Pirates 2.5 At World's End: The Review

*warning spoilers below*

So, I recently watched Pirates 2.5 In theaters, (There was no Pirates 3, this was the second half of Dead Man's Chest)And quiet Honestly I don't know if I liked it or not. At first I was going, "meh, it sucked." But now I'm going, "well, maybe it wasn't so bad."

There really isn't much of a back story for this particular outing, it was pretty spur of the moment. I was over a friend's house and I went, "hey, let's see Pirates" he said, "ok, let's go" then I said, "Alright, lets go", and we went.

We went, we saw, we left... before the end, which really was the ending. They also cut out a very valuable piece of information, according to the Wiki. Being captain of the Flying Dutchman was really only a 10 year contract, Davy Jones became bad, and because he became bad he was forced to captain it forever. I also found it very funny when they tried to give D.J. a soft side, the director tried to make him more human, but I think over all the time D.J. has been alive, he should have lost all his humanity by now.

One thing I found a little annoying was making Elizabeth a man. I mean, I don't have a problem with tough girls, but I mean I think they made an overdose on the tough-chick act. It was cool when she got to be a captain, but then she gets voted to be pirate king? Why would Jack ever vote that? I mean, yeah, best interest and all, but I kinda remember her killing Jack just a movie back... does nobody remember that? This is not me saying I have anything against girls in high positions mind you, nor though chicks. I was saying it was overplayed, we didn't see the feminine side of Elisabeth like in the first movie. Gone was the damsel in distress, and in the seductive pirate chick who could have handed D.J.'s butt on a silver platter to him.

Another thing I found annoying were plotlines. I was thinking two-thirds into the movie, "man, why didn't they just make this a TV show?" It really needed more then 3 hours to give all the plot lines justice. I thought they did a good job with the time alloted, but I mean every 5 minutes there's a new twist. Oh look, a map to World's End! Oh look, it goes to other places! Oh look Tia Adama (I swore that's what I heard... too much BSG) was D.J.s girlfriend! Oh look, Tia is actually Calipso! Oh look, Elizabeth is a pirate lord! Oh look Elizabeth is the Pirate King! Oh look, Jack's Dad is actually the keeper of the code! Oh look, There's that Compass! Oh look, Norrington is actually a good guy! Oh look, Barbossa is actually a good guy! and so on and so on. Dead Man's Chest and At World's End would have made a great TV show.

So at first viewing, I'll give it a 7.0-7.5, I really need to see it again for an accurate review though.

Up next! Play! A Video Game Symphony, and the hilarity that ensued before and after the concert. Oh the inside jokes... move it Hor-hey!

STARCRAFT 2!!!!!

STARCRAFT 2 IS FINALLY ANNOUNCED EVERYBODY!!! LOOKLOOKLOOKLOOKLOOKLOOKLOOK!!!





IGN: Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational Live Update link

Starcraft 2 Wiki

Gamespy Post

Trailer

Gamespot article

Offical Website

As you can see, I am VERY excited about this. I've been looking forward to it for a loooong time. Starcraft is the best RTS of all time, if not the best game of all time. What makes Starcraft better then most is it's still being played, in some countries as a sport, 11 years after being released.

So, there's a semi-review of Starcraft, I might make a big one, because single player is also great, good good storyline.

Anyway, all this boils down to is one word. Immortals. the Protoss. Frakking. Rock!

Ahhh the joys of standing in line for 6 hours

So, as most of you know Spiderman 3 came out today. I was one of the lucky few who stayed up till the crack'o dawn and into the wee hours of the morning to watch it. And here is my story.

So, 6:30 rolls around and some friends pick up my sister and I and we drive down to the movie theater. We get a spot fairly close to the theater, which was interesting because usually the parking lot is packed, and there wasn't many people there. Anyway, so we meet up with two of our friends, who tell us that Fudruckers was temporally closed. I think it was due to the fact that when Pirates did the midnight showing there was a bunch of drunks and fireworks and policemen. It was a frakking mad house during Pirates 2. So, we decide then, to walk over to In'n'Out. We go there, get our food, then get in line.

We waited in line for 6 hours. For 2 hours, all we had was two iPods, one deck of cards, and ourselves. We played Blackjack, Poker, and Texas hold'em. For two hours. Then another friend of mine came which added another iPod. She also brought 5 decks of cards to play Nertz, which we did for about 40 minutes. So, we waited around, told jokes, got bored, stretched, waited, waited, and waited.

Finally the Security guard told everybody that they needed to stand up because we were about to go in. We stood there for an hour and a half. Finally after all that, we were able to go in. We were like, the 20th people in line so we were able to snag good seats (that's what you get for waiting in line for 6 hours). We then waited another half hour for the movie to start. People are dumb though, while we were waiting there was a group of people who smuggled beer into the theater and promptly chugged them all before the movie started. I don't normally have a problem with beer, but beer doesn't belong in a theater.

After the movie (which ended at around 2:40) a bunch of us went to 7/11 and got Slurpies. We then heard many stories from a friend of mine who just came back from his first year of college.

AAAAANYWAY! You guys wanna hear about the movie right?

So, the movie was good, I liked it. I think it fell into the same problem that XMen 3 did, where they tried to put in too many plot-lines and bad guys. Venom didn't get enough Venomness time, or any of the bad guys. It should have been longer. But, I did like the way that they tied it all in, it fit very well. Where as XMen 3 there were three different storylines and they tried to just put them all together, didn't work out too well.

All in all, first viewing I'd give it an 8 outa 10

haha, funny how this happens

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/05/01/former-wow-and-everquest-programmers-working-on-sci-fi-mmog/

this link will lead you to a story about a new company, Colony studios, a company made from some people from World of Warcraft an Everquest, are making a new Sci-Fi MMO. It sounds a lot of what I was thinking. I'm glad, this could be awesome.

The perfect MMO Pt. 1

So, after reading another blog (Tim Buckley is awesome!) that I regularly read, I had an awesome idea. Right now he's doing a series on his version of a "perfect MMO". MMO is short for MMORPG, which is short for Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplayin game, for those who don't know. Anyway, after Star Wars Galaxies failed to come though for me, I began to think of what a good Star Wars or Star Wars-like MMO would look like. So.... here it goes!


Setting:

Science Fiction, totally. There's too many Fantasy MMOs out there anyway. I might do a good Fantasy MMO later, but for now, lets stick with Sci-Fi.

Now, why I chose Sci-Fi. I chose Sci-Fi because, a big part is if you make your own universe, it's your'se, and nobody will complain that you've made the elves look like wusses and the Dwarves too big. What I'm trying to say is there's no expectation to meet. This is purely from your head, and sci-fi allows you to do whatever you want, and for the most part it's not criticized too much.

Another reason is, like I said, a lack of good sci-fi out there. I know EVE Online is out, but that was waaaay too complicated for me, and don't know what the story for EVE Online is anyway. But the story would go something like this. "2 (or 3) factions who originated from Earth have now spread out and settled in most of the Galaxy. Besides the 2 or 3 factions, there are others that you can join, but those three are the ones you have to start with.


Gameplay:

You can do pretty much whatever you want in the game. You can join the military in the fight against the other two factions, you can get into politics and eventually have some say in what goes on in that faction. If you want, you can even form your own rogue faction and do whatever you want. Build a space station, become pirates, bandits, vigilanties, a crafting faction, whatever.

Then there would always be something happening to continue the story. One of the perks of being a polotician is to have some say in what goes on in the universe. Say, the dev wants two factions to go to war, they talk to the council/pres/whatever they call themselves and say, "hey, this is what's gunna happen" then the leader(s) make the announcement and for what reasons.

Another big thing that I would like to see is the conquering of planets and cities. One thing that annoyed me in SWG, is I would get with a group of people to go attack an Empire-controlled city, and it didn't do a whole lot. It was more just to be a pain in the butt more then anything. I think it should be a little reminiscent to PvP in Dark Ages of Camelot. in DAoC, you had 6 Keeps, each keep held a bonus that gave you something, extra health bonus, attack bonus, armor bonus, ect ect ect. Anyway, Basically what happens is once your side takes control of the keep, the other people have to try to take it away from you. So it's a lot king of the hill in that sense. But what happens is, you can build siege equipment, if you chose the assassin class you can climb the wall, go into stealth-mode, and try to take out the healers. You could go on the wall and shoot the people trying to take your keep. You can ram the door, you can repair the door. It's just crazy.

anyway I think that's good'nuff for now, check back in a couple of days (or weeks, whatever comes first) for Part 2!