Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Top Ten War Games Released

10.) Return to Castle Wolfenstien for PC
9.) Call of Duty for PC
8.) Battlefield 2 for PC
7.) Resistance Fall of Man
6.) Call of Duty 2
5.) Halo
4.) Halo 2
3.) Half-life 2 for PC
2.) Unreal Tournament 2004
1.) Gears of War

Top 16 War Movies

16. Saving Private Ryan - starring Matt Damon, Tom Hanks
15. Top Gun - Starring Tom Cruise, Val Kalmer
14. Black Hawk Down starring Ewan McGregor
13. Apocalypse Now Redux
12. Firefox starring Clint Eastwood.
11. The Hunt For Red October starring Sir Sean Connery
10. Dr. Strangelove
9. A Bridge Too Far starring Sir Sean Connery, Sir Anthony Hopkins
8. Full Metal Jacket starring R. Lee Ermey
7. Von Ryan's Express Frank Sinatra
6. Stalag 17 starring William Holden
5. Band of Brothers
4. Sands of Ima Jima starring John Wayne
3. The Guns of Navarone starrign Gregory Peck
2. Patton starring George C. Scott
1. The Longest Day starring John Wayne

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Probably going to Rasmussen College in April

Last weekend, I formatted my dad’s hard drive (so it ran faster) and got paid $60 so I can spend it on videogames…possibly F1 Championship Edition for the PS3! High Def high stakes racing….Michael Schumacher became a billionaire off his winning streak. America of course is into NASCAR instead of F1 because we have sports unlike anyone else in the world as “national pastime” unless the other countries got it from us (AKA NFL Europa)

Today I went to Rasmussen College (in Woodbury) and Dean of Students + Head of Networking sat me down with my parents and explained if the courses. The class rooms are suppose to look big and scary and I was suppose to be a nervous wreak, but that’s normal, and I hate getting normal, because getting nervous is stupid and I hate being mainstream. I’m going to enroll here in April, but they only cover A+ instead of CCNA certificate and it’s six times as expensive as WITC. That’s the problem…I wanted to get my money’s worth getting respectable certificate, and this school is really ungodly expensive for what you get, but see I’m not paying for it so that’s not the problem. The problem is they won’t help me get a CCNA (the lowest certificate in the Cisco certification) That’s wimpy compared to CCNP. I said that to the dean, and almost walked out, but then thinking for some reason that wouldn’t be wise (because I’m going there for almost free). The dean (although smarter) and that embarrassing grin on her face knowing I was right. So point is I’m still going to have to fight thru my personal learning problems and get CCNA with a bad job (at least I live with my parents)

Over at Century and WITC, it’s suppose to be chaos with students all wanting their share of attention, but I need a little more then them.

Oh yeah, Virtua Fighter 5 game play is really so much better then Virtua Fighter 4 it truly is one of the top 2 PS3 games out on shelves presently. I had so much fun yesterday playing it!

Monday, February 26, 2007

Resistance Fall of Man & Ridge Racer 7 personal reveiw

First off I know if you misspell worlds your automatically more popular for some reason, but Firefox is the only web browser i can log in with and it has a internal spell check so I plan to use it despite what some popular anonymous guy thinks of elite talk or something...i don't do the so called elite talk here so just deal with it.

First off no dental bills on President's Day due to no cavities despite my above average Mt. Dew intake! I brush my teeth once a day, don't use mouth wash or flase.

I haven't blogged on IGN party because everything seems to be all said for. I can't review a damn game well yet I make 'exceptional resumes.' according to my job seeker program. Ok, I'll try. It's really hard because I'll playderise someone else if I don't....that's real easy to do cos i got it loaded in another tab, but I won't.

Expect it to be less then perfect, but here is a one for my expensive taste.

Resistance Fall of Man short review

I know that Resistance is the only good first person shooter for PS3 and it's the #1 game. PS3 is like a Xbox with hype centered around a pretty first person shooter. This time it isn't a 733 MHz Intel Pentium III powering it....it's a 7 SPE Cell Broadband Engine (more powerful than Core 2 Duo Extreme) PS3 can be seen as the Sega Saturn of the HD era. (with everybody hates programming for it).

The game looks a lot like Battlefield 2 Modern Combat for PC, but it runs at lower fps (30 fps) because the game engine has texture limitations and no hard drive to cache from. The graphics look a lot like Call of Duty 2 for Xbox 360 which was the top selling game before Gears of War...it's not running the Unreal Engine 3.0 which is the best layout engine in the entire game industry. It looks really run down and worse then the Nazi air-raid on London because the game takes place in UK in 1951. And somehow with the creativity of making the Resistance 50 years more advanced /w the V22 Osprey Web as a clear indicator because Humans aren't in the dark even in 1951.

The music is really well designed like in Call of Duty 2/3. I like it okay. Insomniac did a good job on their Ratchet and Clank music and it seems to get a 9.0 at IGN because it's better then most games....that sort of is emulated with Resistance to a certain degree.

Replay value is unrated because I haven't had the time or the need to finish it, but it gets a 9.0 just because it's the best PS3 game out there at the moment.


Ridge Racer 7

Honestly, it got a 8.0 at IGN by directly taking tracks from Ridge Racer 6 that got a 8.5 out of 10 as a launch title and most british-based message boards (Catharton Electronica) also say that because PS3 is in 3rd place so anything using material from a X360 game is automatically bad. So what it has the same tracks as Ridge Racer 6! The graphics match Project Gotham Racing 3 because PGR3 gfx were brilliant for what was seen on X360 in 2005 according to 1up. The graphics are very realistic (as far as whats possible in a video game.) The reflexions on the tracks are really great and look better then what's possible racing games on PS2.

Sound is very trance-like. It's okay and yes, I actually turned it up so my parents hear it. I can seriously get away with this odd music in a video game. Talking about clever. erm, mp3s on hdd anyone? Unfortunately, there isn't a way to read mp3s off hdd in this game like what's possible in 100% of 360 games..disadvantage, but O-well. I still rate this game a 8.0 in sound because I also believe the trance on it is done by a professional and not some amateur DJ.

I give it a 8.4 out of 10 for being fun, but it doesn't seem right for a 9.0 because Resistance has that and Virtua Fighter 5 may even beat a 9.0 tomorrow so a 8.4 just sounds right.

Saturday, February 10, 2007

PAQ7 vs. ZIP

(PAQ8 was mentioned in the forums page to be included in KGB archiver 2.0, but the beta version has PAQ7)

Fact known in life, everybody uses zip a lot! Zip can be decoded by every OS quite easily and fast. Zip rules sourceforge.org source archives and executables (although Rar archives have been seen there).

Fast forward 7 years into the super processors of tomorrow (quadcore K8L and Core 2 Duo Extreme) which can make 35% better compression ni amazingly high compression ratios that PAQ7 will give you. Zip still wins for any archive.

For a 35 MB file it will take a good 40 minutes on a Pentium 4 with 2 GB of RAM (and it's running in background on taskbar) and Zip will do this in under 50 seconds with 35% worst compression. So download and extraction of the zip file would take less no matter what broadband you have then the time saved by downloading a much smaller KGB file!

Now if you want to cram 35% more information on a CD using KGB is a good idea. I would do it. In fact I put all my files in 7zip now-a-days, but that is just me. Everybody who makes a open source program wants to put it in zip /w bzip2 compression container!

Point is doesn't anyone feel zip is dated and want to use PAQ7 in KGB Archiver 2.0 (comes out February 14)?

Friday, February 09, 2007

AMD K8L and the quitting PC Gaming dellima (not if, when)

At the time of writing this my 3 yr old Dell Dimension XPS (Pentium 4, 2 GB) , it takes 2 seconds to open Word and 2 seconds to open weird Opera 9 . It takes longer to open Firefox cos the internet has this negative effect on Firefox seek time.

Anyhow, I got a Systemax Hellcat so when firefox loads in 1 seconds due to unaffected by Internet or more specifically anything coming thru TCP/80! 1 core is shut off because it’s running in 32-bit mode! That 32-bit mode is still making my new PC beat my Dell Demension XPS by 30 fps in any game.

Athlon 64 x4 (or formally known as AMD K8L) comes out next year and it possesses 2 MB of L2 cache + free 2MB L3 cache (L3 doesn’t exist on Athlon 64 X2) with Hyper transport 3.0. Won’t improve my gaming because I have the most advanced GPU out on the market…the Geforce 8800 GTX and it runs 100% at high resolutions above 50 fps (60 fps is considered the most my retina can process). And it’s for my eyes only which I can sort of share /in form of jpegs.

So there is Crysis, Halo 2, and UT2007 which may bog down my graphics to 40 fps at max settings using my Geforce 8800 GTX. Problem with that is I don’t’ have very much money available so a.) can’t afford any more pc games. B.) I’m buying a Wii in the future C.) Online PC gaming is starting to die except for all the Blizzard games. This means no one will buy Geforce 11 series cards. Actually, I fibbed just now. It sounds smart saying nobody is going to buy Geforce 11 PCIe cards when actually I’ll somehow have the guts for one come 2011. That’s probably going to be the truth, but I don’t see how I would be interested in Unreal Engine 4.5-based first person shooters other then the whole ownership deal. That bugs me. At present I predict that I much rather spend my money on some Xbox 360 game five years down the road.

So today I played Guild Wars Prophecies for only 4 hours today before getting really tired of it. I am still a part of the Guild Wars People (most of them are in pre-apocalypse episode) and I think I’ll find a new guild to be a part of because the current one is dual. What easier time to get occupied than to play UT2004. They say first person shooters increase your response time in homework.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

PS2 Collection!

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What needs to get added

This month

F1: World Championship 2006
Virtua Fighter 5

Next Month

God of War 2

Monday, February 05, 2007

Memorization freeware

The first program is called Brain Builder 3.0. It's a little old which is why it's freeware. Download size 29 MB. The 2nd is my favorite, Captians Log (mere 10 MB) in case you need to remember directions or basic math. It's old, runs in MS-DOS from 1999. Found it on an abandonware site. I had some fun with Brain Builder...it told me how much my memory is average.....
Brian Builder 3
Captains Log

Google "KGB compression" and I'm sure you'll find something that'll open it.

Sunday, February 04, 2007

EA is better than Nintendo at last!

Fact is an American publisher is bigger than Nintendo Corp and this is a good thing, because we're the 2nd largest videogame consumer in the world! It's a fair trade off. EA earned $201 million in profit in the first quarter on the worst platform of this year (last to sell 1 million units world-wide = confirmation). I guess I'm all for North American reigning champions in this area.

So I won't buy Madden NFL 07 because I'm waiting for Madden 09 to come out for PS3, because fact is ESPN NFL 2K5 is better than Madden NFL 07 for any console. Gamespot said it well...ESPN Football 2k5 is the best football game they've ever played and the fact it's only $20 is insane". Visual concepts didn't do another one because EA got exclusive NFL license. If Visual Concepts got a license on Arena Football League or NCAA Football, 2k Games could make a load of money because people may be fed up spending $60 on average football sims! I would! My friend bob agrees which is why he bought Madden NFL 2002 and 2003 on PS2 (the gfx weaker then GCN platform /w 4 times the popularity).

So Nintendo is only 2nd best and I like that

Iraqi War bias on PS3forums

I have to post on this forum since catharton electronica is sluggish, uninteresting, and sort of dead and ps3forums (despite loving Gears of War and Resistance Fall of Man) are against the Iraqi War, and think US is some sort of evil country for invading Afghanistan. How may I think like a European when I am in America itself? I agree it's sort of hard to be anti-patriot. Do I have to let them get away with it? Just because we use Nuclear dust, and cluster bombs in Gulf War and Afghanistan doesn't mean we're an evil country. These kids don't get it. This must be one of those "I hate America's Army...therefore I am popular and right" people. These members know there is nothing they can do about teh war except ask why there isn't peace?

Another topic they brought up for views is Iran-made Nukes. They ask why Iran can't have Nukes and America can. I responded, because Iran will eventually use it and it'll lead to nuclear fallout (read the wikipedia entry and see if you like it) and they thought i was some crazy motherfucker. They believe it won't happen. Why the fuck do you think we keep our nukes in our damn silos with the lids sealed or disabled in our engaging stock pile for so long for? Insurance?

[url=http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=51848]the source of my problems[/url]

PS4 specs...that is because if we don't have PS4...it would be interesting like Dreamcast 2 for example

On my quest to be popular, and more so...getting comments, I created as realistic PS4 speculation w/o knowing anything to amuse anyone who wants to read this....

It's going to be based on the octal-stress technology, the successor of the Dual Stress technology based on PS3 and IBM's most powerful server IBM System p5 595. Seeing that technology will appear in 2 1/2 years in the future. 2 1/2 times 2 = 5 years justifying when PS4 may be released.

Although some people believe the PS4 will have download-only games onto a gigantic HDD like the Phantom console, I believe it will use a Quad-layer Blu-ray media, and a little 80 GB HDD. 512 MB GDDR7 on Geforce 11 is what I believe the vram will be based on . 512 MB XDR2 based on CPU clock speed. The controller will be the SixAxis 2 (/w all Wii remote's tilt and wave features!) The CPU most likely be a Cell at higher clock speed and quadruple the SPEs. SPEs are like cores except no brain..SPEs handle raw data which is controlled by a single PPE. PS4 will be $600 like PS3 at launch.

Playstation 4 supports Unreal Engine 4.0 thru Unreal Engine 4.5, Lithtech Triton, CryENGINE3, and many games will be developed on Unreal Engine 4.0 because that is one way to find a crowd who will spend that kind of cash on it when Gaming is even more mainstream than now.

PS2 emulation will be perfected in PS4, but you can't tell the benefits because the CPU costs a bit more at smaller silicon process.

PS4 will have a large amount of sequels to sequels on PS3 (Madden, DMC 7, Gran Turismo 7, Resident Evil 7, Final Fantasy 15, Wild Arms 8, Winning Eleven 15, NBA 2k?, Major League Baseball 2k?, Metal Gear ???, GTA6, GTA7, )

Only hardcore gamers will play PS4 because it's too high-tech for the mainstream gaming like what makes Wii popular..hopefully a Wii-mote SixAxis hybrid controller will help them.

I don't hate America, but i hate politics

I hate the fact I suck at politics....I know Hiliary Clinton is going to be Ms. President already so there is no point in trying to be a republican. It's all about Bill Clinton cos he is a genius. I am republican, but lately I've been brushing up on my liberal communcation skills. I believe I may end up voting in John McCain (Sentator of Arizona) just because he is a republician. The US is at war and the republicans pretty much spend 24% of the budget on military expenses. The future is full of un-manned aircraft ( Boeing X-45, X-47), water bomb detinators seen in James Bond, power armor exelskeleton (like in StarShip Troopers marines) and to keep those funded...you must support republican

I love Brooks and Dunn, Alan Jackson, and Bon Jovi. These are my favorite country artists because their singing is so beautiful. I think that Brooks and Dunn one best duo artists from 1994 - 2002 skipping 2000. And Alan Jackson got several #1s in the US Top 10 in the country genre. All of my favorites are in the mp3 player.

I am going to get out and drive around Hudson so I can buy three games all at once. It looks like i'm getting a new job by next week. Probably at $8/hr. Good news....I may be able to afford Rogue Galaxy (8.5 on IGN, 8.0 on Gamespot)

my PS4 spec rant

On my quest to be popular, and more so...getting comments, I created as realistic PS4 speculation w/o knowing anything to amuse anyone who wants to read this....

It's going to be based on the octal-stress technology, the successor of the Dual Stress technology based on PS3 and IBM's most powerful server IBM System p5 595. Seeing that technology will appear in 2 1/2 years in the future. 2 1/2 times 2 = 5 years justifying when PS4 may be released.

Although some people believe the PS4 will have download-only games onto a gigantic HDD like the Phantom console, I believe it will use a Quad-layer Blu-ray media, and a little 80 GB HDD. 512 MB GDDR7 on Geforce 11 is what I believe the vram will be based on . 512 MB XDR2 based on CPU clock speed. The controller will be the SixAxis 2 (/w all Wii remote's tilt and wave features!) The CPU most likely be a Cell at higher clock speed and quadruple the SPEs. SPEs are like cores except no brain..SPEs handle raw data which is controlled by a single PPE. PS4 will be $600 like PS3 at launch.

Playstation 4 supports Unreal Engine 4.0 thru Unreal Engine 4.5, Lithtech Triton, CryENGINE3, and many games will be developed on Unreal Engine 4.0 because that is one way to find a crowd who will spend that kind of cash on it when Gaming is even more mainstream than now.

PS2 emulation will be perfected in PS4, but you can't tell the benefits because the CPU costs a bit more at smaller silicon process.

PS4 will have a large amount of sequels to sequels on PS3 (Madden, DMC 7, Gran Turismo 7, Resident Evil 7, Final Fantasy 15, Wild Arms 8, Winning Eleven 15, NBA 2k?, Major League Baseball 2k?, Metal Gear ???, GTA6, GTA7, )

Only hardcore gamers will play PS4 because it's too high-tech for the mainstream gaming like what makes Wii popular..hopefully a Wii-mote SixAxis hybrid controller will help them.

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Iraqi War bias on PS3forums.com

I have to post on this forum since catharton electronica is sluggish, uninteresting, and sort of dead and ps3forums (despite loving Gears of War and Resistance Fall of Man) are against the Iraqi War, and think US is some sort of evil country for invading Afghanistan. How may I think like a European when I am in America itself? I agree it's sort of hard to be anti-patriot. Do I have to let them get away with it? Just because we use Nuclear dust, and cluster bombs in Gulf War and Afghanistan doesn't mean we're an evil country. These kids don't get it. This must be one of those "I hate America's Army...therefore I am popular and right" people. These members know there is nothing they can do about teh war except ask why there isn't peace?

Another topic they brought up for views is Iran-made Nukes. They ask why Iran can't have Nukes and America can. I responded, because Iran will eventually use it and it'll lead to nuclear fallout (read the wikipedia entry and see if you like it) and they thought i was some crazy motherfucker. They believe it won't happen. Why the fuck do you think we keep our nukes in our damn silos with the lids sealed or disabled in our engaging stock pile for so long for? Insurance?

http://ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=51848