I'm moving there. I feel that Blogger is not keeping up with the times, and that its functionality is very limited.
This blog will still remain here. There are many links in posts that I have made that links to this blog. I will post the same things on both blogs, but I really recommend that you follow me on Tumblr.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Do you like my shoes? I’m wearing it in my Facebook profile picture, if you’re wondering how the overall look might be like.
posted @ 12:49 AM
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Thursday, February 04, 2010
Its that time again, where I bring you updates on the games I've been playing, and my progress so far.In my previous Fallout 3 update, I said that I was just going to play Mass Effect and Batman: Arkham Asylum. Well, plans change, and I'm adding Modern Warfare 1 and 2 to that list. I'll most likely have to add another 1 or 2 more games to that list again as well, and I'm considering either Mass Effect 2 or Gears of War. I'm leaning more towards Gears of War because its better to play an entirely new game since it'll give me a wider scope of the games out there.
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Mass Effect is created by the same people who brought us Dragon Age: Origins, so the same high standards are present in both games. However, the player's speech is voiced in Mass Effect, and chat isn't "what you see is what you get". Well what do I mean by this? In Dragon Age: Origins, if you choose to say something, then that's it. But in Mass Effect, you might choose to say "are you sure?", but once chosen the player will start to say something much longer and more developed, usually of the same meaning of what you chose to say. Notice I said usually. Sometimes I picked something, but the player decided to say something I wouldn't want to have picked.
Anyway, I chose to play as a ruthless spaceborn infiltrator. Ruthless spaceborn is just the character personality that I picked, and it hardly affects the game later on. This problem kind of exists in Dragon Age: Origins as well - your personality makes little difference as the game develops.
Picking infiltrator to be my class was a great choice. Most areas in the game are big enough for sniping to be effective, so that really made my life easy. Besides, its always much easier when you can snipe some idiot who doesn't want to come out of cover. I almost wanted to pick a biotic. Biotics use force, similar to the "force" in Star Wars. Push, pull, shield, blah blah.
I tried to get some downloadable content (DLC) for Mass Effect, but for some reason, after installing it, it didn't seem to work. The game said it doesn't not have any DLC installed. I tried to patch the game next, and it said Mass Effect wasn't installed. Er okay. Whatever. I got the Return to Ostagar DLC for Dragon Age: Origins though. You get to get the late King Cailan's armour. And Duncan's daggers. And you can choose to leave Cailan rotting at Ostagar. Lol! Oops, spoilers.
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I played Modern Warfare 1 next. Modern Warfare is what you'd expect from any Call of Duty game. Immersive, epic, and the feeling that you're in the game. I've never been disappointed by any Call of Duty game, and if Infinity Ward keeps this up, I don't think I'll ever will.
One of my favourite missions in Modern Warfare is the one where you play as Captain Price when he was a Lieutenant. You're a two man team with Captain Macmillon, and you're wearing this funny ghillie suits. Its really funny especially when you're supposed to run from cover to cover in a limited amount of time, because you look some like sort of swamp monster running around. ahahaha!
I'm also given many choices to whether I want to get around enemies stealthily, or to take them down stealthily. Its kind of annoying, because, Captain Macmillon also has a sniper rifle, and when there are two guards standing in front of me, I have to take them down both by myself without alerting one of the guards. Why can't we just shoot them both at the same time like in Modern Warfare 2?
Anyway, there was this part where you had to snipe the target from a really long distance, so you had to take into account the wind speed and direction, as well as the distance to target. Well I hit the target's shoulder, so his arm flew off. Pity so few games have such sniping circumstances.
The ending was kind of funny too. Did they really have to repeat the same situation in Modern Warfare 2 again? You and Price are badly injured, and you somehow manage to kill the enemies in an epic sort of way. Then help arrives. Meh. (I haven't played MW2 yet by the way. I've seen all I know about it from Xfire Live Stream.)
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Batman: Arkham Asylum was a surprising one for me. I've always had the idea that games made out of movies/books/etc are just plain horrible, so I'd never imagine this game to be that good. To give you the best idea of what it plays like, I'd say its like Assassin's Creed in a future timeline.
Batarangs, explosive gel and grappling hooks are just a few things that Batman has in his arsenal. Batman isn't as invulnerable as you'd want him to be, so you have to be careful who you want to pick a fight with, especially if they're armed or a super mutant. What's really good about this game is the fighting system. To be honest, its one of the best melee fighting systems I've seen so far. It's dynamic and fluid, so fighting never seems to be out of place or broken in some way. Well I can't really explain it properly. You have to try it or watch it. I'll put a video up for you to watch.
I can't seem to think of much to say about the game, even though it never has a rating below 9/10. I'll just say what the story is. Basically, you've caught Joker and brought him into Arkham Asylum, and things go horribly wrong. Joker has been planning to be caught for a really long time, and now, he's put his plan into action. He has got the help of certain people, and he's looking for the formula to make a toxin which turns people into large mutants with super strength. So, you're off to stop Joker, who leaves many clues and continuously goads you to try to stop him.
Okay, first video is how fighting is like, and second video is what a day in the game is like.
posted @ 8:05 PM
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
I’ve never really liked answering that question. I usually reply with the name of my condominium, but that’s really not a good answer, because nobody really knows where each condominium really is.Actually, it wouldn’t be such a bad question if I stayed at a place which is well-known to many. However, looking at the map, I’ve come to realize that I really stay in the middle of nowhere. Take a look at the map I’ve attached. I stay near many areas that people would recognize immediately once they hear it, but I’m not near enough to really be considered “staying there”.
So, can anyone answer that question for me? Where do I stay?
posted @ 7:10 PM
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Hi: Greetings noble one!Ken: jere: lol ya it is a long show but a reallly nice one. hi: zzz yes peasant what do u want?
Hi: I seek audience with the king of the land of blankness!
ken: err... what? i guess i'm the king....
Jere: well.. whoever is Hi.. seems... eccentric..
Hi: I am a messenger from Roak! We kindly ask for an alliance with you, great and mighty one.
ken: jere: no hi is more than eccentric, he's an idiot! lol
ken: hi: an alliance u shall have, but what do i get in return?
Hi: That is wonderful news! I shall give this message to my king. For now, farewell!
Hi: And if you call me an idiot again, the Kingdom of Roak shall be at war with your tiny little village.
Hi: My King says that your blog is a pain in the butt to navigate.
Jere: Err..... This is weird, seriously, kenneth ban this toot from your box LOL
Hi: Ha! You underestimate the Kingdom of Roak. A puny little ban will not stop me...
ken: lol i don't really care... spam away hi. only thing u can do but not irritate me
Hi: Madness? This is Roak!
Hi: This is blasphemy! Thou shall not put blogs under my great name!
Jere: This is like watching roleplay amok
Hi: Foolish friends you have noble ally. He calls the life we're living roleplay? Indeed! More blasphemy!
Jere: seriously. if you got the guts come find me with a sword -.-... i got 5 to pick from.. and i aint kidding.
Hi: Oh really? I have the Legendary Sword of Truths, made my the finest blacksmith in the land. Those silly little swords you have will not scare me! Be gone! Spawn of Darkness!
Jere: Cough... wow...... sword of truth.... I'm.. so.. scared.....(cough, if only i really was)
Hi: Fool! You shall cease such retarded behaviour at once! Annoying indeed!
ken: lol glad to see u 2 are enjoying each other's company...
Hi: Enjoying? That man is a scourge upon your lands. You should drive him out at once!
ken: hi: lol juz ignore him... nothing to do anw
posted @ 4:47 PM
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Saturday, January 30, 2010
What a long title. Its a long post too.
Anyway, the usual bunch of us who usually hang out together in school decided to go hang out on 27 January. Seems like lots of people want to hang out before they go to the army sometime during the first week of February (hate spelling February). Its understandable anyway.
I was initially kind of annoyed by a few things about this outing. First, we had to meet at 9am, and since I've been waking up at 10:30am or later since the A's ended, waking up at 7:45am is a rather colossal change for me. I went to sleep a few hours earlier, and I didn't feel horrible at all, so its all good.
Second, they wanted to watch Tooth Fairy out of two better movies. IMDb is a highly reliable source of movie information, so when I saw the rating of 4.1/10, I was like, "ZOMG NO WAI!" I went to google for more reviews from other sources, and most of them didn't turn out good. We didn't watch a movie in the end, so its all good again. Lol.
Okay, time to go on to what we did.
We decided to meet at City Hall MRT, then make our way to Marina Square. I decided to take the bus route instead of the MRT, and I ended up getting stuck in the rush hour jams. Sigh. At least there's no squeeze in the bus I guess. Still had to stand during most of the trip though. I reached City Hall MRT at 9:15am, and the last guy arrived less than five minutes after me, so that's a great improvement from the other class outings.
Then we had to walk a really long distance to Marina Square (alright fine its not really long, but its still long anyway), and Kenneth was already there so we had to meet him there. According to Matthias, he brought "a few friends". Turned out that his "a few friends" was just one girl. Right. Girlfriend?
So Matthias starts getting worked up about how we're supposed to be hidden from view because we were going to go bowling, and we are all beginners at it. Its just one of his usual rants, so nothing really happened anyway. LOOOOOL.
It was around 9:30am then, and the bowling alley opens at 10am. So we ended up at McDonalds to have breakfast. Only Matthias ate anyway. I wanted to buy ice cream, but it wasn't ready yet. I ended up having a tummyache sometime later, so I didn't buy it later even though it was available. Matthias doesn't know who Yoda is.
So blah blah blah, we talked here and there, laughed at our stupidity and lameness, and then went to the bowling alley. We ended up taking some pictures outside the bowling alley, where there was a few murals on the wall. Apparently Matthias wanted us to stand in the pose mirroring the creatures on the wall, so err, that kind of felt stupid, but at least he doesn't upload pictures onto Facebook.
I didn't bring any sort of identification with me, so I ended up paying the adult rate. Its just 1 dollar more anyway. So we took our shoes and picked our balls. Initially I chose balls with numbers around 10. So we started bowling, many balls started flying in the air, many landed in the gutter, and some hit the pins. I was leading during the first half of the first game, then Matthias suddenly somehow just got this miraculous touch, and started flying past me. So the game ended, I came in second, we had fun, and a second game started. This time, Kenneth got a few strikes and spares initially, so I ended up starting at second placing. Then my hand kind of got tired while bowling, and I dropped to the smallest number there, which was 8. After a while, I managed to find the ball that was best for me, and I started owning with that ball. Balls started to strike head on in the middle, and I could target individual pins standing alone. Strikes and spares starting coming in for me, and I was on par with Kenneth. Then I got a spare on the 10th bowl. That helped me win. That concluded the bowling session for us, with me holding the highest score of 109. Matthias took videos of us bowling, but I doubt he's going to upload them anytime soon. I'd love to see the bowling again.
After that, it was lunch time, so we somehow ended up at KFC. I haven't ate there for quite a while. I bought this Ultimate Value Box thingy, which included a regular drink, mashed potato, 1 chicken, and 1 burger for $5.50. So we talked stuff again, and I said "hey, its Gaga again!" If you're wondering, Bad Romance was being played again, the first time in McDonalds. I talked with Zhong Sheng about some Facebook games, mostly about fighting bosses in Castle Age. But really, we were discussing what to do next. Movies was kind of eliminated because there wasn't exactly a good movie to watch, and someone already watched the good movies available. So, it was either billiards/pool (what the hell's the difference?) Somehow we ended up discussing what game to play, and pool just made a silent exit out of the discussion. With still no idea what game to play, we made our way to the LAN shop anyway.
Soooo, we reached the LAN shop (odd, I don't remember anything about the MRT trip from City Hall to Dhoby Ghaut, other then the time we were all looking at the map and I asked Kenneth if he needed a compass). It was four bucks for three hours, and the LAN shop has an authentic Frostmourne. I wanted to take a picture of it, but it was took dark. I can't transfer photos from my phone anymore anyway, new computer has no infrared/bluetooth. So we started off playing Counterstrike, the first map being the stupid AWP sniping map. Gosh I seriously hate that map. I've played on that map twice, and I've NEVER ever killed a single person there with the AWP. Something is seriously wrong. Anyway the map was changed soon enough, to that map with the swimming pool. That map was pretty fun, but somehow for some reason I just plain suck at Counterstrike. I didn't do too badly anyway, ending up with a 1:1 kill-death ratio, considering that I was in the team of two people and the other team had 3.
Then the map changed again, to the de_dust map. This time, bots were finally added, the gaming continued. We also played the map where we are mini people in a house (the kitchen to be exact). That didn't last long, and we changed to Warcraft 3 soon enough. At first we tried to play rabbits vs sheep, but that game is impossible to play fair with unbalanced teams. Skill level isn't going to overcome an extra player there. So we changed to Enfo's Team Survival. Yeah, one of my favourite maps in Warcraft 3. In fact, I think its my favourite map. I picked my favourite hero, the Cabalist (the one with the immolation). So at level 6 I started running around burning everything in sight, racking up the highest kills and the least deaths. Then at some point in the game, the creeps just started to do way too much damage to us for us to survive, so game over.
Somehow, I didn't give you some gaming background information about the group of five people. Well, all you really need to know is, two of us are experienced, while the other three are kind of new at the games. Not that new till they're totally stupid though. They can still get by. Better than some idiots you see around in WoW or Garena.
Since it was really fun, round 2 started. I picked a mage this time, the moon mage. Unfortunately, the moon mage is one of the harder characters in the game, so I ended up contributing crap for the game. I had the least kills in that round. The cooldowns were just too long. Well technically, I'm supposed to know when's the best time to use my spells, and that's why its a hard character to play. I can't just go around spamming skills just because I like them and that its a confirmed clearance of the area. I also learnt how to summon creeps using the spellbringer (the giant book on a pedestal), so that will be very useful for emergencies. Anyway, there was no proper end to that round, because the 3 hours of gaming was up. =(
So Enxuan (Kenneth's friend) said something like "that was fun although I suck". I didn't really bother much at first, but now I bother. Few girls play video games, even fewer play games like Counterstrike and Warcraft 3, and actually have fun. I've always made it up in my mind that I'd try to get engaged to a girl who's not totally against gaming, and if possible, even play a bit of games (hopefully with me). Damned lucky are the gamer guys who get such girls.
Apparently, we overshot by 6 minutes, so we had to pay an extra 50 cents. Ok... Sure. Right. That's how you afford your Frostmourne huh? HUH?
So we were wondering what to do next, and we ended up walking around two arcades. One in Dhoby Ghaut MRT, and another in Plaza Singapura. I have no idea why we did that.
Right after that Matthias, Zhong Sheng and I parted ways with Kenneth and Enxuan, since Kenneth had to buy a cake and present for his sister or something like that. Dunno.
So Matthias and Zhong Sheng wanted to take the shuttle bus from Plaza Singapura to somewhere nearer their house, but they couldn't find it, so we all just ended up taking the MRT. Chatted a bit about NS and Facebook games, then I stopped at Dover MRT. Apparently its better if I stop at Dover MRT and just walk home, so I decided to try it now. I ended up making a wrong turn, and I had to walk a bit more than I think I should have.
Then the next day, I woke up with an aching forearm and back. I need to start exercising soon so that my muscles ache while I'm at home rather than in camp where I can't rest just because of aching muscles.
And I want to play again! Lets go LAN again. Lol. The people in Garena suck. $10 for 10 hours? Nah just kidding. Not really kidding about the LAN again though. Playing alone gets boring, no matter how good the game.
Good memories deserved to be archived like this in full.
posted @ 11:46 AM
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Alright, I've just completed Fallout 3 a few hours ago. I don't know if its because I've played Assassin's Creed, Dragon Age: Origins, and GTA IV all in a row, but Fallout 3 didn't seem that great at all. Maybe its because I cheated, but I really doubt what I cheated with should make such an impact at all. If you're wondering what cheats I used, wonder no more! I changed my move speed from 4 to 10, I turned on god mode, and I gave myself a magnum that killed everything in one shot. All I really did was just to speed things up. I couldn't imagine walking across the Wasteland at the normal speed. I'd most likely fall asleep doing that. The combat isn't anything great too, so I cut the crap out. In fact, this allowed me to spend more points into things that does not affect my combat directly. I could invest more in speech, science, lock picking, and perks like "child at heart", "lady killer", and other similar perks. This opened up many more interesting things that I could do, so I have to say I experienced more in one game than the non-cheater would have.I think what really spoiled the game for me is the fact that I kept getting lost. It is very likely that this is attributed to my move speed being more than two times normal, so I missed many side paths while traveling around. You have absolutely no idea how often I kept getting lost, and I'll soon get really frustrated and annoyed, and that really killed how I felt about the game.
Next up, Mass Effect, Batman Arkham Asylum, Seasons 1-4 of Family Guy, then its probably time for me to leave this island.
The title of this post was originally "Game Updates & Life", but I have no idea what I was going to say about "Life", so I guess I'll stop here. I'm starting to suffer from short-term memory loss. I keep forgetting what I was going to say or do. Sigh.
posted @ 8:19 PM
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
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