uncharted movie details

mark wahlberg as nathan drake!

ugh, i can’t believe that i am about to reference mtv.com [then again, i also can’t believe it’s not butter], but they have some very juicy details about the possible uncharted movie. so far, we have these three as almost confirmed:

• mark wahlberg [nathan drake]
• robert de niro [father]
• joe pesci [uncle]

now, i have never met david o. russell, who is apparently heading up this whole project – but i do know he’s an idiot. mark wahlberg being cast as nathan fucking drake? seriously? mark,  this isn’t a personal thing and i am sure you are a nice guy. when it comes to acting though … you’re an ok actor. i remember watching the departed and thinking how adorable you were, trying to be all tough and shit. so cute. it was like watching children play house.

you did very well in the perfect storm. you did an good job in the lovely bones. most of your movies, you do an ok job. that’s it. that’s your niche: ‘not-a-shitty-actor-but-never-gonna-win-an-oscar’. no one is ever going to be able to pretend that you are a free-spirited treasure hunter with strong mercenary tendencies. nothing personal, but as an actor, you just do not have that depth. i can’t be sure, but i honestly believe it’s those soulful brown eyes and gentle masculine tones that ruin it.  repeat: no one.

these are better choices:

• nathan fillion – go watch five minutes of an episode of castle and you will know what i am talking about.
• nolan north – ‘who is this guy?’, you ask? oh he’s just the ACTUAL voice of nathan drake. and an actor. yeah, don’t worry about shit like ‘details’ and ‘authenticity’.
• brendan fraser – now this man would be believable.
• david boreanaz – cute and boyish charm? check.
• ryan reynolds – totally can pull it off
• russell crowe – see? another great choice. honestly, *i* should be in the film business.
• dwayne ‘the rock’ johnson – bad ass AND funny.
• cookie monster – no seriously, i think he’s a better choice than marky mark.

even though i would never pretend anyone at mtv is a legitimate journalist, or – god forbid – actually knows how to read, i do invite you to go read the article. there’s even a video of widdle marky mark trying to be serious, aww. i just want to pinch his cheeks and gently scold him for being up past his bedtime**.

**not obnoxiousgamer’s actual reaction to a child.

essential games for playstation 3

i get so many questions from new ps3 owners: what ps3 games should i get? game stores want you to buy the most possible, of course. very few big box stores will tell you that a game is a waste of your time. truth to be told, a lot are. or rather, what seems like a great idea is poorly executed. we aren’t singling you out, turning point: fall of liberty, but if you feel guilty we all understand.

now, i should say that there’s nothing wrong with having all sports titles on your shelf, or only shooters. however, in my experience, many gamers like variety. and as we know, it’s the spice of life.

what i’ve done here is given a list of games every ps3 owner should have on the shelf. most can be obtained cheaply, which is nice too. some are also exclusive to the playstation, and they’ve been marked with an asterisk.

• red dead redemption
• the saboteur
• fallout 3
• uncharted *
• uncharted 2 *
• god of war 3 *
• eat lead
• alone in the dark
• infamous *
• bionic commando
• assassin’s creed 2
• battlefield bad company
• rainbow six vegas 2

sucker punch admits to dumb decisions – but it’s not what you think

infamous compared to infamous2. many, after having seen some hd screens, would argue there simply is no comparison. those of us playing attention to this shit know one thing: they changed cole mcgrath. we wanted an answer. we wanted an explanation. then it turned out sucker punch had been talking… but it wasn’t good.

play-mag, out of the uk, apparently sat down with the developers recently and bring us this:

“Speaking exclusively to Play at its Seattle studio base, Sucker Punch has admitted that it made mistakes in how it made inFamous, but has learnt from them and made significant improvements for inFamous 2. Development director Chris Zimmerman revealed that the studio is now very familiar with the PS3 hardware and is fully prepared to exploit it to make inFamous 2 look the best it can.”

what the fuuuck? they aren’t apologizing for messing up a beloved character?

“We made some really dumb decisions in the last game, but we’ve managed to fix them,” he told us. “It was pretty early on that we knew what we weren’t doing in inFamous that we needed to do in inFamous 2, but we had to tear a whole bunch of stuff up and put it back together. In technical terms the biggest thing that we’ve done is migrate a much larger part of our code to run on the SPUs. The PS3 has this elaborate architecture where there’s a whole bunch of different places you can have your code run and we had it all running in the slow part.”

ok, we KNOW you made some dumb decisions.  you tore up cole fucking mcgrath and wrecked his shit. now you’re talking about ‘elaborate architecture’ like any of us are supposed to give a damn?

“By sussing out the hardware Sucker Punch believes it has a game that could never be achieved on another console. “If you look at games like Uncharted 2 that’s a game that you actually can’t do on Xbox no matter how clever you are, there’s just more processing power on the PS3,” Zimmerman explained. “inFamous 2 is going to be the same way. You’ll look at it and see that there’s no way we could have done this game on 360.””

OH COME ON. utlizing the full processing potential of the ps3 is no excuse! why did you CHANGE THE CHARACTER?

fuck. people are dumb.

little big planet 2 will become a part of your soul

littlebigplanet 2 - potential screenshot?

what’s a day without an outlandish headline, eh? while little big planet 2 likely will NOT become part of your soul, it is, by all accounts, going to be a damn good game. media molecule really rallied themselves on littlebigplanet, and i can hardly wait for the follow-up.

little_nerdxo and i are busy playing the shit out of this game. i don’t know about her, but it’s definitely earned a place in my heart.

my sister, little_nerdxo, definitely enjoys the gentler side of gaming. she is forever denouncing the rude shooters i get sucked into most nights. give her a puzzle, or adventure game like uncharted 2 and she’ll be set for the evening. even fallout 3 was a good one. of course, i like those too, but i also love to blow shit up. i love mischief too, and collecting stuff.

it’s odd then, that two totally different styles of gaming can be appeased. but they do. we both get our fill of adventure and puzzles, and get to hang out together. the second installment in this series is supposed to be even more social, and i know that we both, along with many fans, are waiting with baited breath.

annoying game dev trends

i’ve been playing a lot of great games lately, but a disturbing pattern is starting to form. if you’re an avid gamer, you’ve likely noticed that a lot of games are showing the same sort of trend – yeah, they’re great, but they share a lot, like scattered items over a huge map, or health regen, stuff like that. here’s a list of the most annoying game development trends.

– huge map, tons of stuff to collect [who the hell has the time to get all the damn feathers in assassin’s creed 2? or the shards in infamous? or the ambient freeplay things in the saboteur?]
– trophies for type of guns shot [i hate this most of all. i KNOW how to shoot shit.]
– trophies for number of headshots [honestly, if you can’t aim, you are screwed.]
– health regeneration [all games. it concerns me when people bitch about realism in games like modern warfare 2. how is that game real? you get shot by a bunch of bitches, and if you hide long enough, your wounds are magically better.]
– when you beat the game, you can’t keep playing [i hope uncharted and uncharted 2 developers read this and fidget uncomfortably.]