Soul Calibur V is a piece of crap

So the tale of two swords once again graces their presence with this new installment of Soul Calibur V.  And what a crappy game it is.  You would think that Bandai/Namco would try to make their game better, but underneath the sexy time graphics the game is just as shallow as its looks.

Not only do they destroy the roster of characters by pretty much revamping the WHOLE LIST, these new characters are pretty ho-hum.  You have this semi-white ninja that's supposed to replace Taki, Xianghua's lackluster daughter that's not nearly as good as her mother, and Sophitia's son and daughter that are not even as good as she is added together.  What a way to kill your franchise Namco.

I still remember the glory days of playing Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast and then Soul Calibur 2 on the GameCube.  Those were some good times.  Soul Calibur V...what the frak is this piece of crap seriously.  The super meter is just downright dumb and doesn't belong in a game like this.  The guard system has been tweaked to punish the defensive players, and the single player mode is pretty non-existent.  I think someone forgot to tell the developers that people still actually like to play games by themselves without whiny little kids on the Internet that spam single combo moves which take advantage of lag and makes the game not fun for everyone else.  Great job Namco.

As they say fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.  This will be the last time I purchase a Soul Calibur game.  I will miss your golden years....until Namco can get their act together and make a Soul Calibur game that's worthy of your name, may you rest in peace.

By the way Legendary Mode Edge Master, you can go fuck yourself.

Why is SWTOR a POS?

You would think that RPG experts BioWare would make a decent MMO in the Star Wars universe, but with their recent release of Star Wars: The Old Republic they proved me very wrong.  I can understand the game being somewhat buggy, but some of the bugs are just downright unacceptable.  For instance, I ran into a bug where a quest will not progress unless I reset the quest.  However, by doing this I had to redo 2 pretty long dungeons in order to get to the point that I was at.  

Perhaps you think that maybe once you hit the level cap that maybe, just maybe the PVP would be better right?  WRONG.  Since you can't turn on combat logs in this game you have ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING IDEA WTF IS GOING ON.  Did I mention all of this happens while your PC is chugging along trying to churn out frame rates while you're trying to kill 5 other people whaling at you for 4-5k damage a pop?  Well isn't that fun?  Oh, and I totally forgot about bugs such as abilities not being cast but triggering a global cool down, stuns now working as intended, and map holes that force you to quit the PVP match.  JOY.  

The good thing is I finally canceled my subscription.  In their defense, I have to say that the single player stories are actually quite good.  In the end I think BioWare should really just stick to what they do best:  single player RPGs.  

Road Rage!

What better subject to talk about as my first blog other than something to do with being angry?  The topic of road rage comes up very often since I have a long commute daily.  The story I'm about to tell you today happened pretty late at night when you think that traffic would be light.  

So it was around 11:30pm when I decided to finally head home from work.  I thought to myself, "The traffic should be pretty light due to it already being pretty late."  Boy, how wrong I was.  I can't really decide whether it was the incompetence of CalTrans for scheduling construction on a Friday night, or the lack of SoCal drivers' skill involving the merging of lanes.  It's as if every driver think they have a FastPass (R) when a lane is closed and they try to 'merge'.  Do they merger when they see the sigh?  Nooooooooooo... they don't.  They wait until the last minute and try to 'merge' into the lane thinking they have the right cut everyone off like a little bitch.  It's funny, because if they were at Disney Land they wouldn't just walk past everyone and just go to the front of the line would they?  At times like this I really wish I had a built in rocket launcher to blow their car sky high and away from merging into my lane.  Of course I would first use my scroll of protection on the driver(s) to ensure their safety.  I'll be more than happy to have my insurance company replace their car once they've finished taking their merging 101 class at their local community college.