What's with all the kiddies on GTA4?

While playing over the weekend I hooked up my Xbox 360 to the internet with a 50 ft. network cable ($100 for a wireless adapter?! WTF Microsoft?!). For the most part, I played either races or GTA races, where you can kill people while racing. Most of the people I get matched with have headsets and talk mild trash and laugh when I crash into them. This is great! Now I only have to imagine the looks on their faces when I flip their car, because I can hear them screaming at me! :)

However, there are the idiots who think a headset is a free pass to say all the vulgar racial slurs you want. These people are annoying, and I mute them, and set them to avoid. But worse yet is the CHILDREN playing these games! Yesterday, my sister was playing a race and there were these two kids singing some annoying nursery song together. La la la la, la LA LAAAHH! over and over again! My sister doesn't know how to mute and set them to avoid, I also filed a complaint on them since they were so annoying. I hope they get banned forever.




Speaking of being banned, I hope this makes you smile.

And I wish it was easier to avoid the kids in the game. Don't you just hate those little jerks?

GTA IV - Rockstar DOES have morals!

Last night while playing there was an extremely gay character in the game that was being threatened by a biker guy. So after the biker guy hit's Niko's gay friend with a baseball bat, Niko gets pissed off and chases the guy on a moped (aptly named Faggio).

After shooting this gay basher off of his bike, I pulled out my knife and stabbed him to death. After doing that, I pulled out my pistol and unloaded a clip into him. And just to make absolutely sure the scumbag would never come back, I got into a big SUV and ran over him five or six times. THEN to show just how much I hated him, I did a burn out on his corpse so long that the tires came off. Then I kept doing a burnout with just the rims grinding into his flesh. After all this, it was time to say goodbye, so I pulled up next to his corpse, busted out the window and dropped a grenade. I sped off and looked behind to see a beautiful explosion and the gay basher's limp, mangled body fly into the air.

Interesting enough, no cop stopped me from doing any of this. I must say I'm impressed that Rockstar has this view on gay bashers, and I am glad I was able to kill one to the full extent I feel all homophobic gay haters deserve!

What do you think about this?

Grand Theft Auto IV - I can see why MADD is mad.

So I finally got myself an Xbox 360, and Grand Theft Auto IV. My first impression was that this is probably the most work any company has ever put into a single video game.

It's hard to find flaws with this game, everything is pretty fun. And the online mode is hilarious. Nothing is funnier than hearing someone across the country scream over their headset as their car flys over the edge and loses the race.

Building friendships in the game is another cool thing to do. I like to do the short ones, like eating or drinking. You just pick up your friend, drive to the diner/bar, and drop your friend off. Easy right?

Not if you go drinking. After drinking the game makes you stumble around (fun) and fall a lot (fun most of the time, not fun when you fall in the street and your head gets run over by a impatient driver). But here's the thing, you get into your car and Niko says "I really shouldn't be driving" or something of that nature, and then you drive off. The car jeers left and right, the screen blurs, and the controller vibrates like an annoying heartbeat. The cops also if they see you driving drunk will come after you. But outrunning them is usually easy as driving fast, turning a corner, and driving fast some more.

I am sad to say that drunk driving in this game is fun. But, that doesn't make me ever want to drive drunk in real life. In the game, you crash into things constantly while driving drunk. It's impossible to go down a street and not hit anything or someone. That being said, it's a game! It's an escape from reality, where the only thing stopping you from doing something illegal is a simple reset at the hospital or police station. I enjoy driving drunk in the game because it is a challenge to get home without the cops on you, also can lead to some pretty entertaining moments.

For instance, one time I was driving Brucie back drunk and I was being chased by the cops. I was going pretty fast and the car swerved, without my control, and I hit a center concrete barrier. We both flew from the car, I hit the other concrete barrier, and fell off of the overpass to my death. I haven't laughed that hard in a long, long time.

But then, later on I was thinking to myself, "Well there is another reason to not drive drunk.". And, from now on after drinking in the game, my virtual Niko Bellic takes the cab home.

Asteroids is coming along nicely

The asteroids game is pretty much done, I might tweak it a little over the next couple of days. I think the asteroids are a bit small, and need to be bigger. I still haven't uploaded it because it isn't ready.
I also want to make sure the code is cleaned up. I think there's still a lot of testing variables to delete.

I've also been working on www.vindicta-guild.com for a couple of days now. I'm deciding on whether or not to use postnuke by itself, or postnuke and phorums, or just phorums. It basically comes down to how much I like postnuke. I want to get the forums and member area set up first, before I work on the graphics. It's going to be a pain changing the template to black and red, but nothing I can't handle.

Vindicta Gaming - FIRST!

First!

Alright this is Vindicta Gaming's blog which will have World Of Warcraft information, gaming information, and my twisted take on news in the gaming world. I can't wait to really get this blog going. And so, to start it off, I will tantalize you with a game review.

Asteroids 5000 Click here to go play it, you need java!


This game is an excellent example of classic arcade gaming. It's so basic it doesn't even have sound! The controls however are a little like flying drunk, which is something the major airliners of today would NEVER do. The reason why I like this game is because, well... I wrote it with a buddy of mine from school. I plan on making more Java applet games, and improving this one. So stay tuned for the link to this bad boy.

Also I'll be working on a guild website for my World of Warcraft guild, Vindicta. Which I'll also link soon. Later!