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8 months ago
lol
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8 months ago
Wow this game is great. Totally addictive! In one huge streak of luck I climbed 392 meters but then my superpowers vanished. I have a theory this feline must be nyancats ninja twin or something.
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9 months ago
Wow. Would you look at that! 18 kills… and the red gore you see on there is the last of the zerg army being vapourized. This banshee deserves a medal!
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Notes: 1 / 9 months ago from freerobotfrost
lal
(Source: freerobotfrost)
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Notes: 16 / 9 months ago
This Came And Then My Ears Did Too
I picked up this little baby at the post office today:
As you can tell by the yellow tape, this package is from the gents at THE KEYBOARD COMPANY. They’re located in the UK and their shipping is blazingly fast! They sent my order the very same day that I placed, which is last friday. And today I had my package! If that’s not super fast then I don’t know what is…
…except for uh, fast typers who type fast on this thing - the Majestouch 2 from FILCO. I totally love the colors on the box. It’s like candy for my eyes! Not to mention the sound of typing on the keyboard itself.
Seriously now, I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s like sex for my ears. Up until now I’ve used a simple, cheap OEM Microsoft Keyboard for the past few years, until the day when I smashed it to pieces a few weeks ago… I eh, raged a bit while playing StarCraft II.
I then went on to use a keyboard that has been lying around since the dawn of time or something of that magnitude. The keys were very very dull and slow and I soon realized that I had to buy a new keyboard. But why waste 10-ish dollars on a new Microsoft board when you can pay ten times the amount of money and get a Mechanical Keyboard from Steelseries? But why do that when you can pay almost double that amount, and get a keyboard with brown or blue switches?
As all of my dear readers probably realized by now, this was a clear no-brainer.
After some research and a long consideration between brown and blue swtiches, DAS or FILCO I ended up deciding on this little baby. I went for tenkeyless because I want to be able to have the mouse more centered when I’m gaming.
And if typing on the thing is like sex for my ears, it must be masturbation for my fingers. Good God! I should admit though that I am nowhere close to being able to not bottom out the keys and I’m not even sure that the keyboard helps improve my typing speed by any measurable degree.m I’m still around 80 words per minute… but that might in part be because my brain refuses to type like usual during the speed test - I use the Enter Key instead of space to send the words, and I suspect that might lower my score by a few words at least… or maybe not.
In this regard, this keyboard might seem like wasted money. I suppose all I need from here on is typing practice! I’m currently using only four of my fingers when I type, plus my left thumb. Which is I suspect is an ineffective way of typing.
Today I also received this little game - Nazo Waku Yakata. It’s a puzzle game from Capcom relezed on the 4th. I’ll post more about it once I get around to playing… Which will probably this sometime this year if I’m lucky :D
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Notes: 1 / 9 months ago
2 games that didn’t deserve a 2nd visit
This summer I played through both Portal and Mirror’s Edge for the second time. I would add Assassin’s Creed to the list if it weren’t for the fact that I really wanted to experience the story before playing the rest of the series.
Judging Portal on the same grounds though, it might be fair to say that the game actually deserved to be played more than once - it is a great game after all and highly entertaining to play. But the puzzles never felt quite the same once when you’ve had forehand experience. Likewise, once you’ve played the game, you hold the answers to all the big questions that arise through the game and help keep the player engaged and wanting to find out more. It should be obvious that Portal never can be the same game once you’ve played it.
So, when you leave out the magic of having fun with portals for the first time, and the allure of the setting and story, I personally, found that the game wasn’t all that engaging on a second visit, even less so on a third (I wanted to listen to the commentaries as well). The commentary too was kind of a letdown, since I’d wanted to hear at least something from the game’s writers about how they managed to conjure such wonderfully sarcastic off-beat humour…
Make no mistake though, it’s still a great game and I’m happy there’s a sequel to it now - I’m hoping to once again be able to enjoy that “fresh” Portal feeling.
Mirror’s Edge however was far less entertaining. I actually stopped playing it once. I suspect that this game had a lot to more to offer back when high-definition graphics were still new and all. Nowadays the textures look painfully low-res when you come close, although I’m not too sure developers put more attention to details even today.
The most notable example of this awaits the player who turns of Runner Vision. Runner Vision are visual cues in the game to help the player navigate through the levels. Throughout the game are numerous red poles to be climbed and just about anything red in the game is presented as a clue to the player - doors, ramps, poles etc. Said poles however, with Runner Vision turned off, change into an awful white texture that doesn’t even look round to begin with. They just look so ugly it hurts and it kind of ruins the atmosphere.
Most of the time however the game just looks fabulous. There are parts in every level which carries it’s own color theme and playing Mirrors Edge sometimes feels as if your eyes are having sexual intercourse with a modernistic rainbow. I’m not fucking kidding.
This, together with a pacing and atmospheric soundtrack, is about the only positive aspects of the game. And, oh, the female protagonist. Video games need more female protagonists!
Running in the game is a blast, sure, and being chased by the guards can be very hectic, which in turn could be quite fun if it weren’t for the major drawback of the game. See, while I’m not too fond of the idea with Runner Vision babysitting you with stupid red colors throughout most of the game (it can even look quite awful at times and why would someone even bother to paint all of that stuff red to begin with? It’s just unlogical and unlogical things in a game like Mirrors Edge only serves to ruin the atmosphere even more) the opposite is actually far worse. It’s annoying to the point of RAGEness to be stuck in the game, not knowing where to go, guards chasing behind you, and soon you have a bullet in your head and die.
In fact, not knowing there to go in the game, pausing and looking around, breaks the flow of the game. I do realize that a game of constant running would get boring quite soon, but I would prefer it if the game could just be rid of all those annoying moments where you have absolutely no fucking clue where to go whatsoever and despite all those damned red poles and doors there’s not one of them around to help you. A complete fucking letdown is what it is. Mirror’s Edge is about flow, not trying to climb every wall and pipe to try and proceed.
Jumping in the game can be a problem in itself. Some jumps require very narrow and tight precision, making it hard to judge whether you’re actually trying to jump in the right direction in the right way or if you should try something else. The game does allow for more than one route through the more open parts of the game, but those are not where the annoyingly hard jumps appear.
Perhaps I’m being overly negative but Mirror’s Edge was very unforgiving to the logical and timing sections of my brain and that is why my writing part will be just as unforgiving in return. I mentioned unlogic and this text would not be complete if I didn’t trash on the storyline. I’ll keep it short though: it’s absolute shit. It stinks and I’m telling you, the reason I gave Mirror’s Edge a second visit was not it.
Sometimes good games should stay good memories.
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Notes: 4 / 9 months ago
G-Man
I mean, wow. Just look at him. Isn’t this one of the best faces that video games have ever produced? It’s as if Mr Burns had stepped out of television, cloned himself a younger and more handsome and charismatic twin, because in my mind they’re both as cunning and apt at manipulating humans for their own good.
I absolutely love how you can play through Half-Life 1, Opposing Forces, Blue Shift and Half-Life 2 and still have next to no clue whatsoever of what the heck is going on in spite that you’re constantly being in the middle of things. That at least should get you one clue or another, am I right? But no. And even more mysterious is this so called G-Man.
I finished Half-Life 2 the other day and was swept away by his mysterious appearance at the end of the game. Not to mention the beginning of Episode One, which I felt very inclined to start playing right away due to the very cliffhanger-ish ending of it’s predecessor. G-Mans words made him sound as if he was just about to throw down his suit case, loosen his tie and start kicking some serious alien butt. I wouldn’t be surprised if that guy is Half-Life’s answer to Neo or something. Perhaps he’s even alien? Or maybe he has no human form even, but is a time traveler or some shit? Gordon Freeman’s evil twin from another dimension maybe?
And why does his name make him come off like a rapper? But no, I understand. He’s a GOVERNMENT MAN. But that’s only his outward appearance… in reality, he’s an alien rapper from another dimension sent here to learn humans about BEATS. Of that I’m pretty sure! All you non-believers just wait until Episode Three is out!
On a more serious note though, goddang what an awesome finale Half-Life 2 had. I like how the enviroments became increasingly mysterious and how the game suddenly felt more and more like the “behind the scenes” part of Portal. I’ve only played the first part of Episode One but I couldn’t help but think about Portal whilst playing it.
For one thing we have the energy balls and switches and stuff, and then there’s the fact that you only have this weirdo gun to manipulate your surroundings with. I also thought that the white bearded guy (I forget his name) sounded quite like GLaDoS at the end of Half-Life 2 when he tries to psyche Freeman. I’m really stoked about the rest of the series and can’t wait to continue playing.
And perhaps if I should get tired of killing aliens I could always send them to hell instead in Duke Nukem Forever. That game has seriously been lying around since the dawn of time now. What a shame. But at least it’s accompanied by VANQUISH, Shadows of The Damned, Assassin’s Creed II and others.
:-)
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Notes: 1 / 9 months ago"a small piece of skin the size of a lentil is dangling from the middle of my palm."- tug-o-war, Mario Party 1 (I won)
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9 months ago
I feel I kinda have to post this as well…
Get Lady!
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Notes: 3 / 9 months ago
i had a nice surprise today when I played Mario Party :- )
Gotta love Wario!
-Mysterious Pond-
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