The Bi-Monthly Update... Yay!
Okay from popular demand im wanted back and writing this stuff. Okay then... lets see what i have to say....
I did promise you guys a extensive review of Guild Wars. Heres a short quicky. I was and am still a fanboy of Guild Wars, dont get me wrong. The action is extremly good, the effects are beautifull, the story is quite good although there is some really really really bad dialouge here and there... (mostly from the dwarves and ancient witches... go figure) I mean this aint shakesperean writing but the delivering of the lines could be better. Now lets ask the big question, "But Keith, if you loved the game so much, why dont you play it endlessy with out end to the endth power?" Well my mathmatical freinds i will tell you why. Though the action is good, the game took a wicked turn. The game says "no grinding" and i played with the "skill" they wanted their players to play with. I then came to a part called the Crystal Desert. This place was FRIGGIN HARD AS HELL AND REQUIRED ME TO GO BACK AND "GRIND" TO A HIGHER LEVEL. Tsk Tsk Tsk. When i arrived there i was a low level compared to all the 20's around me. Me a lowly level 16 with not nearly enough power to just run up against a lvl 40 Hydra (heres a little info on the levels, for human players the levels go from 1-20 which is good since its mostly a skill based game, some where between about 10-18 it becomes pretty compettitive with the AI monstors you fight after that it just ups everything and becomes a little depressing) Where was i? Oh right the crystal desert, well heres the thing, throughout the whole game there is one combination of class based that can do anything and is a bitch and should be removed from the records, that is the walking tank that is the Warrior/Monk. Of course they can walk through everything even at level 1 because of their ablity to just mow through everything and then proceed to heal themselves.... *huf* Okay with that out of my system lets go on to the next few questions, "But Keith, does this mean you didnt finish the game?" Oh hell yeah i beat it, i liked the game through and through baby! "But Keith, what about the compettive play you so swooned about months ago?" Ah here is where this game shines the most, the compettive PVP play and GVG play is soo thrilling it gives me goosebumps. So why am i not playing it now? Because i played the PVP combat for about 4 weeks straight non-stop, up untill about last week heh.
Here i will chop up my video game ranting with a heart filled story about Graduation and a Mentor leaving for Florida... the lucky man he is. Tuesday night was my brothers Graduation from the hell hole that is High-School, it was a nice enough presentation. One of the speech givers was Justin Monticello whove i known since ive been in Kindengarden. The dude lives right up the street from me. Okay onto my mentor, Mr. Don Malko. He is leaving this year, which is soo sad since i had from all of my life at Crim School and this year for Art History. The man is a legend and has the mind of someone that has reached nirvana, and no not that crappy Kurt Cobain band. He really has one of the touches that can brighten any life. With that he will hear from me through email perhaps all through the rest of my High-School and into my Colledge career. On tuesday we also went to the Middle school to harress some teachers we knew heh. Immideatly we see the line of teachers getting their final pay checks heh, and who do we see at the end of it? Mr. Russel of Course! We spoke to him about robotics and video games and World War 2, well i spoke to him about video games and WW 2 casues were both fans and it just fits heh. He will most likely be coming around to some of the off-season events next year, see how i can fit it in.
Onto my next GAME REVIEW. Okay here this is for the gamer that lives nor dare i say has his computer injected too all his ports on himself... thats kinda disgusting.... With that i bring out the glory that is BF2... well their is alot of Glory in the Game play, but the whole EA part of it sucks, let me elaborate. BattleField 2 is the first real "sequal" too Battlefield 1942. There was that little crappy Vietnam thing but it just wasnt enough to warrent it a sequal. With that lets look into Battlefield 2 itself. The game is glorious to look at, even with a lower end PC but ill get into why in just a little bit more. The interface is quick and easy to use however the original bound keys are a bitch and must be replaced with things more suiting. The interface of class picking, squad choosing, and order giving is a breeze. The Command Mode is a beautifull specimen of online compettive gaming. People on a team can apply for the Command spot, the one person with the highest rank ( on offical release, on officialy ranked servers, you going to be tracked and your rank will go up or down against other players around the world) the highest ranked becomes the Commander, now whats different might you ask if you be the commander? Well you still can play in all the toys of tanks, jets, helicoptors, thats still all there. You can still run around and gun with your Special Ops kit or your Medic Kit, reviving those dead comrades. However, the button to choose your squads orginally (caps lock) now picking that key brings up a map of the entire field, along with a side bar of all the squads. With this, you are able to talk to you all your squad leaders. Your squad leaders can talk to you and other squad leaders and their squad, and the squads can only talk to people within their own squads, its a nice breakdown of communiciation and ordering with the lovely headset microphone. Okay with that, what can you do with this mini-map beside giving ordres? Well for one, you can zoom up pretty damn far into it and at a certain point you actually see the modeled terrain and the little people running around, freind and foe, its still in color so its not complete satelitite uplink. Okay what else can you do? While a slew of 4 different things... Yeah i know only 4 but there all damn cool. We shall start from least cool to utterly banging! Least cool would have to be the SCAN. It bassically takes one scan and it runs across the map, with doing this, you see all th enemies as little red blurbs, but also everyone on your team can see the enemies on their mini-maps thus rendering their hiding spots helpless. Onto next coolest. You can give Supply Drops. Which means, a capture point being attacked, you can drop down a little box of supplies onto your minnions and they can get ammo and health from it. The next coolest would have to be the UAV-Unmaned Aerial Vehical. Its bassically a little drone that you can put over a capture point that lets say your guys are attaking. Using this little bird in the sky a sonor type deal starts to happen with the circle pattern, and as the ray goes over an enemy he shows up for a period of time on the mini-map. Now onto the BANGING. ARTIELLRY BABY, DEATH FROM ABOVE! While there is alot of death from above in the Migs and the Joint strike fighters and the Attack Helicopters and so forth, the most death from above would have to be the Artierllery. With this you can launch on artiellery onto a target area that you see has bunch of baddies, lets say from a UAV or a Scan you can see them, with that, put down the cursor of death on them and within seconds, fire from above will reign down on that position killing all who havent took cover. Now i have to add you might think that this would be very "cheap" if the commander cant be stopped, well he can. For everything the commander can do of the 4 things, the opposing team can render him from doing all with the lovely power of C4. A special ops man can go over to the enemy artiellery, and perhaps seeing it allready up and running, currently fireing off rounds into the sky that will kill many of your compadrades. What could you do? Oh how bout laying some c4 on the bastards and blowing them SKY HIGH. This goes all the same for the others, taking out the RADAR tower can kill the enemies ablitty to Scan, taking out the UAV trailer renders no more UAV's. Now all of the special ablities the commander can do have to reacharge, so one cannot "spam" the whole map with artiellery. So then you have to ask "well weve heard your Fanboy rant, now what dont you like about the EA part of the game?" Oh ho ho lets just see. This goes hand and hand with the way the game looks good even on the minnimum specs. The game requires a beastly machine to play the game. Most gamers are gonna have two choices with this game, not buy it, or severly upgrade their machine to be able to run it. It requires a high high high requirement. Heh Require! Anywho lets go onto the oh so lovely Publisher EA. With requiring DICE to have such high Requirements, they also required DICE to have a deadline, and what does that bring might you ask? SYSTEM BUGS, ive had many times the game just crash to desktop, for no apparent reason, on top with that ive had the game actually Shut off my computer, by crashing me to my desktop then proceeding to turn off my computer me being helpless to its awesome power. Since the game has allready gone "Gold" that means its currently being published like this which means, the Gameplay is GREAT, if you can get past the SYSTEM REQUIREMNTS oh and you can get pass the GOD AWFULL BUGS!
Ill give you a semi-updated review of the game when i play all of its amazing 12 maps when its released June 21. *huf* *huf* *smoking cigerrete* Was it as good for you as it was for me baby?
Keith
I did promise you guys a extensive review of Guild Wars. Heres a short quicky. I was and am still a fanboy of Guild Wars, dont get me wrong. The action is extremly good, the effects are beautifull, the story is quite good although there is some really really really bad dialouge here and there... (mostly from the dwarves and ancient witches... go figure) I mean this aint shakesperean writing but the delivering of the lines could be better. Now lets ask the big question, "But Keith, if you loved the game so much, why dont you play it endlessy with out end to the endth power?" Well my mathmatical freinds i will tell you why. Though the action is good, the game took a wicked turn. The game says "no grinding" and i played with the "skill" they wanted their players to play with. I then came to a part called the Crystal Desert. This place was FRIGGIN HARD AS HELL AND REQUIRED ME TO GO BACK AND "GRIND" TO A HIGHER LEVEL. Tsk Tsk Tsk. When i arrived there i was a low level compared to all the 20's around me. Me a lowly level 16 with not nearly enough power to just run up against a lvl 40 Hydra (heres a little info on the levels, for human players the levels go from 1-20 which is good since its mostly a skill based game, some where between about 10-18 it becomes pretty compettitive with the AI monstors you fight after that it just ups everything and becomes a little depressing) Where was i? Oh right the crystal desert, well heres the thing, throughout the whole game there is one combination of class based that can do anything and is a bitch and should be removed from the records, that is the walking tank that is the Warrior/Monk. Of course they can walk through everything even at level 1 because of their ablity to just mow through everything and then proceed to heal themselves.... *huf* Okay with that out of my system lets go on to the next few questions, "But Keith, does this mean you didnt finish the game?" Oh hell yeah i beat it, i liked the game through and through baby! "But Keith, what about the compettive play you so swooned about months ago?" Ah here is where this game shines the most, the compettive PVP play and GVG play is soo thrilling it gives me goosebumps. So why am i not playing it now? Because i played the PVP combat for about 4 weeks straight non-stop, up untill about last week heh.
Here i will chop up my video game ranting with a heart filled story about Graduation and a Mentor leaving for Florida... the lucky man he is. Tuesday night was my brothers Graduation from the hell hole that is High-School, it was a nice enough presentation. One of the speech givers was Justin Monticello whove i known since ive been in Kindengarden. The dude lives right up the street from me. Okay onto my mentor, Mr. Don Malko. He is leaving this year, which is soo sad since i had from all of my life at Crim School and this year for Art History. The man is a legend and has the mind of someone that has reached nirvana, and no not that crappy Kurt Cobain band. He really has one of the touches that can brighten any life. With that he will hear from me through email perhaps all through the rest of my High-School and into my Colledge career. On tuesday we also went to the Middle school to harress some teachers we knew heh. Immideatly we see the line of teachers getting their final pay checks heh, and who do we see at the end of it? Mr. Russel of Course! We spoke to him about robotics and video games and World War 2, well i spoke to him about video games and WW 2 casues were both fans and it just fits heh. He will most likely be coming around to some of the off-season events next year, see how i can fit it in.
Onto my next GAME REVIEW. Okay here this is for the gamer that lives nor dare i say has his computer injected too all his ports on himself... thats kinda disgusting.... With that i bring out the glory that is BF2... well their is alot of Glory in the Game play, but the whole EA part of it sucks, let me elaborate. BattleField 2 is the first real "sequal" too Battlefield 1942. There was that little crappy Vietnam thing but it just wasnt enough to warrent it a sequal. With that lets look into Battlefield 2 itself. The game is glorious to look at, even with a lower end PC but ill get into why in just a little bit more. The interface is quick and easy to use however the original bound keys are a bitch and must be replaced with things more suiting. The interface of class picking, squad choosing, and order giving is a breeze. The Command Mode is a beautifull specimen of online compettive gaming. People on a team can apply for the Command spot, the one person with the highest rank ( on offical release, on officialy ranked servers, you going to be tracked and your rank will go up or down against other players around the world) the highest ranked becomes the Commander, now whats different might you ask if you be the commander? Well you still can play in all the toys of tanks, jets, helicoptors, thats still all there. You can still run around and gun with your Special Ops kit or your Medic Kit, reviving those dead comrades. However, the button to choose your squads orginally (caps lock) now picking that key brings up a map of the entire field, along with a side bar of all the squads. With this, you are able to talk to you all your squad leaders. Your squad leaders can talk to you and other squad leaders and their squad, and the squads can only talk to people within their own squads, its a nice breakdown of communiciation and ordering with the lovely headset microphone. Okay with that, what can you do with this mini-map beside giving ordres? Well for one, you can zoom up pretty damn far into it and at a certain point you actually see the modeled terrain and the little people running around, freind and foe, its still in color so its not complete satelitite uplink. Okay what else can you do? While a slew of 4 different things... Yeah i know only 4 but there all damn cool. We shall start from least cool to utterly banging! Least cool would have to be the SCAN. It bassically takes one scan and it runs across the map, with doing this, you see all th enemies as little red blurbs, but also everyone on your team can see the enemies on their mini-maps thus rendering their hiding spots helpless. Onto next coolest. You can give Supply Drops. Which means, a capture point being attacked, you can drop down a little box of supplies onto your minnions and they can get ammo and health from it. The next coolest would have to be the UAV-Unmaned Aerial Vehical. Its bassically a little drone that you can put over a capture point that lets say your guys are attaking. Using this little bird in the sky a sonor type deal starts to happen with the circle pattern, and as the ray goes over an enemy he shows up for a period of time on the mini-map. Now onto the BANGING. ARTIELLRY BABY, DEATH FROM ABOVE! While there is alot of death from above in the Migs and the Joint strike fighters and the Attack Helicopters and so forth, the most death from above would have to be the Artierllery. With this you can launch on artiellery onto a target area that you see has bunch of baddies, lets say from a UAV or a Scan you can see them, with that, put down the cursor of death on them and within seconds, fire from above will reign down on that position killing all who havent took cover. Now i have to add you might think that this would be very "cheap" if the commander cant be stopped, well he can. For everything the commander can do of the 4 things, the opposing team can render him from doing all with the lovely power of C4. A special ops man can go over to the enemy artiellery, and perhaps seeing it allready up and running, currently fireing off rounds into the sky that will kill many of your compadrades. What could you do? Oh how bout laying some c4 on the bastards and blowing them SKY HIGH. This goes all the same for the others, taking out the RADAR tower can kill the enemies ablitty to Scan, taking out the UAV trailer renders no more UAV's. Now all of the special ablities the commander can do have to reacharge, so one cannot "spam" the whole map with artiellery. So then you have to ask "well weve heard your Fanboy rant, now what dont you like about the EA part of the game?" Oh ho ho lets just see. This goes hand and hand with the way the game looks good even on the minnimum specs. The game requires a beastly machine to play the game. Most gamers are gonna have two choices with this game, not buy it, or severly upgrade their machine to be able to run it. It requires a high high high requirement. Heh Require! Anywho lets go onto the oh so lovely Publisher EA. With requiring DICE to have such high Requirements, they also required DICE to have a deadline, and what does that bring might you ask? SYSTEM BUGS, ive had many times the game just crash to desktop, for no apparent reason, on top with that ive had the game actually Shut off my computer, by crashing me to my desktop then proceeding to turn off my computer me being helpless to its awesome power. Since the game has allready gone "Gold" that means its currently being published like this which means, the Gameplay is GREAT, if you can get past the SYSTEM REQUIREMNTS oh and you can get pass the GOD AWFULL BUGS!
Ill give you a semi-updated review of the game when i play all of its amazing 12 maps when its released June 21. *huf* *huf* *smoking cigerrete* Was it as good for you as it was for me baby?
Keith
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