Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Escape to Vice City
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Paradise City, Were the Grass is Green and the Girls are Preaty
This week i will be descusing my encounters with a game for the Xbox 360 called Burnout Paradise. The Above image came from Gamespot.com and shows one of my favorite cars in the game, i call it The Beast. Now for those of you who dont know about the burnout serease, this is one of many games in the serease spaning differant consoles from hand held to next Generation. the games basis is to award drivers for insain crazy stunts, crashes, and as in any racing game winning the race. the city you inhabit is called Paridise city, and it is large, and the graphics engin doesnt need to load mor scenery, all that you see you can drive to. i picked up this game being a virgin to the burnout serease, i had never played a burnout game before this, but i found myself unable to put this game down. the best idea for a racing game, is not to make you have to pay for a car but to let you choose a car of choice and Paradise city does this well. with several junk yards scatered around the city just drive to one and swap cars no charge. now i know what your thinking why would you want a car from the junk yard, well that is the only place to get a car in paradise city. and thet theoreticly in the city other racers race and crash and then their cars end up at the junk yard for you to have. the vast selection of cars would cling to every type of car enthusiest from the exotic lover, to the muscle maniac, and to the street tuner. now no midifitactions need be made to these cars they come pre modified all you need to do is keep them running by driving through the auto repair shop every now and then, free of course. in this game money is non existant everything can be won by completing stunt chalenges and races. as you complete the challenges you move up in rank from a class D driver to class C and so on. now this game does have an Xbox multiplayer feture but i havent played online but once and i dont have much to add about it accept know your cars and dont hesitate to switch before another race. well i will be closing this post i hope you write me your Paradise City responses.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Blogging is back!
I found the experience enlightening and fun; we were able to blog at our own will once a week and comment on whom we wanted to once a week. This assignment began as just that homework and so I staggered on it for a while but eventually it awakened my blogging self and now I am still blogging once a week and the class is over.
I feel that blogging is an outlet for me to discuss my feelings with whoever wants to know without compromising my identity if I so choose. Being that I’m such a huge gamer, I made my homework blog topic video games for the sole reason that It’s a topic that I know and love. It turned from homework assignment to a fun little entry every week about the latest game I have played or herd about.
After blogging and commenting I felt better that I was interacting with people outside my normal group, even though it was only with the other people in my class. Upon writing the blogs I got many responses from other students commenting on my post, I became happy. It became a joy to know people are actually listening to some of the things I have to say. I think in the end blogging helps me it’s a form of journaling and I like the technology aspect of blogs.
Do Blogs Have a Purpose?
Blogging is a great tool that can be mastered by anyone willing to just sit down and type. My reasons for blogging are mostly to explain to others what I think about certain issues, or facts. Instead of verbally discussing the topic, witch in my case causes people to wander away or tune out; with the search function of blogging people can choose to skip my blog post. In a way blogging keeps me from wasting my friend’s time with useless chatter that they don’t care about. Blogging also helps to reduce the amount of uncomfortable interactions with people who just do not know what I’m talking about or do not understand. Most of the people I hang out with do listen to what I say; there are just a lot of subjects they don’t care to hear about. By displaying my topic of discussion as games with the blog post, using the search function people who do not want to talk about games will not see my page.
Blogging, as I described to “my mom” the other day, is a form of self expression and discussion of topics over various aspects of our lives. I also told her, imagine if she had a journal of her thoughts that she wanted to get some advice on them but still keep her secrets secret. Well with blogging instead of verbally telling people and having to explain oneself afterwards, bloggers can be anonymous to the general public. I took a break from blogging on MySpace a while back and now that I am back, it feels good to know some people out there care. Blogging for me has picked up in the past quarter at OSU; due to the assignments in my English class I started blogging weekly. Just as I was beginning to hate having the extra assignment I felt a need to discuss more after hearing others positive interest in my blog. Though I use blogging to rant about video games, its primary use for me is to alert others of exciting news or services the video game community has to discuss.
Blogging just like most of what people find on the internet depends on the search term. People like me would be looking at video game, and movie blogs for information on upcoming movie and game releases. My blog on Blogger is like a journal of video games and current information that I see fit to disperse among the public. And it makes me feel good to hear others appreciate my knowledge. I like to hang out with my friends; unfortunately they are not geeks like me so I refrain from talking about geeky subjects, such as video games and Star Wars. Just recently I was struck with the idea that I had to comment on the movie trailer I had just seen at that time. Though my assignment was to blog about video games I chose to blog about the upcoming movie Iron Man. So I guess what I’m getting at is that I blog because some times I just feel like sharing what I think about new and what’s exciting to me news, and blogging helps.
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Technorati-www.technorati.com
Gamefaqs-www.gamefaqs.com
Loads More "BS"
I must say I am not for racism, I do admit that I’m a little racist but most of you people out there are a little racist. I find this to be an outrage considering the makers of the game the Rockstar Company responded that the game is based in a time when those gangs existed and were known to brawl with each other on a regular basis much like in the game. Seeing as how the music, clothes, cars and cityscapes all have the design and feel of that time period, this argument should have died along time ago.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Assasins Creed Revisited
Today I will be revisiting my older post titled Silent Assassin, based on the video game Assassins Creed for the Xbox 360. A screen shot taken from the game shows our character Altair sitting atop a castle over looking the landscape. As seen in the picture above, Assassins Creed has a crystal clear look produced by a new and improved graphics engine which leaves me wondering why they didn’t improve the story. Upon playing the game we soon realize the true story that has remained unclear until the game came out.
Gamers have been lead to believe that they will be playing a game based in Europe during the time of knights and wizards. This reality as we can quickly tell is only part of the actual story your character Desmond/ Altair inhabits. The worlds were Altair, the silent assassin roams are merely a 3D interaction with people and things from the past as if you were in your ancestors foot steps. Consider the memories that Desmond gets to replay but they are not his memories but his long since dead ancestors’ memories.
I gathered from this story is that the game is based in the near future and Desmond is an ex-con being used as a test subject for this experimental machinery known as the Animus. I have started the game, but as far as I have already gotten I haven’t even scratched the surface of the immense landscapes the game offers. So far when my character is not inside the Animus he inhabits a locked one room apartment next to the lab.
Desmond is not alone, when working with the Animus he is accompanied by 1 or 2 characters that become closer to him in different ways. One person, an attractive young female is sympathetic to Desmond’s needs and the other is a lab coat wearing old man. It becomes apparent that the young lady will play a major role in the story as each time you awake from the Animus to see her, and sometimes the old man. After playing the game you soon realize a repetition in the story that gets old quick. Though the game has stunning visuals and an awesome character movement design, the creators could have done away with the ancestor memories thing and made it a story based in the crusades.
My advice is to rent this game before you buy it, that is if you can find an available copy at Blockbuster. It beats the money you may wast on buying the game only to realise you hate it. Now dont get me wrong i like a "killing" story line in my video games as much as the next person but i dont like the whole animus and ancestors memories thing. So feel free to check the prices and buy the game at 60 bucks depending on the console but you may be suprised, and not in a good way, more like the way most people were after the recent movie Cloverfield.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
James Harleman wrote about what effects the Writer’s Guild strike would have on current movies and sitcoms, which caused him to search for entertainment elsewhere. I was unaware of a strike formed by the Writer’s Guild at the time I read this post, but was enlightened to read the description and storyline of the video game Mass Effect. Pastor James wrote about how the strike will make television shows worse because they will be running out of material or ideas. Harleman and his wife retreat to the world of Mass Effect for some science fantasy action as the story adapts to the choices the player makes. I have been very interested in Mass Effect since its commercial debut and after reading this post I like the realistic aspects of the game. Just like Harleman I too like the adaptive story in the campaign mode of an action game. After reading Pastor James’s post a few times I came to the conclusion that his title and story don’t match topics. In the post Harleman talks mostly about the video game Mass Effect and very briefly about the Writers Guild strike.
At first glance the post looks like it will be a rant from a protest about the strike, but much to my surprise most of the blog post has to do with a game called Mass Effect. Pastor James wrote the first two paragraphs talking a little bit about the strike, and then started writing about Resident Evil 4 and Mass Effect. I like that this post was most likely created as Harleman and his wife enjoyed Mass Effect. I’m guessing that with this post they feel they must share the game, making the focus of his blog post the game. As in the post, the focus is not solely on the game but the writer widened the focus to the strike that lead to him playing the game. The writer does a good job of “showing and telling” in his writing when he made a comparison between cartoon animated movies and the animation in the game. Harleman does a great job explaining the “voice-overs” of the game done by known movie stars and the main character.
Monday, February 25, 2008
The Guest Blogging Experiment
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Guest post. by Doc
This puts a whole new twist on the Halo series. Halo is pretty much an all out action game. But with its new creators, Halo Wars has become a real strategy game. Unlike all the other Halo games, you followed a path and killed everyone in your way. Now you really have to think about what you are going to do, where you are going to deploy your troops, where you are going to drop an air strike. I think this puts a really great twist to the Halo series. Halo Wars puts it self in a more real-life genre like other games such as, Call Of Duty, Socom, and Battlefront. This new twist might bring in a lager crowd of gamers. Personally I am a fan of the old Halo games and I love being able to control one guy and kill whom I want. But I also can’t wait to get my hands on this new game and actually see it for my self. Who knows maybe this will start of new generation with Halo.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Fable lost or soon reborn (hiperlinks added, reviseons made)
The game follows a little boy after his town is burned and he is left for dead, a guild of hero’s take him in to train. As you play the character will age and so will the people you meet and interact with in the towns. Once you have trained in wizardry and sword fighting you can go off and literally make a name for your self. From the beginning of the story you have no name, until you become a hero and win some battles than your title is hero unless you buy a new title.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
"Iron Man"
Monday, February 4, 2008
Halo Movie? (hyperlinks Added)
A lot of talk online is that the movie will ruin the game franchise and loose lots of fans in the span of an hour and a half to two hour long movie with a plot line that only gamers and geeks would understand. From the trailers and movie clips I have seen I can tell you from a Halo lover’s point of view that the gamers won’t be displeased with this game originating movie. The footage I looked at was from “YouTube” and it’s a basic halo combat situation instead of you fighting you get to watch, no more starting over from the beginning of the level. I have seen only eight minutes of the movie and I love it already I can’t wait to see the finished product and it looks like it will blow me away.
I have viewed this clip many times over and I still find little things I didn’t see or notice before. When watching the clip, my advice to you is watch it several times so that you know you have the story correct. At first watch I thought that the commander of the UNSC ground team, who gets impaled by a spike, is the main character Master Chief. From a second look at the movie I determined this isn’t the case, master chief is in the process of landing to support the ground troops who we follow at the beginning.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
"One Ring To RUIN Them All"
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Silent Assassin
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
"NFS Underground" compared to the recent "Pro Street" By EA Games
OK . i have recently played the new NFS game Pro Street, the premise for this game is totally legit racing in competitions around the USA on tournament tracks. The big downer or upper however you look at it is you wont be seeing red & Blue, in this instalment your character is a recovering track racer back in the game but at the bottom of the barrel. Something new in this edition is that you can go to Xbox live and with micro points buy any car or performance mods and slap them on your car for more points faster, or so you think. I thought that this would mean a domination over the game since i went on Live and bought a new Nissan GT-R its awesome but the catch is that whatever car you choose to race with your opponents will be riding modded monstrosities as weak or as powerful as your car.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Possible Connection
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Friday, January 4, 2008
blog possibilities
I am a student at OSU and my interests are computer building and Xbox 360 video games. along the lines of actual games i will discuss the issue of violence in video games and my opinion on such and the way the MSRP controls most of what we do. I think I'm good for this topic because i have a wide variety of videos games that i have played and am passionate about the issue of violence and its small connection to shootings in schools. When reading this blog i hope you will get an idea of what my focus on this subject is and my beliefs on the MSRP and parental guidance in games. Every game has a sticker on the cover displaying its rating and content and i believe this is all the MSRP organization should do to games and should stop Bitching at video game creators like the GTA franchise or other titles like Doom, and Quake. I am open to comments or questions on this subject, please use clear concise comments with very descriptive explanations, i don't mind an argument just be adult about it.