My dumb blog thing: 12/10/12

Okay well lets start my dumb little blog thing today with a music recommendation. If you haven't already heard the song go listen to "Chum" by Earl Sweatshirt. If you don't know who Earl Sweatshirt is well first off shame on you and second off well, simply put he is part of Odd Future. Odd Future is a collective rap group with smaller sub-groups within it. You might have heard of Tyler The Creator who got a lot of mainstream buzz after winning an award for best new artist at the MTV music wards. Anyways, Earl is gearing up to FINALLY release a solo album. He is by far one of the most lyrically dangerous and incredible rappers out there today. His verse at the end of Odd Future's "Oldie" where Earl made a surprise return was an incredibly dense and well put together verse. Because I know y'all are gonna be lazy and not look it up here I'll be nice and embed it below for you fuckers since I love y'all.

In other random news the WiiU pad sure looks easy to break. That...kind of makes me terrified to even want to get a WiiU. Anyways 2012 is wrapping up and we have uh what like less than 19 days before the supposed end of the world. Speaking of the end of the world like...why is everyone so terrified of it? Seriously. Look, were all going to die at some point. Now, personally the thing that bums me out the most about the fact that we are all going to die is that humanity is going to keep moving forward even after I die. I'll never get to know about all the cool technology or video games or other nonsense that goes on in the world after I'm gone. So honestly, being around for the end of the world to me would be exciting because I would know for a fact that I was there for the end of humanity's time on earth. What also is entertaining about this is the people that actually "prepare" for it. I mean look if it is the end of the world a bug out bag and a supply of rations and water are not going to save you.

Since the world isn't going to end lets change gears. There is enough GOTY nonsense going on now and I'm sure everyone will be sick about talking about this years games soon. I initially thought of writing up a whole big blog about that but I already did a "I really liked these games" and "This is everything I've played this year" blogs so... I'm not going to do a long drawn out blog post about that. If you are interested in what my list was well.....

1.Final Fantasy XIII-2

2.Halo 4

3.Dishonored

4.Forza Horizion

5.Hitman Absolution

6.Max Payne 3

7.Dragon’s Dogma

8.Sleeping Dogs

9.Lollipop Chainsaw

10. Twisted Metal

I'll be more than happy to answer questions about why I picked all of them but I don't think any of my choices should me TOO much of a surprise to anyone at least on here If you've been following along with all the dumb posts I've made all year. Anyways the thing I'd like to talk about isn't this year since that is soooo five minutes ago I'm looking forward to what games are going to make me broke in 2013. I'd like to hear everyone else's list of stuff they are looking forward to in 2013 as well. These are by the way... in no particular order.

1. DmC

This is a game that I've been wildly looking forward to for a good while now. The question has been at least for me will ninja theory be able to pull off a game with the combat that rivals the original games? All signs are pointing to yes which is very comforting. I'm really looking forward to Ninja Theory's take on the world and characters.

2. Metal Gear Rising :Revengence

Oh looky another character action title! I can't believe this thing is finally going to see the light of day. After being in development purgatory for what seemed like forever finally Rising is happening. I personally haven't got a chance to get hands on with it but from people who have gotten to play the demo I'm hearing good things. That really makes me excited. I'll be interested I guess to see where they take the fiction. I mean if this is post MGS4 then that means the Patriots are gone which also means nanomachines are or at least WERE a thing of the past.

3. Tomb Raider

I never did like the Psone Tomb Raider games but I got into the franchise this gen when they first released Tomb Raider Legend. I then played all the subsequent games this gen. So now were officially in "reboot" territory. Its pretty hilarous considering that Uncharted out Tomb Raider'd Tomb raider and now Tomb Raider is potentially poised to out Uncharted Uncharted. I'm not even sure if that sentence I just typed makes any sense but....hopefully you get my gist. Game looks great! I'm glad finally all the hub-bub surrounding Lara and her presentation in the game has died down and that people are finally focusing on the game. I'm hoping the game delivers on the "survival" element as much as they've been hyping but I guess we'll see....

4. Bioshock Infinite

First off I want to say that the box art is fucking awful. I really hope they change it but it is looking doubtful. Awful box art aside this game looks fantastic. I'm just wondering if it is going to have the same impact that Bioshock did on me. The first time you saw rapture in Bioshock it was just one of THOSE moments in video games. The game has been delayed again for more polish and I guess we'll just have to wait to see if it is good or not. Listening to Jeff Cannata talk about it on Weekend confirmed was pretty exciting the guy seemed entirely enamored with it.

Well.... that is it for games at least or well announced games or well... games that I remember. I'm sure there are other things I could put on the list. Oh I do have two non-game related things I'm excited for one being Lady Gaga's ArtPop album and Paramore's self titled 4th album. Well, at least I got something sort of decent written today. Tomorrow will probably be more wrasslin talk as tonight is the go home show for the TLC PPV. Anyways, later and let me know what you are looking forward to in 2013 doesn't just have to be games either.