Daily gaming

At the moment I was thinking Pokemon Season 1, but the videos I transferred over from my lasptop don't seem to beable to play so I'm gonna have to improvise.

I would watch it with ya :P

Team fortress 2, sort of like counter, except with 9 clases. Each class has it's up and downs so I'll name them all from left to right.

Pyro- IT SHOOT BUBBLES AND RAINBOWS. Also has a knack for puting people on fire with his flamethrower, shoot them with his shotgun, and cut them down with an AXE.

Engineer- he builts... you know what, I'll let the rest of the videos speak for me.

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Spy-

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Heavy weapons guy-

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Sniper-

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Scout-

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Soldier-

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Demoman-

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Medic-

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Oh and the game is free on steam

I hear about this game alot, I've seen all those videos too. TF2 seems very popular.

it totally is.

Hehehe, Team Fortress 2 is hilarious. Not a bad shooter, but got boring for me pretty quickly - mainly because it's heavily team-based... and I've gone off team-based shooters. Finding a team that actually works together is stupid-impossible. I always get a bunch of people who think they can win alone, or who don't actually help in capturing or defending anything. I'm cool with losing, but not having fun while losing 6 times in a row? Yeahhh.

But anyway... I can't believe I haven't posted about playing this yet (at least I don't think I have ):



PSP games are generally pretty crap, but this is one of those rare gems - Patapon 3. I've played the previous games, too, but this destroys them. It's a sort of strategy-music game, which sounds crazy, but it just... works. It also sounds and looks like a kids game. But if you just brush it aside thinking it is a kids game... you're just ignorant and kinda stupid - this game is not just for kids. It's pretty difficult, and hell, it has demons and massive ghouls with scythes in it! And your Patapons can be pretty harsh when you mess up! "Could you do any worse?"

Basically you march your troops through the levels, giving orders by pressing combinations of buttons in time with the music. The better you do, the more intense the music gets, until you hit Fever, where your units' damage and defence increase, and the music emits WIN. You smash big enemies or structures, you get chests, which contain nifty equipment to increase the amount of smash you can deliver. Shame it's on PSP, though - I'd quite like to have a go at some co-op quests or Bonus Bosses, but I don't know anyone who has a PSP and Patapon 3 and are within a reasonable distance of me.

Single player's still epic, though.

I liked the look of this and it sounded pretty cool, as well... but as is quite frequent with modern games - disappointment! Rage. That's exactly what I did when I played it.



They claim it's "groundbreaking", but it's not, not even slightly. Rage is a bland shooter set in a generic, uninteresting post-apocalyptic world we've all seen a trillion times before. The guns aren't inventive or interesting, and the vehicles aren't either. Your character is capable of crazy regeneration, but has shins made out of twigs (you can't fall more than 8-10 feet or you'll immediately die, but you can survive a 40mph crash into a wall on a quad-bike), and a few key things you need to know about the game aren't actually explained. It's very linear, and the enemy AI is unbelievably stupid. id also described the combat using that old word "visceral", seen in many game descriptions. I think it must mean "turd" in the industry, because the combat is not challenging, not interesting, and not satisfying, just like most of the other games that've used it. The presentation is bad, as well. It's nothing like Borderlands, and comparing the two is just insulting to Borderlands. It's more like Fallout 3, I guess... only 100 times worse.

And this new idTech engine, this supposedly amazing technical achievement capable of displaying ultra-detailed textures at 60FPS? All lies. It's the worst engine I've ever seen. I'm not kidding. The graphics aren't that good, yet it can barely hold 35 FPS on my quite powerful machine. Also, textures load as you look around. And that is just insanity. Loading textures and dropping your FPS while you turn around? In a shooter?! WHAT?! Here, have a look at what I mean - this is a screenie I took while turning right:


Blurrrrghhh!

Oh, and Rage comes on 3 DVDs and needs about 20 GIGS of storage. You also need to install it to the drive if you're playing on a console (impossible for me, since my 360's drive is 20GB, and I like my savegames ). It's as if they were trying to get into the dictionary under "ridiculous". Of course, if you play shooters religiously then you'll love this and will probably unleash a Fanboy Grenade on me. But I don't care - I know crap when I play it.

Ahhh, that vent felt good.

I'll be avoiding Rage then.