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.
>'-'<
Friday, October 26, 2012
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.
>'-'<
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