ThespianHunter's Ramble - 24th Jan 2013

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” Albert Einstein

Hello my followers, welcome to a ramble. This is where I post my thoughts n' shit. I like to just put thoughts to paper every so often and just let you guys know what I'm thinking.

Firstly. Thank you to everyone who has supported the blog. I know it's being viewed and I reach about 30 views a post ish. Which is brilliant, I know this blog won't rapidly take off, but it's good to know people are getting enjoyment out of it. HOWEVER. how blogs work on Blogger could be improved. From what I find I get most of my non Facebook viewers via Google search. Which is by no means a bad thing, It means I'm covering things people want to know and to find info about. In fact you put ThespianHunter into Google it swarms with my stuff which is fucking amazing. However in terms of being followed by people on Blogger itself... It's more difficult. You see... Blogger, to what I understand, works like Youtube. You comment and like the Blog, I gets higher in the listings, it get's higher in the listings people actually read it. Which is what I want, I love you guys, but I would adore more people to enjoy my Blog. It's just the nature of it. I don't receive anything from this Blog other than the satisfaction that I'm entertaining people.

Second. I would love more feedback. I crave it. The magic of Blogger is that I've signed into Google+ which is also what your YouTube account is linked to. Honestly, you'd be surprised how much a little comment on the end of the Blog helps gain viewer ship. It would also be great to hear from people who don't necessarily know me other than from this blog. Would be awesome to hear your views.

Thirdly. Sorry that above sounds like begging. I just want to get something out of this Blog. It's understandable right?

Fourthly. Should I continue the Kabals of Thespious? It got a grand total of 6 views. It's the weakest thing I've posted. If people really like it, I'll keep it. Let me know.

Fifthly. If I did some sort of written account of a lets play, would you guys be interested. It would be a lot less analytically and the writing will be some what in the form of the section from my review of Assassins Creed 3 Multiplayer. Again if you guys would read it, I'll do it.

Lastly. I'm taking suggestions of what you guys would like to see in the form of reviews. When the new UFC game comes out, I'll be buying it on release and I'll give it a review pretty much in the week.

So... now my convocation to you, fine reader, I'm going to listen to some music I really shouldn't be listening to at the age of 20.

My Names been ThespianHunter, with the power of my face, I can make you feel awkward and I'll catch you next time.

What I think about: The Fable Series Part 2

Hello and welcome to ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. Last week we talked about my second favorite game of all time; Fable and it's rather poor sequel Fable 2. Tonight we're entering Thespianhunter horror land. Where everything that Callum loves and enjoys is torn apart by vicious animals and shat out like Play-dough through a straw (enjoy that image). Welcome to my thoughts on Fable 3 .. Please note I may use particularly strong language during this post. I do my best to bl***t it out, however you guy's arn't idiots so it's clear what the words actually are. I'm sorry in advance. 

Fable 3 The Worst Chapter

For this I thought it would be useful to firstly list the things I liked. Therefore I leave more room for me to bitch about the game. However the only plus for this game that I can think of is the cast of Voice actors. Michael Fassbender brilliantly captured the bastard brother role and was generally a detailed character. John Cleese as the butler, even though it's a no brainer, was a match made in heaven. and the list goes on and on and on and on and on. Honorable mentions are given to Simon Pegg, Sean Pertwee and Ben Kingsley as well as reprisals from Stephen Fry and Zoe Wanamaker. And that's the only good bit.. now for bad...

• The southern continent was REALLY not my taste. This is an example of you can't please everyone. If this was a review I would have left this out. However this is an opinion piece, "What I think about" and I thought Aurora was kinda bland. The addition of ancient giant statues and temples would have interested me more if the player was told more about them. Nevertheless those structures acted only has center pieces and some eye candy to make up for the pretty bland areas of Bowerstone which was, to be perfectly honest, the worst looking bowerstone to date. It kinda looked like a bastard child of Fable 2 and Jack the Ripper, some more interesting building types would have been good, rather than reused buildings for entire streets. Aurora missed an opportunity. To be something radically different from any Fable game ever imagined combining elements of the Shadow court that had not been driven out by the Hero of Oakvale temple of Skorn like elements bringing back the generally scary feel that the temple gave me in Fable 1. The music also missed the mark, making me feel more like Indiana Jones than someone fearing for their life on the brink of death, or someone walking through dangerous uncharted desert.
• Lack of Weapon variety. You best like Hammers and Swords kids. Cause that's all you're going to see in Fable 3. Where as in Fable 1 we had a decent selection of weapons (9 weapons types as well as different levels of craftsmanship as well as legendary for each type) in this game however. They seemed to listen to the whinny little brats who moaned for "more legendarys" as a result we got less types of weapons (2 Close combat and 2 ranged) and about 10 legendary versions of each in different peoples games, meaning that you had to trade to get all of them (+ there were those downloaded via DLC) This made the gotta catch them mentality grow exponentially at the sacrifice of diverse combat. In Fable 1 every weapon felt different. A sword was an all round decent light weapon where as the Pick-axe sacrificed damage capability to be faster to block with and to hit with. In Fable 3 the only differences were what you do more damage to. Furthermore the apparent 'shifting weapons' is so unpredictable and contrived it makes my head truly shake. You'll end up getting a sword that has a weird bone hilt because when the game went over your stats it found that you killed 1 more guard than you did bandits and there's no going back to change it other than starting a new game or praying the game didn't autosave (which you cant turn off)
• The most evil thing is man! So, remember Trolls, Krakens and even spire guards that were in the previous games? Ditched. What has replaced them? 3 types of Aurorian stuff one of which is pretty much the Highway men from Fable 2. Remember Balverines? You don't encounter them in the story till the 2nd act and you don't encounter them in the wild until the VERY END OF THE GAME. Hobbs are still in the game however I will be honest and say that I preferred the ones Fable 2 (they got rid of the ones wearing stilts for lord sake.) Bandits come in only 2 forms Bandit and fire ball throwing bandit (which I liked). The undead make a return however they're very repetitive and hold no challenge for the player past the first encounter of them. But where's the other types of enemies? what about boss creatures? well there's ONE unique boss character/creature in the entire game. ONE! Fable 1 had (from the top of my head) SEVEN Fable 2 had two. The end boss (SPOILER) is a character introduced to you in the opening MINUTE of the game and he puts up next to no fight what so ever (Still better than Lucifer though)

• The Dog. Why Peter? Why did you put the dog in the game? It serves no relevance to the plot. In fact a character interacts with the Dog ONCE. ONCE! In the entire fucking story. said interaction lasts for three seconds. There's no emotional bond to build with it, there's reason to care what happens to it and there's not even a point to paying any attention to it other than when it acts like a fluffy metal detector. Even then it's path finding is broken so bad that you're better off looking for the treasure yourself. Seeing this dog had one good effect though. It made me want to stop playing the game and take my Dog for a walk. Even if it was raining outside. What would have been cool? If you had created some sort of creature that followed you around and acted like a creature in black and white. Casting spells and shit. That would have been cool. Barking constantly and making you want to stuff cotton wool in your ears isn't cool!

• I lost all connection to character and his story in the first few minutes of the game. It may possibly be a record. You see the thing is. Fable 3 assumes at points that you've already played the other Fable games. This is evident by nothing resembling a tutorial and no explanation the fundamentals that a new player would need to the story (about the Heroes guild, The Court of Shadow, Hero of Oakvale, how Hero abilities are preformed, why Heroes have an urge to eventually control etc. Luckily enough I know these answers. But I expect my character to ask these questions or at least be told about them, as we spend every waking hour with this character for what we're believed to be the stretch of about 2 years. In this time, none of the above is mentioned. Not even by Theresa how has literally been there since the beginning. And don't get me started on Hero blood line. (I'll talk about it anyway) When even one of your parents is a hero YOU BECOME A HERO. It doesn't skip children and it doesn't skip generations. Even in Fable 2 every single one of your kids would have the line "Daddy(/Mummy) Why can I do things the other children can't" A reference to the will powers evident in all his children. So why doesn't Logan have the power of will? It's a question that will never be answered however its a JOKE that the writers skipped over this fact and enraged me more than you would believe. I didn't believe for a second that the Prince/Princess in this story was a direct decedent of Scarlet Rose. Not for a second. On this note. Why doesn't the blood line ever get brought up again after Fable 1? In this characters blood there is the power TO END THE WORLD! even Theresa has the power to summon up from the void dark conjurations from the Old Kingdom and why doesn't she help with the events of the story. Other than being now over 700 years old. I feel that these sort of continuity errors (my best way to sum it up) have almost made the game unrecognizable as a Fable game. They should have just made it under a different name instead of tainting the original story like how it has been.
• The cock tease that was the Crawler. So there are some speculations that that the Crawler and Fable the Journey's Temptress are supposedly agents of The Court of Shadow, however this is just mere speculation as they both seem to have Shadow minions under their command. There's also speculation that they're agents of William Black (the first Hero, First Archon of the old world, creator of the Spire, Original wielder of the Sword of Aeons and the distant relative of the Hero of Oakvale. However this is also just speculation and is never touched upon in the actual games. Gamer's and Fable lore nerds like me have been praying for the return of Jack of Blades or other members of the Shadow Court. Instead we're presented with the Crawler. Now he does have some cool moments, resembling Banshees from Fable 2, which in turn resembled Screamers which were in turn, servants of Jack. However you never actually fight him, he's scared of light and he has next to NO power over a Hero. And this was supposed to be the main bad guy. The most evil thing since Jack? Yeah... I'm not very convinced. He was very disappointing and seemed to be a huge fucking middle finger to those of us who wanted to see Jack again.
• EVERY POINT made in the Angry Joe Show's video "32 reasons why Fable 3 sucked" I recommend that you watch it as there are actually 32 reasons why he hated the game. Such things include awful Co-Op, combat being too easy, the character not being able to die, the lack of menus, so many loading screens and many many more. Again, I highly recommend that you watch that video. It doesn't cover some of the points raised in this blog however. 

 On a side note I'm now on a total of 39 reasons why I didn't Like Fable 3. and there are so many. Including my issues with Fable 2.
I'll be honest with you, reader. I almost had a tear in my eye at how bad the Mass Effect 3 ending was. However this is a pale shade at the upset that I had at Fable 3. I know it's only a game. But to me it's also my childhood. Fable was how I interacted with my uncle whilst he was away with the navy. I used to level up his character, collect gold for him (I didn't realize how annoying that can be at the time). When I had a bad day at school, when depression got the better of me when I lied about things I shouldn't have and had to escape from the world. Fable 1 was my turn to game. It was escapism of the umpteenth degree for me. Some people have music, or books. I have video games and my own head. When someone RUBS SHIT into a story that you love and have a deep connection to you, you get pissed. Yes. I'm biased. Yes. Lion Head studios is effectively no more and there will be no more Fable games past this point unless someone has the balls to try and improve the cluster fuck if a mess this game is in. But this is a Blog. It's personal. When you destroy something that is dear to me. You make it personal. That's why I don't just Dislike Fable 3. I hate it!
... The Following picture is of a Cat.. I need to try n' cheer myself up! Tune in next time for Part 3...

 

Even the Lion is sad :(

Thanks for reading, If you have a positive or negative response let me know. If you think Sad Lion is Sad... let me know that too. I've been ThespianHunter... I'm going to cry in my pillow or some shit. I'll catch you next time.

What I think about: The Fable Series Part 1

Hello and welcome to ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. Tonight's post is a subject that is very dear to my heart; Fable. Let's not waste any time! Grab your Hobbs and let's pounce in like a Balverine.

Fable was created by the infamous LionHead studio, and at it's head was the notorious Peter Molyneux who in turn is famous for being head of Bull Frog studios, famous for bringing us games like Dungeon Keeper and Theme park. The games take place in the mythical land of Albion, roughly based off a combination of different Angelo Saxonesk Fables (hence the name). The world is dark dangerous and at times lawless in most of its regions with Bandits, the undead and Hobbs (small Goblin like creatures) plaguing the land. The original installment of the series was released in 2004 for the original Xbox and received pretty decent review  from critics and raving review from gamer's and quickly became a cult classic ... and eventually the subject of the curse of Lion Head - but that's a story for later.

In the original fable (and Fable the lost chapters, an expansion to the game adding extra story elements as well as a number of improvements to the vanilla game) focused around the Hero of Oakvale; a powerful, selectively mute (as he only talked during social expressions and never during combat or in the story) Hero who as a child witnesses his entire village being raided by Bandits and his family butchered where they stand ... or so it seems. The boy is saved by a Hero from the Hero academy (a place where gifted individuals are trained to do the tasks normal humans are unable to accomplish and we then follow his path to vengeance and, more importantly, his path to unlocking the secrets of his family.

That's the bare bones however as many of you will know... this is my number two game of all time. So if you would forgive me, I'll delve into the finer details... If for some reason you wish to not read spoils, scroll down to the next picture. 


It soon becomes clear that the Hero's sister and mother survived the attack. His sister had her eyes cut out and became a blind seer for the Bandit king of Albion and his mother has been locked away in a deep dark Prison by the evil Jack of Blades (my favorite video game villain of all time)  It later unravels that Jack is after  a sword capable of apocalyptic power known as the Sword of Eons and wishes to bring the end of the world into fruition. To do so however he needs the blood flowing in your family veins and he intends on collecting by force. It even later unravels in The Lost Chapters that Jack is in fact a being a far darker origin and has in fact been in possessing those who wear his fated mask and has existed since the dawn of time. Once defeating him a first time, you must defeat him in his true, dragon form. Along the way you'll be betrayed, ambushed , and even imprisoned for up to 60 years if you fail to escape when a chance arises. You do everything from fighting in a coliseum, defeating the Kraken and even communicating with the divine.

For those who are wondering... why is Jack my favorite villain in video game history? Well firstly, its the original voice. I was perfect. Not one interjection was out of place, every pitch, every breath every single letter seeped with conniving evil. His outfit is also stunningly brilliant, with the masquerade masks on the face as well as the armor itself. Furthermore EVERYTHING he does makes you want to hate him. He does everything an antagonist should do. He's the barrier from you achieving your goals, he's the force you wish to defeat (even if you're evil) and he's frigging evil incarnate. You can't get much better than Jack of Blades.

As well as having a fantastic story line. There are also so intuitive mechanics to back it up. Firstly is the  alignment mechanic. It allows you to play the game ether as a Hero or a Villain. Will you save people from the dark forces that lurk in the wild? Or will you be said dark force in the wild? It's totally up to you and there are tons of opportunities to reflect your chosen alignment in meaningful ways. Fundamentally the choice is yours and that's the major advantage to the game. 

Secondly is the combat, and oh lord will you be doing a lot of it. The combat stiles are separated into 3 categories. First is strength, you gain experience from killing things will swords and axes n' shit and it governs how much damage you can take in combat, as well as how heavy of a weapon you can wield and how much damage you can do with each swing. The next is skill, you can skill experience from killing this with bows, stealing from shops and villages houses as well as generally being as quick as an elf. Skill not only governs how fast you are in combat but also how sneaky you are and how much damage you do with a bow. Then finally there is will. You gain will experience from going Gandalf/Palpatine/Jesus on people's asses. Will is all about spells and how many spells you can cast on people in succession. Such spells include turning into the incredible hulk, casting lightning bolts from your finger tips, surrounding yourself with magical swords, teleporting behind people ... the list goes on. You can choose to be a jack of all trades kind of guy, focus on one or two or even just focusing on the one and becoming a killing machine in your chosen field. Although in cases the game goes out of its way to try and stop you from doing anything but broadly leveling up. This is due to missions that involve the only way to killing an enemy being via range attacks and even a mission where you have to sneak past bandits. This can sometimes be a kick in the teeth however to be fair, you'll be wanting to have a lot of tricks up your sleeve.
 However with every success, there's a complete and utter chain of fuck ups. However the motives were pure. There was an out cry via fans of the series for a new Fable game, this time to feature on the Xbox 360. We longed to return to the land we belonged. To do battle with the creatures we knew and loved. We wanted Fable 2.

Thirdly, and what works to the games advantage is frankly, just the amount of stuff you can do on the side. You can do side quests for people (of which there's not enough for this to keep you unlimitedly occupied) Join fight clubs, steal from people, gamble, go out into the wild and kill shit at your leisure as well as minor stuff like unlocking demon doors and getting silver keys to unlock chest. You can even be a landlord of a pub... if you kill the original owners first of course. This allows for hours upon hours of entertainment and keeps players coming back for more, and even re-rolling a character to see how things could go differently if they, for example, didn't murder everyone.

What we got was... "Fable" 2

Ah yes! That fated trailer that made gamer's everywhere call to arms in ready to return to their fated home. And oh how it let us down.

Now to be honest Fable 2 wasn't awful game, it just was't as good as we were expecting. The story takes place through the eyes of a decedent of the Hero of Oakvale. In this dark Victorian themed future heroes have been driven out and all but exterminated. Individuals with heroic powers are very rare. However you have the powers in your blood line and through a cruel series of events. You're left almost dying and forced to become a Hero like your ancestor.

There's a return of the Hero of Oakvale's sister as well as star appearance from Stephen Fry and Ron Glass as well as a return of the series classics such as Balverines and Hobbs. There's also a return of the 3 point skill window however it seems very much simplified compared to Fable 1 and basically as a squeal. 

The problem is however so gleamingly awful that it spoils the game for me. Almost everything they added to the formula was shite. Here's a list I like to call:

Shit added to Fable 2 that was crap!

1. Mans best friend. George Lucas put its right when he says that "you must be able to hear the emotion in your characters voice, by hearing this you can emotionally connect with the character yourself". It's why he flipped a lit when the makers of Force Unleashed originally wanted to make a game about a Wookie. It sounds strange given how we can relate to a Wookie but not the Dog in the Fable games. The reason being, that there's no advantage to looking after your dog. Not only this but the ways in which you do look after your dog are ether non-existent, awfully implemented or plainly too much of a hassle to carry out. The leading story from where we meet the Dog as a pup is quite heart warming and allows for some connection to the "character" however via combination of "You wouldn't go save Navi from a monster!" This, what was advertised as a leading feature, one which would "change how we play games forever" was crap. Cheers Pete.
2. Death on two legs! The fact is. It is IMPOSSIBLE to die in Fable 2. You cannot die. It will never happen, You will fall to the ground and then kick the living shit out of everything around you. This means that there's NO suspense of any kind, no point in having to train your character to face what is to come and I'd even go as far as creating little or no point to doing ANYTHING other than progressing through the main story. THIS IS NOT FUN! An analogy if you would permit it. You're chatting up a girl. However it becomes obvious that not only is she not really that nice of a person but she also plays for the other team and isn't sexually attracted to you in any sense of the notion. You wouldn't go and buy her flowers, learn about her likes and dislikes and you wouldn't bother asking her out to lunch or out down town. Reason why? Cause what's the fucking point?! It would be like entering trails for a professional football team when you ain't got no fucking legs! The idea to make the character unable to die was one of the most stupid ideas ever conjured by a games developer. Cheers Pete
3. You can take my blunderbuss nuclear cannon from my cold dead hands. This one wasn't necessarily something they did wrong, but something that didn't do right and it links with the previous link. When you become death on two legs the game becomes less about "what am I best with?" but rather "what is going to dispatch these people quickest?" This leads to anything other than power playing idiotic at best. Legendary weapons don't become side-grades of each other but rather there's the one weapon that is the best and the one ranged weapon that's the best and one spell, if you use anything other than these, you're an idiot. What would have made more sense if they had actually balanced each weapon and fighting stile instead of making Will too powerful and making range weapons a better choice than close combat ones. This also meant that if you wanted to play a particular play style you were basically shooting yourself in the foot. Cheers Pete.

Now we move onto the other list... this list goes far beyond what they added... this is the top 5 reasons why Fable 2 sucked

• Number 5: The story. It was bland, inferior to Fable 1, It was far too short, the areas you explored were at times boring and the character saw itself returning to regions more than others and spending only one mission in one area. If this wasn't enough There's also little to no acknowledged to Fable 1's story in the slightest.
• Number 4: Co-Op. It was awful. You couldn't go too far away from each other. There were frequent lag issues, there were no co-op themed parts in the game what so ever and due to the game being too easy, there was no need to bring a friend to the fight. Worse of all, it didn't scale at all, so it become even easier to play.
• Number 3: Jobs. They're pointless little mini games that make you grind cash. They were boring, unimaginative and yet again, there was no reason for it to be there due to the fact you couldn't die
• Number 2: the previous list.
• Number 1: Lucifer the worst bad guy in the history of gaming. His voice actor was okay however didn't feature in the game enough for this to be a redeeming factor. There's no boss battle of any description  and... which may I just say... Is a joke to the gaming industry it's even possible that the FINAL boss of the game, is killed FOR YOU... Yeah, couldn't make it any more easier if you tried, could you Pete?! The biggest pity of them all is that they HAD a fantastic antagonist in the form of Jack, and they fans begged and pleaded to see him return. But no, the settled with grieving lunatic obsessed with domination. 

  

However in all fairness there was Fable 2 had some redeeming points. Firstly money management became much easier than in the previous game and it became possible to rent out houses without having to kill the occupants before hand. Furthermore visually the game looked far better, and at times became quite beautiful for its time. Also The player did get to return to some regions of Albion previously explored, however not enough history of from then to now was carried out.

So... this wraps up part 1. In the next part I will talk about the money making schemes of Microsoft as well as the dreaded F3 ( I can't even bring myself to calling it a fable game ) as well as F heroes and F the Journey

I hope you enjoyed reading my first part to the analysis of the Fable games  if you have a positive or negative response let me know in the comments bellow or just say anything... please... anything! 
My names been ThespianHunter I thought the Demon Door's name was SHIT and I'll catch you later

ThespianHunter's Top 10 Shenanigans 2012

Hello and welcome to ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. congratulations to everyone. We've done it! We've lived another year, a year that will be forever remembered as the year we didn't die, Britain didn't do shit in the Olympics and K-pop reached the western world. As is custom of this time of year, its time to shoe horn out as many Top 10 videos and posts as physically possible. But lets do this one with a difference. Cause this is my 5th post on Blogger and my magical number 10 post ever, ever, ever I thought it would be good to do a bunch of different Top 10 lists. So like the darling buds of may, lets climb every mountain and get to the good stuff. (feel free to read each sub heading in the style of Igor)

Thespian Hunter's Top 10 Games of 2012!!  

Number 10: SSX! 

I have a passion for snow boarding games. They're a lovely mix of the sandbox trick do-ers, like the skateboarding games that are shunted out every year, and racing game. Whilst still not having a story driven experience that I was looking for SSX nailed all the right categories and made its way in my top 10. This not only has brilliant game play and challenges to set against your friends but it also has an amazing sound track. If you're into this kinda thing, you probably already have it, if your curious, go grab it.

Number 9: Tribes Ascend  

Now whilst I was forced to play this game at a low graphical setting there's no doubting that this game looks and feels fantastic. I've sunk a lot of hours into this game early this year and has a whale of a time. It's skiing mechanic and its projectile, time based weapons work out for some brilliantly fast paced and intense game play. Just a shame that newly released weapons are way to powerful when they were first released. Still a fun game which I enjoyed.

Number 8: The Walking Dead

I have a confession to make. I've only played episode 1 and 2 but watched the others. And oh my LORD is this good. For a point and click game it pulls you right in and jumbles you around and you feel good about the entire thing. I nearly shat myself at some of the jump scares in this game and I returned to my key board wanting to be scared again. A Brilliant story, worthy of the walking dead licence. 

Number 7: Planet Side 2

Now, my computer struggles with playing this game and is incredibly slow the majority of the time. However I have had some countless accounts of fun watching and playing this game. The battles are on such an epic scale you find it difficult not to squeal a little when you see thousands of dudes Vs thousands of dudes Vs thousands of dudes. The game (on better computers than mine) looks fantastic and deserves a place on the list

Number 6: Dragon's Dogma 

Ah! This little gem. I'll firstly get the bad out of the way. Firstly lack of fast traveling is a pain in the ass and the class progression sucks ass. OK, that that's out the way, lets get to all the good. Fantastic enemy design, brilliantly simple combat mechanics as well as brilliant combat in general and a beautiful game world. That's only to name a few. As I said before what a gem. And I'm still playing it to this day and probably will into early next year as well. 

Number 5: FTL

 Now this was a tricky one, This nearly got the 6th place spot however in all honesty this game is number 6 for a big reason. This may just spark more brilliant games like this. With Dragon's Dogma RPG's have been made for years and if anything It's been calling back to the games that came before it. In FTL's case its a game that will be compared to others in its genre. This rogue-like strategic game puts you in the thick of it and is really fucking unforgiving. But it brings you back, every time, without fail. There's nothing better than shouting "Mr. Hyde, Power Up the FTL.... ENGAGE!" This game truly deserves its place.

Number 4: Assassins Creed 3

Now some of you may recall my review where a shouted at how disappointing the single player was and how brilliant the multiplayer was. It seems I may have been a LITTLE harsh. I stick to EVERYTHING that I said about the game and I know I dislike it. But I can't explain why I keep playing it. It suffers from "same game again" disorder that may games in our current climate suffer from but the combat is really, really good. I find myself just running through the streets of New York battering the shit out of any guard that I see and I get enjoyment out of it. Furthermore the Multi-player, which I dedicated an entire review to, has moreover kept me hooked to a good game. The game is good, but it could have been better.

Number 3: Mass Effect 3 

Oh yes, clench you're anus's feel the bewilderment take over you, haters of the God Child... There's a reason this is not number 1 or 2... Very simply put FUCK THE ENDING. The ending, even with its extended free DLC is awful and plants a shit stain upon all other games in the series. However the game play is fantastic, the story up to that point is without flaw (mostly). Though that's not why this is in my Top 3. The reason being the game play. the game play is without a doubt the best in a 3rd person shooter I've played in quite a while. It builds upon the combat from Mass Effect 2 and improves on it in bucket loads. The Multiplayer is fun and engaging and with all the free DLC offered with it, its worth your time and entertaining to play. Let this be a lesson, we play games for game play firstly, the game play was good and the story it borrowed upon from the other games allowed it to reach the top 3. HOWEVER. have a good ending otherwise you'll be renown for failing to make a game of the year.

Number 2: X-Com Enemy unknown

Some of you may not know that I'm a huge fan of this series. I've spent hundreds of hours playing previous X-Com games and they have a special place in my heart. This newest addition is no different. With its fantastic squad turn based strategy mechanics and its fun to play in environments as well and engaging and challenging AI this game deserves the number 2 place. The only down side being that Multi-player is glitchy as hell and there are a handful of bugs here and there which induce the occasional fits of rage. With that a side this game is a must have.

Number 1: Far Cry 3.

THIS GAME HAS MANY FLAWS! Just wanted to say that first. It was a total scrap for the first place spot but Far Cry 3 pulled ahead at the last minute. It's another case of different elements jelling together to make a brilliant combination of awesomeness which ya' just cant put down. However, the single player is too easy, there's no doubt about it. The reasons you die are ether you wanting to kill yourself cause someone got lucky and detected you or you get killed due to an obvious mistake on your own part. The inventory and crafting systems are garbage and the map maker tools have a learning curve that makes EVE online look like a casual game. However with all that said this game is till brilliant. With each mission you become more engaged, with each kill you gleefully smile, the story is engaging and shines light upon the human condition  and the in game world is stunning. If that wasn't enough the multiplayer is a barrel of LOL's and there's the map maker to lead for the potential of many, many hours of enjoyment. My game of the year.

So that was my Top 10 games of 2012. Honorable mentions go towards those who deserve them... and remember this was MY top 10, Like what you like, don't like what you don't. Just don't dictate what people should or shouldn't like. But what about my Top 10 games of all time? Are you curious of what games I call the greatest of all time? Yeah? Well read bellow and you'll find out.

ThespianHunter's Top 10 Games of All Time

Number 10: Supreme Commander and Age of Mythology

I know what you're asking... "But all mighty ThespianHunter, why have you put 2 games on the number 10 spot?" well my followers. I just cant pick between them. On the one hand we have Age of Mythology, a game from the legendary series of games the Age of Empires, a game with gripping strategy and interesting and creative units as well as a decent campaign and multiplayer. Then on the other hand..... a game with gripping strategy and creative units as well as decent campaign and multiplayer. You see my conundrum. I like both of these equally. They're both fantastic at what they do and have entertained me for hours. If I had to split them up I would maybe give Age of Mythology the number 11 spot, but that's something I just can not do. FANTASTIC GAMES.

Number 9: Warcraft 3

I would be doing myself a dis-justice if I didn't put this on my list however it wasn't just the game itself which made me love it (in fact, it was where I got my "SilentMasicar" from, the gamertag I had for many, many years) but my love was also down to the modding scene. It had everything from DOTA to a Pokemon game. A zombie survival game to even a game where you dodge sheep. It was this combination that led me to spending most of my early teenage years with this game. It also paved the way for the most played MMO to date. 

Number 8: The Elder Scrolls Morrowind/ Oblivion / Skyrim

Although at times the combat can be a bit on the dodgy side. These games still take the number 8 slot. Oblivion was my favorite of the series followed closely but Skyrim and oh my have I sunk a lot of time into these games. They're very fun, the worlds are a joy to explore and the story is by far one of the video game greats, and the music? Oh my the glorious music. If elements of it were better it would have made it higher, but alas.

Number 7: The Dawn of War games (Dawn of War 1 all expansion packs and Dawn of War 2 all expansion packs) 

You could have predicted that these would make their way onto my list. The managed to rekindle my love for Warhammer 40K as well as pay me countless hours of entertainment... My least favorite of the series (Dawn of War Chaos Rising) still counts over 14 hours of game play. I shudder to think what my hour count for Dawn of War Soulstorm is. Regardless these are fantastic strategy games and although Dawn of War 2 took away the base building, it's still a really fun game to play. I recommend these games to anyone.. even though the a thousand Baneblades thing was a bit OTT.

Number 6: Heroes Of Might and Magic (III and V)

One of the all time greats. These games have always been installed on my computer and I always come back to them. They're fantastically well made and engaging. The designs are second to none and frankly the amount of time I've spent playing these games beggars belief. If you like turn based strategy games GET THESE!

Number 5: Sid Mires Pirates

You know you simply love a game when you've got 4 different copies of it as back ups. I've always wanted to be a pirate sailing the ... 1 sea... and this game delivered. It's a truly brilliant game that entertains me to this day. How simply wonderful it is to plunder trade ships and sword fight like a pro!

Number 4: Star Wars Battlegrounds 

Done in the style of Age of Empire games, this little gem holds a very special place in my heart. featuring a bunch of factions from the movies. You can finally resolve who would win in a fight in glorious fashion whilst the AI cheats its way to victory at higher difficulties, played with friends I doubt you'll be able to pull yourself away from it for too long. accompanied by the classic star wars soundtrack this is easily one of my favorite games of all time. 

Number 3: Rome Total War

So, I may have had a series addiction to this at one point, but can you blame me? This game is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest strategy games of all time. with its intense battles and impressive for the time visuals. This game is just nothing short of a master piece. If you haven't played this GET. NOW.

Number 2: Fable- the last good game Lion Head made (NOT FABLE 2 or 3) 

The Gods and Demons you fear and worship are as nothing to me! Nothing will ever stop me! I AM a God"

That picture is of Jack Of Blades my favorite villain in video game history. Keith Wickham's voice acting is nothing short of amazing. The little screen time Jack has is made up for by how plane evil he is. He's the only villain I've actually wanted to murder time and time again yet at the same time, want to be like (in a video game sense) He's nothing short of legendary. However that's only a small part of why I love this game. Yes it's not very well balanced and It's relatively short, it's still even now my favorite story line in video game history. Even just writing this I want to play it again.... maybe something to show when the Youtube channel starts? who knows. The reason why this isn't number one? 3 reasons in fact. Reason number one is that fable 2 and 3 and terrible. Now before you cry out "but what about Mass Effect?" we're talking about a totally different kettle of fish with these disasters. Not only was the story nothing to do with the original epic but it  was just God darn awful (and to call them "Fable" games makes me want to stab myself with a spear in the colon.)  Reason number 2 is the plane and simple fact failing is an IMPOSSIBILITY. I don't mean the game is too easy or the hero is too powerful, I literally mean you cannot die. Who thought that would make an interesting game?.... I could spend an entire post talking about my problems with Fable 2 and 3 just know that Fable 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. The final reason is well, Number 1 is just too good.

Number 1: Black and White (Yes the other Good game Lion Head studios made)

Black and White.... What Isn't there to say about this game? It may be dated, it may by todays standards look like a pile of crap, it may feature only 4 voice actors (however in saying that you would think there was at the very least 20) though with all its flaws its still my favorite game of all time. In Black and White you play a God, born from a pure prayer. With the goal of ... what ever you want your goal to be. The over arching story is that the evil God Nemesis wants to be the only God and has set out to banish all the other Gods, including you. You must build followers and train your giant creature version of Jesus to conquer each world and ether spread love and peace or destruction and war. You can ether follow the quest line as soon as physically possible or you can take your time and cover the entire world in one giant village. Each person has their own daily routine, some do as you tell them, for example chopping wood, having sex with a prostitute, worshiping you for an hour and then going to bed. Some will just sit by a rock all day and talk about their day to day lives and up to seven thousand can be on screen at one time. entire villages can populate far more if you have the time to manage them. This game has so much to list them all would be insanity. I will list a few
Number 1. Throwing villagers off mountains and onto their homes in anger for them not worshiping you
Number 2. Setting fire to your own village
Number 3. poisoning your food supply and then when you followers beg for fresh food, only give them a single fish and wait for them to turn it into thousands of fish

Number 4. death via being eaten by lions  

Number 5: watching your creature do the moon walk
And many, many more. That's but a taster of why this game is my favorite of all time if that wasn't enough however... it also has multiplayer (which no longer has working servers but its easy enough to set up) so the fun can shared with your friends.

Then as Lion Head does, they brought out Black and White two which was awful... not Fable 3 awful, but still pretty bad.

So that concludes my Top 10 games of all time... I was asked by someone to do more Top 10's but ill save them for next time.
I hope you enjoyed reading these Top 10's if you have a positive or negative response let me know. Also let me know what your Top 10's are, will be interesting to know.

My names been ThespianHunter, I take way too much glee in throwing things off mountains... And I'll catch you next time.

Kabals of Thespious Episode I The Deldar Menace

Hello once again everyone, this is the ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. Today we're ganna start a reoccurring series of posts. As many of you may be aware I have recently rekindled my love for Warhammer 40,000 after a 12 year hiatus and have begun collecting the armies of the Dark Eldar. So in this series of "Kabals Of Thespious" I will be talking about what it is like to collect the armies, paint them and how they perform as an army. I'll also be posting battle reports when they happen as well as my general thoughts of current affairs and news.

So without any further ado some background on the Dark Eldar... From my point of view of course!


(http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=Dark+Eldar#/d49ne8h) For this awesome artists post...just so awesome!

So for those who don't know a lot about the Dark Eldar or who they are, they are basically a splinter sub race of Space Elves who populate the Milky Way galaxy. In their disregard for the consequences of their actions, through thousands upon thousands of blood orgies and other questionable acts. The daemon God Slaanesh was born. Through that birth cry the majority of the Eldar were whipped from the face of the galaxy. Some chose to repent their ways and act as guardians of fate. The others saw no need to change, found a nice little section of the web way (a large parallel dimension which the Eldar built) and just carried on. However there's only so much pleasure you can get out of blood orgies, and with their souls being slowly drained away by the God Slaanesh, the dark Eldar sought new ways to extend and enrich their lives. Then one fated Dark Eldar thought (probably) to himself "you know what? Lets fucking start a bar fight!" and as this blessed man made the people around him wallow in pain, he found his soul being enriched. It was through this the Dark Eldar began to torture and kill thousands upon thousands of slaves to prolong their fate of being 'nomed' a gooden by a God and so they can orgasm of the pure thrill on it. And this is what they've been doing for thousands upon thousands of years. Capturing Slaves, making them work the factories and then ether torturing them to death or some other un-godly form of dealing pain.

Now, we can spend a metric age on discussing the different aspects of Dark Eldar society and all the different types of evil and twisted things that enhabit the dark city of Commorragh (the place where all Dark Eldar live!) however it will take far to long to fit in but one introductory post. If you wanna learn more specifics ether check out 1d4chan's extensive page on the Dark Eldar or buy yourself the Dark Eldar Codex. 

However in the interest of time, I'll only give you a quick crash course in some of the units that feature in my army.

(warning this army is by no means cannon. I'm pretty sure this army is in a lot of dark Eldar players heads however)

So let's introduce some key members them:

Archon Thespious: Me... pretty much, though in Dark Eldar form... maybe he has a blog on different forms of Dark Eldar entertainment however it would be far, far, far too dark to post on this blog. He started the Kabal as a splinter faction. 10% of the profits made by the the Kabal go towards bribes to keep in good regard with some of the larger Kabals. (Thespious is a total Vect fan boy!)

Haemonculus Victor: I'm sure he'd enjoy long works in the park and holidays to a small time suburb, but Victor would soon ether start setting the plants on fire or killing all the people he could see so he sticks to his tower. When he does decide to come down from his tower or venture into real space he does so with an army at his side, often ether a few hundred warriors or his pet Talos Pain Engine. It's not sure if his body guard are there to protect Victor... or to protect others from Victor.

Sybarite Malice: A true expert in his field, Malice excels in keeping those under his command safe and issuing the orders to his squad from there the Archon or from Victor. He fights like a freshly awoken daemon and never falls into bodies parts to keep him stood are removed. He's famous for this poison whip and his armor that seeps with the blood of his enemies. He's been killed many times however his master always brings him back from the dead via regrowth in the torture pits.

Talos Pain Engine Tali: Origins of what/who Tali was before it became a Talos Pain engine are unclear. Some say it used to be a pretty young Dark Eldar woman who out of jealousy was murdered and her body sent to Victor, others state that Tali is the remains of many dead warriors attached together via dark mysterious sciences. All that is known is that Tali is kept in cryostasis within Victors' dark tower. Once Tali has reached the battle ground he is awoken, charging straight into enemy lines killing all that stand in its way. It's current known kill tally include; 7 assault marines, 23 Tau fire warriors, 2 crisis battle suits, 2 stealth suits 4 tactical marines and many many more in its only short time of being created.

Kabal warrior Mr Pointy: He looked at his weapon and thought to himself "you know what I need? More spikes!" And oh lord did he get them. He covered himself and his weapon in as many spikes as he could get his hands on. (Mr pointy should so be a special character ... just saying GW)

(http://beckjann.deviantart.com/#/d5kb5bn) another awesome image by Beckjann

So those are the individuals but what about the army as a whole? How does it play?

Well  as many of you may know it's been remarked that the Dark Eldar are a difficult army to play and they're not kidding! Out of the 8 matches I've had I've won 2 (should have been 3). This being because most of the time their armor save is garbage! For wyches you're looking at a 6+ save, warriors a 5+ and Total armor value of a Raider being 11 all round. The army is utterly made of paper... paper made of TINY razor blades. Dark Eldar Kabal warriors are the definition of death via shooting! Hitting on 3's wounding ALWAYS on 4's meaning more often that not at least half of your attacks are wounding... accompany this with a splinter racks on a raider and you're killing entire squads at a time. Furthermore Pain Engines serve as close combat monsters, with their 3 wounds and 3+ armor save it's staying in the fight long enough to kill plenty of units and with its d6 attacks ... well put it this way, once the Pain Engine reaches its target IT'S DYING! there's no question about that!

However for me the biggest problem is keeping my stuff alive long enough to kill the enemy I'm facing. I hope the addition of Incubi and more Raiders will help my army start winning more matches. And some help from the laughing God wouldn't go amiss.

Well that's all for this post, just a small introduction of what I'll be doing with this series I hope to get some battle reports to tell you guys about as soon as I can. Also expect another post tomorrow as I round off  the year some interesting Top 10s. As always thank you for taking the time to read this, if you have a positive or negative response please let me know in the comments on facebook or just bellow this blog. Feel free to share the shit out of it if you want. I want to spread the awesomeness to as many people as possible (and try and let me know if you're reading these, and those who I may not know personally don't be shy, leave your thoughts here as well.

My name's been Thespian Hunter.I love to HOIST THE FLAG!!!!!! and I'll catch you next time.

What I think about: Pokemon Games/TV Series/Trading Cards/Movies

Hello you horrible lot, this is the ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. I am your Pokemon Master ThespianHunter. GET OUT YOUR BALLS!!!!!

The Pokemon Franchise

It may shock some of you to know, that I was a child once. When I was about 5 year's old my uncle exposed my fragile mind to The Nintendo Game Boy and my life was changed forever. Incapable of any form of serious technicolour, the Game Boy featured some famous games that have changed our gaming world for all time. Such games include Mario World, Tetris and Mega Man II. The Game Boy was arguably the most popular portable Gaming Device at the time and has paved the way for handhelds including the Nintendo DS and the Playstation Vita. Without the Nintendo Game Boy I hedge a bet that gaming wouldn't be the same. Soon games were released that were capable of pushing to colour spectrum from just the black and green to different shades. With the release of the Super Nintendo the extra processing power allowed for one other colour to be added .

Soon my parents observed how much fun I was having playing Mario World and Tetris and as a result brought me my own Nintendo Game Boy.

One fated game was the legendary Pokemon Red (and Blue). Developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in Japan 1996, the game eventually made its way into Europe and onto my Game Boy. I can safely say even to this day I have only completed ONE Pokemon Game and Red wasn't it but I played the shit out of it. The difference between Red and Blue was purely what colour it was. In Japan where the game was originally released Pokemon Green was available and added no difference in colour other than which is the classic green screen we all remember. 

Pokemon was an interesting take on the JRPG of which Final Fantasy made its homestead. The difference being that the player had a huge selection of different Pokemon he could capture and add to his squad of monster battling bad asses (to a maximum of 6 at a time.) One of the games tag lines was "gotta' Catch them all and players were encouraged to capture and evolve through gaining XP by battling other Pokemon, beating trainers to get money and then buy more Pokeballs so the circle of animal cruelty 101 could continue  

The original Pokemon Games offered a possible 150 Pokemon to collect and battle and, if you had a connector, battle against your friends to dispute who was the ultimate Pokemon Trainer.

The games received a HUGE amount of positive review both from critics and gamers. And so, like a Daemon Prince spewing out from the warp, the Pokemon franchise was born.

And that's not even all of them!

Soon the Pokemon Anime was born, staring Ash who must  ,as the thousand of children before him, travel around the world collecting Pokemon and Pokemon badges and proving to them all that he was the greatest of them all. Every so often there would be a touching tale of friendship and its importance and other typical story lines covered in Anime's but really the under lying story was "KICK THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE EVER!" Which got repetitive come the second series. But alas theirs over 5 series of Pokemon... all including the "I GOTTA KICK THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING" story line. Which, for a while at least, is kinda interesting but gets really boring really quickly. However kids keep watching them, so they must be alright... maybe I'm just old. These were then followed by a number of movies which were used the basically be series finals and ... well.... we'll get to them.

After a number of episodes were made the Trading cards were released. These homed on the different mechanics that make the Game Boy games interesting. You may have a level one Pokemon in your hand that has no evolution stage and can hold its own pretty well however requires a lot of energy to use or a Pokemon that starts really weak, but ever a length of time can become very powerful as you draw evolutions. 

The Trading Card Game was very interesting and is still very popular today. I still have my first edition Fire deck which I'm pretty sure would still kick ass.

Since then, Nintendo 64 games have been released, a hoard of Pin ball games and even a "rail shooter" which involves the player having to take pictures of Pokemon.

So there's your whistle-stop tour of what Pokemon is, but the question is, what do I think of it? Am I a raving Pokemon manic? or am I as slow as a slowpoke? Well, as quick as a Quickattack, lets get to it.

FIRSTLY! THE GAMES!

As some of you may know, I still dip into playing the occasional Pokemon game I play a few ROMS here and there. (considering Pokemon Blue in peak condition can set you back $120)however... they're alright I guess. I mean, I can remember me being far more into them and wanting to try and capture them all. But it's game play is really repetitive. Furthermore as you go through the generations you still see the original 150 even in some of the latest games. Why? Well, the newest games have come under critic with the fact that a lot of the new Pokemon are kinda crap... Example? This Fucker here!

What is it you ask? This my followers is a Vanillish. Its, you guessed it, a fucking ice-cream! "ah but this is obviously a weak level One Pokemon" Well... no. This is a second evolution level 35-47 Pokemon.

WHO THOUGHT THAT THING WAS GOOD?!

I'm sorry, but when you present a fucking ice-cream as a "new and cool Pokemon" Don't be surprised if you get some complaints. It defiantly seems that the different Pokemon types is being diminished and one wonders how long they can keep this series going. As much as I like the expansion of an IP, in my opinion Pokemon is dying a slow death. There either needs to be some new breath breathed into the series otherwise we may see it die.

But that's not my only problem with the games. I take a very strange cynicism towards the slowly growing competitive scene the game is receiving. Yes ladies and gents, where we can have gladiatorial arenas and have Pokemon tournaments.   

I don't have a problem with people competing with friends to see who is the best. But this scene has really expanded with "professional" tournaments filling up venues and with hundreds of Pokemon LP's covering You-Tube.

Now, you have to ask, "why do you have a problem with it?" Well... Remember the o' catch phrase "gotta catch them all" ? Since when has that had ANYTHING to do with the Pokemon games. It's diverted away from its original purpose and has turned to "gotta push the stats to as far as they can go" It turns a fun collecting game of wild monsters into number crunching. It has taken the casual out of the game and has replaced it with a calculator. 

As a casual game, Pokemon is good. As a competitive game, my eye brows are most defiantly raised!

My Final result for the traditional Pokemon games is a "OK" If you're looking for a interesting take on the JRPG formula, grab one of the originals (I recommend Heart Gold or Soul Silver) if you're looking for a series to sink your teeth into, I personally think you've joined it too late. Best just grab the one game.

Secondly! The Anime

I can honestly say without shame I have watched the entirety of season 1 within the space of just one week. And I (from what I can remember) thought it was alright. The repetition of shot every now and then does get, well, repetitive and it hasn't aged well at all. Season 1 is as cheesy as it gets. With *trying to control anger* Pikachu and Ash not growing up at all mentally. Which brings me to what I think is the weakest factor. Ash and Pikachu. Pikachu as a Pokemon has female appeal being a little yellow thunder mouse constantly on PMS but in later series you wonder how Pikachu just doesn't kick the shit out of everything! I mean, the thing must be at least level 250 by now and yet still struggles with a a rat.

But Ash? Oh my. Ash is by far, one of the most annoying, idiotic and down right just annoying characters ever conjured by man. He (although voiced by a she) has one of those voices which grains away at your soul and has never learnt a life lesson for longer than two episodes. He's a moron who needs to be encased in carbonite and never seen again.

My thoughts of the Anime "Not so good" the redeeming factor that some of the fights are at times fun to watch if it wasn't for the huge amount repetition of shot.

 

Next! The Trading Card Game!

I've been demonstrating a lot of hate for Pokemon so far. Time for something to try and redeem the franchise. The trading cards are... pretty good.

The cards have been iterated over the almost 10 years they've been around and the art work on them is fantastic. They're not only very detailed by also colourful and use the space of the card to excellent effect. 

The game itself is also very entertaining and can quickly escalate as Pokemon are evolved and switched out to strategic effect. It can be intense and CLEARLY (unlike the video games) has competitive play in mind.

The trading card is still bought in large numbers today and played competitively in hundreds of competitions around the world.

My thoughts on the Trading Card Game? "Pretty good!" If you want to try this out, try it free online. This may be a Trading Card Game which those who like such things may want to start.

Finally... the one you've been waiting on...

I'm going to focus on the First movie as its the best example of why I hate these Movies so much as they have the same problem in all of different movies.

The film is basically an hour long episode that is either too deep for little children to handle or is just too long to air on TV. However this isn't my problem with the movies.
Take a moment to look at the title... "Pokemon...The First Movie"

This film was openly advertised as "the first" being pumped out to be watched as merely the next installment in the franchise. Not only this, but the films are awful. They have all the issues that the anime TV series has accompanied by not only having to pay to watch it but also a boredom fueled dragged out experience that settles on the same ideals the movie started with. Nothing ever changes no characters are developed. It's merely "KICK THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYTHING- THE FILM"

My opinion of the Pokemon Movies? "God Awful" I'd even go as far to say its "Cthulhu awful", being the second thing I've given the accolade to. Avoid like the plague... Unless you wanna take the time to watch something that's terrible.

So, what are my final thoughts on the Pokemon franchise? Well, there are aspects that I like, including the original Pokemon games and the Trading Card Games. However the franchise has been expanded until its braking point. Ever since the creation of the Anime it has been a money making scheme to drain as much money from people as physically possible. It's evident in the advertising, the constant factory line of content with no iteration or work upon the original formulas, be it capturing and battling Pokemon or the life adventure of what it is to be a Pokemon Trainer. It's a classic example of innocent kids being exposed and hooked.

But in all saying that, I enjoyed the majority of the time I had with the games if you're willing to find them and the Trading Cards are still popular although I admit if you don't like Pokemon you're not going to like the anything else the franchise has to offer.

Thank you for reading this collection of thoughts on the Pokemon Franchise. If you have a positive of negative response please let me know in the comments either on this blog or on face book and take the time to read other posts on this blog.

My Names been ThespianHunter, I wanna HM05 so we can both use TM32 and so I can use TM07... And I'll catch you next time.

AWWWWWW

The Assassins Creed 3 Drinking Game

Hello you horrible lot, this is the ThespianHunter Blog. Where I chat shit about games, films, table top games and a whole bunch of useless crap we call entertainment. I am your prophet Thespian Hunter. OOOOOOOH YEAH!!!

Today we're getting drunk in time for Christmas with the Assassins Creed 3 drinking game. Bellow you'll find the basic rules and the what you need to play.

The Assassins Creed 3 Drinking Game

What ya need

2-6 Players recommended.

Each player requires their own drinks (spirits recommended)

A copy of Assassins Creed 3 played far enough to be able to play as Connor and get past tutorials (Sequence 7+ recommended )

A controller

A stop watch

1 six sided dice

2 cups

a coin

The character must remain in Boston at all times

Instructions

Each player takes a turn in rolling the dice. Who ever gets the highest takes the controller and starts playing the game. They are immune to drinking forfeits until the end of the round (10 minutes)

The two cups must remain with the person currently playing at all times and the coin must be placed in one of them. The game then starts.

The player has 10 minutes to run around and complete certain objectives. If he fails to meet all objectives or dies he must do 2 shots. Then each player rolls off to determine who goes next

The following objectives he must complete, (which when completed result in the other players must take half a shot) are as follows

1. Player must achieve level 3 suspension level and then lose it without killing a guard

2. Player must achieve 3 rope dart assassinations from a perch and hang the target.

3. Player must use a musket rifle to kill 10 guards via close combat

4. Player must use musket rifle to kill 10 guards via range combat

5. Player must kill the following animals without dying (dog, cat, chicken)

6. Player must kill 3 Jägers with their own weapons

7. Player must kill a guard from around a corner, inside a hay bale and atop of a building using his hidden blades

The following things if the player does he/she must forfeit the round and a roll off must begin for who plays next

1. Player uses the following weapons against an enemy: Small weapons (like knives and axes), swords blunt weapons smoke grenades or bows

2. Player calls in an assassin to help him out

3. Player rides a horse

4. Player has to refill on rope darts because he's wasted them before completing objective 2

5. Player kills a cow or a turkey (cruelty to animals beyond what is asked will not be tolerated)

6. player dies

7. Player leaves Boston

The following things if the player does the others must take a shot
1. Kills a Jägers
2.A Jägers does damage to the player
3. Player gets shot
4. Connor pulls an expression like he's passing a kidney stone (camera will zoom in)
5. Player wipes out an entire guard patrol 

The following things if the player does he/she must take a shot

1. climbs atop something tall, like the top of a church of the mast of a ship

2. Player either takes fall damage, is knocked over, is grabbed or gets blown up by his own explosives.

3. Player swears during game play... we may be drinking but swearing is irresponsible and must be punished via taking a shot!

4. Another player manages to steal the cup with the coin in it from the player playing the game and places the coin on the table and places the die above it. (if the other player takes the wrong cup he must take a shot)

PLEASE REMEMBER TO DRINK RESPONSIBLY! 

Do not put yourself or others in danger if they can't handle it... you can laugh at them later!

Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this, if you have a positive or negative response please let me know in the Facebook comments or the comments below if you can, or just let me know somehow, I like responses. Please forgive any spelling or general dyslexic mistakes I try my hardest. Thank you everyone who read the last reviews And let me know know if you participate in the drinking game and how it went! 

My name has been ThespianHunter, my blood is 40% oxygen,20% gold and 40% alcohol, and ill Catch you next time!