Okay, let's totally drop the fact that Playstation All-Stars plays so much like Super Smash. I mean I can literally point out all of the similarities but I'm not going to because this blog isn't going to be about that. Instead, I'm going to talk mainly on most of the characters that I've played and actually liked, piss all over the ones I dislikes, and continue to tell you how much I enjoy watching Hades get demolished by two-dimensional creatures with pitchforks singing a cute little tune.
After playing through some of the characters that I actually know, I found Raiden to be my best. He' quick, he's got good range on him, and his third phase is freaking hilarious. Yeah, he's not that strong, however, that makes up for Colonel Radec. He might not be that quick when it comes to attacks, but boy he can sure bring some heavy damage. I also really enjoyed his third phase too.
Raiden's main special is that all of the characters are hidden underneath boxes with several other boxes added too. You must search and attack your enemies as they are crawling around with boxes covering them. Radec's special is more like Solid Snake's special in Brawl where he takes control of the entire screen and start shooting at his enemies. I prefer his more over Raiden's because at least I can get more kills that way rather than just finding everyone. However, with Raiden's special, the enemies aren't going to try to run away from you, they're pretty much immobile, despite that the computer is making them move sluggishly around for you to be skeptical about.
My boyfriend chose Kratos, and Nathan Drake, although Drake isn't that much liked by him as he does with Kratos. With Kratos... goddamnit, they made him cheap in certain ways that pisses me off. I understand that a lot of people like this guy but come on... he's got long range, he's got powerful attacks, his third phase, if you perform this well enough, can give you so many kills... It's unbelievable on what this guy can do and honestly, I feel like he's one of those "broken" characters. I haven't gotten around in playing online yet, do I dare say that there are many Kratos users out there? With Drake's, he's an average at best, but his first phase special is pretty weak. You basically have to time this perfectly well in order to do some heavy damage with it, otherwise, you just wasted it entirely. You also have to make sure it's at the same level as everyone, since the terrain of each level tends to change every so often.
That's the best thing about this game, unlike Super Smash, the background can literally change within a few minutes to something completely new. I mean you're in the Underworld at one moment, Hades is interacting with you guys by stunning you every so often. Then out of nowhere, these one-eyed, two-dimensional creatures with pitchforks comes down and begins attacking Hades, while also attacking you guys as well. These levels change between two games put together, and they really blend in well together.
My only complaint with this game is the constant annoying introductions that these characters have. Yeah, you can obviously skip them whenever you want, but if I have to hear Nathan say that he's not in Shambhala anymore, oh man.... It's funny the first two times, but then... that's when you want to beat the game with him in Arcade mode just to unlock more of his intros so you don't have to hear that again.
Oh, I didn't talk about the characters that I deeply didn't care for. I didn't get a chance to play as Sack Boy, but after watching my boyfriend play as him, I saw that he's nothing but a weak freaking character that can't do that much at all. And it's not like the boy wasn't trying, he really was. Sack Boy proved to be a useless character. Maybe over time, he could prove that he's worth playing as, but as of right now, the only thing I'm interested in with Sack Boy is mainly racing with them. The other character that proved to be really, really worthless was one that I played... Nariko. I'm sorry, as much as I really liked Heavenly Sword, I would have preferred her sister Kai over her. Nariko hardly did anything for me. I get that her first phase special is like Nathan's where you have to time it perfectly to connect, but hers is so slow, her second one isn't that much of an improvement either. I never managed to make it to phase three because that's just how much she sucked. Even with her attacks... Going from Raiden with 12 kills in a matter of three minutes to Nariko getting -4, that's horrible.
I will say, when I get the chance to own this game, I'll totally buy it and sit down and get to know more of who I'm good with, so I can't really go on much further. I mean I only got to play this game twice within a matter of two days and out of those two times, I really felt that Raiden and Radec were honestly the best characters out of the entire game. You guys might think otherwise, however, I found my calling with these guys, I've done the most damage and gotten the most kills with them... I think I found a good game so far.
Now... will I get to see familiar faces with DLC soon, or will we be disappointed?
>'-'<
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Friday, December 14, 2012
Metal Gear Phantom Pain?
So, recently there's been this new trailer for a game that's called "Phantom Pain," it shows two guys trying to escape from this hospital where gunmen are entering in it and killing all the patients around them. If you guys watched this trailer, you'd probably think that it's not Metal Gear because it's so different than most of the other games that they've released:
There's only one thing that's kinda bugging me about this whole thing and that is clearly...
The main guy of Phantom Pain, where at times we can actually see him, has a bandage around his face and a hook for a hand. He can hardly use his legs in this trailer because of the injuries he sustained from wherever. But if you look closely at the end of the trailer for Phantom Pain and take a look at Big Boss for Ground Zeroes, you can see a huge resemblance:
Big Boss from Ground Zeros, looking quite older than what he has looked like in previous MGS games.
No, he doesn't. This is what Big Boss looked like in Metal Gear Solid 4, having both hands intact. So what does this actually mean? It could mean that we're either in some dream of his, or he's hallucinated or something, but no, Big Boss doesn't have a hook for a hand.
Where would this have taken place? We already know how Big Boss got his eye taken out, thank you Ocelot, guy if this guy has his eye bandaged, then where does this take place? Did he re-injure it somehow? People were also mentioning that this could have been taken place during the Les Enfants Terribles, but then what's all of these killings going on? Who's the man that's helping the main character out?
Well, that's the only thing that is bothering me with this trailer, of course I'm not the only one bothered by it... There are other similarities that this trailer shows, such as the similar engine these games both used, the fact that there's a hidden word behind the "Phantom Pain" word when it shows, Moby Dick Studios is a company NO ONE has ever heard of...
Also, the texts that are popping up throughout the Phantom Pain trailer... take a deeper look at it...
>'-'<
There's only one thing that's kinda bugging me about this whole thing and that is clearly...
The main character:
The main guy of Phantom Pain, where at times we can actually see him, has a bandage around his face and a hook for a hand. He can hardly use his legs in this trailer because of the injuries he sustained from wherever. But if you look closely at the end of the trailer for Phantom Pain and take a look at Big Boss for Ground Zeroes, you can see a huge resemblance:
What the mysterious, injured man looks like in this trailer
Here's one more, of a much better shot for you:
They look nearly identical don't they? But earlier in the Phantom Pain trailer, we see the main character having a hook for a hand. Does Big Boss have one?
Where would this have taken place? We already know how Big Boss got his eye taken out, thank you Ocelot, guy if this guy has his eye bandaged, then where does this take place? Did he re-injure it somehow? People were also mentioning that this could have been taken place during the Les Enfants Terribles, but then what's all of these killings going on? Who's the man that's helping the main character out?
Well, that's the only thing that is bothering me with this trailer, of course I'm not the only one bothered by it... There are other similarities that this trailer shows, such as the similar engine these games both used, the fact that there's a hidden word behind the "Phantom Pain" word when it shows, Moby Dick Studios is a company NO ONE has ever heard of...
Also, the texts that are popping up throughout the Phantom Pain trailer... take a deeper look at it...
>'-'<
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Kills Count To Your Manhood, Boys
Another Call of Duty blog. I promise this will be the last one for a while. So, I'm playing the game online with my boyfriend only this time, no friend (due to work) and we're playing in team deathmatch. We're in a room filled with the most idiotic human beings that I've encountered in the game so far. What I heard from these guys, you honestly couldn't make up.
Of course, first thing these guys see in the lobby is my username. Whenever you see the word "Kitty" you can obviously tell there's a girl hiding behind that name. Unless you're probably one of those guys that likes to get everyone's hype up. They begin doing the most unoriginal thing towards me and start saying my name repeatedly. "Kitty, kitty, kitty. Here kitty. Kitty wanna play?" These guys kept at it, and once they realize that I'm ignoring them and only talking to the boy, they start to play that game where they think whatever I'm saying to someone is also being said to them. I get that everyone who's got a headset can talk to people, but really, shut up.
I'd mute them, however, I have sort of a funny thing about listening to idiots talk. Only to believe that maybe one day I could hear something different from people.
One of these guys just continued to think he'll break me or something by having me talk to him. I wasn't gong to give him or his annoying friends the satisfaction of actually responding to their immaturity. They continue making reckless and pathetic sexual shit towards me that I honestly could care less about. If you're going to try to hit on me, could you ditch anything that has to do with sex?
The guys also directed their attention towards my boyfriend by saying how horrible of a gamer he is, he's "got nothing" on him that's good. Why should I be with someone who can't play a game correctly? I'm better off with a guy who can supply.
I think my favorite one is this: "Kitty, you's boyfriend got less kills dan you. How's dat? You're a girl! Girls aren't supposed to be good in video games! Fuck dat shit!"
Yes, because gender plays a crucial role in how good you are in a first-person shooter.
Oh my goodness gracious, towards the very last round that we managed to play while sucking up the tolerance with these guys, the one that said the girl comment was just getting angrier and angrier. He was getting all pissed off at me that I was ignoring what he was saying, but was telling my boyfriend what he was saying, since my boyfriend put them all on mute. This guy, by the end of the round, was like this: I know you’re fucking hearing what I fucking have to fucking say you fucking bitch. Fuck yo boyfriend and you, you fucking bitch. Your boyfriend has no bawls, you have bawls in your fucking mouth.”
What in the Jebus-titty-fucking-Christ are you angry about? That I ignored every one of you come-ons? That your stupidity actually reached a level I didn't know existed? That you really think you could make me be pissed off at you?
Here's something that everyone should understand. I never take any video game seriously, like a life or death situation, unlike most people do. There's nothing to be angry about. Being frustrated about something is one thing, but being so angry about it, no... There's nothing to get angry about, and next time buddy, if you ever somehow come across this blog, if you really want a girl to pay attention to you in Call of Duty, try acting like a gentlemen, not a mentally challenged lunatic.
Even though that will never, ever happen.
>'-'<
Of course, first thing these guys see in the lobby is my username. Whenever you see the word "Kitty" you can obviously tell there's a girl hiding behind that name. Unless you're probably one of those guys that likes to get everyone's hype up. They begin doing the most unoriginal thing towards me and start saying my name repeatedly. "Kitty, kitty, kitty. Here kitty. Kitty wanna play?" These guys kept at it, and once they realize that I'm ignoring them and only talking to the boy, they start to play that game where they think whatever I'm saying to someone is also being said to them. I get that everyone who's got a headset can talk to people, but really, shut up.
I'd mute them, however, I have sort of a funny thing about listening to idiots talk. Only to believe that maybe one day I could hear something different from people.
One of these guys just continued to think he'll break me or something by having me talk to him. I wasn't gong to give him or his annoying friends the satisfaction of actually responding to their immaturity. They continue making reckless and pathetic sexual shit towards me that I honestly could care less about. If you're going to try to hit on me, could you ditch anything that has to do with sex?
The guys also directed their attention towards my boyfriend by saying how horrible of a gamer he is, he's "got nothing" on him that's good. Why should I be with someone who can't play a game correctly? I'm better off with a guy who can supply.
I think my favorite one is this: "Kitty, you's boyfriend got less kills dan you. How's dat? You're a girl! Girls aren't supposed to be good in video games! Fuck dat shit!"
Yes, because gender plays a crucial role in how good you are in a first-person shooter.
Oh my goodness gracious, towards the very last round that we managed to play while sucking up the tolerance with these guys, the one that said the girl comment was just getting angrier and angrier. He was getting all pissed off at me that I was ignoring what he was saying, but was telling my boyfriend what he was saying, since my boyfriend put them all on mute. This guy, by the end of the round, was like this: I know you’re fucking hearing what I fucking have to fucking say you fucking bitch. Fuck yo boyfriend and you, you fucking bitch. Your boyfriend has no bawls, you have bawls in your fucking mouth.”
What in the Jebus-titty-fucking-Christ are you angry about? That I ignored every one of you come-ons? That your stupidity actually reached a level I didn't know existed? That you really think you could make me be pissed off at you?
Here's something that everyone should understand. I never take any video game seriously, like a life or death situation, unlike most people do. There's nothing to be angry about. Being frustrated about something is one thing, but being so angry about it, no... There's nothing to get angry about, and next time buddy, if you ever somehow come across this blog, if you really want a girl to pay attention to you in Call of Duty, try acting like a gentlemen, not a mentally challenged lunatic.
Even though that will never, ever happen.
>'-'<
Thursday, November 29, 2012
You Mad Br--- Oh Shut UP!!!
I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty recently, and I cannot stop laughing at the people online that I randomly play with. These guys get so angry within a heartbeat, I cannot understand why that is. I'm going to go off on a limb here and tell you all that I don't really give a damn if I'm the best first-person shooter or not, I just like to play. The only time the game annoys me is when the damn lag starts acting up and I know I knifed someone first. However, I don't sit on my couch, screaming into my head set, "You fucking faggot" at least fifty times to one person that got a cheap shot on me.
Here's something I thought was really funny when I was playing with my boyfriend and a few other friends the other day, and I'm not trying to be racist here at all but you have to believe this is somewhat true. We recently discovered that if you're a gay black man, the online folks will love you. The amount of times I heard the words "faggot" and "nigger" pop up was astronomical. I'm not sure if they really truly believe that all the people they play against is black, or they think that the word serves other purposes. I was just hoping that they would change their vocabulary soon. But unfortunately, they never did, which disappointed me because I really wanted to hear something different.
Actually, I take that back, someone actually called me a "fucking slut" because I knifed them in the back while playing "Sticks and Stones." Sorry mate, you left yourself open... I always say that to myself when I get someone with a knife. It's too funny, well for me that is.
I don't know why these two words have to repeat themselves, especially the word "nigger." I can tell when I'm playing against someone that is black because they have a distinct voice, however, when I know I'm playing against a bunch of nerdy ten-year-olds, there's no way one of them has to be black, so using the word "nigger" serves absolutely no purpose. And even when there is a black person in the game, they honestly don't get offended by it, why? Well, simple, they obviously don't take shit from other people, just like me.
I've been called a "bitch" before all because I was in the lead as a very low level. I'll admit, it's really fun taking any of the top three places while being an extremely low level user, and it probably hurts a lot of people's feelings when they see that. But you know, calling me a "bitch" because I'm better than you doesn't make any difference whatsoever, nor does it bother me. It just shows that you can't handle someone being better than you. It's quite laughable to hear the mad reactions from these users becuase honestly, they get so fucking pissed off that it's great. I just sit back, put my headset on mute, and just hear all the shit these guys throw out of their mouths. At times I want to respond to them, but I know it's totally not worth it because I know how it's going to go down:
I say something that makes them aware that they're getting so angry over a video game, they'll either respond back to me that I'm a fucking whore who needs to go back into the kitchen or just shout some more profanity with them thinking that it's really hurting my widdle feelings.
When I hear something that's absolutely original is when I'll actually start caring about the name callings, but I haven't heard anything new from any of these guys. When you overuse the words "fuck," "faggot," "bitch," "nigger," and "asshole," they really don't affect me that much as you think it should be. I just normally shake my head, laugh a bit, and go hunt down some more people who have a hard time understanding that it's just a game.
I have yet to hear anyone use the phrase, "you mad bro?" I'm waiting for someone to use it... or is this the wrong game to hear that?
Here's something I thought was really funny when I was playing with my boyfriend and a few other friends the other day, and I'm not trying to be racist here at all but you have to believe this is somewhat true. We recently discovered that if you're a gay black man, the online folks will love you. The amount of times I heard the words "faggot" and "nigger" pop up was astronomical. I'm not sure if they really truly believe that all the people they play against is black, or they think that the word serves other purposes. I was just hoping that they would change their vocabulary soon. But unfortunately, they never did, which disappointed me because I really wanted to hear something different.
Actually, I take that back, someone actually called me a "fucking slut" because I knifed them in the back while playing "Sticks and Stones." Sorry mate, you left yourself open... I always say that to myself when I get someone with a knife. It's too funny, well for me that is.
I don't know why these two words have to repeat themselves, especially the word "nigger." I can tell when I'm playing against someone that is black because they have a distinct voice, however, when I know I'm playing against a bunch of nerdy ten-year-olds, there's no way one of them has to be black, so using the word "nigger" serves absolutely no purpose. And even when there is a black person in the game, they honestly don't get offended by it, why? Well, simple, they obviously don't take shit from other people, just like me.
I've been called a "bitch" before all because I was in the lead as a very low level. I'll admit, it's really fun taking any of the top three places while being an extremely low level user, and it probably hurts a lot of people's feelings when they see that. But you know, calling me a "bitch" because I'm better than you doesn't make any difference whatsoever, nor does it bother me. It just shows that you can't handle someone being better than you. It's quite laughable to hear the mad reactions from these users becuase honestly, they get so fucking pissed off that it's great. I just sit back, put my headset on mute, and just hear all the shit these guys throw out of their mouths. At times I want to respond to them, but I know it's totally not worth it because I know how it's going to go down:
I say something that makes them aware that they're getting so angry over a video game, they'll either respond back to me that I'm a fucking whore who needs to go back into the kitchen or just shout some more profanity with them thinking that it's really hurting my widdle feelings.
When I hear something that's absolutely original is when I'll actually start caring about the name callings, but I haven't heard anything new from any of these guys. When you overuse the words "fuck," "faggot," "bitch," "nigger," and "asshole," they really don't affect me that much as you think it should be. I just normally shake my head, laugh a bit, and go hunt down some more people who have a hard time understanding that it's just a game.
I have yet to hear anyone use the phrase, "you mad bro?" I'm waiting for someone to use it... or is this the wrong game to hear that?
Friday, November 16, 2012
Twilight Ruined Vampires... Obviously.
It's sad to see such a cool race go down in history as a mockery all due to some love book girls are so mad over. I don't understand the success over Twilight, maybe it's because I was never a fan and never will be. So some whimpy, skinny white boy who happens to be a vampire is suddenly in love with a human. That's all I know about Twilight, oh, and there's some weird love triangle, of course, going on with some wolfman. Ugh, damnit! This is ridiculous, I can't enjoy any games that has vampires in them all because of this shitty book.
The series that I can no longer enjoy anymore is the Legacy of Kain series.
Back in the 90s, this game was freaking cool, getting to play as a vampire, sucking blood from humans and kicking ass. And then when they introduced Raziel to the scene, oh ho, you're an undead vampire sucking souls from your jawless body. Raziel was one of the coolest characters I've ever played in the past, and now, all because of this damn book, I can't enjoy my time playing any of the games. All I keep thinking is if there's going to be some random twist in the game where Raziel falls in love with a human and try to keep her away from Kain's destruction. However, I know this won't happen because I've played through the entire game before, still, I keep thinking this, and it's pathetic.
Vampires used to be a cool species to play around with becuase they were terrifyingly awesome. I mean, there were so many vampire movies and stories that weren't about some stupid romance between them and a human. But because of this book, it's now being flooded everywhere with love and compassion. They're being overused in the same kind of direction with Twilight as much as the zombies are being overused. Come on, where's the fun in this? I can't find any.
I'm sorry to say this, but I can't find any kind of enjoyment with the Legacy of Kain series due to this book, and it sickens me that I say this because the series used to be my favorite series in the past. Granted that there will never be another game for it (due to several voice actors didn't want to continue and the death of Tony Jay (the Elder God)) still, it never hurts me to play it again just for funzeis, however I can't enjoy it anymore thanks to that stupid book.
Hopefully, this Twilight obsession amongst the fans can fade away by next year. As long as the movies are done for, seriously... I want to enjoy vampires as much as I wanted to again.
>'-'<
The series that I can no longer enjoy anymore is the Legacy of Kain series.
Back in the 90s, this game was freaking cool, getting to play as a vampire, sucking blood from humans and kicking ass. And then when they introduced Raziel to the scene, oh ho, you're an undead vampire sucking souls from your jawless body. Raziel was one of the coolest characters I've ever played in the past, and now, all because of this damn book, I can't enjoy my time playing any of the games. All I keep thinking is if there's going to be some random twist in the game where Raziel falls in love with a human and try to keep her away from Kain's destruction. However, I know this won't happen because I've played through the entire game before, still, I keep thinking this, and it's pathetic.
Vampires used to be a cool species to play around with becuase they were terrifyingly awesome. I mean, there were so many vampire movies and stories that weren't about some stupid romance between them and a human. But because of this book, it's now being flooded everywhere with love and compassion. They're being overused in the same kind of direction with Twilight as much as the zombies are being overused. Come on, where's the fun in this? I can't find any.
I'm sorry to say this, but I can't find any kind of enjoyment with the Legacy of Kain series due to this book, and it sickens me that I say this because the series used to be my favorite series in the past. Granted that there will never be another game for it (due to several voice actors didn't want to continue and the death of Tony Jay (the Elder God)) still, it never hurts me to play it again just for funzeis, however I can't enjoy it anymore thanks to that stupid book.
Hopefully, this Twilight obsession amongst the fans can fade away by next year. As long as the movies are done for, seriously... I want to enjoy vampires as much as I wanted to again.
>'-'<
Monday, November 5, 2012
Decapitating Confusion Of Zombie Killings
I dunno, I'm debating whether or not it's worth having Resident Evil 6 as a present for me when my birthday comes up. I mean, I am a fan of the series, no doubt about that, but the last two games that recently came out for the series, I wasn't a big fan of them. I'm pretty sure you've all read my review about Operation: Raccoon City, and I haven't really played that much of the fifth game due to the lackluster additions that they provided in the game.
I guess I just don't want to be disappointed again. The game has obviously gone away from what it used to be, I get that, and I'm not really that bothered by it. However, at least don't design the game to where it freaking sucks like the fifth game. I'm sorry, but I was not happy when I found out that they had to censor a few things since the fourth game was that scary towards some people. I didn't like that.
Of course, you can tell that I'm against censorship. So Leon gets his head decapitated by Dr. Salvador, a character I've come to be afraid of when I hear him coming. Now, when Chris or Sheva gets their heads decapitated... you don't see it... at all... why? Because people thought that it was too fucking scary in the previous game to continue having it here.
Seriously? You have games like God of War and Manhunt existing and you think a puny head decapitation is really scary? Okay. I thought that the fifth game was going to double what the fourth had... despite that I'm not that big of a fan of the Redfields. Still, it wouldn't have killed to leave that in untouched.
It's things like that minor detail that makes me want to see if the sixth game is really worth getting into.
>'-'<
I guess I just don't want to be disappointed again. The game has obviously gone away from what it used to be, I get that, and I'm not really that bothered by it. However, at least don't design the game to where it freaking sucks like the fifth game. I'm sorry, but I was not happy when I found out that they had to censor a few things since the fourth game was that scary towards some people. I didn't like that.
Of course, you can tell that I'm against censorship. So Leon gets his head decapitated by Dr. Salvador, a character I've come to be afraid of when I hear him coming. Now, when Chris or Sheva gets their heads decapitated... you don't see it... at all... why? Because people thought that it was too fucking scary in the previous game to continue having it here.
Seriously? You have games like God of War and Manhunt existing and you think a puny head decapitation is really scary? Okay. I thought that the fifth game was going to double what the fourth had... despite that I'm not that big of a fan of the Redfields. Still, it wouldn't have killed to leave that in untouched.
It's things like that minor detail that makes me want to see if the sixth game is really worth getting into.
>'-'<
Friday, October 26, 2012
Can Never Be Spotted!
I am terrible at stealth games. Let me tell you why:
So, you see that there are soldiers in the area that you're in, and you somehow memorized their walking patterns. However, there's always a chance you'll miss their heads with a headshot, or there's one lonesome soldier standing in an area that you cannot see from where you're standing.
You missed the shot, the soldier gets alerted, tells his comrades around him, and they're on high alert.
You get caught with that soldier that you couldn't see, now you're being chased everywhere until you kill them all, or you somehow escaped with your life intact.
This ALWAYS happens to me, and yet, I still continue playing these games. Metal Gear Solid is one of those games.Dishonored is another. Tenchu is a perfect example of a game I truly suck at.
Metal Gear Solid is fairly simple in making sure that you don't get caught because the soldiers are on a path that you have to wait until the soldiers turn their back onto you. However, the latest Metal Gear Solid game, the fourth one, things aren't so easy. The soldiers don't have memorized patterns that much, especially in the first act because you're in the middle of a war. No matter where I end up going, I somehow get caught, and it's because those soldiers somehow come out from a place I thought I'd be safe in hiding, but no matter where I go, there's two soldiers that walk around the corner and spot me.
Damnit!
Dishonored, a game I just beat, is another example on why I suck at stealth. You're in a large area with several guards roaming around the area. Of course, you haven't gotte an upgrade with your mask yet, so you can zoom in to get a better look around the place. So, you're stuck aiming really far toawrds a guard. You have less then ten arrows in your hands to shoot at the guards, and of course, somehow you managed to aim at the head and they landed in the torso. The gaurds are on high alert, and just because you're standing still on a rooftop, you get spotted, just like that.
What the fuck!?
Tenchu is the last game I'll bring in for an example. You're playing as a ninja and have to get to one point of the level to the other without getting spotted, without killing the innocents, avoiding the pitfalls, and just managing to be alive throughout the entire level. I get off gaurd when there's two soldiers around and I don't see the first guy. I mean, I hear him walking around the area, the meter that alerts you if an enemy is near by is flashing and the icon is getting bigger and bigger. But for some reason, I just can't find this guy, but he finds me. So I get spotted, and the "Grand Master" title is officially lost right after there.
Oh Sonofabitch!
Yeap, it's official, I suck at stealth... Probably have happened to you, but hey, these games are still super duper fun to play every now and then.
>'-'<
So, you see that there are soldiers in the area that you're in, and you somehow memorized their walking patterns. However, there's always a chance you'll miss their heads with a headshot, or there's one lonesome soldier standing in an area that you cannot see from where you're standing.
You missed the shot, the soldier gets alerted, tells his comrades around him, and they're on high alert.
You get caught with that soldier that you couldn't see, now you're being chased everywhere until you kill them all, or you somehow escaped with your life intact.
This ALWAYS happens to me, and yet, I still continue playing these games. Metal Gear Solid is one of those games.Dishonored is another. Tenchu is a perfect example of a game I truly suck at.
Metal Gear Solid is fairly simple in making sure that you don't get caught because the soldiers are on a path that you have to wait until the soldiers turn their back onto you. However, the latest Metal Gear Solid game, the fourth one, things aren't so easy. The soldiers don't have memorized patterns that much, especially in the first act because you're in the middle of a war. No matter where I end up going, I somehow get caught, and it's because those soldiers somehow come out from a place I thought I'd be safe in hiding, but no matter where I go, there's two soldiers that walk around the corner and spot me.
Damnit!
Dishonored, a game I just beat, is another example on why I suck at stealth. You're in a large area with several guards roaming around the area. Of course, you haven't gotte an upgrade with your mask yet, so you can zoom in to get a better look around the place. So, you're stuck aiming really far toawrds a guard. You have less then ten arrows in your hands to shoot at the guards, and of course, somehow you managed to aim at the head and they landed in the torso. The gaurds are on high alert, and just because you're standing still on a rooftop, you get spotted, just like that.
What the fuck!?
Tenchu is the last game I'll bring in for an example. You're playing as a ninja and have to get to one point of the level to the other without getting spotted, without killing the innocents, avoiding the pitfalls, and just managing to be alive throughout the entire level. I get off gaurd when there's two soldiers around and I don't see the first guy. I mean, I hear him walking around the area, the meter that alerts you if an enemy is near by is flashing and the icon is getting bigger and bigger. But for some reason, I just can't find this guy, but he finds me. So I get spotted, and the "Grand Master" title is officially lost right after there.
Oh Sonofabitch!
Yeap, it's official, I suck at stealth... Probably have happened to you, but hey, these games are still super duper fun to play every now and then.
>'-'<
Saturday, October 13, 2012
I Made A Widow For Killing Someone
Dishonored is a game I just got not too long ago and man oh man, it's fucking awesome. I mean, here you are playing as Corvo, a man who is being framed for killing the Empress who must show that he wasn't the killer by getting back at those who betrayed him...
But there's more to that than just revenge, you get to have magic powers and different outcomes of the game. I LOVE when a game features different outcomes!!! You see, you can either be really ruthless with your enemies and just slaughter them, and I do mean "slaughter." You don't just get to slice and dice people, you can really do some damage with your weapons. Here, I toss a grenade from such a high distance that it literally chops the poor sap into pieces. Their limbs fly everywhere and you can actually pick them up, to distract the guards and such... You can even play soccer with decapitated heads by sliding into them. But getting back to the outcomes, if you slaughter these guys, the darker the city becomes, which means more rats will start eating upon the bodies, even the unconscious ones if they're in sight. However, if you don't kill these people, you can make the city a bit nicer, which is also giving you the best ending of the game. Yeah, the ending depends on whether you're a killing machine, or a knock out ninja.
I hate stealth, but it's your number one best friend in the entire game. I somehow always stumble every now and then with an arrow getting shot into the torso of my enemies instead of their heads. Every now and then, when you make a great shot towards them with your crossbow, the camera zooms in on that arrow and just springs right into a guy. This is the only game I know that decapitates enemies with flying arrows. You also have grenades, proximity mines that you stick onto walls that just slices your enemies into pieces. Your arrows can either have a normal effect to them, a sleeping effect, or an incendiary effect to them. You also have a gun as well.
Now, I mentioned that you have magical powers. You can actually complete the game and receive a trophy by NOT buying any of these moves. But you can teleport, possess animals/humans, rise a swarm of rats to devour nearby enemies, see through walls, and stop time. You can also improve yourself by upgrading your health and weapons by collecting bone charms and money. Bone Charms gives Corvo something special such as slicing rats gives you more adrenaline, drinking from a sink restores more health, those kinds of things. Collecting money throughout the game can help you give Corvo upgrades on his mask and weapons. Your friends can help you with that.
Yeah...
Anyways, these missions that you go on are just so fun, and running and slaughtering and just being a total badass is always fun. I know I'm going to get the bad ending because I'm killing almost everyone in my sights except for the innocents. However, I will replay the game to get the better ending and know what to do and such while NOT killing people in my way... That's going to be really tough. You can kill the enemies that you have to kill, there are also nonlethal ways to do it as well, but hey, being bad is just as good as being good, right?
Right.
>'-'<
But there's more to that than just revenge, you get to have magic powers and different outcomes of the game. I LOVE when a game features different outcomes!!! You see, you can either be really ruthless with your enemies and just slaughter them, and I do mean "slaughter." You don't just get to slice and dice people, you can really do some damage with your weapons. Here, I toss a grenade from such a high distance that it literally chops the poor sap into pieces. Their limbs fly everywhere and you can actually pick them up, to distract the guards and such... You can even play soccer with decapitated heads by sliding into them. But getting back to the outcomes, if you slaughter these guys, the darker the city becomes, which means more rats will start eating upon the bodies, even the unconscious ones if they're in sight. However, if you don't kill these people, you can make the city a bit nicer, which is also giving you the best ending of the game. Yeah, the ending depends on whether you're a killing machine, or a knock out ninja.
I hate stealth, but it's your number one best friend in the entire game. I somehow always stumble every now and then with an arrow getting shot into the torso of my enemies instead of their heads. Every now and then, when you make a great shot towards them with your crossbow, the camera zooms in on that arrow and just springs right into a guy. This is the only game I know that decapitates enemies with flying arrows. You also have grenades, proximity mines that you stick onto walls that just slices your enemies into pieces. Your arrows can either have a normal effect to them, a sleeping effect, or an incendiary effect to them. You also have a gun as well.
Now, I mentioned that you have magical powers. You can actually complete the game and receive a trophy by NOT buying any of these moves. But you can teleport, possess animals/humans, rise a swarm of rats to devour nearby enemies, see through walls, and stop time. You can also improve yourself by upgrading your health and weapons by collecting bone charms and money. Bone Charms gives Corvo something special such as slicing rats gives you more adrenaline, drinking from a sink restores more health, those kinds of things. Collecting money throughout the game can help you give Corvo upgrades on his mask and weapons. Your friends can help you with that.
Yeah...
Anyways, these missions that you go on are just so fun, and running and slaughtering and just being a total badass is always fun. I know I'm going to get the bad ending because I'm killing almost everyone in my sights except for the innocents. However, I will replay the game to get the better ending and know what to do and such while NOT killing people in my way... That's going to be really tough. You can kill the enemies that you have to kill, there are also nonlethal ways to do it as well, but hey, being bad is just as good as being good, right?
Right.
>'-'<
Monday, October 8, 2012
Butt Stallions!
Yeap, from that name I'm sure those who already played Borderlands 2 knows where it comes from. Got my Playstation back. Turns out the laser was the problem so they fixed it AND gave me two gelpads for my joysticks. It's just the number six logo from Resident Evil 6. Turned one of them into a nine so I got sixty-nine on my sticks. Heh!
Anyways, so far, I'm liking what I've been seeing with Borderlands 2. I'm not really digging the whole Maya character as much because I feel that she's just utterly weak compared to Lilith. That or I'm just finding myself entering a bunch of group shootings and getting my butt tossed around like a rag doll or whatever. I do say though that having her special giving me health if I kill the guy in the orb is a bit helpful in these situations.
I'm really liking the improvements they have with the jumping. Before, you're jumping on the moon, this time, you're not jumping as high or as slow. I also like how if you shoot down an enemy to around ten percent of his/her health, they walk slowly towards you, so it's not like they have infinite stamina. The car is also better improved, it doesn't feel like it always gets stuck to everything when you're driving.
I've only touched Maya and a little bit of Zer0, and they're real fun to play as. The other two characters I haven't experienced yet, although I got the boyfriend playing with me one day and he chose Salvador, he didn't really tell me what he thought about him.
Any who, the game is kind of in a slump right now because I'm doing side missions, not the main ones, I do like that you have an option on some of them. Would you rather turn in the mission to this guy or to this. Get this reward or that? It gives it more of a better feel for an RPG kind of thing, rather than do this mission, complete the mission, turn it in, reward. I mean, sure, that's what WoW does but, not every RPG needs to be like that game.
My review about Borderlands 2 is going to be a bit short because I haven't really experienced too much of the game. Sure you're bumping into characters from the first game, the new ones are welcomed into the Borderlands family, the hilarity is back, the new guns are awesome to shoot with... I'm also liking the whole, "reload this gun and they toss it out like a grenade towards the enemies." I thought that was a nifty new feature. I haven't come across any of the talking guns yet, but when I do, I think I'll be laughing my butt off like normal.
Annnnnnnnd.... that's it! What, you thought I was going to say "open?" What's there to open?
>'-'<
Anyways, so far, I'm liking what I've been seeing with Borderlands 2. I'm not really digging the whole Maya character as much because I feel that she's just utterly weak compared to Lilith. That or I'm just finding myself entering a bunch of group shootings and getting my butt tossed around like a rag doll or whatever. I do say though that having her special giving me health if I kill the guy in the orb is a bit helpful in these situations.
I'm really liking the improvements they have with the jumping. Before, you're jumping on the moon, this time, you're not jumping as high or as slow. I also like how if you shoot down an enemy to around ten percent of his/her health, they walk slowly towards you, so it's not like they have infinite stamina. The car is also better improved, it doesn't feel like it always gets stuck to everything when you're driving.
I've only touched Maya and a little bit of Zer0, and they're real fun to play as. The other two characters I haven't experienced yet, although I got the boyfriend playing with me one day and he chose Salvador, he didn't really tell me what he thought about him.
Any who, the game is kind of in a slump right now because I'm doing side missions, not the main ones, I do like that you have an option on some of them. Would you rather turn in the mission to this guy or to this. Get this reward or that? It gives it more of a better feel for an RPG kind of thing, rather than do this mission, complete the mission, turn it in, reward. I mean, sure, that's what WoW does but, not every RPG needs to be like that game.
My review about Borderlands 2 is going to be a bit short because I haven't really experienced too much of the game. Sure you're bumping into characters from the first game, the new ones are welcomed into the Borderlands family, the hilarity is back, the new guns are awesome to shoot with... I'm also liking the whole, "reload this gun and they toss it out like a grenade towards the enemies." I thought that was a nifty new feature. I haven't come across any of the talking guns yet, but when I do, I think I'll be laughing my butt off like normal.
Annnnnnnnd.... that's it! What, you thought I was going to say "open?" What's there to open?
>'-'<
Sunday, September 30, 2012
I Spoke Too Soon, But I Became A Farmer Instead
So, my Playstation wasn't fixed from it's reading issue, so it's back in the shop, delaying my Borderlands 2 play even more. But you know what? Tilling made it okay for me to not play the game for a while. You see, I'm going to be in some sort of WoW frenzy for quite some time, at least until the game begins to grow more of a tiresome towards me, and I have no idea when that's going to take place. However, it's not going to stop me from enjoying so much of the new features Mists of Pandaria shows.
The level cap is now 90, which is okay, so I get five more levels being added. However, I'm not really going to be digging the priests' new move. Void Shift. It's where me and some other player switch health bars for a moment. What? How is that supposed to help me when I'm not in a raid? Damnit, once again priests gets the suckier part of new additions. They never get good looking gear, and I really don't want to rely on transmogging all the time because my gear looks like I just walked out of a circus tent.
A new feature to this game is Tilling. We get to farm, and I found it to be quite an interesting little new feature, despite that I have to wait a day until my scallions grow to its fullness. However, I see that there are a lot of varieties going on with what we can farm, and I cannot wait until my farm grows even larger to experience this.
I am digging the quests and the story behind Mists of Pandaria, they definitely did things much better than Cataclysm. Lets be honest, Cataclysm really just wasn't remotely fascinating whatsoever and it was dreadfully boring. So yes, thumbs up for a new and improve story.
However, I am not digging this double teaming bullshit from the Alliance when I'm trying to do my quests. It seems that the Horde never plays together and the Alliance do. And when they do, they double team the lower leveled characters, mostly a healer and a dps. It pisses me off when I'm facing against a druid and a rogue because it's just not fair. And when you have someone camping the area, making it nearly impossible for you to just quest and not bother them, it just gets so darn annoying.
I hate it when it looks like I'm sucking, but honestly, it's not fair when you immediately attack someone when they just rez and their life and mana meters are down at half full half empty. I'm that kind of player who plays fair... unless you tick me off... then I'll just do the same thing to you if given the chance.
Anyways, yeah, I'm a Blood Elf shadow priest, almost 87 right now. I'm digging what I'm playing, and I WANT MY FREAKING PLAYSTATION BACK!!!
>'-'<
The level cap is now 90, which is okay, so I get five more levels being added. However, I'm not really going to be digging the priests' new move. Void Shift. It's where me and some other player switch health bars for a moment. What? How is that supposed to help me when I'm not in a raid? Damnit, once again priests gets the suckier part of new additions. They never get good looking gear, and I really don't want to rely on transmogging all the time because my gear looks like I just walked out of a circus tent.
A new feature to this game is Tilling. We get to farm, and I found it to be quite an interesting little new feature, despite that I have to wait a day until my scallions grow to its fullness. However, I see that there are a lot of varieties going on with what we can farm, and I cannot wait until my farm grows even larger to experience this.
I am digging the quests and the story behind Mists of Pandaria, they definitely did things much better than Cataclysm. Lets be honest, Cataclysm really just wasn't remotely fascinating whatsoever and it was dreadfully boring. So yes, thumbs up for a new and improve story.
However, I am not digging this double teaming bullshit from the Alliance when I'm trying to do my quests. It seems that the Horde never plays together and the Alliance do. And when they do, they double team the lower leveled characters, mostly a healer and a dps. It pisses me off when I'm facing against a druid and a rogue because it's just not fair. And when you have someone camping the area, making it nearly impossible for you to just quest and not bother them, it just gets so darn annoying.
I hate it when it looks like I'm sucking, but honestly, it's not fair when you immediately attack someone when they just rez and their life and mana meters are down at half full half empty. I'm that kind of player who plays fair... unless you tick me off... then I'll just do the same thing to you if given the chance.
Anyways, yeah, I'm a Blood Elf shadow priest, almost 87 right now. I'm digging what I'm playing, and I WANT MY FREAKING PLAYSTATION BACK!!!
>'-'<
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
My Playstation Returns!!! WoW!!!!
Today I get my Playstation back into my hands. After getting the disc drive repaired, it's finally time to play Borderlands 2. But there's one problem... Today is the release of World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, and you know what? I got back into the game.
Every now and then I have long breaks of the game because it just grows tiresome, but this time, I think I'm going to be having more time with the game since they have new features that seems like I'll be attached to the game a bit longer than playing it a few weeks or so. Also, I have Borderlands 2, and I really want to play that game... So, I think I might do it where I play WoW for one day, Borderlands the other day and so on and so on.
I'm also kinda in slump, I'm trying to do video reviews now instead of writing them, but I can't come around in making a good review... Well, the first one isn't really a review, it's more of a remembrance of a game series that I truly love and such.
Oh well, I'm sure this little Kitty will get it soo.
>'-'<
Every now and then I have long breaks of the game because it just grows tiresome, but this time, I think I'm going to be having more time with the game since they have new features that seems like I'll be attached to the game a bit longer than playing it a few weeks or so. Also, I have Borderlands 2, and I really want to play that game... So, I think I might do it where I play WoW for one day, Borderlands the other day and so on and so on.
I'm also kinda in slump, I'm trying to do video reviews now instead of writing them, but I can't come around in making a good review... Well, the first one isn't really a review, it's more of a remembrance of a game series that I truly love and such.
Oh well, I'm sure this little Kitty will get it soo.
>'-'<
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Borderlands 2 Comes Out This Tuesday!!!
I'm so excited and completely pissed off at the same time. Borderlands 2, one of three games that I am looking forward to on getting and I won't be able to play it immediately. You see, my Playstation 3 began to act up on me last week. I was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, wanted to play the story mode a little bit. I got through the first mission and all of a sudden, the characters are not talking to me or anything towards the end of the level. They're standing where they needed to be to finish the level and nothing is happening. So, I decided to shoot them down dead and restart from the checkpoint.
Friendly Fire Will Not Be Tolerated...
Okay I got that, but then the screen just remains frozen on that screen. Okay? So, I had nothing working with the controller and I had to turn off the Playstation from behind with the swtich. After everything restarted and such, I see no CD logo for Modern Warfare. I'm confused. Switched a game, put in Mortal Kombat 2011, and still no CD logo. I was confused more.
My Playstation games that are loaded on the system works fine, Netflix works fine... I waited a day to play another game on the Playstation and still no CD logo. Oh, there's an update for the system, I'll just update my system... No CD logo.
So, I have to wait for the damn thing to get repaired. Thankfully, no yellow light showed, so that's a good thing. However, I can't play my Borderlands 2 game and probably won't at all for this entire week.
Meh, I could potentially go to Six Flags this weekend, so there's a bit more of some happiness inside of me.
>'-'<
Friendly Fire Will Not Be Tolerated...
Okay I got that, but then the screen just remains frozen on that screen. Okay? So, I had nothing working with the controller and I had to turn off the Playstation from behind with the swtich. After everything restarted and such, I see no CD logo for Modern Warfare. I'm confused. Switched a game, put in Mortal Kombat 2011, and still no CD logo. I was confused more.
My Playstation games that are loaded on the system works fine, Netflix works fine... I waited a day to play another game on the Playstation and still no CD logo. Oh, there's an update for the system, I'll just update my system... No CD logo.
So, I have to wait for the damn thing to get repaired. Thankfully, no yellow light showed, so that's a good thing. However, I can't play my Borderlands 2 game and probably won't at all for this entire week.
Meh, I could potentially go to Six Flags this weekend, so there's a bit more of some happiness inside of me.
>'-'<
Sunday, September 9, 2012
These Guys Should Be Included...
With the game that many are claiming to be Super Smash Bros.' copier, Playstation All-Stars, coming out, I'm not really liking some of the characters that they're dragging in. I think that there should totally be a good handful of characters that are Playstation only characters, or have been for a very long time. Instead, I'm seeing characters that are from this era only, and I don't really find that fair enough that some of the more classic characters aren't being given a chance to shine again.
First off, Crash Bandicoot is nowhere to be found and I strongly doubt he's going to make an appearance in this game. He was last seen on the Playstation 2 and yes, his games were extremely horrible... But given the chance that he could make an awesome comeback, that is if Naughty Dog ever feels the need to get this character back into their hands, we could see an awesome character be apart of the roster.
Lara Croft should also be in there. I mean you have Nathan Drake from Uncharted, why not make every gamers' dream come true and have a tomb raider vs. tomb raider in one game? Not to mention, she was a Playstation mascot herself for the longest time. And she's the kind of character that could really be cool to play as... And that this game needs more females in it besides the Fat Princess, whoever the hell she is.
I know that the voice actor, Phil Hartman, was murdered back in the 90s, but damnit, Blasto was an awesome character in his own little game. Sure, the series didn't go anywhere, most likely because of the death of Hartman, but I don't think it would be that bad to bring back this character for some nastalgic memories. We have Papparappa and I can't remember the last time we even saw that character.
We could also have Spyro, sure the mechanics could be weird, but I'm sure that it can totally work. Despite that he's a bit butchered in Skylanders, come on, that doesn't look like him whatsoever, we could make him look like what he did during the Playstaton era and be cool again.
Rikimaru from Tenchu is another. I remember Tenchu being really big on the Playstation when the series first came out. He was the cooler ninja and I feel like he could be a great addition to the game as well. Ayame would be something to see too, but I know that with a name like Rikimaru, having a scar, and looking really badass, we'd probably would prefer him.
Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Yeah, despite that Twilight made me lose interest in this series for a while, it's still good to see the half faced undead vampire known as Raziel. Armed with the soul reaver, this guy means business. And it would totally be awesome to see him, or even Kain, (he did came first) to be in this game.
There's a few that I'm not really digging... Kratos has been in a lot of games, we really need him in this one? His last appearance in a different game was Mortal Kombat 2011, unless I did not see another. He's been in so many games under different titles, it's just... tiresome now. You don't see the Gears of War character, Marcus Fenix, being dragged onto other games like crazy. Sweetooth, hmm... I actually don't mind him being in this game. Big Daddy, him either. Nathan Drake, I don't mind. Fat Princess, yeah, I don't know who or where she belongs and for that she needs to get out. I just don't feel the Playstation nostalgia with this. I thought for sure that we were going to see characters that we haven't seen for a while come back into this game.
Maybe, just maybe, we could see some of the characters that I listed? Hopefully, otherwise, I'll get the game and be mildly disappointed.
>'-'<
First off, Crash Bandicoot is nowhere to be found and I strongly doubt he's going to make an appearance in this game. He was last seen on the Playstation 2 and yes, his games were extremely horrible... But given the chance that he could make an awesome comeback, that is if Naughty Dog ever feels the need to get this character back into their hands, we could see an awesome character be apart of the roster.
Lara Croft should also be in there. I mean you have Nathan Drake from Uncharted, why not make every gamers' dream come true and have a tomb raider vs. tomb raider in one game? Not to mention, she was a Playstation mascot herself for the longest time. And she's the kind of character that could really be cool to play as... And that this game needs more females in it besides the Fat Princess, whoever the hell she is.
I know that the voice actor, Phil Hartman, was murdered back in the 90s, but damnit, Blasto was an awesome character in his own little game. Sure, the series didn't go anywhere, most likely because of the death of Hartman, but I don't think it would be that bad to bring back this character for some nastalgic memories. We have Papparappa and I can't remember the last time we even saw that character.
We could also have Spyro, sure the mechanics could be weird, but I'm sure that it can totally work. Despite that he's a bit butchered in Skylanders, come on, that doesn't look like him whatsoever, we could make him look like what he did during the Playstaton era and be cool again.
Rikimaru from Tenchu is another. I remember Tenchu being really big on the Playstation when the series first came out. He was the cooler ninja and I feel like he could be a great addition to the game as well. Ayame would be something to see too, but I know that with a name like Rikimaru, having a scar, and looking really badass, we'd probably would prefer him.
Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. Yeah, despite that Twilight made me lose interest in this series for a while, it's still good to see the half faced undead vampire known as Raziel. Armed with the soul reaver, this guy means business. And it would totally be awesome to see him, or even Kain, (he did came first) to be in this game.
There's a few that I'm not really digging... Kratos has been in a lot of games, we really need him in this one? His last appearance in a different game was Mortal Kombat 2011, unless I did not see another. He's been in so many games under different titles, it's just... tiresome now. You don't see the Gears of War character, Marcus Fenix, being dragged onto other games like crazy. Sweetooth, hmm... I actually don't mind him being in this game. Big Daddy, him either. Nathan Drake, I don't mind. Fat Princess, yeah, I don't know who or where she belongs and for that she needs to get out. I just don't feel the Playstation nostalgia with this. I thought for sure that we were going to see characters that we haven't seen for a while come back into this game.
Maybe, just maybe, we could see some of the characters that I listed? Hopefully, otherwise, I'll get the game and be mildly disappointed.
>'-'<
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Big Boss Is Back... Well, Old Boss That Is...
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeros... holy moley did the trailer look stunning! Absolutely stunning! I'm not sure if I've mentioned this in previous blogs, but I am a HUGE Metal Gear Solid fan. The story is creatively well-written, the gameplay never fails, the graphics are always phenomenal... Words literally cannot describe how much I'm in love with the series.
So, a little bit about the trailer that's out. It's eleven minutes long and it doesn't show that much of gameplay... at all really. It first shows a group of soldiers walking around this camp that are holding children in cages. It's believed that these children are being turned into soldiers. The soldiers that are roaming around the camp are members of XOF. They've received several reports of an agent that's being held in Cuba, who has information that could undermine the child training regime. These guys board a chopper to "silence" her. The leader of this pack is a man with a disfigured face, that I've seen some people saying that this could be "Zero." The man that was helping Naked Snake during Snake: Eater since it kinda resembles his look in the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4. I can kinda see it.
The next part shows Big Boss making his way to the base. But this isn't just your average Big Boss, no. He's got the eye patch, he's got the Sean Connery look, he's got the gray hair, and he's back working for Fox. Yeah, that's right, in this game, you get to play as Big Boss again, but you're playing an older Big Boss. Cool huh? The demo ends with him crawling to the base and being spotted by a search light.
It's stated that this game is to be a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5.
I'm still in awe about this trailer. I mean every single new Metal Gear game they come out with, it looks way more beautiful than the last one. Not saying that the previous Metal Gears are horrible, oh-ho... no way. I've never played a Metal Gear game that I haven't liked... And no, I really never touched the hand-held ones because I don't own a hand-held console. But wow, the series never managed to disappoint me. I am still touched by the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4. The one-hour length cutscene that features Old Snake and Big Boss together at a graveyard. It made me cry... Yes, the first time I've ever cried playing a video game was watching this hour long cutscene.
Here's the link to the video for Ground Zeros: http://www.examiner.com/video/metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-english-subtitled-demo
Check it out when you have the chance!!!
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So, a little bit about the trailer that's out. It's eleven minutes long and it doesn't show that much of gameplay... at all really. It first shows a group of soldiers walking around this camp that are holding children in cages. It's believed that these children are being turned into soldiers. The soldiers that are roaming around the camp are members of XOF. They've received several reports of an agent that's being held in Cuba, who has information that could undermine the child training regime. These guys board a chopper to "silence" her. The leader of this pack is a man with a disfigured face, that I've seen some people saying that this could be "Zero." The man that was helping Naked Snake during Snake: Eater since it kinda resembles his look in the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4. I can kinda see it.
The next part shows Big Boss making his way to the base. But this isn't just your average Big Boss, no. He's got the eye patch, he's got the Sean Connery look, he's got the gray hair, and he's back working for Fox. Yeah, that's right, in this game, you get to play as Big Boss again, but you're playing an older Big Boss. Cool huh? The demo ends with him crawling to the base and being spotted by a search light.
It's stated that this game is to be a prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5.
I'm still in awe about this trailer. I mean every single new Metal Gear game they come out with, it looks way more beautiful than the last one. Not saying that the previous Metal Gears are horrible, oh-ho... no way. I've never played a Metal Gear game that I haven't liked... And no, I really never touched the hand-held ones because I don't own a hand-held console. But wow, the series never managed to disappoint me. I am still touched by the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4. The one-hour length cutscene that features Old Snake and Big Boss together at a graveyard. It made me cry... Yes, the first time I've ever cried playing a video game was watching this hour long cutscene.
Here's the link to the video for Ground Zeros: http://www.examiner.com/video/metal-gear-solid-ground-zeroes-english-subtitled-demo
Check it out when you have the chance!!!
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Pac-Man? Paaaaaac-Maaaaaan!!!!
I like Pac-Man… a lot actually. It’s one of my favorite classic arcade
games that I love to get my hands on whenever I have the chance to.
Besides a few other acrade games, I used to spend my quarters on Ms.
Pac-Man games whenever my parents would go do their usual bowling games
on Sundays. I’m fairly confident that I don’t need to explain to viewers
what exactly Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man are about. If you don’t know the game
by now, you’re a hopeless individual… I mean, today’s freshmen believed
that Kurt Cobain has been dead for many, many years… That’s sad.
I recently got my hands on the Championship edition for the PlaystationPlus that my boyfriend downloaded the other day. As soon as I began playing it, I was like, “I seriously need to get this game… like right now.” So I did. It’s downloading as I type this. It’s a completely different style of playing, but it’s the same game… However, a few things are different. So, you have a larger field, and you have to complete one side of the field in order to complete the other side as well. You advance to the next puzzle-like in the field by collecting the fruit… other times it’s clovers, hearts, diamonds… Pac-Man can really eat basically anything his stomach desires… That is if he has a stomach.
There’s also different styles of playing the level, such as a time attack mode where you have to complete a series of puzzles in under a minute. Ghost Combo where you’re trying to see how many ghosts you can eat within a certain time limit.
Speaking about these ghosts, there’s a reason why I made a Metal Gear Solid reference in my title. These are not your ordinary ghosts. There are ghosts planted in the field that are sleeping, you also have the ordinary pink, blue, red, and orange ghosts chasing you around. But the sleeping ghosts are different. These guys stay sleeping unless you pass them. If you just pass them the first time, the first ghost that awakes starts chasing you and will not stop chasing you unless you get the power-up. However, if you pass more sleeping ghosts, they will awake and join in the line of ghosts that are following you. The more ghosts you awake, the more that gets added to the chain of ghosts. Which is really funny because if you get a power-up, hellow 3200 consecutive points per each ghost to eat after you reach that amount in the score. I thought that this was hysterical because I’m racking points up like crazy.
What is also interesting to note is what happens when you get near a ghost. You see, you can pass a ghost quite easily while they’re sleeping. But when you get to a ghost that’s up and chasing you, get close to them, and some matrix-like scene happens where you’re slowling inching closer to them unless you make some last-second chance move to avoid getting killed. I like that feature, because it totally helps.
You also have bombs that you carry throughout the levels. These bombs help bounce back the ghosts back into the box for a mere second if you come across a point where there’s no way of getting out without losing a life. However, this does effect your game. During a certain point of the game, your speed increases. If you lose a life or use a bomb, your speed decreases. So, there’s a good reason to use the bomb, and then there’s a bad reason to use your bomb. You can only reach up to speed 50, and despite it being a very fast speed, it’s still manageable.
I’d say if you have PlaystationPlus, download this game. It’s really, REALLY worth the download.
>’-‘<
I recently got my hands on the Championship edition for the PlaystationPlus that my boyfriend downloaded the other day. As soon as I began playing it, I was like, “I seriously need to get this game… like right now.” So I did. It’s downloading as I type this. It’s a completely different style of playing, but it’s the same game… However, a few things are different. So, you have a larger field, and you have to complete one side of the field in order to complete the other side as well. You advance to the next puzzle-like in the field by collecting the fruit… other times it’s clovers, hearts, diamonds… Pac-Man can really eat basically anything his stomach desires… That is if he has a stomach.
There’s also different styles of playing the level, such as a time attack mode where you have to complete a series of puzzles in under a minute. Ghost Combo where you’re trying to see how many ghosts you can eat within a certain time limit.
Speaking about these ghosts, there’s a reason why I made a Metal Gear Solid reference in my title. These are not your ordinary ghosts. There are ghosts planted in the field that are sleeping, you also have the ordinary pink, blue, red, and orange ghosts chasing you around. But the sleeping ghosts are different. These guys stay sleeping unless you pass them. If you just pass them the first time, the first ghost that awakes starts chasing you and will not stop chasing you unless you get the power-up. However, if you pass more sleeping ghosts, they will awake and join in the line of ghosts that are following you. The more ghosts you awake, the more that gets added to the chain of ghosts. Which is really funny because if you get a power-up, hellow 3200 consecutive points per each ghost to eat after you reach that amount in the score. I thought that this was hysterical because I’m racking points up like crazy.
What is also interesting to note is what happens when you get near a ghost. You see, you can pass a ghost quite easily while they’re sleeping. But when you get to a ghost that’s up and chasing you, get close to them, and some matrix-like scene happens where you’re slowling inching closer to them unless you make some last-second chance move to avoid getting killed. I like that feature, because it totally helps.
You also have bombs that you carry throughout the levels. These bombs help bounce back the ghosts back into the box for a mere second if you come across a point where there’s no way of getting out without losing a life. However, this does effect your game. During a certain point of the game, your speed increases. If you lose a life or use a bomb, your speed decreases. So, there’s a good reason to use the bomb, and then there’s a bad reason to use your bomb. You can only reach up to speed 50, and despite it being a very fast speed, it’s still manageable.
I’d say if you have PlaystationPlus, download this game. It’s really, REALLY worth the download.
>’-‘<
Sunday, August 19, 2012
I'm A Ninja
Ninja Fruit, in my opinion, is far more addicting than Angry Birds. I have it on my Android and I've been finding myself trying to out beat my arcade score of 840. The game is truly addicting and I'm more satisfied with this game because it hardly ever needs an update.
The whole point of this game is to use your finger as a sword and slice as many fruit as possible. When you slice more than one fruit in one swipe, you get a combo. The most I've gotten was a 10 combo, and that was with thanks with specials that caused so many fruit to fly all over the screen. I'll talk about that later. Two of the three modes have bombs in them too. Classic Mode has it where if you swipe at a bomb, the game is over. In Arcade Mode, if you swipe at a bomb, you get 10 points deducted.
There's three modes, Classic, Arcade, and Zen. Classic mode goes by very slow. You're supposed to swipe at all of the fruit that appears on the screen while trying to avoid the bombs as well as making sure none of the fruit falls off the screen. You have three strikes if you let them fall, after the third one, game is over. And as stated before, if you hit a bomb, it's game over too. The most I've gotten was over 600... By the time you get further and further into the mode, the game gets trickier with the fruit and bombs flying up everywhere as well as having them come up really fast. You also have a chance to redeem a strike by going after a Pomegranate. These fruits are huge and shine with a sparkling pink glow. You swipe at these as many times before time's up and it explodes. How many times you swiped at it is how many points are added to your score. Oh, you also have a Dragon Fruit flying in every once and a while, a rare fruit that gives you 50 points.
Arcade mode is where all the fun is at, at least from my perspective. You have 60 seconds to score the most points, and the bananas are used as specials. The blue and green stripped banana gives you a few seconds to double your score. How many fruit you attack, it adds up. Doing combos and getting blitz makes your score go higher and higher. After a few seconds, how many points you got during this gets added to your score. A red and yellow stripped banana is a frenzy banana. This throws out a lot of fruit for you to go after. It's preferred that you swipe your finger in a long, back and forth motion to get more combos and more fruit. And last but not least, there's the frozen banana that not only freezes the time, but it also slows down every bomb and fruit on the screen. It helps when you have this and a frenzy fruit going on together to get the most fruit combos and such... This is how I got that 10 fruit combo! As stated before with the bombs, every bomb that you hit, it deducts 10 points from your score. But if you somehow hit a lot of bombs during the 60 seconds, you actually get a bonus at the end called "Bomb Lover" which adds 50 points back to your score. Yeah, you get these random bonuses at the end, ranging from 5-50. It depends on what you did during the game. Did you hit more than one frozen banana? Did you get an insane amount of combos? Towards the very end of the match, you get the Pomegranate again to swipe at.
Zen mode is a 1:30 second match with no bombs, no specials, just aim to get the most points with the fruits. You don't get the Pomegranate either. It's just a swipe to the end to get the most points. Yeah, there's really nothing else to say about this one.
I deeply enjoy this game because it sure kills time and I feel like a ninja whenever I'm playing this game. I strongly recommend anyone to play this game, it's not that expensive... As most app games are. And well, have fun attacking fruit!
>'-'<
Sunday, August 12, 2012
I'm The Kitty, Totally Not the Kitty In the Other Blog
I’m referencing Borderlands in my title, in case you sweet love ones
don’t know. I came across this game about a year ago, despite that it’s
been out longer than that. I enjoyed every moment of it, especially
during the time I played “The Island of Dr. Ned” who totally isn’t Dr.
Zed from the other story… Haha.
The game is a FPS-RPG game, which in gamer code, that means it’s a First-Person Shooter, which is also a Role-Playing Game. It’s a unique game, to say the least. The game looks like XIII, that cel-shaded look that makes it more cartoony/comic book style. I really enjoyed the look. You have a few characters to play, each have a unique style of playing. I grew up as a gamer always playing as the girl characters, because I am a girl, I enjoy being one, so I thought, what the heck, I’ll play as one in the games too.
The story is, you’re a Vault Hunter, going after these keys that are to open the vaults. Gaining trust of people on the planet Pandora, and fighting your way through a number of crazy characters. This game is remarkable on their weapons, that it even got an award from the Gueinss World Record on having the most weapons in a single video game. Literally, they have over one million and the next game, they’re hoping to double it.
You have various different missions to complete, either main ones or side ones. I never really did get a chance to complete all of the side missions. And the end boss is freaking weird, but tolerable because I was actually two levels higher than it. Only took me two times to beat it mainly because I was unsure about its attacks.
My only flaw with this game, it’s very easy to get stuck in a spot, whether you’re walking or driving a car. A stick could be hanging out on the side of the road, you hit it, your car will not budge. But other than that one minor thing, the game is brilliant, one of the best first person shooters I’ve ever had in my possession.
So, overall, I give this game an A, and I’m totally counting down how many days are left until I get my hands on the second one. I’m so glad I managed to defeat the first game before then, it usually takes me awhile to actaully beat games in general. Not because they’re tough, but because I’m stuck in school.
Oh, and in case you're wondering what other blog? I made a tumblr, here at: http://im-the-kitty.tumblr.com/
The game is a FPS-RPG game, which in gamer code, that means it’s a First-Person Shooter, which is also a Role-Playing Game. It’s a unique game, to say the least. The game looks like XIII, that cel-shaded look that makes it more cartoony/comic book style. I really enjoyed the look. You have a few characters to play, each have a unique style of playing. I grew up as a gamer always playing as the girl characters, because I am a girl, I enjoy being one, so I thought, what the heck, I’ll play as one in the games too.
The story is, you’re a Vault Hunter, going after these keys that are to open the vaults. Gaining trust of people on the planet Pandora, and fighting your way through a number of crazy characters. This game is remarkable on their weapons, that it even got an award from the Gueinss World Record on having the most weapons in a single video game. Literally, they have over one million and the next game, they’re hoping to double it.
You have various different missions to complete, either main ones or side ones. I never really did get a chance to complete all of the side missions. And the end boss is freaking weird, but tolerable because I was actually two levels higher than it. Only took me two times to beat it mainly because I was unsure about its attacks.
My only flaw with this game, it’s very easy to get stuck in a spot, whether you’re walking or driving a car. A stick could be hanging out on the side of the road, you hit it, your car will not budge. But other than that one minor thing, the game is brilliant, one of the best first person shooters I’ve ever had in my possession.
So, overall, I give this game an A, and I’m totally counting down how many days are left until I get my hands on the second one. I’m so glad I managed to defeat the first game before then, it usually takes me awhile to actaully beat games in general. Not because they’re tough, but because I’m stuck in school.
Oh, and in case you're wondering what other blog? I made a tumblr, here at: http://im-the-kitty.tumblr.com/
Sunday, August 5, 2012
The Nightmares Of Playing Scary Games
This great first-person shooter was and still is a classic game in my books that's called Doom. I think this was probably the first game that ever brought me nightmares in my sleep. I was four when I first played this game and I still have a kick at it every now and then when I get the chance. If I can't get my hands on it, I'll just watch some walkthroughs on Youtube or something just to make me remember all the fun times I had with the game.
I still remember codes such as IDDQD, IDKFA, and IDSPISPOPD. Three codes that I often used at times when I felt like playing the game in a cheating manner... which was basically all of the time.
The one thing that scared me more than anything else in this game, and you're probably going to laugh a bit, was the status bar face. This guy's face used to freak the hell out of me because of the one face he makes that's kind of a hard one to pull off. It's called the "Ouch Face." And what this face looks like is this:
What you have to do is you have to get hurt pretty badly and then immediately run into a health pack that restores twice as much as the health you lost. It's kind of like "how did I survive this moment?"
Or, an easier way is to shoot a rocket at a wall and grab the blue sphere right after... or put in the God mode cheat.
His face gets even creepier when there's blood covering him and he makes this face as well. I used to have nightmares over this guy's face because it scared the crap out of me and quite frankly, I never understood why it did. I used to look back and asked myself why did this face scare me. Why is it that this only time in my gaming life did this one face scare me the most rather than the demons that I fought. I mean, even John Romero's face scared me when I put in the No Clips mode and walked through the wall. It freaked me out, but not as much as this face.
Maybe it's the randomness timing of it appearing that freaked me out. I mean look at it, even while I'm typing, does this face somewhat gives me a bit of fright, and I'm in my twenties...
I will say though, just becuase this face used to scare me, it did not make me run out of the room... No, one thing did during a game over sequence that made me running out of the room in fear. I was clearly terrified of going back to the TV and turning of my system due to this moment, and what made things worse was that I was home alone, so it sucked twice as hard to find the courage to go back and shut off my system.
When you're playing Tesshu in Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven and you die, his game over sequence is a lot scarier than Ayame's and Rikimaru's. Rikimaru's game over screen is some dark forest with leaves flying and Ayame's game over screen is a moon with flying flower petals blowing all over the place. Tesshu's... is a lot different. His is where you see his decapitated head sitting on a fence making the same exact face as the Doom guy's face, except his eyes are rolled up, and it zooms out with some random poem that states that he can no longer see the sun rise. This screen used to terrify me when I played this game, I believe I stopped playing the game after I saw that screen and sold it for another, and still to this day, I cower a bit when I see that face. I just thought that screen was the scariest thing I've seen in video games.
But, Dr. Salvador still scares me when I hear him coming.
>'-'<
I still remember codes such as IDDQD, IDKFA, and IDSPISPOPD. Three codes that I often used at times when I felt like playing the game in a cheating manner... which was basically all of the time.
The one thing that scared me more than anything else in this game, and you're probably going to laugh a bit, was the status bar face. This guy's face used to freak the hell out of me because of the one face he makes that's kind of a hard one to pull off. It's called the "Ouch Face." And what this face looks like is this:
Or, an easier way is to shoot a rocket at a wall and grab the blue sphere right after... or put in the God mode cheat.
His face gets even creepier when there's blood covering him and he makes this face as well. I used to have nightmares over this guy's face because it scared the crap out of me and quite frankly, I never understood why it did. I used to look back and asked myself why did this face scare me. Why is it that this only time in my gaming life did this one face scare me the most rather than the demons that I fought. I mean, even John Romero's face scared me when I put in the No Clips mode and walked through the wall. It freaked me out, but not as much as this face.
Maybe it's the randomness timing of it appearing that freaked me out. I mean look at it, even while I'm typing, does this face somewhat gives me a bit of fright, and I'm in my twenties...
I will say though, just becuase this face used to scare me, it did not make me run out of the room... No, one thing did during a game over sequence that made me running out of the room in fear. I was clearly terrified of going back to the TV and turning of my system due to this moment, and what made things worse was that I was home alone, so it sucked twice as hard to find the courage to go back and shut off my system.
When you're playing Tesshu in Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven and you die, his game over sequence is a lot scarier than Ayame's and Rikimaru's. Rikimaru's game over screen is some dark forest with leaves flying and Ayame's game over screen is a moon with flying flower petals blowing all over the place. Tesshu's... is a lot different. His is where you see his decapitated head sitting on a fence making the same exact face as the Doom guy's face, except his eyes are rolled up, and it zooms out with some random poem that states that he can no longer see the sun rise. This screen used to terrify me when I played this game, I believe I stopped playing the game after I saw that screen and sold it for another, and still to this day, I cower a bit when I see that face. I just thought that screen was the scariest thing I've seen in video games.
But, Dr. Salvador still scares me when I hear him coming.
>'-'<
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Writers Block
Kinda in a writer's block for this blog for this week. Have a lot of stuff going on, can't really figure out what I want to write for this week...
Oh well, at least next week will be more productive in this blog thing.
>'-'<
Oh well, at least next week will be more productive in this blog thing.
>'-'<
Monday, July 16, 2012
Final Fantasy 7 Needs To Retire
Every now and then, there's some big video game list that comes in talking about either who's the greatest villain in video game history, or the most terrifying moment in video game history... Anything that has to do with the most, the greatest, or anything in that kind of nature, expect to see Final Fantasy 7 making the list.
Now, there's probably going to be some haters for this blog, but understand where I'm coming from. I am not a Final Fantasy fan. I played it once, Final Fantasy 10-2 was my first game and I fucking hated it. All it is are three girls gasping, smiling, and acting very innocent. A complicated story line to understand even while going back and re-reading what 10 was all about. The fighting system seemed so unbearable to comprehend, I literally just used a Gameshark-like cheat throughout the entire game and I still couldn't figure out what the heck to do. I mean, I'm using Paine's secret special, only-her fighting costume and I'm blasting enemies with a one-shot... That's still not telling me what I have to do.
I watch my boyfriend play Final Fantasy 7 that I bought him for his birthday a year ago, and even just watching him playing that, I'm lost out of my fucking mind trying to understand the main plot of the game. Even while he's explaining everything to me, I found myself drifting away into a state of lost-ness due to the amount of stuff that I'm just receiving. Ridiculous!
To get back what I'm trying to say, majority of these lists are always having the main bad guy, Sephiroth, be the number one top bad ass of all time. So he kills Aerith out of nowhere after everything she's done for you and blah-blah-blah... Why does this scene need to be THE scene in video game history for more than a decade? I understand how it made people so freaked out after everything you did up to that moment, but this game cannot always be the best with villains and moments anymore. There's a ton of games out there with great moments that we never expected... Heck, even Portal's unexpected ending is starting to annoy me too...
I guess it's just that I'm not a huge Final Fantasy fan to understand the full potential of that scene... But I really don't see how this game is great when Egoraptor's Final Fantasy 7 spoof literally told me that the game is about two whiny guys complaining about life, here's Tifa trying to get Cloud to notice her but he's in love with Aerith in a way.... Some... love triangle? Then some army he was apart of that Sephiroth is like a captain to... I just... I just have no idea at all...
Then there's 13...
>'-'<
Now, there's probably going to be some haters for this blog, but understand where I'm coming from. I am not a Final Fantasy fan. I played it once, Final Fantasy 10-2 was my first game and I fucking hated it. All it is are three girls gasping, smiling, and acting very innocent. A complicated story line to understand even while going back and re-reading what 10 was all about. The fighting system seemed so unbearable to comprehend, I literally just used a Gameshark-like cheat throughout the entire game and I still couldn't figure out what the heck to do. I mean, I'm using Paine's secret special, only-her fighting costume and I'm blasting enemies with a one-shot... That's still not telling me what I have to do.
I watch my boyfriend play Final Fantasy 7 that I bought him for his birthday a year ago, and even just watching him playing that, I'm lost out of my fucking mind trying to understand the main plot of the game. Even while he's explaining everything to me, I found myself drifting away into a state of lost-ness due to the amount of stuff that I'm just receiving. Ridiculous!
To get back what I'm trying to say, majority of these lists are always having the main bad guy, Sephiroth, be the number one top bad ass of all time. So he kills Aerith out of nowhere after everything she's done for you and blah-blah-blah... Why does this scene need to be THE scene in video game history for more than a decade? I understand how it made people so freaked out after everything you did up to that moment, but this game cannot always be the best with villains and moments anymore. There's a ton of games out there with great moments that we never expected... Heck, even Portal's unexpected ending is starting to annoy me too...
I guess it's just that I'm not a huge Final Fantasy fan to understand the full potential of that scene... But I really don't see how this game is great when Egoraptor's Final Fantasy 7 spoof literally told me that the game is about two whiny guys complaining about life, here's Tifa trying to get Cloud to notice her but he's in love with Aerith in a way.... Some... love triangle? Then some army he was apart of that Sephiroth is like a captain to... I just... I just have no idea at all...
Then there's 13...
>'-'<
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Johnny Cage Got Killed Because Of This?
Bloodstorm was a fighting game that was set out in the early 90s as another game that was destined to outdo Mortal Kombat. Problem is, this game sucked ass big time and hardly did anything to its competitors... Well except one. If anyone could remember back during when Mortal Kombat 3 came out, we can clearly see that there's no Johnny Cage and no Raiden. Why is this? Well, apparently the actor who played as Johnny Cage in the previous games decides that he's going to help promote a rival company's game while still being Cage. Midway (at the time) found out about this and fired him on the spot. Bye-bye Daniel. His brother Carlos, was also having difficulties with the company, and I believe he got fired too (or he quit on his own) but of course, later on, Carlos came back, Daniel did not.
I stated before, this game hardly had any kind of competition against it's rivals. It's not that great of a game whatsoever. It's so glitchy, it tried to make it as gory, or a bit gorier than Mortal Kombat, but it failed in so many directions. The problem, is that they intended on making this game really bloody that it just lost all aspects of being a gory game. They tried making it to where, get enough hits, your opponent loses their legs and becomes a moving torso with intestines flooding out of them. Oh, but they can still fight, and they can still win the game if allowed to. You'll get this, "Legless victory" announced. Okay?
A lot of the characters couldn't be more unoriginal if they tried. A lot of the characters have moves that we've all seen before. They try over exposing the female's boobs although they did a poor job at it. And they have these huge shield-like things on their hands that just look so bogus, it takes away a lot from the character. Half the time, they get in the way of a lot of things, it just doesn't make sense on why they have them.
I will give them credit on one thing though. In order to actually beat the game, you must find and eliminate these secret characters that works with the final boss of the game. To do so, you have to do all these random things on certain stages to get a hold of them. Example, in order to find "Golem" you're on a stage that as a pitfall on both sides of the platform. At a particular time, you are to actually fall down in the pit and successfully land on this tiny platform that automatically makes you head off to where Golem is at. So, I'll give some props for creative secret fights but... it's not like other games have done something like that before.
Throughout the fight, each fighter has the ability to rip off the limbs and such to their opponent. As mentioned previously, this is where the "legless victory" thing comes into play. But what's stupid is that this occurs on both rounds. So if you successfully blasted a guy's head off in the first round, they're perfectly fine the next round. What? Come on. I don't like when games do that. But, it's all right, it's not like this game went anywhere anyways.
It's a shame that someone lost their job promoting this game. This game was supposed to rival Mortal Kombat, but it didn't. The company that also created this game, Strata, went out of business, now that's sad. The game was also hinting in various secrets that there was supposed to have a sequel. Well, now we know the fate of that sequel... It's never going to happen.
What could have been probably a good competition to a powerful game failed in so many aspects, no wonder why not too many people have actually heard this game. I've seen way too many glitches with the game as well, as there's a video out there that shows off a lot of it. As I've seen countless of stuff with this game, I couldn't possibly see how it could be deemed a good fighting game to actually be a rival to others. It didn't have a strong fan base, the story wasn't even remotely interesting to know, and overall, it just pretended to be a great game when in the end we all know it wouldn't. I'd say if you want to, there's videos on Youtube showing a lot of the gameplay, such as fatalities and some random person playing the entire game, exposing the secrets while having crappy music play over the entire thing (I hate that). You can judge for yourself if you want. It's called Bloodstorm.
I stated before, this game hardly had any kind of competition against it's rivals. It's not that great of a game whatsoever. It's so glitchy, it tried to make it as gory, or a bit gorier than Mortal Kombat, but it failed in so many directions. The problem, is that they intended on making this game really bloody that it just lost all aspects of being a gory game. They tried making it to where, get enough hits, your opponent loses their legs and becomes a moving torso with intestines flooding out of them. Oh, but they can still fight, and they can still win the game if allowed to. You'll get this, "Legless victory" announced. Okay?
A lot of the characters couldn't be more unoriginal if they tried. A lot of the characters have moves that we've all seen before. They try over exposing the female's boobs although they did a poor job at it. And they have these huge shield-like things on their hands that just look so bogus, it takes away a lot from the character. Half the time, they get in the way of a lot of things, it just doesn't make sense on why they have them.
I will give them credit on one thing though. In order to actually beat the game, you must find and eliminate these secret characters that works with the final boss of the game. To do so, you have to do all these random things on certain stages to get a hold of them. Example, in order to find "Golem" you're on a stage that as a pitfall on both sides of the platform. At a particular time, you are to actually fall down in the pit and successfully land on this tiny platform that automatically makes you head off to where Golem is at. So, I'll give some props for creative secret fights but... it's not like other games have done something like that before.
Throughout the fight, each fighter has the ability to rip off the limbs and such to their opponent. As mentioned previously, this is where the "legless victory" thing comes into play. But what's stupid is that this occurs on both rounds. So if you successfully blasted a guy's head off in the first round, they're perfectly fine the next round. What? Come on. I don't like when games do that. But, it's all right, it's not like this game went anywhere anyways.
It's a shame that someone lost their job promoting this game. This game was supposed to rival Mortal Kombat, but it didn't. The company that also created this game, Strata, went out of business, now that's sad. The game was also hinting in various secrets that there was supposed to have a sequel. Well, now we know the fate of that sequel... It's never going to happen.
What could have been probably a good competition to a powerful game failed in so many aspects, no wonder why not too many people have actually heard this game. I've seen way too many glitches with the game as well, as there's a video out there that shows off a lot of it. As I've seen countless of stuff with this game, I couldn't possibly see how it could be deemed a good fighting game to actually be a rival to others. It didn't have a strong fan base, the story wasn't even remotely interesting to know, and overall, it just pretended to be a great game when in the end we all know it wouldn't. I'd say if you want to, there's videos on Youtube showing a lot of the gameplay, such as fatalities and some random person playing the entire game, exposing the secrets while having crappy music play over the entire thing (I hate that). You can judge for yourself if you want. It's called Bloodstorm.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
WoW Isn't That Annoying?
I've recently been playing World of Warcraft again after months of being away from it. I miss the fun the game brings at times. But I've certainly not miss a lot of the annoying parts of the game. I'm not talking about how when you've basically reached the "end" part of the game, as in you're all leveled up and got all the good gear for your character. No, I'm talking about when you're doing the Heroics getting the gear!
I'm going to talk about some of the experiences that I have either been through or have seen it with my two eyes. Now, bear with me. I can get over the fact that this is World of Warcraft, quite possibly one of the nerdiest games in existence, but believe me when I say that I can take things to a serious degree while others, not so much. For this game, I don't take one ounce of it as serious as most of the WoW-heads do. I enjoy my time playing my characters, and whenever my brother gets on, I like to play along with him, providing that he doesn't tick me off with the constant orders and such. However, I don't enjoy my game being ruined by a bunch of idiotic strangers who has to be rude for no reason whatsoever. It's why I hardly play online mode with other video games. People are just so goddamn rude and it ruins the fun out of the games. This is one of the reason why I stopped playing WoW for a long time.
One of the experience that I dealt with, happened not too long ago. There's a thing called Heroics, they're specific dungeons that carry more elite enemies and provides a heck of a lot of great goodies for your character to collect, providing that you win the roll of the specific item that drops that is. The whole entire point of a Heroic is to obtain better gear for your character, so that you're able to start raiding soon with your guild. Unfortunately, there's an issue with Heroics at times with certain people... Mostly those who play as a Tank, or DPS that are not a caster. You're going to come across that one player who's not quite as geared as most players are for Heroics. Such as, their gear is somewhat maxed out, while other players managed to reach the level that can allow them to do a Heroic. Mind you, that when you're playing an RPG, (Role-Playing Game for you folks that don't know) your gear has a specific level. Grays are trash, Whites are common, Green is like the first magic gear that comes into play, Blue is Rare, Purple is Epic, and Orange is Legendary, which has a 1% drop rate per item that's that color. Blues and Purples are your basic gear, and when you have a mixture of them, then it shows that you're getting your gear up to all purples. All people that constantly complain are always in Epics. Epics get you into raids. Now, being that I haven't played WoW in such a long time, I'm still wearing a few Rares. But it's not like my entire wardrobe for my character is completely shitty. No. But for some people, it is, and it takes away their fun of the day. The problem that I have with this is that, these guys were once in my character's shoes. They weren't always maxed out with great gear in the past, and I'm pretty sure they were also harassed too. It certainly does suck when some idiot decides they're going to be rude about how you're trying to get epics in a Heroic where the whole entire intention of the part of the game is to obtain better gear!
For some reason, it doesn't sink through in their Easy-Bake Oven head of theirs that I'm trying to get my gear up to date with the max level... Despite that it's going to be low again as soon as the next expansion comes out... Or tier gear, or whatever.
My next issue happens to be the impatient players. I get that there will be groups that you'll come across that knows how to play the entire Heroic from beginning to end. But, when your group is carrying casters, they need to sit out for thirty measly seconds to regain the mana they just lost after a long boss battle. But this doesn't quite go as simple for certain players, i.e. Tanks. I came across this the other day playing a Heroic I have not yet completed. I really enjoyed what I was playing. But after we beaten one of the bosses, the healer and one other caster was not ready. I somewhat was, despite I could have recharged a bit more of my lost mana. The Tank decides that they're not going to wait for the casters to finish what they're doing, and begins attacking a trash mob. Tanks need healers in order to advance throughout the Heroics. No healers obviously equals death. Despite that I play as a priest, I am shadow, which is DPS, which deals damage, which means I DON'T HEAL. I would have liked to switch out of Shadow mode and heal the guy for a bit, but because I am specifically designed for a damaged character and not a healer, my heals would have done absolutely nothing to the guy. So I just stood there and watched him battle away and saw a huge decrease in his health. He decides that he's going to leave the party after managing to wipe the entire party out due to his foolishness behavior of starting to attack a group of four elites without having the rest of the party ready for the move. I've been in a different situation a while ago where the same exact thing happened, except the guy actually talked back to us. He began by blaming everyone doing poorly and taking all the credit for himself. But since I could care less, I just sat back and continue typing "/laugh" while targeting the guy. He eventually left and we managed to continue doing the Heroic with no problems... After all, he was the main problem for being a very poor Tank.
Look guys, we casters can't keep up with you non-casters, we need at least thirty seconds of down time so that we can regain our mana. If you can't wait for thirty measly seconds to run past, twiddle your thumbs or something. But certainly do not start attacking another group without a healer, don't put blame on us when it's your fault, and don't leave the damn party even if you made a mistake.
Last, but not least, I'm going to address kind of a more annoying issue I have to put up with. For playing as a female Blood Elf with a chick name, it kinda leaves me out in the open for some personal attacks of my gender. When guys in this game comes across a girl playing behind the character, they get all delusional and believes that this is the time to whip out their dick-growing abilities and brag how long their Johnson is, when we know that it certainly cannot be over a foot long. Yeah, it's the sexual harassment issue. Sometimes I get people telling me to get back into the kitchen and such, but believe me, the joke has grown so old it really lost its meaning. I mean, I don't take these things so seriously despite that I probably should. But the thing is, how can a stranger, who lives miles away from me, has no clue who I really am, can do any kind of physical harm to me through a computer game? There's two things I can do to prevent this from happening again. I can either report the guy or I can ignore the guy. People take a lot of things way too seriously over the internet, and I can understand. But you guys also have to understand that a lot of this goofballs, have no fucking lives. Majority of them brags about how big their dicks are and how many girls they've fucked over the past, but do you actually believe any of it? No freaking way. I don't because it's the internet. I can pretend to be someone that I'm not and get away with it, all because the people on the other side have no clue who I really am. Granted that, being a girl gamer, guys react a lot differently than when they play with another guy. The jokes crack open and all hell is loose. But, people really shouldn't let this bother anyone. It is annoying, but, you just have to laugh at the people who are honestly wasting their time trying to hit on something that could possibly be a guy pretending to be a girl.
And to be honest, it's really funny when I see a guy trying to hit on my brother when hes playing his female character, who is another priest, and it turns out that he's really a guy behind the character when he reveals that he's a "dude."
People... World of Warcraft is not to be taken so seriously, but I know that I will never get anyone to understand this. Games are meant to be fun, and despite that you need a bit of brains to know how this game works, honestly... it's not that hard to play. But I do wish that there was a level a maturity that needs to be met before anyone could play becuase the immature players really take the fun out of this game. As these examples show you, this is what most of the players have to deal with on a regular basis, and it's reasons why I don't play as much as I should... despite that if I did play as much as I should, I'd be playing a whole lot more... and it woulds seem very unhealthy as well. Hopefully this shows you what goes down in World of Warcraft. I'm not trying to scare anyone by this, but I certainly did want to mention it, just in case you were all wondering.
Despite that I doubt you really were.
>'-'<
I'm going to talk about some of the experiences that I have either been through or have seen it with my two eyes. Now, bear with me. I can get over the fact that this is World of Warcraft, quite possibly one of the nerdiest games in existence, but believe me when I say that I can take things to a serious degree while others, not so much. For this game, I don't take one ounce of it as serious as most of the WoW-heads do. I enjoy my time playing my characters, and whenever my brother gets on, I like to play along with him, providing that he doesn't tick me off with the constant orders and such. However, I don't enjoy my game being ruined by a bunch of idiotic strangers who has to be rude for no reason whatsoever. It's why I hardly play online mode with other video games. People are just so goddamn rude and it ruins the fun out of the games. This is one of the reason why I stopped playing WoW for a long time.
One of the experience that I dealt with, happened not too long ago. There's a thing called Heroics, they're specific dungeons that carry more elite enemies and provides a heck of a lot of great goodies for your character to collect, providing that you win the roll of the specific item that drops that is. The whole entire point of a Heroic is to obtain better gear for your character, so that you're able to start raiding soon with your guild. Unfortunately, there's an issue with Heroics at times with certain people... Mostly those who play as a Tank, or DPS that are not a caster. You're going to come across that one player who's not quite as geared as most players are for Heroics. Such as, their gear is somewhat maxed out, while other players managed to reach the level that can allow them to do a Heroic. Mind you, that when you're playing an RPG, (Role-Playing Game for you folks that don't know) your gear has a specific level. Grays are trash, Whites are common, Green is like the first magic gear that comes into play, Blue is Rare, Purple is Epic, and Orange is Legendary, which has a 1% drop rate per item that's that color. Blues and Purples are your basic gear, and when you have a mixture of them, then it shows that you're getting your gear up to all purples. All people that constantly complain are always in Epics. Epics get you into raids. Now, being that I haven't played WoW in such a long time, I'm still wearing a few Rares. But it's not like my entire wardrobe for my character is completely shitty. No. But for some people, it is, and it takes away their fun of the day. The problem that I have with this is that, these guys were once in my character's shoes. They weren't always maxed out with great gear in the past, and I'm pretty sure they were also harassed too. It certainly does suck when some idiot decides they're going to be rude about how you're trying to get epics in a Heroic where the whole entire intention of the part of the game is to obtain better gear!
For some reason, it doesn't sink through in their Easy-Bake Oven head of theirs that I'm trying to get my gear up to date with the max level... Despite that it's going to be low again as soon as the next expansion comes out... Or tier gear, or whatever.
My next issue happens to be the impatient players. I get that there will be groups that you'll come across that knows how to play the entire Heroic from beginning to end. But, when your group is carrying casters, they need to sit out for thirty measly seconds to regain the mana they just lost after a long boss battle. But this doesn't quite go as simple for certain players, i.e. Tanks. I came across this the other day playing a Heroic I have not yet completed. I really enjoyed what I was playing. But after we beaten one of the bosses, the healer and one other caster was not ready. I somewhat was, despite I could have recharged a bit more of my lost mana. The Tank decides that they're not going to wait for the casters to finish what they're doing, and begins attacking a trash mob. Tanks need healers in order to advance throughout the Heroics. No healers obviously equals death. Despite that I play as a priest, I am shadow, which is DPS, which deals damage, which means I DON'T HEAL. I would have liked to switch out of Shadow mode and heal the guy for a bit, but because I am specifically designed for a damaged character and not a healer, my heals would have done absolutely nothing to the guy. So I just stood there and watched him battle away and saw a huge decrease in his health. He decides that he's going to leave the party after managing to wipe the entire party out due to his foolishness behavior of starting to attack a group of four elites without having the rest of the party ready for the move. I've been in a different situation a while ago where the same exact thing happened, except the guy actually talked back to us. He began by blaming everyone doing poorly and taking all the credit for himself. But since I could care less, I just sat back and continue typing "/laugh" while targeting the guy. He eventually left and we managed to continue doing the Heroic with no problems... After all, he was the main problem for being a very poor Tank.
Look guys, we casters can't keep up with you non-casters, we need at least thirty seconds of down time so that we can regain our mana. If you can't wait for thirty measly seconds to run past, twiddle your thumbs or something. But certainly do not start attacking another group without a healer, don't put blame on us when it's your fault, and don't leave the damn party even if you made a mistake.
Last, but not least, I'm going to address kind of a more annoying issue I have to put up with. For playing as a female Blood Elf with a chick name, it kinda leaves me out in the open for some personal attacks of my gender. When guys in this game comes across a girl playing behind the character, they get all delusional and believes that this is the time to whip out their dick-growing abilities and brag how long their Johnson is, when we know that it certainly cannot be over a foot long. Yeah, it's the sexual harassment issue. Sometimes I get people telling me to get back into the kitchen and such, but believe me, the joke has grown so old it really lost its meaning. I mean, I don't take these things so seriously despite that I probably should. But the thing is, how can a stranger, who lives miles away from me, has no clue who I really am, can do any kind of physical harm to me through a computer game? There's two things I can do to prevent this from happening again. I can either report the guy or I can ignore the guy. People take a lot of things way too seriously over the internet, and I can understand. But you guys also have to understand that a lot of this goofballs, have no fucking lives. Majority of them brags about how big their dicks are and how many girls they've fucked over the past, but do you actually believe any of it? No freaking way. I don't because it's the internet. I can pretend to be someone that I'm not and get away with it, all because the people on the other side have no clue who I really am. Granted that, being a girl gamer, guys react a lot differently than when they play with another guy. The jokes crack open and all hell is loose. But, people really shouldn't let this bother anyone. It is annoying, but, you just have to laugh at the people who are honestly wasting their time trying to hit on something that could possibly be a guy pretending to be a girl.
And to be honest, it's really funny when I see a guy trying to hit on my brother when hes playing his female character, who is another priest, and it turns out that he's really a guy behind the character when he reveals that he's a "dude."
People... World of Warcraft is not to be taken so seriously, but I know that I will never get anyone to understand this. Games are meant to be fun, and despite that you need a bit of brains to know how this game works, honestly... it's not that hard to play. But I do wish that there was a level a maturity that needs to be met before anyone could play becuase the immature players really take the fun out of this game. As these examples show you, this is what most of the players have to deal with on a regular basis, and it's reasons why I don't play as much as I should... despite that if I did play as much as I should, I'd be playing a whole lot more... and it woulds seem very unhealthy as well. Hopefully this shows you what goes down in World of Warcraft. I'm not trying to scare anyone by this, but I certainly did want to mention it, just in case you were all wondering.
Despite that I doubt you really were.
>'-'<
Monday, June 25, 2012
The Sad Ending To A Great Competition
We all tend to look away from the past that was once Atari's ruling in the video game industry. You know, most adults of our generation would tend to know more about Atari than all of us. With us, we have the knowledge of current video game systems. But the past holds more of a greater accomplishment than today's current system. Let's go back about twenty-five years or so to the 80s, can you actually believe we have to say that now? There's a game out there that brought attention to many young people's souls. This game was known as Swordquest.
This game has it where they're not only having you play the game, they're making you scavenge comic book panels for clues that are revealed when a certain action takes place in the game. You must find a secret in a panel to discover a word that's a part of a giant list of words. These words soon become a sentence, but only a few of them are useless words. To figure out what these words, you must look throughout the booklet for a clue. The game's story has two words written in different colors, Prime and Number. Therefore, this hint is to help you solve the mystery behind the five words that you must find out of the group of words you found in the comic.
You later mail the clues out to the company of Atari and there, whoever gets the right answers will have the right to play the game again, only this time, you're playing the company's version of the game that is to determine who wins the grand prize of, get this, jeweled possessions. You have a crown, a talisman, a chalice, and a philosopher's stone all made out of gold with various jewels attached to them. But wait, with those prizes, then there must be more games out, right? Well yeah, there's Swordquest: Fireworld, Airworld, Waterworld and Earthworld. Each game had their own prizes to win. The winners of all four of these games would go on to compete for the better prized, this giant sword that had various jewels and made out of gold and silver. All of these prizes ranged up to about $150,000 total. This competition was not a joke.
But sadly, judging from the title, you can tell that what appears to be one of the video game industry's grandest challenge ever, won't have a good ending. You see, the video game crash took place, Atari was bought out by Jack Tramiel, and Airworld was never created. Rumors were stated that Tramiel has the crown, the stone and the sword because when Waterworld came out, which the prize for that game was the crown, the competition stopped. It stopped because the great video game crash took place. And after everything got better, the competition never took place again, nor did anyone try to do anything to resume it. People claims that Tramiel may have sold the remaining prizes somewhere, but there's really no hardcore proof he did anything. These prizes do exist because there were pictures everywhere showing what this competition would be like.
Atari people had a great thing happening to them and sadly, the only thing we have is MLB's win $1,000,000 to pitch a perfect game. The thing is that there's cheats out there now and days to figure out how to do such a thing, but when Atari had this competition, not only did you have no internet, but you actually had to rely on your own for once. It's really sad that video games now and day's really can't have something like this happen again. I'd love to see another competition like this take place where you have to work on your own and such... But I doubt it'll ever happen.
Cheers to you Atari folks. You did have a great era of video gaming.
>'-'<
This game has it where they're not only having you play the game, they're making you scavenge comic book panels for clues that are revealed when a certain action takes place in the game. You must find a secret in a panel to discover a word that's a part of a giant list of words. These words soon become a sentence, but only a few of them are useless words. To figure out what these words, you must look throughout the booklet for a clue. The game's story has two words written in different colors, Prime and Number. Therefore, this hint is to help you solve the mystery behind the five words that you must find out of the group of words you found in the comic.
You later mail the clues out to the company of Atari and there, whoever gets the right answers will have the right to play the game again, only this time, you're playing the company's version of the game that is to determine who wins the grand prize of, get this, jeweled possessions. You have a crown, a talisman, a chalice, and a philosopher's stone all made out of gold with various jewels attached to them. But wait, with those prizes, then there must be more games out, right? Well yeah, there's Swordquest: Fireworld, Airworld, Waterworld and Earthworld. Each game had their own prizes to win. The winners of all four of these games would go on to compete for the better prized, this giant sword that had various jewels and made out of gold and silver. All of these prizes ranged up to about $150,000 total. This competition was not a joke.
But sadly, judging from the title, you can tell that what appears to be one of the video game industry's grandest challenge ever, won't have a good ending. You see, the video game crash took place, Atari was bought out by Jack Tramiel, and Airworld was never created. Rumors were stated that Tramiel has the crown, the stone and the sword because when Waterworld came out, which the prize for that game was the crown, the competition stopped. It stopped because the great video game crash took place. And after everything got better, the competition never took place again, nor did anyone try to do anything to resume it. People claims that Tramiel may have sold the remaining prizes somewhere, but there's really no hardcore proof he did anything. These prizes do exist because there were pictures everywhere showing what this competition would be like.
Atari people had a great thing happening to them and sadly, the only thing we have is MLB's win $1,000,000 to pitch a perfect game. The thing is that there's cheats out there now and days to figure out how to do such a thing, but when Atari had this competition, not only did you have no internet, but you actually had to rely on your own for once. It's really sad that video games now and day's really can't have something like this happen again. I'd love to see another competition like this take place where you have to work on your own and such... But I doubt it'll ever happen.
Cheers to you Atari folks. You did have a great era of video gaming.
>'-'<
Monday, June 18, 2012
Convinced G4's 100 Video Games List Was Created By Idiots
Come on, just see it for yourself:
100. Pong
99. Words with Friends
98. Pitfall
97. NBA 2K11
96.Guitar Hero 2
95. Burger Time
94. Braid
93. Star Wars: Tie Fighter
92. Galaga
91. The Sims
90. Baulder's Gate 2
89. Left 4 Dead
88. Double Dribble
87. Mass Effect 2
86. Outrun
85. Silent Hill 2
84. Wii Sports
83. Ninja Gaiden
82. Super Smash Bros. Melee
81. Resident Evil
80. Gears of War 3
79. Psychonauts
78. Spy Hunter
77. Excite Bike
76. Blades of Steel
75. Fallout 3
74. Starfox 64 (Or just Starfox)
73. Mega Man 2
72. Mortal Kombat
71. Wing Commander 2
70. Star Wars
69. Double Dragon
68. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
67. Minecraft
66. Assassin's Creed 2
65. Unreal Tournament
64. NBA Jam
63. Wolfenstein 3D
62. Civilization 2
61. God of War 3
60. Contra
59. Maniac 2: Day of the Tentacle
58. Ultima: Online
57. Pokemon’ Red and Blue
56. Super Street Fighter 4
55. Kingdom Hearts
54. Gauntlet
53. Deus Ex
52. Rockband 3
51. Rachet and Clank: Going Commando
50. Sonic the Hedgehog
49. Angry Birds
48. Techmo Bowl
47. Myst
46. Red Dead Redemption
45. Metal Gear Solid
44. Grand Theft Auto 4
43. Quake 3 Arena
42. Ghosts and Goblins
41. Mario 64
40. Space Invaders
39. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
38. Super Metroid
37. Halo
36. Batman: Arkham City
35. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
34. Counter-Strike
33. Final Fantasy VII
32. Punch-Out!!
31. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
30.Super Street Fighter Turbo
29. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
28. Super Mario Kart
27. Chrono Trigger
26. Ico
25. Grand Theft Auto 3
24. Madden NFL 2005
23. Halo 3
22. Panzer Dragoon Saga
21. Resident Evil 4
20. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
19. Diablo 2
18. Ms. Pac-Man
17. Starcraft
16. Half-Life
15. Donkey Kong
14. Uncharted 2: Among Theives
13. Portal
12. Doom 2
11. Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of Time (Collectors Edition)
10. World of Warcraft
9. Shadow of the Colossus (Demo Disc)
8. Goldeneye 007
7. Super Mario Bros. 3
6. Legend of Zelda (Classic NES Series)
5. Tetris
4. Asteroids
3. Bioshock
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Ling to the Past (Virtual Console)
1. Super Mario Bros.
Okay, let me go out on a limb here and say that majority of these games, like 95% of them, are completely stupid to have on this list and where they're on. The fact that we have good games so far in the list and shitty games in the top twenty makes me realize that the people who composed this list are nothing but idiots who never played real games. And no, I don't find Super Mario Bros. to be better than Super Mario Bros. 3. Why? Because I hear more people talking about that game rather than the first. Sequels ALWAYS dominates originals if they're THAT good, not horrible. But, even as a fan of a few of the games that were in the top twenty, I felt in my opinion, they do not deserve that spot.
World of Warcraft may be one of the most successful online games we have, but I do not find it that great of a game. If a game has to make me go away for a few months because the lack of entertainment grows more than the gold I get from nabbing away at heroics, I do not find it that great of a game. However, I will not say that WoW sucks, it's just that, as of lately, a lot of people have been dropping their accounts like crazy and nothing interesting has happened. Even my brother claims that our guild is losing people due to the lack of entertainment the game brought.
But okay, hang on a second... Call of Duty in the top twenty is something I'd like to question. First off, Call of Duty isn't even remotely fun anymore, despite that I do play it once and a while with my boyfriend and it's just the survival mode. But it's not like when I hear a new one come out, I need to be that person who's got to be first in line. No, I'm not that big of a fan of this game, and too many people weren't happy when they found out that this game was going to be in the top twenty. Why? Because it's not like this game brings anything new to our eyes other than some new story in story mode and a few new guns. It's not like people play this game for the story anyways, they just care about the freaking online mode... Which isn't even fun anyways because people use nothing but glitches and cheats to get themselves to the top of the list.
As much as a fan I am with Bioshock, I am absolutely surprised that it made it all the way up to the third best game of all time. I get that the atmosphere of the game is different, a heck of a lot different than the games I've played and the story is one of the best, but to declare it as the third greatest game is a bit too much.
Not to mention... where in the world is Tomb Raider? I would have thought that Tomb Raider would be in the top twenty somewhere because this game not only brought happiness to male gamers, but also brought a whole new world of challenge for us gamers to endure. I guess Uncharted is the new Tomb Raider, which is understandable because after Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider's series just sucked big time and it doesn't help that their reboot won't be in our hands until next year... And no, I'm not those lunatics believing that December 21st bullshit is real.
As a huge Mortal Kombat fan, I am ticked that it's that low in the list. 72, really? The way that these hosts were explaining it, the game brought a new level of controversy to us gamers in the arcades. Which it did with its massive amount of gore and violence that we've never seen before. To say something like that means great honor to the game. But unfortunately, I guess that, it depends on how many people play the damn game because as you can tell, a whole bunch of online games are in the top twenty, and Mortal Kombat doesn't really have that big of an online community (since after four months, the online play just slowly deteriorates). But then when we get to the next game, Wing Commander 2, you hear the hosts talking about how the game made them look at cats differently. Nothing really about the game, despite that the game before, they went into so much detail about how it changed video games when it first came out.
Since I'm bashing about how those two games were talked about, let me go into detail about these pathetic hosts. Yeah, I'm calling each and every person that was talking about these games pathetic becuase they were. They were trying to make this whole show be like "I Love the (70's-00s)" and crack out funny comments every so often. It would have been funny if these guys didn't fail at their own work. I'm sorry, but I cannot stand Morgan Webb anymore, I hate her sarcastic personality and her way of trying to make us realize she's trying to be funny is getting on my nerves. These other people couldn't have been more of a bore to me than watching a romance movie. These guys failed at trying to make this show a bit more entertaining while I'm perplexed at the monstrosity of how this list was composed.
To say that Metal Gear Solid doesn't deserve to be in the top twenty, since I feel that this is what the list is telling me, is a great huge insult to the guy who made it, Hideo Kojima. This guy created one hell of an awesome series. Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first game that ever brought tears in my eyes when watching it because that damn ending got to me! To see Snake and his father, one on one made me just... Ugh, it was amazing. And it's not like Metal Gear Solid didn't bring anything new to us. This game DEFINED what a stealth game is all about. I hate that damn alert noise (despite I'm trying ever so hard to figure out how to change my text message alert sound to it... stupid MyTouch) when I get spotted and there's absolutely no way I can ever get the Big Boss Emblem despite that I feel like I could. This game was one of THE best games I ever played and I am certain so many will agree. But to see this game come in 45th place... and having Grand Theft Auto 4 come after it, I felt that was nothing but an insult. I love Grand Theft Auto 4, but I certainly do not believe that the game is better than Metal Gear Solid.
Lastly, let me go into one more rant about these app games that also appeared on this list. To say that Pong isn't greater than a Scrabble spin-off should definitely wake up old school gamers and protest in front of the offices of G4 to change that. No, there is absolutely no way I'm allowing Words with Friends to be known as a better game than Pong. Pong was one of the first games to hit consoles, I'm not going to say that it was the first game ever because there's been proof that there are other games in existence before it. But still, this game isn't better than Words with Friends? Why? Because unlike Pong, Words with Friends made headlines because some shitty actor went into child mode and refuse to end his turn for a plane to leave? Come on, that's horrible. And to have Angry Birds be on this list as well. No. The game is popular, and I do own Seasons and Space. But you know what? I grow bored of them within minutes I play the game. I can take the entire game and beat it within one-two hours max if I have absolutely nothing going on with my life for those two hours. But to have it come after Sonic the Hedgehog? Are you fucking kidding me?
Sonic the Hedgehog was like, the first game to ever create console rivalries. You were either a Nintendo fan and sided with Mario or you were a Sega fan and sided with Sonic. You were either collecting Stars or collecting Emeralds. You were either jumping underneath blocks or you were running as fast as light almost. These two games were at each others throats for the longest time and to sit here and see that colorful birds and decapitated ill pigs were better than a rival to one of the biggest mascots of video game history? Please.
I am literally convinced that this list was composed by a bunch of people that never played old school games. I couldn't believe that a lot of great games were placed so low in the list, such as Mega Man, Contra, Wolfenstein and, Super Metroid. Those games helped made frustration possible but we still deemed to beat them. To have games defy a generation be considered not as great as a game that doesn't deserve to be in front of it feels like an insult to all those who have played it and created it. I couldn't believe some of the placings of games that don't deserve to be that ranked. It's not right, and I hate G4 for ever making this list possible. There's a reason why this channel is dying and its because of bias losers who thinks Call of Duty is worth playing rather than a game that helped changed the way we view a few video games. It's impossible to come up with a list that people will agree on, I get that... But I'm not the only one who thinks this list was nothing but utter shit.
I'm the Kitty, one angry one if I could add, and honestly, I'm not happy with this list... As you can tell.
>'-'<
100. Pong
99. Words with Friends
98. Pitfall
97. NBA 2K11
96.Guitar Hero 2
95. Burger Time
94. Braid
93. Star Wars: Tie Fighter
92. Galaga
91. The Sims
90. Baulder's Gate 2
89. Left 4 Dead
88. Double Dribble
87. Mass Effect 2
86. Outrun
85. Silent Hill 2
84. Wii Sports
83. Ninja Gaiden
82. Super Smash Bros. Melee
81. Resident Evil
80. Gears of War 3
79. Psychonauts
78. Spy Hunter
77. Excite Bike
76. Blades of Steel
75. Fallout 3
74. Starfox 64 (Or just Starfox)
73. Mega Man 2
72. Mortal Kombat
71. Wing Commander 2
70. Star Wars
69. Double Dragon
68. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
67. Minecraft
66. Assassin's Creed 2
65. Unreal Tournament
64. NBA Jam
63. Wolfenstein 3D
62. Civilization 2
61. God of War 3
60. Contra
59. Maniac 2: Day of the Tentacle
58. Ultima: Online
57. Pokemon’ Red and Blue
56. Super Street Fighter 4
55. Kingdom Hearts
54. Gauntlet
53. Deus Ex
52. Rockband 3
51. Rachet and Clank: Going Commando
50. Sonic the Hedgehog
49. Angry Birds
48. Techmo Bowl
47. Myst
46. Red Dead Redemption
45. Metal Gear Solid
44. Grand Theft Auto 4
43. Quake 3 Arena
42. Ghosts and Goblins
41. Mario 64
40. Space Invaders
39. Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
38. Super Metroid
37. Halo
36. Batman: Arkham City
35. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
34. Counter-Strike
33. Final Fantasy VII
32. Punch-Out!!
31. The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim
30.Super Street Fighter Turbo
29. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
28. Super Mario Kart
27. Chrono Trigger
26. Ico
25. Grand Theft Auto 3
24. Madden NFL 2005
23. Halo 3
22. Panzer Dragoon Saga
21. Resident Evil 4
20. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
19. Diablo 2
18. Ms. Pac-Man
17. Starcraft
16. Half-Life
15. Donkey Kong
14. Uncharted 2: Among Theives
13. Portal
12. Doom 2
11. Legend of Zelda: Orcarina of Time (Collectors Edition)
10. World of Warcraft
9. Shadow of the Colossus (Demo Disc)
8. Goldeneye 007
7. Super Mario Bros. 3
6. Legend of Zelda (Classic NES Series)
5. Tetris
4. Asteroids
3. Bioshock
2. The Legend of Zelda: A Ling to the Past (Virtual Console)
1. Super Mario Bros.
Okay, let me go out on a limb here and say that majority of these games, like 95% of them, are completely stupid to have on this list and where they're on. The fact that we have good games so far in the list and shitty games in the top twenty makes me realize that the people who composed this list are nothing but idiots who never played real games. And no, I don't find Super Mario Bros. to be better than Super Mario Bros. 3. Why? Because I hear more people talking about that game rather than the first. Sequels ALWAYS dominates originals if they're THAT good, not horrible. But, even as a fan of a few of the games that were in the top twenty, I felt in my opinion, they do not deserve that spot.
World of Warcraft may be one of the most successful online games we have, but I do not find it that great of a game. If a game has to make me go away for a few months because the lack of entertainment grows more than the gold I get from nabbing away at heroics, I do not find it that great of a game. However, I will not say that WoW sucks, it's just that, as of lately, a lot of people have been dropping their accounts like crazy and nothing interesting has happened. Even my brother claims that our guild is losing people due to the lack of entertainment the game brought.
But okay, hang on a second... Call of Duty in the top twenty is something I'd like to question. First off, Call of Duty isn't even remotely fun anymore, despite that I do play it once and a while with my boyfriend and it's just the survival mode. But it's not like when I hear a new one come out, I need to be that person who's got to be first in line. No, I'm not that big of a fan of this game, and too many people weren't happy when they found out that this game was going to be in the top twenty. Why? Because it's not like this game brings anything new to our eyes other than some new story in story mode and a few new guns. It's not like people play this game for the story anyways, they just care about the freaking online mode... Which isn't even fun anyways because people use nothing but glitches and cheats to get themselves to the top of the list.
As much as a fan I am with Bioshock, I am absolutely surprised that it made it all the way up to the third best game of all time. I get that the atmosphere of the game is different, a heck of a lot different than the games I've played and the story is one of the best, but to declare it as the third greatest game is a bit too much.
Not to mention... where in the world is Tomb Raider? I would have thought that Tomb Raider would be in the top twenty somewhere because this game not only brought happiness to male gamers, but also brought a whole new world of challenge for us gamers to endure. I guess Uncharted is the new Tomb Raider, which is understandable because after Angel of Darkness, Tomb Raider's series just sucked big time and it doesn't help that their reboot won't be in our hands until next year... And no, I'm not those lunatics believing that December 21st bullshit is real.
As a huge Mortal Kombat fan, I am ticked that it's that low in the list. 72, really? The way that these hosts were explaining it, the game brought a new level of controversy to us gamers in the arcades. Which it did with its massive amount of gore and violence that we've never seen before. To say something like that means great honor to the game. But unfortunately, I guess that, it depends on how many people play the damn game because as you can tell, a whole bunch of online games are in the top twenty, and Mortal Kombat doesn't really have that big of an online community (since after four months, the online play just slowly deteriorates). But then when we get to the next game, Wing Commander 2, you hear the hosts talking about how the game made them look at cats differently. Nothing really about the game, despite that the game before, they went into so much detail about how it changed video games when it first came out.
Since I'm bashing about how those two games were talked about, let me go into detail about these pathetic hosts. Yeah, I'm calling each and every person that was talking about these games pathetic becuase they were. They were trying to make this whole show be like "I Love the (70's-00s)" and crack out funny comments every so often. It would have been funny if these guys didn't fail at their own work. I'm sorry, but I cannot stand Morgan Webb anymore, I hate her sarcastic personality and her way of trying to make us realize she's trying to be funny is getting on my nerves. These other people couldn't have been more of a bore to me than watching a romance movie. These guys failed at trying to make this show a bit more entertaining while I'm perplexed at the monstrosity of how this list was composed.
To say that Metal Gear Solid doesn't deserve to be in the top twenty, since I feel that this is what the list is telling me, is a great huge insult to the guy who made it, Hideo Kojima. This guy created one hell of an awesome series. Metal Gear Solid 4 was the first game that ever brought tears in my eyes when watching it because that damn ending got to me! To see Snake and his father, one on one made me just... Ugh, it was amazing. And it's not like Metal Gear Solid didn't bring anything new to us. This game DEFINED what a stealth game is all about. I hate that damn alert noise (despite I'm trying ever so hard to figure out how to change my text message alert sound to it... stupid MyTouch) when I get spotted and there's absolutely no way I can ever get the Big Boss Emblem despite that I feel like I could. This game was one of THE best games I ever played and I am certain so many will agree. But to see this game come in 45th place... and having Grand Theft Auto 4 come after it, I felt that was nothing but an insult. I love Grand Theft Auto 4, but I certainly do not believe that the game is better than Metal Gear Solid.
Lastly, let me go into one more rant about these app games that also appeared on this list. To say that Pong isn't greater than a Scrabble spin-off should definitely wake up old school gamers and protest in front of the offices of G4 to change that. No, there is absolutely no way I'm allowing Words with Friends to be known as a better game than Pong. Pong was one of the first games to hit consoles, I'm not going to say that it was the first game ever because there's been proof that there are other games in existence before it. But still, this game isn't better than Words with Friends? Why? Because unlike Pong, Words with Friends made headlines because some shitty actor went into child mode and refuse to end his turn for a plane to leave? Come on, that's horrible. And to have Angry Birds be on this list as well. No. The game is popular, and I do own Seasons and Space. But you know what? I grow bored of them within minutes I play the game. I can take the entire game and beat it within one-two hours max if I have absolutely nothing going on with my life for those two hours. But to have it come after Sonic the Hedgehog? Are you fucking kidding me?
Sonic the Hedgehog was like, the first game to ever create console rivalries. You were either a Nintendo fan and sided with Mario or you were a Sega fan and sided with Sonic. You were either collecting Stars or collecting Emeralds. You were either jumping underneath blocks or you were running as fast as light almost. These two games were at each others throats for the longest time and to sit here and see that colorful birds and decapitated ill pigs were better than a rival to one of the biggest mascots of video game history? Please.
I am literally convinced that this list was composed by a bunch of people that never played old school games. I couldn't believe that a lot of great games were placed so low in the list, such as Mega Man, Contra, Wolfenstein and, Super Metroid. Those games helped made frustration possible but we still deemed to beat them. To have games defy a generation be considered not as great as a game that doesn't deserve to be in front of it feels like an insult to all those who have played it and created it. I couldn't believe some of the placings of games that don't deserve to be that ranked. It's not right, and I hate G4 for ever making this list possible. There's a reason why this channel is dying and its because of bias losers who thinks Call of Duty is worth playing rather than a game that helped changed the way we view a few video games. It's impossible to come up with a list that people will agree on, I get that... But I'm not the only one who thinks this list was nothing but utter shit.
I'm the Kitty, one angry one if I could add, and honestly, I'm not happy with this list... As you can tell.
>'-'<
Sunday, June 10, 2012
Mario Party 2 Works Well In Relationships... I'm Not Kidding
Mario Party 2 is a game I desperately wanted back into my N64 collection. I successfully own a Mario Party 2 copy since last Friday. My boyfriend and I would play this game with another couple two years ago, and what was so funny was that we'd play teams.
We're Team Yoshi, and we're freakishly evil, smart, and know all the tricks to be number 1! I say this because I've always been a mastermind behind getting so many stars in one game and using items and saving coins extremely well, he'd be the brains on strategic plans to screw another person really, REALLY badly. We would always end up winning every time we've played.
While we work together as a team, we still work together when we compete against each other. Which is cute when the two of us would battle it out in most mini-games. Sadly, one of us ends up being the winner, and right now it's 2-1 me. Hopefully, in a few weeks, I can get two more controllers and a few of our friends might have some space in their schedules to take time out to play some games.
Having this game in my possession again made me remember all of the fun times and the bad times with this game. You know that moment where the computer tends to do something incredibly stupid and you just cannot cope with how they just basically gave you the win right there and then. I mean, some of these moves they made are so goofy!
For example:
It's Peach (me), Luigi (boyfriend), Mario and Wario on hard mode. Wario won an item, the Chest, and has it stored in his possession for a very long time. Mario gets a Chest as well. It's Wario's turn and he decides that he's going to steal Mario's Chest to be his Chest...
And then that later turned into where he steals my fucking Golden Mushroom when I won one.
But we could not cope with how stupid that move was. And you know what? Mario probably would have done the same thing if he was the last person to make a move!
Some of the mini-games can be incredibly cheap for no fucking reason. And that "fuck" is put there for a good reason. The mini-game where you're jumping rope over fire. We're playing against two hard computers. Put them on normal, they will not get past the 25th turn. So of course, this changes when you're playing on hard. For some ungodly reason, the game locks our jump button, causing Peach and Luigi to just stand, despite that we both press A to jump, at the 25th turn. We thought that maybe we didn't hit the button at the right time. Unfortunately, it's not us, it's the damn game! How? We had this game come up one more time... Did the same exact thing to us.
Some games could really make a mess of things. 2vs.2 and you're flying an air ship through rainbows and avoiding obstacles being blasted at you. If you're the pilot, you can virutally win the round. Have a computer control where you go... You're screwed. My boyfriend believed that Wario is officially the worst pilot in this game... Because I was watching the entire time, he kept being driven into the wall! (Clouds)
I can be fun with how many people you play as long as you know how what you're doing. If you're completely clueless and don't really have an idea of what you're going to do within the next few rolls, you're not going to get pretty far. Other times, your plans might get changed, but you can always find a way to fix that.
For example:
I had enough coins to buy me a Magic Lamp, an item that makes you get to Toad instantly when used. I thought Mario, who was in front of me, was going to buy that and he had enough coins for it. It's 30... He, instead, buys a Mushroom. So I thought I might take advantage of his mistake... Unfortunately, I did not get to the item house quick enough because that item I wanted, the Magic Lamp, was nowhere to be found. And of course, whenever I landed on a Item circle... Boo Bell and the Magic Lamp don't pop up... Damn. Instead, I figured I just go talk to Boo when I get a chance. Because having over 50 coins and having three opponents have a star in their possession, I'm bound to get something within a Boo call.
I am destined to find and play all of them as long as I have the systems... I wouldn't mind getting Mario Party 3... I know where to get one for $30. There are games I want to play unfortunately Mario Party 2 doesn't have them all... All I cared for was Look Away.
I KILL in that game! Just sayin'
>'-'<
We're Team Yoshi, and we're freakishly evil, smart, and know all the tricks to be number 1! I say this because I've always been a mastermind behind getting so many stars in one game and using items and saving coins extremely well, he'd be the brains on strategic plans to screw another person really, REALLY badly. We would always end up winning every time we've played.
While we work together as a team, we still work together when we compete against each other. Which is cute when the two of us would battle it out in most mini-games. Sadly, one of us ends up being the winner, and right now it's 2-1 me. Hopefully, in a few weeks, I can get two more controllers and a few of our friends might have some space in their schedules to take time out to play some games.
Having this game in my possession again made me remember all of the fun times and the bad times with this game. You know that moment where the computer tends to do something incredibly stupid and you just cannot cope with how they just basically gave you the win right there and then. I mean, some of these moves they made are so goofy!
For example:
It's Peach (me), Luigi (boyfriend), Mario and Wario on hard mode. Wario won an item, the Chest, and has it stored in his possession for a very long time. Mario gets a Chest as well. It's Wario's turn and he decides that he's going to steal Mario's Chest to be his Chest...
And then that later turned into where he steals my fucking Golden Mushroom when I won one.
But we could not cope with how stupid that move was. And you know what? Mario probably would have done the same thing if he was the last person to make a move!
Some of the mini-games can be incredibly cheap for no fucking reason. And that "fuck" is put there for a good reason. The mini-game where you're jumping rope over fire. We're playing against two hard computers. Put them on normal, they will not get past the 25th turn. So of course, this changes when you're playing on hard. For some ungodly reason, the game locks our jump button, causing Peach and Luigi to just stand, despite that we both press A to jump, at the 25th turn. We thought that maybe we didn't hit the button at the right time. Unfortunately, it's not us, it's the damn game! How? We had this game come up one more time... Did the same exact thing to us.
Some games could really make a mess of things. 2vs.2 and you're flying an air ship through rainbows and avoiding obstacles being blasted at you. If you're the pilot, you can virutally win the round. Have a computer control where you go... You're screwed. My boyfriend believed that Wario is officially the worst pilot in this game... Because I was watching the entire time, he kept being driven into the wall! (Clouds)
I can be fun with how many people you play as long as you know how what you're doing. If you're completely clueless and don't really have an idea of what you're going to do within the next few rolls, you're not going to get pretty far. Other times, your plans might get changed, but you can always find a way to fix that.
For example:
I had enough coins to buy me a Magic Lamp, an item that makes you get to Toad instantly when used. I thought Mario, who was in front of me, was going to buy that and he had enough coins for it. It's 30... He, instead, buys a Mushroom. So I thought I might take advantage of his mistake... Unfortunately, I did not get to the item house quick enough because that item I wanted, the Magic Lamp, was nowhere to be found. And of course, whenever I landed on a Item circle... Boo Bell and the Magic Lamp don't pop up... Damn. Instead, I figured I just go talk to Boo when I get a chance. Because having over 50 coins and having three opponents have a star in their possession, I'm bound to get something within a Boo call.
I am destined to find and play all of them as long as I have the systems... I wouldn't mind getting Mario Party 3... I know where to get one for $30. There are games I want to play unfortunately Mario Party 2 doesn't have them all... All I cared for was Look Away.
I KILL in that game! Just sayin'
>'-'<
Friday, June 1, 2012
Perfect Questions for Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark and Goldeneye helped defy first-person shooter games during the late 90s. Goldeneye made it fun first with the countless of different weapons, characters and levels for multiplayer, Perfect Dark doubled that. What’s interesting about Perfect Dark’s multiplayer in general was it’s amazing ability to add computer AI to fight against if you’re not playing with anyone. You can spend nearly hours just fighting against random scenarios in multiplayer whether it’s challenges or modes that you designed by yourself. But there’s always been a few questions I’ve asked myself while playing against these characters...
I LOVE the proximity mines, especially in the level Villa. I know where to place them where enemies fly through the most, and I usually get up to eight kills just planting a mine in a particular area with the staircases. Yes, I am evil like that, but no one said anything about playing fair with the proximity mines. But here comes my question... Why do the AI not use these mines? They’re comfortable throwing the timed mines as well as the remote mines. Granted that they don’t use the secondary function with the remote mines, they still throw them. But why not the proximity mines? I’ve never once seen any AI throw them at me or other enemies or just at randomness.
Something else with the proximity mines is how they never get collected. I also have them be used in the sixth slot of the custom weapons list. Whenever I’m playing in the Villa or the Facility, it’s noticeable how these guys avoid the areas where this weapon is located at... But yet, they’re being collected still, and I guess I’m to thank for since I’m normally running around the area, trying to avoid being bombarded with bullets by both Dark sims and Kaze Sims
Another thing is, how come these guys weren’t really programmed to use the secondary function? Well... despite that I’ve seen an AI pistol whip against another enemy, because he was holding a gun and yes he was a KazeSim fighting against another KazeSim, still. Why don’t they use the secondary function? But, there’s another weird thing to bring into this question... they DO know how to use the secondary function... just with certain kinds of weapons.
The Super Dragon has a grenade launcher for its secondary function, and sometimes the simulants will use that against other enemies. The Pheonix has explosive shells for its secondary function, and the simulants will use that against other enemies. The Crossbow has a one-hit kill dart for its secondary function, and the sims LOVE using that function. (I hate that) The Combat Knife has a poisonous knife that you throw for its secondary function. Just seeing straight arms lifted in midair, aiming their knife at me and throwing without moving their arms is just a laughing scene. It’s cute. And the RC-P120 has a cloak ability that they ALWAYS use. The Slayer, which has a Fly-Bye-Wire Rocket and they do use that... Especially when you have to come across them in a challenge every so often. And last but not least, the Unarmed weapon... your fists... They normally disarm you when you’re the one that has a weapon and not them. but they also hurt you as well... Which isn’t right because when I use the disarm function, I don’t give out damage. Maybe they just change it immediately after they knock your gun out of the hand... Although I seriously hate it when a KazeSim pins me down and NEVER STOPS PUNCHING ME... (Grr)
Here’s a list of guns that they DON’T even bother use the secondary function, I’m also counting the ones I hardly see but I know that they kind do:
All three Falcons
Laptop Gun
AR34 - Despite that it really doesn’t have a secondary function
DY357
DY357-LX (The Golden Revolver)
Shotgun
K7 Avenger - Despite that it doesn’t really have a secondary function
Dragon
Rocket Launcher
Devastator
FarSight XR-20
Mauler
Reaper
MagSec 4
Cyclone
Sniper Rifle
Tranquilizer - Despite that it HAS a one-hit kill function
Grenade
Remote Mine
N-Bomb
I get it, this was brand new at the time and in full development, but I never really quite understood how these critters just don’t do these things. You’d expect Dark Sim, the toughest sim right next to Kaze sim in a round with nothing but assault rifles, to actually do something different. But the only thing that’s amazing about them is their perfect ability to hit you, even when running past.
Speaking about these Kaze sims, I’m amazed at how crazy they can really be. I mean, they fallow you, they punch you countless of times, and when two are pitted against each other, they’re just standing still, despite the punching noise is playing around them. They don’t even look like they’re punching each other, and they don’t sound like they’re taking damage at all. So, why is that? Why are they punching each other and not hitting them when they’re standing at close range towards each other where they should be getting hit!
I LOVE multiplayer mode for Perfect Dark, and I don't intend on stop playing, even if the system is almost 20 years old.
>’-’<
I LOVE the proximity mines, especially in the level Villa. I know where to place them where enemies fly through the most, and I usually get up to eight kills just planting a mine in a particular area with the staircases. Yes, I am evil like that, but no one said anything about playing fair with the proximity mines. But here comes my question... Why do the AI not use these mines? They’re comfortable throwing the timed mines as well as the remote mines. Granted that they don’t use the secondary function with the remote mines, they still throw them. But why not the proximity mines? I’ve never once seen any AI throw them at me or other enemies or just at randomness.
Something else with the proximity mines is how they never get collected. I also have them be used in the sixth slot of the custom weapons list. Whenever I’m playing in the Villa or the Facility, it’s noticeable how these guys avoid the areas where this weapon is located at... But yet, they’re being collected still, and I guess I’m to thank for since I’m normally running around the area, trying to avoid being bombarded with bullets by both Dark sims and Kaze Sims
Another thing is, how come these guys weren’t really programmed to use the secondary function? Well... despite that I’ve seen an AI pistol whip against another enemy, because he was holding a gun and yes he was a KazeSim fighting against another KazeSim, still. Why don’t they use the secondary function? But, there’s another weird thing to bring into this question... they DO know how to use the secondary function... just with certain kinds of weapons.
The Super Dragon has a grenade launcher for its secondary function, and sometimes the simulants will use that against other enemies. The Pheonix has explosive shells for its secondary function, and the simulants will use that against other enemies. The Crossbow has a one-hit kill dart for its secondary function, and the sims LOVE using that function. (I hate that) The Combat Knife has a poisonous knife that you throw for its secondary function. Just seeing straight arms lifted in midair, aiming their knife at me and throwing without moving their arms is just a laughing scene. It’s cute. And the RC-P120 has a cloak ability that they ALWAYS use. The Slayer, which has a Fly-Bye-Wire Rocket and they do use that... Especially when you have to come across them in a challenge every so often. And last but not least, the Unarmed weapon... your fists... They normally disarm you when you’re the one that has a weapon and not them. but they also hurt you as well... Which isn’t right because when I use the disarm function, I don’t give out damage. Maybe they just change it immediately after they knock your gun out of the hand... Although I seriously hate it when a KazeSim pins me down and NEVER STOPS PUNCHING ME... (Grr)
Here’s a list of guns that they DON’T even bother use the secondary function, I’m also counting the ones I hardly see but I know that they kind do:
All three Falcons
Laptop Gun
AR34 - Despite that it really doesn’t have a secondary function
DY357
DY357-LX (The Golden Revolver)
Shotgun
K7 Avenger - Despite that it doesn’t really have a secondary function
Dragon
Rocket Launcher
Devastator
FarSight XR-20
Mauler
Reaper
MagSec 4
Cyclone
Sniper Rifle
Tranquilizer - Despite that it HAS a one-hit kill function
Grenade
Remote Mine
N-Bomb
I get it, this was brand new at the time and in full development, but I never really quite understood how these critters just don’t do these things. You’d expect Dark Sim, the toughest sim right next to Kaze sim in a round with nothing but assault rifles, to actually do something different. But the only thing that’s amazing about them is their perfect ability to hit you, even when running past.
Speaking about these Kaze sims, I’m amazed at how crazy they can really be. I mean, they fallow you, they punch you countless of times, and when two are pitted against each other, they’re just standing still, despite the punching noise is playing around them. They don’t even look like they’re punching each other, and they don’t sound like they’re taking damage at all. So, why is that? Why are they punching each other and not hitting them when they’re standing at close range towards each other where they should be getting hit!
I LOVE multiplayer mode for Perfect Dark, and I don't intend on stop playing, even if the system is almost 20 years old.
>’-’<
Monday, May 28, 2012
Russain Square Plus
This was an awesome computer game to play back during the early 2000s when Windows had some new update. It also had quite a soundtrack, I managed to download all three songs, they're really great to listen to. But the one thing that this game had was it's challenge. This game had quite a challenge during the last few levels, and if you have no idea what you're doing, you're basically going to lose the game.
The entire objective of the game is to clear the board. Well, how are you supposed to do so? Well, each level has a small squared-shape board with different colored squares. You're supposed to match up each color by placing them either vertically or horizontally in the square. You cannot match them diagonally. I believe as soon as you reach the fifth level, it becomes a bit harder. There's also a time limit during each level. There is no game over until you reach the ninth level. If time runs out and you're on the ninth level, then you lose. But, if you somehow have the timer run out on level three, it just adds a new line of colors that you have to try to eliminate. The challenge though is when you're at level nine and you're just about there eliminating all of the lines. The timer gets ridiculously fast and if you don't react as fast as the timer, you're going to get quite a lot of those blocks getting added back onto your square.
How do you get the blocks to move? You just use the directional keys. Yeah, I cannot tell you how close I came to carpel tunnel with how fast I pressed those keys.
There is another challenge though...
There will be something called a "Stopper" that will randomly choose one square to lock onto for a limited time. This prevents you from moving the entire line of blocks up or down. It mainly stays in the inside of the square, never on the outside lines. There's only two of them that will spring up throughout the later levels of the game. You can get rid of these things. Hopefully, they land on one of the colors that you're working on to eliminate. Once you see the Stoppers landing on a color that you're working on, you're going to frantically get the remaining colors in that line before the Stopper moves to another block. They will not come back after you eliminate them, even if a line was added to your square.
What's interesting about this game is the music. During the first few levels, the music isn't really as catchy as you listen to. You're basically building the game's music to become catchier throughout the game. So there's like a repeated loop that slowly plays for like the first three levels. Then, the music becomes more tense and powerful as you go through the levels. The music will also change depending on what level the square is at. So, let's say you're playing level nine and you managed to eliminate the lines down to where you're at level six, so the music is going to change drastically towards the eliminated blocks. But, if you somehow let time pass you and get more blocks added back into your square, the music will go back to that specific spot.
I really wish there was someway to get my hands back onto that game. I really don't know how anyone can get it now and days. There was another game that came out for Windows during this time, I forgot the name of it though. It was this maze game where you have to guide this ball through a series of different mazes while avoiding holes and each level has a particular theme to it. I really miss this game.
>'-'<
The entire objective of the game is to clear the board. Well, how are you supposed to do so? Well, each level has a small squared-shape board with different colored squares. You're supposed to match up each color by placing them either vertically or horizontally in the square. You cannot match them diagonally. I believe as soon as you reach the fifth level, it becomes a bit harder. There's also a time limit during each level. There is no game over until you reach the ninth level. If time runs out and you're on the ninth level, then you lose. But, if you somehow have the timer run out on level three, it just adds a new line of colors that you have to try to eliminate. The challenge though is when you're at level nine and you're just about there eliminating all of the lines. The timer gets ridiculously fast and if you don't react as fast as the timer, you're going to get quite a lot of those blocks getting added back onto your square.
How do you get the blocks to move? You just use the directional keys. Yeah, I cannot tell you how close I came to carpel tunnel with how fast I pressed those keys.
There is another challenge though...
There will be something called a "Stopper" that will randomly choose one square to lock onto for a limited time. This prevents you from moving the entire line of blocks up or down. It mainly stays in the inside of the square, never on the outside lines. There's only two of them that will spring up throughout the later levels of the game. You can get rid of these things. Hopefully, they land on one of the colors that you're working on to eliminate. Once you see the Stoppers landing on a color that you're working on, you're going to frantically get the remaining colors in that line before the Stopper moves to another block. They will not come back after you eliminate them, even if a line was added to your square.
What's interesting about this game is the music. During the first few levels, the music isn't really as catchy as you listen to. You're basically building the game's music to become catchier throughout the game. So there's like a repeated loop that slowly plays for like the first three levels. Then, the music becomes more tense and powerful as you go through the levels. The music will also change depending on what level the square is at. So, let's say you're playing level nine and you managed to eliminate the lines down to where you're at level six, so the music is going to change drastically towards the eliminated blocks. But, if you somehow let time pass you and get more blocks added back into your square, the music will go back to that specific spot.
I really wish there was someway to get my hands back onto that game. I really don't know how anyone can get it now and days. There was another game that came out for Windows during this time, I forgot the name of it though. It was this maze game where you have to guide this ball through a series of different mazes while avoiding holes and each level has a particular theme to it. I really miss this game.
>'-'<
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