In this article, I am going to talk about the most popular/more known PvP RPG games + talk about all they do their shit differently, show videos, and crap like that. Afterwards, we can all talk about games we PvP'd in, if we liked them or not, if they were fucking retarded, and how much we own (so hard).

A Comparison with "The Big 3"
In reality, there is probably 3 big games known for it's PvP now and days. That isn't to say other games (Shadowbane, FFXI, EQ2, etc.) don't see action, but you rarely see people ACTIVELY talk about them elsewhere.

Game #1: Fury
www.unleashthefury.com

Cost: Free to Play, Buy to Play, and Pay to Play accounts available, with various benefits/restrictions.
PvP focuses on...: Hella fast action, button mashing, being able to discern what the fuck is going on.
PvP Game Modes: Vortex (advanced CTF), Elimination (4v4 Team Death Match, 1v1 Death Match), Bloodbath (deathmatch), Carnage (Players versus Players versus Bots)

I'm not going to post vids of this game, simply because combined with the graphics engine, and any type of low detail video recording, you will not be able to tell what is going on, because you can't tell in-game half the time anyways. ...

There are two arguments I get a lot whenever I talk about music. Some people ask them with honesty, others spring them like they've suddenly latched onto something fantastic and have suddenly destroyed Magical Negro, and he will soon dissolve, his stuffs floating into the chaotic winds of time. The first one tends to always be this second kind.

1. You don't even like fun, dancey, or lighthearted music. You only like it when music examines serious themes, nothing can be just fun.


95. Robyn- Robyn (2005)

The above statement's pretty untrue. I loved Justin Timberlake's album and still listen to it like once a month, I think Rihanna's new single was genuinely fun and kind of cool, I've been advocating MIA a great deal, and just today on IRC I said that I agreed with a statement I had read; if Soulja Boy came to a concert near me and wasn't too expensive, I'd go and *gasp* have a lot of fucking fun.

No, the problem is I don't accept the fact that music is fun as a reason to justify your taste. I do in real life; contrary to what most of GW believes, I don't go home to my girlfriend, smash her head in the wall for misspelling a word in a text message while screaming about how stupid she is, and then go to the neighbor's house and yell about how they are wasting their time listening to shitty music like Creed. But when you enter a forum, dammit, you need to think about what you're posting. It's about discussion, not just listing your favorite bands and saying ITS GOOD ITS GOOD. Talk about why it's good; it's a music forum for christ's sake. ...

Since I don't want Steel bitching about going 4 days jesus oh noez without an article I decided to post this two days earlier (was going for a wednesday post but oh well).

First, before I divert myself into a hate rage I want to toss a little notifier out there for any of you aspiring comic artists (lol).  Platinum Studios has begun their 2008 Comic Book Challenge.  What's the challenge?  Come up with a pitch, draw three finished sequentials, and submit it to a panel of judges.  These guys get literally hundreds of submissions a year.  Considering how stupidly easy it is to enter and the free publicity if you get in the top 50, there should be no excuse NOT TO ENTER if you are an aspiring artist.  Yours truly is entering this year and I'll start posting my material in the art forum soon.

Now, onto the main article:

I HATE WEBCOMICS URGH!

They are seriously like the RPG Maker of the comic book world.  It's easy for any amateur to pick up a tablet find a website and produce garbage.  What's worse is that this garbage usually attracts a massive fanbase because it caters to a really stupid fetish like furry or yuri (700,000 hits jesus christ) or moeblob or whatever the fuck people wank off to and spend money on.  ...

(Partly written by a magical negro, partly written by a white supremacist. Figure out who wrote what and you win a prize.)

Basically, this is just an overview of good topics on the forums in the past week for you to check out, maybe get a kick out of them! Remember though there's no substitute for good forum browsing...!

Topic of the Week

Game and Demo idea (fuck bridging dat gap) Basically let me cut through the bullshit. The fact of the matter is, the current situation at Game and Demo is somewhat dire. Game and Demo members of course don't believe this, but it's painfully obvious to outsiders there's a defacto bias against creative, non-RM, non-RPG games. Forum hierarchies and standards are nothing new (try being a rightwing Ron Paul racist on GW lately) but when it comes to gamemaking, this is somewhat disturbing. As a result, the administration and the moderation have come up with a way to satisfy both crowds.

CACTUS/GAMES

That's right folks, got the chance to interview the cactus_squid. holyyy shit.

handsome lamb: So, first things first, introduce yourself to those who might be reading and have absolutely no clue who you are!

cactus_squid: Okay, my name's Jonatan Söderström and I'm twenty two years old. I live in Gothenburg, which is a city in Sweden. I've been creating games for five years or so, and right now I'm working as one half of a newly started development studio called Lo-Fi Minds (lofiminds.com).



HL: Cool, so how did you get started? When did you decide, "man...I want to make some cool fucking games" and actually learn the stuff to do it?

CS: I'd tried to do some other creative things, like music, movies and comic books, but I wasn't really talented enough to make anything decent. So I decided to see if there was any easy ways about making games, and happened to stumble upon Game Maker. Since then I've been playing around with different ideas on and off. It wasn't until about eighteen months ago that I started taking it seriously. ...

Hello GamingWorld! This is the first installment of a new article series dedicated to Film.  I would consider myself a movie buff, and I watch a good number of films from various different countries and all kinds of zany directors, including many that I think the GW community at large is not familiar with, but would certainly enjoy. The format of these articles will be pretty simple, I'm just going to provide a fairly simple review of each of the movies I am going to share along with some info on why I think it's a movie worth watching. Without further ado, I begin:

This week's feature is: Contemporary German Film

I've noticed that a large number of really good movies have come out of Germany in the last five or six years. Many of these movies have garnered multiple Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations and several movies racked up some wins. Overall, they are an excellent group of films, not just limited to the ones I'm going to share with you guys. The movies I have selected are, in my opinion, the most powerful and most likely to be enjoyed by a larger audience. This is Germany we're talking about after-all, a people whose literary tradition, especially in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th, has been prone to surrealism and flagrant exhibitionism. I have seen German films that made no sense at all, had distasteful nudity out the wazoo and generally were fairly similar to the musical Cabaret... except everything about them was completely serious. I would not suggest watching such films, but instead maybe one of these: ...

As some of you may be aware, I'm graduating in about a week or so from four years of college. This means my societal value is now measurably higher than yours. Of course, once I go to law school this value will drop to nothing, but there will that brief period where I can criticize everyone below me.

Some of you may wonder how you too can have a sense of pride and self worth. In most countries this involves hardwork and deep moral character. Luckily in America you can just enroll at a four year university and supplant these emotions with a sense of superiority.

But there is that great question: what degree do I choose at college? It's a difficult question, but one I'm here to help you answer. So come along!

Engineering



You will never meet an engineer who does not secretly think they are better than most other majors. Part of this is because the average engineering course is still taught like it was in high school, with homework due every day, so anything other than constant menial labor is perplexing to the average engineering student. More importantly, engineers believe that their four years just has more work involved than any other degree. They have to believe this, because engineers will never ever have sex. There are exactly three women in every engineering college and one of them is forty and the other two are engaged and they are also very very unattractive. Thanks to a recent boom in students, engineers slave away their entire college careers for the opportunity to eventually have a job at a cubicle where they will be paid well below what they deserve doing the job function of a paperclip. Engineers also believe they learned all they needed to from other disciplines before joining engineering, and that they could easily major in anything else. Here are three examples of how untrue this is. ...

The Follwing article was sent to me in PM, it was completely written by ASE and all I have done is copy and paste it here. This is another THIS WEEK ON GW article. Enjoy. ASE starts writing as of now:

Basically, this is just an overview of good topics on the forums in the past week for you to check out, maybe get a kick out of them! Remember though there's no substitute for good forum browsing...



Community

2-week Gamemaking Contest - $465 in prizes to be won! [contest] [games] - It's a repeat I know, but this time the contest is over and all the entries as scattered throughout the topic. Go through pages 9-14 for now, until someone makes a more organized topic! Some really good games!



General

Britmeat? - A rampant debate over the pork industry in Britain, or is there gonna be a GW meet in London? Believe it or not, it's the latter! Have a burning desire to show off your SSBM skills to all your e-friends... while sippin earl grey? COME TO the Brit me(a)et!

they just acquitted Sean Bell's killers - 3 cops shot a guy 51 times to death a few hours before his wedding The catch? The victim was unarmed. The cops are found not guilty. ...

Welcome to Issue #4 of the Saikyo Dojo, your #1 stop for getting called a scrub for caring too much about canon in a fighting game.

Blazblue Videos
So those guys who made Guilty Gear (that game with that guy who looks like an anime swordsman who has a rival who is another guy who also looks like an anime swordsman. And a guy with a scythe. And a giant fucking robot. You know....that game.) have had vids of their new game released. It looks PRETTY FUCKING COOL guys.





Mitsurugi...I...am...your....father.....
So yeah, there's a vid of Darth Vader + Yoda gameplay in SC4.

Video:


In addition, here's another video showing MORE MOVES from both:


You can discuss these in this thread here (make sure to tell Steel he's a fag for liking Star Wars canon):
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=68230.80

Personally, I think they both look fun, and they'll both be available on both consoles after a certain time after release. Darth Vader looks more my type of guy tho. Yoda looks really bland.

Lui Kang, Sonia, Jax, Katana, Jade, Sub-Zero, Scorpion, Batman....wait what? ...

Ordinarily I dislike promotion topics that aren't GW specific but this is by the old creator of GW, Bart.

http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=71185.new;boardseen#new

Bart's creating a new game upload site that I've spoken with him about and we're thinking of partnering with it until GW6 goes up. So far he's in the beta test stage, and offering invites to people to test. Feel free to check it out in the above topic, and discuss what you think the cryptic stuff I just said really means.