The Devil's wears Nada

Or Nicolas Sarkozy in the Simpson's.

Nicolas Sarkozy et Carla Bruni dans les Simpson !
par lemondededemainTV

Mass We Pray

The Christian video game, hmm they are a little ridiculous. But, BUT... Look at 0:31: The Devil's Horn... And 0:39: inverted crosses, people...

hmm, it could be from a particularly imaginative Satanist group ;)



Edit: It seems it was part of a viral marketing campaign for Dante's Inferno, an upcoming video game loosely based on the aforementioned book. Here's a trailer for the video game:

It does not look so interesting.

Random thought

"There are those that will see conspiracy and disgust in the rotation of the earth simply because its too popular with the mainstream". (@realjenius)

Apart from that, I bought Left 4 Dead 2 after more than 100 hours on Left 4 Dead. I only finished the first campaign yet (with friends, of course), but I must say that this game is a masterpiece!!

What are you waiting for? Buy this game on PC NOW!!!

And don't forget to check the Mignight Riders website from time to time. It seems that we will see them soon ;)

Return to Bioshock

One year ago I bought Bioshock, played it on my old laptop and did not like it at all, it seemed to me it was a hell of a overhyped game. However my PC did not handle Shaders 3.0 at the time, I had to get recompiled Shaders for the game somewhere, so some of my bad impressions of the game could have been related to that.

I have now a state of the art laptop, and I was able to play this game will all settings maxed. Unfortunately, my impressions did not change:

• I'm sorry, but this game has lower than average graphics, even for a 2007 game. Except for the settings (which are OK, but also not mind blowing), objects and NPCs rendering are really not very good. Some years ago, games like Half Life 2 or Doom 3 had much better graphics


• Gameplay very much look like a child console game. For example a lot of glowing colors and oversized objects in the game. And unfortunately even if you disable all these kind of unnecessary features in the game options. Or the fact that you have to loot every object and NPC in the game, or random places, to find items. This all feels so unnatural. To take a very old example, for the first Half Life, Health stations were always put in logical places. Here this is completely "random", and you only have to look everywhere like in a flash puzzle game to get what you want. Not to mention the absurd mini games that are used to hack sentries or vending machines. Why?


• I also have to mention the combats and NPCs behavior which are really ridiculously bad and uninteresting


• Story: Because they were not able to tell the story in a natural way, they recorded hours of recordings to tell the story by dead NPCs. Even in Doom 3 I did not like that very much, but the Doom 3 universe was very simple. Here they had to create a very specific universe, and it seemed that they could not really make the player experience it. So they had to resort to these recordings. You don't play the game, you don't experience the universe, you are fed the story by some kinds of audiobooks... So why not reading a Ayn Rand book instead?


• Level design: not very interesting. Even at the beginning of the game, when I arrived in Rapture, there was no wow effect at all (except for the short cinematic part when you are in the bathysphere, but remember that it's only a cinematic). Small rooms everywhere, very much all looking the same to me

I will very soon remove this game from my computer, because I really don't enjoy playing it i any way. But why did some people loved this game so much?

I Have Not... Come This Far... To Die Now

Awesome Left 4 Dead 2 trailer.

This guy needs to get a life, maybe

However, at the end he did not seem to suffer from playing Left 4 Dead during some 8 hours on a row approximately ;)

Left 4 Dead 2 is not an expansion

There have been a lot o whining lately from Left 4 Dead gamers about the fact that Valve announced a new Left 4 Dead 2 game in late 2009. They say they feel that they were cheated because the new game should have been released as free DLC, and that Valve has abandoned Left 4 Dead support and development. Some of them even say that the game is unfinished or unplayable.

Just immature whiners.

Valve do not owe them anything:

• The game is very much playable, on the contrary it's one of the games I played the most I think


• Valve already released DLC and SDK for Left 4 Dead. The Survival Pack is a great addition to the game. If some people don't like it, that's their problem, but saying that it's nothing just because they prefer to play versus (or play versus only) is twisting reality. Left 4 Dead is not only Versus (even if Versus is cool). And for those who say that releasing new Maps (or even adapting existing Maps to a new game mode)is really zero work, they should begin to Map themselves


• Valve has the right to develop a new game when they want

Beside, judging by the additions in A.I. Director, game engine and gameplay in Left 4 Dead 2, it could never be an expansion on the first game. Expansions are when you add limited new content and stories without changing the game engine itself. here we have (and I think it's just the beginning):

• New special infected (and even new special normal infected) with the consequences on the A.I. Director, not mentioning how the Versus mode will evolve because of that. It's much more than only tweaking the characteristics for one class like in Team Fortress 2.


• The new evisceration / gore effects in the game engine (beurk !!)


• New Dynamic weather, and dynamic path, all handled by the new A.I. Director