Another day of crappy block busters!

As I wrote yesterday..erhm..night...the topic of the day would be two torrent reviews and a review of an acronym. Where to begin? The natural end to start is the acronym: DC. You've all heard it before if you've ever downloaded anything. Yes good folks, it is Direct connect.

Direct connect is crap. Hired "cops" lurking around, stupid rules like "you're not allowed to share files larger than 1gig" or the unsatisfying low download speeds even though you've got a 100mb broadband connection, people canceling you -in other word you can't really download anyting without constantly overwatching the transfer.

Now, what can I say about the bock buster movie Pirates of the caribbean - dead mans chest...the torrent was okay, the download took about an hour and the quality was okay. The movie was crap, kind of like DC - slow, unsatisfying and an abrupt end -like "what the hell?". One of those "lets record two movies in one year beacuse the first one was such a block buster"-movies, a typical sequal, followed with a third one right around christmas. So don't be suprised, I've heard the third one's almost complete and on the way form a safe source (and IMDB too). So don't be suprised if it's better than number 2, but worse than number 1 -just like the Lord Of The Rings triology.

I'll put this in perspective (so I'll get a smoothe crossover) comparing the sequals of movies with the sequals of games. Games in comparishment makes better sequals than the movies. Name any example and prove me wrong. Yes there are a few, but compare it to the movies and you'll see. Okay this was kind of obvious, but I had to...

So I downloaded "block bustering" Titan Quest. The torrent was okay, but without the patches -so I had to download them too. It took about an hour of doing wrong and finally finding an usable crack befor I got to play it. I installed it 12 hours ago, or so, and I've played it since. The only thing that makes this game fun is the co-op mode, with out that mode I'd probably never play it again. The graphics weren't all THAT sweet and the gameplay was repeditative as hell (well it is a hack n slash so that's unavoidable). There were a few sweet solutions that I liked with the Heads Up (tool bar) and a few things like the character amrory menu that really could have been designed better. And the crappiest thing of them all was the memory leeks or something other with the software that constantly dropped the framrate, damaged the sound and made it crash.

Why do so many block busters suck?

Well, it's five in the morning and I have no answer, so it's definitly time for me to shut up.