0verhyped

Less than amusing ramblings from a jaded former gamer.

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Pointless Achievements: The Bladder of Steel Award

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 23, 2012


Need to use the bathroom? Or just want to take a break?
Well too fucking bad! Because you’re not going anywhere!

What is it with me and the Rock Band series? I don’t think there’s even been a game series that I both genuinely love and utterly despise more at the same time. Part of it is I’m just an ill-tempered idiot with obsessive compulsive tendencies and poor self-control. But I still can’t help think that Harmonix are just kinda sadistic assholes as well.

It seems like every Rock Band game comes with a shitload of a dumb arbitrary goals that require mechanical like precision on cheap plastic instruments. The first Rock Band had a terrible drum controller, but they still expected you to fairly accurately duplicate intense drum beats like Run to the Hills. I remember there being a lot of posts about how to jury rig the drums to stop counting extra notes you didn’t hit and how to make the pedal stronger.

It’s pretty fucked up they put goals into the game that the crappy fake instruments they sell you can just barely handle. I know they’re just one company trying to make a buck, so they can’t really afford to make exceptional midi instruments and still sell us to them at a reasonable price. But they surely could have eased the fuck up on some of their actual goals they stick in the game. It’s a fucking game where you pretend you’re Rock Stars in front of your TV with plastic instruments and a USB microphone. Why such brutal achievements?

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Øverhyped Rock Band Giveaway Winner!

2 Comments Posted by on May 6, 2012

Hooray for stock photos!

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For my 20th post on 0verhyped I decided to start a contest. Now on my 40th post I’ve realized that trying to bribe people to visit your site doesn’t work if no one knows about the bribe in the first place. Oops. But one person did actually enter my contest, and apparently I’m a man of my word or something, so that one person wins.

Since I don’t like giving away people’s personal information on the internet, certain details in the winning post may have been changed to protect the winner’s identity. Also typos have been kept intact because I find them amusing. Here’s the winning (and only) entry in the 0verhyped Rock Band Giveaway.

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Rock Band 3 Giveaway Update

3 Comments Posted by on April 25, 2012

Picture on loan from Zentastic.com until such time they realize I took it.

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Over a week ago I started a contest for anyone living in North America to try and win a new copy of Rock Band 3 off me. Since then literally no one has entered. Normally I’d just chalk that up to the fact that almost no one reads my crappy blog and the one person who does lives in the Netherlands and the game I’m giving away isn’t PAL compatible. (Hi John Weeren. Thanks for commenting. Sorry I don’t have any PAL region games to give away at the moment.)

But I noticed yesterday that even if someone wanted to enter the contest they probably can’t. In my original post I told people to get my e-mail address from my profile, which I assumed anyone could see by clicking my name that appears at the top of every post I write. Only yesterday I realized that clicking a person’s name on WordPress apparently just shows you everything they wrote, instead of the author’s profile.

Which seems pretty dumb to me, but whatever. Point is, if you want to enter the contest you can E-mail me at JadedXGamer@gmail.com. Sorry to the one or two people who actually did want to enter but couldn’t. If you haven’t heard about my giveaway, you can find out all about it by reading this post where I’m offering an XBOX 360 copy of Rock Band 3 to the first person who manages to talk me into it. Remember, literally no one has entered yet, so your odds might actually be pretty good to win. But you still have to impress me first.

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Øverhyped Rock Band Giveaway

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 15, 2012

Hope you have a big enough T.V. to read all this crap.

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A.K.A. A CHEAP ATTEMPT AT PETTY BRIBERY TO GET SOME HITS

CONTEST ENDED ON MAY 6TH, 2012. READ THE RESULTS HERE. THE REST OF THIS POST LEFT FOR POSTERITY.

It’s my 20th post according to WordPress, and I’m inclined to believe them, seeing as they track pretty everything in every way possible. Even which countries anyone who clicks on this site are from. Bet they know where in that country too, but I think I have to pay for WordPress pro to get that horribly invasive feature.

I’m surprised I’ve actually gone an entire twenty posts without killing myself, killing someone else, or deleting my whole website in some petty temper tantrum. But I haven’t done those things (yet), and I did all this without ever once having an audience. Hooray for celebrating arbitrary milestones!

Now if my experiences with Bing have taught me anything, it’s people will respond to free crap, even if what you produce is otherwise horrible. So in a thinly veiled attempt to con people into coming to this crappy blog on the ass end of the internet, I’ve decided to host my own poorly thought out reader’s (not a typo, I’m pretty sure I only have one) contest. Remember how highly I spoke of The Beatles: Rock Band? Well I happen to have an extra XBOX 360 copy I’m willing to part with, just one little catch…

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Remembering the Rhythm: Mourning the Loss of the Music Game Genre

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 9, 2012

Hopefully all the plastic guitars they buried here won’t contaminate the ground water.

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A.K.A. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GENRE AND MY FEELINGS TOWARDS IT

In case you hadn’t heard, the rhythm music game genre has been declared mostly deadish. There are no more Guitar Heroes, and the only new stuff outta Rock Band is an iPad version of the already released iPhone version of Rock Band, some new songs you can buy for Rock Band 3, and Rock Band the board game. The only music software selling now is either dancing games or actual educational software on how to learn to play guitar.

Between me spending the last two days bitching about how Rock Band and Guitar Hero drove me and someone I know up the god damn wall with their bullshit and the fact that this place is called 0verhyped, you might think I’m happy that these easily exploited cash cows have meet a sudden and untimely demise brought on upon their own insistence on flooding the market with their mass produced brands of cheaply made corporate approved plastic crap.

But I’m not. In fact, I’m pretty bummed out about. Sorry to let you down, but I don’t actually hate everything or regularly take pleasure in other people’s failure. Unless someone I already hate is suffering, then I find their pain hilarious. But this isn’t one of those cases. Even though I got frustrated at the two big players in the rhythm game genre for a number of reasons, I didn’t want to see the whole genre fold. But I’m not bummed out just because the genre is gone, but what it means for the whole mainstream gaming industry. But I’ll get to that some other time. For now, I just want to reminisce.

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When Did Red Octane Forget They Make RHYTHM Games?

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 8, 2012

Fuck up my fret board?  I’m going to overload your amp and FUCKING KILL YOU!

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A.K.A. GUITAR HERO 3 MADE MY SISTER CRY

See what I did there? In my last post I talked about how after the original teams behind the first two Guitar Hero games split, the musical half, Harmonix, went off to make Rock Band and sorta forgot all the GAME parts of Rhythm Games. By contrast, Red Octane, the makers of the controllers for the first couple of Guitar Heroes, teamed up with Activision to keep the Guitar Hero series going, and ironically forgot about the RHYTHM part of Rhythm Games.

Now as my brother once reminded me, It’s not always about me…then I tried to strangle him. Which is why I’m now on anti-depressants and occasional downers. But the point is, I’m not the only person who’s life has been made soul crushingly miserable by video games. And even more surprisingly, it’s not always us basement dwelling fanatics with no life who are driven to tears by your occasional video game. Something about certain games can attract otherwise fairly normal people into the trap of colliding you with a brick wall and then baiting you into pounding on it until your fists bleed because you can see one small crack in which a ray of hope shines through, assuring you there’s a better world on the other side.

Sounds crazy? Maybe, but it happens, as the story I’m about to relate illustrates. The following events are true, but the names have been changed to protect the innocent, and for the sake of a stupid joke.

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When Did Harmonix Forget They Make Rhythm GAMES?

Leave a Comment Posted by on April 7, 2012

Would you believe that this is one of the easy parts?

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Also known as: FUCK GREEN GRASS AND HIGH TIDES FOREVER

In an earlier post that almost no one read I said “I still mostly enjoy [Rock Band] to this day.”, I also mentioned how to get measly but otherwise free amounts of redeemable money from Microsoft from pretending you care about their crappy search engine, so you might want to get in on that before they stop being so generous with their petty bribes.

And I do MOSTLY enjoy the Rock Band series. It’s fun to pretend to be a rock star, you get to play along with a variety of great music while your friends are all jamming out with you. I played so much Rock Band I actually learned to play the drums a little, which I parlayed into buying a real drum kit, getting lessons, and now I’m an honest to god amateur drummer myself. Yay!

But then there’s those small parts which account for those brief moments that make me “mostly” enjoy Rock Band instead of “always” and all though brief, they tend to be a constant and grotesque stain on an otherwise sublime experience that my obsessive tendencies just can’t look past.

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