My dumb blog thing: 12/7/12

Happy Track Wreck day! If you're wondering what Im talking about the VGA's are tonight and its going to be as fun as watching a pile-up on I-70. Will there be teabagging? Will there be awkward skits? Will host Sam Jackson kiss Nolan North on the lips? Okay, so the last one probably won't happen but it be damn funny if it did. Anyways, I'm back with my second round of whatever "this" is. Heh, no surprise nobody responded yesterday wrasslin doesn't seem to be the most liked of topics round these parts. I've been taking a ton of visits to remote tropical islands lately on one there is pirates and the other zombies. Lets leave the pirates for another day and talk about.....

Yay zombies! Everyone loves zombies right? Well, except for the folks trapped on this island. So I managed to dodge this game last year somehow and never picked it up. Wal-mart (also known as my work...bleh) was having a black friday sale on this for a whopping $10! So I decided if there were any copies left when I went on my break that friday I would pick it up and try it out. Turns out that unsurprisingly if you tell people something is $10 they are most likely going to buy it in droves regardless of what the game actually is. So...no copies left. Then I came into work on I think Monday and there in the case was sitting a single copy of Dead Island. Someone in all the black friday fervor must have threw it on a random shelf in the store. Sadly, it was back to the normal 15 bucks but I said FUCK IT! So now here I sit knee deep in the shit with zambies all around me. I actually really like the game and per one Bradly Shoemaker's advice I turned on the analog fighting. At first it is really clunky to get used to but once you do the feeling of slicing off a few limbs is pretty great.

This game is really one example of the systems being what sell the game instead of pretty graphics. There is a ton of interesting things going on in the game with the modding system and skill trees and as mentioned before the game's presentation side is well uh... sorta awful. Models are ugly textures are bad it just looks cheap. I'm glad however that Techland decided to make sure not to sacrifice the game play part of it. I'm only in ACT 2 right now but I'll say I'm mostly enjoying the game albeit playing it in small bursts. Possibly a review in the future if i finish it. We'll see....oh yeah and this happened yesterday....

I'm well... confused. This doesn't look like Star Trek at all. First off the narration instantly made me roll my eyes. I had to double check I wasn't watching the Dark Knight trailer or something again. Okay, ominous voice yes our world is in danger. Oh and now your matrix jumping and all dressed in black? Who is this guy? He is saying he has "returned" as if we should know. Oh and at 0:41 there is the most glorious fake looking scream ever. All of this littered through action shots with explosions and dudes walking slowly with guns drawn. Then more exposition from ominous voice then oh no explosions! Look, I'm not a huge Star Trek fan but I had to sit through enough TNG episodes as a kid while my dad watched them that this is nothing like Star Trek. Hell, I liked the first movie too but again that seemed like... Star Trek. Its just one trailer and obviously they want to make a sizzle reel to pull in people who just like bang bang action so I HOPE there is actual stuff in this movie that is more in line with Star Trek. Ya know... ship battles and space and crazy holo deck shenanigans. Well, I'll appreciate any responses but if not....eh... I understand. Anyways, tomorrow will probably be a recap of the awful awful fantastic-ness that was the VGA's I'll be most likely LIVE tweeting during the train wreck so if you want to follow along give me a follow at @GNT_Josh on Twitter.