I Seriously get lazy and like update this thing once a year with my favorite works from the past year, I got alot of great photography I want to share, Problem is the computer i was storing it on decided to be tucker out, so I need to find the time to fix it and get my photography off it. When i do, I got a huge dump of photos i want to share.

Hey Everyone, just post something letting you guys know that i did not drop off the planet. GameStop is working out great and hopefully i will be able to at least get a promotion here soon. Its funny how time flys when you have fun and how slow it crawls when you misserable, by the end of next week, this will offically be my longest held job. and yet my time there has felt like just a blink of the eye, while the same window of time at zaxby's seemed like an eternity. Anyway, I got a new computer, which is awesome, and i am playing EQ2 in glorious HD on high quality with no hitching and WoW plays on max everything at 60 fps, I just love this thing. Anyways... my first day of the semester is tommorow so i should be going to bed now,

later all
Johnny

Sorry I haven't been doing much lately. I am kinda in the middle of a transition period, I started back college, a friend just got back from Iraq, then i had to wave another goodbye bound to the very same destination. I just quit my job at Zaxby's and got a new job at GamSstop... WHOO, along with some family and social issues i recently encountered, i haven't been able to do much of anything. The piece I summited today i have actually had sitting around for quite a while now, i just never got around to uploading it. But enough of my problems. Hopefully in the next few weeks i will get my life a bit more ironed up.

Let first say that its been a while since I've been able to post any art lately, been working allot lately and what free time i do find i spend either hanging out with my friends, or playing the new game Overlord.

What a great game it is too, basically imagine Pikmin mixed with Fable and thats what you get, Its fun, got great humor, and it's just a joy to run around causing mayhem. It also offers a suprising amount of different ways you can play, for example early in the game the villagers ask you to return the towns food they got stolen by Halfings, when you find the food your offered a choice to return the food for to the vilage and have their gratitude, or keep the food for yourself. Situations like that even determine how your tower looks, how you yourself look and apparently even the games ending. The game has some short comings, the lack of a in game map is pretty annoying and the game can have some unclear moments as to what you are suppose to do. But that is something i like about summer, games like this have a chance at getting some spotlight rather then compete for attention in the winter against the Halos and Zeldas of this world (and get blown away in the market).

One thing that does bug me is that this game is almost going completely ignored falling in the shadow of Darkness (your standard linear M rated nothing special FPS). Now i haven't played the game myself, it just doesn't look like my thing, but it seems no one is willing to give the game a chance. Hell, when i went to buy Overlord (which is rated T) at gamestop, I got carded and he reached for Darkness because he had been asked so much. The game media is no better, Gamespot gave some half ass review that felt like they never intended on giving the game a chance, and IGN and GameSpy have yet to even review it yet. But all 3 have all these features and bull shit for Darkness. I guess people would rather play what they know and feel safe in familiar territory then go off the path a little a try something a little different.

So I beg you, if you have a 360, get Overlord. If you rent it, your going to want to buy it, if you buy it, your in for a treat

I've been playing allot of Halo 3 beta and loving every bit of it, I actually believe its the superior of the 3 games. Though i was still able to break the game, even played a custom game with the sword and Pistol which are not even in the beta (not surprising actually they still could use just a little more spit and polish). But See, with Halo 2 online, more often then not, the game was so poorly balanced that about half the time, i wouldn't even know what hit me or where it even came from. But i kept with it because it was basically the only robust Online game on the Xbox. But with the exception of poorly hosted games (bad ping) that unknown kill thing hasn't happened, and its great. With my interest once again perked, I've visited the Bungie forums... and it amazes me that people just don't understand poor balancing and flaws because they are bitching about loosing things that actually made halo 2 bad...

"The Pistol doesn't have a scope and it isn't ultra accurate"
-Its a pistol not a sniper rifle

"The Sword lung range is too short and i don't like visually glowing when i have my other weapon out"
-Your the bastard that in halo 2 ran around with a battle rifle until someone got too close and nail them with a sword before I could react...

"The rocket doesn't lock on"
-Good now i can actually drive somewhat safely again

and i could just keep going. But with the exception of a few minor bugs (mostly Playerclips that are a easy fix), and the kinda crappy downward pitch of the banshee (which needed to be adjusted, but not that much). I would be pretty happy with this game. Between that and the new Create-a-Spartan feature, i look forward for the final product on September 25


Just as a side note, I've gotten lots of request for a Zant spread... Well, i got a hold of the Zant models (with and without the helm and swords) so you all can expect a spread like my Midna one soon (maybe even tomorrow since i don't work)