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Friday, February 26, 2010
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Referring to a comment by someone:bloodelves88:Well whenever I blog, I blog for people I know and they know that I never play any console games at all, unless you count in the PSP. So there's no way I could have played Gears of War 2, and if you're some random person who somehow stumbled upon my blog, well, sorry about that.
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I really don’t mean to be THAT guy but I really just can’t help myself. Which Gears of War are you referring to? The first or the second? Either way your statement is ridiculous.
“The problem is, the screen is smaller, and the graphics is much worse (anything below cinematic... Read more...
That's a pretty long rant about my retarded expectations of gaming graphics. What I said was really just meant as a joke. Seriously? I compared video game graphics to a movie. You seriously expected to take that for real? Cloverfield has real people acting in it. Come on.
And graphics are always relative. When reviewing a game, you rate the graphics by comparing it to other games. If you want proof of this, I do a lot of game reviews. I don't go around giving games a graphics score of 2/10 or 5/10 just because of that statement I made. In fact, I'll give Gears of War a 9/10 or so. Heck, maybe 10/10, because you are right that Gears of War has revolutionary graphics. When I made that statement about anything below cinematic trailers or Final Fantasy movies is crappy graphics, I was being idealistic.
Lol, "blow my load" over graphics. I made one non-angry sentence about graphics, and you reply with 2 paragraphs full of angry, CAPITALIZED words. You're funny man. You're funny.
In fact, the whole point about this graphics thing is for me to explain why I'm getting sick from playing Gears of War. Its not as realistic as Cloverfield. I compared it to that movie because the camera movements are similar. I didn't bring up the topic of graphics for the sake of technology or gaming of any sort.
posted @ 3:11 pm
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Monday, February 22, 2010
I haven't made any wordy posts for quite a while now, so here is one. I'll be talking about Call of Duty: World At War and Mass Effect 2. This is possibly going to be the last of the game updates for a very long time. I did want to play Gears of War, but that game just gave me horrible headaches similar to those you get when you read while in a car. Its funny, because Kotaku made a post about headaches recently too. I might get around to playing it one day, but it'll definitely take a while. If you're wondering why I'm getting sick from Gears of War, the camera moves around Cloverfield style. The problem is, the screen is smaller, and the graphics is much worse (anything below cinematic trailers or Final Fantasy movies is crappy graphics).CoD: World at War isn't anything great, to be honest. It follows the older CoD 1 and CoD 2 games more closely than it follows Modern Warfare, and the whole World War 2 weaponry thing just isn't to my liking. What really annoyed me is that Nazi's or Japanese would just keep spawning until you get past a certain game trigger. Sure, killing them slowly does thin them out, but come on, watching 50 to 100 people pour out of a building is just annoying.
What I do like though, is flamethrowers. Yeah, you get to use flamethrowers in quite a number of missions, and since they have unlimited ammo and pretty much kills people once the fire touches them, it makes the game much easier.
I think the problem with Call of Duty games is that they start to become very repetitive and typical after you've played a lot of them, especially if you play them one after another. I played Modern Warfare 1 and 2, and World At War just within a month. This might be the reason why Modern Warfare 2 felt less epic than Modern Warfare 1, and World At War was just a pain in the ass to me.
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On the other hand, Mass Effect 2 is a masterpiece. Mass Effect 2 allows you to use your Mass Effect 1 save game to continue the story, and even though you might be tempted to download a random save game out there, I really suggest that you play Mass Effect 1 all over again and continue using that character. Its much more personal, and you'll feel a closer connection. Besides, when you use your Mass Effect 1 save file, its not only the major details like the survival of the council that will be brought over, but many other minute details that you might not even remember that would be brought over. People you've freed or killed will come back to jolt your memory one way or another, and when you remember who that person is, you'll have that moment of surprise.
One thing I'm not sure whether or not I like is the change to the weapons. More specifically, the ammo. In Mass Effect 1, you had unlimited ammo, but there was an overheating system that prevented you from shooting too much in a short period of time. Now, weapons will never overheat, but they now use thermal clips that quickly cool the weapon, and well, its just a fancy way to say that the gun uses ammo. Finding ammo isn't particularly difficult, but that doesn't mean that I can go around shooting like a maniac either. The reason why I may not really like this change is that the effectiveness of the sniper rifle is reduced. Its not reduced in the sense that its weaker, but the stronger rifles only have about 10 shots before you're out of ammo. Even then, these shots take off at least 90% of the life of the enemy, so its as good as a "one shot, one kill" thing because you can let your squad kill him off.
Speaking of squads, the AI of the squad has been significantly improved. In Mass Effect 1, they pretty much just stood there looking cool and killed the occasional enemy that decides to come too near (well technically they spent a lot of time dying and shooting at the air). Now, they take cover, use skills, and actively take part in combat, but that doesn't make your job any easier.
You can now explore the galaxy actively, probing planets to collect resources that you will use to upgrade both your squad and your ship. This is pretty much something that you have to do, or bad things will happen to you and your squad. I'm really just being vague and talking only about gameplay, because the story is something that you should really find out for yourself.
There we go. That's it. Don't know whether I'll have any time to play more games.
posted @ 6:59 pm
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
Woops, almost forgot to add a Valentine's Day picture this year. I guess since I don't go to school anymore, the whole atmosphere just isn't there. The fact that Chinese New Year is on the same day makes the atmosphere even less.
Well, Happy Valentine's Day!
posted @ 11:36 pm
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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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