My dumb blog thing: 12/8/12

So hey... back again and I watched the VGAs last night as did a lot of people on here. Surprise surprise they actually were not bad! So, the show started off with Sam Jackson dropping more F-bombs than the censors could keep up with. Seriously, I do believe a few F-bombs got through. Then it went on to show the new South Park : The Stick of Truth trailer. Its pretty cool that they have the game looking exactly like it does on the show however has anyone actually seen any real game play of this thing? All the trappings of a proper south park property could be there but if the game plays like shit then who cares? It would however be cool to finally see a good South Park game. Oh they gave out awards on this show too apparently I was not watching for the awards. I was watching for everything else besides the awards.

Next up ( I think) was Phantom Pain which the internet has pretty much deduced that is most likely Metal Gear Solid 5 and if it isn't Metal Gear Solid 5 it is at least some way connected to the Metal Gear universe. The studio in the trailer "Moby Dick Studios" doesn't even exist apparently. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out. This reminds me back of when there was the teaser site years ago that had ominous storm clouds randomly flashing images. Within no time the internet deduced that it had something to do with Big Boss and Raiden and turns out they were correct and Peace Walker and Metal Gear Rising were both announced soon after. So is it Metal Gear Solid V or is it something relating to Ground Zeroes? Either way it should be exciting as it looked fantastic in motion and all apparently real time too which obviously means that it is for next gen systems. So the question is how long does Kojima keep up this ruse? Speaking of Konami Castlevania apparently has another entry into the franchise with Lords of Shadows 2. I got 2/3rds of the way through the original Lords of Shadow and its a pretty fun game. I got distracted though and haven't gone back to it yet but this trailer spoiled the ending for the first game but also made me want to see how the hell everything went down. Also, its apparently set in modern day so that could be interesting. Also interesting is if you will resume your role as Gabriel or take up a role of another young Belmont. It seems Konami trusts Mercury Steam with the franchise going forward as they seem to be helming up this iteration as well.

The biggest announcement of the night in my opinon was Dark Souls II. Oh lord that trailer made my panties wet. First off the music was fantastic. Secondly while the trailer was entirely CG what I did notice is the quality of the CG seemed much higher. This leads me to believe that Dark Souls was such a success for them that they were cleared a much bigger budget for the new game. This could be very very exciting. I'm hoping they really push the online connectivity forward and figure out new ways to make that stuff fun. Also I would really like the story stuff of the next game to not be so obtuse. I hear so many people prattle on about the lore of Dark Souls but man that stuff just passed me buy I have no clue about any of it. I know that there is a bunch of stuff that is on item descriptions and what not but I'm not sure that is enough to make me want to care about the lore side of it. Either way I'm buying it day one. Thats pretty much the brunt of what interesting announcements were made. There was a dumb trailer for AC3 DLC and another for Halo 4 Spartan Ops stuff but that is nothing to be extremely excited by.

I suppose I should wrap this up by actually talking a bit about some of the actual awards stuff. I was really excited for Humble Hearts even if they didn't stand a chance against journey in the indie game category the fact that one guy made that game and it was getting national attention on mainstream TV was fucking awesome. Good for him. Oh, and apparently Half-Life 2 is the game of the Decade? Personally I would have picked Portal. That is one game that really turned puzzle games on their ear. Also, a big WTF that Wii Sports was even nominated for that award. Really? Anywho, also The Walking Dead won GOTY which I guess I'm fine with. I don't have any fucking interest in the game but I had more interest in Assassins Creed 3 or Borderlands 2 not winning the fucking award. Especially Borderlands 2 ugh fuck that game so hard. I guess I should end this now lest this turn into a rant about why Borderlands 2 is so awful. Which honestly might be a future topic... cause I haven't outright hated a game like I do the Borderlands franchise in a long long while. Anyways, GOTY season is starting up and I can't wait to see what the bomb crew cooks up this year. What are you guys expecting from the discussions? I'm expecting a lot of X-com praise and also I wouldn' t be surprised if Jeff at least pushes for a nom for WWE 13' for something I don't think it will actually win anything but I think it at least gets a nom because of jeff. Also expecting a pretty big anti-TWD agenda from Jeff. Should be fun. Dunno what I'm going to write up about tomorrow but I'll figure it out! Gotta end this and go play some Far Cry 3. It is pretty damn good!