I wanna be the very best...

So, today, I would normally be ragging on the little city-travel mode No More Heroes has to offer in between ranked fights. However, I beat it yesterday...and, well, it WOULD be a mind fuck, if I didn't know the developers were just fucking around with it to fuck around with it. Really, why the FUCK did they throw a storyline in there more than "Travis wants to be #1 so he can sleep with the hot lady"? Noooo. THEY HAD TO STICK THEIR DICK IN IT. God DAMMIT.

So I have to say, the game was a lot of fun for about the first half, until the repetition really set in and the game knew you just wanted it to end. They threw in some nick-knacks and such to try to mix it up and failed horribly. And then they were being original...FOR THE SAKE OF BEING ORIGINAL. God DAMN.

But, in my opinion, the game is still worth picking up and finishing. If only so you can enjoy that first half.

So, that's it for that rant...More S4 league! Unfortunately, I didn't run into any funny conversations last night, although there was one guy complaining about the Smash Rifle, which is amusing because it sucks. Lemme put it this way: You have about an equal chance of hitting someone 3 feet from you and 3 miles from you. That thing's accuracy is FUCKED.

Err, I have an addendum to make to my last post on S4 League. The developer is Pentavision, but the non-Korean distributor is Alaplaya. I think that's how it goes. The Korean servers are something of a test server for the new patches and stuff, and then the European (and us few American folks that play this) servers get the patches, almost bug free, about 6 months later.

Anyways, there's one specific thing I wanted to comment about today in S4 League: The Level system (watch out, this page could take a second to load). You start out as a rookie for 20 levels, then become a Semi-Pro, Pro, then S1-S4 rank, S4 rank being the highest in the game. In total, there are 100 levels.

"Now, Chrys", you might ask, "in a game you are saying is somewhat balanced except for the lag and the occasional hacker, there are levels? Doesn't this set off the balance in favor of those who are higher level?"

Well, yes, in a way it does. But see, levels just indicate the amount of time you've spent playing the damn game. Which means no matter how much you suck, you can still rank up. In addition, ranking up just gives you money (with about 10 of the 100 giving 10,000 PEN (money). The rest all give just 2,000). However, generally, people improve based upon how long they've been playing, and rank is a good indicator of that (although not perfect, there are twats that remake characters just to pick on rookies).

Moving on. The highest rank I have ever seen is a Pro, although the precise combination of stripes and corners eludes me (you get a stripe every 5 levels, and the 4 before that, your corners are gradually filled in. This does not give one a sense of achievement). But you know, this reminds me of something...

Something...say, a song. You know which song...

"I wanna be...the VERY BEST...like NO ONE EVER WAS..."

And now that's stuck in your head. Muahahaha.

Huh. Three people are following this blog and there's a total of...three comments? Sweet. Nice to see some of you guys again. Also, in the last post, I meant "wallpaper", not "font". But I like this wallpaper, besides the fact it makes me look like a pretentious bastard.

Want to tell this author what you think, but you don't want anyone else to see it? Think she's full of it and need to set her straight? Want to worship the ground she walks on? Well, good luck with that last one, but you can email Chrys at catharticgamer@yahoo.com and at least tell her what you think.