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Hello, constant reader ( I can steal things from Stephen King ).  It's been a long time, and excuses aside, it's good to be back for more mispelled insights into games! First and most important is

METAL GEAR SOLID 4 REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!oneoen!!!

To be blunt, MGS4 was a solid (lol) dissapointment.  Where to start?  Gameplay wise, everything has been finally been tuned to a pretty solid (lol) control scheme.  No more ackward camera angles, tricky first person shooting, or pausing to change camoflauge, it's all been streamlined.  But here is the crazy shit: There is not much gameply.  I went through the game in about 16 hours, and G-d knows how much of that was cutscenes.  At least 3 I'm thinking, probably more.  And what was there fealt very unsatisfiying to play.  The sneaking portions and level design were simply not as fun and feel thought out as in previous installments.

Then there was the cutscene half of the game.  The series has always been praised for having complex themes, ideas, interesting charecters, and near movie like presentation.  While the game is graphiclly stunning, and it is very cinematic like a movie, it is not a very good movie.  The concepts that are introduced are never really developed, and the charcteres are not very fleshed out.  

So this games seems to have to parts; the movie half and the game half.  The movie part was poorly executed (apart from some amazing fight scenes) and the game half was lacking.  Overall, I really don't understand how this game could be rated 10 from Gamespot.  I used to trust them for reviews, but now I'm not so sure.  And this isn't because we disagree on one game, it seems latley like the site has simply been going downhill.

In other news, there is a sweet little racing game called Trackmania: Nations Forever the can be played free on Steam.  It's like a cross between hotwheels and... actually cars.  The result is a fun filled and easy to get into game with a great custom track builder.  I am proud to mentions that I am currently ranked 15th!!!!! in Missouri!  So suck it you meth heads.

Games, Games

Devoted readers, it has been a while since the last post, and I apoligize, though I have been told "it's too late".  But big news in the gaming department!  I broke down finally and got a PS3 with Metal Gear Solid 4, which is pretty amazing.  There have been some shortcoming in the game, but expect a full critque later once I finish.

Also I got back into Phantom Brave, a really deep and crazy game that always gets me hooked and playing for hours.  How can you not love going through the whole game power leveling a slime weilding a fish?  Yeah, it's pretty sweet.

Right now I am at a LAN party, playing some cood Counter Strike Source and TF2.  An updated and more fleshed up post well come shortly.  Untill then, flare gun kills are hillarious.