Monday, May 25, 2009

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Canis Canem Edit

Dog eat dog. The high school life knows no less than deception, corruption, and detention. Well, the Bully high school life thrives on those things. Considering that my high school life was as normal as teenage TV shows try not to be, Bully became so liberating. Becoming Jimmy Hopkins is the reason why people should play video games, to do what they can't do (or could've done) in real life. I have always wished "kick me" signs worked. I have always wanted to stuff kids in trash cans. I have always wanted to pull off the epic prank that would have been the stuff of legends. Well, I did it all and it was worth it. Kids struggling out of lockers, kicked with tremendous force in the behind, slipping on marbles. Bullworth Academy's finest moments. Bully isn't all about the antics of a mischievous high schooler, its all about frienemies. At one moment, you can be fighting along side the greasers taking on the jocks. Then in an instant, you can be pelted by stones and eggs just because you kissed a greaser's girl. High school romance through and through. Students are believeable and memorable, even if they're based off teenage stereotypes. That's what keeps Bully entertaining. It embraces the feeling of nostalgia instead of giving you generic student #4. Rockstar really put its heart in Bully, and it shows through its detail of dialogue and overall atmosphere of Bullworth. Bully is what this generation of video games should be doing, keeping it fresh and charming. Bully is education at its best.

Friday, May 1, 2009

Rants on COD4

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I know that Call Of Duty 4 has been out for a while now and most people are waiting for CODMW2 but a lot of people still play this classic, too bad most of them are noobs. Now, don't get me wrong there are still very skillful players out there playing the game with well....skill, but, and I mean a very big BUT, there seems to be a overwhelming amount of people playing using what I like to call "noob cannons", which are ALL of the light machine guns and shotguns. And not only are they using these weapons that require no aiming or skill, they wait in corners and pick you off by spraying there thousands of rounds of bullets into you while you sit there helpless. Now I know that theses guns are put into the game to expand the catalog of weapons but I think personally the could of done without them. I mean I hate snipers but at least they require a certain amount of skill to aim and shoot accurately while still trying to remain hidden and let's not forget the skill it takes to kill someone with a sniper in point blank range, but with the light machine guns and shotguns, all you have to do is press down on the trigger and you have a 80% chance of killing the other person. SO as you may have noticed the word I used a lot in this post is "skill", which is something these guns take away for the game and hopefully they won't be put into the next game, which they probably will cause I hate them, and the makers of Call of Duty know that and want to ruin my life.

Thanks for reading,
Nick Asmar