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Evening Reading
by Brian Leahy, Nov 10, 2010 5:00pm PSTLast night, I was attempting to play some Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer on the Xbox 360 or PC. On the 360, Live was having some issues with the massive player load and actually getting games to load was becoming an issue.
On the PC side, I'm having a good amount of performance problems, though I'm not freezing/hitching as badly as some people. Not having a locked framerate, however, takes some getting used to after playing CoD games on the 360 since CoD4. Aiming with a mouse is nice, though.
Going by the numbers displayed in-game, last night I saw around 3.6 million people "in playlists" on the Xbox 360 version, while the PC reported 35,000. Some Twitter followers told me they saw around 500,000 on the PS3 at the same time. While these numbers probably don't represent an accurate measure of concurrency, those are decently staggering difference, though in line with what I've come to expect from Call of Duty.
Gaming News o'the Day
- Nintendo 3DS gets a Madden at launch.
- PS3 gets some serious NHL streaming.
- Nintendo wants to trademark a phrase its never used.
- Star Wars Kinect game is a long way away.
Links from Morning Discussion
You bastards were right, Walking Dead is awesome. However now that I watched that and the Six Flags New Orleans video and I'm definitely riding a downward mood about society in general. :/
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Minor thematic spoilers: The plot basically explores how Rick Grimes is a good man driven to do worse and worse things in the name of protecting his family and the other survivors. It starts to play with justifications of murder and the meaning of morality in apocalyptic times, and the affect that has on his son who starts to lead after his father's example. Rick starts to even question his own sanity even as more and more people look to him for leadership. You'll either find his character compelling or you won't find much of interest here.
Of course like any self-respecting zombie story there's buckets of gore. You never really know who is going to die next and the ways people meet their end is often surprising. The traditional trope of "the survivors are worse than the zombies" is in effect here. People get tortured, raped, executed, dismembered, fed to zombies, castrated, have eyes gouged out with spoons. And that's survivor on survivor violence, not zombies! A lot of it is so brutal I don't know if they even plan to put it on screen.
One of my favorite characters is a sword wielding lawyer named Michonne, who we are introduced to carrying her brother and boyfriend, now zombies, around on a leash with their lower jaws and arms torn off. She comments that their presence helps keep the other zombies away. She's a complete badass and I'm very anxious to see how well her character will translate on screen.
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