http://kotaku.com/5314280/kane--lynch-sequel-trademarked

amazing haha.

Just got Left 4 Dead a couple days ago and I'd just like to share my thoughts about the game. The premise is really quite simple... 4 survivors and hordes of zombies. That's about it. There's some loose semblance of a storyline, but it becomes pretty lost along the way. The characters themselves are decently memorable, although they are literally walking talking cliches of the zombie genre. That's not to say that that is a bad thing, but the entire game is a cliche. Just about every mechanism from the zombie genre is here, and that said the game doesn't take itself too seriously, which would have really killed it.

At the end of the day this game plays and feels like Half Life 2. If you can play Half Life 2 well then the transition to Left 4 Dead is pretty easy. The models and textures are very well rendered, and the weapons have a satisfying effect when fired. However I think the best part of the game is really the animations on the zombies. They RUN at you full tilt, and when you shoot them it feels just like you're in a zombie film. They screech and scale walls to get to you, and it's definitely a very creepy effect. They run very fast, so don't expect Romero's slow walking cadavers here... these are 28 Weeks Later infected on steroids, and the overall effect is very believable.

However after playing this for several days, I can say that the premise of the game fleshes out (no pun intended) very quickly in that everything becomes very predictable. If you see a certain type of enemy, you do X, if you alert the horde, you do Y. Nothing really changes, so you learn to expect pretty much everything. The missions play out like a movie, so it's identical every time. Yes, there is some variation to when and where certain mobs will spawn, but overall it's predictable. If you've just fought a horde, you'll most likely encounter a boss next, etc.

Overall the game is very good, but it probably wasn't worth the 30.00 or some odd bucks I paid for it on Ebay. It definitely feels more like a mod...

Diablo 3:
http://www.amazon.com/Diablo-III-Pc/dp/B00178630A/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1245089442&sr=8-3

Guild Wars 2:
http://www.amazon.com/Guild-Wars-2-Pc/dp/B001TOQ8X4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1245089473&sr=8-1

Kane & Lynch 2:
http://www.amazon.com/Kane-Lynch-2-Pc/dp/B0023CBZKM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1245089491&sr=1-3

Starcraft 2:
http://www.amazon.com/Starcraft-II-Wings-Liberty-Pc/dp/B000ZKA0J6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1245089544&sr=1-1

If any of you have twitter, let me know so I can add you:

http://www.twitter.com/darkdomino

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Domino

if Xfire supported multiple IM clients, which looks to be the direction that xfire is taking. I'd ditch every other IM client and stick with Xfire. Well maybe not windows live, since the client is pretty usefull for hotmail... but you get the idea.

My alter-ego Domino has no place to live. What does this mean? what am I ranting about? I'm not entirely sure, it's 2:05 AM and I'm feeling rant-ish.

Simply put, I don't have a place to "live" ... my favorite character, Domino, has no RPG world to reside in. No digital presence anymore. There has not been one single MMORPG out there that I have truly been able to create Domino in what I want him to be and play him in an environment that I enjoy.

If I had to say what game world Domino was created in... it'd be Bethesda's Elder Scrolls world. He is literally a creation of Daggerfall, so in a sense my home will always be Morrowind and Oblivion, although Oblivion doesn't quite do it for me. Morrowind is really starting to show it's age, and while romping around by yourself running quests and such is fun for about the first 24 hours... it gets really lonely. People say the Elder Scrolls wouldn't translate well as an MMORPG, I say bullshit... I say the Elder Scrolls is the perfect medium with which to make an MMORPG. They've got hundreds of pages of lore and backstory, characters, an entire goddamn WORLD to play in. Races, weapons, etc ... it's all fucking there. Bethesda could make a killing right now and they probably won't because a few fanboys will fuck it up.

You can make whatever argument you want but the truth of the matter is that this is the year 2008 and we are in the internet age. The days of single player games are coming to a close... nobody wants to play by themselves anymore. The computer gaming market has only one chance to save itself and that chance is called the MMORPG. The consoles are moving in on FPS, RPGs, even strategy games (heard the other day that Red Alert 3 will release on the Xbox or some such tomfoolery... who's ever heard of playing a strategy game on a console... it's fucking retarded)

All I want is an MMORPG that doesn't suck. I want a game where I can create my character exactly the way I want, and plop him in the world with my friends and kill...

I will most likely end up posting my favorite Q9C apps and reviews here for your reading pleasure. I realize it's very difficult to find Windows Mobile Smartphone applications that are actually decent, so check back here often and I'll get some updates when I have the time.

On that note. Why can't we get a Mobile client for Xfire?

Nuff' said.

MSN is one of the shittiest networks I've ever used - if my messages aren't being bounced back as undeliverable, I'm being disconnected randomly. And file transfers? Get yourself a sleeping bag cause it's going to be a while. MSN also likes to start itself with windows, even if you tell it not to. I can't wait for future versions of MSN, so I can give up more of my computer to near viral software.

AIM is shittier than MSN x 10^52342342 squared. When the near viral nature of the client isn't trying to take over your system, it's choking your system with 42 different running processes in the background. AIM would be awesome if 99% of it's userbase weren't borderline mentally retarded.

Yahoo is by far THE shittiest messenger I've ever used. People might actually care about the lackluster features, and the fact that the installer crashes 9 times out of 10 if anyone actually fucking used Yahoo in the first place. The interoperability between Yahoo and MSN is the biggest joke I've ever seen. You can't send files, the webcam stuff doesn't work, and 99% of your messages will not go through anyway.

ICQ the grandaddy of the messengers is probably THE worst messenger I've ever used. If you like kiddified bullshit all over your screen and more advertisements than a russian porn site, than ICQ will really impress you. Once you stop laughing at the fact that ICQ boasts about features that have been around for years like they invented something cool, you'll realize that no one uses ICQ anymore, and even if they did, they wouldn't see your laughter over the intrusive advertisements.

So the moral of the story?

Why can't everyone use Xfire? It's the only messenger that I can truly appreciate.