I think spring has been kidnapped. It is almost my birthday and we usually have spring by that time. We need to slap it’s picture on milk cartons and throw up fliers around the neighborhood. I hope spring finds it’s way home soon. As you may of already guessed, I am a little tired of rain and wind. Which isn’t good as we are supposed to get more that all week.

Since I am a glutton for punishment, I came up with a new theory on review’s. It came to me while watching an NBA game the other night. I watched a very lame call go the way of one of the sports biggest stars. In this case it was Carmelo Anthony of the New York Nicks. From what I saw it wasn’t even a foul and yet he got the call. Which most hard core sports fans tell me is typical. The stars always get calls that go their way at times. I can see how that works, after all officials are human beings and preferential treatment isn’t that far fetched an idea. Now take that theory and move it to video games for a second. I bet if you think about it, you can see the same thing happening there. Halo Reach got mostly 9 and 10, when in my mind it was more of an 8. COD black ops got the same 9 and 10 scores when it was more in the 7 range. Reviewers are humans just like NBA ref’s, so a successful franchise’s sequels might just get a point or two in their favor for that reason. Now I admit this is just a theory and like gimme calls to sports stars, you couldn’t prove it in a million years. The reason I bring it up is not to attack reviewers, but to teach publishers a lesson.

You wing nuts need to learn that most of your new IP’s are not going to score off the charts. The last new IP I recall doing that was Bioshock. Most new games should be ready for decent scores, with the hope of finding a niche in the market. Especially in the over saturated world of first person shooters. Homefront is an excellent example of that. There was no way the game was going to get a 9 or a 10. It has way to many flaws for that to be the case. However the game did have enough good things about it to make a damn good sequel. Which I don’ think we will ever see because THQ and Kaos spent to much time over hyping the initial offering. EA did the same thing with MOH last year and they got slaughtered in the process. If you need more evidence of what I am talking about look no further than the vaunted COD franchise. Modern Warfare, which was the fourth game in the franchise, was really when it became an unstoppable Juggernaut. Yes web 2.0 kiddies there were three games before the first Modern Warfare, shocking I know. Bottom line is there is nothing wrong with promoting a new IP. It just seems publishers have forgotten you have to walk before you can run.

I am normally a guy who has hope for humanity. As much as I bitch, I try to find the good in people and work with that. Yet my fellow humans really do their best to try and destroy that hope. The earthquake and subsequent nuclear problems in Japan are a great example. A couple of the nuclear reactors over there had some issues and the next thing I know the West Coast is going bat shit bonkers. I was doing my best to ignore the raving morons until I heard two things. First I heard a lady at the grocery store asking for Potassium Iodide. Which if your not aware protects your thyroid in the event of exposure to radiation. If you want a better explanation go look it up, as doing so gave me a headache. I seriously wanted to slap the woman across the face with a barracuda. The next day I read a story that topped the idiot lady. Morons out here have started taking the substance and some were even getting poisoned by it. It is anal violation levels of hard to keep faith in humanity after reading shit like that. Some of you mental midgets need to stop, slap on some more tinfoil and quit watching the fucking news. Might be mean, but I hope Potassium Iodide poisoning makes them shit like rhinos, I really do.