October 16, 2003 11:58 AM

Today in the news: Videogame music

Soundtrack for “True Crime” was announced. Snoop, of course, is great but who the hell are most of these other guys? Glad to see Warren G getting some work though. I really wasn’t sold on “True Crime” to begin with. It looked like a GTA clone using LA as its backdrop. This all west coast gangsta rap soundtrack has done nothing to sweeten the deal for me as it is my least favorite of all rap subgenres. Also the last two GTA games had hours and hours of music. “True Crime” is giving us 20 tracks? Lame.

Soundtrack for the 15th anniversary of “Streetfighter II” would be interesting to hear since they got a lot of the top guys in the industry to do it, but I don’t think we’ll be seeing that one in the US.

b-ruce

October 15, 2003 1:08 PM

I think the underlying current to all of these stories is "Cub fans, Please don't kill this man"

Security had to escort him out of the park for his own saftey. Meanwhile the commentators are telling the viewing public that this is a natural instinct to go for the ball. All in an attempt to make sure no one hurts this man for deflecting a baseball. I'll admit I thought the guy was a big jerk but I also realized that no one in the crowd tried to pull them back from getting the ball. When looking at the replay again you'll notice that there were far more than just one hand reaching out for that ball. Where were the guys in the second row to pull that guy back, I wonder. So really it seems that this particular incident cannot be blamed on one man alone, but rather a dozen or so people who just happend to get caught up in the moment. Still if this was Soccer in Argentina or Brazil or Europe, that guy would totally be torn apart by the crowd.

b-ruce

October 14, 2003 3:22 PM

Disgaea review up!

Pajamo has posted my review of Disgaea. It’s almost 1500 words so I’ll sum it up for you here: Disgaea is a great game that was one or two miscues away from being a masterpiece. Still with all that in mind it probably won’t get mentioned much when it’s time for “Game of the Year” honors because people run from Strategy RPGs like the plague.

b-ruce

October 13, 2003 11:37 PM

A Disappointing weekend 2

I almost forgot to mention the other disappointing part! After getting my fill of the aforementioned horrid commercials I started using the picture-in-picture feature on my rad TV and logged in some long hours on Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, completing the main quest on Saturday. Until the very end I kept on hoping the story would open up and become something befitting the Final Fantasy name. That moment never came and so I was left empty, having wasted 30 hours on a game with an almost nonexistent plot that mechanically wasn’t nearly as fun as Disgaea.

Surprisingly enough, I had finished FFTA just in time to see Saturday Night Live. Usually I don’t like the sketches these days unless they’re lead by Tracy Morgan or Jimmy Fallon. But since dreamboat Justin Timberlake was hosting I got a whole lot of Jimmy Fallon sketches to watch, and one with Timberlake as Aston Kutcher that was hilarious! Still I think I enjoyed the theme song and premise of one of the last sketches best: “The Barry Gibb talk show”. It didn’t make a lot of sense but it supposed that Barry Gibb of the disco group “The BeeGees” had his own talk show where he talked about current affairs. The theme song was great because it sounded very much like a BeeGees song and the way Fallon was warbling his voice was hilarious. The other thing that made the sketch great was the fact that Fallon continued to use the strange voice while trying to have normal conversations about the California recall. Rereading what I have just written hear it occurs to me that this is probably one of those things that you had to be there to appreciate. Damn.

b-ruce

October 13, 2003 10:10 AM

A Disappointing weekend

The Cubs couldn’t close out the National League Championships thanks to some very nifty pitching from Josh Beckett. This is not disappointing because I don’t think the Cubs will win the series now (Mark Prior is pitching tomorrow in Wrigley – it’s a done deal folks) but rather because now I’ll have to tolerate an extra game’s full of those wretched commercials Fox has been airing.

You know what I’m talking about, that hella annoying Bank One lady – “Wow, many of my customers have credit cards from Bank One… but they have a different picture on them!!!”

Or how about those excruciatingly long commercials for Fox’s new drama “Skin”? “From Jerry Bruckheimer, bigshot Hollywood producer of “Kangaroo Jack”, “Coyote Ugly” and 50% of all other movies, comes the season’s most blatant rip-off of “Romeo and Juliet”.
Cut to angry Ron Silver: “His father is the District Attorney!!! He wants to ruin my business! I love money more than your happiness!”
Cut to angry blond father: “Stay away from that girl; she’s that evil businessman’s daughter! It’ll ruin my political career and it’ll ruin you too!!!”

And I would be remiss to not mention the Old Navy music video for their pants featuring TV’s The Nanny. The song is pretty lame and as a member of their target demographic I cannot help but be insulted at their insinuation that wearing their pants will get in me a threesome with The Nanny. First of all it’s the two guys, one girl kind, which is my least favorite of orgies. But more importantly she’s got to be like 46 and 2 weeks old!!! Is Old Navy an anagram for Oedipus? No it’s not.

b-ruce