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So Who won this time? I'm a Sony guy but I won't lie. Last time it was Mbicrosoft with them introducing slim 360 & it's release date & some other things I forgot. This time Microsoft didn't do anything new except for more on voice recognition but that had been done on PC long time ago. By the time I was done watching Sony's conference I thought Sony nailed it but after I watched Nintendo's conference, I thought I had to do some comparing. It did start with some boring stuff but then this new controller surprised me.
I've started playing Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, as I've mentioned on my FB & Twitter posts. So far so great. I'm enjoying it. The Rome is beautifully built. There is only ONE thing I dislike, which is if you don't do missions on a given (hidden & optional thankfully) time, you won't get full synchronization. I searched this on web and found out from gamespot forums that the memories you won't be able to access would be optional. I wish it was more easier to get all his memories. I'd really like to know more about his memories but I hate timed missions and hate reliving memories :(
If you could get your hands on a talent duplicator machine, whose talents would you want, and why? First question listed was submitted by The guy who creates 'Simon's Cat' on youtube. I know flash but am not an awesome animator like him. post a comment
Yea, lights are out since 12:30 PM or so. I'm using my laptop...on generator. It doesn't work on the battery any more. I usually can't think of doing anything on my laptop other than watching porn and some other social media updates, so I had decided that I'd be LJing on my lapee. It's text so it won't take much memory. My lapee is low specs. Might post the pics here soon. They are on FB. I've lost all my LJ friends so there's no one who can comment on my entries other than a few spammers. But the lights might be back in anytime and then I'll have to turn this thing off. Then I could continue on my desktop or leave the posts in limbo :( post a comment
I couldn't sleep around 3-4 so I decided to stay up and not fuck up my schedule by goin to sleep and wakin up much later. I had just changed my timings yesterday and loved it, specially the breakfast at the morning time, so I don't intended to change back to vampire timings ...unless I literally FALL asleep. Read a bit more of 'Clash of Kings.' I don't think I'm gonna rate this book as much as the previous one which was a perfect 5 star for me. A few chapters have been boring and a few things have offended me as well. My fav characters are still Bran Stark and Jon snow. I'm starting to like Tyrion more now since he's doin all this justice thing. I liked him in the first book too but not as much as the other two I've mentioned. Hate Cersei and Joffry Lannisters. I hope Rob or Tyrion gets to kill Joffry. I don't hate Jaime though. Atleast not yet. I just completed the second chanpter of Theon Greyjoy.
Played the 'Flower' demo. Other than the controls the whole experience was nice and soothing. I didn't like the sixaxis that much in heavenly sword too. I did liked it Heavy Rain and liked most moves for uncharted though. So Sony posts the demo of a game that they released a few years ago??? This could probably be because they are considering either a sequel, or the release of this game on the disk (finally) and add motion controller support to it post a comment
Today I'm gonna talk about the motion take of Sony for Playstation. Last year at E3, I thought Kinnect [called Project Natal then. I called it nasal though, although it was pronounced as nuh'taal'] was mind blowing and although Sony wasn't far behind, I still thought Nasal might win here. I was glad when I found out that the guys at GT loved Sony more. Anyway this year also I loved both Move and Kinnect or maybe Kinnect a little more but since I have Sony stuff and not Xboxes I had to make a decision weather to buy Move or not. I was interested in it more than 50 %, but a few things kept discouraging me. Well, we were told that the PS3's main motion controller [yea that magic wand I call dildo] would not work properly without their Eye Cam :( I was a little disappointed since Nintendo [whose Wii has shitty graphics] has this Wii remote that is often called as Wiimote [I kinda like calling it that too ] is used WITHOUT repeat WITHOUT any cam and can still make people do fun things with it. So why does Sony want us to buy their Eye cam. But the good thing is that the price doesn't seem THAT high. As far as I know, Kinnect [hell, I doubted this from very first day I saw Kinnect] is more expensive. The other discouraging thing was that for certain games [games that require you to carry shield as well as weapons and my favorite Move game 'The Fight; Lights out'] you need TWO Move Controllers :( I was really put off again. I was however still more than 50 % interested [My InnserSelf: Do you mean 51% ?] But since I have saved enough money for one of the things [I didn't go to Hyd for 2 whole months] I thought about it more. If I can try I can save enough money each month for all the accessories [i.e. PS Eye, Motion Controller 1, 2 and finally a Navigational Controller] But this is how I thought I might buy them. Since the Motion Controller would be out in September or October, I can a PS Eye till then from the money I've saved. Then I can save enough money for one motion controller and when it comes out I can buy one and play games that require only one motion controller and when I'm ready to play games that require 2, I'd save enough to buy another one. I'm not 100 percent sure about navigational controller. According to Sony it's optional and according to Amazon it's completely untethered. But I still confused that if you won't buy the navigational thing, how would you walk your character with the motion controller. I know that it might have that button. Nintendo only has ONE wiimote and at E3 2010, the guy played Sorcery using only Motion Controller and I know it's stupid considering that the walk won't work with Motion Controller but still I'm a little confused. I saw [probably on comic con] that Resident Evil 5 was being played with a navigational controller. So why would he do that? Off course this could be to show us the use but the point is I wanna know about all the buttons on Motion Controller like which one would be used for walking. I don't even know which button they use on Wiimote. I guess Wikipedia might have the info.
So they finally unblocked facebook? I had checked it early in the morning and it didn't seem likely but this guy told me later today. I don't feel like visiting it at the mo :( Like I said, there's no freedom of speech here :( My heart's sorta broken. I don't agree with religious people very much, even then I was not able to access FB. Twitter is so boring. Infact let me check it :P. Been watchin flash tutos lately. Using flash after a very long time. It has changed so much over the time. Readin 'Da Vince Code' by 'Dan Brown' It's good. I've reached half of the book. Yep. had bought this and 2 more books or so. 'Death on Nile' wasn't available so I bought 'Five Little Pigs' since I had read it a little on pdf and finally bought that huge Sherlock Collection since it was cheap too. Had video recorded the books in my cell. Later, noted down the author's and book's titles and will be downloadin the books. I mostly download a book so that I can read a few pages before I decide to buy the paper version which is more comfortable.
First it was facebook and now, other sites like wikipedia, youtube and flickr are blocked too by Paki government :( All because of those religious people. Where do people like me go who are not very religious. If there was something against the religion on facebook, that they found offending why didn't they choose 'report abuse' thing if it exists? Why block the whole thing and why block other sites :( Here I was thinkin that it's been a long time since I posted anything on flickr. And why wikipedia? It's so fucking informative. There's no "freedom of speech" thing here. Shitty thing is that they're gonna block it till 31st may which doesn't make any sense at all. Strange thing is that facebook says that it wasn't against it's pollicies. WTF All these sites say in their terms and policies is not to offend any religion and here they say it's NOT against their rules? What if it was another religion? Anyway I don't care about people's opinions and everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just cause you don't agree with them doesn't mean they are wrong. I don't see pakis blocking porn sites.... I wish instead they could have given some choice like if anyone wants to block the shit, then block it. I'm sure then even the most protesting ones wouldn't have blocked it since they spent most of their time on FB but off course only FB can give that choice. And how ironical it is. They got pissed and the site got blocked for 10 days. I'm sure they'd be regretting their protest now since they can't interact with their friends anymore for 10 fucking days. We would progress only if we care about others' opinions. There should be freedom of speech. Now, I read that there was this nemesis group too so I think that's a nice idea. If you hate that page, create an anti page. As simple as that. And do not pay attention to what offends you. Just ignore the fucking thing. ----------- Other than this I've been readin novels and all, sp mystery crime ones. So my top 5 at the moment are: 5./4 Anatomy of Fear by Jonathan Santlofer/ Murder on Orient Express by Agatha Christie [I still haven't decided which one should be 4 and which one should be 5] 3 And then there were none by Agatha Christie 2. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and # 1.. drum rolls......... The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle :)))) I wanna buy Da Vince Code by Dan Brown now and Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie I wish the books 'In Cold Blood', 'The Big Sleep' and 'Jar City/Tainted Blood' were available but apparently they are not... at least not at Hyd I've read 3 Dark Tower books by Stephen King. I 'm not sure what to read next: Weather The Dark Tower 4 or Twilight. ----- I've been going to this horrible place. A place where almost everyone fears to go. A place whose dweller has this arsenal of torturing tools. The dweller we call....The Dentist :P<input ... ><input ... >
I can't find that icon in my entries that I had made for the forum gameboomers. I'm trying to host it again. Even if it works here, I'm not sure that it would work at GB now. Some thing seems wrong.
Reading books again after a long time. I had stopped reading books and now I'm addicted again after a long time. Reading Cujo by Stephen king. Had loved 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho. Bought a few of his other books [2 or so] Cujo seems fun but boring too. As usual King when mentions a character, he starts to mention what the shit the character was doing in the past and apprantly forgets that it's not about his past that the story revolves around. Bores me to shit. Other than that his usual two names for a new character after just a few moments. I don't think it's easy to remember too many characters names if they are mentioned too quickly in the story. People need time to remember one fucking character for some time before they want to digest another's story. He just names anyone included in the story even if it was unimportant. He would name all the people in the shop, all the passers by's names etc etc as if it was really important. Well I like his stories but these things piss me off. Now I'm at page 70 at the moment and Cujo who I take it as a main character haven't been making his "appearance" more often. He is mentioned even less than a supporting character has a role in a movie. Rest of the story revolves around the neighbours and their unnecessary activities and past life just like in 'Needful Things.' I loved his "Dark Tower 1: The Gunslinger" so much. It didn't have any unimportant shit. The only thing that pissed me off in that book was his vocabulary which I don't think is a bad thing. "Needful Things" was like 6 or 7 out of ten for me cause of some mentions that I thought were unimportant. I shouldn't be bashin about him maybe. He's one of my fav authors. I don't think I have many favs though. I won't stop reading Cujo though. I wanna keep on reading. Maybe the story would change after a few pages. Stephen king is nice. It's just that apparantly he puts shit on his readers every now and then in his books since he thinks they'd take it anyways. This is just MY opinion though [No shit, who else's opinion would it be?] People are crazy for him. Anyway, I like him too. Other than this I'm also reading "Little Brother" by Cory. Awesome book. :) I have this trilogy "On the seventh Day" to read too. I think that would be my next. In fact let me put my recent activity of good reads here after I share this pic that I made. Sorry if it offends anyone:
Haven't played silent hill 5 yet. Finished readin second comic book in 100 bullets [shot water back]. What the fuck is wrong with this story. They start out so nicely and end so badly. In the first one [first shot last call] I liked the ending but I didn't like the way she left Emilio like that. I felt sorry for Emilio.
Played more of silent hill 5. Started from the sewers...dogs killed me. They jumped on me. Later, with half full health, I managed to kill the first two with the axe I guess. The last one arrived but I was able to skip him as usual. No wait...maybe I had to come here again? Cause dogs found the way and killed me? I don't remember. I guess even with half health they followed me? Next time the third one didn't come after the finch scene. I followed finch. Killed the nurses with the gun and axe. Got injured again. After some stuff I was in alternate reality: Disturbing. Very long. Smogs were beatable with the axe and later with 2 shots of handgun each time they exposed their lungs [as the game suggests]. Smogs don't give as much problems as needlers do to me and siams are beatable too. The helish place was long and disturbing but there was no save. Luckly there were no more monsters later after 2 smogs. Finally there was a save and I sensed a boss battle a little. The boss was easy to bring down to the ground but later it was able to hit me. I did manage to bring it into its next form which was spider-like. According to the walkthrough at mahalo, u just have to avoid his/her jump but this "spider-doll" won't go up the ceiling. Alex was slow too cause at this time he was injured. So the boss was able to beat me. The game started from before I met finch, before I entered the boss arena so I turned it off.
I'm still playin ...corrections...struggling in this game since I got it. I'm in sewers at the moment. Finally was able to kill all the needlers and the siam that comes afterwards after several tries. And by all needlers I don't mean all the needlers in the sewer but all the needlers in that last area i.e 3 of 'em. That's right. Game has become almost impossible to play. I was so excited when I first started it. How it reminded me of my previous sh series. Thinkin why the fans hated it. Although I had later found the reason or maybe I thought was the reason. The reason was that as wiki says that they've tried to "westernise" the series since 'origins' for psp, hence reducing the fear factor. The team isn't the same since psp version. Anyways, the game seemed fun to me till the first boss, although I hated the lack of saves. Also, the alternate part seemed cut down too. Infact I only saw it twice I guess with one of them bein Alex's dream sequence. I added the word sequence cause I mean you do get to play his dream as most other SH games if some non SH fans don't know. Anyways, part of me like the "normal" word so I didn't care but the other part of me thought that the alternate part was cut down. By normal, it means normal according to the game and not according to us. The normal part has monsters and fog and now the gamer who doesn't play silent hill can think what would be alternate if normal doesn't sound like normal. Anyway, maybe it's nothing for many people. My brother and I think that those people who don't care about psychological stuff may not get scared but I'm not ridiculing anyone here. If it doesn't scare anyone then they are brave. It scares me though. Back to my views... So erm after the first boss is dead, you find yourself in a cell of a prison and it's from then that the game forgets that it's silent hill and thinks that it's self defence game. After you gain control of your character after the last cutscene in that area, you are greeted with 4 enemies. Sure they come in 2 by 2 but they do NOT go down easily with melee weapons. You do have ammo here but just enough to kill three or maybe 4 of them. But a fifthe one emerges if you try to get the health pack either from the bathroom or the room with the broken glass window or both. Luckly you can avoid him and run where you'll come to a place to duck to where he won't be able to come but only to be greeted by two more of these things and by this time you don't have the ammo if you used on the previous four assholes. I tried a lot but always got killed. If I survived the first area, I always got killed in the second one. I got lucky once and the first pack didn't come once. Mabye it was a bug or maybe the game felt mercy for me. I quickly ran to the second area leavin behind me the precious health packs. So I used the ammo on the couple in the room. I used to avoid this couple too and a times I was able to reach the third are too. There's a loner here. It's easy to kill a lone monster though. Maybe not all the time. ok after all this shit, which took me a several tries, I still didn't get to save and the Siam comes. Luckly he's easy for me. This was maybe the first one I met but managed to kick his ass despite being badly injured. After that were the sewer and my most hated enemy needler was at maximum here. These ass holes are ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE for me to kill. They block almost EVERY move of mine. They block the melee attack as well as the shotgun attack. They are made of steel and they come in packs and they are able to climb the short ledges :S The handgun however workds on them but even then they reach you. It took me many many tried to end the sewers level. Took me 3 days or so I guess. NO I don't play all the time but only one hour or more. Here however I stop playin after I get frustrated which happens every now and then after the first boss. After the sewers level, I roamed around my house and met 2 of these other enemies. Luckly I had ammo. Unfortunately coming here was usless. Anyways, I was badly injured as I made my towards dr. Finch's location, dogs followed me. One also came from infront. Luckly I was able to make it to the office w/o the dogs even touchin me although I was really badly injured and the character [alex] was walking veryyy slowly since he was badly hurt. OK. After 2 or three cutscenes I still didn't get the save. I got health pack however. After exploring the "working" room, when I came out the nurses greeted me. Funny thing is that these brainless monsters know combos better than Alex who's a soldier or something. Yea "you" guessed it. I got killed since the nurses had better combo than me and they were three in number and I was one and with half of my health only [should I say half full?] So I waited for the game to reload but it reloaded from where you get out of the sewers. That means I would be draggin my ass back to dr. Flinch avoiding three dogs again and not sure if I would be lucky that time so I turned the game off.
Got silent hill 5 today. Played more than I had played on pc. I just couldn't find the gas for the gas can and the save option :( So I had to go back to home town building to save my game :( So far so good. I don't think that the game sucks...yet. They've tried to make it same fun with some button mashin to please both fans which hasn't failed for me. Don't know y people hate it. I only hated it when I couldn't find the save at the house. post a comment
Been playin sims 3 lately and am addicted already. Thought I won't like it since the graphics in screenshots didn't seem that different from sims 2. I thought maybe I won't like it since some people on net mentioned certain bad things. I never searched good things though. Sims 2 was a huge step ahead after sims 1. Not only it had 3d world but the life simulation was detailed too for e.g the birth of a child in sims 1 would result from lots of kissing or special beds but in sims 2 they didn't only include bed but also pregnancy, throwing up etc. It was more real. It had deceases, consequences, wishes, fears to name just a few. So I thought if they haven't changed the graphics that much they might not have changed the gameplay that much either. I also read somewhere somone mentionin that it could've been an expansion pack instead. Someone else mentioned that no matter how much they change their sims' looks they always look fat. I remember this girl they show in trailers with the dark lipstick and is a little over weight. I was scared that my sims would look similar. I got a little more discouraged when I read that there are no environment and comfort needs. However I still bought it since I'm a fan of the series. I knew that even if I'm not gonna like a few things I might still be able to get addicted for other things. I didn't like it as much when I first started it but I kept playing it. I had thought that I would just revert back to sims 2 and wait for sim 4 if I didn't like it. But I was wrong. I started liking it the more I played and I got completely hooked. I guess the gamespot scored it perfectly or maybe even less :P cause just like last sims game this one too is 10/10 for me. It took very few days to fully get engaged. I found out that mood meters that were snatched away were there but more like little moodlets. This however made more sense to me than adding it to the main mood meters so I'm ok with it. There are some positive and negative things I'm gonna mention below and more as I play.
I'm bored to shit. Was playin heavenly sword yesterday? at evenin time and was in this difficult level where kai is on some zip line in a box and shooting arrows at enemies on bridge. This level gave me a hard time too. I did manage to move ahead though. The lights got dimmer at 8:30 [minus DLS] so I turned the game off. Since then I'm bored and the lights are still dimmer. It's 1:58 AM now [minus DLS] A day got wasted and I couldn't move far in the game :( I don't know what to do now. We're runnin a generator and I don't turn my consoles on on generators. Just don't know what to do. MSN 'asked' me to update it or it won't run but after updating it still won't run properly and won't even uninstall. I uninstalled it and it's still there :( post a comment
I couldn't do that kai's level, where she's supposed to shoot arrows at enemies to save Shen, when I had tried again at evening time. However I did manage at night time. After that it was time for the remaining boss. The one that has a tail and is probably wife or sweetheart of the villain guy. After THAT there were more missions of kai. The ones where enemies rush towards her seemed a bit difficult but the ones where they were on their positions seemed better specially with those combustible objects. On mistake I had blown all the objects on top floor and enemies went there later but even then it was easy to finish them from there since they weren't coming to me. Guess I've learned the aftershit 90 or 80 percent now. After I did that level, it seemed that she had one more mission like that but I had to get up and do stuff. I will resume shortly. post a comment |
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