A conspiracy shrouded in mystery, wrapped in an enigma and dipped in bullshit.
Despite how angry and tired I get after playing COD online, the game is oddly addicting. In concept, I do what I dislike other people doing - repeating the same thing despite repeatedly getting negative results. It's not really a gameplay issue. I know I'm not the best at the game and never, ever will be, same with Battlefield(though I do kick ass more frequently here than anywhere else), it's about teamwork and the coordination of the teams. I pick COD up thinking it'll be different and it never, ever is. If it weren't for the fun single player I'd of sold the game a long time ago.
Why does it seem like I'm always on the uncoordinated team in COD? I joke about it soemtimes but right now I'm serious, 9/10 times, I'm on the team with the damn kids who just mindlessly run around shooting stuff while the enemy team destroys us through flanking and ambushing. Since the PS3 has a word limit here's the highlights of what I'm talking about.
*People constantly sprinting through the same doorway despite every teammate immedietly getting killed before them.
*People defending one side of a capture point while utterly ignoring the rear flank - and guess where we get assaulted from ...
*People ignoring the red blips on the radar and running right past an enemy with our flag.
*People so obsessed with kills that they completly ignore the objective.
I forgot exactly why I stopped playing and picked the game up today, now I remember why I stopped playing. Going back to Battlefield where people actually work together and aren't retarded. I wonder why the communities are so drastically different.
What ever happened to "if you don't like the product, don't buy it"? Now it's like "If you don't like the product get it banned so no one can enjoy it". I am speaking primaraly on video games because that's where I see it the most but it happens with everything that gets mildly offensive. Where did the world's maturity go?
LA Noire review (Short version because of PS3 word limit)
* Overall an amazing game
* Extremely good graphics
* New tech allows for direct facial mapping of actors to in game characters. Which means that every facial movement the actor made, the in game character will make. This makes an almost movie-like atmosphere.
* Right side of the law. Penalized for car damage, city damage and civilian casualties.
* Searching crime scenes for clues, questioning and interrogating suspects are the core of the game. There are a lot of shootouts with criminals but the core of the game is detective work - incredibly interesting and engaging but not for the impatient or "evil" type gamers.
More in depth review when my computer is fixed!!!
Continuation of the previous entry because the PS3 has a fucking word limit.
For my own amusement and for anyone wanting to learn from my mistakes, here's the background story. I devoted this weekend to watching an anime I haven't seen in a few years called Samurai Champloo - great anime from a guy who hates anime - and after finishing the show, morbid curiocity took over and I decided to see if any perverts made hentai of the show. I googled it, clicked on the first link and presto - virus!
Not one of my proudest moments to be sure. It'll give the people at the computer fixing place something to laugh at though. ... I miss spell check.
Got myself another evil, evil virus - and this one actually was from porn, I think. Didn't actually get to see what I googled so I feel even more ripped off than I normally do when I get a virus.
The name of this virus is "XP Internet security 2011" Its programed to produce endless fake virus alerts until you "buy" the full product. Of course there really is no product and its trying to scare you out of money. I've had this before and aside from being slightly annoying, was harmless. This one though is in steroids - if i spelled that wrong its because the PS3 doesn't have spell check - this vitus actually prevents you from running any .exe programs. Internet, MS word, you name it, you can't use it, not even in safe mode. If the computer repair place doesn't love me yet, they will.
COMMENTS
Had something like that a while back (NOT from looking at porn though LOL) and although I knew it was a fake alert and didn't click on it, it was the most annoying thing to get rid of because there were hidden files that took ages to locate. Good luck with yours :)
That's why only pornhub is used in my house.
Don't you just hate it when a Deathclaw butchers your favorite baseball team?
There I am, watching a free game through the scope of my sniper rifle when wouldn't ya know it - a Deathclaw runs onto the field and decapitates the designated hitter.
Man if I had a bottle cap for every time that happened I could afford to stop eating people.
Managed to implement some Portal 2 humor into Black Ops today! It was in a free for all match on Grid. This one character and ?I got in a shooting match that ended in a draw, we both went behind cover to reload and that's where the fun started. I"m not sure if I was the only one with a mic or if everyone else was just quietly listening but I stopped the match for close to a minuet with an improvised version of "Death option"
"Hey buddy, could you do me a favor and just cock a grenade and ... throw it at the wall in front of you? Just cock a grenade and throw it at the wall right in front of you, that big stone wall, right in front of you. ... I'm uh, not hearing an explosion. Ok, you're probably asking yourself -why should I cock a grenade and throw it at the wall in front of me- right? Well, if you don't, we're both gonna stand up and I'm gonna kill you and it's gonna waste some of my bullets. So if you could die by some other means other than me shooting you, that'd be appreciated. I guess I could stab you though, yeah I guess I could do that. But also, I'm in first place already, and if I kill you, I'm gonna be further in first place so killing yourself ... would not give ma any points! Killing yourself would just be better all around actually, better all around. So just cock a grenade and throw it at the wall in front of you, ok mate?"
I'll admit its no where near as funny as what was said in the game but I had a hell of a fun time with it.
Here's a video of what was said in game, massive spoilers for anyone who hasn't played portal 2 yet though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkl-hNwV6Qk
Been looking through the mods for Morrowind and got an interesting idea for a mod. Granted the odds of me finishing it are extremely low - next to zero given my track record - but every time I try something like this I get better at scripting, so it's only a matter of time before I know enough to actually complete one of my many, many, many ... many projects.
The concept: Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Morrowind edition.
It takes place after the Oblivion crisis. The emperor is dead, Vivec has been abducted by the Deadra and Morrowind is suddenly without a central government. Since the political situation between the different Houses, Guilds, Religions and cities were tentative at best and the Empire is without a leader, Vvardenfel is plunged into civil war.
If all goes well - this will function as a separate game from the main game, forcing the player to start a new game to play it. It will also be impossible to play the real game with this mod equipped because I'll be removing all pre-existing NPCs and quests. As long as you don't save over pr-existing save files this shouldn't effect main game saves though.
You'll be able to create your character as normal or select from a wide range of characters to take control of.
The game will be entirely faction dependent and the objective is to have one faction control all cities and forts throughout the island.
The factions I have so far are:
-House Hlaalu
-House Redoran
(Since House Telvani was a collective of independent mages they split their territory among the powerful lords.)
-Imperial Cult
(Vivec City is split between Temple loyalists and a powerful mage claiming to be the reincarnation of Vivec.)
-Pios Augustus: Imperial General who took command of Ebonheart after the Duke was assassinated.
-Either Sixth House remnants or another Daedra cult wanting to claim the island for their god.
There will be more factions as I scan through the cities, but as of yet the only key player faction is Pios and possibly House Redoran.
The player will have the option to do a kind of "free conquest" or follow a story arc for the key player faction.
As far as ranks go:
-Free Agent: Default faction for wondering officers.
The player will have different jobs depending on their skill set.
-Private: Initial rank with no authority.
-Captain: Access to armory but still no authority.
-Major: Able to advise commanding officer in battles.
-Officer: Squad leader in battles.
-General: Has authority in major faction decisions and can apply for specialty positions.
Specialty positions are as follows:
-Bodyguard: Needs high Strength and Endurance. Protect the Lord or other high ranking heroes in battle.
-Adviser: Needs high Intelligence. Able to select battle tactics and formations for squads to follow.
-Spy: Needs high Speed and Agility. Preforms covert work for faction. Sabotaging defenses, assassinations, ect.
-Diplomat: Needs high Personality: Preforms political duties and negotiations.
Then there is of course the Ruler who has the final say in everything.
This is going to require a hell of a lot of work is could very well be impossible, but I have plenty of time to work on it.
COMMENTS
A couple of things that really annoyed me about the Oblivion game... was the "law"... each city/castle should have it's own law so if certain members of a army came accross another lot, then they would battle or something.
And... Each city should have their own set of money.
Man this chess game confuses me. Been playing Chessmaster Live on xbox and I'm confused by what qualifies as a checkmate and what qualifies as a draw.
The way I see it, you should only Draw if there's insufficient pieces on both sides to checkmate, because that's what a draw is.
But this game keeps ending my matches in Draws when it's clearly checkmate.
One match in particular pissed me the fuck off.
I took every piece on my opponents side save for the king, only lost one rook and had 3 pawns promoted to queen. We pushed the king into a corner where he couldn't move, and the game ends in a draw. I can't see the logic in that outcome.
Here's what I know:
-There's no tern limit.
-Playing against an AI so opponent rage quitting isn't a factor.
-It only happens when I checkmate the opponent. When he checkmates me, he wins.
COMMENTS
That sounds a bit ridiculous... maybe there would be a better chess game online somewhere for you that would not do that to you.. that would piss me off also.
Summer has finally begun - for those of us in college at least - and the gaming coma can now begin!!!
...
Or not.
See, my xbox decided that the last day of classes was the perfect time to die, so it kinda died. Technically the hard drive got corrupted, which I guess it no big deal since I've been using that same 20GB hard drive for 6 years. Bought a 120GB hard drive for $60 and now my summer gaming can continue!!!
...
Actually, my gaming in general can begin - again. See, I lost all my save data for every game I ever played on xbox. I did the recover profile thing so my subscription and account is transferred over along with purchase history but all of the save files are still on the faulty hard drive. So all of my xbox games are more or less new yet again! While this really sucks for games like Devil May Cry 5 where I was just 10 missions away from S ranking everything, Dynasty Warriors 7 where I was finally nearly done that hell of a challenge mode, and Armored Core For Answer where I had my expertly designed crafts all saved, Prototype where I had everything platinum ... this list can go on for a while.
Good side is I have an excuse to replay EVERYTHING!!!
First game I started with was Armored Core For Answer and ?I have to say, I am a god!
I beat every AC in the arena with the starting craft under the Independent option on 1.20 regulations. No FRS Memory, no weapon upgrades, just the bare bones craft and I kicked everyone's ass, including White Glint, though that one nearly killed me. Story wise I only completed the very first mission at that point and I was already topped ranked in arena.
The White Glint fight ended in one of those "whoever lands the next hit wins." kinda things. I had 84 AP out of 35,000, anything could kill you at that low life, stubbing your toe would probably do it. White Glint had 1,100 AP left out of 37,000. Also an extremely low number but you could survive one or two hits.
WG launched a volley of missiles at me which I somehow managed to dodge or shoot down with machine gun fire, charging straight at him. Then I managed to dodge a few rounds from his assault rifles, dodging from left to right and weaving in between the bullets. Finally I boosted upward, veered to the right to dodge another rifle shot and fired the last shot from my back mounted energy cannon. This all happened in about 10 seconds so I was surprised as hell I actually won.
To reiterate - I am a god!
I wounder how effective homeless turned soldiers would be? There's certainly enough of them to make a sizable army. Food for thought ...
I don't know why but lately I've been getting a lot of praise for my intelligence. Family members, friends, professors, fellow students, random people. If they want to fan my ego by all means feel free but now I'm wondering what exactly I did to deserve the praise.
The only person who has not given praise is my best friend/rival who feels the need to insult me constantly and try in vain to hurt my pride. He's pissed at this because no matter what he does I manage to upstage him without even trying, literally. I couldn't care less about my status yet I'm the one getting the recognition. It must really suck in his position, but then he's not really a rival if he can't offer decent competition now is he?
COMMENTS
Maybe finally people are realizing you are smart or they are realizing how inferior they and the school system are? But then, some people find certain subjects easier than others. There are a few possibilities.
It seems his praise is somewhat important to you as well.
Maybe if you helped him he will eventually come around and end up praising you too, and also in result, perhaps he will be a better rival again. Just an idea.
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EAsSofia
07:48 May 30 2011
theres more hidden shit too lol ...you forgot to mention the scalar techs i hear on the energy field all day chanting ...i'll make you pee...ill make you poo lol....hitting deceivers like you with a ray of photogenic light that terminates the life force is one of the very few thing i experience as i do my part in this battle here on the surface at a location not shared by my EA ... IAM simply waiting for instructions from my father to bid you and yours a final farewell ...with a great big KABOOM...oKKK ...
HU.MANS will survive ... but not you ... in fact if i were a gambler in a game of Blackjack...i'd bet that someone other that the original poster of this journal comment will be using this journal from now on ...stupid little monkey
EAsSofia
07:55 May 30 2011
will the next dropa drop please stand up ... i do so enjoy blowing you up and messin with the computer systems you think are safe when you put then in a faraday cage or tesla field lmfao
IAM sure there must at least be one more of you who has not reached the quota of 1000 posts for a bonus yet ...lmfao
you are certainly not the brightest stars
Ocelot
07:14 Jun 01 2011
um ... okay then.