Welcome back to another edition of my odd and weird musings on a life involved with gaming, movies, comics, and whatnot! Thanks for taking the time to read the words of a 14th level Geek.
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Game Time: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (Xbox 360)
After the 100% completion of Assassin’s Creed 2 (AC2), I moved onto the next in the series and Brotherhood did not disappoint. I knew I was not going to get 100% of the achievements for this stunning title due to the online competitive elements. I am not big into competing online anymore as I find the gibes coming out of the mouths of the children to be most vexing. So I decided long ago, if a game has competitive online achievements, yours truly would not be taking the time to get them. Brotherhood deserved all of praise that was showered upon it. It is arguably the best in the series thus far. I continuedto be enamored with the story, game play and graphical goodness. The game did get twitchy and glitchy on a few occasions for trying to 100% synchronize some memories, but the joy of playing overcame those frustrations.
Now as a treat to the hardcore, I proudly present Fanky Malloon’s Achievements for AC: Brotherhood.
- The Day The Music Died – Throw 25 minstrels down a well
Stay on target
- The Lady of the Lake – Toss 20 old women in any body of water
- Signore Pulito- Kill 7 guards with a broom
- Deathwish 3 – Get 4 civilians killed by Mercenaries you have hired
- Last Kiss – Kill 10 mounted guards with heavy thrown weapons
- The Weatherman – Throw 30 guards from rooftops
- Confuse a Cat – Get 7 poisoned guards to kill 7 other guards
- Your Money or Your Life – Gather a crowd of 20 civilians with coins while poisoning random folks
Why did I come up with these? The answer is simple. I found as much fun playing the game, as I did messing with the game. There is nothing quite like that dirty feeling you get from throwing some simulated old crone into a canal. The sound of the metal on metal with a guard being hit in the face with a spear is a delight. Minstrels are human rats. The townsfolk are weird with what will scare them off, find out how much it takes because they will stick around for a while for a few coins!
Field Trip: Steel City Comicon
The Steel City Con is a periodic Con that takes place around Pittsburgh every few months. They book some great guests and have a fair price for attendance. I try not to miss their shows. These shows tend to have as many toys as comics so they are great for walking around and checking out things you may have forgotten from days gone by. The highlights of my visit:
- I finally spotted the Fisher Price Adventure Van!
I KNOW THAT VAN!
- Adam West
- Quinlan Vos
- John Russo
I try not to buy toys as they mostly gather dust, so I resisted the Van. It hurt, as I owned my own version of that toy when I was a wee child and it became a part of the years long drama that my GI Joes went through. Also it rolled very well and scared the crap out of my dog.
The liquid assets it would have required to secure a picture + autograph with Mayor West were not mine to enjoy, so I had to pass on that opportunity. One of my friends did meet him and said he was nice enough.
Quinlan Vos….some back story for those of you not in the know….Quinlan Vos is a character from the Dark Horse Star Wars Comics. I have no problem with his genesis. It is just a bit lame.
You see our pal Quinlan was “in” the Phantom Menace. By in the that toy commercial (The Phantom Menace that is…) I mean that the camera paned by some guy in Mos Espa and the folks at Dark Horse got permission to make up a huge story about this extra in make-up. A little research online can provide a lot of info on the comic character. My antipathy towards Quinlan was that a man was at the con signing autographs at a booth as Quinlan Vos and this man was not in The Phantom Menace. I don’t think anyone knows who the extra was that played the background scenery, aka Vos. This fellow gets to do this because of the Star Wars Fan Celebration. The Celebration hired a cross between Criss Angel and a wanna be Glen Danzig to fill the role. Now fans can pay to have his autograph. The autograph of a model who is not really the person that actually played him on camera…
I did enjoy my 5 minute chat with Mr. Russo. John Russo was the other creative talent behind the original Night of The Living Dead. He did not follow the same path as George Romero and is thus not as well known.
Game Time: WWE All-Stars (Xbox 360)
This man spoke magic.
The exercise in futility was the Shockmaster of WWE wrestling games. The Brawl For It All was executed better. The only one I can hold responsible for what happened with this title was myself. I used to be a huge wrestling fan and got out of it when the Attitude Era ended. The last good wrestling game I played was Fire Pro Returns (PS2). When I saw that All-Stars was billed as a return to the arcade like games from the N64 era of WWE gaming, I was excited. Today there is something called the Internet. This magic place has information. Some of that information pertains to video games (…like this web channel GamesAreEvil….), and can be used to learn things. I did none of this for All-Stars and just bought it. I have not done that in years. The game play is non-existent and clunky. I would have had as much control as I did on at 2am on a Scotch night in SOCOM 2, yet I was sober. There presentation is bright and monstrous. The create a wrestler (CAW) feature is not real…CAW in All-stars is building a character model and using another wrestler’s complete move set, as well as picking another wrestler’s finisher. This was a feature for 5 year olds. AND! My copy was defective.
I returned it the next day for a copy that would work and promptly traded it in for credit elsewhere….which brings me to next time…where I will get into WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 which I bought a few days later….
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