Ahh, the joys of pets and gaming.
Or not.
Our dog Alfie is something of a menace. So a few days ago, I was finishing up Halo 3 (I know, it took me forever. I was away from my 360 quite a lot this year, so ended up playing Halo 3 quite disjointedly...I definitely plan on playing it again, more consistently.)
Anyways, I was on that part just before you enter that structure where you end up teaming up with the Flood. The part where you have to take down 2 Scarabs and a bunch of Banshees. And I'd better mention that I didn't know there was a whole lot simpler way of destroying them (shooting the core at the back)so I was trying to do everything by shooting their legs, temporarily disabling them, jumping on, destroying the core, blah blah blah, which took quite a bit of time, and took me a number of tries before I managed to do it. Or almost did it. This is where Alfred comes in. I had just destroyed the 2nd Scarabs core, and jumped off of it when...BAM!! THE TV SWITCHED CHANNELS!! Alfie had walked over to where I was sitting, trod on the switch with his grinch like feet, and switched the channel from Halo to static! Now, after you destroy a Scarab's core, you have to haul ass and get as far as way as possible, otherwise the explosion takes you with it. Well, I managed to change back to the right channel just as I saw the Chief being blown sky high. Great. Thank's Alfie. And that's not the worst of it. After that, I tried like, a hundred times to do that part again and failedddd. Until I was saved when I figured out the other method for destroying them (not the sharpest tool in the shed, I know.) But seriously, I think I almost lost my mind the amount of times I kept trying to do it afterwards and died.
But the ending, ahhh. Poor Master Chief, lost in space. He is the ultimate cool dude. My hero.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Thursday, 26 November 2009
DANIELLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED GAME LIST...LIST
So this is the obligatory post about game releases I am most anticipating. This has really been a good year for gaming (Batman: Arkham Asylum, Assassin's Creed II, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Dragon Age: Origins, F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Halo 3: ODST, to mention a few) and next year looks to be too. So without further me rambling...
Danielle's most anticipated games of Dec 09-2010
In no particular order...
Bioshock 2
The first Bioshock is one of my all time favourite games. I was hooked on it and it's one of those games that had me completely absorbed in it's atmosphere- playing through this game for the first time is just very special, there's no other way of putting it. So naturally, I'm desperately awaiting to get my hands on number 2. Plus, getting to play as a Big Daddy? BADASS.
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Another game which I really enjoyed the first installment of. Salem and Rios are just great together. I loved all their trash talking and quips, along with certain other characters. This is what stood out most to me in this game; the characters. And that is always a really important thing to me, I have to be interested in the characters when I'm playing a game. Had a great story too. 40th Day is going to be set in Shanghai, which is struck by a huge disaster...whilst Salem and Rios are there...what are they going to do?? How are they going to do it?? I think both of these questions can be answered with guns, rockets, team work, and guns...Which is awesome. So bring it on.
Final Fantasy XIII
I think practically everyyyyyone and his dog is awaiting this game, so not much to say here. Hugely popular RPG franchise, new installment, looks freaking beautiful. As for the lead characters name though (Lightning)I know Square Enix are trying to carry on a naming tradition from the previous games, but this just sounds...meh. I know it's hardly original, but wouldn't something like Storm have sounded better? Rain? Lightning Rain Cloud?
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
I'm a complete sucker for the Kingdom Heart series. Fell in love with it straight away. Intriguing and absorbing characters, enchanting worlds, moving music, emotional storyline...you see, just thinking about it makes me go all gooey. This game in the series is going to be a prequel to the first Kingdom Heart's game (set 10 years before) and is suppose to elaborate on many unexplained plot elements from the series. It's a PSP game, so I'm not expecting it to be mind-blowing, but it's Kingdom Heart's, so it's all good.
Darksiders
Now this just sounds badass. You play as one of the Four Horseman, WAR (yes, he's called WAR. MANLY.) The story goes that the Apocalypse has taken place- earlier than it was suppose too- and the world is destroyed. So who's job is it to go and find out who was up to a bit of no good that brought about the end of the world? WAR, of course. Stuck in between a battle of angels and demons, WAR has to find the other Horseman and some answers. And maybe by the looks of it, a bigger sword.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Okay, whenever I try and talk about anything MGS, I kind of have a meltdown, because there is just so much to say about this series, and so much to LOVE, and words just cannot describe...............oh dear, let me start again.
The MGS series is my favourite gaming series ever. Of all-time ever. MGS- AMAZING! MGS2-AWESOME! MGS3-My favourite game of all time, tied with FFVII. And MGS4, well. Unless you've played it, nothing I write can possibly describe it, especially if you have followed the series from the start. It's a very special gaming experience.
Peace Walker is going to be a PSP game, and if MGS: Portable Ops was anything to go by, (it was awesome, btw) then we are in for a treat. It takes place after MGS3 and Portable Ops, you play as Big Boss, and it will develop the back story for Outer Heaven. If that doesn't get you excited, then well!! What kind of MGS fan are you?!
Doom 4
I've only played Doom 3, but wow, that was an awesome game. Even scared the crap out of me a few times. Doom 3 is a great, and very addictive, FPS with an interesting and creepy storyline, that will have you playing it for hours at a time. Good times.
For sure, I want more from the Doom series, so Doom 4 is VERY WELCOME. I hope it takes up as many hours of my life as 3 did.
Not much is known about Doom 4 yet, accept that it is not a sequel to 3 and neither is it a reboot. But to be honest, that really doesn't change how excited I am about this. As long as it's not a crossover with Disney and the silent Marine dude doesn't start talking in a gravelly voice, I'm game.
Fallout: New Vegas
Another game that we don't know too much about right now, except that it is not a sequel to Fallout 3 and that it will be the "same sort of role-playing game experience seen in Fallout 3." I still haven't completed Fallout 3, but that doesn't mean I don't know how awesome it is. Plenty of world to explore, numerous side quests, an intriguing stroyline, quirky characters, and boom, you've hooked me. So the thought that we have another Fallout heading our way is certainly welcome news to me.
Other mentions*:
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Halo: Reach
Mortal Kombat 9
The Saboteur
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
White Knight Chronicles
Twisted Metal
Heavy Rain
Rogue Warrior
*other stuff that I'm looking forward to but can't be bothered to write about
Danielle's most anticipated games of Dec 09-2010
In no particular order...
Bioshock 2
The first Bioshock is one of my all time favourite games. I was hooked on it and it's one of those games that had me completely absorbed in it's atmosphere- playing through this game for the first time is just very special, there's no other way of putting it. So naturally, I'm desperately awaiting to get my hands on number 2. Plus, getting to play as a Big Daddy? BADASS.
Army of Two: The 40th Day
Another game which I really enjoyed the first installment of. Salem and Rios are just great together. I loved all their trash talking and quips, along with certain other characters. This is what stood out most to me in this game; the characters. And that is always a really important thing to me, I have to be interested in the characters when I'm playing a game. Had a great story too. 40th Day is going to be set in Shanghai, which is struck by a huge disaster...whilst Salem and Rios are there...what are they going to do?? How are they going to do it?? I think both of these questions can be answered with guns, rockets, team work, and guns...Which is awesome. So bring it on.
Final Fantasy XIII
I think practically everyyyyyone and his dog is awaiting this game, so not much to say here. Hugely popular RPG franchise, new installment, looks freaking beautiful. As for the lead characters name though (Lightning)I know Square Enix are trying to carry on a naming tradition from the previous games, but this just sounds...meh. I know it's hardly original, but wouldn't something like Storm have sounded better? Rain? Lightning Rain Cloud?
Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
I'm a complete sucker for the Kingdom Heart series. Fell in love with it straight away. Intriguing and absorbing characters, enchanting worlds, moving music, emotional storyline...you see, just thinking about it makes me go all gooey. This game in the series is going to be a prequel to the first Kingdom Heart's game (set 10 years before) and is suppose to elaborate on many unexplained plot elements from the series. It's a PSP game, so I'm not expecting it to be mind-blowing, but it's Kingdom Heart's, so it's all good.
Darksiders
Now this just sounds badass. You play as one of the Four Horseman, WAR (yes, he's called WAR. MANLY.) The story goes that the Apocalypse has taken place- earlier than it was suppose too- and the world is destroyed. So who's job is it to go and find out who was up to a bit of no good that brought about the end of the world? WAR, of course. Stuck in between a battle of angels and demons, WAR has to find the other Horseman and some answers. And maybe by the looks of it, a bigger sword.
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Okay, whenever I try and talk about anything MGS, I kind of have a meltdown, because there is just so much to say about this series, and so much to LOVE, and words just cannot describe...............oh dear, let me start again.
The MGS series is my favourite gaming series ever. Of all-time ever. MGS- AMAZING! MGS2-AWESOME! MGS3-My favourite game of all time, tied with FFVII. And MGS4, well. Unless you've played it, nothing I write can possibly describe it, especially if you have followed the series from the start. It's a very special gaming experience.
Peace Walker is going to be a PSP game, and if MGS: Portable Ops was anything to go by, (it was awesome, btw) then we are in for a treat. It takes place after MGS3 and Portable Ops, you play as Big Boss, and it will develop the back story for Outer Heaven. If that doesn't get you excited, then well!! What kind of MGS fan are you?!
Doom 4
I've only played Doom 3, but wow, that was an awesome game. Even scared the crap out of me a few times. Doom 3 is a great, and very addictive, FPS with an interesting and creepy storyline, that will have you playing it for hours at a time. Good times.
For sure, I want more from the Doom series, so Doom 4 is VERY WELCOME. I hope it takes up as many hours of my life as 3 did.
Not much is known about Doom 4 yet, accept that it is not a sequel to 3 and neither is it a reboot. But to be honest, that really doesn't change how excited I am about this. As long as it's not a crossover with Disney and the silent Marine dude doesn't start talking in a gravelly voice, I'm game.
Fallout: New Vegas
Another game that we don't know too much about right now, except that it is not a sequel to Fallout 3 and that it will be the "same sort of role-playing game experience seen in Fallout 3." I still haven't completed Fallout 3, but that doesn't mean I don't know how awesome it is. Plenty of world to explore, numerous side quests, an intriguing stroyline, quirky characters, and boom, you've hooked me. So the thought that we have another Fallout heading our way is certainly welcome news to me.
Other mentions*:
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Halo: Reach
Mortal Kombat 9
The Saboteur
Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight
White Knight Chronicles
Twisted Metal
Heavy Rain
Rogue Warrior
*other stuff that I'm looking forward to but can't be bothered to write about
Prototype whinging...
So I'm now towards the end of Prototype, having just beaten Elizabeth Greene, and have a pounding head and horrible neck ache from, errrr, over exerting myself...You see, I'm one of those people that gets stressed out and lose my temper a little when I have a hard time doing something...in this case it was one of those Military consume events, medium difficulty. All I will say is, it was one of those one's where you have to run around the map and consume the soldiers in different areas in a 2 minute time limit. And it's very difficult, if you mess up for just a few seconds, you might as well start again. And twice I reached the last target with 1 second left to go and failed...
*HEAD ASPLODE*
But I did it, eventually. Then moved onto the next one. Which turns out to be even harder and I still haven't been able to do yet *sigh*
*HEAD ASPLODE*
But I did it, eventually. Then moved onto the next one. Which turns out to be even harder and I still haven't been able to do yet *sigh*
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Assassi-errr, Prototype...
Am I the only one who keeps catching myself calling Prototype 'Assassin's Creed'?
There are similarities between the two, right? Lot's of similarities, at least I think. Both hooded protagonists- and Alex and Altaïr do look alike (err, at least of what you can see of their faces.) Both let you run them around big cities, climbing anything in sight, scaling buildings and the like, and then there's the carrying out missions side of things. Altaïr assassinates dudes, and Alex eats and absorbs dudes (but don't judge them just on what I wrote, they are actually both charming chaps.) In Assassin's Creed, you can have lots of frustrating fun trying to collect all the flags, and in Prototype you can collect all the landmarks (which I do actually have fun doing- 150/200 so far, hur hur.)
That being said, I haven't actually completed either game yet. I'm right in the middle (well, more towards the end) of Prototype at the moment, and got so far in Assassin's Creed, but haven't been able to finish it yet due to my lack of a PS3, boooo. This is particularly annoying for me, because I'm quite desperate to play Assassin's Creed 2 (it looks beauuuutiful.)
I'm really enjoying Prototype. The game play is addictive, and whilst I'm not completely absorbed in the storyline, it's good enough. A lot of my time has been spent on trying to obtain gold in all the events (sometimes as fun as having someone repeatedly step on the back of your shoes) and collecting landmarks and hints. I do like games with lots of side stuff to do- gives you a chance to really explore the environment. And sometimes put off finishing the game if it's too good for you to want to reach the end *cough*Mgs3&FFVII*cough*
Random nugget of helpfulness: You can collect Landmark points whilst in a helicopter. Now, depending on whether you aren't a bit of a dope like myself, that may indeed have been obvious to you and therefore not a helpful nugget, but I only found that out today after a frustrating good 15 minutes of trying to reach this one damn landmark that was hovering under a bridge on the edge of the map. Sure, I could glide towards it, but once you got so close to it, you would just drop (your glide would just abruptly cut off, as if that particular area was a no go area, too far out of reach of the map as it were.) It was at this point that I turned to Google (and I'm grateful that I'm not the only person that seemed to be a bit stuck with this- the fourth option in the Google autosearch box when you type in 'Prototype Landmark' is 'prototype landmark under the bridge')
^I was not alone
One thing that really drives me crackers about this game is the consume targets- I'm talking specifically about the ones you encounter randomly whilst roaming the map, not any missions consumes. They always get killed just as I'm about to reach them! They either get ran over, shot, flung in the air, or flung in the air, shot then ran over (okay, I'm exaggerating that a little bit.) Then begins the intensely exciting game of waiting for them to respawn. And sometimes they don't even respawn in the same area *sigh*. It's a hard life.
I should probably stop writing about Prototype now and actually get playing it because I have a deadline to finish it. Time for some productive work. And oh yeah, I totally recommend playing Prototype if you can.
There are similarities between the two, right? Lot's of similarities, at least I think. Both hooded protagonists- and Alex and Altaïr do look alike (err, at least of what you can see of their faces.) Both let you run them around big cities, climbing anything in sight, scaling buildings and the like, and then there's the carrying out missions side of things. Altaïr assassinates dudes, and Alex eats and absorbs dudes (but don't judge them just on what I wrote, they are actually both charming chaps.) In Assassin's Creed, you can have lots of frustrating fun trying to collect all the flags, and in Prototype you can collect all the landmarks (which I do actually have fun doing- 150/200 so far, hur hur.)
That being said, I haven't actually completed either game yet. I'm right in the middle (well, more towards the end) of Prototype at the moment, and got so far in Assassin's Creed, but haven't been able to finish it yet due to my lack of a PS3, boooo. This is particularly annoying for me, because I'm quite desperate to play Assassin's Creed 2 (it looks beauuuutiful.)
I'm really enjoying Prototype. The game play is addictive, and whilst I'm not completely absorbed in the storyline, it's good enough. A lot of my time has been spent on trying to obtain gold in all the events (sometimes as fun as having someone repeatedly step on the back of your shoes) and collecting landmarks and hints. I do like games with lots of side stuff to do- gives you a chance to really explore the environment. And sometimes put off finishing the game if it's too good for you to want to reach the end *cough*Mgs3&FFVII*cough*
Random nugget of helpfulness: You can collect Landmark points whilst in a helicopter. Now, depending on whether you aren't a bit of a dope like myself, that may indeed have been obvious to you and therefore not a helpful nugget, but I only found that out today after a frustrating good 15 minutes of trying to reach this one damn landmark that was hovering under a bridge on the edge of the map. Sure, I could glide towards it, but once you got so close to it, you would just drop (your glide would just abruptly cut off, as if that particular area was a no go area, too far out of reach of the map as it were.) It was at this point that I turned to Google (and I'm grateful that I'm not the only person that seemed to be a bit stuck with this- the fourth option in the Google autosearch box when you type in 'Prototype Landmark' is 'prototype landmark under the bridge')
^I was not aloneOne thing that really drives me crackers about this game is the consume targets- I'm talking specifically about the ones you encounter randomly whilst roaming the map, not any missions consumes. They always get killed just as I'm about to reach them! They either get ran over, shot, flung in the air, or flung in the air, shot then ran over (okay, I'm exaggerating that a little bit.) Then begins the intensely exciting game of waiting for them to respawn. And sometimes they don't even respawn in the same area *sigh*. It's a hard life.
I should probably stop writing about Prototype now and actually get playing it because I have a deadline to finish it. Time for some productive work. And oh yeah, I totally recommend playing Prototype if you can.
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