I added a blog post on Giantbomb, because im an Achievement Whore. They added Achievements to the website, you gain EXP for getting them… Sounds terrible, and if someone invited me to a website to view pages and gain EXP for it i would call them an idiot, but here i am…
Also created a list of a few games ive got a lot of nostalgia for.
Taunt kills in Team Fortress 2, i love them. Other the past week i have been recording and have got quite a collection as you can see here. (may take a while for youtube to process it)
This was all recorded in sourceop.com Valve Maps 1 server which is pretty much the ONLY server ive played in since october 2007. There are a few kills ive got recently that arnt here though, usually because im an idiot and forgot to start recording, or accidently stopped recording trying to start… I record them using Fraps, takes alot of space but i have 600GB free and i find it easier than trying to search through the demos for the kills.
Im probably going to keep recording but for a month or two this time. Get a bigger collection and pick n choose the best of them. I probably should have kept recording and not uploaded this but i kinda liked the flow and how some parts were syncing with the music, so i thought “what the hell” and finished with this one for now. More to come soon hopefully!
Final Fantasy XIII Logo Its almost here, didnt realise the release date was so close and i didnt pre-order so im getting it a bit late. Im starting to regret the purchase though, even though it isnt here yet. I want to enjoy it, but i know its not going to be anything like the pre-FFX games. Hopefully i will still be able to enjoy it for what it is, instead of hating it for what it isnt. Alot of people crying the Xbox 360 version dosnt look as good as the PS3 version (artifacts, like you get in jpeg quality pics apparently) but, its not a PC game, so it dosnt bother me. I sit about 10ft away from the TV, not 1-2ft like i do my PC, so i doubt i would even notice. |
FINAL EDIT BEFORE PUBLISHING: Holy crap thats a massive wall of text, did i type that much? Im not even finished, i think that will deffinetly do. I was getting carried away because this game made me fall in love with the stalker series again, i dont know why i stopped playing Clear Sky.
tl;dr – this game is awesome. And not the crappy “awesome” that has been thrown around for the past 20 years… Crisps are not awesome, they are crunchy! (holy crap, never thought i would make a dylan moran reference). The proper awesome, where something leaves you in awe. Anywho, now for the main event -
So, the third S.T.A.L.K.E.R game has been with us for a while now and ive already got 40-50 hours playtime under my belt. Been trying to write some sort of review for it but im finding it difficult. It keeps just turning into some kind of crappy walkthrough or a list of anecdotes. So i thought i would just stick with the anecdotes, the best thing about stalker games of course is the free roam and the way the world around you is dynamic. Anything can happen the weather and day/night cycle can also add alot of atmosphere to certain situations.
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Your videos are not fun when you spend 50% of the time complaining about the youtube time limit and spending the other 50% making sure you are still below the time limit and commenting when you are near it. Just play the game, nobody cares about the time, play for as long as you want, when it goes over 11 mins (yes, the limit is actually 11 mins, not 10) then you ignore it and keep playing, you can split the video into 11 min segments at the end.
Dont edit the video so you do everything perfectly, and dont do test runs, thats just a video walkthrough, not a let’s play and are often less entertaining.
Dont act like its the first time youve played the game or the first time youve seen something when it clearly isnt, ive yet to see a lets player that can actually act and do it believably, it’s just annoying.
Dont drown out the game’s sound, the game is a major part of the let’s play, obviously, and it sucks when the viewer has to turn the volume up three times higher than usual to hear the actual game then get deafened by your voice, you need to find a balance between you and the game.
One of my fav Let’s Plays at the moment is gixG17’s Morrowind Let’s Play.
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Ive probably missed something. That was fun though, been a while since ive had a proper rant. I still watch and enjoy a lot of Let’s Players that do the bad things i mentioned above, but its really annoying. Anywho, back to watching Let’s Plays! Enjoying ThatEnglishDude’s FEAR 2 Let’s Play at the moment.
This is awesome
That is all
Quick update, added a new page about the firefox add-on called stylish, you can get to it via the navigation at the top of the page… Alright, here, lazy people! Its basically gonna be a place where i can dump any styles i create for it, just a twitter one there at the moment. Anything i do use is purely made to suit my needs and tastes though so it will probably end up being useless.
In other news
Stopped playing oblivion, not really a big fan of a pure mage class, probably wasnt the best idea like i said. Went back to morrowind, started a stealth/theif/marksman like character. Its going pretty well considering this is the first time ive ever actually managed to get past seyda neen before getting bored, and ive had the game for god knows how long, a couple of years before oblivion was released. Im up to level 20 something (havnt played for a day or two now) and im really appreciating the game this time, i can deffinetly see why alot of people preferred it over oblivion, the depth and variety is so much better.
Anywho, thats it for now.
‘Splosion Man was released on XBLA today. Its a sidescroller where you control a “man” who “splodes”. Most of the buttons make you splode, which acts as a jump and an attack, if you havnt figured it out, splosion=explosion. It only costs 800ms points (about £7) but has 50 single player levels and multiplayer levels. Im not sure if multiplayer is co-op, or how levels differ, but the less than half of the single player ive played already is more than worth what ive paid for it. You should just watch this trailer, hosted by Giantbomb.com
There is also an amazing song in it, about donuts. He will also randomly say things almost incoherantly as you run around. Including “Get to the choppa”, plane noises while running with his arms out, monkey noises and insane laughing
Also, ive been ill, turns out its probably NOT swine flu, but needs to be treated the same just incase, so im quarantined in my home til friday. So, sods law, today i get a phone call about a job that starts tomorrow…
Old, i know, but still an amazing game, started playing it yet again. I own both the PC and 360 versions. I have all the expansions on the 360 version because thats the version i use to take it seriously, its too easy to fall into using console commands and modding the crap out of the game on the PC, so i use it just for that. So, this playthrough is gonna be on the 360.
I could carry on with these other saves, because (believe it or not) im not finished with them…
…but decided to start a new mage. Gone with an Altmer with the Mage sign and all the magic skills as major, probably not the best setup, some of the magic skills are so easy to level its not really worth having them as a major but meh, ill see how it goes.
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sidenote: i really need to get a capture card so i can take screenshots/record videos on the xbox.
Been doing a quick catch up on a few games i missed and some new ones.
Went back and started Curse of Monkey Island again, getting ready for the new one. Still probably the best art style of all the MI games, came across a few problems running it on Vista, but, the game is worth it, still not finished that yet because Tales of Monkey Island arrived. This game deffinetly still has the Monkey Island charm, although, it is easier than the previous games. Im still not sure whether that is a good thing or a bad thing. There also seems to be less interaction and dialog than the old games although, there is still a hell of alot there, and its all top notch. This is also just the first chapter of five, and seems like it could just be an intro, things may pick up more in the following chapters. A package of all 5 chapters is available on steam, the other four unlock every month up til november.
