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Sound Off

March 7th, 2010 | by Luis

Thanks for the good times, buddy.

So, what the hell happened this last week, kiddies? PS3s died for close to 48 hours starting on Sunday, Activision proves to everyone in the gaming community, from both gamers and game-journalists alike, that they are all about milking the money – not that we didn’t already get the message when they took over Guitar Hero – by firing Infintiy Ward founders Jason West and Vince Zamp… that other guy with the hard last name – we’ll call him Zampy – due to “insubordination”, Mega Man 10 released and is as hard as its brethren before it, Rock Band Network went live with an even more frantically growing music library, Major League Baseball 2k10 released to modest and positive outlooks and seems to have saved itself by hanging on a thread, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 released to wide appeal and praise and many calling it the closest thing to taking the Modern Warfare throne.

Oh, and Portal 2 has been officially announced through the new issue of Game Informer! All is well.

It’s been, what, a little over two years, right? I should be pissed off that there is still no word about Episode 3, but something about the draw of another Portal seems to please me to no end. That game was breathtaking, fresh, and, despite the fact that a computer AI is the one with all the dialogue and the main character speechless, also a very well written game. They’ve been going all out, though, by updating your Portal game through Steam, and adding a bunch of encrypted images through sound files in the game.

Remember ilovebees.com? This is pretty much what Valve is attempting right now. There are threads on Steam right now and, if you’ve placed your $10 for it, at Somethingawful’s game boards, as well. Out of respect of those working hard to uncover everything, I won’t post any pictures, (but Somethingawful goons are way ahead of the game). It’s amazing stuff, though, as Valve has actually started up a dial-up BBS board, with private logs of Aperture Science and the such. To top it off, not only did they add these crazy hidden files in the game, they also added to the game’s ending, which is pretty nuts, if I do say so myself. Sealing the madness comes the news that Macs will finally get a new game for their OS, namely Steam and Half-Life stuff. Personally, I’m not sure if Mac users are ready to put down Marathon yet.

As for the site, we should start up with some reviews some time soon. Don’t worry your little selves about the message boards. It’ll come. No hurry on that yet, mom, you can still come in contact with me on the phone, like normal. If there’s anyone else out there reading, when the boards are up and running, it’ll be open to the public, not just family. Search is currently not working, (though there isn’t much to search), and the site doesn’t seem to want to behave with in which how to properly show our blog posts, but we’ll get it all fixed. In the mean-time, just keep reading our shit!

- Lu out

Starting Over

February 28th, 2010 | by Luis

Welp, we’re back, and we’re slowly moving back in.

Oh, I’m sorry. Didn’t mean to sound like we’ve been here forever. I mean, we have been, since 2001, actually. Except since 2006 or so all you’ve seen is this:

Three years of this shit

That’s what’s called a place-holder. That’s right, I’ve been paying for an empty server and useless domain for the past four years… well, six if you count the fact that our last active strip was in May of 2004. What? I sound bitter, you say? No, no, merely stating the facts, my friends. We’ve been wanting to get up and get this site going again, get our ideas out to you, our fan(s), and have you laughing. Needless to say, unlike the other countless webcomics out there, we weren’t necessarily ready to get going again, especially not when the artist and web designer now has a house, a wife, and a 45+ hour job to tend to.

As for Marcos, well, he’s been pushing me to get back to it since, uh, since we stopped. The passion’s always been there for me; the ambition and the constant notion of failure kept eating away at me. Thankfully, I’ve kept drawing over the years and I have – I think – gotten better. Not just in my art, but also in which way I approach it, (read: faster, easier, gets the job done better). Good ol’ Photoshop tricks, and I have plenty of people to thank for that over the years.

Anyway, blah blah blah, we’re back. We hope to stay here and get comfortable. I know it took me a while to remember what the hell I was doing. Expect us every Sunday. Expect the site to slowly finish coming together within the next month, and we will see you around.

Weird Week…

March 7th, 2010 | by Marcos

I gotta start by saying it has been a weird week in the gaming world. First with the whole “ApocolyPS3” debacle. It’s funny how one day of PSN being down can cause such an uproar. It wasn’t that big of a deal for me since as of late its rare to turn on my PS3 for a game unless its an exclusive. The funny thing is that it only affected older or “Fat” PS3s, which is what I own. I know people would probably disagree but I seriously would not mind paying for PSN as long as it was as solid as Xbox Live. I do not mind giving my money to something as long as its worth it. PSN just feels…incomplete. I hope the rumors are true and they will start charging us for the service.

The other thing that happened was the whole Infinity Ward vs Activision battle that started early in the week. I really can’t believe they got rid of Jason West and Vince Zampella. The two men in charge of the studio who probably kept Activision afloat last year. The grounds for dismissal was supposedly insubordination and breaches of contract. You know normally I would not condone but after hearing Activision’s plans for Call of Duty I don’t care too much what they were up to. It’s disgusting to hear that they are trying to milk and water down what is a pretty damn impressive series(at least the Infinity Ward developed entries). An Action Adventure title? Are you fucking serious Activision?! I think someone needs to send security over to THEIR offices and terminate someone.It just reminds me of the older EA. Hopefully Mr. West and Mr. Zampella find somewhere better or end up making another studio.

This week also had some good releases such Battlefield Bad Company 2, Mega Man 10, MLB10 The Show, as well as MLB 2K10. I picked up Battlefield and I gotta say the game is such a blast. Its as if they took Modern Warfare 2 and injected it with steroids. Nothing beats the ability to be sniping people one minute and then be in a helicopter raining fire down on people in mere moments. Its also does and amazing job of making you want to do your job in the game(Medic Engineer, Recon, Assault). The campaigns pretty good so far from what I have played. They toned down the over the top funnies and went with a bit more realistic tone. I normally would have finished it by now but multi-player keeps dragging me back in to be honest. I am trying to get Luis to play the game and see what I am talking about, hopefully he will try it out soon. Either that or just murder me since all I do is mention it constantly. I also downloaded Mega Man 10 and boy is it still hard as hell. Playing this reminds me of how pampered we are as gamers nowadays. I remember when there were no check points or mid-game save and you had to beat a game in one sitting or have to restart the whole thing next time you played. Its tough but I gotta admit I am loving every second of it.

I ended up buying MLB10 The Show. It is probably one of the best and most realistic sports titles I have ever played. The realism is insane and the attention to detail just drops my jaw. I don’t know if its just that I haven’t touched a sports game in years but holy crap is it difficult. The game really does a great job of making me feel like I am useless. The funny thing is though its still a really enjoyable game. Luis ended up checking out the game as well. We were stoked to play a sports title again against each other. How was it you ask? Don’t know,we will let you know as soon as we get a chance to play the damned game online. We seriously spent over an hour on two different days just trying to connect to no avail. I don’t know if it was PSN or one of our connections but it was incredibly frustrating to not be able to play. The worst part is we found absolutely no reason as to why it could not work. We posted on boards and searched Sony’s site and found nothing. It really took me out of mood to be honest. It just reminded me of what is was like to try and play PS2 titles online.

Moving on, this weeks comic is basically our way of saying goodbye to the character Eddie. He provided us with tons of laughs and a lot of good times. Luis thought it would be a good idea to send him off via a comic. I think he was totally right and so we came up with the strip. That’s pretty much it for this week, not much more to say but ill leave you with this…

e-diots Reboot.

February 28th, 2010 | by Marcos

Welcome back Luis and Marcos! You know since we are probably the only two who come here any more. It finally happened though e-diots is up and running. We thought it would be a good idea seeing how all these movie franchises and being rebooted.

We thought to ourselves ” If they can do it so can we!” So there, that’s the real reason we are back…movies.

Now that we are officially live again it feels good to be honest. This has just been something we kept putting off and putting off. This time though it just feels right.

Anyways welcome to all and hopefully you end up loving what we do. I can promise that we will do all we can to entertain you folks.