Plants VS Zombies: All We Want is Brains and Ice Cream

Quickie: Download, Don't Buy the Monotony

My friend Mike introduced me to a new Pop Cap game highly inspired by a drug called LSD Plants VS Zombies. Thanks Mike, like I need another addiction.

Most Pop Cap games, like Peggle, Bejeweled and Insaniquarium feature overly cute characters and colors, making people with ADD become hopelessly addicted to the simple point gameplay.

I do not have a problem with casual games, in fact I love something simple and un-complex every once and a while just to feel like I accomplished something greater than myself. Also, these games meant for hours of gameplay, mainly because of the repetitiveness and simple goals like, kill the zombies.



Plants VS Zombies in particular features classic cute-Mario-world inspired plants designed to fight hordes of classic and pop-culture Zombies. It’s a nice twist to the Zombieland, Resident Evil and Left 4 Dead genera by adding killer-cute plants because I think the theme has been a little overdone.

Sure, this game was a great short distraction, but the levels are too long for my taste and buying the full version just to use different plants doesn’t seem worth it to me. I just wish they would add a fast-forward button, because sitting there waiting for the wave of corpses to come was b-o-r-i-n-g.



It's a simple game for simple players and there was nothing wrong with it as long as you take it in small doses, just like drugs. The industry makes millions of dollars by creating cheap-repetitive-games based on the human nature's need for something cute, fun, cheap, and achieving a simple accomplishment.

So, go ahead and kill some zombies with a peashooter, but save some cash.

11 Dumb Things in Assassin's Creed 2

In no particular order the dumb things in Assassin’s Creed 2:

1. Baby Wiggling

When you first play Ezio you are just a newborn baby and you are forced to make him wiggle. I just though this was a little silly, gross, and just because you have a mature rating doesn’t mean you have to show an actual birth.


2. It’s You Ezio!

I noticed that when Ezio’s name sounds like ‘it’s you’. I really don’t know if it was to make you feel like you were the character, but it’s a little stupid and just made me laugh.

3. Freaking Guards

The guards are either borderline moronic or plain ruthless. If I accidentally bump a person in front of them while I run they come out in full force to murder me. Holy Bob was that annoying. I guess they focused on making the game pretty, and it is, so the AI had to suffer.

4. Why is Leonardo here?

I’m sorry, but when a game places any famous historical character in game for the pure reason of using one of his inventions for one scene, it’s shameless lameness.


5. Tickle Me Pointless

I hate pointless treasure hunts in games. They add nothing to the story, are wastes of time, and are especially annoying when you have to complete them. Thankfully the feathers were an option.

6. I Have to Run to the Villa to Change

I noticed when you buy new armor it automatically assigns to you. However if you want to change any of your armor without buying it you have to go to your Villa to change. WTH? I can freakin carry everything else in hammer space, but not my armor? Oh NO! I have to run to the Villa to change. How stupid.

7. Un-friendly Button Mashing

For the most part it is simple, but I hated having to release buttons to attack versus dodge. It would have been so much easier if there were just one button mashing for each of the moves.

8. Dressin’ to Kill

Ok, I understand you have to have some distinction in your character, but Ezio is just advertising he is an assassin. His hood, cape, coloration, armor, would just
bring trouble around every turn. Also he would just drown in the water because he was so heavy.

9. Nobody Drank the Water

If this game is to be historically accurate, the water would have been filthy and Ezio would have refused to swim in it. Every time I had to swim, mostly by accident, I cringed imagining the poop and garbage floating about….ewwww.


10. Death by Wa-Wa

I thought it was actually hilarious to just push a guard/enemy into the water and wait for insta-death. I used it as much as I could because it just made fights easier and hilarious.

11. It’s a Me Mario!

One of the funniest lines in the whole game is when Ezio meets his uncle. When he said the fabled words “It’s a me Mario!” I instantly thought Nintendo is going to sue. Honestly they couldn’t find any other Italian names?

Of course it’s a matter of opinion, I loved the game, for the most part, It was pretty, thought provoking and made murder fun again.

League of Legends: Sweet

Quickie: Too Awesome, Download

League of Legends

Online real time strategy game (RTS) featuring Warcraft III graphics, creativity. as addicting as premium chocolate because having control of a demigod at your finger just feels right and awesome. The tutorial was easy to understand and play through, so when you play practice or competitive games you won’t feel lost.

There was also a great selection of charters to choose from, to meet your battle style. I was lucky to be apart of the opening weekend, so all the characters were open, now that the store opened I have to spend points, earned in game, to play my favorite characters.

My personal favorite was Annie. A little pink haired girl who skipped about and threw fire magic on you. She also has a little bear named Tibbers, who she can animate and lead him in a path of destruction.

Her catchphrases, all the charters have them, can be a little annoying, but she is a little difficult to play for a beginner.  So, here is a wonderful website to help you use your character efficiently: League Craft.  This site helps you play your character, choose the appropriate runes and just not suck.


I do not like how you have to have the final blow to earn gold from killing minions or other demigods, but it was compensated by having a constant flow of money over time.

There were also these mastery points which you can use to improve your characters general stats. They were like the talent trees on WOW.

I’m was just happy to see a game completely free, with excellent graphics, awesome gameplay, creative demigods, there was nothing to complain about. Support the game, download it now.

The Finish Line

Finishing a video game should be a honor for both player and game because it is an accomplishment shared by both programmer and player when a game is worth the gameplay.

I will admit I do not finish the majority of games because I come to the moment where the game looses its sense of immersion and the game and becomes grinding.


In “Fable” there was a little bit of this, but the fact I could kill everyone in the
entire town and own it kept me very entertained, along with the witty sense of humor and sick plot. But in games like “Chrono Trigger” and most of the “Final Fantasy” games I come to a point where I have to level up to progress further.

My opinion is a game should flow in a way where the character should be able to progress with little to no grinding, like “Prince of Persia: Warrior Within” a game I loved for it’s storytelling, amazing visuals and the slow-mo sequences when heads would fly.

I also hate games which have a good premise and decide to interject another game. For example “Thief: Deadly Shadows” had a nice concept of rob everybody and fence their stuff, with a little bit of a mission until you were blasted to the past.

I lost interest immediately, not only because it was creepy, but why did they have to add a time paradox to a thief game? It was downright moronic.

So, I don’t like playing games that grind you to level up and games that try to sneak in different games. These types are at the top of my crappy, other than ones that generally just suck, like “The Sims”.