Monday, March 26, 2012

LFD 2 MATCH WITH ILLUSIVE MAN!

IN A TEST OF FRIENDSHIP... HULK AND ILLUSIVE MAN PLAY A MATCH OF LFD2!


WILL SOMEONE BE DOUBLE CROSSED?

WILL SOMEONE BE CHAINSAWED?

WILL THE WITCH MAKE US HER B*TCH?

LISTEN AND FIND OUT!




MUSIC IS FROM MASS EFFECT 2 AND PERSONA 4 ANIME!

BIOWARE HAS LOST IT'S INTIMACY! AND THEY PROBABLY WON'T GET IT BACK!

OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEK'S THE GUESTS AND MINIONS HAVE BEEN SMASHING A LITTLE HARDER THEN HULK OVER THE RECENT MASS EFFECT 3 " DEBACLE" AND HULK THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE FINALLY TIME TO COLLECT ALL HULK THOUGHTS AND TRANSFORM THEM INTO A SMASHY ARTICLE....

A FEW MONTHS AGO HULK FIRST THOUGHT SOMETHING LIKE THIS MIGHT HAPPEN... NOT BECAUSE OF HULK BEING CYNICAL OF BIOWARE OR THE PEOPLE NOW IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR THEM, BUT RATHER BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY WERE HANDLING THE FRANCHISE!


HULK FOR A LONG TIME HAS BEEN OF THE OPINION THAT THE FIRST GAME IN ANY SERIES SHOULD BE AN EXPLORATION OF THE IDEA, WHILE THE SECOND IS MORE OF A REFINEMENT ( BOTH OF WHICH BIOWARE HAD DONE WELL WITH IN TERMS OF MASS EFFECT.... DRAGON AGE...NOT SO MUCH) AND THE THIRD GAME SHOULD BE A CLOSING!

A CLOSING OF WHICH THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN! IT SHOULD TIE EVERYTHING TOGETHER WHILE MAKING EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THE PROCESS HAPPY. THIS ENDING SHOULD REFLECT THE TEAM, THE PLAYERS, AND MASS EFFECT ITSELF IN SUCH A WAY THAT WHEN WE REFLECT, WE ONLY SEE WHAT EACH PERSON DID, EVERY SWEAT , EVERY TEAR, AND EVERY LATE NIGHT THAT WENT INTO CREATING THIS WONDERFUL WORLD FILLED WITH ♫ DIVERSITY AND LOVE♪


....HULK NEEDS TO STOP WITH THE PERSONA REFERENCES....


WHILE THE ENDING ITSELF WAS CERTAINLY INTERESTING... IT DID NOT IN ANYWAY TIE EVERYTHING TOGETHER... AND IF WE LOOK ONLINE WE NOW SEE BIOWARE MEMBERS SHARING ACHES OF HOW IT WASN'T WHAT THEY WANTED! ONLY WHAT CASEY HUDSON SUPPOSEDLY WANTED!


IF THIS IS TRUE THEN HULK THINK MASS EFFECT 3 NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO BEGIN WITH! A GAME IS NOT MADE BY ONE INDIVIDUAL! AND JUST LIKE THE MAIN CHARACTER, CASEY HUDSON WAS SUPPOSED TO ACT MORE LIKE A SHEPARD LEADING HIS TEAM TO A BETTER IDEAL, AND NOT JUST AN IDEAL THAT HE HIMSELF ( SUPPOSEDLY) BELIEVED IN!


BUT EVEN BEFORE ALL THIS CRAP HAPPENED, WE WERE STILL SEEING STRANGE THINGS FROM BIOWARE! THEY ANNOUNCED USELESS KINECT SUPPORT! THEIR MARKETING WAS MORE INTERESTED WITH USING VAGUE TRAILERS FULL OF SHINY CG AND COLORS TO BRING IN A LARGER DEMOGRAPHIC INSTEAD OF MAKING THE PLAYERS MORE EXCITED FOR THE FINAL CONCLUSION TO SOMETHING THEY HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR OVER 5 YEARS NOW!

HULK WANTS TO LOVE BIOWARE... BUT NOW NO MORE... DRAGON AGE 2 WAS RUSHED FOR NO REASON OTHER THEN GREED! AND MASS EFFECT 3 ALSO FEELS RUSHED AS IF BIOWARE HAD SOMETHING ELSE ON THEIR MIND OTHER THEN FINISHING THINGS RIGHT...

IN CONCLUSION.... WHAT THEY DID TO INFINITE SPACE IS JUST OFFENSIVE.....

Saturday, March 24, 2012

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST! YO SON, GONNA PLAY SOME MODERN WARFARE 3! WHAT! WHAT!! EDITION

THIS WEEK CLAYTON, STILLGRAY, AND PRINNY DISCUSS WHY EVERYONE IS MISSING!
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEHAVING! THE IMPORTANCE OF MARKETING! AND THE UNIMPORTANCE OF GETTING OUR FACTS CORRECT BEFORE STARTING THE PODCAST....

DISCUSSION POINTS:

ANGRY BIRDS SPACE NEEDLE!
ETHICS!
CROSS OVER MADNESS!
EA THINKS MOJANG WILL BE FINE *HULK SMIRK*
THINGS GO BLAM!
THINGS GET CLONED!
NARUTO IS USING A PERSONA!
YO DAWG! GONNA PLAY ME SOME SHOOTING WITH HEAVIER MARKETING G!
AND TERRIBLE ACCENTS CREATED WHILE HUNTING FOR OTHER ACCENTS!






THIS WEEK'S MUSIC IS FROM FULL METAL ALCHEMIST BROHOOD AND PERSONA 4 ANIME!

( HULK PROMISES NO MORE JOKES...)

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST! MARAUDER SHIELDS VS. THE GALAXY EDITION!

UNEXPECTEDLY... CLAYTON AND ILLUSIVE MAN BEGAN CHATTING AND THINGS GOT FUNNY! SO ITS NOW A PODCAST!


DISCUSSION POINTS!

REAPER EARWIGS!
REAPER CUTTLE FISH!
FEED THE GOD DAMN FISH!
WHAT HAPPENED TO MIRANDA'S A**?
THE FINANCIAL ISSUES OF BEING AN ILLUSIVE MAN!
A JEWISH REAPER.....
JOURNEY!
FINAL FANTASY 13!
"TITS UP"!
ILLUSIVE MAN DEVISES A GAME IDEA!
TAKEN REFERENCES!
AND SOO MANY OTHER STRANGE CONVERSATIONS!





THE MUSIC IS FROM FINAL FANTASY 13 AND PERSONA 3!


Saturday, March 17, 2012

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST! SUPER SHEPARD SENPAI EDITION!

BEFORE ANYONE LISTENS TO THE PODCAST....YOU NEED TO SEE THIS


THIS WEEK ANDRE, PRINNY, CLAYTON, AND ILLUSIVE MAN TALK ABOUT SHEPARD MANGA, HOW DISAPPOINTING MASS EFFECT 3 WAS, AND IN PARTICULAR OUR DEEP PASSIONATE
OBSESSION WITH SEEING ASHLEY GETTING HURT....


DISCUSSION POINTS:

HULK HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO WRITE DOWN...

TOO MUCH HAPPENED...

HULK IS TIRED...

ALSO.... MARAUDER SHIELDS....







THIS WEEK'S MUSIC IS FROM KATANAGATARI AND DOTHACK!











DDG CAST EPISODE 4!

APPARENTLY THEY TALKED ABOUT SANDWICHES AND PICKLES.....DELICIOUS!





OH LOOK! MINUS IS STILL DOWN FOR SOME REASON.... HERE'S THE DIRECT LINK

Thursday, March 15, 2012

YES MINUS DIED

OR AT LEAST THE EMBED CODE DID FOR SOME STUPID REASON...



IN THE MEANWHILE HERE'S THE FOLDER LINK!

http://min.us/mnnVM2T4t#1


HULK THANKS EVERYONE FOR NOT FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS.... LEAVES PLENTY OF ROOM FOR HULK TO DO THE FREAKING OUT INSTEAD....

CLAYTON AND FUTURE MINION TALK ABOUT ME3

WARNING! THE FOLLOWING CONVERSATION IS ALL ABOUT ME3 WITH VARYING SPOILERS ALL THE WAY THROUGH OUT!


IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR WEAK ASS SEQUEL RUINED... THEN DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!









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[6:17:45 PM] clayton donaldson: illusive man, whats this about an additional ending being dlc?
[6:18:13 PM] clayton donaldson: for mass effect 3
[6:22:22 PM] clayton donaldson: prinny found the link
[6:22:33 PM] The Illusive Man: In light of the lackluster ending to Mass Effect 3, it's likely that there will be DLC. Either that or it's fans trying desperately to justify an ending that is without meaning or purpose.
[6:22:45 PM] clayton donaldson: so the ending was bs'ed intentionally to make people talk about it more....
[6:23:02 PM] The Illusive Man: Yes, but people are talking about how much they hate it.
[6:23:14 PM] The Illusive Man: Everything about ME3 screams of incomplete, like it was a rush job.
[6:23:22 PM] The Illusive Man: Nowhere near as much to do as there was in ME2.
[6:23:32 PM] The Illusive Man: No in-field dialogue between squad mates.
[6:23:40 PM] The Illusive Man: The galaxy feels empty, lifeless.
[6:23:41 PM] clayton donaldson: your forgetting the first law of noob marketing... any pr is good pr
[6:23:44 PM] The Illusive Man: No places to explore.
[6:23:54 PM] clayton donaldson: or at least that may be what bioware believes
[6:24:27 PM] clayton donaldson: i did see alittle bit of dialogue in the clips i watched
[6:24:31 PM] clayton donaldson: but i agree
[6:24:36 PM] clayton donaldson: something is off
[6:24:58 PM] The Illusive Man: ME3's side missions, not that there's many to begin with, are just multiplayer maps where you do simple things like run from point A to point B. There's no story.
[6:25:26 PM] clayton donaldson: hmmm
[6:25:40 PM] clayton donaldson: what about all the various times when you can save characters?
[6:25:52 PM] clayton donaldson: miranda,jack, and the others for instance
[6:26:31 PM] The Illusive Man: In the end, all of your decisions have ZERO basis on the ending. You could play a full complete playthrough with a paragon, do everything right, and I can be a renegade and fuck up everything, and we would both get the same ending.
[6:26:54 PM] The Illusive Man: It feels like a third of a game.
[6:26:58 PM] clayton donaldson: thats reallly....REALLLY ***
[6:27:04 PM] The Illusive Man: And plays like a second-rate Gears of War.
[6:27:12 PM] The Illusive Man: Gears of War 3 had a better ending than ME3. Let that sink in.
[6:27:49 PM] The Illusive Man: Also, a good friend of mine dug out some files from the game disc and discovered a lot of the game was taken out.
[6:28:07 PM] The Illusive Man: The VAs for Shepard say they recorded 40,000 lines of dialogue, yet only half of that figure is on the game disc.
[6:28:26 PM] The Illusive Man: There's also images and backgrounds for Omega ripped from the game disc.
[6:28:52 PM] The Illusive Man: There's a lot of cut content.
[6:29:24 PM] The Illusive Man: As for the ending, they tried to pull a Battlestar Galactica and failed.
[6:29:32 PM] The Illusive Man: No conclusion. No choices matter in the end.
[6:30:05 PM] clayton donaldson: mind if i post some of this on the blog?
[6:30:11 PM] The Illusive Man: Of course.
[6:30:30 PM] The Illusive Man: Strength for Cerberus is strength for all of the fanbase.
[6:30:41 PM] clayton donaldson: lol
[6:30:48 PM] The Illusive Man: The Citadel and the Normandy are the only two 'hubs' where you can explore freely.
[6:31:03 PM] The Illusive Man: No other planets.
[6:31:08 PM] clayton donaldson: that is really pathetic..... ( copy and pasting now)
[6:31:16 PM] The Illusive Man: No Illium, no Ilos, no Omega.
[6:31:29 PM] The Illusive Man: No Tuchanka.
[6:31:36 PM] clayton donaldson: dear god....
[6:31:45 PM] clayton donaldson: were you in story mode or something?
[6:31:46 PM] The Illusive Man: Just the Citadel and the Normandy.
[6:31:53 PM] The Illusive Man: Yes, this is the story mode.
[6:32:15 PM] The Illusive Man: But the side missions, not that there were many, consisted of multiplayer maps more or less. Doing the same things you do in multiplayer.
[6:32:54 PM] clayton donaldson: anything else that I should toss up on the blog?
[6:33:42 PM] clayton donaldson: wait... you actually played in story mode?!? o_O
[6:34:02 PM] clayton donaldson: weren't you afraid of taking in too much hamburger helper?
[6:34:03 PM] The Illusive Man: No, I mean.
[6:34:07 PM] clayton donaldson: oh
[6:34:07 PM] The Illusive Man: I played in RPG Mode.
[6:34:11 PM] clayton donaldson: thank god
[6:34:23 PM] clayton donaldson: sarcasm is alive and well today...
[6:34:48 PM] The Illusive Man: Just one more thing to add.
[6:34:51 PM] The Illusive Man: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0pz9rtcBw1rq0waio1_500.jpg
[6:35:13 PM] clayton donaldson: lol
[6:35:18 PM] The Illusive Man: Putting it simply, BioWare have seriously fucked this up.
[6:35:28 PM] The Illusive Man: The ending essentially boils down to well, a single ending.
[6:35:45 PM] The Illusive Man: But three variations of the same ending, practically identical.
[6:35:48 PM] clayton donaldson: an ending stolen from infinite space
[6:35:54 PM] The Illusive Man: Except for three different colored particle effects.
[6:35:54 PM] clayton donaldson: go look it up
[6:36:01 PM] The Illusive Man: Red, blue or green. Take your pick.
[6:36:03 PM] clayton donaldson: its literally the ending of that game
[6:36:19 PM] clayton donaldson: and hulk totally fucking called it....



UPDATE:

[6:52:20 PM] The Illusive Man: Fan: "Because of you, ME3 has a shitty ending."
Bioware: "That's not true!"
Fan: "They have our money. They've got us hating each other instead of hating them."
Bioware: "I just need to..."
Fan: "You've done exactly what EA wanted. You're still doing it because they control you."
Bioware: "I... they're too strong."
Fan: "You're stronger. Don't let them win. Break their hold. Don't let them give ME3 a shitty ending."
Bioware: "I tried, fanbase." :(

Saturday, March 10, 2012

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST! SUPER SHEPARD VS MY LITTLE QUARIAN VS MECHA WASHINGTON EDITION!

THIS WEEK PRINNIE, CLAYTON, AND ILLUSIVE MAN VENT ABOUT ANDRE NOT BEING IN THE BUILDING... WHEN REALLY HE WAS! *BUM BUM BUM!!!*


DISCUSSION POINTS!

WHERE THE **** IS ANDRE!
TERRIBLE GAMING NEWS!
GDC!
PIXELATED FIRES!
PERSONA 4!
NOTCHNESS!
INDIE DEFINITION!
TONY HAWK BULL****!
ILLUSIVE MAN JOIN THE PARTY!
SUPER SHEPARD!
REAPERS ARE HAVING THEIR PERIOD!
PONIES!
MASS EFFECT 3!
POOR NANAKO!
BLOOPERS EVERYWHERE!








MUSIC THIS WEEK IS FROM PERSONA 4! GO BUY IT ALREADY!


SIDE NOTE!

PONIES!














WHY THESE IMAGES BROKE THE PAGE... HULK WILL NEVER KNOW

Friday, March 2, 2012

DEMO TALK! MASS EFFECT 3!

IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE DEMOS BETTER, CLAYTON AND SOLIDSNAKE WILL NOW START A NEW PODCAST SPECIAL SERIES!

THIS WEEK WE TALK ABOUT THE MASS EFFECT 3 DEMO!
ITS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES!











IDEA FOR DEMO TALK WAS INSPIRED BY STILL GRAY! GO READ HIS STUFF!

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST! MASSIVE FINANCIAL EDITION!

THIS WEEK ANDRE, PRINNY, AND CLAYTON INTERVIEW THE ILLUSIVE MAN!



DISCUSSION POINTS!

MEGA SHEPARD!
SURFER SHEPARD!
MECHA ILLUSIVE MAN!
POSSIBLE ( REALLY POSSIBLE) ENDINGS TO MASS EFFECT 3!
ZYNGA IS JENGA!
SHEPARD LORE!
STREET FIGHTER SEXISM?
GAME DESIGNERS WANT BIGGER BREASTS!
PROJECT UMBRELLA!





MUSIC THIS WEEK IS FROM PERSONA 4!

DDG CAST EPISODE2

HERE'S THE NEXT DDG CAST!