Online? I just recently got MGS4 and after 4 hours of downloading, installing and making and verifying my IDs I managed to go MGO and get killed by pros.

Just thought I'd inform you in case any of you play MGO a lot and wanted to maybe add me on PSN so we can someday play on the same team or something. So far majority of the people I've fought have been right from the crapper attitude-wise.

I also have downloaded the open beta of Home so if it ever starts working again (wasn't very open yesterday) I might be there too.

My PSN is still OscarPhyre and on MGO I go by the name of Oscar Fox.
And no, my name isn't Oscar. JohnnyFox is just taken everywhere I go.

... 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.

I've almost written 2 blogs between this and the last one, but I didn't post them, so here's an update of what's happening in my life.

I got another PS3 game for Christmas. It's TESIV: Oblivion. Great game, I spent over 100 hours on it before I quit, and still didn't finish the main quest line.

One day I decided to download a Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator when I saw some website mention it.
Now I can once again play all my favourite Sega games, like Toy Story, Rings of Power, Sonic 2 and Wonderboy in Monster World.

My video walkthrough "business" is going fine. In January I bought a Pinnacle Dazzle tuner, so now I'm a "professional" video game walkthrougher. My newest walkthrough is Spyro: Year of the Dragon, for PS1. I'm going to redo my old walkthroughs too now that I can have better quality.

I was referred to the leading paid-to-click program of this time, and made an account there. I've already earned 2 dollars and 83 cents. Too bad I can't withdraw my money yet, because there's a 10 dollar withdrawal minimum. Someday I'll have $216 and then I'll buy myself a website and a real domain name.

I recently bought 5 games.
Sonic Riders, Xena Warrior Princess, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider Legend and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition.
Sonic Riders is just bad. Xena game is not just a really horrible game, but it also makes so much noise inside the PS2 that I don't dare to play it anymore, in case it breaks something.
Tomb Raider AoD is crap. The controls are so clunky that it makes you feel you're playing a really badly made horror game.
Devil May Cry 3 SE is ok, but a little too fast paced and has too many tight areas to appeal to me right now.
Tomb Raider Legend is great, though. I don't know why some people mock it, but the controls work just fine, the story's...ok I'd say, and Lara's hot. It's a good game and really invites new people to the series.

Last night I was reading through my e-mails, and I saw something funny.
MySpace had sent me an account confirmation message. Someone had created a MySpace account for me, with as close to my real info as possible. I thought it was nice so I confirmed it. So, now I got me a MySpace account. Sad.
I don't understand why anyone would actually need MySpace, and I'm not hurrying to set up my detailed profile there. I haven't even picked my url yet.
I guess the person who created the account is some fan of my Jak walkthroughs, at least that's the idea I got from the password the person picked.

Well, that's about it. Other things have happened too, but I don't want to talk about them here.