Please stop sending me the Stop Uwe Boll Petition!!

Jumping on the Uwe Boll "hate" bandwagon is so 2006

Just because I interviewed the guy at his Raging Boll Boxing publicity stunt, doesn't mean I actually care for his movies. In fact, I don't give a flying F*ck. I just don't care, to the extent that I don't care for the petition to stop his filmmaking career.

Why do people even care about his movies anyway? He hasn't exactly turned the most popular video games, into horrendous films. Besides, it's not like gamers really cared about the Alone in the Dark, and House of the Dead games.

How many people actually played House of The Dead? How Many people actually played Alone in the Dark?

Sure they have a following, (a cult following which includes me) but they ain't no Halo, in terms of sales, or mainstream pop-cultural acceptance.

These games should never have been made into movies. Even if they were made by a different director, I'm sure they'd be pretty shiotty. Hello! House of the Dead! Anyone who's actually played the series knows it has a pretty campy/cheesy/cliched storyline with awful cinematics and voice over. I wasn't exactly waiting around for someone to make it into a feature film.

It's not like there were many people who remembered Alone in the Dark, either. Most people on the petition probably aren't old enough to remember Alone in the Dark! As for BloodRayne, Dungeon Siege, Postal... never interested me. Yet I can see where the anger comes from. Why make these games into films if people weren't hoping and wishing for movies based on them. Especially given Uwe's reputation, and the way they turned out. We have every right to fear more crappy video game to film abominations.

But everyone needs to realize that there are worse movies out there, and worse directors. Why aren't people bitching about Paul Anderson, and his Resident Evil flicks? He's raped Resident Evil, the Alien/Predator franchise, and now OMG Castlevania with Stomp the Yard director Sylvain White?!! Or what about Xavier Gen and his Hitman filck, that no one saw. Let's not forget Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Roland Joffé, Dean Semler, all of who had a hand in making Super Mario Bros. the movie. What about DOA: Dead or Alive? or The live-action Street Fighter directed by Steven E. de Souza (who also helped write The Cradle of Life)? Lara Croft: Tomb Raider by Simon West? Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life by Jan de Bont

What about the new Street Fighter? Maybe there should be a petition to end Andrzej Bartkowiak's career... a director who also just so happened to direct Doom... as well as Romeo Must Die, Cradle 2 the Grave, and other hip hop martial arts cheese??

Gamers shouldn't be angry at solely Uwe Boll. Hollywood is to blame. Developers/Publishers who whore out their properties without much involvement (if any), in it's adaptation and production are to blame. Video game's aren't being treated, or respected as source material, as novels are treated when adapting for film. It's a shame.

I'm not worried about Uwe. I'm more worried about McG doing the next Terminator filck, and Paul Anderson molesting Castlevania. The world is coming to an END.

Signing the petition is like contributing to a marketing survey that shows statistically, 1 million people are aware of Uwe Boll's existence. What an ego booster. If you wanted to hate on someone, ignoring them is worse than acknowledging.

Smash Bros. or Power Stone... I prefer the Stone!

Multiplayer fighting games... Power Stone I choose YOU!

Buying Super Smash Bros. Brawl made me realize that I'm not as much of a fan of the series as I had previously thought. In fact, I'm losing interest in playing the game altogether. I thought getting it would give me the multiplayer fighting fix I've been looking for, something on par with Power Stone, but it's just not the same. Instead Smash Bros. made me want to reboot my Dreamcast to play the game, and its sequel, and even eventually buy Power Stone Collection for my PSP. Basically, Smash Bros, has me longing to reexperience the underrated Power Stone, a series I enjoy moreso than Nintendo's melee fighter.

Not that I'm knocking the Smash Bros, it's a good series for what it is. But all the fan service in the world, won't make me a devout follower. It's entertaining in the sense that you have all these well known characters squaring off, but I don't find it nearly as strategic as Capcom's once exclusive Dreamcast fighting series. Why'd I buy Smash Bros. again?

For it's online mode and well, the hype... I gave in to the hype, and the fact it features Sonic the Hedgehog. Plus, the series is pretty popular at the Penny Arcade Expo, so I figured I may as well train up.

I always found Smash Bros. a little on the basic side. A game that's easy to pick up and doesn't require much from the player, even though people have said there's depth to the fighting system, I really don't see it. It's very button mashy. The fighting mechanics on a 2d plane works for the type of game that it is, but it feels limiting, and repetitive. It lacks the dynamic of the third-dimension which makes Power Stone all the more versatile. Also I'm not too crazy about the Smash Bros. level design, and the floatiness of the characters, but that's just me nitpicking.

The original Power Stone featured 1-on-1

Released around the same time in 1999, Power Stone (Dreamcast), and Super Smash Bros.(N64) introduced a fresh multiplayer fighting experience to gamers. One featured well-known game characters from Nintendo titles, while the other featured anime characters that most people weren't familiar with at all. Of course Nintendo with its massive fanbase easily overshadowed Sega, delivered a game the fans would go crazy for.

Power Stone 2 featured up to 4 players.

Capcom knows fighting games, plain and simple. With Power Stone they demonstrated their abilities developing a fully 3D arena fighting system, where players can interact with the environment, while using various items including power ups to defeat their opponent. Players could jump off walls, and execute combination attacks, on top of all the other attacks in a very arcadey brawl style.

I think I will play some Power Stone. Here's hoping that another one is in the works. Anything's possible these days... especially since NiGHTS made a come back...

Here's a clip from the Power Stone animated series.