FIFA'09 is fast becoming an absolute joke online. There is a massive bug which more and more people are taking advantage of, which gives you the ability to make up your own custom 11 and then play online...so that basically means everyone has Cristiano Ronaldo, everyone has Fernando Torres, everyone has Lionel Messi... so the game becomes completely pointless.
If you can't beat someone with a normal side, then you shouldn't play the game. Whats worse, is that then when you are beating someone with a custom side, they quit. Total, total idiots.
I came across one lad, who kept hammering "Ready" when i was setting up my team. He had a custom side and so consequently, he didn't have to do any team setup, and wouldn't even give me a chance to set up my own side.
I was only Schalke... its not like I was United. So he basically has the best 11 in the game, playing a poor German side, and wouldn't even wait while I set up my own team. How much more of an advantage do you want?
Anybody I come across with a custom side is instantly getting reported for tampering -> cheating. It's a bug that people shouldn't be taking advantage of. Only retards who have absolutely no skill, use a custom side.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Unhelpful Posts On Forums
If there is one thing that annoy me, its unhelpful forum posts. Any time you google some technical problem, you find a guy who has posted your exact problem, but then you find 10 replies that say "Wrong forum", "I dont know", "Throw it out the window", "Post in some other thread", "This has already been asked" (and then not provide any link - people do not have the time to search every forum - maybe the idiot replying does - but normal people dont)
If you search for the question on the forum which someone has said that it has already been asked on, invariable you can not find it. If you don't have something constructive to say, then shut the fuck up.
If you search for the question on the forum which someone has said that it has already been asked on, invariable you can not find it. If you don't have something constructive to say, then shut the fuck up.
Rafa Benitez launches attack on Fergie
So, Rafael Benitez decided to pull out a prepared written statement at his weekly press conference about how Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United manager is the source of all evil in the world.
Lets take a closer look at what exactly he said and whether he presents a logic argument or not.
"But I have seen some facts. On November 1, they played Hull and Mr Ferguson had a two-match touchline ban and a £10,000 fine after confronting Mike Dean, the referee, for improper conduct."
Oh, ok, so he is unhappy with Fergie's comments towards the referee which he was punished for. This is not his business, it's the FA's, but this is fair enough I guess.
"Mr Ferguson was charged by the FA for improper conduct after comments made about Martin Atkinson and Keith Hackett.
He was not punished. He is the only manager in the league that cannot be punished for these things. "
Oh, ok, so your gripe is that Fergie is never punished. Well, I guess you might have a point...but...wait a second Rafa. Didn't you explicitly point out less than 30 seconds earlier than he was punished earlier in the season?
"Then he was talking about the fixtures. Two years ago we were playing a lot of early kick-offs away on Saturdays when United were playing on Sundays. And we didn't say anything."
Well, I'm not sure why you would say anything Rafa. If you play first and win, it puts pressure on the other team to win their game in hand knowing that they need to win or they will lose ground. Putting teams under this pressure is an obvious advantage
"And about his behaviour with referees. The Southampton manager he knows how Mr Ferguson works and how he works, he was very clear. I am not playing mind games, just facts."
Sorry Rafa. You have already made an incoherent point earlier with regards to his conduct towards referees. This is beginning to sound suspiciously like a nonsensical ramble.
"If he wants to talk about fixtures, and have a level playing field as you say in England. There are two options if we don't want more problems with fixtures. One is the same as in Spain, the draw for the first part of the league is known, everyone knows which weekend. In the second half everyone plays the opposite, so you all know. Sky and Setanta have the right to choose their games and it will be the same for everyone. So Mr Ferguson will not be complaining about fixtures and a campaign against United. Or there is another option. That Mr Ferguson organises the fixtures in his office and sends it to us and everyone will know and cannot complain. That is simple."
Lets not get silly and childish now Rafa. United had to play away from home against every team that finished in the top 10 of the league last season, in the first half of this season whilst all the other sides have to play an equal balance of weaker and stronger teams throughout the whole season. This included playing BOTH Liverpool and Chelsea (two of the top 4 sides) and away to Portsmouth (the FA Cup winners) in their first four games which may have seen them 9 points behind the leaders before a ball has hardly been kicked. Having 3 of your first 4 games away from home is crazy, even more so when they are the top sides in the league.
"All managers need to know is that only Mr Ferguson can talk about the fixtures, can talk about referees and nothing happens. We need to know that I am taking about facts, not my impression. "
Again Rafa, you have said that Fergie is never punished, whilst earlier pointing out his hefty punishment earlier this season.
"The result does not matter to us, if we win at Stoke that result (United vs Chelsea) does not matter."
There are no trophies handed out in January, so United's game against Chelsea does matter. While its important to keep winning games, other games are obviously relevant to Liverpool's hopes. Its a very odd comment to make about a side who are within a hair of Liverpool in the league, without even playing well.
"It is a massive difference to play early on a Saturday, say, after a European match in midweek"
Again, it depends if you are playing on Tuesday or Wednesday in Europe. Its not as if all European games are on one night, exactly the same as all Premier league games are not on the same night. Also, it has been historically proven that teams who play games away from home domestically after a European game are statisically more likely to drop points in the Premier league. Yet, United play away from home domestically after EVERY European game this year. Yet, Liverpool were at home domestically after playing in Europe FOUR times, which is a massive, massive disadvantage to United and advantage to Liverpool.
"But they will play the second half of the season with home matches against the other top teams, and that is a massive advantage to them."
By which time, after being crippled by difficult away fixtures, they may have already have been too far behind in the title race to have a realistic hope of winning the league. Again, not a good point.
So, what have we learned? Every point was flawed, and he made contradictory statements. This is worrying seeing as this was a prepared statement. It is worrying how he could spend time thinking about these things and not see flaws in his logic. Perhaps, if he prepared his team for todays game against Stoke City instead of preparing an illogical argument about Manchester United, his team may have won today.
Its also shocking that he is outraged by Fergie, but not by Joe Kinnear whose conduct is arguably the worst of any manager in the league? Perhaps it is because Newcastle don't pose a thread to Liverpool winning their first league title for 18 years or perhaps its because he is not jealous Newcastle's success or lack thereof? Its another anti-United witch hunt.
Perhaps Rafa is trying to deflect attention from Robbie Keane, who he paid £20 million for, but is now struggling and is only good enough to be an unused substitute most weeks and who had three of the misses of the season in one game against Preston last week?
Who knows? One thing is for sure, Rafa Benitez is a con-man, who is living on a reputation based on a Champions League win which was surrounded by so much luck, it was beyond belief.
Lets take a closer look at what exactly he said and whether he presents a logic argument or not.
"But I have seen some facts. On November 1, they played Hull and Mr Ferguson had a two-match touchline ban and a £10,000 fine after confronting Mike Dean, the referee, for improper conduct."
Oh, ok, so he is unhappy with Fergie's comments towards the referee which he was punished for. This is not his business, it's the FA's, but this is fair enough I guess.
"Mr Ferguson was charged by the FA for improper conduct after comments made about Martin Atkinson and Keith Hackett.
He was not punished. He is the only manager in the league that cannot be punished for these things. "
Oh, ok, so your gripe is that Fergie is never punished. Well, I guess you might have a point...but...wait a second Rafa. Didn't you explicitly point out less than 30 seconds earlier than he was punished earlier in the season?
"Then he was talking about the fixtures. Two years ago we were playing a lot of early kick-offs away on Saturdays when United were playing on Sundays. And we didn't say anything."
Well, I'm not sure why you would say anything Rafa. If you play first and win, it puts pressure on the other team to win their game in hand knowing that they need to win or they will lose ground. Putting teams under this pressure is an obvious advantage
"And about his behaviour with referees. The Southampton manager he knows how Mr Ferguson works and how he works, he was very clear. I am not playing mind games, just facts."
Sorry Rafa. You have already made an incoherent point earlier with regards to his conduct towards referees. This is beginning to sound suspiciously like a nonsensical ramble.
"If he wants to talk about fixtures, and have a level playing field as you say in England. There are two options if we don't want more problems with fixtures. One is the same as in Spain, the draw for the first part of the league is known, everyone knows which weekend. In the second half everyone plays the opposite, so you all know. Sky and Setanta have the right to choose their games and it will be the same for everyone. So Mr Ferguson will not be complaining about fixtures and a campaign against United. Or there is another option. That Mr Ferguson organises the fixtures in his office and sends it to us and everyone will know and cannot complain. That is simple."
Lets not get silly and childish now Rafa. United had to play away from home against every team that finished in the top 10 of the league last season, in the first half of this season whilst all the other sides have to play an equal balance of weaker and stronger teams throughout the whole season. This included playing BOTH Liverpool and Chelsea (two of the top 4 sides) and away to Portsmouth (the FA Cup winners) in their first four games which may have seen them 9 points behind the leaders before a ball has hardly been kicked. Having 3 of your first 4 games away from home is crazy, even more so when they are the top sides in the league.
"All managers need to know is that only Mr Ferguson can talk about the fixtures, can talk about referees and nothing happens. We need to know that I am taking about facts, not my impression. "
Again Rafa, you have said that Fergie is never punished, whilst earlier pointing out his hefty punishment earlier this season.
"The result does not matter to us, if we win at Stoke that result (United vs Chelsea) does not matter."
There are no trophies handed out in January, so United's game against Chelsea does matter. While its important to keep winning games, other games are obviously relevant to Liverpool's hopes. Its a very odd comment to make about a side who are within a hair of Liverpool in the league, without even playing well.
"It is a massive difference to play early on a Saturday, say, after a European match in midweek"
Again, it depends if you are playing on Tuesday or Wednesday in Europe. Its not as if all European games are on one night, exactly the same as all Premier league games are not on the same night. Also, it has been historically proven that teams who play games away from home domestically after a European game are statisically more likely to drop points in the Premier league. Yet, United play away from home domestically after EVERY European game this year. Yet, Liverpool were at home domestically after playing in Europe FOUR times, which is a massive, massive disadvantage to United and advantage to Liverpool.
"But they will play the second half of the season with home matches against the other top teams, and that is a massive advantage to them."
By which time, after being crippled by difficult away fixtures, they may have already have been too far behind in the title race to have a realistic hope of winning the league. Again, not a good point.
So, what have we learned? Every point was flawed, and he made contradictory statements. This is worrying seeing as this was a prepared statement. It is worrying how he could spend time thinking about these things and not see flaws in his logic. Perhaps, if he prepared his team for todays game against Stoke City instead of preparing an illogical argument about Manchester United, his team may have won today.
Its also shocking that he is outraged by Fergie, but not by Joe Kinnear whose conduct is arguably the worst of any manager in the league? Perhaps it is because Newcastle don't pose a thread to Liverpool winning their first league title for 18 years or perhaps its because he is not jealous Newcastle's success or lack thereof? Its another anti-United witch hunt.
Perhaps Rafa is trying to deflect attention from Robbie Keane, who he paid £20 million for, but is now struggling and is only good enough to be an unused substitute most weeks and who had three of the misses of the season in one game against Preston last week?
Who knows? One thing is for sure, Rafa Benitez is a con-man, who is living on a reputation based on a Champions League win which was surrounded by so much luck, it was beyond belief.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Saints Row 2 is better than GTA 4
So after getting quite a few games over Christmas (Call of Duty: World at War, Left 4 Dead, Grid, Saints Row 2, Gears of War 2, Far cry2, Fallout3) I was kept pretty busy.
I think I've come to the realisation that Saints Row 2 is better than GTA. Might sound stupid? But there are a couple of reasons for this.
I've never been a fan of the way you get missions in GTA. You seem to aimlessly bounce from one random character to another, not caring who they are, or what they are doing, once they give you money. I found myself asking "who the hell is this guy?" quite a lot. Saints Row 2 cuts out this problem. You work for your gang against the rival gangs to make Stillwater your own once again. Gang wars I can understand, mostly random characters I don't. Kate is an important part of the story in GTA4, but I had hardly any interaction with her whatsoever even though she was supposed to be Niko's actual interest. Didn't make much sense when you already had two girls that got rid of your wanted level and restored your health.
Overall, the missions are more enjoyable than GTAs. Even the side activities are a good laugh (spraying shit from a van onto Ultors businesses, breaking up a women's rights protest with a chainsaw, or causing as much damage as physically possible in a short space of time etc). You don't get to do these things in GTA. It takes all the stuff that you do in your spare time in GTA and throws them into the actual gameplay. You need to do some of these things to advance the story.
Another good thing is the in-mission checkpoints. In GTA i found it very frustrating when you were near the end of a reasonably difficult mission (eg: killing Dmitri), when someone completely random happens and you die (eg: shot a barrel that landed beside a crate, after a cutscene I was placed behind the crate and supposed to be in cover, but they placed me on the barrel and clearly visible to the enemy who quickly shot me in the face multiple times in under a second) and have to go get more body armor, restart the whole mission again which may include driving back to it, basically it was a pain in the ass. The in-mission checkpoints gets rid of this frustration and makes Saints more enjoyable. The regenerating health is also very nice too. Again not realistic, but at least you know if you are in trouble and have a long way to go in a mission, you can go hide. In GTA you know that if you have little health left and have a long way to go in a mission, you might aswell just step out and get shot because your screwed anyways.
One thing that I find difficult though, is to aim while driving. This goes for both games but more so for Saints. Its difficult to press A to accelerate, the right stick to aim and the right trigger to shoot all with the same hand.
Overall, I loved both games, but Saints has the edge for me. Initially it took me a while to adjust to the look of Saints, as it is not as pretty as GTA, but when it all boils down to it, it is GTA with a massive amount of fun things injected into it.
I think I've come to the realisation that Saints Row 2 is better than GTA. Might sound stupid? But there are a couple of reasons for this.
I've never been a fan of the way you get missions in GTA. You seem to aimlessly bounce from one random character to another, not caring who they are, or what they are doing, once they give you money. I found myself asking "who the hell is this guy?" quite a lot. Saints Row 2 cuts out this problem. You work for your gang against the rival gangs to make Stillwater your own once again. Gang wars I can understand, mostly random characters I don't. Kate is an important part of the story in GTA4, but I had hardly any interaction with her whatsoever even though she was supposed to be Niko's actual interest. Didn't make much sense when you already had two girls that got rid of your wanted level and restored your health.
Overall, the missions are more enjoyable than GTAs. Even the side activities are a good laugh (spraying shit from a van onto Ultors businesses, breaking up a women's rights protest with a chainsaw, or causing as much damage as physically possible in a short space of time etc). You don't get to do these things in GTA. It takes all the stuff that you do in your spare time in GTA and throws them into the actual gameplay. You need to do some of these things to advance the story.
Another good thing is the in-mission checkpoints. In GTA i found it very frustrating when you were near the end of a reasonably difficult mission (eg: killing Dmitri), when someone completely random happens and you die (eg: shot a barrel that landed beside a crate, after a cutscene I was placed behind the crate and supposed to be in cover, but they placed me on the barrel and clearly visible to the enemy who quickly shot me in the face multiple times in under a second) and have to go get more body armor, restart the whole mission again which may include driving back to it, basically it was a pain in the ass. The in-mission checkpoints gets rid of this frustration and makes Saints more enjoyable. The regenerating health is also very nice too. Again not realistic, but at least you know if you are in trouble and have a long way to go in a mission, you can go hide. In GTA you know that if you have little health left and have a long way to go in a mission, you might aswell just step out and get shot because your screwed anyways.
One thing that I find difficult though, is to aim while driving. This goes for both games but more so for Saints. Its difficult to press A to accelerate, the right stick to aim and the right trigger to shoot all with the same hand.
Overall, I loved both games, but Saints has the edge for me. Initially it took me a while to adjust to the look of Saints, as it is not as pretty as GTA, but when it all boils down to it, it is GTA with a massive amount of fun things injected into it.
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