Oof!

Well, so much for business as usual, but let me plead my case here: I somehow got sick twice in the shortest month of the year (one stomach bug where I couldn't even keep down half a bowl of white rice, and one horrible cold I'm still fighting off). Anyway, I hope everyone enjoyed the Knockout Kings 2001 month. I was going to post another video today showing off the illegal moves you can do to get yourself disqualified, but honestly, they're not that great (maybe it's just me, but I can barely tell what's happening). So instead of throwing that up on YouTube, you can download the raw video files here if you want:

https://rapidshare.com/files/8471231/Illegal_moves_1.mpeg

https://rapidshare.com/files/2763149701/Illegal_moves_2.mpeg

Alternate download (RIP, Crapidshare):

http://www.wupload.com/file/2667384332/Illegal_moves_1.mpeg

http://www.wupload.com/file/2667384342/Illegal_moves_2.mpeg

Video one has punching in the clinch, and elbows; Two has headbutts and what the game calls low blows, although they just look like, um, elbows. (Also, I couldn't pull the moves off for some reason, so that's me fucking up, not St. John being drunk or whatever.)

So that was February! March is going to be another Rumble Roses month (and, fair warning, my wife is flipping out for Mass Effect 3 coming out). As for April, we'll see - the current plan is another PS2 boxing game that rhymes with Glack and Gruised. Stay tuned :X

** Update **

I'll just leave this here.

Unexpected Service Interruption

Well, as you may have seen last Saturday, I'm still fighting with this new Roxio game capture device; I dunno, I guess the video it outputs still looks pretty good, but since I'm a perfectionist and I don't know when to quit, I'm going to fight with it a little more. In any case, there may or may not be a video tomorrow. (Also, none of this is related to my wife making me play knights of the old republic enjoying Knights of the Old Republic with me.) At worst, we'll be back to normal in February, which is probably going to be another theme month; I don't want to give too much away, but, umm, I can't think of way to finish that sentence without giving it away. In any case, check back here tomorrow - what, like you have something better to do? - and on February 4th at the latest we'll be back in business.

Another batch of RRXX pix downloaded from Live

Yes, it's that time again - 209 pictures downloaded from Live over the last seven months or so. I know I keep saying this, but I'm still amazed at the pictures people manage to get out of this game, even five years on after the release date. (Also, I know I keep saying this, too, but leave Sebestian out of your photos. Nobody wants to see him.)

Download links!

Crapidshare:

https://rapidshare.com/files/1886668875/RRXXHQ3.rar

Megabuttload:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A5U6JKAI

Photobucket:

http://s1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd514/RyonaKingsFirstAccountGotBanned/RRXHQ3/

(Password is: Banned)

** Update **

Well, forget that Megaupload link, I guess. Jesus.

It's Hideous ECW Wrestling Game Month!!!!!!!!

Yes, it's that time of the year again - put on your hideous holiday sweaters, make a nice fire, put on some Christmas music, and gather the whole family to watch low-polygon versions of Dawn Marie and Jazz punch each other in the groin.

December will have five Saturday videos, the first two being the relatively sane ECW Hardcore Revolution, and the last three being the dumpster-match craziness of ECW Anarchy Rulz (because poor literacy is kewl). These are some games I'd never played until just now, and although the graphics have aged about as well as any polygonal PlayStation 1 game, I am impressed at the sheer number of match types. We'll see how many of them I can show off in five videos (spoiler alert: five). Stay tuned.

** Update **

First video!

I'm back & HOLY SHIT what did they do to YouTube??

Well, I'm back. How was the vacation? Awesome, thanks; We went to the Epcot Food & Wine Festival, and I finally got to go on Soarin', which holy shit, nobody cares about hearing about my vacation, do they? Let's leave it at that I'm rested and relaxed, and should now be responding to messages and comments much sooner*.

Also, jesus god, what the hell happened to the YouTube front page? And I thought them fucking around with the way the channels look was bad. Holy hell. Well, um, stay tuned for December; Check back on Saturday for the first match of another special month, and check back here for the big announcement. Can this top two extremely polygonal women hitting each other with sinks and traffic cones in the WCW bathroom? Amazingly, the answer is yes. Cue shocked emoticon to end post on:

:0

* As in probably within three weeks instead of six

Vacation time woop woop woop woop!!!!!

It's that time of the year again - time to pay ten month's worth of mortgage payments to jet down to Disney's Polynesian Resort for 2 weeks of fun, sun, fun in the sun, sun's fun in the sun that has fun with the sun whose sun we are having fun with.

Ahem. As you can tell, I'm excited. As noted, pretty much at least the first half of November is going to be a wash. I'll try to upload a 100% body 0% muscle match for Thanksgiving and make some lame jokes about how they all ate a lot of turkey and mashed potatoes ha ha etc. Otherwise upload activity is probably going to be pretty light, and responding to comments/messages is going to be not at all during the first half and at a slower pace during the second half (okay, who yelled "is that even possible"). Wish me a nice vacation, and if you see a slouching guy who needs to shave with his wife with big boobs in the Polynesian, yes, I will sign autographs.

2011's remaining schedule

You may have noticed there was no WAS 2 video this week; The simple fact is that I'm running short of WAS 2 requests, so these might get cut down to every other week or just filled with my own whims in terms of matchups, depending on how I'm feeling.

So what about Saturday videos? Well, you may disagree with me here, but I have to say Supremacy MMA was kind of a bust; Turns out neither one of the female fighters has any submissions at all (!). I mean, I could do story mode, but it's basically just the same fight over and over again. I was kind of hoping to get a little more material from it, but those are the breaks. So what's on tap?

Well, October is probably going to be business as usual, which is to say Rumble Roses on Saturday and, like above, possibly every other WAS 2 on Wednesday. I'm working on some side projects, but I wouldn't expect to see any of them until 2012. (Wait, you want to know what I'm actually working on? Okay, you talked me into it - Knockout Kings, Black and Bruised, and Ready 2 Rumble Round 2 for the PS2, primarily.)

Why won't any of these be ready in November or December, you ask? Well, November is going to mostly be a wash; I'm going on vacation to Disney to celebrate the second anniversary of my wife turning 29, and I'm going to be gone like 17 days or something ridiculous, and when I get back both Skyrim and Saint's Row 3 are going to be waiting for me, so I don't anticipate that November's going to be terribly productive.

December, however, I am cooking up another theme month. Let's just say you may not want to remember getting dismembered in December. Although you probably wouldn't be able to remember anything because you'd probably be dead after getting dismembered. Anyway, stay tuned.