So I was just reading a couple articles where there were conflicting opinions that resulted in some hurt feelings and odd name calling coupled with lengthy justifications regarding their own personal gaming styles. It is inevitable that we will encounter people who simply view the same game under a totally different lens than we do and it might generate this kind of friction, sure, but we can't go and rag on people for playing games in a way the fits with their approach to games.I find myself wondering how gamers would classify themselves when...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Opening Thoughts on Batman: Arkham City
After getting a disgustingly amazing deal on Arkham city and Skyward Sword on black Friday (got them both new for 70 bucks somehow along with some wii cords) I played around with both of them a bit and decided that I would work my way through Arkham city first. This post will basically be my opening thoughts on the game and things that stuck out to me.The first thing I want to say is that I freaking love the design of the Arkham City world. It is visually amazing and quite large...and covered in Riddler signs. It has been quite a while since I've...
Daedric Quests: Mephala - Ebony Blade - ????
Alright so basically I wanted to do a short post on this very odd weapon called the "Ebony Blade". It basically looks like a larger version of the Blade's sword and is classified as a greatsword, it also has a leech health enchantment on it. So that all sounds normal whats weird about that? Well upon receiving the blade you're instructed by Mephala to return the blade to its former glory by slaughtering your followers. Sinister. I had no problem doing this so I went by all the people who liked me and starting killing them off one by one and the...
Monday, November 28, 2011
Whats coming up? (Some stuff I wanna say)
Right now I'm playing through Batman: Arkham City as well as Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and finishing up various side stuff on Skyrim. So the next few posts can be expected to be on any of those three things depending on what I want to talk about (Probably Batman first but who knows).I'm also working on putting together an Aion PvP video from my massive backlog of fraps so that is eating up a ton of my time I'll be posting that on here when it is complete as well as my Youtube channel Fest1277.Twitter: So I guess I decided to start tweeting...
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Skyrim Daedric Quests: Sheogorath & Boethia
Just a short little update on two more of the Daedric item quests that I finished yesterday. Enjoy!Sheogorath - Wabbajack - StaffSo, Wabbajack. Want to cause random explosions? Want to turn people into harmless chickens/bunnies/cakes? Want to occasionally turn people into Dremora? <-- Bad luck on this one. The Wabbajack does all that and more. It's description is "causes an unpredictable effect" and boy does that not even come close to doing it justice. The first time I used this on an enemy he turned into a chicken and just wandered around...
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Skyrim: Daedric Quests
Alright, so this isn't exactly a campaign but there are individual quests that can be grouped under the umbrella of "Daedric Weapon Quests". These are some of the best weapons you can get in the game with the coolest looks and unique enchantments. There is at least one for each type of player (Warrior, Thief, Mage). I'll go through all the ones I know about so far and add to this post as I finish up a few. There is one weapon/item per daedric lord.Mehrunes Dagon: Mehrune's Razor - DaggerThis is a fantastic dagger that looks pretty damn cool as...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Skyrim Campaigns: The Companions
The Companions are the "fighters guild" substitute for Skyrim with one huge difference, they're all werewolves. The Companion quest-line begins like you'd expect any fighter-ish missions to start, you go to a ruin and beat up some baddies. Then you get trapped in a room while your partner remains in the room completely alone. Suddenly a swarm of bandit looking people rush out and claim they're going to kill him and they close in on him. Farkas (your partner for this mission) then says something along the lines of "There aren't enough of you" or...
Monday, November 21, 2011
Skyrim Campaigns: The Thieves Guild
The Thieves guild was one of the better campaigns in Skyrim, it kinda made the Civil war stuff that I talked about in previous posts feel like garbage. There are basically two stages in the campaign which is nice because it offers a change of pace about half way through the quest-line. The first stage is just the basic thieving and stealth missions which are pretty fun if not just because Skyrim's typical style is to just absolutely eliminate everything in your way, so this offers a chance to play the game as you would a stealth game. You're essentially...
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Skyrim Campaigns: Civil War (Stormcloaks)
This will be a very short post since the differences between the two sides of this questline are extremely few and far between. Neither civil war rewards you very well at all and the fort sieges get pretty repetitive. The only thing I really liked about the Stormcloak side was the siege on Solitude. It is a larger city and proved to be more visually enticing than Windhelm. Outside of that they essentially just copy the quest-line from the Imperial side and change up the settings a bit. One thing I failed to mention about the civil war campaigns...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Skyrim Campaigns: Civil War, Imperial side
So I chose to do the Imperial side of this campaign mostly because I like the look of their armor more than the Stormcloak's and I had high hopes that I would be receiving some sort of awesome looking armor set with super cool bonuses and stuff. I was wrong. You receive jack shit for doing this quest line outside of a sort of decent sword and a basic armor set which is nice if you do this right out of the gate and have no smithing skill or the ability to run dungeons to get gear (it really is not hard to get better armor/weapons than this quest...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Skyrim Campaigns: The Dark Brotherhood
So, I decided that trying to "review" or even talk about Skyrim as a whole just would either turn out to be a small book or be too short to do it justice. So to resolve this little problem I'll just talk about the various campaigns you can do to supplement your experience with Skyrim (does anyone just do the main story..?). I'll start with the only one I have completed 100% which is the Dark Brotherhood or the "Assassin's guild" for those who may not know what it's called.
You can start this campaign chain by heading to Windhelm and finding...
Monday, November 14, 2011
Skyrim
I have the hots for this game. Good lord where did the last three days go...Skyrim is possibly the most immersive game I have ever played. Bethesda did a fantastic job with this game no question about it. Just the way they shaped their world is phenomenal, the story is left up to the player, each playstyle has the ability to function well and the dungeons are d0-able with any kind of weapon setup. There is very little to complain about when you are given such a massive world, hundreds of quests and dungeons, and multiple complex campaigns to experience.One...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Rusty Hearts
So I was watching some Aion PvP videos on youtube out of boredom and one of the channels had videos of a game called Rusty Hearts. Now, being the well educated MMO player that I am, I had to check it out and see what this unknown game was. So I go to the site and see that its made by the same people who did Perfect World and their slew of cookie cutter MMOs that I could never understand why anyone bothered with. This was a definite put off. Burying my unease about the developer, I decided to download and give Rusty Hearts a try.RH (Rusty Hearts)...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Ambition
So I've been thinking a lot lately about the concept of ambition as well as my own ambitions for my life, my career, my personal growth, pretty much thinking about ambition as it applies to all aspects of my life. I feel like I'd feel better if I just put it down somewhere that I could look at whenever I feel uncertain or discouraged. So that place will be here since this has become a personal, yet very open, log of my thoughts as they relate to games. So here it goes.In regards to career ambitions: Honestly, I'm shooting for the stars when it...
Thoughts on Crysis 2
So I finally got around to finishing Crysis 2 this past weekend and just wanted to share a couple of my thoughts in regards to how it measured up to the first. The first thing I'll address here is the undertones that I encountered throughout the game. Being a first person shooter typically guarantees a sub-par story and lackluster character design by falling into the pattern of face-less super soldier blows up gratuitous amounts of aliens. This held true for Crysis 2, you play as Alcatraz, just a normal marine who gets flung into this massive conflict...
