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10Oct 08
... online, you'll meet some unfriendly people there. And me.
Just yesterday I got my PS3 from Sony (the newest update screwed up the system in my original machine and it didn't play games anymore) and spent the entire day playing GTA IV online.So, if you have GTA IV and online for PS3, add me. My PSN ID is OscarPhyre.
I suck ass, but enjoy playing anyway. Would be more fun to play with people I know rather than complete strangers I meet in random matches.- Posted Oct 10, 2008 2:15 pm GMT
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10Sep 08
Been a long time, but lots has happened, too.
I got myself a professional webhosting AND a real domain now.
JohnnyDFox.comThat's where all the cool kids are not going.
On YouTube, I've uploaded nearly 1500 videos and got over 1600 subscribers.
And I got GTA IV months ago.
Life is good, aye?- Posted Sep 10, 2008 4:33 pm GMT
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17Apr 08
The title pretty much explains what this blog post is about, so fans of that particular game should not expect to be pleased with the following rant.
I had my birthday last month. Just like pretty much every birthday, it was nothing special. I can even say that there's been better Tuesdays than what my birthdays usually are.
Anyway, I got Genji: Days of the Blade for PS3 as a present.
My review: It sucks. There's nothing more I have to say, the game is a flop.
I honestly don't understand how anyone at Game Republic or Sony Computer Entertainment thought that this game could be a hit. You don't even have to take just my word for it, check the gamespot score. I know, GS rarely gives games the scores they really deserve so you can't trust that alone, but compare the GS score with the Critic score and User score. See? Even the user score is only 7.0, and the Critic score is 5.8. Everybody seems to think the game is awful.But more important than scores other people gave it is what I thought about the game. I mean, this IS my blog after all.
First of all, like I've told people numerous times, I like beat em ups and hack'n'slash games. I really do, I even like 7 Blades which isn't anything spectacular, but Genji: DotB can't even be compared to 7 Blades since it does nothing right as a game. Only thing this Genji game has over most games is the graphics and amount of enemies on-screen at the same time. Unfortunately the controls are clunky as hell and the camera, which I guess is supposed to bring some movie-feel into the action, is one of, if not THE most awful in any game I've ever played or seen. Not only are the camera angles completely wrong for the intended epic-movie-samurai-action-feel, they also hide half of the enemies on screen. I got my ass handed to me by enemies I never even saw because they were "behind the camera". The radar is also pretty useless, as it's quite difficult to realize which direction is which.
So, you're crippled by bad controls and you're facing half-invisible armies, what else? The areas are boring as hell, and occasionally even feel just like a really big prison. I don't expect freeroaming from any other game other than GTA, that's not the problem, but hackin' boring enemies with boring moves in boring locations... 'scuse me for expecting the next-gen to actually evolve in terms of gameplay and add something in games.
If I recall correctly, Genji: DotB won some kind of award for outstanding graphics or something. Graphics aren't gameplay, you don't control graphics, you don't kill graphics, you can't do anything with the graphics. Games don't live off of graphics, graphics are for CGI movies. Good graphics in games only help if the rest of the game is good, but certainly don't make games good on their own. I'll also have to add that even if the graphics MIGHT be mindblowing on HD screens, on my crap-definition-TV the game looks nothing above the better looking PS2 games. Seriously, I wasn't impressed, and I'm NOT going to go out and buy a HDTV just to see what this game can look like. Maybe I'm just spoiled by my other PS3 games, Assassin's Creed and TES IV: Oblivion. Now those games really make me want to dive into the TV screen and start eating the objects and characters, surf on the waves of shades and shadows and slide down the magical rainbow of colours for an eternity, even if my TV is not HD.
So, bottomline is: Genji Days of the Blade is crap.I had something else to say here too, but I forgot it all while bashing Genji and now I really have to go pee, so I can't stay here pondering what all the other stuff was. Maybe I'll write another blog soon.
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12Mar 08
I've almost written 2 blogs between this and the last one, but I didn't post them, so here's an update of what's happening in my life.
I got another PS3 game for Christmas. It's TESIV: Oblivion. Great game, I spent over 100 hours on it before I quit, and still didn't finish the main quest line.
One day I decided to download a Sega Megadrive/Genesis emulator when I saw some website mention it.
Now I can once again play all my favourite Sega games, like Toy Story, Rings of Power, Sonic 2 and Wonderboy in Monster World.My video walkthrough "business" is going fine. In January I bought a Pinnacle Dazzle tuner, so now I'm a "professional" video game walkthrougher. My newest walkthrough is Spyro: Year of the Dragon, for PS1. I'm going to redo my old walkthroughs too now that I can have better quality.
I was referred to the leading paid-to-click program of this time, and made an account there. I've already earned 2 dollars and 83 cents. Too bad I can't withdraw my money yet, because there's a 10 dollar withdrawal minimum. Someday I'll have $216 and then I'll buy myself a website and a real domain name.
I recently bought 5 games.
Sonic Riders, Xena Warrior Princess, Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider Legend and Devil May Cry 3 Special Edition.
Sonic Riders is just bad. Xena game is not just a really horrible game, but it also makes so much noise inside the PS2 that I don't dare to play it anymore, in case it breaks something.
Tomb Raider AoD is crap. The controls are so clunky that it makes you feel you're playing a really badly made horror game.
Devil May Cry 3 SE is ok, but a little too fast paced and has too many tight areas to appeal to me right now.
Tomb Raider Legend is great, though. I don't know why some people mock it, but the controls work just fine, the story's...ok I'd say, and Lara's hot. It's a good game and really invites new people to the series.Last night I was reading through my e-mails, and I saw something funny.
MySpace had sent me an account confirmation message. Someone had created a MySpace account for me, with as close to my real info as possible. I thought it was nice so I confirmed it. So, now I got me a MySpace account. Sad.
I don't understand why anyone would actually need MySpace, and I'm not hurrying to set up my detailed profile there. I haven't even picked my url yet.
I guess the person who created the account is some fan of my Jak walkthroughs, at least that's the idea I got from the password the person picked.Well, that's about it. Other things have happened too, but I don't want to talk about them here.
- Posted Mar 12, 2008 2:37 pm GMT
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14Dec 07
Isn't she a beauty?
A 40 gig PlayStation 3 I bought last Wednesday.
Assassin's Creed is the first of my (someday numerous) PS3 games.
I already beat Assassin's Creed today, with only some flags and Templars missing.- Posted Dec 14, 2007 10:16 pm GMT
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13Nov 07...nah, it's just another sad edition of
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13th of November, 2007Johnny's Site
I've been talking about my website a lot if anybody's been paying attention, and it's pretty obvious that I'm using Freewebs.com, which is the best free website hosting service ever. I don't know if it's the best paid service if you decide to get better tools and more web-space and bandwidth, but since I'm so poor, I've tried easily 20 different free hosts and all of them suck in one way or another compared to Freewebs. This isn't advertising, I'm just stating facts I've noticed.
Freewebs is easy to use, supports almost any file-extension you might think up and gives free members more web-space than most other services. It also doesn't automatically spam every single page in your folders with the annoying "You've won! Click here!" ads.
Now Freewebs has done something new to make the service even better: New, shorter web-address.
The old one was something like www.freewebs.com/yourwebsite, but the new one is yourwebsite.webs.com. A LOT better, isn't it?! Yes it is.
So, even though the old link still works (or has been working for the past couple of days) my website domain name is now officially johnnyfox.webs.com.Another thing about my site.
If you have seen my website, you may have noticed the animations on the Videos page.
Well, I'm kind of worried now. You see, it takes a lot of time for users with slow connection to load all the images, and it can seriously hurt the traffic there if it takes several minutes for everyone to see the actual content there. That's why I've tried asking people whether they think the images take too long to load or not.
If enough people tell me that the images should be taken down, I'll just move them from the Videos page to the game video pages, so each page would only load up ONE image at a time. I think they look really nice, so I don't want to take them off completely.
Or what do you think?GameSpot Tweaks
I see that Freewebs isn't the only website making it easier for normal users to do...whatever they're doing, as GameSpot.com has also changed something that I'm personally happy about. While writing this I noticed 2 things that are different from how I remembered, not sure if they are new additions or not.
When previewing a blog post, it now shows the text how it actually looks like when it's done. It doesn't sound like a big deal since it's only about the width of the text area, but it actually is a great change, me thinks.
The other change is how the buttons under the text-box are shown. They're now in 2 lines, not one.
The guys behind GameSpot should make these kind of changes more often, it makes the website look like it's evolving somewhere.
I just wish they'd fix the Union Video pages too. It only shows the newest 10 additions, the link "All union videos" still doesn't work.I'm Sorry, Daniel and Leo
Manhunt 2 has been released in US already, most people should know that by now. It's still not sure if and when it comes to Europe, but since some people already play it I decided to say something about it here.
Some of you may have heard that I'm going to buy Manhunt 2, and no stupid kill-filter is going to stop me from doing that. I kept saying that all the time until the game was released in US. Well, now that I've seen videos of the game, especially after watching BonersGames' walkthrough of it on YouTube, I've changed my mind.
It doesn't look anything like I was hoping, it had nothing that really said "Come Kill, Johnny, KILL!". The original Manhunt wasn't what I expected it to be either when I first bought it, but I enjoyed it since it had an unbelievable world. Manhunt 2 just doesn't look like anything I would enjoy.
I don't care about blood and gore, so the censoring doesn't bother me. It's the lack of good gangs and characters, even Daniel looks pretty boring to me, the world looked pretty generic and what I've heard the game has a lot of glitches.
Also, because R* had to take out the styIe rating, I really don't see any reason why I would be excited about getting it. Some of the levels looked somewhat interesting, but that's it.
So, for the first (and hopefully the last) time ever, I have to say I am not excited about a Rockstar Games game. I'm probably going to buy it if I see it in a bargain bin someday anyway, but now I'm even more excited about Beaterator than Manhunt 2*.
(*Note that I don't own a PSP and I really don't see the point of Beaterator.)Reviews
A long time ago, in a blog post far, far away, I wrote about my first impressions of the PS2 port of GTA: Vice City Stories. now, just recently I re-read it, and I thought it was pretty good, and says everything I think about the game now. So, I've decided to "write" a review of GTA:VCS and just paste the old text there. So it's nothing new, but if some of you new people reading my blog (none of the old ones do, they don't get fooled twice), you can just read the up-and-coming review.
Also, yesterday I broke out the old Worms 4: Mayhem again, after 9 months of not playing it. I got really pissed at it once, and stopped playing it since I had other new games to play back then. Well, I noticed that I've been wrong about it all this time. It's a great game, I should've just kept on playing it.
Since I'm already going to "write" a review of VCS, I've decided to really write a review of Worms 4 and praise it to some extent.
Read it when it's done, IF it's ever done. I've got a bad habit of not doing things.Weather
There seems to be some snow on the ground already, not too much though. Mostly been raining lately, but tonight it was already -2 degrees Celsius when I checked.
Well, that's it from this NewsCast again. I didn't speak of myself in 3rd person this time like I usually do, maybe next time.
Good night!This NewsCast doesn't represent JohnnyFox's views on anything in public.
Nothing here can be used against JohnnyFox in any kind of a debate or other hassle that could compromise JohnnyFox's reputation as a wise, handsome and funny man.- Posted Nov 13, 2007 3:35 pm GMT
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31Oct 07BOO!
Happy Hall...wait, isn't it Halloween? I wouldn't want to be that last dork to yell out "happy Halloween" a day late. Today IS the last day of October, isn't it?
You know, here where I live, Halloween isn't a big deal really. Might have something to do with us NOT having ANY kind celtic heritage. But it's a different kind of time, and that's why I personally make it a special day. I don't dress in funny costumes or decorate my place with pumpkins, but on Halloween I always have a good mood, feels like it's a better day than tomorrow.
So Happy/Scary Halloween!...if it is Halloween. If it's not, then have a nice...whatever weekday it might be.
- Posted Oct 31, 2007 3:07 pm GMT
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19Oct 07
What do you think about my website? I've updated it a bit.
www.freewebs.com/johnnyfoxThe only people I know have enough time to waste are the people who check my blog, that's why I always ask you.
- Posted Oct 19, 2007 4:47 pm GMT
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31Aug 07
Well now you just wasted your time, buddy.
You should know my blog posts are NEVER worth reading, even when the title looks like you absolutely must click it.Well, as you might know, I don't live for GameSpot anymore, or not in the way I used to, at least.
I've started uploading game videos to YouTube, and have forgotten my profile on GameSpot. I used to log on to GameSpot all the time before, I checked my 7 favourite unions, 6 favourite game specific boards, my profile and new blogs from friends often twice a day, + all my non-favourite unions and boards.
Now I still often log on to GameSpot more than once a day, but I only have one union and one game specific board I keep checking. I gave up the leadership in 2 of my unions, and I resigned from 12 unions altogether, and I rarely check my profile here. I also don't specifically hunt for emblems anymore, I only pick them up if I happen to earn them through something I actually want to do on GameSpot, like watching the live feeds or something.
It came to me as a surprise that I had leveled up to 31: Ippon! and I can't remember if I ever even saw level 30 in my profile. Now I just noticed that I have posted 4001 posts. Somehow the levels seems to go up faster when you don't stare at your profile 20 hours a day.
Also, I've made new friends through YouTube, I have found the fun of playing video games again and people seem to respect me more. It's only online respect, but at least there's more of it now.- Posted Aug 31, 2007 3:09 pm GMT
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23Jul 07
...I should feel guilty. But I don't.
This time around I wrote my 7th review on GameSpot.
I would really appreciate it you would read it and then, if you like it, recommend it. I'm not asking everyone to straight up recommend it, but if you are interested in reading the review and after reading it agree with what I have said, then please show that you like it.
Read my Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks review here!
- Posted Jul 23, 2007 10:30 pm GMT
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19Jul 07so could you guys please be so kind and tell me how my freewebs website looks? (www.freewebs.com/johnnyfox/)
What should I change, add or take away?
Other thing, I'm going to start writing blogs about what has happened to me during these 4 weeks.
Don't be waiting though, it's nothing interesting.- Posted Jul 19, 2007 6:42 pm GMT
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18Jul 07
I just got the news that my Baldies gamespace banner was finally approved, and I recieved my long awaited Artistic Genius emblem. Search for the game (Baldies) and click the game name if you want to admire my art.
I also leveled up to Wicked Sick!Bad news is that pilgrims ate my turkey.
I don't like the the rule that the turkey emblem had to be taken away, as it was given last year. I don't mind GameSpot taking away new emblems now that I've been warned, but nobody told me I would lose my turkey back in 2006 when I recieved it, and I think they should've left it as it was.
Well, at least I can enjoy a slice of pie for the time being to help me recover from this depression I got for being separated from my trusted animal companion, my long-time friend, my pet turkey...gobble gobble!
By the way; I voted pie, because making the decision between the two wasn't a piece of cake for me.
- Posted Jul 18, 2007 7:42 pm GMT
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16Jul 07
No?...Fine then.
But for your information, I've been away for the last 3 weeks and I still can't spend a lot of time explainning why, because I'm not at home using my own computer.
Anyway, I'm going to check my 84 PMs now and look through my unions and my favourite game specific boards, and later on I'll make blog posts of what happened during these 3 weeks.
This keyboard feels funny and it's hard to write properly, so excuse me if there's any spelling errors.
- Posted Jul 16, 2007 10:13 pm GMT
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17Jun 07
I spent a whole day without logging on GameSpot...
Usually I log in a couple of times a day, but yesterday I just watched tv, played Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and filmed my Warriors walkthrough, and then at 4.30 AM logged in to check my Inbox. Odd.- Posted Jun 17, 2007 11:09 am GMT
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2Jun 07
Yes, it's over now. Let the fun week of doing nothing begin!
Well we got no choice
All the girls and boys
Makin all that noise
'Cause they found new toys
Well we can't salute ya
Can't find a flag
If that don't suit ya
That's a drag
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to piecesNo more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks
Well we got no clas s
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes
School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher's dirty looks
Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not go back at all
School's out forever
School's out for summer
School's out with fever
School's out completelyBy Alice Cooper
- Posted Jun 2, 2007 10:26 am GMT
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1Jun 07
My mom works in a big store and sometimes, when the stuff they sell is taken down from the shelves, the emplyees can get that stuff for a very small price, or sometimes even for free.
Well, just recently the store had to get rid of chocolate eggs that was left from easter.
My mom got a bag full of those, so it felt like easter all over again for us.The next day the store had to get rid of old toys that didn't sell anymore, so my mom came home with:
Monopoly Express dice game (not the big board game)
A toy dog that dances and flashes lights along the music if you hook it up with a CD player, radio or an iPod/MP3 player. It serves as an extra speaker too.
2 Superman figurines, and then some other crap I didn't really care about.I took the 2 Superman toys, and later I'll put them on my shelf for display. Now I just placed them quickly somewhere.
Here's pictures of them (click for bigger images):
I also have 2 cool Spiderman toys that I got from cereal boxes.
That's Venom and Sandman, and the toys are based on the new Spiderman 3 movie.
They're water toys, you can squirt water from their hands. I keep them on top of my computer screen.
My sister wants to steal them from me.
I'm also rearranging my room. I scraped the old and really lame stickers off my cabinet and I intend to paint a Warriors logo on the door someday. A few things in my room has changed places, and I'm thinking about switching the places of my tables.- Posted Jun 1, 2007 7:20 pm GMT
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27May 07
Star_Wars117.
But yeah, the point of this blog is that I'll be busy with stuff during the summer. Second half of my "vacation" goes to reading for the first 2 final exams, English and Swedish, that I decided to write next autumn so I would have less to worry about the next spring.
The first half of my vacation I'm going to learn the ropes of a company, it seems. It's almost a job, actually. I'll get paid for it, and I'll be moving to another city for a few weeks. I thought I could at least spend the first month at home, just being lazy with my video games.Don't you just hate it when one beautiful morning you wake up, have a cup of coffee, and suddenly your mom tells you that you're going to be the vice president of a company because your uncle doesn't have kids of his own and he only trusts you?
By the way, send me more questions that I can answer in my future video blogs.
- Posted May 27, 2007 11:03 pm GMT
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26May 07
This is it. Whoop-de-doo and so forth.
Another news, Star_Wars117 gave me an idea.
Because I want the video blog emblem I still need more video blogs, but I'm basically out of ideas.
I want my video blogs to be small packages of info, not just random rants about what I didn't do today again. I don't intend to cheat at all to get the emblem so I can't upload just any videos, and due to GameSpot's ridiculously large sum of different categories for videos, my video reviews wouldn't pass as video blogs.So, what I want is questions. Ask a question or suggest a topic I should talk about. I don't mind if it's stupid and random, and I really couldn't care less if you actually ever watch my video blogs. I just want to make them.
- Posted May 26, 2007 11:54 pm GMT
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25May 07
I now have the 4th weapons for 4 characters:
Kotaro Fuma: Thorns of Peril
Keiji Maeda: Divine Mandible
Magoichi Saika: Marksman's Pride
Hattori Hanzo: Chained DragonNow I only have 22 4th weapons to get. Piece of cake...I hope.
Also, another one of my guards finally maxed out all stats. It's hard to get guards to achieve experience points, because it's totally unpredictable whether they fight or just run around. I now have 3 guards with maxed out stats.
- Posted May 25, 2007 5:19 pm GMT
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23May 07
It still has the one GameFaqs moderation, and sometimes some of the info in it disappears, and I have no marks of any other moderations, not even my one and only serious ToS violation.
Also the link disappears every now and then altogether. I can deal with the missing link, since the first time I ever saw it was after 14 months of using GameSpot, but I would like to see my moderations on those rare times when the link is there so I can keep track of them, or more like that one and only.
I started thinking that MAYBE it doesn't register the moderations at all when I don't have the link, because when i got that GFaqs mod I had the link, but I have no markings of the ones that appeared when I didn't have the link. Also, I think that when I got suspended I didn't have the link either. Sure that would be lucky for me, but what if the mods can still see my moderations while I'm dancing around naked and singing happy songs about not having moderations?
- Posted May 23, 2007 10:31 am GMT
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