Well, the Uncharted 2/Brutal Legend Duelist League week had an unprecedented number of fatalities at the hands of newcomer Stoned Sheep. Not only did he beat all challengers at mutliplayer (including yours truly), but he then went on to take humiliating still screenshots of him kicking the hell out of each and every opponent. Usually, this involved him holding onto a grenade launcher and his opponent being blown into small pieces. It was not pretty.
A few caveats: I started a match with Astro Nit. I beat him on the practice, then he won the first of three matches, and then he had to leave, so I gave him five points for coming out and mixing it up. Also, Eao and Stoned Sheep’s match apparently didn’t happen because of connectivity issues (Eao’s from Cairo? Wowza!).
So, Mr. Stoned Sheep rockets his way to the top of the leaderboard while everyone else if left to lick their wounds. Let’s take a look at what the new leaderboard looks like!
Gaming for 24 straight hours requires planning: a comfortable chair and clothes, a stack of unopened video games, a phone with pizza and Chinese take out numbers on speed dial, a crate of various power and energy drinks…the list goes on and on.
But it requires a game plan. The question was asked in a staff email the other day by Lesley, and I have compiled the list of games that the staffers here at SG are going to be tackling during Extra Life! Look us up, find us online: let’s get some major online parties going on.
We will also be updating a forum posting as we go throughout the day with our in-game plans, travels and exploits. Track where you can find us, make plans with us, etc. For example, I’ve already secured a four man fire team to go through all of the achievements in ODST for first thing Saturday morning, while Lono and the Lono-nauts will be tackling Call of Duty: World At War Zombie Map 3 over with Achievement Hunter.
Hit the jump for the list of games and the staffers playing them, complete with PSN IDs and Gamertags!
Okay, look. Just because I can’t draw any neat-o logos or graphics of your Xbox avatars in race jumpsuits and fancy sponsor stickers and whatnot doesn’t mean you can’t go get some in another racing game out there. The work UndeadDog has put into his Forza 3 racing league has, methinks, overshadowed plain ol’ vanilla Burnout from last week.
Here are the stats after last week’s competition!
Leaderboard: (as of October 13th):
Jus Blaze Man02: 2 W/0 L, 135 XP
TinyButDeadly: 2 W/0 L, 125 XP
PurpleDemon: 2 W/1 L, 120 XP
Yamster:1 W/0 L, 115 XP
BlinkinCard: 1 W/1 L, 100 XP
Shanghai Six: 1 W/1 L, 100 XP
NuclearNinja: 0 W/1 L, 90 XP TomCoopz: 0 W/1 L, 85 XP
Otacon91: 0 W/1 L, 85 XP
Pikminguts92: 0 W/1 L, 85 XP
IceKatanaX: 0 W/1 L 80 XP
SmellyPirate: 0 W/1 L, 75 XP
If you’ve haven’t checked it out, take at look at the Gamernights forum and check out the Forza 3 race series that UndeadDog is putting on (here’s the link). Pretty wizza stuff; too bad I’m not a racing guy.
Back into the mix bag we go, and out we pull a fighting game! Street Fighter IV, the perfect freestanding arcade, I’ve-got-next, put-your-quarter-on-the-screen challenge game, seems to me.
RULES: 1) Each week, look for the thread in the Official Sarcastic Gamer Gamenights forum for the stickied Duelist League thread (here’s the sign up link!). If a game is not listed for the systems you own (Wii, PC), you may choose one game for one of these systems and challenge someone else with it, but you’ll only be able to get one match that week.
2) Post in the thread that you own the game and that you are looking for a fight.
3) Pick a fight with another SG member who has registered on the thread. You can only challenge that member once a week. The details (time, place, system, game type) of the match are up to the two combatants.
4) All combatants start at 100 experience points. Both players agree to a wager on how many points they are playing for. Max wager is 25 points, and you cannot go below 5 points (so someone can work their way back up if they are knocked out). Not only will win/loss be registered, but the experience point tally will be kept as well.
5) The results of the match are posted on the thread.
6) WE HAVE PRIZES. Top duelists will be rewarded with forum titles, avatars, bragging rights, serving wenches, and yes, now top finishers will receive prizes. It won’t be for points cards like Summer Games was, but you’ll still walk away with something if you finish respectably well on the leaderboards.
As a public service announcement, I feel it’s important to point out that the cheater OsamaGamer had to change his name to TinyButDeadly, most likely because people know him as a cheating cheater and he had to change his stupid cheating name. Did you know he had a modded PS3 controller which makes him more awesome than me at Killzone 2? His soundly thrashing me in our match makes me suspect foul play…of the cheating variety.
He may have bested me here, but we’ll see who’s laughing when I defeat him at Nobi Nobi Boy. (more…)
Well, sometimes the best way to get something started is to just jump head first in and hash out the details on the way down.
Seeing as Summer Games was such a hit, figured I’d try a little different angle to keep the spirit going in between events. Alongside the usual gamernights, we start doing weekly duelist matches. It’s two players, heads up against one another.
So let’s give this a try and see where it goes:
1) Each week, look for the thread in the Official Sarcastic Gamer Night forum to see which game is the week’s challenge game for which systems.
2) Post in the thread that you own the game and that you are looking for a fight.
3) Pick a fight with another SG member who has registered on the thread. You can only challenge that member once a week. The details (time, place, system, game type) of the match are up to the two combatants.
4) All combatants start at 100 experience points. Both players agree to a wager on how many points they are playing for. Max wager is 25 points, and you cannot go below 5 points (so someone can work their way back up if they are knocked out). Not only will win/loss be registered, but the experience point tally will be kept as well.
5) The results of the match are posted on the thread.
6) While prizes have not been announced, top duelists will be rewarded with forum titles, avatars, bragging rights, serving wenches, etc.
I know title says Red Faction and the picture says Call of Duty 4. You’re not going crazy (yet.) We were planning for a Call of Duty 4 event, but the PAX aftermath mucked that up. This is the picture we had ready, and we didn’t want to pay the monkey to make another.
This week, we have Red Faction: Guerrilla and The Beatles: Rock Band.
Closing Ceremonies for the 14th Annual First Annual Sarcastic Gamer Summer Games!
The 14th annual first annual Sarcastic Gamer Summer Games event: IT IS OVER!
This year’s closing ceremony was unlike any other (primarily because there have never been any other), with Mission Critical Studios CEO Dave Gonzalez singing a stirring rendition of the Swedish national anthem.
Author’s Note: Yes, I am going to be on a Mission Critical Studios/Dave Gonzalez kick for awhile. Sorry in advance as I this out of my system. Here’s why.
Wanna win some filthy lucre? Some Microsoft or PSN points? Then read on, stout yeoman! It’s the Gamernight I think we’ve all been waiting for. Week 4 of Sarcastic Gamer Summer Games continue with freakin’ Overweight Duchess! Portly Baroness?
I I think this is going to be TEH EPIX.
