Heeeeeeeeeeey guys. Sorry for leaving you for so long, but I just couldnt write anything. Nothing that spectacular happened, as well as me getting into developing Necropolis and starting college. However, I think I might just have something. Gears of War 3. Oh boy is this game AMAZING.
Lets start with the campaign. I have only just finished Act 2, but damn its the best campaign ive played in a LONG time. The dialogue? Spot on. The pacing? Spot on. Its incredibly difficult to find faults with it. Even when playing Co-Op its still great (If not better, because the AI can get a little derpy sometimes. For example, playing on Hardcore and getting hit by Gunkers is pretty much guarenteed to down you, and half the time your dopey AI wont even bother to get you up causing you to restart the checkpoint) because you can work to each others strengths. Got a friend thats a crack shot with a sniper? Let him grab all the Longshots. Got a friend that is amazing with the Boomshot? Find the hidden Boomshots around the levels for them. I could go on obviously :P Carrying on, I have high hopes, and quite a bit of dread. I've heard that Dom dies (Although thats not 100% certain, god I hope it isnt. Dom is awesome), but I cant wait to get home tonight and kick some Locust ass, and hopefully snuff out Queen Myrah.
As for Multiplayer? Love it. Same old Gears formula with some added awesome. Played a couple of maps, with my favourite being 'Thrashball'. Its fairly small map with a couple of narrow lanes for shotgunning and charging down with the Retro Lancer (Oh my god the Retro Lancer IS THE BEST WEAPON IN THE HISTORY OF EVERYTHING, FO' REAL). I love how you can unlock skins for the weapons too, and how they tied in some things unlocking for achievements in Gears 2, means I have some incentive to go back and unlock them because im a huge collectibles fan. Also PLENTY of awards, medals and ribbons to be unlocked, so im going to be upto my eyes in content for a while. Long enough even to put off buying Battlefield 3 and Skyrim.
As for the other modes, Horde and Beast, im REALLY happy with them. Horde 2.0 expands on teh old horde gameplay with fortifications and boss waves. Boss waves! So far ive seen a Lambent Berserker (It killed me, they are ridiculously hard to kill) and ive heard of a Brumak appearing too. As for how the game plays out? Love it. You build up a base type thing with a control post (There are several hotpoints for these around the maps, so you can pick your favourite) and various defence. Initially you can only build spike strips, but as you build more and repair them, your skill levels up allowing you to upgrade them into barb wire fences, build turrets and decoys, and a whole plethora of other defences. all of this is funded by cash you earn for killing locust in between waves. However, you do also need to buy weapons (If you dont find them from the fallen locust that is) and ammo from boxes for a cheap pricetag. Beast mode on the otherhand, is a refreshing take on Horde. You play as the Locust and try to eliminate increasingly harder waves of COG, starting with a handful of stranded, and gradually adding members and heroes, culminating in a final wave of Prescott and a group of Onyx Guard. Initially you have access to the first tier of Locust troops, being a Melée Ticker (That can destroy structures and eat ammo), a standard, Explosive Ticker, a Savage Drone equipped with a Retro Lancer, and a Butcher. The general rule of thumb is the bigger the Locust, the more they cost to spawn as (You get money for killing COG and breaking their stuff, aswell as a form of 'Experience' that lets you access higher tiers when you level up). When you get the Berserker, you are nigh on unstopable, with a friend only dying once in a game, on the last wave, because Prescott used the Hammer of Dawn on him. :P
All in all, im am incredibly happy with this game, with all of the stuff you can do and the replayability (Cant wait to play Arcade with Sam, Jordan(Possibly) and Harry(Another possibly) and kick their asses with my pro scores). Should keep me tided over until january at least, possibly february.
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Ohai there Mr Facebook Rapist, how are you.
So recently, i haven't really done much of any interest, whatsoever. I made a forum, sure, but other than that, my days have been spent playing either Swat 4 with 4 others (Man, co-op in that game is so fun when people don't open doors randomly and shoot to kill), rediscovering Dungeon Keeper 2 (90's gaming at its finest right there ladies and gentlemen) and dabbling in a bit of League of Legends. Just yesterday however, a friend of mine was Facebook Raped, which lead to both, massive lulz and my first topic of the day.
Facebook Rapists! You always rape innocent people and come onto me? Why? Nothing will come of it when your on some one else's profile, for starters, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE! In seriousness though. Why even bother? Sure, its fun to log onto your best friends Facebook and put the obligatory 'Hi my name is Dave and im gay' or 'Hi im Jewish and what' but going so far as to message people? Thats where its getting out of hand. Personally, i always have a laugh, but i know people that if they were messaged by someone randomly asking for a blowjob or something, they would be like, WTF?! And block them immediately. If you have any thoughts you would like to share on the topic of Facebook Rape, please leave them in the comments below.
As some of you may know, i tend to frequent a few message boards. The otehr day, i saw a topic that made me cringe. What do you want to see in MW3. My initial thoughts were thus - an actual skill based fps that hasnt been dumbed down for 13 year old mouthbreathers and owners of girl voices even though they are clearly male. I want a game that promotes teamplay, not some rambofest. Then i saw a reply that i liked, and remembered a game i used to play. It read thusly: 'What do i want to see in MW3? Well, a copy of Battlefield 3 in the case would be better than anything they could do to MW3.' and i totally agree. Battlefield is THE most successful team/tactical FPS created. Go ahead and deny it you silly console gamers, but you know deep down that im right. Lets run a little list of Battlefields key features shall we? Balanced guns? Check. No retarded killstreak rewards? Check. Squad based objective combat? Check. A full chain of command complete with a commander who can support his troops with artillery, UAV's, Supply and Vehicle drops? Check.
My point is this. Battlefield 3 will be about 9001% better than anything Craptivision can chuck out at the masses.
I cant really think of anything for anymore content today, so i will leave you with a mere two paragraphs. However, if you are a fellow PC Gamer, be sure to visit http://barons-lan-community.allyogame.com/ for a fun LAN gaming community. Thank you, and good night ;)
Facebook Rapists! You always rape innocent people and come onto me? Why? Nothing will come of it when your on some one else's profile, for starters, I DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE! In seriousness though. Why even bother? Sure, its fun to log onto your best friends Facebook and put the obligatory 'Hi my name is Dave and im gay' or 'Hi im Jewish and what' but going so far as to message people? Thats where its getting out of hand. Personally, i always have a laugh, but i know people that if they were messaged by someone randomly asking for a blowjob or something, they would be like, WTF?! And block them immediately. If you have any thoughts you would like to share on the topic of Facebook Rape, please leave them in the comments below.
As some of you may know, i tend to frequent a few message boards. The otehr day, i saw a topic that made me cringe. What do you want to see in MW3. My initial thoughts were thus - an actual skill based fps that hasnt been dumbed down for 13 year old mouthbreathers and owners of girl voices even though they are clearly male. I want a game that promotes teamplay, not some rambofest. Then i saw a reply that i liked, and remembered a game i used to play. It read thusly: 'What do i want to see in MW3? Well, a copy of Battlefield 3 in the case would be better than anything they could do to MW3.' and i totally agree. Battlefield is THE most successful team/tactical FPS created. Go ahead and deny it you silly console gamers, but you know deep down that im right. Lets run a little list of Battlefields key features shall we? Balanced guns? Check. No retarded killstreak rewards? Check. Squad based objective combat? Check. A full chain of command complete with a commander who can support his troops with artillery, UAV's, Supply and Vehicle drops? Check.
My point is this. Battlefield 3 will be about 9001% better than anything Craptivision can chuck out at the masses.
I cant really think of anything for anymore content today, so i will leave you with a mere two paragraphs. However, if you are a fellow PC Gamer, be sure to visit http://barons-lan-community.allyogame.com/ for a fun LAN gaming community. Thank you, and good night ;)
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Microwaves. How THE FUCK do they work?!
Yes, I am indeed writing a second post! REJOICE! In all seriousness though, its about 11:45, im bored, im hungry, and I need something to do. It just so happens, that I have a couple of things to get down here, and so, without further ado, I present, the great Rustler BBQ Rib fiasco.
So the other day, I was feeling rather peckish, so I fished around in the fridge for something to eat (Not literally, my fridge is NOT a fish tank) and found a Rustlers BBQ Rib (For those of you who do not hail from England, or just don't know, Rustlers produce rather tasty microwaveable snacks that are most notable for the fact they are done in LITERALLY SECONDS. Perfect for a lazy guy like me). I proceeded to rip the packaging apart and put the actual rib meat on a plate, and place it in the microwave so I could put the buns in the toaster, and then both could finish at about the same time. Here's the catch. My microwave is SHIT and doesn't have an exact timer, it has a dial. So i put the bun in the toaster, it popped and i flipped it. But I forgot to turn the microwave off. Assembling my snack, it was piping hot certainly, but when i took a bite it felt like I was biting into a damned house brick. Moral of this story? Get a good microwave.
I used to play League of Legends pretty religiously, but recently I stopped, for no reason what so ever. Now, with the release of the latest champion, Renekton (HES A FUCKING AWESOME OP CROCODILE MAN, HOW COULD I NOT PLAY THIS GUY) I decided to come back. Now, while I save my Influence Points to purchase him, I played his brother, Nasus (Hes a fucking awesome op anubisath man, so I play this guy) as a tank. Now, this guys ultimate makes him AN ABSOLUTE BEAST. I gain a shit ton of health, a 4% life drain aura around me and my attack damage increases relevant to the amount of hostile units around me. How could you not like to play this guy. But yeah, I have had a LOT of fun with this guy, rolling with cleanse to bait at towers is so pro. Want to join in on the fun? http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/en/signup/index?ref=4c3db15aa2cf4 <-- Use that link to signup and download the EU client. Add me, MxLionheart, and I might setup some private matches (Depending how many of you decide to play)
Now, for another Warcraft related post. Again, you can skip this if you like, in the future, all of them shall be the last thing i cover :). Apart from my level 70 twink project (Which again, ill cover that later) im levelling a resto druid. So the last time I healed PROPERLY was Burning Crusade, as a holy paladin (Lol im gonna use holy light all the time and just heal everything) when you could practically cast heals all day long and not go oom. Now, playing my druid, its an entirely different story. I cast 7 Regrowth's, and bam, all my mana is gone. Learning to play conservatively has been hard, but I think ive done it now. The downside (Upside maybe) is that i get a lot of time to sit around doing nothing. Instant (Almost) queues are good for levelling too, and im sure my brother enjoys them too.
So then, my second post. Im quite enjoying this to be perfectly honest. With this post, i will leave you with a question: Horror, or Romance?
So the other day, I was feeling rather peckish, so I fished around in the fridge for something to eat (Not literally, my fridge is NOT a fish tank) and found a Rustlers BBQ Rib (For those of you who do not hail from England, or just don't know, Rustlers produce rather tasty microwaveable snacks that are most notable for the fact they are done in LITERALLY SECONDS. Perfect for a lazy guy like me). I proceeded to rip the packaging apart and put the actual rib meat on a plate, and place it in the microwave so I could put the buns in the toaster, and then both could finish at about the same time. Here's the catch. My microwave is SHIT and doesn't have an exact timer, it has a dial. So i put the bun in the toaster, it popped and i flipped it. But I forgot to turn the microwave off. Assembling my snack, it was piping hot certainly, but when i took a bite it felt like I was biting into a damned house brick. Moral of this story? Get a good microwave.
I used to play League of Legends pretty religiously, but recently I stopped, for no reason what so ever. Now, with the release of the latest champion, Renekton (HES A FUCKING AWESOME OP CROCODILE MAN, HOW COULD I NOT PLAY THIS GUY) I decided to come back. Now, while I save my Influence Points to purchase him, I played his brother, Nasus (Hes a fucking awesome op anubisath man, so I play this guy) as a tank. Now, this guys ultimate makes him AN ABSOLUTE BEAST. I gain a shit ton of health, a 4% life drain aura around me and my attack damage increases relevant to the amount of hostile units around me. How could you not like to play this guy. But yeah, I have had a LOT of fun with this guy, rolling with cleanse to bait at towers is so pro. Want to join in on the fun? http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/en/signup/index?ref=4c3db15aa2cf4 <-- Use that link to signup and download the EU client. Add me, MxLionheart, and I might setup some private matches (Depending how many of you decide to play)
Now, for another Warcraft related post. Again, you can skip this if you like, in the future, all of them shall be the last thing i cover :). Apart from my level 70 twink project (Which again, ill cover that later) im levelling a resto druid. So the last time I healed PROPERLY was Burning Crusade, as a holy paladin (Lol im gonna use holy light all the time and just heal everything) when you could practically cast heals all day long and not go oom. Now, playing my druid, its an entirely different story. I cast 7 Regrowth's, and bam, all my mana is gone. Learning to play conservatively has been hard, but I think ive done it now. The downside (Upside maybe) is that i get a lot of time to sit around doing nothing. Instant (Almost) queues are good for levelling too, and im sure my brother enjoys them too.
So then, my second post. Im quite enjoying this to be perfectly honest. With this post, i will leave you with a question: Horror, or Romance?
Sunday, 16 January 2011
The Big (Well, not so big) Oh-One.
After nearly 3 years, I decided to write a blog. I don't really expect this to be read by many people (Or really, anyone at all) yet... something tells me inside that I have to do it. As such, it will contain my thoughts on notable events that have occurred in the past few days. Naturally, sometime my posts will be long, sometimes short, sometimes every day, sometimes you might not see one for a week or two. I will however, endeavour to make it interesting, on the off chance that some one may take a sideways look and go 'wow, this guy seems like a pretty cool guy'.
Alright, formalities out of the way, I shall begin with sharing my thoughts on a small little game from 1999. Yes, I am indeed talking Unreal Tournament. So the other night, me and two of my brothers were sat around, thinking of things to do. We sat for a good hour, just discussing different things to do; Continue levelling our worgen for our level 70 arena project (More on that sometime), Play some Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 (At which i am the WORST player, I got beaten as John Cena by my younger brother playing Kane, so im kinda ashamed and said I don't want to play that again, naturally), watch TV (Because Saturday night TV is SO entertaining. Just about as entertaining as watching a game of darts, or football). It was after much deliberation that my older brother said 'Aight, lets play Unreal Tournament, im sure there's a copy lying around somewhere', so promptly we began searching for it, and find it we did. It took only moments to install (Today's PC's are so much quicker than the calculators it used to run on!) and in the time I installed it on all three computers, I noticed a rather distinct flashing on my taskbar. A school friend of mine wanted in on the fun, so i booted up hamachi, and away we went. We spent maybe 3 hours blasting away at each other, and at bots in CTF and Assault, and I must say, those three hours were amongst the most fun I have ever had, and as such I am now looking to get a few more of my friends involved, and maybe even make a Saturday night LAN night or something. My only criticism with the game would be this - the weaponry available is fine and dandy, but I have developed an unhealthy loathing for the Biosludge rifle. I cannot handle it for the life of me, yet always when others use it on me, I am melted into a puddle of green goo in literally seconds. I guess its just more work on my twitch reflexes, and maybe an increase to the game speed, and I should be fine.
Next up on my lists of things to cover in this post would be a rather... peculiar encounter in my local town centre with what me and my brothers thought was a gay-rapist-paedophile-christian. He may not have been, and may have genuinely just wanted to spread the word of god, but the manner in which he presented himself, kinda threw us of guard. So this story begins with use sat near the clock tower, waiting for some people whom we were supposed to be meeting. Now, we just happened to get their a tad too early, and there were several christians spouting their religious nonsense (Please, don't take offence, because no matter what religion you are, im sure we could be good friends) so after finding an ample spot to nestle ourselves while we wait, we decided to listen, for we had nothing better to do, when one of them comes over to have a chat with us and gives us some leaflets. We politely listen, nod, smile and say 'yes' a few times as appropriate, in the hopes he would bugger off, when all of a sudden he comes out with 'your flies are open' to which I promptly reply with a 'yeah, they are kinda... broken' (Which they are, the zip no longer zips, and the zipper just goes up and down awkwardly) and we laugh. It was shortly after this that he pulls out another leaflet, this one, was visibly worn, and clearly had nothing to do with christianity what so ever. It was a football thing, which he passed to my younger brother, and said 'hey, if any of you ever need to talk to me about god, or praying, do not hesitate to ring me on my mobile number here' and he pointed to a small box with his name (David) and his (Maybe, we don't really want to try it for fear of him tracking it and raping us) mobile number. We say that of course we will and that we should really get going. He lets us know that god is with us and we flee the scene, to the refuge of a manga store. It was a really weird experience, and pretty uncomfortable at that. My advice to you is to never let weird religious types anywhere near you without good reason, or you may find yourself in a situation like ours.
The last thing i shall cover, merely because it is the least interesting, and maybe the thing most of you wont connect with, is the attitude with running Cataclysm Heroics in World of Warcraft. Now, I know a lot of you may frown at this, but that is why i placed this part at the end, so you can skip it if you wish. Staying with me? Good. Many of the players over at MMO-Champion are venting their frustration at incompetent players in their groups. Now, I have yet to find any of these so called 'wrath-babies'. Why? I don't know. Maybe im lucky. I decided to roll a mage, being the only class I haven't played properly yet, and I noticed the only heirloom armour piece i was missing, apart from obviously the Guild Level 20 requiring helms, was the cloth chest, a certain 2175 Justice Point costing Tattered Dreadmist Robe. After purchasing an item level 346 belt the night before, my JP balance was down to about 200 or so. That meant a LOT of heroics. Now, in those runs, I came across no ninjas, no one that was unable to talk english, and no one that couldn't dps marked targets correctly. The only time we had a problem was when a three man guild run (A tank and two dps, leaving only me, whom I like to think plays a Fury warrior better than the average pugger, and a priest healer from a different realm to either the guild or me) in Vortex Pinnacle, arguably THE EASIEST THING EVER MADE, right in front of Baradin Hold's Argolath (Argaloth? I don't know). Now, we had killed the second boss, and had proceeded to the groups of Tol'Vir leading to the final boss. When on of the adds, I forget which, dies, it does a close range aoe knockback, which inadvertently threw me from the edge. This, rather frustratingly teleports anyone unfortunate enough to fall from the platform to the entrance, where they have to make the long run back. Without any warning however, I was removed from the group? Why? That I shall never know. I could see no reason myself, i was second on damage dealt, was third on dps, doing an average of 8k (With my terrible gear, that is somewhat an achievement) and I was, apart from the mage tossing an odd counter spell, the only one interrupting spell casts. Other than this however, my Justice Point farming went without a hitch, and I plan to do it again, in order to get the nice shiny heirloom bow of which i forget its name, but it will have its place on my rogue as a stat stick, and my hunter when i can be motivated to level it (Lol hunters. Not saying they are bad, but they aren't my thing).
That pretty much sums up what i wanted to include today, so uhh... Yeah. I hope this was interesting enough to read for you, and hope you will join me next time!
Alright, formalities out of the way, I shall begin with sharing my thoughts on a small little game from 1999. Yes, I am indeed talking Unreal Tournament. So the other night, me and two of my brothers were sat around, thinking of things to do. We sat for a good hour, just discussing different things to do; Continue levelling our worgen for our level 70 arena project (More on that sometime), Play some Smackdown vs. Raw 2009 (At which i am the WORST player, I got beaten as John Cena by my younger brother playing Kane, so im kinda ashamed and said I don't want to play that again, naturally), watch TV (Because Saturday night TV is SO entertaining. Just about as entertaining as watching a game of darts, or football). It was after much deliberation that my older brother said 'Aight, lets play Unreal Tournament, im sure there's a copy lying around somewhere', so promptly we began searching for it, and find it we did. It took only moments to install (Today's PC's are so much quicker than the calculators it used to run on!) and in the time I installed it on all three computers, I noticed a rather distinct flashing on my taskbar. A school friend of mine wanted in on the fun, so i booted up hamachi, and away we went. We spent maybe 3 hours blasting away at each other, and at bots in CTF and Assault, and I must say, those three hours were amongst the most fun I have ever had, and as such I am now looking to get a few more of my friends involved, and maybe even make a Saturday night LAN night or something. My only criticism with the game would be this - the weaponry available is fine and dandy, but I have developed an unhealthy loathing for the Biosludge rifle. I cannot handle it for the life of me, yet always when others use it on me, I am melted into a puddle of green goo in literally seconds. I guess its just more work on my twitch reflexes, and maybe an increase to the game speed, and I should be fine.
Next up on my lists of things to cover in this post would be a rather... peculiar encounter in my local town centre with what me and my brothers thought was a gay-rapist-paedophile-christian. He may not have been, and may have genuinely just wanted to spread the word of god, but the manner in which he presented himself, kinda threw us of guard. So this story begins with use sat near the clock tower, waiting for some people whom we were supposed to be meeting. Now, we just happened to get their a tad too early, and there were several christians spouting their religious nonsense (Please, don't take offence, because no matter what religion you are, im sure we could be good friends) so after finding an ample spot to nestle ourselves while we wait, we decided to listen, for we had nothing better to do, when one of them comes over to have a chat with us and gives us some leaflets. We politely listen, nod, smile and say 'yes' a few times as appropriate, in the hopes he would bugger off, when all of a sudden he comes out with 'your flies are open' to which I promptly reply with a 'yeah, they are kinda... broken' (Which they are, the zip no longer zips, and the zipper just goes up and down awkwardly) and we laugh. It was shortly after this that he pulls out another leaflet, this one, was visibly worn, and clearly had nothing to do with christianity what so ever. It was a football thing, which he passed to my younger brother, and said 'hey, if any of you ever need to talk to me about god, or praying, do not hesitate to ring me on my mobile number here' and he pointed to a small box with his name (David) and his (Maybe, we don't really want to try it for fear of him tracking it and raping us) mobile number. We say that of course we will and that we should really get going. He lets us know that god is with us and we flee the scene, to the refuge of a manga store. It was a really weird experience, and pretty uncomfortable at that. My advice to you is to never let weird religious types anywhere near you without good reason, or you may find yourself in a situation like ours.
The last thing i shall cover, merely because it is the least interesting, and maybe the thing most of you wont connect with, is the attitude with running Cataclysm Heroics in World of Warcraft. Now, I know a lot of you may frown at this, but that is why i placed this part at the end, so you can skip it if you wish. Staying with me? Good. Many of the players over at MMO-Champion are venting their frustration at incompetent players in their groups. Now, I have yet to find any of these so called 'wrath-babies'. Why? I don't know. Maybe im lucky. I decided to roll a mage, being the only class I haven't played properly yet, and I noticed the only heirloom armour piece i was missing, apart from obviously the Guild Level 20 requiring helms, was the cloth chest, a certain 2175 Justice Point costing Tattered Dreadmist Robe. After purchasing an item level 346 belt the night before, my JP balance was down to about 200 or so. That meant a LOT of heroics. Now, in those runs, I came across no ninjas, no one that was unable to talk english, and no one that couldn't dps marked targets correctly. The only time we had a problem was when a three man guild run (A tank and two dps, leaving only me, whom I like to think plays a Fury warrior better than the average pugger, and a priest healer from a different realm to either the guild or me) in Vortex Pinnacle, arguably THE EASIEST THING EVER MADE, right in front of Baradin Hold's Argolath (Argaloth? I don't know). Now, we had killed the second boss, and had proceeded to the groups of Tol'Vir leading to the final boss. When on of the adds, I forget which, dies, it does a close range aoe knockback, which inadvertently threw me from the edge. This, rather frustratingly teleports anyone unfortunate enough to fall from the platform to the entrance, where they have to make the long run back. Without any warning however, I was removed from the group? Why? That I shall never know. I could see no reason myself, i was second on damage dealt, was third on dps, doing an average of 8k (With my terrible gear, that is somewhat an achievement) and I was, apart from the mage tossing an odd counter spell, the only one interrupting spell casts. Other than this however, my Justice Point farming went without a hitch, and I plan to do it again, in order to get the nice shiny heirloom bow of which i forget its name, but it will have its place on my rogue as a stat stick, and my hunter when i can be motivated to level it (Lol hunters. Not saying they are bad, but they aren't my thing).
That pretty much sums up what i wanted to include today, so uhh... Yeah. I hope this was interesting enough to read for you, and hope you will join me next time!
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