Ramblings of a man waiting for a refrigerator repairman.
I don’t have much time, but I need to say a big thanks to Neo for filling in while I’m sorting personal issues. My mom goes in for surgery next Friday, but they have said she will only need two weeks to recover from the surgery (which is amazing).
Rock Band + Zombies + Felicia Day + Neil Patrick Harris = sad me because I don’t own a wii.
It’s true! Rock of the Dead will use your existing wii guitar hero/rock band controllers to stop advancing zombies ala Typing of the Dead and stars NPH with love interest Felicia Day. Color me a sad panda for the first time EVER for not having a Wii.
RIP
Another sad but true story today: RedOctane, the original publisher of Guitar Hero I and II (and for me, more importantly, makers of some kick ass Dance Dance Revolution pads) has been axed by evil Activision. What a dumb move, to axe one of the most innovative peripheral companies around. I hope Bobby Kotick has a special place reserved for him in the fires below. The words ‘corporate douschebag’ come to mind.
Continuing and wrapping up the sad news stories for the day, Alan Wake has been canceled for the PC, with Microsoft citing it was ‘for the wrong platform.’ IE, PC users aren’t good enough to have it, while 360 users are. For me, that’s sad, as I was really looking forward to this one since I refuse to buy a 360. I think I’ll console myself with Heavy Rain.
The repairman has finally left, and I have a refrigerator after three weeks of canned food and pasta! Hooray!!!!!
Off to work, but first:
Dude, glad you finally got your fridge fixed.
Nice Felicia pic, dang
That is almost enough to make me go find a cheap used Wii guitar frame. It astounds me that companies will charge for a shell the same that they charge for one full of controller guts. Disgusting. This seems to be a trend I didn’t see coming. Making games for music controllers other than outright music games. Interesting. It’s almost enough to get me started on my ever growing hate for both Activision (Guitar Hero) and Harmonix (RB). But I shall try ot restrain myself.
RIP Red Octane, Activision is the devil. We hates them. I really need to stop buying games they publish.
Poor Alan Wake. That dang series . . . seems like it is one thing or another. I guess with the Failbox 360 install base they will still sell a quarter gazillion units but . . . *note* in this case failbox is a reference to the ridiculously huge HW failure rate of the system, mitigated only by the near infinite resources of Microsoft. If this had happened ot any other company, they would have gone TU 2 years ago. Mitigating crap HW with sheer arrogance irks me greatly.
Um, why the harmonix hate, Neo? Does we not love the rock bands anymore? I know i do…
Well, as you know I was/am apposed to the The Beetles Rock Band. I don’t care for the model one bit, however due to the ridiculous aura that surrounds the band and Apple’s jackassery I could at least understand. But rather than RB3 or some other substantive work from Harmonix we get Green Day Rock Band??!?! I don’t care how you slice it, there is no way to even compare Green Day and The Beetles, or even AC/DC which this seems to be more like. It’s a model that I have slammed GH for, and it seems that rather than bring something of worth they are locked into trying to bring “exclusive” content in unnecessarily complex packaging rather than just as DLC. At least this one is importable.