Nerd Rage

Yesterday Grendal and I went out and picked up our copy of Alien v. Predator.  I laid claim to the Alien storyline and he, in turn, demanded the Predator.  I said I was interested in playing the human which shocked him since I was having a hard time getting into it.  I agreed to let him have the first play through though.  I zipped through the Alien’s story and, though it was short, I enjoyed it.  After that I jumped on to LIVE to do some Ranked Matches but I found myself rather annoyed; people were constantly quitting in the middle of matches.  Now, a friend of mine commented that it was just a LIVE thing, but I’ve played a whole lot of Halo 3 multiplayer and there is little to no midgame quitting there. >:|  Seriously people, just because you’re not doing as well as you want or you feel like you’re being ganged up on, doesn’t mean you have to quit.  I played a match today that only had 5 people(including myself) and that wasn’t fun but I stuck through it.  Sure I ended up being last but it seemed like these people also had nothing better to do……and I was the lowest ranking player.  -_-;

All in all I’m loving this game!  It may not be the shinning pinnacle of awesomeness that games try to achieve, but it has a niche that I love!  I’d recommend that everyone either rent it or borrow it from a friend!  So yeah, 8/10!   If I can get my little Friday afternoon gaming guys to get copies we might play AvP rather than Halo: ODST….once we get our last damned achievement.

And no more NERD RAGE.

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The Nick Reynolds Show 124

Featuring Game, White Denim and Wu-Tang Clan.

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00:00 Wu-Tang Clan – Early Grave (feat. ODB Bad Luck)

02:25 Caribou - Odessa
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07:30 Peasant – The End
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10:52 White Denim – YoYo
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12:23 Game – Shake (Prod. By Cool & Dre)
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Until next time. . .

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Allods Online, continues...

In the mean time while I was studying Allods Online, lets see some vids regarding this new Open Beta MMORPG

The Giblings race are triplets tiny creatures, quite interesting though.

This is how a warrior PVP in Russian server.

Allods Online is a 3D MMORPG with some sci-fi elements, its Free To Play for life ! Featuring six races, eight playable classes and a whopping 28 different archetypes. Although it may have some similarities to World of Warcraft & Warhammer Online, but Allods do have its own uniqueness i.e. the Astral Ship battles in space against either NPCs or other players. The game’s graphic and environment is absolutely gorgeous and having very detail textures.

“The game is without a doubt one of the best free to play MMORPGs currently on the market.“ MMO Hut.

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Plants vs. Zombies Now Available for iPhone via Mashable

by Stan Schroeder

Have you ever played a tower defense game? If you have, chances are you’ve been glued to it for days, devising strategies, planting towers and generally forgetting all your other obligations and activities.

A game called Plants vs. Zombies offers a fun variation on the tower defense game: flower defense. Zombies attack, and your job is to stop them by planting vegetation that stops, maims or destroys them. Now, the same game is available for the iPhone for a competitive price of $2.99.

Features include the 50 level long Adventure mode (with the ability to replay levels via the Quick Play Arena), more than four dozen different plants, dozens of zombie types and lots of achievements that reward successful completion of various challenges.

Original Article: Plants vs. Zombies Now Available for iPhone

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CALL OF DUTY, MASIH YANG TERBAIK DI ACTIVISION

SAN FRANSISCO – Activision melaporkan pendapatan akhir tahunnya baru-baru ini. Dalam keterangan tersebut, Call of Duty: World of War masih menjadi jagoan developer game tersebut. Dalam laporan tersebut, dilansir melalui PC IGN, Senin (15/2/2010), CEO Activision Publishing Mike Griffith mengabarkan adanya kontribusi yang cukup besar dari Call of Duty: World at War dalam pendapatan financial Activision. Bahkan jika digabungkan dalam penjualan tiga game multiplayer map packs, angka tersebut mendekati 10 juta download sejak tahun lalu. “Call of Duty: World at War map packs telah terjual lebih dari 8,5 juta unit dalam kurun waktu satu tahun,” ujar Griffith. Bahkan, lanjutnya, World at War telah masuk dalam salah satu dari tiga judul game paling top di Xbox Live, lebih dari setahun sejak game tersebut resmi diluncurkan. Dalam hitungan 800 poin Microsoft untuk satu unit, yang dihargai USD10, Activision telah mendapatkan tambahan penghasilan sekira USD100 juta dalam setahun, hanya dengan menjual multiplayer maps untuk game yang diluncurkan di akhir 2008. Untuk penjualan map pack pertama kali pada 19 Maret 2009, telah dihasilkan sekira 1 juta download dalam pekan pertama. Dua tambahan map packs lainnya dirilis pada Juni dan Agustus di tahun yang sama, dan mencapai rekor penjualan di jaringan Xbox Live dan PlayStation Network.

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Far Cry 2: First Impressions

Following the futuristic Filipino battles of Crysis, the closest to photorealism in a game yet, yet with the alien technology essentially ending the game early for me, emptying it of its future war and convincing weaponry and injecting a fun, but ultimately less enjoyable alien menace, I decided to give Far Cry 2 a chance.

Stemming from the same original game, Far Cry, the team divided and most of the same team went on to make Crysis, whereas Ubisoft kept the title license and made Far Cry 2 with a separate development team. My immediate thought was that I’d much prefer Crysis, but with less body awareness than expected and the alien plot-line, I hoped that Far Cry 2 would satisfy me. With it’s African plains, apparently non-science-fiction or supernatural storyline and huge open areas the series of games are famous for, with hints of having as much visual bed-wetting (in a good way) as Crysis, the outlook is promising.

A beautifully-lit jungle with a muddy palette.

After a few hours of play, first impressions are mixed. Crysis is certainly much more polished, visually. FC2 does a decent job at rivaling Crysis in terms of graphics (the shadows and overall lighting effects are, for example, the most breathtaking I’ve seen), but with a colour palette scraped from the bottom of an old boot, FC2 simply doesn’t have the shininess and visual range of Crysis. Granted, the context would indeed limit the graphics somewhat, but there’s a muddiness that could have been polished a bit, along with some minor glitches that are just disappointing.

Great animation, despite the shoulder-clipping.

On the plus-side, the game is more freeform and provides a fantastic bodily-aware animation for every little action, from healing to opening doors to grabbing the seat in front of you when your vehicle stops suddenly. The HUD being absent from the screen for the most part, is great (especially the decision to remove any minor HUD displays such as save-notifications from screenshots), and the tangibility of the map and hammering on a jammed weapon whilst desperately using your eyes rather than relying on a magical floating radar to track your enemy bearing down on you through the jungle all combine to make a very immersive experience. Now, if only the glitches had been ironed out, this could have bumped Crysis off the podium.

The most detailed and convincing shadow system I've seen.

Checking a map whilst driving at high speeds is just as dangerous in Far Cry 2 as it is on the M25.

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Enjoying Eternal Sonata

I just started playing this wonderful tribute to the nineteenth century and… I wish gor you to enjoy it as well. To fully enjoy this game, I must ask that you do so in a place where ypu can allow yourself to get spellbound by a visually appealing object/painting/sculpture. The game very much lives on the battles and stunning visuals, don’t forget that you can alter between voice language with or without subtitles if dubbing puts you off.

By the way, one of the best mediaservers I’ve come across is called “PS3 media server” and allows for streaming on both PS3 and 360. Just in case you really want to watch those .mkv files on your tv.
It fully supports a bunch of codecs, just connect both your PC and console to your network and “PS3 media server” will automatically discover your console when it’s turned on. If you stumble across any problems google is your best friend.

See you later!

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