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Awesome eBay Question

By phrequencyviii on 09/02/2010

sends a turkey to get?

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Metallica – Master of Puppets

By phrequencyviii on 09/02/2010

  • Jim HensonMaster of Puppets
  • 1986
  • Thrash Metal

Here is yet another classic Metallica album, and yet again, I’m just not digging it.

 

Yes, the album is good, influential, blah blah blah, but sorry, I just don’t like Metallica a whole lot. I don’t know why. None of the songs really stick with me, and the choruses annoy me.

 

Rating: ★★★☆☆

 

Best Songs: I don’t know, you tell me.

 

Metallica

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King of Fighters: Dream Match 1999 – Sega Dreamcast

By phrequencyviii on 09/01/2010

KOF 99

This is the last Dreamcast game I ever bought brand new before I got an Xbox. I found it at a Walmart in Virginia, along with Phantasy Star Online for 20$. Since I already had PSO I got this, which kicked buttocks because my Dreamcast was starving and it was almost impossible to find games for it. I’m definitely glad I got it, seeing as I played it many hours and had it mastered pretty well. Too bad I suck at it now. I can’t remember any of the moves…

 

The best part of the intro movie.My favorite thing about this game was the awesome soundtrack. It’s got a lot of variety in it, and each characters theme fits them pretty well. It’s got some nice jazzy sounding stuff, some butt rock for characters like Ralf, and both fit well for a fighting game.

 

There’s about 38 characters in this game, ranging from giant heavy guys, guys that look like girls, a midget Freddy Krueger, and the most puzzling of them all, girls. Some of the characters are just plain weird. My personal favorites are Iori, the angry red guy, Ralf, because of his awesome headband/camo/blue hair combo, some chicks who I don’t remember, and finally, Mai. Mai is AWESOME. Not so much because she’s a good fighter, but because she has giant knockers that bounce around even when she’s just standing there. I know some people will call me immature because of that, but seriously, if you don’t agree your either a girl, or reproduce by budding. It really doesn’t take much to appreciate a nice pair of video game jubblies, especially ones like these.How is this a bad thing?

 

KOF ’99 pretty much plays like other 2D fighting games, but it does have the nifty three personA deadly kick to the crotch! team battles. It’s pretty fast paced too. You’ve got super moves, fireballs, throws, super bars, and cheap AI opponents. The games pretty hard, especially the last boss.

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Abnormality – 2007 Demo

By phrequencyviii on 08/30/2010

  • Untitled2007 Demo
  • 2007
  • Brutal Death Metal

Chances are you found this band via Rock Band 2, since they have the hardest song on there. This has been a blessing and a curse for the band, since there are tons of morons who send them hate mail because of the songs difficulty in Rock Band, but it’s also gained them a lot of new fans.

 

Some of the members are from Teratism (probably not the Teratism you might be thinking of), and the style is pretty similar to that.

 

Another big thing for Abnormality is the fact the vocalist is a girl. I think that is absolutely awesome, but I’m going to downplay it just because of the fact the band is just as good as others in the genre, without the “gimmick” of having a female lead (which isn’t really a gimmick, honestly, but a few bands out there use that as marketing). I will say that she surpasses a lot of the grunters out there, and she’s also pretty awesome to talk to (I contacted the band a few times over Myspace about getting this demo up on Zune).

 

The demo is only three songs, with the best obviously being Visions. It’s got everything you want from brutal death metal, and the  other two songs are pretty good as well. I can’t wait for the bands first full length, which has been MIA for awhile now.

 

Rating: ★★★★☆

 

Best Song: Visions

 

Abnormality

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Jet Grind Radio – Sega Dreamcast

By phrequencyviii on 08/29/2010

Jet Grind Radio

I remember playing this for the first time in a demo pod at Toys R Us and loving the graphics. Not only was I finally playing a Dreamcast, I was playing one of the best games at the time. Jet Grind Radio is another unique Dreamcast game that, of course, didn’t sell in the US. It’s also one of the games that pioneered cell shading into the fad it was for awhile. Unfortunately this is the game that helped make cell shading a fad for awhile, too, so Zelda fans might want to stay away from this game. It is a very cool graphics style when its done correctly, so it’s understandable it was used a lot.

 

I wish I had a can of multicolor spray paint.In Jet Grind Radio, you play the role of a juvenile delinquent. Said juvenile then joins a gang, and they express themselves by spray painting art throughout the town, battle other taggers in territory battles, and avoid police. So basically your a stupid teen in this game, but it’s still fun. You stick it to the man…with ART.

 

Probably the strongest point in JGR next to the gameplay is that the game has an excellent mix of music. There’s a lot of variety, and pretty much all of it’s good. The bad thing is that most of the music is just loops that repeat, usually the full song isn’t there.

 

There was also a cool feature where you could go online and download or upload graffiti made by people. Now it’s dead like most of the Dreamcasts online features.

 

The worst thing about JGR is probably some of the difficulty. I never beat this game simply because I stopped playing it for awhile, and when I came back I had no idea what to do. The sequel had this problem too. Still, definitely pick it up. There still isn’t that many games like it.

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Live & Plugged Vol. 2 – Dimmu Borgir/Dissection

By phrequencyviii on 08/29/2010

  • VHS.Live & Plugged
  • 1998
  • Melodic/Symphonic Black Metal

This is a VHS. Remember those? Well, here’s the thing: back when I used to collect CDs and music crap, I was NEVER able to find this tape. I saw it pop up on eBay once in three years and it was actually a bootleg DVD with this on it. It’s 2010, so I’m pretty sure you know where I ended up getting this (hint: the internetz).

 

It’s pretty old, but sound and video quality really aren’t that bad. It’s a pretty good performance too, and you get to see all the old members, including the ridiculous top hat wearing keyboard player. It’s about 30 minutes long and it appears the bands were both playing for Cradle of Filth, though they are nowhere to be seen other then in the special thanks in the credits.

 

Most of the songs played are from Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and a few from Stormblast. There is also small interview snippets in between songs, which are pretty cool.

 

Rating: ★★★☆☆

 

Highlights: The top hat.

 

Dimmu Borgir

 

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Harvey Birdman – Nintendo Wii

By phrequencyviii on 08/29/2010

(I seem to have lost the pictures to this one…)

 

Do you remember back when the Sega CD (Mega CD to you non-Americans) had just come out, and Sega promised that FMV games were the future? Remember when you bought a Sega CD and it came with Sewer Shark? Remember that FMV games were complete garbage? Well, Harvey Birdman is sort of like that, except it doesn’t really suck. This is probably one of the few FMV styled games that actually works and is actually entertaining.

 

Harvey Birdman is a point and click adventure game with lots and lots of videos. Seeing as it’s based on a cartoon of the same name, it sort of makes sense. It seems to me that games based on adult cartoons like this always work out best as adventure games; see Duckman. Since the characters are usually funny it’s always nice to hear them talk and act like they do on the show. Birdman’s game counterpart doesn’t throw jokes out every half a second like the show, probably because the game is longer then the standard 15 minute show, but that’s perfect. It keeps it from getting old and annoying.

 

I should probably mention that this might remind you of another lawyer game….one that you might have played on the DS. The name escapes me right now, but you might remember it. Well, they both do sort of play the same, except Birdman is a lot less complex. You gather evidence, collect character profiles, and present them while you cross examine and whatnot. Really, it’s just a front end to make it feel more like a game, and I don’t mean that in a negative way. It works out great, and it feels great too with the Wiimote. Perfect use of it.

 

The graphics and sound mimic the show, and even look better then the show at times since it’s being rendered here at 480p widescreen. Music is fitting but also memorable. The one problem with the graphics is at times they zoom in, turning everything into a big nasty pixelated mess, and then there’s one big, stupid problem: nearly every time Harvey talks, his face changes colors. Really, I’m not joking. When his face is normal, it’s one shade of fleshy pink. When he talks, it’s a tanner pink. I thought I might have lost my mind when I first noticed it, but it’s there. Kind of stupid. Also pretty weird when Harvey is wearing the prison costume and suddenly in one scene he’s in a suit.

 

Voices are awesome, since there done by the original cast….with the exception of Reducto and Phil, because I guess Stephen Colbert was too busy not really doing anything else to voice them, so they had to get Stephen Colbert’s evil clone to voice them. Reducto sounds fine, seeing as I had no clue Colbert even voiced him, but Phil just sounds stupid. Not a great job on that one, evil Colbert.

 

I can’t really score it higher because it’s not much of a real game and only lasts about 5 hours, but seriously, I doubt your doing anything else with your Wii and this game can be found for extremely low prices. Totally worth it, unless your one of the dicks who doesn’t like the show and thinks it’s too random. That’s sort of the point, duh. It’s worth it for the awesome Street Fighter cameos alone.

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Agalloch – Ashes Against the Grain

By phrequencyviii on 08/29/2010

  • Ashes Against the GrainAshes Against the Grain
  • 2006
  • Progressive Black Metal/Folk/???

Another winner from Oregon’s Agalloch. These guys might have gaps in between full albums, but it’s always worth it.

 

Ashes Against the Grain is a little more metallic then the mostly acoustic predecessor, and it’s very welcome. The songs and riffs here are original, memorable, and amazing. This is truly “real” music, and even if you aren’t into metal, I don’t see how you could dislike it.

 

My only complaint is that the album is very short and has a lot of “ambient sounds”, which some might call filler.

 

Rating: ★★★★★

 

Best Songs: Limbs, Falling Snow, Not Unlike the Waves

 

Agalloch

 

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Evolution: The World of Sacred Device – Sega Dreamcast

By phrequencyviii on 08/28/2010

evolution

I have some great memories of this game. I first saw previews of it back in 1998 in the now defunct Gamers Republic magazine. All the previews looked interesting, a big reason being Dreamcast was new. I always thought it was the first Dreamcast RPG to come out, but I guess elemental Gimmick Gear beat it out. Back in the summer of 2002, the summer before we moved across the US, I saved up a bunch of money to get some Dreamcast games, and this is one of the games I bought. Even though it was missing the cover for the booklet, I lived because the game was pretty good.

 

Ah yes, the Frying Pan, all womens weapon of choice.I really don’t think this game got any of the respect it deserved. All I’ve seen for it is negative reviews, but I know quite a few people who loved it, me included. You know when you play a game, and it’s so good, you just keep playing it until its over? Evolution isn’t like that. The actual game in Evolution isn’t that great. It’s the great characters, dialogue and setting that makes it worth playing. Just about all the characters are interesting, and almost all the NPC’s have something worth reading to say. A great example of what I mean is Lunar, but Lunar has a better game behind it.

 

Evolutions game part is actually just a simple dungeon crawler. This pretty much means its repetitive and gets pretty tiring near the end. Pretty much the whole game is clearing out a bunch of different ruins, each one bigger then the last. Probably the dumbest thing was making the last ruin you play 50 FREAKING FLOORS. That crap is ridiculous, especially when your hitting into battles constantly. Each floor is filled with traps, and by traps I mean different colored gases that do things like obscure your vision, confuse you, and annoy you. Nothings worse then a cloud of CONFUS GAS in your face.

 

Blasted polygonal bears! Give me my pic-a-nic basket back!Which brings me to another weak point. Whoever translated Evolution definitely couldn’t speak English, and probably couldn’t speak Japanese either. They did a BAD job, I mean BAD. There’s numerous typos, symbols where they shouldn’t be, and sentences ending with ;. Theres also ENTIRE blocks of text missing. It’s embarrassing how many times I was told to find the elusive BLANK. Or I told someone I can’t wait to BLANK. You get the point.

 

Theres a lot of bugs and technical crap too. Theres a lot of times where the game will sometimes lock up, you’ll get stuck in a wall, or the game just plain won’t load sounds. There’s not much voice acting aside from yells and grunts during battle, but it would be nice if they didn’t cut out mid grunt or play after they’ve done something grunt worthy so the characters didn’t sound retarded. Some of these problems are acceptable, since Sting isn’t a giant company.

 

GETTIN LUCKY IN KENTUCKYEven after all these problems, I still love this game. It’s got great personality to it, its simple, and its got a great ending. I like RPG’s like this. I have a hard time with newer RPG’s because they seem to always have some super complicated plot with 80 hours of gameplay and anti terrorist groups and whatnot. This proves not everything needs to be complicated to be enjoyable. There wasn’t a buttload of RPG’s for Dreamcast like there was Playstation or anything, so definitely check this out after those ones.

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Dying Fetus – Purification Through Violence

By phrequencyviii on 08/28/2010

  • This is the reissue artwork.Purification Through Violence
  • 1996
  • Brutal Death Metal

This is really the first Dying Fetus album, seeing as the first release is just a collection of both the demos.

 

I listened to this A LOT in high school. One of my favorite albums, especially by Dying Fetus.

 

Dying Fetus has a really killer, violent, and grindy sound, despite this albums funky production (it’s kind of lacking in the bass department). The whole album just rips heads off left and right and doesn’t screw around. Straight to the point brutality.

 

The musicianship is outstanding, even though the production is a little tinny. If you’ve got some anger issues, this is highly recommended.

 

Rating: ★★★★★

 

Best Songs: Blunt Force Trauma, Skull Fucked, Raped on the Altar, Nocturnal Crucifixion

 

Dying Fetus

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