That Soviet Guy is an obsessed gamer living in a post soviet country, and even though he's cut off from the "real world", he tries not to go crazy by playing a lot of kapitalist video games and drinking a lot of vodka
The attention span of gamers is becoming shorter and shorter. 8-15 years ago it would have taken you days, or even weeks to complete a single game. That was for 2 reasons.
1 – games were longer
2 – game were DAMN HARDER
But now let’s take any AAA game, let’s say, Gears of War 2. Completed in one sitting.
GTA IV? Ok, story completed within 2 sittings (a gaming weekend). This isn’t a good example as sandbox games are arguably very replayablez.
Killzone 2? One sitting.
MGS4? If you skip the movies – 1 sitting. Although I didn’t skip the movies and completed it in a single day.
Fable 2? A damn EVENING.
Bioshock? While replayable, is also an evenings play for an experienced FPS/RPG gamer.
Now, let’s take a look at say.. the first Resident Evil. Perhaps it’s because I was younger, but it took me over 2 weeks of evening sitins to beat it.
So I finally downloaded The Lost And Damned on the Xbox 360. While it is a fine game and a very good piece of downloadable content – it’s essentially the same game in almost every aspect. Except of course the improved bike physics (THANK GOD!)
Now here I was playing through the missions and drinking vodka. After about 6 shots and 10 way-too-linear story missions, I decided to pop in the good ol quest of Kolya (Niko=Nikolay=Kolya) Bellick.
And do you know what hit me at that point? (besides the vodka)
Made this video a while ago for my russian-speaking Left 4 Dead community site.
So one day I was drunk enough to play ninja as the Hunter in Left 4 Dead. And all of a sudden, I pounced off a wall. WTF YOU KAPITALIST VALVES HAVE DONE?! – I thought.
It turns out that indeed you can easily pounce off walls – just like in the opening cut-scene of Left 4 Dead.
To do it, you simply need to face your ass (always wanted to say that!) to the wall when you’re about to hit it with your face. (LOL) And then press mouse1 when you’re about to touch it (the wall, not your ass).
What’s the difference between Epic and an Epic Fail?
When you are creating a sequel to the game that pretty much propelled the sales of the Xbox 360 — you’d better damn make sure you don’t make a flop, because the bar is set so high that even the slightest fails will be accounted for.
Thing is that I live in a post soviet kountry. Teh problem with it is that it’s in no way supported by PSN.
Thus, I cannot buy anything from the store.
Since I can register an account with a supported country, I need a credit card issued by that country.
while I kud buy a PSN card off ebay you will say — but my country AINT SUPPORTED EVEN THERE!
So teh only way is to either negotiate with ebay sellers to accept third-ass payment methods or create a virtual credit card, which, again, isn’t supported by my country.
My country shall rename unnamed, we’ll just say that it’s post-soviet and near Russia.
And throughout this blog I will entertain you kapitalists with some soviet style gaming!
