Summer, parties, and Metal Gear
By Mr. Bojangles

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

FORWARD
SECTION I: The Long Summer
SECTION II: Metal Gear Solid 4 Impressions
SECTION III: "Awesomeness" Update / Awesome Flash Movies
EPILOGUE

FORWARD

I decided to add a table of contents because this blog is LONG AS HELL!!!!!!!! It's mostly there if you want to skip the Metal Gear Solid 4 impressions. Everything else pertains to what I've been up to with my crazy life and what I plan to do here on Gamespot in the next few days so I suggest reading it if you're interested. I'm not dead by the way. I'm back. Enjoy the blog!

I: THE LONG SUMMER

Hey guys. Well, I've been super busy... doing nothing but having a fun, crazy time. I've been applying for jobs everywhere, I might have one. I'm crossing my fingers. I need the money. Besides job searching, I've been having a great time, hanging out with my friends, ALL THE TIME. I went to the shore last weekend to party, got home, and hung out with people all week culminating in a weekend filled with a party Friday night, then hanging out with another friend the next night and getting 100% NO SLEEP while working on a Flash project together, and then, before sleeping, going over another group of friend's house to hang, finally finding rest, in bed, sleeping head to toe with a drunk Russian girl, at 3 AM last nig...morning. She's a close friend or else I wouldn't have been sleeping head to toe... or maybe not sleeping at all.

II: Metal Gear Solid 4 IMPRESSIONS

Moving on... throughout the past few weeks, I've been going over my friend Cody's house (who you may remember as the hero in Jerks of War 2) to play his PS3 and more importantly, METAL GEAR SOLID 4: BLAH BLAH BUNCH OF STUFF THAT'S AWESOME BUT INCOMPREHENSIBLE. I love the Metal Gear Solid series, though I wasn't about to buy a PS3 for the fourth entry in the series, like Cody did. Plus I never finished... or started Metal Gear Solid 3. I played and beat the first two, and loved them but when Snake Easter came out, I couldn't focus on the espionage gameplay. I didn't make it very far in that game. But Cody had MGS 3 Subsistence or whatever and I saw all of the important cutscenes. So anyway, enough backstory.

Metal Gear Solid 4 is one of the best games I've ever played. The combat was great and brilliantly executed. An incredible improvement over the previous games. The combination of gameplay and cutscenes is incredible. Each cutscene is like a movie. I can't believe that this was a video game I was playing. It's basically like you're playing a TV or movie series. While the cutscenes can be a bit cumbersome and confusing, they're still breathtakingly amazing. The best graphics in a game to date can be found in MGS 4, both gameplay and cutscene graphics. It's really awe-inspiring to see such an achievement in video games.

Konami and Hideo Kojima really put together an amazing final chapter in the Metal Gear series while paying serious homage to the previous games in the seires. Everything from including music from the previous games to flashbacks of prior events in the series (I'm trying not to give anything away here) is included in Guns of the Patriots. This game really awards fans of the series. It's amzing how much Kojima sweetened the pot for MGS fans. Everyone who touched this game in the production process took plenty of time and care into making this the best game it could be. Everything is better in MGS 4 then ever before. Solid Snake, or should I say Old Snake, at his best.

III: "AWESOMENESS" UPDATE / AWESOME FLASH MOVIES

So, not that my ginormous amount of impressions of Metal Gear Solid 4 are complete, I guess I'll finish this little... big blog. I'm really considering doing a video tonight or tomorrow, but I'm not going to make any promises, I might just want to clean my house and sleep the rest of the... week. but I might make a video for you guys. It's been a really long time. I think I still owe you guys a review of GTA IV. So maybe I'll combine the two most AWESOME games of the year so far, GTA IV and MGS 4, into one MEGA episode of Awesomeness. I would have called the review of Metal Gear Solid 4, Metal Gear Awesome or Awesomeness but this amazing Flash artist on Newgrounds.com who made Metal Gear Awesome and Metal Gear Awesome 2 which are THE BEST PARODIES OF METAL GEAR SOLID EVER and possibly the best Flash movies or all time. If you know about Newgrounds, check out the rest of his video game Awesome parodies. He's awesome.

PS: Take a peak at Awesome Gaiden. It's only 35 seconds, but it may be the funniest 35 seconds of your life. Prepare to laugh. It's by the same guy as the Metal Gear Awesome series. Here's his Newgrounds profile link if you like his stuff. Egoraptor.

EPILOGUE

Also, before I go, please head over to Newgrounds and check out my friend Cody's Flash movies. His newest movie, Black Belt Volley, was just posted and I hope you could rate and review it for me please, he needs the help getting exposed to that community. I'm also starring, or at least my voice is starring, in one of his new Flash movies comming out soon. I'll link you guys up. Alright guys. That about does it on this novel of a blog. I hope you guys enjoyed hearing about all of my trials and tribulations. I'm going to go and pass out now. This blog took like and hour to write. But hey, I haven't been around for a long while. Take it easy guys, I'll try and make sure it's not this long between posts again.

~Mr. Bojangles~

Hey guys. Once again, sorry I haven't been posting. I've been busy with a lot of stuff and have been a little depressed. Due to my constant absences from school, and my sheer stupidity I'm probably not going to graduate this year and may have to go back to high school for a fifth year. In a way I think deserve it. A way to pay myself back for all the times I didn't hand in work and just plain didn't care about school. I messed up big, but so be it. Plenty of people have stayed back, and now I'm one of them. I just need to make sure I dedicate myself to this last, last year and show off my true potential.

In other news I've been playing a lot of Vegas 2. I just find it to be the best multi-player game since Halo 2. I'm having a lot of fun with it and Villa might be the best multi-player map ever created. I'm playing with a really cool group of guys, a clan called Smoke U who strat out maps and really take a strategic approach to playing. They only play team survival, the way it's meant to be played. One life. That's it. It really gives the game a little more challenge.

Last but not least, I'm the lead singer for a new band. One of my friends who I've known since he was born and a couple of his friends have formed a band and are singing at a Battle of the Bands competition in Sparta, New Jersey. We're really coming together and are pretty good for a senior, two sophomores and two freshmen. We have a lot of potential and we'll hopefully at least place in the competition. We're playing three songs. Woman by Wolfmother, Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana, and Guerrilla Radio by Rage against the Machine. It should be a lot of fun if not anything else. We're really starting to sound great and we're really getting pumped for Saturday.

Anyway guys, I hope you all have been doing alright. Leave me a comment, tell what you've been up too. I hope everything's well, and I hope to get a new video up soon. My camera doesn't work on my new computer for some reason. Oh well. Talk to you soon.

Sorry DBoy I just couldn't resist. I literally said that line out loud like 50 times in one day. It was the response to questions like, "How was your day?" or "Will you shut the **** up!" or even, "What's up?".

Let me get to the point. I beat GTA IV tonight. What a relief. I loved the every second of the game, especially the story. There's not a lot to dislike in this piece of pure wonderment written on to a disc, and I had a great time with it up until the last mission which is the only mission I had to repeat over three times. There weren't many missions I had to repeat, but I really got stuck on the final mission.
***SPOILER***

My notable stats from the first play-through:

Game Progress: 72.83%
Times cheated: 0
Playing Time: 44:19:05
Longest non-stop game: 03:55:49
Scored with girl: 14 (Nice)

Niko Bellic saying "I am the one who survived!": Priceless

Anyway, to wrap it up, I plan on working to get as many of the offline achievements as I can. I doubt I have the wherewithal or the attension span to get 100%. I don't plan on finding the flying rats. But hey, maybe I'll borrow my friends strategy guide and get that Key to the City. We'll see. But for now I'm going to give GTA a rest so it doesn't get stale for me, and head back to Rock Band for a bit. I plan on playing Band World Tour with my friend all day on Friday. I'll get a few of those achievements and maybe get up to 14K by next weeks end.

In other news, I'M GETTING MY LICENSE JUNE 2ND!!!!!

Alright guys, see you this weekend for a new AWESOMENESS including thoughts on the new Indiana Jones film and the first part of a new miniseries, I'M THE ONE WHO SURVIVED: A DETAILED REVIEW OF GTA IV. See you soon!!!

Well, I got tired of saying, "I'll post a video soon...". So here it is NOW. A BRAND New Awesomeness. Enjoy!

I'll be playing going to pick a prom dress color with my date, going out with an friend I haven't seen in a while, and, if I get home, playing GTA IV, on top of the early afternoon baseball games. If an opportunity arises, I'll be posting a new volume of Awesomeness. Many of you have asked me to make it, and so I will. You will soon have on your hands, GRAND THEFT AWESOMENESS!!!

See you soon...

Hey guys. Sorry I haven't been posting anything lately, but I just haven't even been at my computer often. It's been school, baseball, eat, sleep, repeat. And the days I've had off it's just been sleep. I don't know when, but I'll post a video the next time I get some free time, which could be as early as Thursday, or as late as... well who knows. Take it easy guys. Hopefully I'll see you soon.