacular, but Genji: DotB can't even be compared to 7 Blades since it does nothing right as a game. Only thing this Genji game has over most games is the graphics and amount of enemies on-screen at the same time. Unfortunately the controls are clunky as hell and the camera, which I guess is supposed to bring some movie-feel into the action, is one of, if not THE most awful in any game I've ever played or seen. Not only are the camera angles completely wrong for the intended epic-movie-samurai-action-feel, they also hide half of the enemies on screen. I got my ass handed to me by enemies I never even saw because they were "behind the camera". The radar is also pretty useless, as it's quite difficult to realize which direction is which.

So, you're crippled by bad controls and you're facing half-invisible armies, what else? The areas are boring as hell, and occasionally even feel just like a really big prison. I don't expect freeroaming from any other game other than GTA, that's not the problem, but hackin' boring enemies with boring moves in boring locations... 'scuse me for expecting the next-gen to actually evolve in terms of gameplay and add something in games.
If I recall correctly, Genji: DotB won some kind of award for outstanding graphics or something. Graphics aren't gameplay, you don't control graphics, you don't kill graphics, you can't do anything with the graphics. Games don't live off of graphics, graphics are for CGI movies. Good graphics in games only help if the rest of the game is good, but certainly don't make games good on their own. I'll also have to add that even if the graphics MIGHT be mindblowing on HD screens, on my crap-definition-TV the game looks nothing above the better looking PS2 games. Seriously, I wasn't impressed, and I'm NOT going to go out and buy a HDTV just to see what this game can look like. Maybe I'm just spoiled by my other PS3 games, Assassin's Creed and TES IV: Oblivion. Now those games really make me want to dive into the TV screen and start eating the objects and characters, surf on the waves of shades and shadows and slide down the magical rainbow of colours for an eternity, even if my TV is not HD.

So, bottomline is: Genji Days of the Blade is crap.

I had something else to say here too, but I forgot it all while bashing Genji and now I really have to go pee, so I can't stay here pondering what all the other stuff was. Maybe I'll write another blog soon.