Heya, nothing about games today, just a freaking funny video :) A must-see ;) n`joy!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Wow! Warcraft 3
Heya,
Long time, no wrote ... (not sure English grammar works that way but you`ll get it someday :P)
Well, what have I been up to? I enjoyed a couple of weekends at the sea-side, where I got my skin tanned, except for my yo-yo area :P
Aaaanyway, to get right to business, I was so booooored today that I had to go outside and buy a game, something, anything ... :) and I stumbled upon the infamous World of Warcraft at the games rack. I already had the first edition of WoW, so I was intrigued if I should buy the second edition, called The burning crusade. After a short inspection I noticed it costs around 20~25Euros, it had no pre-paid period (so I have to pay again on internet with my credit card or to buy a pre-paid card). Since last time I played WoW, my account was payed by spitfir3 (another friend of mine, which btw should be entitled to speak about games and not me, since he`s a level designer :P) I took the time to look around for ANY OTHER games ...
I saw there are quite a few MMOG`s nowadays but I also saw Warcraft 3 packs (Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne). Both games are around 10Euros, so that`s a total of 20Euros if you buy both and guess what, it`s free to download DOTA (a cool multiplayer map) and have the best time ever ... so as I`m writting this I`m also installing Warcraft 3 :P
Should I still mention that OLD GAMES rule? I guess you already understood this by now ;)
Until next time, game on!
Long time, no wrote ... (not sure English grammar works that way but you`ll get it someday :P)
Well, what have I been up to? I enjoyed a couple of weekends at the sea-side, where I got my skin tanned, except for my yo-yo area :P
Aaaanyway, to get right to business, I was so booooored today that I had to go outside and buy a game, something, anything ... :) and I stumbled upon the infamous World of Warcraft at the games rack. I already had the first edition of WoW, so I was intrigued if I should buy the second edition, called The burning crusade. After a short inspection I noticed it costs around 20~25Euros, it had no pre-paid period (so I have to pay again on internet with my credit card or to buy a pre-paid card). Since last time I played WoW, my account was payed by spitfir3 (another friend of mine, which btw should be entitled to speak about games and not me, since he`s a level designer :P) I took the time to look around for ANY OTHER games ...
I saw there are quite a few MMOG`s nowadays but I also saw Warcraft 3 packs (Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne). Both games are around 10Euros, so that`s a total of 20Euros if you buy both and guess what, it`s free to download DOTA (a cool multiplayer map) and have the best time ever ... so as I`m writting this I`m also installing Warcraft 3 :P
Should I still mention that OLD GAMES rule? I guess you already understood this by now ;)
Until next time, game on!
Sunday, July 13, 2008
When Devils Cry
Konami’s Devil May Cry has been around for some time and, as weird as it sounds, it hasn’t changed that much. If you look at the world around, you will see that most of the franchises that have reached their 4th or 5th iteration have changed something – and some changes were good (Resident Evil 4 comes to mind here, or Final Fantasy XII, two games in which everything was redesigned to make them ultimately cool) while others sucked ass real bad (take any EA game that tried to polish some crap).
But the Devil stays the same. I’ve only played the first and the third game and, except for the graphics and some new gameplay features, everything in the same. Take, for example, the main character – you don’t play with Dante anymore, but some new funky kid name Nero – that’s about the only difference there is between the two. Nero has the same mucho-cocky attitude, wears the same clothes, even goes to the same barber. And guess what weapons he has – a sword and a gun – totally different person. (Of course, I only played a few levels and maybe later I’ll find out that they really are the same person)
Don’t get me wrong – the fact that the game is the same is not a bad thing, as it delivers exactly what I was expecting from it – hardcore demon slaying action. On plus of that you get, as a bonus, some sort of story, and so far it has been pretty engaging for this sort of game. Playing it, it reminds me of God of War, and it’s clear Kratos borrowed some of the design of the initial DMC. Nero’s new ability is the newest shit in 3rd person action/arcade/adventure games, something we’ll just call “the grappling hook”. You know how the Dark Price had chains in The Two Thrones and he used them in jumping puzzles? Or Kratos’ chain blades in the second coming of God of War? Well, Nero has a demon hand, and it extends and catches fuckers. And he can also use it in jumping puzzles… and other stuff.
Think I’ve said enough for now… maybe one more thing – haven’t tried it personally but I heard, and expect it to be so from previous adventures, that the controls from the keyboard are on the sucky part. Lucky for me I just bought a XBOX gamepad and it runs on the uber smooth side.
-MasterX
Who’s your daddy?
But the Devil stays the same. I’ve only played the first and the third game and, except for the graphics and some new gameplay features, everything in the same. Take, for example, the main character – you don’t play with Dante anymore, but some new funky kid name Nero – that’s about the only difference there is between the two. Nero has the same mucho-cocky attitude, wears the same clothes, even goes to the same barber. And guess what weapons he has – a sword and a gun – totally different person. (Of course, I only played a few levels and maybe later I’ll find out that they really are the same person)
Don’t get me wrong – the fact that the game is the same is not a bad thing, as it delivers exactly what I was expecting from it – hardcore demon slaying action. On plus of that you get, as a bonus, some sort of story, and so far it has been pretty engaging for this sort of game. Playing it, it reminds me of God of War, and it’s clear Kratos borrowed some of the design of the initial DMC. Nero’s new ability is the newest shit in 3rd person action/arcade/adventure games, something we’ll just call “the grappling hook”. You know how the Dark Price had chains in The Two Thrones and he used them in jumping puzzles? Or Kratos’ chain blades in the second coming of God of War? Well, Nero has a demon hand, and it extends and catches fuckers. And he can also use it in jumping puzzles… and other stuff.
Think I’ve said enough for now… maybe one more thing – haven’t tried it personally but I heard, and expect it to be so from previous adventures, that the controls from the keyboard are on the sucky part. Lucky for me I just bought a XBOX gamepad and it runs on the uber smooth side.
-MasterX
Who’s your daddy?
Monday, July 7, 2008
Penny Arcade Adventures
It’s hard to comment on this without repeating what every other game review site has said: if you like the Penny Arcade comics you’ll definitely like the game. Since I like their shit – I also enjoyed the game.
That’s not to say it’s a great game – it’s a good game, but doesn’t do anything spectacular for the industry, except to let you live the comic. And that’s why the way it’s impacts you is strongly based on how you feel about the comic.
The greatest parts about it are its visuals (it has great cartoons shaders, bring comic books to life), its story telling, with great lines that you would expect from Tycho and Gabriel (like “What.The.Fuck.) and attention to detail. You get to customize you character, although there aren’t that many choices. Then you enter a steampunk world with shit happening in it. The story is told through static comics – the bad part is that there’s no voice for the dialogs; the great part is that your customized character appears in the frames, which means they did drawing for every combination possible.
The game is an adventure/quest/RPG, with combat somewhere in the way of old Final Fantasy games – you have some skills that load in time, and when a character has a certain skill ready you can use it, restarting the process, or you can wait for something more powerful to load. The combat is more fun than it sound, especially after you gain a few levels and don’t feel like some fights are two though.
Since the game is designed to be episodic, it’s kind of short (I finished it in about 6 hours, without doing all the quests and getting every achievement) – and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it end about the time it start being not so interesting.
For the twenty bucks I spent on it, I can say the game is worth it. The guys at PA said they make some changes in the future episodes, based on what people liked and didn’t like. If you're not sure if you should get it or not, you could check the demo.
Too bad that Looking For Group comic doesn’t do their own game (although they said something about a Flash game, but I’m not too thrilled about that).
-MasterX
sharp - I'm not not paying to just drink and go to the seaside. Get your ass to writing something
That’s not to say it’s a great game – it’s a good game, but doesn’t do anything spectacular for the industry, except to let you live the comic. And that’s why the way it’s impacts you is strongly based on how you feel about the comic.
The greatest parts about it are its visuals (it has great cartoons shaders, bring comic books to life), its story telling, with great lines that you would expect from Tycho and Gabriel (like “What.The.Fuck.) and attention to detail. You get to customize you character, although there aren’t that many choices. Then you enter a steampunk world with shit happening in it. The story is told through static comics – the bad part is that there’s no voice for the dialogs; the great part is that your customized character appears in the frames, which means they did drawing for every combination possible.
The game is an adventure/quest/RPG, with combat somewhere in the way of old Final Fantasy games – you have some skills that load in time, and when a character has a certain skill ready you can use it, restarting the process, or you can wait for something more powerful to load. The combat is more fun than it sound, especially after you gain a few levels and don’t feel like some fights are two though.
Since the game is designed to be episodic, it’s kind of short (I finished it in about 6 hours, without doing all the quests and getting every achievement) – and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, as it end about the time it start being not so interesting.
For the twenty bucks I spent on it, I can say the game is worth it. The guys at PA said they make some changes in the future episodes, based on what people liked and didn’t like. If you're not sure if you should get it or not, you could check the demo.
Too bad that Looking For Group comic doesn’t do their own game (although they said something about a Flash game, but I’m not too thrilled about that).
-MasterX
sharp - I'm not not paying to just drink and go to the seaside. Get your ass to writing something
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
One more Diablo 3 post
Since the internet is enjoying its “Diablo 3” is coming fever, I just couldn’t pass on doing another post about this. Things have pretty much settled, so I don’t think you’ll have to read any more on this.
On a certain forum I usually read, people are throwing their two cents on this. I already talked about what I think of Diablo’s storyline (unbelievably enough, it seems there are people that think that Diablo had a story) – I’m just going to say this to the people saying “How can they make Diablo 3? What about the storyline? I’ve already killed all the three Prime Evils?” – Evil never dies, fuckers! Maybe this time you could take on EA Games or Bush. So shut up and wait.
Passing on – it seems, from the 10-20 minutes of gameplay showed, that the new game is not gothic/Diablo/whatever enough, that is had to bright graphics, it’s too much WoW, the skills are kind of lame, there no mana bar, and so on.
About the graphics part – let’s get one thing straight – Blizzard never had extraordinary programmers. In fact, Blizzard just exists to make a point: you don’t need great graphics, you don’t have to make your buyers get thousand dollars computers to play your game, you don’t have to have a great story. You just need some incredible game designers to get the whole world hooked on your shit. And Blizzard only shits gold; if, by any chance, they feel their shit is just regular old shit, they don’t go to the bathroom.
What’s great about Blizzard it’s that they don’t have to make games to live – WoW has covered them with money, so they could just keep milking that cow and not have to do anything else. But their, like Santa Clause and what to put a smile to our face – so they though “Hey, let’s make these fuckers happy – throw some Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3 and them”
There’s more to be said about this, but I think we had enough Diablo for now. Let’s just hope Blizzard doesn’t stay on forums as much as I do and they don’t wake up one morning saying “You don’t like the pretty colors? Screw you, we’re not releasing Diablo anymore!”
-MasterX
Shut the fuck up Diablo, you’re dead!
On a certain forum I usually read, people are throwing their two cents on this. I already talked about what I think of Diablo’s storyline (unbelievably enough, it seems there are people that think that Diablo had a story) – I’m just going to say this to the people saying “How can they make Diablo 3? What about the storyline? I’ve already killed all the three Prime Evils?” – Evil never dies, fuckers! Maybe this time you could take on EA Games or Bush. So shut up and wait.
Passing on – it seems, from the 10-20 minutes of gameplay showed, that the new game is not gothic/Diablo/whatever enough, that is had to bright graphics, it’s too much WoW, the skills are kind of lame, there no mana bar, and so on.
About the graphics part – let’s get one thing straight – Blizzard never had extraordinary programmers. In fact, Blizzard just exists to make a point: you don’t need great graphics, you don’t have to make your buyers get thousand dollars computers to play your game, you don’t have to have a great story. You just need some incredible game designers to get the whole world hooked on your shit. And Blizzard only shits gold; if, by any chance, they feel their shit is just regular old shit, they don’t go to the bathroom.
What’s great about Blizzard it’s that they don’t have to make games to live – WoW has covered them with money, so they could just keep milking that cow and not have to do anything else. But their, like Santa Clause and what to put a smile to our face – so they though “Hey, let’s make these fuckers happy – throw some Starcraft 2 or Diablo 3 and them”
There’s more to be said about this, but I think we had enough Diablo for now. Let’s just hope Blizzard doesn’t stay on forums as much as I do and they don’t wake up one morning saying “You don’t like the pretty colors? Screw you, we’re not releasing Diablo anymore!”
-MasterX
Shut the fuck up Diablo, you’re dead!
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