Feel The Game

Q4 2010 Resolution.

2010-08-05T09:23:00.000-07:00

Thanks for everything I have achieved in this past few months.
It has been a productive year but I believe I will achieve more in this Quarter.

Here goes:

Win the Achiever's Club this year from Walton International.
Being best entrepreneur for the company.
Receiving my first RM 100, 000 cheque from my boss.
Receive my first bonus.
Get good results on college.
A happy life.
A happy and health relationship.
Retire before the age of forty. Ftw.
Playing more Starcraft 2 and Unlock more god damn brutal achievements.

Thank you for everything so far. Hope luck will be on my side all the time.

Starcraft 2 Collector's Edition Unboxing

2010-07-26T11:55:00.000-07:00

The box owns.

The most coolest Pendrive evuar to be made. Its.....precious...

Starcraft 2: Collector's Edition USD 99.90....69.90 pounds. 149 AUS$

Box includes:
Original Sound Track
A 2.0GB USB Thumb Drive
The Making of Starcraft 2 DVD
...A "pulling" aka Comic Strip
The actual game
AND
Concept art booklet.

P.S: I WILL SUCK HIS/HER TOES IF ANYONE CAN GET ME THIS.

You know he is a gamer when......

2010-07-17T03:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some signs that shows your friends are perhaps hardcore gamers but you never knew.
I can tell.

*Note: This post is for entertainment purposes only. All deduction, statement, and bullcrap that contained inside this post is all fiction and highly flammable.*

1. He knows what he is doing....when it comes to software or technical difficulties.

CTRL+ALT +DELETE. Doesn't work. How bout runnin' the cmd or check the registrar. Or maybe I should reinstall it.
They all have solutions to all the problems for computers even though they have no degree in the particular field.

2. He knows who John Carmack is.

Honestly, gamers know their idols, their gods to worshiped. We have standards.

3. He speak Game language. (Troll! Leeroy Jenkins?)

Gamers speak differently. I wonder did you notice. People who play a lot of games will use words such as duration, immune, you effin' troll, or "Say that again I'll stick my Frostmourne up your ass."

4. Do not come to college often or work.
.........self explained.

5. Has a cool ringtone. Be it Anime or OST from Games.
Trust me.

6. He knows the history of PONG.
Once upon a time in a lonely lab far far away, lives two Engineers......

7. He knows where is the cheapest CC.
I'll be your tour guide or eat lead if you don't want to follow.

8. He knows team play.
Gamers know the effectiveness of teamwork. But still....being cooperative is another issue.

9. He is realistic.
My kill. My Loot. Buzz Off.

10. Buys PC GAMER.
......Captain obvious

11. Game is everything.

He can chat for six hours straight because of a simple mechanic.
Look at his profile before he goes to bed.
Planning on what time he can rush home and stick his ass to the computer for the whole day.

12. He who has the Initial Z in his name.

ZiWen, Zhi Jern, ( I am so full of myself that I need infinite stomach)

Good Night. Shut up. Don't complain I blog for the sake of it. Adios. 2.25 AM.

I realized something.....

2010-07-15T10:29:00.000-07:00

Well... there are times when you are really depressed despite nothing happen to you. Like now. For me at least.

I love my job. Meeting with different people, socializing with different people and sharing thoughts with different people. Although it is not everyone's cup of tea but I think I like the feeling of meeting different people occasionally.

What is there to complain?

You have a job.

You have a good result in your new college.

You have a girlfriend of four years and its considered as a stable relationship.

But why are you still not satisfied and happy like the others?

I went to Kampar for a vacation. I thought that I need some rest and some thinking.

Brought the PSP along. Tapped it. Played it. Throughout the day and night figured out nothing.

Until I left one of my belongings there at Kampar. It was my thumb drive that filled with Tenacious D songs... must.. have rocket sauce...and a dose of daily Jack Black's songs.....

Thanks to that incident.... I realized what has been missing, something that I must do before I graduate, something that I wanted to do long long time ago.

I will take my time to explain. It will be a lengthy post.

The situation now is like the bag in Kampar.

I left my dreams there.

I left my dreams because I am content with what I have, with what I own, and with what I desired.

The dream I wanted....

Small dreams: I want to organize a LAN party...in College

Big dreams : I want to work for any "insert name here" Entertainment Gaming Corporation

I've said it. I had came out with the proposal.

Now what I need is petitions from the higher ups and some sponsors.

And my thumb drive in Kampar.

The best dreams are the unattainable ones. - Lazard from Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core.

Video Games Live and Video Game Music.

2010-04-26T11:31:00.000-07:00

It is like your everyday orchestra concerto. However, you will not recognize any music that is even close with 9th Symphony. Despite the differences, it is still very very well accepted by the society.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Video Games Live, it's all about Video Game's music ever to happen in the first time on Malaysia.

Sadly enough, I miss the commotion, but nevermind there is always next year. From the article I read from the Sun, I knew most of the song especially the theme of Metal Gear Solid and God of War.

If I had been there without a doubt I can write better in the article and have a better judgement regarding the pros and cons of the concert. I do notice that most of the shots and highlights were mostly video games for consoles such as the Playstation, X-Box 360 and Nintendo. Not many PC's games were presented during the concert itself.

Other than VGL, there were still many video gaming concerts going on around the world. The famous "Game Music Concert" has started since 1991 to 1996 originated by Japan. After the enormous hit in Tokyo, in 2003, German took the first step initiating the ever first Video Games concert outside Japan.

They named it "Symphonic Game Music Concert". It has such a good performance that even allows them to have this concert annually. Japanese leading RPG developer company, Square Enix noticed the commotion and decided to join in. The ticket were sold like hot cakes and they even allow viewers to enjoy it live via video streaming.

Question from the older generation people will likely think, "Why and how on Earth does this phenomena even get famous in Malaysia?". Trust me, the interactive media industry is absolutely the best industry next to medical that saves lives. Not a joke, not only does it provides major workforce, it also unleash people talents in terms from drawing to composing, and it also provide the best and blissful gift of all time, entertainment.

The phenomena here I am discussing about is the Interactive Media industry. If you want to be famous singer, join a singing competition and perform well in front of the camera. But for me, being randomly love by anybody just because of your looks, voice, or talent can be somewhat tedious. Nowadays, all you need is good look in my opinion. Your product will not sell if you look ugly this is what an Idol is all about.

However, in the case of a famous game developer such as Hideo Kojima, he knows his fan very well and his fans know him well too. He has never failed to deliver any expectations for the gamers. Gamers don't care about your looks, they measure your performance in terms of what you can deliver in your final product. If they don't like it, they will not buy the game. That's all.
I rather have one's talent being appreciated more than his looks.

It is a different world comparing to famous idol but if you can deliver, you will be respected and honored. How do you feel if your name was credited in a large screen while having your fans cheering at your name even they do not know who you are or what you look like. You feel proud because your work has reached their hearts.

This is how Video Games's music are different than those other music. You respect the game developer and the song. Unlike idol songs, you may only recognize the idol not the song or the other way around. However, in video game's music, you may not recognize the song but you are familiar with it and you will of course remember which game it is from and miraculously, you love it, it reminds you of the moment you are in while gaming . It has no opening nor ending, it was always an eternal never ending pattern of the same music. It doesn't have an opening, chorus, ending or what you may called.

It is different, the fans are different, the ideology are different. Which is why, the interactive media industry is growing in an unknown rate. A new industry that slowly emerging from a mysterious plateau, waiting to be discovered.

Things I secretly wanted...even till now.

2010-01-20T12:38:00.000-08:00

1. A Haro plush doll.
2. To Cosplay as Old Snake.. but too fat.
3. To have Final Fantasy Main theme played on my wedding. Don't think people will know what is that.
4. Silver pocket watch from FullMetal Alchemist carried by National Alchemist.
5. A Death Note layout Notebook with rules attached..
6. A Ryuk plush doll.
7 Please. Give. Me. A. Tour De Japon Music from Final Fantasy.
8. Light's "hidden" wrist watch.
9. Joining the Interactive Media Industry.

Refresh Button.

2009-12-10T04:43:00.000-08:00

It had been the 500th times I pressed the refresh button for logging into my UTAR Online Course Registration account. I sure some of you press over 5000 times. But fear not. I will help you to log into the website without the need for signing in and by passing the system itself.

It is wise that each UTARIAN needs to wake up early to register their course or else you will be suffering bad timetable for the rest of the semester. OR even worse for student that cycles you will need go for 6 PM class due to your late registration. But fear not, all will be solved with my method.

Steps
1. Get mozilla. If you wanna get IE make sure you will know how to save your password with IE
2. Save your password if you manage to successfully log in the course registration system. IT is best to save your password during the timetable preview.
3. After save, you will just have to wait until the day the course registration started.

Okay here comes the fun part.
First, you open Firefox.

Click history tab, then Click show all history.

Look for the link that I am pointing in the black line.
In case you can't see the link is.
unitreg.utar.edu.my ..../index.jsp
Put an effort to look for it. Too ease your finding click the Tags Tab above. And beside of Name tab. After locating it, and clicking the link. You will get something like this by passing the signing in system.

That's all and you successfully logged in without signing in.

Now worship me or press the refresh button for like 50000 times and still fail at registering the course. I am just kidding. Ok, off to study.

Greatest reason to ban a game.

2009-12-05T06:27:00.000-08:00

Mosaics? Blurred image? *beep* ? Not released in your country?
Today post featuring the most akward and common reason to ban a game.

*Warning! Might not be so awkward and common to certain individuals.*

Australia gaming controversy and gatekeepers for the gaming industry are very hardworking indeed. They have over 20 games being censored for the last few years.

The famous Post-Thermonuclear apocalypse title Fallout 3 was edited because in game drug use.
True, in the game, you venture as a lonely wanderer with nothing but rocks, dirt, radioactive goons and critters that always wanted a piece of you. Most of the time to keep yourself alive and cleansing radiation. Drugs were introduce. Although there was no actual footage of you taking the drug and all you did was clicked or pressed the shortcut button to consume the drug, you will get MA15++ Fallout 3.

Not only it did get banned in Australia.
You might have guessed it was also banned in Japan due to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki incident during World War 2.

Harmless data game, Football Manager 2005 was banned from China for recognizing Tibet as an independent country. This is very weird... can someone kindly explain to me why they ban it because of recognizing Tibet as an independent country?

What about Command Conquer Generals? They do portray China as a neutral being...
Unfortunately, yes, they joined the club as well... "smearing the image of China and the Chinese army"........ Does it mean they are all the way evil? or all the way good?

How bout Nazis reference game? Do they get banned in Germany? Yes. They did.
Wolfenstein 3D was banned.
FATALITY! Mortal Combat was also banned for explicit violence in Germany. Although there no Nazi reference. Just for shattering a frozen enemy earns you a title of a violent game.

We have Europeans, Chinese, Japanese.... How bout Islamic country like Saudi? Yes they banned Pokemon. I am serious, no joke, the reason they gave because it is promoting Zionism and gambling." But not the game, just the trading card though. I don't see the difference maybe because i didn't play the game. Just Saudi though. And I have no idea how can it be related to Zionism because Japan invented Pokemon? Or am I wrong? Maybe I am wrong.

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare will never be seen in the shelves of Arab Saudi too. Because of a Al-Asad pulling trigger to President Fulani's head I suppose?

That's all for now. Hope it entertains ya. If you guys are wonderin'.
Resident evil 5 is missing from the list. It has tons of gory scenes.
So does Metal Gear Solid.
Where is GTA? It is damn obvious that why the game is being banned I never state the obvious.
Where is WOW? IT HAS alot of explicit language directly or indirectly.
GAME ON!

Left 4 Dead 2? More like Left None Alive, 0.

2009-11-30T05:42:00.000-08:00

We heard all about it.

Although 2 hours of non-effective gameplay in the Cyber Cafe could not be considered as a professional review of a mere FPS game, I know Left 4 Dead so well, I can even walk backwards from the starting point to the Safehouse. Okay a bit of exaggeration won't kill. But I am familiar with the prequel and so are my friends.

I assume anyone who reads my blog know what has been added and retained in Left 4 Dead 2. I even assume most of you already play the game as well.

My Review once again has evolved into simple minded point form phrases more than long essays style.

Weapons

Let me see. Unlike the predecessor, we have a huge options of weapons; from a handgun, magnum to axe and chainsaws. The biggest add is the melee weapons that delivers a one-hit kill towards any infected except for bosses.

To be honest, the melee weapon is overrated. If anyone can give me 3 good logical explanations that why we must pick melee over range or even having it in your slot I will and shall waver your opinion.

I'll give you 3 good logical explanations:

1. Killing everything it touches, it inflicts area damage.
Yes, the motion's of wielding one weapon is very damaging. Killing everything that is infront of your monitor. Hell of an experience for the first 20 minutes or until you find out bullet is always the better way.

2. We don't have melee in L4D 1.
Once again, as a true gamer thy shall question thyself. Do thy really need a melee weapon if a zombie apocalypse is happening?

3. Because its かっこうのいい (cool or stylish)or (kakko-u-no-ii) use it my beautiful readers.
Bloods will splattered all over your screen if you manage to kill them in close range. Which can be both a nuisance that blocks one view and looking realistic at the same time.

Believe me, I love being a melee player in any FPS or RPG. I eventually suck at shooting except for sniping.

Applying only a single or double motion of wielding into every melee weapon?Yes?No? Sorry for my high observational skill. Is it my fault that I noticed the axe can only swing from my left to the right? So, its like mouse 1, left to right, zombies die, mouse 1, left to right, more zombies die, mouse 1, same animation again , come on, you know the drill. Katana has only 2 swings from the left to the right and then vice versa. But its quick at least you feel good and hyper until a boss type infected arrives. Youtube it and look for yourself for the swinging motion of the axe and katana.

But its not a big of a deal right? We have guitars, machete, baton and even the chainsaw. They were so many. Yeah but they are all melee, they all feel the same. Might as well just give us a sword or a knife for the whole game. Sure it gives you a refreshing feeling from the start but on the long run.... you will still prefer a gun. Weird quotes that I heard, " Guitar the Charger ! Chainsaw the Jockey! Why don't you frying pan the Hunter just now?" This is getting ridiculous.

Another one of the biggest issues. IMBA.

On the blue corner, we have 4 epic survivors prepared to be chewed by the infected. Survivors can equip guns, medipack, painkillers and a throwable weapon. They have 2 legs that cant sprint and a plenty more gadgets such as limited incendiary ammo to assist them and chemical weapons.

On the red corner lies the boss infected where they come into 7 types and each of them have their unique abilities. I assume you know each of everyone of them. Charger, a mini tank which can't be knockback has 600 HP it charges and pummels the survivor to the ground. Spitter, an infected that spits acid through the mouth that causes area damage and lives a puddle of acids when it dies. Jockey, an infected that will jump to the back of your shoulders and pull you away from your team into dark alley corners. That sums it all.

And what do the survivors have?
Anything new other than guns? Yes, you can play melee and get eaten more quickly. New characters? Laser sights? More guns?
We must have 4 survivors or else we will have to change our game title.
I can now imagine how will the team being slaughter by a Boomer, Charger, Hunter, and a Smoker. Boomer explodes, cause confusion and takes away your vision, Charger rams survivor 1, Smoker pulls survivor 2, Hunter pounces survivor 3, all other infected gangs up at poor no.4 or replace Boomer anytime with a Jockey if lucky and just mount, pounce, pummel and choke all four of them into the ground, instant KO.

What's even worse are the normal infected seems like they are coming from everywhere.

3. Artificial not so Intelligent. (survivor)
Throughout the game, as the host, I have being targeted by Infected bosses all the time. I am the key victim. Since we are short of 1 player. We were force to have 1 A.I in our team. Unlike the L4D 1 they do not freaking get in your way and line up infront of your crosshair. But this does. Yes, sure they do heal. They do shoot. At one time at Autrium I get my ass kicked by a Smoker while I was picking up gas can. A.I was infront of me and he did freaking nothing to save me. I swear to god he was grinning ear to ear while I was being rape by the Smoker. It looks like a freaking human player now. DAMNATION.

4. Artificial almost too intelligent. (Infectos and Steven Spielberg or Michael Bay)
Trust me. They are smart. I know it from the bottom of my heart The Director has been enhanced. One of the most challenging part of the game is the constant incoming attacks from the hordes. It just never stops sometimes or maybe perhaps we are moving too slow. Boomers never stupidly appears anymore, so as other infected, they really do sit and wait for their chances to come.

However, L4D2 is still consider one of the best game and it is highly addictive if you have a bunch of friends to play. Playing with the A.I did not really unleash the full potential of the game, not to mention that we do suffer from spikes, lags and hanging.

Nevertheless, Valve still indeed care for their gamers and customers by providing more maps, more guns, more zombies, and more enhancement in the sequel. It is a good game and the best of all it still does retain the gameplay of L4D1.

Left 4 Dead 2 is still one of best game out there but don't expect much from the sequel unless you have friends on both sides of the team.

Conclusion, I give this game a 7 out of 10.

Call of Console Duty. Modern Warfare 2.

2009-11-16T11:37:00.001-08:00

Could Infinity Ward had forsaken us?
Although the Gameplay was good.
I am always always trying to be professional but under these circumstances. No.
Although this time my writing requires more substance, I promise I shall do it on the next post.

- It has no dedicated servers.

- They changed the lobby of the Multiplayer.

- I swear I was playing Halo at that one second.

- Console style lobby. We can never select or choose any game servers made by player that we feel like it.

- 18 players max. Nuff said. You'll be killing the 9 people over and over again. Yes I am so happy.

- Due to the removal of the feature "LEAN" , which is popping out heads on the end of the wall to minimize exposure and the risk of getting shot, I have knife the wall thus revealing myself to the enemy dozen of times when I was going right and flashbang myself when I was going left. I shall name this event as "Phantom Lean." It's like having your arm being amputated and you still feel the pain. It's like you swear to god you press the lean button and it freaking pops out a flashbang. You are playing MW 2 . Hoorah. My . Ass.

- You were given a list of game mode. TDM, CTF, DOMINATION. ETC. But you were not given the list of servers you choose to join.

- I feel like playing Halo on the Xbox 360

- LEFT 4 DEAD 2 is the future all hail, Valve.

- Borderlands FTW

- Team Fotress 2? Can Malaysian just forget about COD and switch to TEAM FORTRESS 2?

- Blizzard Activision better not fucked up Starcraft 2 nor Diablo 3. I have major faith in the BATTLE.NET. Hell if they tweaked it into console mode. I will fucking join the game industry after I finish my degree and kill all of the son of bitches who have involved in the development of downgrading the service of battle.net.

- I will try to be fair. Without further hesitance, the skill, the perks, the additional new allocades, emblems, titles and level were done SUPERBLY. Yes. No sarcasm. It is really well done. Having you to kill with the same perks over and over to gain an upgraded version of that perk really amazes all of us.

Should all of us adapt? or should all of us protest?
Is the key to future gaming? I without a doubt certainly disagree with the action of IW.
I am always trying to be fair. I am always try not to be bias. The gameplay isn't that bad, but they twitted with the multiplayer too much.

It has lost its flexibility, convenience, friendliness( too Noob friendly), and freedom.
I gave it a five out of ten. Five for improvement and a minus of five for murdering the multiplayer mode.

On the altar of the Gods of FPS Gaming. For the moment, there will be a blank spot on the altar.

PS. Ah Yia, don't be disappointed. I feel your pain of knifing the wall.

R.I.P Yoshito Usui.

2009-09-20T21:52:00.000-07:00

In the evening of September 20, Gunma prefectural police recovered the body that had been found at the base of a cliff face on Mount Arafune. The body has been formally identified by family as Yoshito Usui, author of popular series "Crayon Shin-chan" who had been missing since the 11th.

It is understood that Usui-san (51) was heading towards the mountain to go climbing and contact could not be made to him by family. On September 20, police recovered his body by helicopter. It arrived at Shimonita before 4:00pm. An inquest was held by police after his family confirmed that the body was that of Usui-san. Police are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding Usui-san's death.

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I will always remember how you've bring happiness to your readers.

I will always remember how Shin Chan make fun of everything.

I will always remember how you try to deliver the moral values of Japan's society.

I will always remember how it affects my thought, my actions, and my mood when reading this book.

I have learned countless values towards life by reading this manga.

I will always remember how it was the best in Japan.

I will always remember Shin Chan.

My view towards life: Everyone dies, it is one of the stage that everybody must go through.

You know you study too hard when.......

2009-09-16T17:29:00.000-07:00

Answers all questions.

Question 1

a) What is MMO? Explain the culture and theories of "grinding".

(6 Marks)

b) LUK is the most misunderstood and complicated stats of all in the perspective
of RPG and MMO. Do you agree ? Argue in Malaysia gaming cultural context.

(24Marks)

Question 2

a) Define and explain the term "Tanker" in common gaming world.
(5 Marks)

b) Fill in the blanks with the appropriate answers.
" I am blind, _________ " Illidan Stormrage.
" I am a magic man __________ " Kael'thas Sunstrider
" ________________ ARE ONE " LICH KING

(5 Marks)

c) Define a player that is lower level compare to you but has an
equipment that can apprehend most of the gameplay.

(Marks will only be given if you are able to answer the next question.1337)

Section C

Explain the system gameplay and mechanics of FALLOUT 3, Warcraft 3: FROZEN THRONE, Neverwinter Nights and CALL OF DUTY : MODERN WARFARE and QUAKE III. You were required to

- state the developers.
- Gameplay mechanics
- History of the game.
- Their previous predecessors.
- The Railgun (QUAKE III only)
- Frostmourne (Warcraft 3)
- The N00B tube ( Call of Duty 4)
- The Undead ( Neverwinter Nights)
- VATS system ( Fallout)

(100 Marks)

Reminder : Suitable marks shall be given to the student if they were able to answer Section C.
The maximum mark for this paper is still 100.

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This is what you get for studying 5 hours straight, revising the same thing over and over again.

And it has been proven Ziwen inspirations meter will shoot over the scale if he was put under stress. Yes. I've reached a new level of epicness.

Goddess of Examinations and Patrons of Four Flats Please Forgive Me.

2009-09-09T07:53:00.001-07:00

I was informed that it is best to edit this article that I wrote to make it more funnier, ridiculous and way beyond unreasonable... I hope one day, a savior will rise and build this type of higher education institute for our younger generation. All I can do is to live long enough to see that day actually happen. in which I deem, almost beyond impossible to happen. Laugh it out readers.

Semester 1:

Introduction to Computer Gaming.
Students will be expose to the environment of gaming. They will learn on how to differentiate Single Player mode, MultiPlayer mode, campaign, and other options. They will be taught on the purposes and the objectives of Computer Gaming, along with their pros and cons of the aspect. Students were required to pass one of their Gamer's Stamina achievement of the newbie section.

Newbie Handbook (will be continue on next post).
Achievements (Gamer's Stamina)

Play Hard - Students must be able to withstand a basic 16 hours of CyberCafe gameplay.
Hardcore - Students were able to withstand 72 hours of punishment of gaming.
IAMGOD - Student excel in both mental and physical fitness. To be evaluated after the finals.
ALLYOURBASEBELONGAREBELONGTOUS - Cheated in the Final Exam and escaped with it.
Student will not be penalized but will have to take up an extra subject called " Ethics and Social Responsibility of Gamers."

Console Gaming (I)
They will learn to define what is a console, what makes a console, and how to create a concept of the best consoles as a gamer. They will be educate from joysticks to A/V video wiring. Not to mention, they are also learning why the X BOX 360 fails.

One of the respected syllabus of this subject course.
1. Red Ring of Death
2. Controls.
3. The player.
4. Player's Behaviour.
5. Player Communication Process.
6. Violence Video Gaming.
7. Portable Handheld devices.

History of Games and Creators.
Who created the rocket launcher? How DOOM became famous? John Carmack? Will Wright? This is the subject for gamers to know what they should know as a gamer. In this subject, students will learn who, how and why creators developed a game. The secret of the railgun has already been discovered and why Duke Nukem failed to finish will be included inside the syllabus.

Syllabus of the course.
1. Valve.
2. Blizzard.
3. FPS.
3. Team Deathmatch.
4 Weapons of Choices.
5. Turn based strategy.
6. Godlike Game Creators.

Effective Calculation Techniques of Drop Rates and Criticals.
Learn how to program a critical calculation, using complex mathematical techniques to complicated calculation of drop rates. Students were emphasize on how to multiply their criticals and calculating drop rates for a certain items. This subject also heavily emphasize on the calculating movements, maps, skill timings. Balancing is the key of this subject.

Syllabus of the course

1. Descriptive Statistics
2. Mathematical Techniques of Brilliance.
3. Critical guide to balancing.
4. RPG calculation.
5. Algebra of Upgrading Equipments.

Introduction to Principles of In-Gaming Economics.
The studies of Game's Economics. Demand and supply for potions, weapons and NPCs.
How does one item affect the whole economy? Will easy items will always be cheap? Is the item a complimentary for quests or is it just a useless item to be sold for the merciless NPC?
Sketch the Demand and Supply Graph to figure out what will happen to the current economy. Profit Maximization!

Syllabus of the course

1. Demand and Supply of E- Cards and packages.
2. Monthly Prepayment Cards supply.
3. Achievements and Trophies.
4. Amount of time in game minus reality time.
5. Loss and Minimizing Loss while Maximizing Profit.
6. The Law of Quest givers and Quest takers.
7. Output of PVP deaths and entrants.
8. How bots and hacks affect the IGE?

For the Goddess of Examinations and Patrons of Four Flats, please forgive my humble desires and actions. I am bored of reading for examinations but I will always hope that all of you will open the gates of Distinctions or Merit or Pass for your humble servant. A -men
Good job, I gotta fail my real life and start leading a second life. GOOD JOB ME. Back to study....

The Many Reasons Why PC GAMING RULES.

2009-08-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

1. LAN Parties.
We celebrate LAN Parties in CC as always. However, in the near future, I will have plans regarding LAN parties. Touche, it is one of the best reasons for PC Gaming.

2. Emulators.
Legally, you can't. But, Internet is a free realm.

3. Mouse and keyboard.
Best micro/macro devices ever created for PC gaming. Developing countless headshot possibilities.

4. Team Fortress 2.
Achievements! Constant updates from Valve made gamers stayed up all night to just finished downloading the patch.

5. DUAL MONITORS.
Can you watch TV and play games at the same time?

6. ~ (tilde)
For the win key, it brings out the console on almost all games.

7. Laptops.
It is meant for working. But we always end up installing games anyway. Civ 4 is a good game. Low spec, addictive, and fun.

8. DOOM
we have DOOM !

9. Overclocking.

Voids warranty, heck, I'll vote for extra frame per seconds.

10. Build your own!
Under RM 3000(USD 800), you can play almost any game on the market and putting them all together is stupidly simple.

11. Appearance Modding.
Every metal case has it's story and colour to go by and extra cool lights.

12. John Carmack.
Rockets, rockets and Quake and the discovery of deathmatch.

13. The Railgun (editor's choice)
The flashing light of death. Nuff said.

14. Horadric Cube.
Formulate more effective pots with disposable pots.

15. Ravenholm
Nothing beats a car dropping on a zombie.

16. Expansion Packs.
You ask for more, you got more.

17. Bondage Queen, feel the heat, only 17.
Hiring Bondage Queens in Dungeon Keeper series. Sado Machoistic.

18. Headshots.
Nothing is more rewarding.

19. Sid Meier.
Is he from the future?

20. Will Wright.
Is he god? He created The Sims.

21. Wall Penetration.
Self explained. Half Life, anyone? (Reminiscing the days where I have a good time with Yia, Ben and Guan, and Psycho. =). They all love to keep me from getting it.

22. Pro Gamers.
Because they can. A occupation where hardcore gamers really hoped and wished for. Getting paid while playing your favorite game. Damn those Koreans earning over 500,000 USD per year.

23. Fallout.
Super Mutants! Bomb in the middle of the city. Radioactive wastelands. What can you ask for more ? Nuka-Cola bottle cheers.

24. Break the limit.
Show your jaw dropping skill. Install Fraps and start recording.

25. Red Alert.
What can I say more? Good job. MK-II

26. Co-op
Operation Flashpoint and Armed Assasult allows you to join over 40 ++ combined players. WOOT.

That's all for now. XP

Blizzard Convention 09: Diablo 3 New Class Revealed

2009-08-24T15:41:00.001-07:00

*WARNING* There is an actual footage of the gameplay. Kindly scroll down till the end and load it while reading. Thanks.

After announcing Starcraft 2 will be arriving on early 2010. I don't feel surprise, Blizzard is being Blizzard, they will always have bloody good reasons to delay a game. We had waited for almost 8 years, don't really have much to lose anymore ain't we?.

Demon bashing galore, Diablo 3, announced it's fourth class. Tribal Witch Doctors and mystical oriental Wizards had been introduced almost a year go, we've seen how they decapitate, dissect, dismember with aspiring destructive magics and brutal violent strength.

Before we go deeper, this class emphasizes on speed over strength. They rely on their knuckles and kicks, deadly combos and flashy martial arts moves. Once again, we will have a chance to fulfill our needs of saving The Sanctuary with nothing but bare hands...and a bald head.

Monk
Introduction
First impression.

What do players really care about is the character itself, which is the image and the skill trees. The image of the monk, which was wearing large beads around the neck and red dots on the forehead, perfectly portrayed it as a wandering monk or an outcast. Not to mention, the nicely tone muscles and the masochistic beard.

Automatically, without hesitant, we ruled this character as melee when we first saw him.

The character later position itself as a tough fighter, however, different from the Barbarian. Barbarian is a heavy tank that crushes everything with overkill firepower, while the Monk is like a versatile vehicle that can take out any target with swift and quick maneuvers.
Combo system was mentioned during the convention, just like the previous Diablo II, Assassin, the Monk could execute combo moves but not in the same way as the Assassin.

Skills and Moves

"The more explosions there are, the better." - Blizzard dev team
One word to describe the Monk's moves and styles. Flashy.
Exploding palm? Way of the Hundred Fist? Crippling Wave? A skills that deflects fireball if it was activated? What more could you ask for?

Do a huge step in.

Land a barrage of fists into the enemy’s face.

There was one move called Seven-Sided Strike that the monk could knock the living(or the dead) lights out of everyone(or demonic entities). The skills resembles the overused skill called Chain Lighting.

So, were they capable of striking lighting out of their first you ask? No, don't be silly. The only difference between Chain Lighting and Seven Sided Kick was you were the lighting.

In other words, in a split second once the skill was activated. He vanished into thin air, striking multiple enemies randomly with blinding speed.

Be rejoiced as the Monk was capable of ripping and tearing out demonic hearts and limbs of your enemies in matter of seconds. Exploding Palm, which was self explained, allows the Monk to strike his enemies' vitals, causing them to explode in seconds and dealing damage to other nearby enemies.

Another remarkable display from the Monk is a skill known as Impenetrable Wall. The Monk spins and rotates his staff forming a round barrier that can deflect any incoming missiles back to it's castor. I wonder if it can deflect arrows.

Ironically it strikes the resemblance of a Flamethrower. Heh.

A fantastic new class to begin with. Bare knuckles has always been one of the melees' player favorite. It shows a sense of manly masochistic when you are punching. What is better than punching hellish demonic beings with your fist? Watch the videos that I had uploaded for you guys. Enjoy. It might take a while to load.

And this is the end of the introduction of the new class. Game On!

I can feel something is slowy cracking inside me.

2009-08-17T14:35:00.000-07:00

Definitely something is flowing out from the depths of my heart. I wonder what is that.

Something that is going to explode soon I think.

If you are facing trouble, only two options are always open. Coward it out or face it.

"Why must you do something?", "Can't you just stand and watch?", "It's none of your business anyway." and for every fucking time, every exact fucking time, I choose to face it. And it ends up being for better or worst.

I've changed. Once again. During my Diploma, I don't even give a damn about other people's comment or ranting towards me. I realize it today, I still have much to learn from my stupid yet petty mistakes. I have much to learn. I am too naive actually, I never really do consider other people's feeling. Wait... why don't I consider other people's feeling?

Does it even matter? Should I be a tank and run down every obstacles that get in my way? Or an ambulance? To only stop when it's necessary. Damn...life is like a traffic full of highways. Shit. I mean, highways full of traffics.. geez... my grammar.

But always in the end, I will choose to walk slowly towards my goal, crushing everything and carrying everything I can at the same time. Hell yeah, I am greedy.

......... .......... ......... ............ ..........emo

Fuck it, after giving it some thought, fuck it. If I have time to think of something like that, I might as well focus on my goal and have fun. To hell with people that against it, I am destined to be struggling all the way. I will always expect my friends to support me all the way and all of them to have a certain goal in life.

Thus a gamer's life revealed, quoted by Ah Yia.

Assasins's Creed. E3 2009

2009-08-04T06:40:00.000-07:00

I will not be posting videos in this blog. I think pictures is a much way better medium than a 64 bit small resolution video streaming website.

The Rundown.

Goodbye Altair, Hello Ezio.Another one of Desmond's ancestor.

1486, Venice. Looks like a night parade is going on. Music, dance, fireworks... too bad you can stay to enjoy.One of the NPCs inform Ezio a machine is ready and located on top of the rooftop. A guard stopped, peeks under Ezio's hood. "It's you!-", he stabbed his guts with a hidden knife and killing him silently without anyone noticing despite the large crowd.

You are the best at what you can do, stealth killing and climbing the gorgeous architecture of Venice. Ezio walks down to the crowd and start climbing to the roof. In this sequel, we will be playing a nobleman of Florence by the name Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Ubisoft mentioned that Ezio is driven by vengeance, thus leading him into becoming an Assassin with the help of friends(one of them goes by the name Leonardo da Vinci.)

Guess I have to live without the glider for the moment.

Ezio hops into the glider, soaring through the air like an eagle, until the guards start shooting fire arrows volley by volley. Ezio evades the arrow and land a kick on one the guard face. Ubisoft added that the purpose of this device is not only for transportation but also creates a diversion.

Shall I pull him into the water and stab him or shall I stab him first?

Unfortunately, one of the wings caught fire. Ezio has to jump. I wonder did Leonardo charge him for any damages done towards his invention...never mind that since he is going to upgrade your weapons for you in the game, you'll be seeing him for quite a few times.

Ezio has been enhanced compared to his former self during the crusades, Altair. He can now kill two target in one move with his blade hidden beneath both of his sleeves.

A pile of petty haystack will not save you this time. Ubisoft has deployed an A.I that specializes in searching for anything suspicious. It's ftw I'll tell you. From what I've heard some are specialize in combat, while some are excellent at chasing, some are just good at sniffing Ezio out.

Will I ever had enough money to pay Leonardo for his inventions?

Ezio combat capabilities surpass his former ancestor, Altair. He can wield any weapons and since he is an assassin disarming weapons is one of best traits has to offer. Be rest assure as weapon varieties ranges from a dagger to a spear.

Ubisoft introduced smoke bombs for you to make a quick escape, that's neat.And they gave you an ability to swim, double neat.

The roof is mine! Buzz off.

No matter what it does, Assassin's Creed 2 promise gamers that it will be a huge improvement than it's predecessor. Until next time. Game on.

Alien Versus Predator. E3 2009

2009-08-03T11:52:00.000-07:00

The Rundown.

Coming soon in early 2010
It will be released on the PC, XBOX 360 and PS3.

Made by the same development team of he last AVP, Rebellion.

What you looking at right now is the Demo on E3.

As far as I know, you will be given a campaign mode with 3 races to choose from.
A new addition has been added in the gameplay, which known as "Trophy Kills" when you are playing Predator.

In my opinion and my past experience, this should be a trophy/achievement system made by the developers. Which is always a good thing in Multiplayer and Singleplayer. Trophy and achievement allows players to change their ways of gaming according to the situation.

In other words, you have been given a choice other than racking up numbers into your kills.

Anyways back into the gameplay video,

The graphic looks astounding, the green mossy tree bark that you held and climbed on, the falling leaves and sun rays that hit forest trees and rocks. Not to mention, the effect of the plasma gun after it's been fired has been done in absolute detail and remarkably gorgeous.

As always, Predator has 3 major vision, Alien vision, thermal vision and normal vision. Not only does it allows you to spot the enemy easily, it allows you to check on what weapons are they carrying, what types of enemies are they, most importantly it allows you plan your attack before moving in for the kill.

When it comes to first person shooter, explosive is a must, the bigger, the better. Second is blood, the redder, the better. Melee attack in AVP is extremely rewarding. Other than it allows you to accomplish a trophy kill, the moment that the Predator grab the prey on his neck and watches the prey's expression fill with fear following with a scream of his final moment. It thrust it's wrist blade up his neck and brutally tear the prey's head off with it's spinal cord still attached to it's head as the blood gushed out like a broken high pressure nozzle.

Aliens are definitely terrifying, the claws, the tail, the freakish speed and the bloody blood acid that takes away health are annoying as hell in a fun way. Trophy killing against alien is indeed more satisfying.Watch it struggles like an insect with his teeth sticking out and shooting blanks. You know the drill after that.

Jumping has been enhance, unlike the ancient horizontal jump in every FPS. There will be a cursor indicating where you will be landing. Jumping has been made easy, so no more running into trees like George of the jungle anymore. Touche.

Okay. Until next time. Game on.

I am always thinking.

2009-08-02T14:14:00.000-07:00

If i don't type out something into my blog. I can't sleep. It's fucking hell 5.15 AM and I can't get a decent sleep.

1. Future
I've been trying to hard. Accomplishing this, doing that, making this, chasing those. What the hell am I doing? Chasing after something which is unseen, untouchable, nonexistent?

2. Computer
I want a new com that can last me at least 5 years in the upcoming future games. Which is too much to ask I know.

3. Studies.
I did not do well in Mid terms except for some subjects. I realized that I am never good at studying or understanding through words written in sheets of paper. I learn from pain, past experiences, battle-flesh wound, scars and people.

4. Attitude
I understand myself the most and it always backfire on me.

5. Drawing a line
The weak shall perish beneath my feet and the strong shall join me as comrades.

6. Drawing double lines
There are only four consequences in every choice you make when you are in trouble. You will either get in Trouble, Deep trouble, Beyond trouble, Beyond reasonable trouble.

7. Smart is something, hardworking is everything.
Self explained.

8. I devour the weak to conquer the strong.
Or else how do we become strong.

9. There is only one competitor in my life. Myself.
I do everything for myself not the sake of others.

10. Whatever I do, it is always from the heart.
Nothing is above my heart. Conscious, is my greatest enemy. Rule no.1 never fight a losing better.

I will never do something that I am never confident with.

A Tribute to Dice, Dungeon and Dragons

2009-08-02T01:07:00.001-07:00

Nothing could be more fundamental in the field of modern gaming than Dungeons & Dragons. Dating back to times of old, when boards are orphans and there are only 4 variations on your graphics card: Jack, Queen, King and Joker. The time before pixels exists.

D&D defined gamers in pop culture: scruffy, nerdy, clumsy, socially and physically inept. Compare the actual gamers of today (WoW players don’t count this time) and you’ll find that the media has been lying to you. Well it’s slowly changing of course but it is not quite there yet thanks to MMORPGs.

Does Pong, Monopoly, Pinball or Backgammon have a storyline? A basic premise at most and that is all. D&D has always been story oriented, as source of escapism being a major attraction of games. Like a shining beacon to the downtrodden and the oppressed. Gathering outcasts like moths to a flame. Where said moths can play the roles of stronger, magical, prettier and more agile moths, Moth they could never be.

To the uninitiated, D&D rules are like the insufferable teachers of their favorite subject. They either find something to like about the asshole, find a new subject to like or get the teacher fired. Where other genres would just hand you a weapon, show you where the trigger is and tell you to knock yourself out.

D&D would like you to have a valid identification, know how to take your weapon apart, submit an application, suffer through the waiting period and only then you’ll be able to shoot em up. The complex rules are there for a reason though, it requires an intimate knowledge of such rules to properly play the game and build a nice character. And yes, there is a possibility that the rules could change, there are also learning aids to the game such as the webcomic, Order of the Stick.

There are 2 drawbacks to playing D&D, one major and one minor. Minor one is that you won’t get good graphics, no beautiful 3D rendering of Sword Coast or the Ten Towns across the Spine of the World. Which is somewhat of a blessing, you don’t have to share it people (read magpies) who don’t know appreciate game play that are only attracted to pretty polygons.

Major drawback of D&D is there is not enough games to go around, since its adaptation the current electronic form, there are roughly a dozen game D&D titles (not including expansion sets). The solution, include the development engine into the game with the release of Neverwinter Nights. Which is fairly easy to use but let’s face it, not everyone could write a fantasy tale and enjoy a game where they know it like the back of their hand. This is due largely to the licensing difficulties of the D&D system. Where the intellectual rights rest largely in the hands of TSR and Wizards of the Coasts.

If there is a game system that could be integrated into reality look no further than D&D. Need to get a certain item from a person? Steal it from under his nose, kill him to get it, rough him up then make him surrender it to you, blackmail it, seduce him, buy it from him or do him a favor to get it.

Take your pick all the options are available. This how my love affair started with D&D, Stealing reward from a priest of Talos, ran errands from him and finally killing him, all in the name of loot and experience. The rules could also stray into reality, fell out with a friend is called conflicting alignments, lied successfully to parents is like rolled 19 bluff check against a DC check of 17. Feel intoxicated to easily, low constitution modifier.

“Those who loved Dungeons & Dragons never really stopped playing it.”

—Lev Grossman

I’ve been playing D&D ever since, hopefully my intelligence roll beats your DC check for this article.

Postscript: I did and might still qualify as an outcast as stated above.

In the loving memory of:

Gary Gygax (July 27 1938 – March 4 2008)

Dave Arneson ( October 1 1947 to April 7 2009)

Written and prepared by

The last dungeon monster, Psycho

****Editor’s Footnote:

Most of you have suspected, perhaps already knew that the writer is not me to begin with since we have different styles of writing.

This is made by one of my college mates back in diploma years. He promised to do a guest write for dungeon and dragons.

Now, living in solitude beneath the cold dungeon and drowning himself with liquor due to the death of his final comrade being humanified by chicks. He is known as the last dungeon monster, Psycho.

Drop your comment on what you think about his work.

I hope it's for real.

2009-07-31T12:43:00.000-07:00

I received a brilliant news.

Our heart piercing, back stabbing, mouth rotting, mind fucked, problematic face Mr. Anus is going to leave us.

Hey! Don't give me that look. I am completely innocent.

Although I admit I am a brilliantly ruthless cold heart(yet good looking) ahem* man.
I have nothing to do with this. Okay perhaps a little... but what I just did was kicking him out of the network and switching off the wireless. Life without Internet is harsh.

After the pop up ad incident, he is not the same Mr. Anus that I knew anymore. He said he still hear ghost cries at night. I guess it is echoing inside his head.

I asked a few friends and families of mind.

Dad said, "There is a ghost when we live at the village near Ampang LRT. But the cry is nothing so simple as you described to me. The scream was fierce and loud and it travels through the whole village like an angry gale. That is the first and last time I ever encounter the sound."

Hypothesis.

The more you think about it, the more it is likely to exist. Except the fact money don't grow on trees.

Okay, i will respect him for once by calling his name once. His name is Roy. So not the flame alchemist himself.

I wish him three things for the journey he is going to embark.

1. Good Luck. He really needs it.
2. I wish the place he stayed is not near to any supernatural related object or entities.
3. I wish his best friend do not kick him out of the house after 2 months.

Although there is no point to say this since he is moving away, I will say it anyways. His action are getting very annoying but I don't own the house I rather chose to be silent... but it doesn't mean acceptance.

1. Now, he is pissed off as me because I zeroed his connectivity to the internet.
2. He stays at the living room on the dinner table (which is our only table) and loaf around whole day by watching .RMVB movies over and over again.
3. He refuse to enter his room due to his so called "imaginary friend" is inside with him
4. He don't come back to sleep anymore. If you are wondering where do he sleep.

I felt pity for him in a way. He's been mindfucked so bad.

Well, perhaps I am not in the position to say this... but what my advices for all of you guys who lives outside of your house.

1. Avoid trouble.Think for yourself and the others at the same time. Don't trouble others.
2. No matter what happen, if you are going to live outside in a certain period amount of time, do not always jump to supernatural conclusion. There are a lot of explanations for everything.
3. Do please make yourself at home only when you enter your room.

Tha's all for tonight. Thanks.

P.S tonight is one of my most relieved day in my life.

The best dreams are the unattainable ones.

2009-07-28T11:03:00.000-07:00

some of my close friends already know that I would like to rule one of the mass media industry through gaming magazines. Yes, it was stupid I know. Today, I met one of my marketing lecturer and I told him about my crazy idea, which he replied,

"Good! Keep it up,the best dreams are the unattainable ones". He continued and gave me a few guidelines.

"Before you venture into the unknown, all you have to do is prepare for the worst outcome."

Reasons that the Gaming Magazine will cease to work.

1) The market.
2) The team.
3) The people.
4) The situation.
5) The trend.

The market basically implies on the social/community network in Malaysia. Gaming magazines were meant to target gamers, specifically. And the mindset of gamers, were more on the "product" side. Make a good game, they will remember the title. Make a bad game they will remember the title and the developers.

So, in order to market gaming magazines, either start with a price dirt cheap/ low quality or normal/high quality. It all depends actually. The impression of "price" is really a factor here. Set too low, it will be considered cheap, setting it too high will be considered "not worth the price."

The team, to be honest. I wish I could work with Ah Yia, Rachel, Ben, Psycho and Guan. They had a lot knowledge in games. Especially Ah Yia, with his FPS knowledge, Psycho with his Dungeon and Dragons and Guan with data games and Ben with his photo shooting technique. Then again, they have their own dreams to pursue and their own path to choose. It's just a hope.

The people, since it is a multi-racial country,in order to win the heart of the market. The Magazine must be in at least two languages, which is our Chinese language and English. Of course, English will be the primary language.

The situation, they are 2 major gaming magazines in Malaysia. Gameaxis by Singapore and PCGamer by the United Kingdom. Both of them, were gaming magazine but on different target markets. THEY ARE NOT COMPETITORS because their target market and contents were completely different.

And we have to know that Malaysia, is an unexplored market. Especially for something this new, or perhaps we should raise our kids as elites Starcraft or Warcraft players like Korea.

The trend, most of the countries is focusing in the east. Due to the rise of China, it was inevitable, that one day the developers and producers will be targeting them in the near future. I will see Call of Duty 8, in chinese language.

Prediction: Singapore will be market leader for games in SEA. The Chinese will keep coming up on MMO that has hideous graphics.

In order to succeed, a strategy model must be created to ensure success.

How Gameaxis rule the market? How PCGamer goes International?
They are a bunch of questions that I really want to know....

Am I really capable of doing this?
Am I driven by passion or money?

I had really no idea.

I had been studying both Diploma Mass Communications and Degree in Business Administration. And trust me, everything is relate to one another.

it's proven that dishes are best serve cold.

2009-07-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

Games that I am anticipating this year. Perhaps I am not able to play one of them. Let's not say anything about about my old dated PC shall we? it's time for an upgrade mom! if you are reading this.

What is better than Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare? The simple answer is Modern Warfare 2. No introduction needed for this game. What I wish for it? Better Multiplayer, better Campaign and we obviously need more guns that packs a punch.

It is without a doubt, Modern Warfare 2 will once again suppress my hunger for good games.
Talk less, more action. Roll the videos please!

Keywords for the game? A sequel, your name is persistent, and a snow mobile chasing gameplay. How can I not play this game?

Next stop,

What game relates to Venice, Leonardo Da Vinci, and an Assassin. In case you really don't know, it's Assassin's Creed 2.

Once again, you will be scaling the roofs, jumping from an edge to another, falling from heights, killing your targets in fashionable ways and wield tons of weapons like an axe, warhammer and a mace.

The dev team of Ubisoft claimed that this will be a major improvement from Assassin's Creed. Yes, they manage to solve the repetitive issue of AC. Do it.

Next!

"Where's Zoey?" this is the first reaction...
"Where are the others?" my second reaction.
Which lead to ...

"Oh...New Orleans." So everything goes south now ain't it partner?
But hey? Who cares? New guns, new melee weapons, and 3 new type of boss zombies. Hell yeah. Merry Christmas..So what to expect next Christmas and the other coming XMAS? Yes, a poster of a decaying hand with 3 fingers left.

Last but not least and I just have to get rickrolled by surfing Youtube and while searching for my favorite games. Damn, I am pissed.

Let us not forget Starcraft 2.

Hell, it's about time.....

Pathetic Entity. and ..........

2009-07-08T11:49:00.000-07:00

...Requested by Ben, he wanted a clearer outline on what the hell it's going on...and once again I shall deliver.

Warning: Not for the weak heart.

1.40 AM, Monday, Master Room (My room)

I finally managed to get some sleep until someone knocked my door repeatedly. I woke up and opened door. "QUICK! Go to the living room, no matter what you do don't look to Mr. Anus room."

And here it comes, it was one hell of a bloody tale. I never thought i will ever experienced it. As I walk through the hallway, I peek inside Mr.Anus's room, saw nothing, heard nothing. i just woke up my senses are not there yet.

I walked down the stairs and started to asked what went wrong. They kept quiet... and I am starting to hear a weird moaning sound coming out of Mr. Anus's room.

A sound never meant to be human, it moans and followed up by a constant groaning. I starting to feel the chills climbing up my spines. I asked what the hell it's going on? He explained,

" As I am sitting infront of my laptop a heat suddenly arise from the floor and the moaning and groaning started. Without hesitation, I ran out from the room and starting to knocked on Frankie's door."

The moaning and groaning continues and it get louder and louder.

He is scared shitless. Everyone is. We locked ourselves in one of the housemates room downstairs. The sound continues to grow louder and sharper...

I went up stairs and took my phone, I was warned never to look into his room while I go up. It was nothing, I walked to my room, searched for my phone, and slowly walked downstairs.

In this situation, you were to act it is normal so you don't provoke them. I called the agent, telling him exactly what was going on. He advised me to evacuate the house. Of course, I had to listen but sadly, today, one of my housemates created a poll, said that I am ranked no.3 in the house when it comes to how brave I am. Well, I have to admit at that time I am scared, but not stupid. At least i am calm and I think it is a wise choice to evacuate the house since it is haunted.

PS. At least I am not as scared of MR anus.

Agent A and Agent....A..( Anson and Alvin) arrived at four am and both indeed confirm this house is definetely haunted. They called up a gangster with scary looks.

When he arrived, he walked up the stairs and starting to scan the room. "I feel nothing..."
" Is this your first time?" I replied "Yes". He went silent and he apologised since he cannot do anything. He said we need an exorcist to do a job.

The agent check the speakers. As he switched off the speakers, the sound's gone.....everyone felt relieved and the moment he turned back on. There goes the sound again.

We checked on Mr. Anus's Laptop. And what we saw made me scared until now......

A pop-up advertisement writing

"SCARE YOUR FRIENDS WITH THIS SCARY RINGTONES! DOWNLOAD NOW!"

GOOD JOB LA.

CONCLUSION, and MORAL OF THE STORY.

Mr. Anus had done it again, first he clogged the Internet connection.
Second, he scared the living shit out of everyone.
Third, Saying unnecessary things every time.

This fella is a walking disaster.

I had concluded that I really obviously going to hate this guy even more in the near future.

If you really want to know.

Mr Agent, had a really bad impression on Mr. Anus.

The whole household is making fun of him.

I felt very pathetic. Dad laughed at me, mom said I am being stupid. Epic FAIL!

I came to understand a few things. And I clearly very despise a certain way of thinking.

its 4 am .. I gonna blog about that next time. It's about feeling pity.

Subject Review.

2009-07-01T12:10:00.001-07:00

This is not a video game review, due to scarcity of video games in Kampar. I had yet to get a hold of any games that interest me. So, rather than letting this blog die or abandoned it. I will full it with post of my personal life for now.

This blog is still dedicated Video Gaming although it will be filled up with my life rantings for the moment.

Studies...the most hardest job for a student to do. AND I still believe students were one of the most hardest profession.

1) Your salary is your results.
This is what student normally being pay off.. Results....Results...

2) Your salary will only be received after working for4 months.
-One sem equals to at least more than 3 months...okay maybe four, a rough calculation but almost there.

3) Your salary is based on your performance.
-Work hard, good results. Lazy, bad results. Period.

4) Your basic salary is crap, it all depends on your commissions.
-Contradicting with no.3 but still if you only have the basics or the foundation for a certain subject or field. You'll never make it to higher level.

5) If your salary doesn't exceed the requirements given by the company, you will have to pay them with your cash.
-Resit paper needs cash. Cold-heart cash....

6) Your time is too flexible..or inflexible.
- Study for 8 long hours but having a gap time for almost 4 hours is promising. Good Job.
Having an hour break time but having to study continuously for 4 and a half hours. Bloody good job.

Okay. Enough. Perhaps for the one that said only Students could enjoy life, perhaps you are right. Perhaps.

My subjects and how well I think I could perform.

Economics
Graph, Graph, and more graphs. They were so many theories and application for you too read. Still this class requires logic and concentration power. Hell, no business paper requires creativity except for a few subjects. In this paper, I think I could definitely nail it....If my textbook could arrive earlier.

Business Accounting.
Principle of Accounting obviously. But still Trial balance, Balance sheet, and the ledger are nothing for me. What I hadn't learned is the Income statement, Cashbook, and other stupid books that requires you to draw a T. The paper requires FULL CONCENTRATION and principles......AGAIN I NEED MY HOLY BOOK to score the paper.

Cooperate and Business Law.
Varied?Vary?Or Void? Good news I got my four holy statutes, bad news. You need to max at least three skills to ace the paper. Perception, logic, concentration. A very fun subject only if you are interested in how the thing works. I give it a awesome 3/5 I will have a good chance of scoring this paper.

Ps. Today in my class, one of the girl cried during this subject. It appears to be she's completely clueless on what is happening in the class since she is new to law. But why the tears? I don't know.

Quantitative Techniques.
Now I can feel my tears.
Judging on the name you'll already know that the subject is not simple.
1) Addmaths basic skills provide good advantages.
2) My Addmaths is 8E
3) My maths modern is 3B
4) Maths is never my cup of tea

UNTIL.......

My only teacher, which is 5 or 6 year old website. Thanks to the subscribers and teachers that posted their video on , yes you got it, Youtube.
Differentation, Intergration, and other business quantitativecal techniques methods could be found via Youtube.

With youtube I have no fear of any calculation application.

Good chance I will pass this paper and get a B with my abysmal maths. With an addition of past years and tutorial questions good chance I could get higher than B. Hope is there but it's like Icarus with wings. Fly higher happily and fall to mayhem when the wings made together with wax melted by the heat of the sun. In other words, if Youtube teaches the wrong method, I'll die.
Still it's better than the brief lecture notes. If I were to put it into sweeter words.
It's all up to me to determine the outcome.

Principle of Marketing.

Introduction to advertising all over again. But with the different meaning of 4P's and totally different concept. My only hope of passing the paper is reading the case studies and doing the tutorial. Reading the lecture notes is never enough to get a pass since the lecturer tends to wander off in his own dreamland but still it's related. I give it a 3/5 that I will pass ..but not score. I had yet to read the case studies so.... no confidence to pass this paper yet.

This is what I wrote to DSA

2009-06-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

Department of Student Affairs.

Comments Regarding Parking Stickers.

The following reasons that the first come, first basis is much more effective than balloting ;-

1) Luck Vs Effort

It is with knowledge that the parking sticker was acquired via balloting. Which involves luck more than effort. If it involves more luck than effort, it will lead to the following consequences :-

IF a student were to choose convenience but at a chance of sacrificing the ticket. The student will definitely queue up and hand in the money up front in the DSA for the parking tickets more than the online application.

If students that really needs to park inside the University but fail to obtain the parking sticker due to luck but not effort. It is certainly not satisfying.

If the students were given a chance for a first come, first serve system, limited amount of parking space, having them to pay on the spot, lining up for hours due to the number amount of applicant but it rewards them by certainty of the parking sticker. They will clearly choose for the first come, first serve option other than submitting online applications but to tell them they failed due to a mere luck.

2) Pricing
Students will rather pay more to extend the sticker's validity. The combination of having a RM 100 sticker with a validity of no more than 4 months would be more efficient if :-

a)There was no balloting involves for every semester.
After four months, students were once again to try their luck to obtain a parking ticket. Which means they will have to through the same procedure all over again and so do the DSA.

b) Extend sticker's validity.
RM 100 per semester with a chance of failing to obtain the ticket after four months is rather harsh for a student. Once again, if the sticker were to extend it's validity in exchange of a higher price, students would rather pay for it than having to try their luck once every four months.

End of comment.

Suggestion.

I would like to suggest the management to further look through this issue and learn to realize that there were so many ways other than balloting for a vehicle sticker.

Apply the First come, first serve rule.
1) Students were given a specific date to submit an application, be it during semester break, or during the study period.
2) The first applicants who paid will be granted the parking sticker on the spot.
3) The others will have to wait for a specific amount of time but receiving the sticker is certain.

As for the sticker Pricing and Validity.
1) Raise the price and extend the validity to at least ONE year.
2) Maintain the price and extend the validity.
3) Maintain the price and maintain the validity and ISSUE more stickers.

End of Suggestion

*********

Yes Ballot a parking sticker.

Mr.Lawful Good/Chaotic Good/Neutral. RATE ME.

2009-06-26T04:01:00.000-07:00

Okay.. since this is the third time I have accidentally deleted my Fallout 3 review.....I shall blog about other things.

I want you guys to rate me. Especially the Usual Suspects but if you guys are not free never mind then.

WARNING.
All materials below were recorded literally using blogger. The events below were true, accurate and somewhat bias because it is from my point of view. Please do not eat while you are reading this blog.

Housemates.... other than sharing a house with you what else do they deserve more? Well, in my case if you listen to me and being reasonable while you are staying with me, we happen to be friends that stay together in the same roof.

My definition of a housemate is, happens only to stay with me in an amount/specific time coincidentally.

Now, I have three friends staying together in same roof and one housemate. The friends were treating me well, but being Ziwen I don't know if they like me. If I can't sense they don't hate me, I guess they didn't. Except for one, which is the housemate.

I shall call him ...err...asshole.

You see, Mr. Anus has an unusual way of talking you see, and he leave a deep impression of hate due to his unfriendly face. In other words, yong sui.

Now why I am acting in such a way?. Reason no.1

1. I NEVER accept his ways of thinking and running the house.

- Mr. Anus is very up-tight, unfriendly, hard to negotiate, calculative, selfish, a bastard and talk way too much. Example in this situation: Friend In need of something important

Friend: Anus, can you lend me something? It's an emergency.
Anus: You already know the answer I won't lend you because I am a realistic person.

This my fellow reader, is a fucktard, a fucktard that thinks he is cool talking this way, a fucktard that scared people away not because of his smart mouth but because of his idiocy.

It's a NO. But It's with attitude and stupidly reflects all of your personalities. By just few of these words I could list at least a few bad things about him.

1. Anus. His name explains all.

2. Scrooge. In order to save his few cents of Ink, he chose to hurt his housemates. In my honest opinion, we will be living and sharing together for a year. If he talks like that it will only show that he is.....

3 An idiot. Idiots comes in alot of shapes and sizes but this came from an arsehole. If only he could share his belongings and enjoy the moment of helping someone in need. Now, I am dealing with someone that would rather save his few cents for a good deed. He could sleep in under the highway for all I care. I just hoped that one day he would desperately need my help.

4. Foul Mouth. Just like an anus, his mouth smells like one. " You know I am a very realistic person." Who the hell talks like that. He failed as a chinese, he doesn't even have a skill of rejecting someone.

5. He don't care, he only treats us as housemates.

After a week of his commanding tones and stupid comments. I snapped. I came out with a plan to tame him and evalueate himself all over again. Actually I never really plan but it's shaping out because I can't take it anymore.

Like any other great plan you have to affect someone morale before you strike you see. You need to show them you are not simple. It all happens while I am driving them to dinner.

Anus: Look! Beauties! Chicks! Stop the car, come one let's go down.
Me: Okay but on you are own if you are going down now.
Anus: By the look in your face I could tell you are not going to wait for me right?
Me: Of course! You are nothing but a housemate to me. You are nothing.
Anus: ....

The conversation should have ended during I said "You are on your own." Instead he chose to challenge me. As conclusion, you never mess with the driver especially when he is in a foul mood.

All of you migh have noticed that I am not online for at least three weeks. I shall now explain the situation.
First week of Uni : Apply streamyx with a dealer.
Second week: Pending, Started to panicked due to assignment.
Third week: Went to TM Point susbscribed again and got it 2 days later.

and his status: Not a single fart from the streamyx for the rest 3 weeks.

I clearly draw the line now because anyone that has the Internet now basically has a privileged of calling the shots.

I said staright on his face, I shall not share the line with you because of two simple reasons.
You mentioned you are a leech that keeps downloading stuff non stop.
Second, you use the phrase, "Once I open my download, all of you don't even need to use because I'll used up all the bandwith."

He panicked, everyone panicked It is the third week of assignment but they have no signs or news from streamyx.

Eventually until one of my housemates told me that having to share for 4 people line it's expensive. Something inside me doesn't feel right, I felt that I had cause him to spend more money, and he looks like from a poor family.

So I decided to share the line with my friends along with Mr. Anus. Of course he will eat up the bandwith, but since it's my Internet. I get to lay down the rules. The agreement is,
1. None of you should argue about the Internet if one is slowing the other, we will all close the download.
2. If anyone refuse to listen and still causing ruckus about the Internet. I will take the line and use it on my own.
3. Nothing is above the rules. Even I have to listen.

In order to keep my promise to the housemates eventhough the line is slow sometimes, we have to know our limit because we are sharing more than five here along with the 1 MB line.

So what I am doing now is, tame Mr.Anus and then prove to my housemates that he is an anus.

Since he is in KL right now, and everyone of my other housemates claimed the line is faster without him. Everyone was jumping about happily due to the speed.

Bottom line: All I want to do is to prove that I am not a selfish person who wants to have my line alone. Instead there is someone with his face as thick as his butt is forcing me to do so.

So, what you think?

100111001100

2009-06-16T09:32:00.000-07:00

My life is complete once again, after suffering for three weeks without the Internet. It's like watching porn ...only it's drawn in stick people. Life without the Internet is meaningless.

I am SO BORED that I took out my tutorial question, finished it, lent it to my course mates to copy the answer. BACK IN TARC I DIDN't EVEN BOTHER TO COPY.

Ok enough bout studies.

How do I exactly feel right now.
I am kinda lonely I guess.
Never really have a time to settle down and think bout it.
Well in this semester I have only 2 major assignments which both of them I fairly experienced in.
Since I am starting all over again in Year 1 Sem 1 again. It will be a loooooonnnnnngggg way.

What the heck i thought I said enough about studies =_=.

Kay' here's some good news for the readers if I even have one now. I now have a brand new PSP 2000, so I will be covering some games on this major selling handheld portable console.

Maybe I will show it off later. Muahaha.

If anyone is curious how's life in Kampar I can tell you it's bloody peaceful.. a bit too peaceful for me actually.

My home and the University takes only 3 minutes drive. Yes. 3 Minutes.
But what sad was due to my shitty luck, I failed in balloting a parking sticker for Linda(car).

An unsuccessful attempt of getting the parking will lead you to the sun's heat and ray mercy. For me I don't really mind having a dark skin.

AND Yes, BALLOT. WHO THE HELL DRAW LOTS FOR PARKING. Do parking stickers looks like wheel of fortune to you? It should be first come first basis, and who the hell needs to queue up and wait for a certification date for certifying your documents. I'll tell you who UTAR does.

Okay everything is new here actually, the frustration, the weather, the studies, the tutors, the lectures, the bikes, the cow dung, and the people.

Good thing in UTAR you don't meet any LALA around but alot of cyclist. Which it's been bugging my mind why does everyone needs to have a basket like aunty that hunt for vegetables in the morning market. Pink colored bike, cycled by a boy, with a basket infront of the stering. It's like kissing a boy. Twice! and being oked in the butt thrice! and eating two hots dogs in a chili dog.

Security Guard in UTAR is err...errr..what is the word.... not PR-ABLE. Ben's usual speech talk won't work in UTAR, it's like him trying to talk to his current Chinese media writing tutor. I had never fail entering any tertiary education insitute and this is the first.

SITUATION:

Me: Mau masuk hantar orang boleh a (smile and showing ID)
Idiotic Guard: Apasal? Tak boleh hantar orang punya. (One of the most hideous expressions that I wanted to punch on)

Me: Apasal tak boleh? I am a student, I hantar orang masuk. Mengapa tak boleh?
Idiot Guard: Sebab I cakap tak boleh, you orang cakap mau hantar orang lepas tu masuk dalam parking.
Me: Kalau you biar kita masuk, then kita parking, siapa punya salah?
Idiot Guard: Saya punya salah sebab I kasi you masuk! ( angry tone somemore, shouted somemore.)

Me: (I Snapped) You are just a fucking guard that guard the gates and stopping tresppasers to park inside the area, I showed you my ID, proving that I am a student in UTAR, and you still treat me like a fucking tresppaser, now what is your problem?
Idiot guard who can't keep up with my english: Okay! okay! Keluar balik nanti.

Me: thank you, drives away and reel down the window while popping out a middle finger while honking. *which is so not true because i dun do that*

...........

Even an own dog doesn't bark at his master. Pitiful. This is the so called "utilities and securities" that I paid for.

Hmm...nothing special here actually. Except for the peaceful lifestyle which is something new and the awesomO three minutes drive to uni. That's all.

I ALMOST FINISH MY REVIEW ON FALLOUT 3 ! Grande!

Usual Suspects: I miss you guys man! Really I cant find someone like you guys. I MISS TBR, I shall be back during sem break! wait me! Anything you guys want?

Friends back at KL: All the best!

PS. I have yet to lost weight. xD

It is ?

2009-05-23T12:44:00.000-07:00

Before entering the main topic, I first apologize for the lack of updates that causes mostly by my stupidity and ignorance. Here were the list that the things I will write for my future posts.

Reviews Updates
- Dawn Of War 2. (lost due to own stupidity, around more than 10 paragraphs were gone.)
- Fallout 3. (Ended in 1032 words. Blackout. No save. GG)
- Zombie Vs Plants. ( Whole page. Gone due to spamming ALT+F4 Key. Forget to save. Good Job)
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine ( Still Playing and researching.)

Now... for the main topic.
I will be going to Kampar tomorrow, for the who don't even have a clue. I am sorry that because I always stay low profile, for the one that knew I will miss you too unless you are not.

First, you start with a formal apology and express gratitude to all your friends that you knew from college to highschool, okay.

It's hard to say which is important and which are not for me. Everyone had their own points and opinion that I liked. So, it doesn't really who comes first all of you were important to me.

I apologized to Rachel, Guan, Ah Yia and Mel for not listening to all of you on staying for Advanced Diploma. I know you guys spent a lot of effort for making me staying in Advanced Diploma.

Now here is something personal for everyone.

Rae, for what I know from the last 2 years experience in college with you. You are one of the most wonderful woman I've ever met. Sadly things really didn't work out well as they planned because I flunked my Diploma If not it will definitely be better for the both of us. I am sorry that I cannot keep the promises that we made together. I am sorry...

Bottom of my heart: Rae... I am sorry that I never listen to any of your advices regarding relationship, I know I always make you puke blood, heartache, rising blood pressure, waste of time,... I am sorry. I hate myself for being a loser too but i can't help it. I am sorry for everything especially my ignorance.

Ben, you are good at anything except for girls and hardwork. Believe me, if you put hardwork into anything you could achieve many things easily. So for everything you do, if you have the"passion" you could easily achieve anything you wish for. You are a good friend that I will always remember and thanks for always supporting me for anything.

Bottom of my heart : A Real friend knew what you really want and need. What you want: Money and a bar. What you need : Someone to take care of you.

Ah Yia, although you always mess around and implying innuendos and sometimes extremely perverted verbal language. You are a good friend. I never hated or dulan with you except for your extremely clingy part of calling me to COD all the time. Other than that, I am fine with it.
I think among all of the friends I am the one who can tolerate your touching maybe perhaps I get used to it already.

Bottom of my heart: Stop touching me, because girls are far more comfortable to lay hands on and plan about your future la.

Ah Guan, don't smoke so much, take care of your weight, exercise more, don't be so mean to Melissa, don't sleep in class, don't piss off the lecturers, study well and pay attention on anything you do.

Bottom of my heart: Cut your hair and be nice to Mel.

Melissa, although we are not that close but I have always try to understand what is going on your mind. You are always mysterious to me. But in the end, all that matters is you really are a good friend. You will always be the traditional kampung heart girl that I know you are.

Bottom of my heart: Don't forgive Ah Guan. Nourish the hate, feed it, pamper it, when it turns to vengeance you buy a radiance...no la just kidding. Please take care of yourself and pray that the torment will end fast.

Okay College friends edition complete.. I wonder will any of my highschool friends read about it lol.

How games evol. A story on Gameplay but it's not fun.

2009-04-08T19:20:00.000-07:00

This post is my view on Games and how they evolve. It's my opinion, if you don't like it, you could always leave me a comment. Make sure it has to be logic though.

First let me explain Gameplay.

Gameplay is about everything but for me it is divided into five major categories.
- Storyline
- Controls
- Features
- Audio
- Graphics

Back in those days, you don't really need good graphics to enjoy a game, look at Tetris, 8 bit Famicom cartridge, Wolfenstein. Those are major games but we all have to know that time's changed.

Now, in the 21st century in order for you to be the top of the food chain you have to excel in every aspects of the five major gameplay.

Believe it or not, although now(21st century) people always said that storyline or control comes first, but deep down inside their hearts they would like to play games that have good graphics. Agree?

Well it don't have to be like the PSP 3000 but come on at least it was coloured, at least a Gameboy Advanced color... and of course stereo sound. Mono will do too but at least make it more channels. Okay I am going way off topic.

So, in my honest opinion to make it to the top of, it has to be like this. (21st century)

Gameplay
- Graphics (most Importance)
- Audio
- Controls
- Features
- Plot/Storyline (duh)

Cruel fact but it's true, I think it doesn't really matter if your storyline's a trainwreck because everyone has done almost everything. It doesn't matter if your storyline gets old, it's the way you present them. The way how you show it to the audience.

Imagine.

The heroes kisses the damsel in distress but it only focuses on one angle, black and white, 2D(block of pixels), few pigeons.

Now another,

Same situation but it adds a little music on the background, multiple angles, more colurs but still 2D(still it's square but getting rounder), more pigeons.

AND ANOTHER.

Same situation, but since they can have more things now due to technology. They decide to make the characters into high definition(more round and actually looks like human) edits the music, add in some bullet time while kissing, whole alot of high definition pigeons flying around. Okay that does it, getting way out of hand.

Now you see? The only thing that remains the same is the kissing scene but that doesn't really matters anymore. The important thing here is, how you present them with graphics and audio. So this is why, I've thought of creating a new type of structure that fits my reviews.

It goes like this.
Instead of Five it's Three.

Gameplay
- Presentation
- Controls
- Features

Still, after doing some heavy thinking. You still need a strong cement(storyline) to build a strong platform.

Then you need bricks(graphics) to hold the platform and you need paint(audio) to protect the building from sunshine rays and rains.

As for the controls and features, you can think of them as furniture or housewares. Here is where the game mechanics and controls kicks in.

Now for the definition of control.
The measurement of efficiency on controlling the game's features in a game....too formal.
Actually to put it short and simple, it is how well you can control your in-game features like camera angles, character's action, with your controller pad or keyboard.

Let's see how far has Control evolve.

First, we take a good look at your latest console's controller pads, count how many buttons it has then compared with this.

So we only need two buttons to massacre your opponents and clear the game. Hmm, makes me remember how I clear Super Mario...the good old days.

For the people who do not agree in my opinion that the controllers symbolizes the in-game's features, ask yourself. Can you play Devil May Cry 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4 with two buttons?
And will you mind pressing extra buttons just only to access menus? The answer? No.

Complicated games that requires good maneuverability and accessibility needs a good controller to fully unleash their potential.

That is why the proclaimed abysmal dragon-flying game, Lair, fails, good graphics, good gameplay, good concept but the controls were beyond nightmare.

Another good example is the Capcom's hit title Resident Evil, before Resident Evil 4, you control your character based on set camera angles despite that each room/hallway/corridors/stairs have different camera angles but once you get used to moving around you'll feel much more comfortable (the combat were hectic at first especially being mobbed by a group of zombies.)

Every game has it's own feature be it RPG, Action, FPS, or any other genre. Will you play an FPS that allows you to carry only one gun for the rest of the game? Unless it is stealth game or fill with realism. Or maybe I should ask, will you play an FPS that lets you carry only one weapon and most of your enemies do not die easily. Hell no!

Game mechanics/features must be tweaked, that is why WoW has endless glitchy patches and warlords being nerf by every patch. We have to admit that great games have splendid game mechanics but it needs to be constantly checked, tweaked, reexamined and download. Some patches comes in really large sizes....

Conclusion, perhaps this post is for you to know what I think about games. Those were my points and all of them were based on experience and few dead brain cells. Thank you for your time.

First of Everything.

2009-03-12T11:28:00.001-07:00

It’s had been a while since I’ve updated my blog. There were a few reasons that I can’t blog smoothly.

Reason #1
My brand new Sapphire HD4850 GPU is making my Pentium 4 look ridiculous. In other words, my Pentium 4 is bottlenecking my performance. I have the urge to upgrade my computer once again but it’s still too early, it’s been three years I guess, I’ll stick with it for a while more. No ICore7.

Reason #2
Stupid Adobe “Fun pack” screwed up my computer really hard. I cannot even watch .mkv files smoothly now. Still, this is not the main reason.

Reason #3
The equation is,
Poor CPU + New Graphic card = New games running on less than 7 fps.
I’ve bought Cryostasis and tried the game. Unfortunately, It has come to a time that even the low graphical game settings were deemed useless for my CPU to keep up. I could hear my CPU wailing/begging for his master to stop torturing himself in the 10 fps mayhem.I give in.

*End of whining*

*Beginning of the actual content*

The sensation of surfing and trolling around the Internet made me realize that It’s time to share some of my game titles. It’s not that much don’t expect a whole bundle of them.
If you are bored you can always list down the games I have.

*caution* not all game are enjoyable.

Do you still remember what’s your first FPS game? or maybe RPG?
If your first timer were Minesweeper, Solitaire. Freecell or any other Windows component’s game I respect that but it’s not worth mentioning cause everybody touches them back on those days.

First Strategy Game.
Command and Conquer Red Alert. 1996
Windows 1995 version.

I had a difficult time remembering which come first, I thought it was either Starcraft or Red Alert or a very old game called Dark Colony. But I am dead sure it’s not Starcraft because I remembered Tanya’s hysteric laugh way more clearer than Infested Keriggan hatching out from the chrysalis.

I was 10 when my bro bought back a game and found out that it’s an expansion which is called, C&C Red Alert:Aftermath. Since RA is a hit during that time(even now) it was easy to get the original. I do not remember how I played the game, I think I sucked big time.

First First-Person-Shooter ( a pun? That was a coincidence.)
DOOM. (1993)
DOS

I was 9 if I am not wrong and I have no freaking idea how to load the game since it is a DOS version. It means you have to go to Run, type CMD then load..bla bla bla. (frankly, I have no idea even how to do it now.)

You can say that I don’t really enjoy the game, all I knew was I never grow tired of watching my chainsaw grinds through the zombie while watching their red angry blood that spills all over the place like an exploded bottle of jam…strawberries jam…emm…

First Role Playing Game.
Final Fantasy 7 (1997)
Windows 98.

I was 11 when I played this game since it is a RPG all I have to do is to learn the game system and voila. I don’t manage to finish the game until I was 14 due to my computer that runs on a Pentium 2 233mhz of RAM and a TWO GB worth of space. It somehow stop running at one stage of the game and I can’t seem to get through.

And at soon last my Uncle bought a PlayStation Hell yeah. I finished it in 2 days.

Ps. I have no idea what happen to the Dungeons and Dragons system I never really embrace games like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur’s Gates. Anyone mind to borrow?

First Survival Horror.
Resident Evil/Biohazard
Sega Saturn

Before my uncle owns a Playstation, he has a Sega Saturn. Before he owns a Sega Saturn, he has the 3D0. Before all of that he has the FAMICOM (NES).

Here is the link for the video. Click here.
Just scroll to 3.00 of the video and watch the cheeky video. I can’t help but to laugh at the bloody effects following by a horrific voice that says the title.I used to be scared by that. Damn.
*Watch the cast, Jill Valentine looks so much nicer than the current resident evil movie.*

I spend most of the time dying in the game and playing it on the day. At night I would watch my uncle explores and scavenges through the hallways with Jill or Chris. I miss those days…

First Action RPG.
Diablo (don’t remember the year)
Windows 98

I was 12 when I first become a Warrior and slain King Leoric with my holy sword. I bashed and hacked my way through the dark and eerie bloody hallways that filled with the stench of the demonic minions.

The sight of deformed and mutilated corpses that were left around the dark hallways were always filled with precious loots or traps. I hope it moves so i could hacked my sword to their throat sending them back to hell for the second time.

At last on the bottom floor of the Cathedral lies one of the Prime Evils, Lord of Terror, Diablo. He was my goal, my ambition, my glory, the time I spent on the quest, mazes, dungeons and all of this demon slash hacking monstrosity will finally end… until

After all the potions spamming, opening countless of town portals and enduring the painful walloping from one of the rulers from Hell, my hero deals the final blow by slashing his neck and sending back his demonic minions back to the fiery hellhole. It leads to a cutscene showing….

Our hero held the soulstone and plunged it to his forehead hoping that he could withstand the corruption from the demon itself . He failed miserably of course but good attempt, that’s why there is Diablo 2.

PS. I was shocked when he plunged the soulstone into his head. And I have no idea that Diablo 2 will be released.

First Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.
Ragnarok Online (2003)

Before I got my broadband which is the ever unreliable blood puking Streamyx, I used TMNet Dial-up to venture the cute cartoonish 2D world of Ragnarok Online. Since Malaysia connectivity has always been unstable, I suffered a huge lag time for about 2 -3 second until Streamyx is available at my area. It really didn't help much though because the servers were just drastically overpopulated.

Nevertheless, it was fun, dungeon exploring, decapitating monsters, dying an honourable death, teasing noob players, piss off the Pro players and then got owned, hell it was fun.

But all the fun ended when the beta closed and the game started charging money. My life came back to me and I was force to study like every the other two goody shoes students... until I found out that were things such as private servers, which is exactly 3 days after the beta closed.

So what is your first time? Do you remember? Adios, until next time, game on.

What's next?

2009-03-03T02:16:00.000-08:00

*Depicted from IGN.*
The games industry keeps evolving- but how far has it go? Being honest, I have no idea what infinite possibilities will the creators create and what they can think of anymore.
While you are sitting in front of the TV playing your future-proof video game consoles, you have no idea when it will be replaced or it's outdated again.

In this post, I will be telling you what is going on the games industry and share some of my opinions on them. *You will find my post more Malaysia oriented.*

3D gaming.

Yes, put on the Rayband 3D glasses by Nvidia and you will see bullets flying out of your tv screens.

Other than movies, you will now experience 3D at your own monitor, it's easy all they have to do is to shrink the size of the cinema screen into a size of an average monitor right? Ok, back to the topic.

Nvdia developed their GeForce 3D Vision which is a 3D solution cost around 200USD$ which is aprox around RM 800. Instead of using the usual polarised glasses of other systems, it uses powered active shutter glasses and a transmitter for the glasses, which results in a very convincing impression of depth. You can also adjust the level of depth on the fly. Nuff readin'. Images talk.

I don't think you are interested on how it works.

In case your are interested, other than getting the 3D vision pack, you will still need a display that can handle this monster- this means a display that can refresth up to 120Hz and can be dual link DVI or a DLP HDTV. Not to mention, a GeForce Graphic Card that supports this tech. Here is a list of the supported GPU.

Once you are done, you can go gaming straight away- You will be amazed by the numbers of games that will work with the system, including the zombie shooting Left 4 Dead, the never ending MMO WoW: WoTLK, building hopping Mirror's Edge and the epic world war 2 shooter Call of Duty World at War. Click here for the list games.

How bout the PC?- Most monitors like iZ3D also has 3D-ready LCDs
What about ATI? - Yes, it can be paired with ATI Radeon cards.

In my opinion, I am not a fan of 3D although it look nice, wearing glasses while playing is abit odd, what about for people who have high power glasses? Do they have to take out their glasses and play like Illidan?I hope not...

Conclusion, 3D is really a hit for gamers, it still needs time to mature and newer models to be release. A very innovative concept.

Scale of Amazement: WOW.

Blu-Ray Super Disc.

I think they should come up with a new name? Who cares? All you want to know is the capacity this baby can hold. Thanks to Pioneer's new golden-bluish circle technology, which packs 16 layers into one disc, and each of them can hold 25 GB. 25x16 layers... 400 GB storage capacity in total. The best news is you don't need a new type of Blu Ray writer to read this baby. The advantages are so clear- more 1080p content can be packed into film/tv releases.

More space equals to more gameplay's duration on a video game. I can imagine the developers fitting their sweat and effort into this DVD.

The girl....*cough* sorry...I mean the disc looks quite transparent.

The girl *cough*.. Damn it....

Really there is no point of debating since the price is not out yet and most of us were still using DVD writers. Still, 400 GB is fascinating but do we really need that kind of memory? Like money, it is never ever enough.

Pirates will be happy as they can compile movies, games into one DVD and sell it dirt cheap. Well, at least you don't need a huge collection of DVDs anymore...or is it?

Scale of Amazement: Expected.

OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screens.

I bet you can't bend your display.

The super ultra thin display that produces greater colour reproduction, excellent viewing angle (bye bye flare) and helluva refresh rate. SONY released the first commercial model, although 11 inch screen seems small and the price is definitely not cheap, which cost around USD 2500 but at least the technology is there.

Perhaps in the near future, larger screens would follow, and when the technology matures, the price will gradually drops. It is just a prediction but certainly not in 2009.

I see no flare...notice her two things near the screen? Look how small it is...the gap between the fingers. How thin can it get? It's from Samsung btw.

Explain the tech you say? Unlike LCD screens, OLED do not require a backlight to function. Resulting, a lower consumption rate and making the display much more thinner than a LCD.
Since OLED do not require any backlight, the display can still be seen even at a 90 degrees angle.

But, it is still an organic material, which means it has a limited lifespan, nevermind that they will soon figure out a way to prolong the lifespans for this Gizmo.

Scale of Amazement: I can fit this display through my door ledge.

Upgrades!?? AGAIN??

It's a scene, and it's a goddamn arms race by both Nvidia and AMD, who will rise as the new supreme ruler this year? You decide.

Intel's Larrabee: Intel's decide to join the AMD and Nvidia market with itis new GPU/CPU hybrid. Will this darkhorse win? Or will it ever see the light of day in 2009? I wonder...

DX 11: DX 10 dissapoint us......but this time they promise us (once again) that the new DX 11 proves to be far more superior than it's predecessor. The first tier of video cards will be released at the end of 2009, look forward to it.

New PhysX Comes Of Age: CUDA based GPU with PhsyX technology in one package.... we shall see.

New CPUs from AMD and Intel:....Yes, perhaps your CPU is outdated again.

Sea is the new land.. Bioshock Review.

2009-02-18T10:43:00.000-08:00

"I'm Andrew Ryan and I'm here to ask you a question:
is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow?

No, says the man in Washington. It belongs to the poor.
No, says the man in the Vatican. It belongs to God.
No, says the man in Moscow. It belongs to everyone.

I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something
different. I chose the impossible. I chose...

RAPTURE.

A city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where
the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where
the great would not be constrained by the small. And
with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your
city as well."

- Andrew Ryan, founder of Rapture

GAMEPLAY

FPS came a long way, from concrete jungles to abandoned space stations.
This time, it's Captain Nemo trapped in an unknown advanced civilization with a bunch of hideously deformed citizens that roamed around in this fish tank.

Like the Universe, the game starts with a big bang. 1960 is the year, you woke up and find yourself being surrounded by flames and wreckage. It was in the middle of Atlantic Ocean, you have no choice but so swim to safety. After some swimming, you noticed a lighthouse despite the fact is in a middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

You rushed up the stairs, opened the door and stumbled upon a bathysphere. It's not like you have any choice or any other means of transportation to get home, you decided to take a ride.
After some breathtaking view, you were introduced to Rapture. A metropolis that's been run by a megalomaniac business man, Andrew Ryans.

Before you even step out of your bathysphere, you knew something had gone wrong in this city.
Rapture were overrun by hideously deformed citizens called Splicers. And it looks like you found out that there is a thing called ADAM that's corrupting the metropolis. Even worse, this so called underwater civilizations does not welcome you at all.

If I were to describe Rapture, it's like Atlantis that have just been through the Black Plague, with a little bit of a 60's atmosphere. Resulting, a shootout in a spooky environment having 60's melodies running behind background. Absolutely beautiful.

The greatest weapon in Bioshock is the human body, with the help of a so called miracle substance, Plasmids. Players could emit electric bolt out their hand, burned foes with a snap, performed telekenisis like the gravity gun, enraging foes making them attacking one another and so on. To put it simple, Plasmids are magic but it comes in a form of syringe. Mind you, you could only slot in sufficient amount of Plasmids in the game or else it will be OP.

Fire > ice simeple equation.

Other than shooting lighting out of your fingertips. Tonics are passive skills that provides enhancements to the players. Some tonics like Armored Shell reduces physical damage, statis field that zapped everyone in a radius if you are being touched or Natural Camoflouge that makes you turn complete invisible. Offensive types Tonic like Wrench Jockey, adds wrench damage, or Sportboost that adds both movement speed and melee attack speed.
Combining all the bonuses that you received from the tonic, you could be a Wrenchmaster that downed most of your foes easily by using only melee. There are more than 50 tonics for you to experiment and play around with.

He who injects the most wins.

Getting tonics and plasmids were never easy, you will need ADAM to purchase Plasmids and Tonics from the vending machine. Sadly, there is only one way to obtain ADAM.
In Rapture, you will notice little girls wandering around the corridor holding a huge syringe to sucked out ADAM from dead bodies that were loitering around the streets, they were called

Table for two, please.

Little Sisters. Not to mention, they're protected by one of the most iconic yet difficult enemies in the entire game, they were monster beneath their diving suits called Big Daddy.
All you have to do is to kill Big Daddy and harvest the ADAM from her and killing her on the process or, rescue her from the infection of Adam but gaining a few amount of ADAM. You decide, both options you pick will have consequences towards the game. Your choice.

Freeze

Before you got the wrong idea that this is role playing. Let's talk check out the firearms.
Gun ranges from a monkey wrench to a crossbow. Of course like any FPS, you have the shotgun, trench, revolver, chemical sprayer, a Tommy gun and a grenade launcher. Since it's the late 1960's, you won't be picking up any guns that were out of this world and all the guns were designed in the form of late 1960's.

Bioshock firearms seems to fall short when it comes to killing efficiency. Although you've drilled multiple shots to the body, you'll still see them walking around and that doesn't feel right all. If you are looking for a shooter that blast through enemies like a knife cutting through a butter, Bioshock is indeed not that kind of game.

Killing efficiently in Bioshock is not impossible. You can always switch to different types of ammos to deal greater damage towards different types of enemies. Tommy gun has armor piercing rounds, shotguns have explosives bucks that deal splash damage, chemical sprayer can freeze,burn and electrified your enemies using napalm, liquid nitrogen or electric gel. Of course most of these distinctive ammos were not easy to come by compared to normal rounds.

This is how the game explain the plasmids.

There are only five types of enemies that you will encounter in the whole game excluding big daddy. These common enemies were known as splicers and you differentiate by the weapon they are holding. Thugs carries a wrench, Leadheads carries a pistol, Nitro tosses explosives, Houdini throws a fireball and teleports, the last are spiders that climbs ceiling and throw hooks at you.
As you proceed later in the game, they will gradually become tougher and hit harder, leading to a fight that uses various combinations of plasmids to take down the enemy. The most popular is the one-two combination that's been introduce in the early stage of the game, you shoot an eletrical bolt to stunned the opponent, then quickly following up with a wrench to maximize the damage. In fact, with the right tonic equipped you can beat the whole game by using just the one-two combinations.

You got served by a girl.

Turrets and security cameras hate you, but you can always hacked them and turn them to your side. Hacking involves playing a minigame that resembles Pipe dream, all you have to do is to make sure the water flow reached to the specific place by replacing the pipes and building the correct path. If you fail and the water overflows, it will result on a short circut and you will received damage. If you sucessfully hack turrets and security bots, it will aid you in combat, as for a vending machine, there will be a discounted price and unlocking some extra items.

Pipe dream all over again?

Boss fights are still splicers but they have enhanced health and damage. Other than splicers, the iconic big daddy is indeed the toughest enemy in the game, now I know why he is in the cover.
There are two types of big daddy, one has a huge drill on his right arm that specializes on melee attacks, it is called the Bouncer. The other, is called Rosie, laugh at his name and he will shoot you from afar and throws proximity mines in your face. Both of them have alot of health, fast, and hit very hard and will lead to undesireable deaths.
When you die, you will be revive in a nearby Vita-Chamber having a plenty enough of health and eve to live by. It is not a reload, you will be "restructure" and the damage you've inflict towards your enemies will not be erase. It does sound tedious...in fact it is, since you have infinite lives and credits.

Come to Daddy.

There alot of things happening in Rapture, you can finish the whole game in exactly 15-20 hours if all you do is follow the arrow and hints that are provided in the journal. The journal provides more than enough information like maps, hints, arrows, legends, messages and making it a bit too easy at times. During the whole game there won't be any NPC for you to talk to. So, there won't be any human interactions going on except for boss fights and some living characters that contacted you via radio.

If you happen to be a player who follow the arrows and instruction clearly throughout the game you will never fully understands what is really happening in Rapture. Bioshock contains hundreds of audio recordings regarding the lives of victims in Rapture. If you venture more for abit you'll realize that most of the audio recordings explains the situation of Rapture; before and after. It unlocks some mysteries in the game and tells a clearer story, not to mention it also helps you to advanced through to the stages by providing access code for doors and some hints. But you don't really need to be a good listener in Bioshock, because of your almighty journal you can always playback the audios and flip through the pages... so much for the 1960's.

The dark and eerie feeling while venturing the hall of Raptures is indeed an enjoyable sensation. The atmosphere were fill with the songs of 50's and 60's, you could hear splicers humming, talking, mumbling about their lives, it creates an eerie feeling and it really does have an impact on the environment. Everything in Rapture were perfectly created especially the water, if you have splicers standing on top of the water, just simply fires an electric bolt into the water and watch those sparks fly.

The A.I deploys hit and run tactics more often than dashing straight on like a bull. If the A.I was badly hurt, they will run to a nearby health machine and replenish their health. Upon deafetaing them, loots and some items can be gained.

This twisted underwater city really has alot to offer, as you proceed to the levels you noticed that things starting to get more fascinating, oxygen were produced by building a forest inside the utopia, and luxurious underwater view that you can see outside the window. It looks like everything is possible thanks to the Unreal Engine 3, graphics is superb and the water is perfect. Since the city is falling apart you will find a few leaks here and there, and experiencing the seawater rushing in after an explosion really blows you away.

There are some errors and dissapoinments in Bioshock 3. First are the audio and subtitles, it looks like the subtitles appeared quite late after each conversation and sometimes it never even go away, it requires a patch to be downloaded before playing the game. Second is the SecuRom online activation, well I guess you know what's the purpose of this bloody software.

If you have a better machine the game will indeed look sharper more than the XBOX360 and it fully supports the 360's controller. If you are lost and don't know which version to go for, it all depends on your PC's specs. If you're running on a mid/high end DX10 machine, go for the PC. Worry not it supports DX 9 and even running on this way the texture graphics still excel the 360 if your machine can deal with it. Be sure to get the latest patch or else you will be having minor problems in the game.

Conclusion

Bioshock excels in both graphics and audio, the texture graphics were perfectly made, the water is made to be like water in reality, it reacts accordingly, the guns are loud, the voice acting and casts are perfect. The audio recordings not only creates an impression, it also help seting up the mood, hearing one crying following with a splicers mumbling, humming throughout the dark hallways is quite an experience.

If you are the typical player who likes to play with convential weapons and loves to see huge explosions firing out of your favorite weapon, sadly to say maybe Bioshock is not for you. This game is more than putting bullets in one's head, it's a game that involves battles that can be fought indirectly and enjoying it at the same time.

Bioshock terrific story telling and compeling gameplay is what you must look forward too.
Despite having some minor problems that can solved thru patching, Bioshock is a very good game and it's worth it. I give it a 4 out 5.
Until next time Game On.

Ziwen's Valentine Special Post: A Heart and Hammer.

2009-02-12T06:17:00.000-08:00

Okay Valentine is near.
Love is in the air, so as in the games.
But this post, is about pure white innocent love. While everyone is happily thinking about getting their loves one chocolates and nailing them at the same time. xD
Here I am writing and planning my ideas. To write the ultimate post of valentine that will shook the world. * Thunderous cracking sfx* Muahahahaha.

These valentine post will be about love. But the other side of love....ahh bittersweet memories while grasping on the controller so hard. The heart-shattering moments that made us wipe our tears. Oh! i just broke my mouse...
The time that makes you weep and having a tissue beside you,leading into a misunderstand that your parents thought you are doing something....well you get the idea.
Remember how many pieces of tissue you threw when you see Aeries died?
The moment when Yuna went through Tidus body?Boy, that gotta hurt.
The death of Jan Ors ? How does it feel to get slice by a lightsaber?

Here I present you, Ziwen's Valentine Special: A Heart and Hammer. It is for the heart-breaking love scene for the game. The scene that hurt the gamers so bad that it left scars and wounds that will take long to heal. And here we go, the most heart-ripping gameplay scene.

PREY.
Jen.

So first watch the video. If you're lazy I'll just shorten it up for ya.
The situation is, you've been abducted by an unknown life form. Together with your Grandpa and your hot girlfriend.

Around 30 minutes of the game. You saw your grandpa being killed in a horrible fashion living nothing but blood stains. You venture around the alien ship. Killing any aliens that get in your way in a mission to save your girlfriend before she turned into canned food for the aliens.

After blasting your way through, you came into a room. She cried for you in fear and in pain, begging you to save her, trapped in a vessel. After the long combat, you assumed that it will be a joyful-full-of-tears' reunion...but it goes the other way around.

The vessel's door popped out and a loud growling noise could be heard. This was nothing compared to the things you are about to see. Now, the entire upper-half of your girlfriend was ATTACHED/MOUNTED/FUSE, name what you want on top of the monsters' back.
It looks like...they modified her into one of them. You had no choice...you knew what to do if you wanna clear the stage.

For the entire battle, she shouted and cried for your name. Warning you to stay away from her, and save her at the same time. "Tommy help me please! Tommy, stay away from me!", you have no choice but to keep on pressing the fire button until the monster eventually falls.

Here comes the hard part, after defeating the brute and realizing that you had no way to save her. She begged you to end her life. Yes, close your eyes and point the crosshair towards her face and shuts the living daylight out of her for good. So miserably sad ...and romantic at the same time. Which is more sad? Having your girlfriend getting killed by someone? Or Having to pull the own trigger?You decide.

FINAL FANTASY 8
Ragnarok Scene.

This part is where every human emotions meet. Happy, sad, fear, funny....and not to mention love. Hehe.. actually is the most cheesiest part of the game.

The background music... the moment....the sensation..the conversation.
FF8 veterans will know this is one of the saddest yet happiest moment of all time.
Although the ending were a bit sad. We will bound to know that Squall is alive so it's not a big deal.

I pick this part because of it's "unknown future" factor. When we first played, this is the part where keeps me thinking. "What will happen next?","Will Rinoa really being held captive?","Will Squall save her? What will he do?Why can't I be Squall so I can hug her like that?WHY?" Okay... this has gone overboard.
After the scene, the damsel is in distress again, being held captive. After all that and it's back to square one.

Final Fantasy 7
Aeris Death Scene.

One of the most memorable moments of gaming history.
I would like someone to introduce me to anyone that doesn't feel sad about this scene. Poor Cloud.
After chasing her for thousands of miles, from another continent to another continent to be exact. The moment you thought she can rejoins the party and celebrates together.

Suddenly Sephiroth jumps out of nowhere and stabs through her. The end.
Noo...you kill my healer! That is the first reaction =_=.
Forget to mention when Cloud dropped her into the lake, my heart falls along with it. Of course it came back when slay Sephiroth with Cloud. Muahaha.
PS. Omnislash back then is way cooler.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots.
Naomi Hunter's death scene.

Scroll to the middle bar...

I bet most of you know what actually happened. I just cut it short.
Naomi has contracted cancer but with the help of her Nanomachines she was able to prolong her life. Now, as you can see she disables them. The reason? She needs rest. She has been through alot. Trust me and she is going to die anyway.

In this scene, Otacon(the one in the Machine) is the main victim here. Same like me, he fell into deep abyss of never-ending torment, which called love. LoL.

Okay, back to tear-jerking moment, the building starts falling apart, enemies are on their way. No time to even say goodbye to her. AND everything goes to slow-motion....slowly he is getting further and further carried by Raiden. The more further he gets, the more pain as it is in the heart. Look at the flashbacks. Those were his past girlfriends alright and every single one of them died. Including this one....Damn. Sucks to be him...*sniff*

Final Fantasy X
Yuna and Tidus Separation Scene.

At first it was okay, because it is expected that Tidus will be going anyway.
It starts to get a little bit sad when Yuna shook her head. Here comes the heart-cracking moment, Yuna rushes in for the final hug, with open arms...and it eventually went through him and trips to the ground.
She stood up and said it, those words...now that is a heart breaker...
Look at Tidus' face...i have no idea is he sad or relieve...=_=.

But I have to admit, he got guts leaving Yuna and the company.

All is good until Squarenix decide to develop FFX-2 argh &^*^*#$^ the love story....Damn you money-grubber. *Shouts and throw stones into the sea in an evening sunset beach.*

Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Death of Eli Vance.

It was so happy and I was expecting a happy ending. Suddenly an alien life form came crashing through the window. Capture Eli and sucks his brains out. Damn. Gruesome and sad scene.

What most disappointing here is you, yes, the almighty legendary, Gordon Freeman can't do anything but watch. So what, if you save the world, you can't even prevent this to happen. You really do feel for them,especially Alyx.

Then you will see, Alyx crying and sobbing over the death of her father. What worst, it really is the ending as visions faded to black and the credits start rolling.
Episode 3 is the answer my friend. Episode 3.

Well that is all, I hope you guys like it. Until now Game on and Happy Valentine.

I don't need a reason.

2009-02-12T05:24:00.000-08:00

I have to admit that I don't really do post anything about myself.
I mean, the readers don't even really know about me.
All they just know that I write about games reviews and make fun of stuff.
.........
Okay perhaps I should blog about myself a little.
Today's theme is "Reasons I don't blog about myself."
Ziwen's alter ego will do the questions. And I will answer it myself xD.

1. Are you against the idea of "Blogging about yourself."
No, I am not. Honestly, I think it's good you can express yourself in a post. But I prefer the good ol' fashion way. ^_^ I am from the 90's.

2. What makes it so hard about blogging yourself?
Well, first of all. I did nothing of anything particularly special. I don't bake cookies, I don't go clubbing, hell even if I did I won't be showing it to anyone and I won't have time to take pictures, I don't do anything special of the sorts. I find it hard to express myself through blogging.

3. Those were the reasons? I mean... it's a blog you know. Readers might be more interested in you more than your stuff that you are offering now.
I am not offering anything. What I am doing here is to show that I can review a game. And for the sake of improving my writing of course. If you this find this blog interesting well, I sincerely apologize for wasting your time.

4. If you should blog about daily activities. What are the activities you will NOT be blogging about?
Not be blogging about? Love of course. Because I do not want EVERYONE to know that I am sad. Be it a break up, an argument, or any social activities that brings negative energy. I prefer to keep it for myself.

5. You are trying to say you only blog about happy stuff and stuff that worth mentioning. So, what is most important to you right now?
I've fulfilled one of my missions. Now, I am on a grand scale. I did not plan to expose about it.

6. Could you predict when you will be posting stuff about yourself?
April 7th or April 6th of 2009. It will be my 21st Birthday. If it turns out well, of course I will.

7. Express yourself. Go on.
For the people that always blogs about "as if the world is against you" that type of post.
I advised you to stop doing it. I know you are weak but sometimes you need to pretend.
I know blogging is good and is a sort of way to express yourself but there will be consequences.
So, if you wanna blog, at least do it.... smartly.<---dedicated to some friend.

8. Any advice?
What the heck I just gave.... Don't drink and write.

Fictitious Reality.

2009-02-10T16:53:00.000-08:00

Forewarning this is a joke post.
Few days ago, when I was up in the mountains. An inspiration struck me like thunderbolts. Sending infinite resources of ideas. I don't even have the time to write it down because I was in the tour van and that tour guide is as noisy as hell and not to mention the passengers. Here it goes.

"I hope now, an alien mothership will hover above us and start sending it sentinels and blast the shit of us.", one of my friend says it before. I kinda agree but what are the let downs? In game you are limited by the game's system. While in real world, the possibility are infinite. Thus it leads to this post.
The idea here is, if the gaming world and this living world merged. Like this.

Zombie Apocalypse.
Resident Evil (yes)
Left 4 Dead (no)

Disadvantage.

Okay, now here is the deal. Unlike in any video games, your life were either indicated by numbers or pulses.
In the real world, human are fragile beings.
No numbers, No instant herb cure, medipack cure, health from the vending machine or any other items that increased the number.
And the worst, in real life.Friendly fire is enabled.
Hand a gun to a newbie without training = death of millions of own kind.
The worst of all, no save points.
If you ever stumble upon a type writer and you happened to have an ink ribbon be sure to type it in so the zombies can chew you from behind. Example for an RE in-game save game that is happening in the real world.

A type writer! Save your game? Yes. *types in*

YEONG ZI WEN (^_^v) <--picture.
Date Saved: 9.33 AM 31/2/09.
Living Hall- Mansi *(fadsfasdasdhpjbbcn^jhaksljdhaks <--- typo due to attack from zombies.
__________________________________

You Are Dead.

Good job. No save points in real life.

Other disadvantages: No infinite ammo, no difficulties settings, no options available.
Other worst disadvantages: Assholes of your own kind. ( shoot you from behind, human shield, take your food, rape zombies. opps).

Okay, how bout advantages.

Advantages

Physics if fully applied in the real world. You can move anything. Unlike in game, barrels and boxes were only serve as background.
Barricade, create walls. Well it's plus advantage.
. . . . . .
Sorry, that's the only advantage if you are like me. Unless you have a shotgun in the basement or a chainsaw. I don't think you have much option other than running if you live in Malaysia.

Best Advantage : Companion. A dog is too stereotyping, so as the basketball. How about a female? A hot one around my age I guess. xD.

Bestest Advantage: Having a hot girlfriend that is willing to sacrifice anything for you during the Apocalypse. Sounds familliar don't you think.

There is really no advantage. Be prepare to face extinction.

Alien Invasion

Be it an egg that produces facehuggers or a mothership that sends a platoon of pew pew flying saucers to invade our planet.

We can never rely on two things if this were bound to happen.
1. Our pitiful race.
2. Tom Cruise.

Chances of Aliens that travels millions of lightyears were afraid of bullets and bombs were more than getting killed by a sneeze. Imagine what the alien will report to it's leader.

Alien: Your Almighty, we have been defeated.
Almighty Alien : How? You said that our weapon technology surpasses the human's one for at least million of years. I demand an explaination.
Alien: I am prepared to be punish o' almighty. The R&D department has tested it. It looks like the humans are capable of spreading germs from their mouth and noses.
AA: What? That's preposterous. Well, let's retreat for now....For infinity and beyond.

*imagine what our fart could do.* xD JK.

Fantasies.
Look! Papa! My hand is on fire. This is what happen if you teach your kids magic at a very young age.

Well, you see. Fantasy is a term that made by humans. So, dragons and other mythical being will be included in this section. And the settings, most of it, it's medieval style. Well, other than Final Fantasy series of course.

Let's choose the Final Fantasy series settings. It's more than enough fantasy for that one.
Magics and Summons were common in the Final Fantasy world.

Put that in reality, you will see signs like this.

Uses of magic will be shot.

The sign: A mage being shot by someone.

$500000 fine for every magic use.

or maybe a statute regarding Magi act.

So, with all the restrictions. It has concluded that magic is not meant for daily practices. LoL.
It's better to be human.

With magic around I can see why, most of the fantasy were in medieval setting. There is a logic behind it.

If you can levitate, why do you need a car?
If you can create fire out your palm. Tell me what is the purpose of the torch light.
If you can end a war with magic will there be guns and tanks and world war 2 movies?

LoL. That is the logic.
See ya next time. Game on.

Trip to Cameron Highlands

2009-02-07T06:00:00.000-08:00

Before anyone asked, this was my XX days without my set of wheels.
I don't even remember since when I had waited for my car to return.
Yes, my bro's car is still in the repair shop. So, this is what happens if you whack your car in the middle of Chinese New Year.

I shall now describe the painful feeling of not having your own car to drive to Cameron Highlands.

I am forced to take the bus. When uphill, for people who will easily puke, I do not recommend the bus. You will get dizzy more easily compared to a car due to the high center of gravity. So, every turn the bus takes be sure to keep your eyes on the road or else there will always be plastics bags provided by the bus for you to vomit in. I have a good stomach and sense of balancing so I didn't puke.

After all the windings, sharp turning, plantation views, landslide markings and such. We've reached our destination. Once the bus stopped in front of the Tourism Guide of Tanah Rata, one of the tour agent stepped in and greeted us.

After settling our tours packages and stuffs. It's time to check in to the hotel. No pictures of the Hotel. In case, you're wondering it's called Hotel Kowloon, a name that brings a lot of misunderstandings.

So, remember kids.
Do not go up to Cameron Highlands if...

You don't have a car. Sucks to be me for the moment. Curses....

Tours and Guides were not necessary. It's even better without them. Taxi charges RM 25 per hour. Plus, you have the privacy. So, for me taxi is better although a bit pricy.

There were two highways to reach there, Tapah and the new highway. Always take the new highway. More straight roads and less dangerous.

If you have a weak stomach, go Genting. The journey from foothill to the top for Cameron is at least one and a half hour. While Genting is....thirty minutes I guess. Or maybe 45, around there I guess.

If you love smoking, go Genting instead. Every farms, gardens and plantations forbid smoking.

it was a fun trip, I shall return there when I have my car!...and money.

Okay that's all, time for pictures.

I'm Nukin' it. Juggles with Plutoniums

2009-01-20T01:32:00.000-08:00

DEFCON.
For serious gamers only, seriously.
This is one sweet game. I've heard it for a long time and I decided to try it at long last.
And, Hell yeah. It is one sweet game.
Thermonuclear War sounds cheeky but I had never known that this baby can really pack a punch.

Gameplay.

Remember WarGames? It's a movie back from the old days, which a smug kid accidentally hacked into the military's system, he thought was a computer game and ended up starting World War 3. Everything were the same, designed, concepts, gameplay compared to the movie. Except for the game title, DEFCON.

It was a simple RTS made for only one sole purpose. To nuke the living shit out of everything. Asia, America, Russia, Soviet Union, Africa, and South America were involved in this World War III turmoil.
Well, you can select your choice of continent, each continent has their own weaknesses and advantages.
The world map is your playground. The game was like a radar itself. It made me feel like a General sitting in the Mission Control Room, controlling my fleets and armada, sending them into their doom and nukin' the living daylights out of my enemies. *Evil Laugh*

In fact, you don't just feel like one. You are one. I mean, really all you get to see in the game were all simply-well-designed- detailed Legend...in 2D.
Okay, belittle this game and I will bring you down to my knees. Let me nuke ya, with the following screenshots. *kaboom* follows by *Glowing and radiates effect.*(in this case)

How is it General? All you have to do is click the mouse and watch. Not to mention, it allows you to accelerate the time but still it always better to play in real time. You will need alot of concentration and time to take down the A.I. The shining small light indicates the lost of millions. Nah. It's just an explosion from the Nuke.

Around the far left of the map, near Tokyo, Japan, noticed that the submarines were nukin' the enemy from afar. Bwahahaha. Die! You Green Team! *The General has piratically gone insane*.

You don't really start to use your warheads immediately. You have to wait it out. Notice the bar that wrote DEFCON on the upper side of the screen? Those were timers, counting down from 5 to 1. Once it reaches 1, you will have these numbers popping out from the screen if the nuke manage to hit one of the major cities. Glorious indeed!

Level 5 and 4 were for the players to placed their silos and fleets strategically. You wouldn't want everybody to know where you put your silos, right?
For now, all of you could not blow things up even though they were right in front of your face. Not until DEFCON 3. :)

Once it reaches 3 and 2, fleets were allowed to bombard each other. Hush! No nukes until DEFCON 1, General.
So, intelligence is the key to victory. Most of the time you will be scouting/recon the enemy's territory searching for intel.

This is the moment that we all been waiting for, DEFCON 1. Nukes pours from the heaven like rain and white lights shines brighter than the Polaris star, the numbers of dead populations arouses all of us. Yes, this is the moment! Launch your nukes like there is no tomorrow, no fear, it's just game. It won't happen like it does in the movie. :P
While bombing away, eerie cries and cough could be heard from the background music. Creating an intense and a little bit of chill for the gameplay.

Either by land or sea, nuke will always be the same.
For air-superiority, you could always fly a bomber to the enemy base and launch the nuke. Not to worry as they can fly almost half of the map before they ran out of fuel. Not to mention that, each jet bomber carries 5 nukes. Wohooo 5 x 5 = 25 nukes. 1 Nuke = Millions deaths. Muahahaha.

If you prefer more stealth and cunning methods, dispatch submarines to the enemy territory as they were invisible to the enemy's radars. As you emerge, quickly bombard the enemies' cities with your 5 stored nukes on each subs.
Nukes will be falling from every corner of the map. From the silos, subs, bombers, and carriers.
Nuclear silos has two purpose in this game.
First, in pre-launching mode. Silos were made to intercepts the warhead before it hits the target. Second, in launching mode. It stored sweet 10 nuke warheads ready to be launch, after DEFCON 1. Switching from modes, will take a few seconds of course. It is realistic. Which it makes the game good.
Launching the Nukes alert the whole world and give away your position. So, be wise to know when to use it.
Other than that, massacres the city population to win the game. That's the only mission.

Sadly enough, the game only supports up to three players including A.I. despite it's simplicity.
Nevertheless, it still has the multiplayer option. So, joined up with your friend and bombards each other arses. FTW. May the Plutonium be with you.

Be sure to click the image for a clearer picture. More explosions!

Conclusion

Graphics, were pure simple. Still the game sucked you in like a giant whirlpool. You won't even noticed you had played the game for hours. It sucks you in......
Audio, were very simple but it is still good. Explosions from the warhead, the units, the DEFCON warning were all classics.

The game is not boring, it is not for stupid people, it is made for pure RTS players. People who enjoys simplicity and yet find beauty in them.
It is balance. Every unit could be countered, subs could be deteced by Carriers when they were switched to Anti-Sub modes, Bombers could be taken down by Jet Fighters, Silos warhead could be taken down by subs nuke if you were fast enough. The game is well balanced. It's just that the A.I was a bit overpowered. LoL.

I blasted with DEFCON and the General gave me and the game a 4 Stars badge!.
4 out of 5 baby.

*all the fun only worth 50 MB.. YES MB and it can play in any computer. Pentium 2 i guess. LOL

Let's Surf The Audio.

2009-01-18T10:43:00.000-08:00

Audiosurf. The name portrays the game itself.
For the people who loves music, this is the game for you.
Hell, this is an award winning game. Simple and beautiful. Nuff said.

Gameplay.
The game is simple. Imagine this. Every MP3 songs that you owned will be made into tracks/circuit.
Okay, once you have chosen the song, be prepared for the ride of your life.
You will be controlling a jet, viewing from a 3rd person mode. As you fly and cruises along the track there will be color blocks for you to collect.

Okay, screenshot worths a thousand words.

As, you can see they are four lanes for you to maneuver with using your mouse and keypads.
Notice those blank boxes over there? There is where all your collected blocks will be. Your mission is to fill as much color blocks of the same color into the blank boxes. The more you fill, the more points you will gained. It is the one and only combo you have to pull in this game. And I can assure you it's not easy.

The more sharper the color, the higher the points.
What makes Audiosurf a great game, is not the points and the sensation of collecting blocks.
It's the process and "the way you collect them."
After a certain level, which is almost immediately. You can select more vehicles.
Yeah, you guessed it. Higher difficulties allows you to have more ways of gaining points. You can jump to avoid blocks, pushed away certain blocks. and even play with two jets! Hell yeah!
The blocks represents the beat of the music, the more intense the beat is. The more sharper the colors is.

Conclusion.
It's a good game, just get it. Gameplay, controls, concepts, graphics and audio. Really has never been this good.

Click here for more game info. Embrace the game. Until next time. Game on.

The Gaming Zodiacs.

2009-01-12T21:42:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I am back to blogging.
Being preoccupied by CSS and friends. Fuck, I can't handle them all.

Anyways, I created a new form of Zodiacs. In this case, Gaming Zodiacs. That I copied from the Zodiacs/Horoscopes.
Sure all of you had heard about the 12 animals of the Calender. Click here.

Well, these are my list. Not as complex as the Zodiac though, it does not have any story or placing. Perhaps I will come up with them later. For the better maybe I will come up with symbols and drawings. Muahahaha. Lazy to figure out the proper date and story for each horoscopes. Decide it yourself! Which one are you.

Zombie. - Any types of Infecteds or zombies.
Soldier. - Snake, Master Chief, Duke Nukem.
Geek. Gordon Freeman, can't think of any nerds for now.
King. -Arthas, Emperor.
Demon.- Diablo.
Alien. - Xenomorph?
Wizard.- Abracadabra?
Ghost. - Wraith?
Damsel. - Help save me! I am trap.
Demigod. - Kratos, Hercules?
Orc. - For the Horde!
Elf. - Magic...Magic.....

Not very creative, I know. Especially the last two. Perhaps all of you have a better idea for the last two. Oh chowz. Shortest update ever.

Project "Post of the Century" initiated. FIrst Objective

2009-01-05T03:41:00.000-08:00

I fear that if I bring it up, my friends will have the laugh of their lives.
It's an idea, a concept to be exact.
Today, during a tea session with my friends down TBR.

Ah Guan is right about 1 thing, yes I read too much Bakuman. Perhaps it has influence me in a way that I even didn't notice. Heh, me and my crazy dreams.

This post is an Introduction to the concept. It is a magazine to be exact, I hope that it will be printed soon enough. But Rachel said, it's better to do it online first. True. We just wanna see will it be a hit to the market.

First Objective.

Team Members expansion.
Recruit more feature writers. Love is the keyword here. People who obviously love writing is the primary target here. I am talking about love, Love = Sacrifice. People who obviously has great view towards anything, from gadgets to music. It doesn't matter if it is bias or unbias, you just have to write in a rationale way.

The Concept.

The concept in an early stage. (blog first)
It is an Entertainment magazine that focuses on student lifestyle. Musics, Games, Place to hangout, things to do, part-time jobs, food, clothes, maybe some studies, everything that involves a student's life.
As expected, this concept will be either a hit or a sink.

Blog first, advised Rachel. Okay, we will be compiling everyone's work and transform it into a massive form of information.
Before that, a website must be made to insert the Contents.

We will do it step by step. So, I will be learning using HTML first. Should be using blogspot.com
So for now, this is a team. Either all of us will prevail or all of us will be damned.
No one is leading, it's liberal. No one is the captain, all of us are Cabin boys/girls.

First thing first, finish the website first we only get into business.

Yours Sincerely

Ziwen.

2009's Expectations.

2009-01-03T23:24:00.000-08:00

Not mine, it would be boring if I keep talking about resolutions, past objectives and yada yada.
Let's look forward.
I will be talking about upcoming games, hardware, software, for this year. Expect the best and pray it doesn't disappoint you.

1. Windows 7
Remember how Windows XP dominates when it was released?
Conclusion, this is an enhanced version for the Windows Vista, which sucked hard, and Windows XP, which pawns.
They claimed that, the Windows 7 has already beaten XP and Vista during the Beta Test. Reliable or Unreliable, you decide dear readers.

2. PC hardware (K.L residents only)
I expect this every year. In fact, every 6 months.
RAM, Motherboard, CPU,VGA etc. They will be so cheap that RM3000(USD 900) can at least get you a Mid range graphic card + Core i7 which cost around mostly Rm 2000++ including the X58 motherboard. It's 2009, every 4-5 months hardware's price drops drastically in Malaysia.
So, high end gamers in Malaysia that are reading this. Please be patient until the first or second PC fair is OVER. I do not recommend buying hardware on PC fair. FYI, 2 GB DDR2 kingston = RM 60-65 bucks.

3. Epic games.
AFTER waiting brutally for 10 long years. AT LAST, Starcraft 2 is out. Not until the end of the year though. But it is still 2009. Resident Evil 5 for the PS3. ;) ;) ;)
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
People have to get their facts right, it is not COD 6. So please learn how to spell or read the name correctly. Well, not much update for this game. Let's wait until Q2 of 2009.
Halo 3: Recon
Although I am not a fan of Halo, for the sake of my future. I have to play this game and write a review on it. You don't always have the chance to write the game you want.
Let us not forget God Of War 3.
Kratos bring his angers to heaven, to ttrample over the Gods Of Olympus. Wielding his fiery chained falchion and menacing moves of fatality. I hope to see more blood, more limbs, and splattered heads.
I doubt Diablo 3 will be release this year, 2 more classes to go. Let's hope that the Paladin and the Druid will be there. But I doubt it. Please no Gnomes or Dwarves :(

4. GR, Game Revolutionist.
Is a mini/student magazine will be publish by me and some friends.
Muahahaha.
Just kidding, planning to....but....thought of it. But most people will think I am crazy instead LoL.

Well that's all for the update. Gotta start editting my M.O.M.E.N.T.S post. Quite busy these days alot of outing going on.

M.O.M.E.N.T.S

2008-12-30T09:28:00.000-08:00

Games scenes that shrinks your manhood and fill the excitement bar were the best moment in gaming. In this post, I will be discussing scenes that makes you worth remembering with just words. Or if you want it in a more "Game addict" way of explanations it goes like this, "WTF! <> game moments.
And the scenes are.

Metal Gear Solid.
The first old Metal Gear Solid, nothing is more thrilling when you learn that your own master, that helps you through out the whole mission is your nemesis. Good job, Colonel. Next time, if you asked for help make sure he is not in disguise. Bah! I really didn't saw that coming.
Recalling Snake's mentor, Master Miller removes sunglasses and disheveled his hair and turns out to be Liquid. F.U.C. *Parental Advisory* K.

Resident Evil.
Jill opens the door slowly. She held trigger tightly, pointing around, observing her surroundings. Her hands are sweaty, she places her trusty revolver back to her hip. She hears a sound coming out of the window. She quickly draws her revolver, slowly, step by step walking to the window and then.......
*Crash*
Ok. Pause here. Remember this scene? The insane dog infected with rabies that came crashing through the windows? Come on who doesn't push the start button at the moment, for crying out loud. Don't need to be shy, I was scared too. No matter how many times I reloaded back to the scene it always scares me. Even more than Nemesis first time appearance. WTF.

Doom 3.
I remember dying so many times due to falling down to the endless abyss of Mars space station. I remember butting up aliens to death with my flashlight. The game is dark, eventually. And creeping with demons, all around you. Oh yeah, nothing frighthens me even more when I suddenly see a red flash and turns around only to see an four-eyes imp clawing and spitting off fireballs on me. What else? Pew,pew,pew,pew , Ratatatatata. all the way. Kaboom. Panting and breathing heavily, even worse than after having sex. This game is never good for the heart.

Famous scene? The bloody red angry footprints that appears to you accompanied with whispering voices of children guiding you. The screen blurs and gradually turns red while hearing...."they took my baby" *crying baby can be heard on the background* or flying skulls running around howling in horrid noises sure scares me.

Fatal Frame 1 2 3.
Okay, anyone who finished playing without shouting, screaming, making weird noises or without hearing insignificant voices, please raise up your hands. No? You are clear to read this section.
Come on, you've gotta be frighten. White eyes, impossible turning angles of the neck, long tongue, grayish-see-through figure, long black hair, weird solemn crying noises and not to mention laughing noises.
Brrr*shivers*... Damn, the meta-physical being. Damn it. What I remember is a tight place, dark, dusty, no ghost until something out of the corner pops out and her eyeballs looking at me, filling a quarter of the TV screen. Imagine this, having a ghost face appearing in a 29 inch television was never a good sight. Well, I paused and take a breather. That got me. It got me good. Damn the Meta-physical being!!

Diablo 2.
Our brave hero activates the final seal. He readies his sword, preparing for the most gruesome battle he will face.
The hellish grounds and plains shook violently, indicating the arrival of terror, in fact the Lord of Terror, Diablo. Then, everything went into silence. Our hero tighten his grip and gazed towards the empty dark space. A large howl suddenly came from the darkness, our hero raises his shield.
And there it is. Diablo, Lord of Terror.

I have fought him countless times, the fight is still freshly burning in my mind. Bone caging the town portal is a very slick move indeed. But it still confuses me up until now, why it did not Bone Cage us instead?

Half-Life 2.
Other than being chased by a helicopter, walking through a town full of crabheads zombies, being rocketed by a large airship and many more. Nothing beats the moment when I got the enhanced version of the Gravity Gun.

Now I know what is feel to be god, sucking and sending people flying to Neverland has never been this fun. So what if you send over 30 Combines to kill me, I will wipe them out in nearly 2 seconds.

Running out of juice. xD
Well I will continue later, will continue later.

Alpha Stage Starcraft 2 Battle Report.

2008-12-28T10:31:00.000-08:00

Screenshots with captions post. Not much elaboration needed. A Screenshot says a thousand words.

The Developer Team places rocks in this new expansion area. Destroy them to gain new access to the new mining area. But not all expansions were barricaded with rocks.

These are Xel'Naga towers, move a unit nearby it to uncovered a large area of the map around the tower.

High Yield minerals is a new type of minerals that can be gather in Starcraft 2. Of course, it has greater amount resources compared to a normal mineral.

Malaysia Jollywood Strikes Back.

2008-12-25T17:02:00.000-08:00

I will be very frank on this. First, this post is not about game review. Second,I am not in a good mood.

As I know, generally my readers are Malaysians.
Ok, let's not get so far. Let's discuss it on an microscopic view. There are two major things that I hate in Malaysia. First, the Government, which they always deal things in a weird manner, be relieve, this is not the topic I gonna touch on today. Second, our local products, which is what I gonna do in this post.

Besides food, everything in Malaysia is sick. Being the most advanced "developing" country in the South East Asia.(For me Singapore is a developed country)
We have our own local films. Which I do not pay attention much throughout my life. My entire life. The reason is local movie suck hard and I am serious.
Until today, I decided to read the newspaper(yesterday paper) and happen to stumble upon this.

I apologise for the profanity.

What the fuck? Holy-fuck?
So this is how you guys settle things. Just because your movie suck so bad, you want to raise the movie tickets on hollywood movies.
What kind of shitty proposal is that? and the Local directors agree on it? What the fuck? Are they out of their mind, don't tell me among all of the producers who made this proposal never thought of, "Hey, I think this is a shitty proposal." or maybe, "This is stupid, why are we torturing the consumers because our movie sucked?"
OR,
"If our movie's good, they will watch it for sure."
But NooOoo... You have to go and sent the proposal to torture the shit out of us.
Fuck, your movies were so bad that even if I torrent it, nothing could be found. Zero searches FTW. Even I do found it, who will be the seed? anyone?what dead torrent?

"Director Afdlin Shauki said the number of Hollywood movies in local cinemas should be limited."

Yes! Good idea! What genius mind! No wonder your movies were so good. This is an example of an idiot. I do not want to discuss what type of consequences will it lead to, but it is definitely not good for me and for you and for the idiot who just said this.

"He said China only allowed 20 Hollywood movies to be shown annually."

So now you wanted to be Chinese, after giving the Malaysian Chinese a hard time. AND you tell me you wanna be like China. You were now certified, of being the biggest douchebag in the universe. Human stupidity is really infinite.

"Afdlin, however, cautioned that the ticket price hike could backfire. "

Wow. Such wisdom.....

"At the current ticket price, you can watch two movies, one Hollywood and one local. But if you increase the price to RM20, movie-goers might just skip local movies altogether."

That's it. And I just wanted to give him a bloody compliment. I have no idea what is he trying to say in the statement.

So, are you trying to say current ticket price which is RM 11(depending on places) can let you watch two movies? Who the hell told you that? Ok, asssume I am wrong.

Maybe is this.

Are you trying to say the price after the hike, can let you watch two movies? What the hell? I don't get it. *&!@#^!@^#

Were the local movies cheaper than hollywood movies all along? I had decided that I shall have my friends to enlighten me. Shucks. My friends don't watch local movie. Diu nia ma. (Motherfucker) I really need someone to explain this statement for me. Headache.

*Gets the answer and snaps fingers*

Ok, I got it. It means one ticket of Mission:Impossible IV costs around a price of the current, one LOTR and one movie. Diu(fuck), I gonna go get a bunch of friends, gather up some money and buy an original DVD. Copy & Paste FTW on each computer.

You wanna do a good movie?I'll give ya a piece of my mind. Don't. It's not that I do not support, it just that.... come on be true to yourself. Do you guys seriously thinks that local movies were good? Come on, during Malay Festive Season, turn on the TV.
I have ASTRO for a reason okay.

It is a good step but it should not stop there," said award-winning director Datuk Paduka Shuhaimi Baba.

She said another way to help the industry was for local producers to have a bigger cut of the box-office collection.

"Currently, producers and cinema operators are sharing the ticket sales equally. Producers should get a higher cut."
She said cinema operators could also share the promotional costs of local movies

Do the producers really should get a higher cut? I don't know man. If the producers produce a film which sells like hot cake, won't they be getting hot-cakes for breakfast too? Prove it that you deserve it.

"Shuhaimi said many countries were imposing regulations to protect their movie industry. "

Alright go ahead and raise the price, and we shall see how Golden Screen Cinemas and Tanjong Golden Village (Current leading Conema Operators) dissapear from the face of the Earth. Seriously, with the numbers of the local film's viewer plus your movies' prices, plus the increase price of movies. I can see where it is leading too.

"We welcome any proposal or effort to improve and develop the industry. But we have to look at each proposal and its overall effect on the industry."

AT LAST SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS THE SAME LANGUAGE AS ME!

Credits to Nicholas on using your law/theory that you wrote on Ben's log.

Hollywood > You.

Yes, until next time. Game on. In this case. Watch On. Yes I feel better now.

New Year's Resolution. 2009.

2008-12-25T08:55:00.001-08:00

2009 coming soon. I did not achieve much. Other than getting a Diploma this year(2008) which is consider if compared to the "normal" ones. Heck, slowly work towards my goal one step at a time, it's better not to rush things. Especially these kind of things.

Ok, post title explains it all.

Reso 1.
Acquire new knowledge. If you are my friend, you know that I am greedy. If you are even closer to me, you know that I am always hunger for knowledge, (only works in the fields which I am interested) eager to discover/explore/venture new things. *especially gadgets, electronic gadgets to be precise*.
Be it from a size of an iPod Nano to a EOS Canon 1D Mk II. So, that's why I've always bombarded Ben with questions regarding about his second wife. ( his 300 D) Correct me if I am wrong. You have way too many mistresses, girlfriends, and wives. Apologies, if I am wrong. *Note that these are all techno gadgets, Ben is a good man. He only needs one human wife.*xD.

Main point, so what if I have a good gaming knowledge. Now, in this era, everything comes within a package. Focusing, devoting in one specific areas/fields of interest will never really get me anywhere. There will be a time, my future editor will step up to me and say, "Hey, I want you to write about iPod Classic for this month issue.
"I want myself to reply "OK, Chief!" or "One Ipod Classic comin' rite up" instead of replying "Bollocks." or lock myself up in the staff toilet and hug the toilet bowl, while desperately calling another friend for help, "Hello! Rachel! I need your help, my editor gone haywire, he wants me to write an article on iPod Classic." WTF.

Sum it all up, I will be writing more reviews on cars, iPods, cameras, computer hardware. Yes, this is what you call a hybrid, jack-of-all-trades, all-rounder or in the Malaysian way, Rojak.FTW. I will be more focusing on games though. 80% on game reviews, 20% on others.

Reso 2.
Learning a new language.
Japanese is good, but it is just for the sake of learning. Chinese should be my primary objective. I have been through 3 different translation agency and got kicked out. The reason? Chinese illiterate. Look at the bright side, by learning Chinese, I got 3 language up my sleeves now, and the truly Ace of Spades. The bad, Chinese language is one of the most hardest language to learn. Memorizing the symbols one by one, not to mention the proper strokes and fluency practice. Now, I feel like switching to Japanese. At least I have the passion...chinese...sigh...
Conclusion, having an additional language up my sleeve is more than perfect.

Reso 3.
Develop and improve a new writing style to impress readers.
Other than humour and simplicity, which I have always prefer. I really should try adding in other elements. Sarcasm,emo-ness, illogic, innuendo, etc. Yes, there is only one way to do so. Read, write, being commented, read, write, read, watch tv, being commented. Other than that, I have really no idea how. Any suggestion? Feel free to comment my work. I need it to improve.

Reso 4.
Relationship.
I have a girlfriend of 2 years. I need her verbal support more than anything, if I lose her it will took me a long time to recover. Very long time. She is important to me no matter what but still nothing comes between me and my dreams. I told ya, I am greedy. So, better or worse, I hope she will always be with me no matter what I am thinking.

Reso 5.
I gonna turn 21 next year. I just want
- Buffet. Eat all I can.
- with friends that I know to be there. If cannot make it, nevermind, If don't remember, nevermind.

Reso 6.
At least give me a chance to get one of my game reviews publish. *sparkling eyes with tears rolling down through the cheeks*

Hall Of Heroes

2008-12-22T19:49:00.000-08:00

Prominent protagonist that walks down the red carpet, always keeping us entertain and saving the world be it coincidentally or intentionally. These post was devoted to the most prominent/well-known characters that attracted our attention and becoming an Icon in the gaming world.

Protagonists step out to the stage.

Mushroom P0wa!!

Mario. (Super Mario (insert series here) )
Over popularize, but heck who doesn't know about this nasty red-hat midget that kicks every mushroom's and turtle's butt. Jumping, flying, getting big, and eventually turning into a paper plane. Mario, out of the question is one of the most prominent gaming icon that lives until today.
Nintendo has come a long way. But it is time to change, Mario games has thousands of expansion/installments/sequels/continuation as far as I can remember...

Be it 2D or CG, my looks and hair still rock the world.

Cloud Strife. ( Final Fantasy 7)
Hair that defies gravity, wielding a superbly oversize broadsword like a twig is his signature. He is one of the most famous character in the Final Fantasy world. He indeed, deserves the mark of a hero. Cloud have been through alot of hard time as a hero, learning yourself is a clone of someone insane and having your memories fake could easily break anyone. But not him. Living up to his name(Strife), he lives through all kind of hellish moment. No, Tidus would not be a main cause he doesn't exit anymore.

and he said, "Contacts are for the weak."

Gordon Freeman. ( Half-Life Series.)
The Scientist-commando that save the world from alien invasion and an alien nation at the same time. Has always been a silent protagonist, a man with few words. The only thing I want to see in the game is to see him talking. Let me tell you a secret, IMO, he is the most coolest geek around the planet.

".................", smiles and hurls the sword to the spotlight.

Link. (Zelda series)
Let's not all of us forget this Chibi(little guy). Apart from saving the world with his sword and shield. Same as Gordon, he is also a silent protagonist but rich in facial expression. At least, unlike Gordon you'll get to see his face. It's been too long I can remember when Zelda first came, SNES (Super Nitendo) i think Please correct me If i am wrong.

Why do I fight?Why do I keep fighting? Why? To seek for an answer... this is why I keep fighting.

Ryu. (StreetFighter)
Hadou-ken! Shoryu-ken! Who doesn't know a man with a white "Gi" roaming through the world of StreetFighter. He has always been portrayed as the strongest character in StreetFigther. A pure martial artist that lives for nothing other than achieving his goal. No, I will never Guile is the protagonist of SF series!!! and for the fans ...Broom head doesn't deserve a mark of a hero.
Never!!!

Why don't you try having an insane brother that planned to take over the world. and having your ass chased by a walking WMD robot all around the world.

Solid Snake. (Metal Gear Solid Series)
The clone of a powerful soldier (check), saving the world....Twice (double check), do not possess any superpowers(check). Come on, who doesn't heard of the name, Snake. Master of Stealth, Master of CQC(close quarters combat) and not to mention the funny moment.

Argh! You are stealing my shots! (camera)

Marcus Fenix.(Gears Of War series)
Seriously, I want to know how his hair looks like. Other than that, he makes an aspiring leader, showing no signs of fear, hesitant, or mercy when going on a war against an alien race. He is your typical everyday hero that bleeds for himself and helping his teammates along the way. Another additional info? His Bender from Futurama FTW!!!

Oh my god, now I just noticed that I've been wearing the same top and hot pants for the whole series while I am tomb-raiding.

Lara Croft (Tomb Raider Series)
I almost miss this one. Yes, the chick that raids a dungeon/tombs/caves while dual wielding the handguns. Dealing with monsters at least twice her size most of the time she can still pack a punch. I don't believe there is anyone in the world that can back flip, side flip, or any directional flip while firing a deagle. Not to mention , she is an anti-thesis of the stereotypical reverse-proportion theory. (bigger breast = more stupid)

Today? I am wearing Nike all the time. LoL. I have a life time supply of shoes. I run alot you know.

Sonic The Hedgehog (Sonic Series).
Blue, kick ass, slice almost everything into half, running in a speed of sound, and having one hell good of an attitude, what can you ask for more on a hero. You have to admit Sonic looks cool when he is in speedy mode. Dodging obstacles, dashing into the heart of danger itself. Speed is the Factor!

Can the Resident Evil movie start focusing on me instead of Alice?

Jill Valentine.(RE series)
Dead or not dead? That is the question. Anyhow, running around with a Nemesis spooking out of an unexpected game scene is not something everyone can handle. And not to mention, the combination of a blue tube plus zombieapocalypse-settings is the perfect harmony.

Yes. These are all the famous hero I've known. Be it famous/infamous or not famous xD, heroes were always determined by players and will always live through inside our heart by the example they set during their journey.
Oh yeah and Merry X'mas !!!

Question to Oneself.

2008-12-22T08:55:00.001-08:00

The questions that I asked myself, mostly about the "gaming trends" in Malaysia. I know that some foreigner readers would like to ask.

How's Malaysia gaming trend?
What is the most popular game in Malaysia?
Are games updated in Malaysia?
Where and What is Malaysia? (joking and for the one who never knew, it's ok .. WIKIPEDIA baby XD.)
Does Malaysia made their own game? ( this is the type of question that makes you place a palm on your own face.)

I will answer every question that I can imagine to satisfy your curiosity and to spread the gaming culture of Malaysians. Note that some facts will hurt. But you must know I have no intention of hurting anyone nor flaming any Malaysians in this post.
I am just stating the facts. And I do not represent any Malaysians =_=. It's just me..and me..
If I somehow offended you, I apologize or If you still find I am offensive. Here is a quote best-suited for you.

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple" - Oscar Wilde.

Okay back to reality.

Question 1. What is the most popular game in Malaysia?
When you first enter ANY CyberCafes in Kuala Lumpur, our capital city. And as soon as you set your eyes upon any PC, the game will be DoTA.

Believe it or not, at least 8 out 10 Malaysians played DoTA.

Question 2. When did DoTA became super famous in Malaysia?
Seriously, I have no idea. I would say when the 5.84c era, when I was form 3 or form 4 (2003 or 2004). These were the times that my friends spend thousands of hours in CC if I am right.

Question 3. Do I think it is a good game?Do I play?
Yes, DoTA is a good game. But not my type, I am not a micro person ( being able to control single hero movement and flanking heroes). I am a strategist that deploys tactics and maneuvers with huge amount of units rushing through the map. (Macro person ;D )

But...I am sadly to say that Malaysian players, most of them but not all of them. Has a very low-valued ethic which ruins the sensation of the game. Cursing, banging mouses, keyboards, shouting when one's losing, shouting when one's winning. Sometimes the game went so bad, fighting occured. Mostly on teenagers 15-18, young adults doesn't care much.

And most of the players, really have no idea what is DOTA's genre.
You can say it's strategy but it's not cause it involves a role. You can say it's role-playing but it involves too much strategy. So.....anyways is a good game xD lol.

Question 4. Second most popular game?
MMORPG Rules Malaysia besides from DoTA. Yes. It is true... sad but true. Believe it or not, epic titles like RO, Maplestory, and those XXonline, YYonline, ZZonline. First thinking that comes to mind, Malaysian must be rich. Trust me, they are not. Malaysia dominating online games are mostly F2P. F2P involves buying an virtual item in the game with pure cash. So, no monthly subscription fee.

I had to admit there was a time I played these F2p servers but... I stopped. I found out it was retarded and pointless, console and PC games were more better.
And you will seriously puke electricity out of your mouth if you saw one of the online games available in Malaysia. And not to mention our beloved one and only over-all-time most STABLE ISP (Internet Service Provider), Streamyx that has been giving us "GOOD" connection and "EPIC" services throughout the first day of Broadband era. Streamyx....Strip My Nuts!

MMORPG is a nightmare in Malaysia. I even had troubling remembering their names. There really just too many, the concepts, the skills, the grinding, the quest, oh my god.... it kills the originality. So far, RO and WoW is enough.

Are Malaysian aware of upcoming games?
Lowyat, Lau--yi-at ( the malaysia Electric City XD, which what I called) is 24/7 updated on games upcoming release game. So yes, majority Malaysians do know the upcoming games but they still rather DoTA/MMORPG. Even if they migrated to US, they will still DoTA...
You have to understand, DoTA is like Badminton in Malaysia. Where we only pump one type of game and neglect the other.

Question 5. Are there any potentially good games that will overthrow the DoTA's dominancy in Malaysia?

Yes, there is. Call of Duty World At War, Left 4 Dead, COD 4 Modern Warfare. Epic Console game series like God of War, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid online, Fifa online. They are lot seriously, it's just that Malaysian don't quite fancy versatility. If you are good in DotA or CS, concentrates on it, that is the Malaysian way. Which I found rather hard to accept.

Eventually I pity them because they don't know what game they are missing out there. Frog in the well. In this case, gamers in the grotto. That is why Malaysian gamers hardly improved. But, CS was once so hot right? It was overthrow by DoTA. I wonder what game will overthrow DoTA

Question 6. Gaming in your point of view is?
Gaming is the most enjoyable moment, it shares experience, culture(especially language wise and behaviour.), and technology.
Gaming is science. Gaming have nature's principles apply to it, the way how one human behave, their feelings, their experience, their movement when they are playing a game. And then, technology was applied to the games, physcis, laws, and numbers were added to the element. So, in other words, it's science.

Question 7.How is the Media's Gaming Industry in Malaysia?
To be frank, not doing very well. Take a look at the PC GAMER Malaysia Edition. The contents were direct copy paste of the UK version, which already loses on orginality. Reviewers and writers(Malaysian) in the magazine wrote game reviews about online games and mobile games. Oh come on... I know sponsors were giving you a hard time, but stop writing mobile games, online games that no one bothers to play. *Reads at PC Gamer...mobile game reviews* oh my god....

Huh, it's 3 AM.. one helluva post. If you had any more further question you can leave a comment. For this time. Game On.

4 and a Thousands of Millions. A Left 4 Dead review.

2008-12-16T05:53:00.000-08:00

There are only two things to do in this game, pull the trigger and kill the zombies.
Don't misunderstood, you, the survivor was never the main attraction of the game.
The raging-mutated-angry-zombies that punches and slapping around you to death are the main ingredients in this game.
Okay off to Gameplay.

Gameplay. What you and your 3 friends facing here is a super hardcore-genetically-enhanced infected humans that will try to devour your brains wherever you run. These are not zombies, never a zombie. They jump, they charged towards like a bull when they spot you. Worst of all, they come in terrifyingly large numbers. Before you could even see them, you would hear thousands of wailing, groaning, crying voices thundered beyond the horizons.

The Singleplayer mode only offers 5 stages on each map. There is the apartment, sewers, airport and the woods stages. Each map has different atmosphere and you have only one mission, stay alive and get the hell out of there in one piece.( in this case, four pieces) lose a piece, it's game over . Teamwork for the win!Solo for the defeat.

This game was never an action game, it's a complete survival horror that forces you to switched on the flashlight 24/7. It's dark, eerie and blood was spilled in any corner you could find. Not to mention that, ammo and grenades were sacred, thank god your pistol has unlimited rounds but 15 bullets will never get you anywhere. This game only allows you to carry a main gun, a secondary gun, which can be dual-wield, an explosive, a medpack, and a painkillers that eases your pain. Checkpoints are safehouse, where you can restock your ammunition, take a break from those mindless infecteds and bandage yourself.

Punch of the Infected!!! Infecto-Shoryuken!!

For the people who said, this game was scripted simply. You could now take back your words, zombies will never spawn in the same place, your gameplay were determined by the one almighty A.I called the Director.

Living up to it's name, the A.I could make your game rather miserable depending on the situation. If you are having a smooth gameplay, the Director could anytime launched an ambush full of Infecteds from every corner to waste your ammo. Resulting, on a very unpredictable horrifying mood and pattern for the game. So, if you died from an ambush, going back to the same spot where you died will result on a different situation, as I said you were never the main attraction.

Valve decided to add in a few spices to the game by giving us some "unique" Infecteds to shoot at and making us shit on our pants even more. These "special" infecteds were horrifically annoying, especially the fa-gly(fat and ugly) Boomer that could puked green goo all over your face that took away your visions alas turning your monitor green for a moment. Then, turned you into a bait that attracts hordes of Infected that tries to rape you.

Ew! Puke, I wonder what this guy ate. Obviously ain't it's us?

Other than the fa-gly bastard, I had experience the horror of an Infected that uses it freakishly long tongue to kill me. It was horrible, it was pulling me away from my team and it was slowly pulling me to it's mouth. Not to mention, my hit points were dropping due to suffocation. Worst of all, I can't even move. I thought it was the end... until one of the A.I save my sorry yet useless ass.
After it died, it releases smoke that affects your vision and surroundings. Cough! Cough! Smoke!
That why it's called the Smoker.

Omg!! Tentacle Rape...Kya!!!

If you ever hear crushing and roaring sounds, be prepare for the worst fight ever. The Tank, appeals to it's name is one juggernaut that rushes towards you and smashes the living daylights out of you. The next thing you see after it lands a blow, your feet is not on the ground. Remember kids, the Tank sends everyone to a trip to Neverland with only just one swing, and it's a one way ticket. The only way to exterminate it you asked?
...... *cocks shotgun*.

What is the worst monster you had ever encounter in any FPS survival horror? There is one in this game, I can give ya' that. Stalking, leaping in the dark, this infected is a hunter, in fact it is called called Hunter =_-.

Leap of Fate, gracing through the air while his fate awaits.

This stalking ferocious being jumps on it's prey and will never stop clawing until it's dead, unless someone puts a bullet through it's head. The Hunter was indeed one of the terrifying monsters you will ever encounter in this game. Once you are knocked down, do not deny the ineveitable, only your teammates can save your sorry ass. So, teamwork is the major emphasis here.

Emo-ness(emotionally depresed) is one hell of an annoying trait you will ever find in the living and in this Infected . Cries of a depress woman could be heard when you were close by to it. The eerie background music could be heard when it is nearby. There she is, crying, moaning, looking pale in a small corner. People call her Witch for a reason, flashlights off, sneak around slowly, startled her it will be the end in one stroke. A stroke from the Witch could immediately incaticipate you or worst, the whole team. It looks like the rage virus works like alcohol, it does backfires. Well, the Witch is only deadly if you startled her.

Graphics and audios works spectacularly in the game. Dim light were used to indicate there is always something lurking in the shadows. Noises and weird voices from the Infecteds does give an eerie feeling, especially in dark and tight places.

Although the game did not used any extreme graphics, it still give players a hell of a fright due to it's camera angle, the smart A.I and worst of all the background music plus the twisted voices from the infecteds. Something is always behind a small dark corner.

When it comes to Multiplayer, this is where Left 4 Dead shines. Versus mode, a showdown between the Survivors and the Infecteds. Playing as Survivors you need to escape from the map as fast as possible so that the infected has less opportunity to ambush. As for the Infected, you will try your best to kill off the survivors by using all of the above unique infecteds except for the Witch. Yes, players that play infected get to play the Boomer, vomit on your enemy or play the Hunter to pounce, claw your enemy or maybe play as the Smoker to lasso your enemy with your longest weapon of the body XD.

*Pouncing is way more better when you are on top of a chick* thought the Hunter

Get lucky and get the Tank to pound and smash with your huge build. Muahahaha, the second star to the right!!

Points are the factors of the game. Survivors get point by rushing through the checkpoints while Infecteds gained them by killing the survivors.

Conclusion.
I shall say Left 4 Dead is a good game. Although the campaign and MP maps don't have much to choose from.

The game emphasize on teamwork, survivability and how fast can you adapt the current situation. Depending on the A.I Director and the difficulty of your gameplay, you will face tougher and greater challenge in later stage, don't feel weird if you were chase by 3 hunters and 2 Tanks at your back.

The gameplay environment is nicely done, eerie yet fantastically awry. The dark lighting and the ear piercing-thunderous cries of the infecteds really does scare the shit out of anyone. Ammo and supplies are well balanced in the game, never too much nor never too little.

The only let down is still the varieties of weapon. They are only a few types of weapons in the game, for a Valve game, the firepower is quite lacking but it is still acceptable.

Conclusion, a very great concept for the game, simple and fun, a very good multiplayer, puking on your friends and gutting them is even better!

The game blasts it way through with a huge 8.0 /10

12 days of Xmas Ziwen's Version

2008-12-15T11:23:00.000-08:00

Since Xmas is near, I wanna wish you guys a very merry xmas and happy new year no matter where you guys are.

Here is a joke post of the day.
I present you twelve days of Xmas featurin' CODWaW.

On the first day of Xmas my true love sent to me.
A chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the second day of xmas my true love sent to me.
Two VGAs and
A chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the third day of xmas my true love sent to me.
Three 2 gig ram
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a quad core extreme.

On the fourth day of xmas my true love sent to me.
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2gig ram
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the fifth day of Xmas my PC startled me,
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is Quad Core Extreme.

On the sixth day of Xmas my true love sent to me.
Six Creative Speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the seventh day of Xmas my true love sent to me.
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the eighth day of Xmas shooting Nazis is what I'm doing
8 times Anti-Aliasing
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the ninth day of Xmas I reached Level 56
Nine more levels please....
Eight times Anti-Aliasing
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the tenth day of Xmas all the feeders came to me.
Ten kills STREAK!
Nine more levels please....
Eight times Anti-Aliasing
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the eleventh night of Xmas I am sick of COD.
Eleven players hacking
Ten kills STREAK!
Nine more levels please....
Eight times Anti-Aliasing
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme.

On the twelfth day of Xmas a new patch released!
Twelve KB connectivity......
Eleven hackers hacking
Ten kills STREAK!
Nine more levels please....
Eight times Anti-Aliasing
Seven top GAMES.
Six Creative speakers
Five times the speed!!!!!
Four-ty DVDs
Three 2 gig ram.
Two VGAs
and a chip which is a Quad Core Extreme!

All heroes lived through World War 2. Company Of Heroes Review.

2008-12-14T08:05:00.000-08:00

The Company of Heroes offers fresh new gaming experience for the hardcore strategy players out there. Well, you don't need to be hardcore, of course.

Although COH has a unique way of handling squads and resources, the real winner for this game is the firepower, tactics and maneuvers you can pull to win the game.

Enough introducing, let's start the gameplay.

GAMEPLAY.

COH sets off in one of the most bloodiest battle during D-Day, the assault towards the Omaha Beach. The game scene does look similar to Saving Private Ryan here, people dying, blood flowing, infantries rushing to the shingles...ok you get the idea. Once you set foot on the bloody red angry beach, you will notice the power of MG-42 ripping through your squads like butter.

The real gameplay starts after you figure out how to make your way towards the shingles by using tank traps as cover, diversion, and skill.

RUN! RUN! RUN!

Macro in this game is very important, instead of ordering a single infantry unit, you were given a squad. Sending your squad to the enemy's lair without cover provided, will eventually get your squad wiped off by the Nazis. The squads' life depended on the cover that each terrain provides.
The cover's effectiveness were determined by a "shield" symbol next to it when you had your cursor pointed towards the spot.

There are three types of "shield" symbol for your squad to take cover from enemy's fire.
The green shield had the most effective cover for your squad over enemy's fire. If two opposing squads appears to be having a shootout, the one with the better cover will most likely win. May the one with the best covers win. *note that green covers were mostly concrete walls, stones, and other hard object you can imagine.*

Tank Traps provide cover as good as sandbags.

While yellow shield had moderate effectiveness, squads that are taking fire with this cover will be overrun. Then, being wiped out pretty quickly if you did not pay any noticed. But, it is still better than having zero cover. So, a tree or maybe a stone will still be good if you want to survive.

I don't think I need to elaborate on the red shield. Red shield appears if your squad were not on cover and left totally exposed AND were in the enemy's firing range. If an MG-42 hits you and there were no covers provided, the squad will be pinned, forcing them to the ground crawling like bugs that were waiting to be crushed.

Other than the unique Macro-ing, the game's way of gathering resources were rather impressive indeed, offering a new gaming experience for the players. In order to beat this game you must expand your territories to acquire resources.

Maps were divided into territories, each territory had a specific types of resources. The game runs on 3 kind of resources, Manpower, Ammo, and Fuel that add it's amount every minute if you manage to capture it with your squad infantry. So, infantry plays a big role in the game.

Each unit has their special types of abilities. Ammo were consumed and will received a cool down after used. Abilities were activated to turn the tides around, an ambushed tank could popped-out smokes to make incoming fire tends to miss more, infantries would never be pinned down and many more.
Ammunition points also allows you to send in support off the map. Bombing run, strafing run, paratroopers, crate supplies, and even recon plane.
Fuel were used when you wanted to upgrade your arms, buildings, abilities and so on.

Sherman Tank comin' thru! outta of the way,

Company of Heroes is a hard game indeed, amateurs will have a hard time learning all f the functions and features in the game.

Later in the game, for every action you make aside from moving units. Will let you gained a fair amount of Exp point. After you've have chose your path, an airborne for example. The exp points will be used to upgrade skills to be used as a off map support. Each path contains different skills be sure to try them out.

You have to know that Relic starts creating the Essence Engine from nothing. So, it is one of the first RTS engine that gives facial animations, dynamic lighting, shadows and shader effects.
Resulting an extremely good graphic for the game, smokes, exploded tanks, debris, fire well very nicely done in the game. Fires a recoiless rifle to the wall will knocked a hole and fell to the ground or watch the enemy's guts and limbs fly when you hurl a pineapple towards them.
The graphics makes the game seems real. It will always leave you in jaw dropping mode.

Audios were nearly perfect for the game. Acknowledgement of each units were pretty cool in this game. If your infantries or tanks are badly damaged they will response on a panic state. Or if you were infiltrating the enemy's base at night, the infantry will whisper and hushed too.
Not to mention the buzzing-rattling sounds of machine gun's fire, explosions from the artillery bombardment will lead to a sound of a deaf tone. Simply marvelous.

Conclusion.

A very technical game that involves alot of macroing. Flanks and weak spots of tanks and vehicles were heavily emphasize on this game making one of the best RTS WWII themed-game ever.

What more can I say? Good graphics, good audio, astonishing gameplay, challenging tactics and maneuvers surely wins the game a total respect of 9/10.

Game yourself out!

Dive into Oblivion. Elder Scrolls IV review.

2008-12-11T23:08:00.000-08:00

For some reasons, I cannot do a good opening for this review.
To put it more simple, I had so many ideas I didn't even know where to start.
After listing down the possible lead(Isi). I've decided to do this; Enjoy ol' dear friends of mine.

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A remarkably game done by the creators. Oblivion can easily be an extremely good game for gamers.

This sequel, is like a superbly upgraded version of the predecessor, Morrowind except it is now more realistic, which you can never walk through the wall and fly around anymore and land on someone else rooftop anymore.

Anyways, onwards to the gameplay.

GAMEPLAY.

Before you start your adventure, the first thing you have to do is to create your character.
The character creator is indeed fascinating and limitless. Well, if you think your nose is too big, you can slide the scale to make it smaller, the same goes for eye, eyelids, hair, skin colour. Ok, I can go on forever. In other words, the character creator potential is limitless.

Moreover, you can choose the race you desire. If you feel like being a cat person and enjoy being both nimble and fast(and having the sexy stripes and pointy cat ears xD) , go for the Khajit or if you wanna have scales and breathe underwater with those cool looking fins and vicious eye, choose the Argonian instead. Or If you want to keep your humanity and be a good(evil) merchant, there is always be an Imperial race to offer. Well, there is still the over-stereotypical Orc and elf to choose from so it's

A female Khajit. Meow

An Argonian. Cool fins..

Each race has different skills and unique abilities to start with. For example being a Redguard, grants you a unique magic spell that add massive bonus skills points fortification when you cast them. Other than skills points fortifications, there are still unique magics like, opening a lock without using a key or a lock pick, making someone like you, being invisible and many more.

What's kick ass is the custom class that you can create for yourself. Whether you want your character to be a combat specialist, stealth, or magic, it's all up to you. There will be seven major skills you can choose. It's like choosing talents in WoW.

After creating your desired character, the games start.
You were thrown into prison without knowing what you did wrong. Then, a dark elf opposite of the cell will start to make you feel miserable by using some sarcasm and harsh languages. Ignore it, there is nothing you can do... for now *grin*.

The first thing you will see is the gorgeous graphical landscape, stunning scenerys, excellent audio which you can hear the bird twitting, rivers flowing, the breeze of wind brushing against the trees, mother nature sure looks real in this game. If you think that's real wait until you enter the city. So, now you can either choose to finish the quest that the Emperor gave or go do some dungeon exploring or tomb raiding. It's your choice. It's freedom has never been so sweet.

There tons of side quest to finish, especially for the major guilds available in this game. You can join up a guild and complete their missions or quest to gained rank and valuable loot at the same time.

Cyrodill is a very huge place indeed, perhaps it will take you roughly 20 minutes to get to another city if you follow the road. The map tab is very friendly indeed, giving you friendly features from a journal to a quest tracker. The quest tracker is a very useful tool, there will be an arrow marked on to your quest's target, be it is an item, a person, a dungeon or any matter. So, if you are lost next time, look for the arrow.

Once upon a time, there are 3 little pigs.....

Fire! Magic owns.

Although the scenery are drop dead gorgeous and having bandits or wild animals attacking you is fun, it is still a pain if you have to walk from point A to B, especially if it's a few cities away.
Have no fear gamers, the games allow you fast travel, you will be teleported to the desired location.

The game mechanics are very realistic and logic like I mention earlier. If you've been caught stealing by anyone or trying to kill or cause hurt towards innocent bystanders just for the heck of it, be prepare to face the consequences. You will either be getting your ass back to prison or you can always keep a lockpick to attempt a great escape or pay a fine or retaliate.

Unlike any other RPG, if you save a town from an Oblivion gate, the people will really greet you as hero. In other words, the game will go on according to your actions. If you were being an asshole going around killing people, they will hate you and show you a sour face.

Breathtaking I presume.

The A.I is working pretty well in the game. Unlike Japanese RPG or MMORPG, the A.I in this game has a schedule to follow. You will cattch them walking down the streets to their shop in the morning and going back to their homes at night. Designs are incredibly unique, each A.I has a different face features and clothing except for the guards in each city, which they all look the same in terms of uniform or the face.
Lockpicks can be used to unlocked locked doors that prevented you from entering. Trespassing is a crime, so make sure no one sees you. There will be a mini game if you decide to pick the lock, if you manage to open the locks with breaking the tumblers, the door will be unlocked.
Sometimes A.I doesn't act accordingly. Breaking in to their house in the middle of the night and wake them up for chat and they'll treat it as if like nothing happened. And not to mention, the repetitive lines.

Dungeon exploring is fun in this game, there will be over 100 dungeons for you to explore each with a unique layout and settings. Most of the dungeons delivers, dark and eerie feeling that sends shiver to your spines. The foggy, cob-webbing, and the poor lighting will really give you a goosebumps. It really does make you feel like you are walking through a dungeon.

Conclusion.

Graphics, storyline, side quest, gameplay are all perfect.
The idea and concept of freedom in this game is very addictive, facing the computer for at least 8-10 hours is normal while playing this game. The game is so good that it sucks you in, you will become addicted until you don't even realize you are in the game. The complete freedom concept of the game allows you to play over and over again using different kind of gameplay to win the game. You can play as a thief to steal items and lockpicking doors, or play as an assasin that kills for money, or a merchant that sells item and invest on shops. It is once again your choice.

The designs and the architecture of the buildings and landscapes are simply remarkable. The designs are so fully detail that you can even look what's beyond the horizon.

You have alot of weapons to choose from, thousands of magic spell to learn and a variety of classes to choose from. Allowing you to create something like a mage wielding a war hammer that is a size of a child, or a heavy-armored archer that can use destructive magic. The possibilities are endless.

Resulting, this game is RPG,FPS, stealth, and also an action game. It depends on how you play it.

The concept of freedom is intriguing having more choice is always good, the graphics and designs that takes your breath away, Limitless yet endless possibilities on class creation and not to mention smart and intelligent A.I that acts according to the players' action.

This is not a game to be miss.
Respectively this game really worth a 10/10. Thumbs up Bathesda.

Nazis are now brain cravers. CODWaW Nazi Zombies Level Review.

2008-12-09T13:09:00.000-08:00

We will never know, maybe one day Tyreach or Activision will release zombie-apocalypse based game like Left 4 Dead.

Tyreach decided to give it a shot and installed a bonus level for our beloved players.
When I first found out that COD series allowed you to shoot zombies with friends, the game will definitely be a hit. Be it is a bonus level or Single Player campaign, it will shake the whole CyberCafe and turn it into a Zoo that fulls of morons yelling at each other.

Gameplay

This LAN never ending survival gameplay allows maximum of four players to join. The sole purpose of the game is to survive in this God forsaken house as long as you can. This time I will be writing in a player's perspective.

I have to admit that Tyreach did a very good job on giving us the chilling effect that make one's hair stand on end.
The wicked evil laugh and drums at both starting and ending for each stage pierces our morale. Resulting, weird twisted combine feelings of relieve and fear.
Relieved because it has ended, fear because every ending brings a new beginning of fear.
The mourning and the green glowing eyes of the dead makes you hold down the fire button with a machine gun as if it is glued to your fingers. While you are watching the zombies fall one by one, you will notice that it's time to hit the "R" button.

Your fate are determined by barricaded windows.
The only thing that stand between you and the zombies were barricaded wooden planks that had been nailed to the windows.
Rebarricading the windows is a must, if you want to survive longer. But on later levels, you will find yourself having a hard time barricading windows as the zombie gets faster and stronger on each level.

Resulting on a solution or rather extension (in this case), there are 2 rooms for you to unlock with the points you attained from killings zombies. Sacrificed a few points, for a new room is definitely worth it. New rooms comes with new deadlier weapons and allows you to have more space to run around from those wretched brain eaters.

There you have it, the game that is never ending, all you do in this bonus level is to kill, kill, and kill until having your brains being devoured by the undead.

Conclusion
Although it is simple, the game still offers great and enjoyable time to the players. Killing zombie with friends has never really been this fun.
In this game, it has proven that during World War II, aliens do exist.

Rune Factory Review. A Fantasy Tale Of Harvest Moon.

2008-12-04T02:00:00.000-08:00

And I thought that is a sheep....

The name says it all.
No different than it's predecessors, Rune Factory still needs you to plow the field, sow the seeds, water the plants, harvest them, ship them and any other activities you have to do while running a farm.

Now you know what is this game roughly about, I can further on explain the gameplay.

Gameplay

You start off with basically nothing in this game. No friends, no money, no farm and no past memories.

Your adventure starts when a girl, Mist, took you in and giving you a place to live, a farm to be exact.

You will help her to take care of the farm until you regain your memories.
Crops are still your main income for the game. And they are still straightforward as always, get the seed, spread them to the sowed fields, water them and watch them grow day by day.
Livestocks are now monsters that provides milks and eggs instead of the usual cows and chickens.

It looks like I am wrong, it ain't a sheep... It's a flying sheep.

Here comes the fun part, after you've plowed a certain amount of farm's field, the mayor will offer you permission to explore a nearby cave.
This cave is full of monsters for you to take on. Although the battle system are not that satisfying, it still give some new sensation to the players.
Second thing you can find is a field for you to grow crops inside this cave.
Each cave has different climate, allowing you to grow many different crops. It's winter outside, but you will see some corn sprouting around in this cave.
Last but not least, you will encounter ore for you to mine and upgrade your tools.

Good character design, I give ya that.

Compared to it's predecessors' kid-sytle design, this series it's more towards Anime style. Resulting great yet astounding character design. Although the sprite model is a bit lacking and doesn't suits the background It is still a breakthrough for Natsume. *Note that Harvest Moon series has been always very kiddy with their character's design.

Time is the most important in any Harvest Moon series. You will have plenty of time in this series, what you must keep an eye on is the Rune Points(RP) and Hit Points (HP).

Boss fight!! En Garde you hideous creature!

RP were used when you perform various action from your tools, fishing, plowing, watering, chopping, smashing and etc. Once it is depleted, your hp will be taken account instead.
If your HP hit zero in the surface, you will quickly rush to the clinic for treatment. Meanwhile, if you run out of HP in the cave. You will be kicked out to the game menu. In other words, game over.

The In-game menu, so many tabs and description. This will take some time.

You will gained skill experience for wielding your tool every time. If you have fulfill the experience's amount, your skill will received an additional level for Skills.
Skills are now introduce in this series, apart from farming skills *duh*. You will have alchemy skills, which you can create potions to heal your HP. Then, you will have forging skill, which you can upgrade your tool yourself instead of going to the blacksmith. The higher your skill levels are, the lesser it consumes your RP.

Conclusion.

A very good breakthrough for the series, having you to farm and fight monsters at the same time really does sound engaging.

The stylus helps you to pick up shippings, items and venturing your in-game menu.You now have enhanced game controls and it now more easy to harvest crops with the stylus, allowing you to plan your next action at least 9 times. Unlike the other previous versions, having hundred of crops in your farm field is not a good sight( in this case, your fingers.)

For the fans of Harvest Moon, it is not your usual farming management game. It is a new concept. Building your own hut and tending monsters for eggs and milks is fun xD.
While for the new players, it can be fun and to past time with. But you will not notice the difference between the previous harvest moon series and Rune Factory.

Nevertheless, this game still makes you facing your computer or NDS for hours.
The game deserve a 8/10
The art-style for each character is superbly done, nice interactions and interesting dialogs are remarkable, good concept and awe-nistic storyline.
This is a game for the bored, the young, the old, and the liveless. xD.

PS. Anyone who wants to play this game can leave your email at the comments. I will send it to you. Fear not, I will filter the comments, so your contacts will not be exposed.

Lessons Well Learned.

2008-11-27T04:27:00.000-08:00

My Gaming experience.

Thinking back all the moments that I experienced both good and bad.

Yes, this is a joke-post.

1. Save first, think later.

Imagine, you've beaten a super-mega-difficult boss. First thing you do is?
Drop the keyboard/controller and raises both of your hands into the air like you have fulfill one of your life's accomplishment.
While you are happily jumping and embracing the moment, enjoying the sensation and satisfaction of your long awaited victory. Suddenly, the lights when off....
> Sexual organs, relatives' title, penetrative actions came flying out of your mouth for no appealing reasons.
Moral of the story? Save first, think later.

2. Backups.

Another most irritating errors in my gaming life.
Again exercise your imagination,

Your Game Save,

Level 99
Total time: 50 hours.
Game Completed: 99%
Quest Completed: 100%
Difficulty: VERY HARD.
Ranking: First.

Look at the numbers, so...gorgeous....so beautiful....so.... precious....
Proud of your soaring sky-high accomplishment that almost impossible to achieve, a phone came in. You walk away for few minutes and found out.

Your Game Save, looks like this,

NO GAME SAVE DATA

First reaction,
Pick up the controller search for your epic gameplay among the blank slot. No where to be found.
Second reaction,
Go to the mirror, wear make up, sit at a corner and act emo. No point ask how it happens, it already happens.
Moral? Always have a backup. No matter what happened, save your game multiple times on the different slot.

Now that I mention it, I wonder who deleted my game saved. *Sigh*

3. LEND.

Your friend decide to come over and look at your awesome collection of PC -DVDs games.
Then, he saw a game that he really wants to play, without hesitation you know that he will ask for permission to borrow the DVD and will return it after he completed it.
Being a good friend and never thought of the unfortunate outcome, your borrowed him the DVD.

Few months later, you feel like playing the game and remembered that your friend had borrowed it from you.
Miraculously, your friend lost the DVD by lending to someone else without your permission and he has no intention of paying you back the DVD. Okay, lesson learned. I 'll know what to do next if you are coming over to my house. Just call me before you arrived, I will ready the broom and untie my dog.

4. Read Properly.

Happen to my friend before.
Walau Starcraft 2, oh my god.
Embracing the cover and turn it around for more information.
After reading for few minutes, he purchased the item.
Joyfully he runs the DVD and found not a single installer but a.....
GAMEPLAY DEMO of Starcraft 2 and the old version of Starcraft games.
Good Job, I took the DVD and said, " Dai Lou, It's a Gameplay Demo. It is even written here. What are you doing?"

5. Always keep receipts.

It happened to me once when I was young.
I bought the game itself and played halfway.
All of the sudden, the whole screen freezes and the cd-rom emits some of the most unpleasant sound.
After I waited for few minutes, an error pops up. "Unable to read the CD"
Oh shit, I walk all the way down the game store and return them back the CD.
Out of the blue, he demands a receipt.
I am a regular client, I do not need a receipt to change the disc I told him. I explained to him that I am rather close to the owner of this shop.
"Rules are rules. I need prove that you bought the item here." he explained.
Okay, I walk back all the way to my house, Paragon Point to my house is like a 10 minutes walk.
I searched everywhere for the receipt. Fortunately, I got it. It took me an hour to search for it though. Now I am a step closer to paradise.
I showed him the receipt, he exchanges the disc, Settle.
Moral of the story, Place your receipt with the plastic with it.
But now, they don't need a receipt to exchange DVD anymore. I wonder.

These are one of the most frustrating moments of my life.
Until now, some of them still happens. Especially the power cut and save data.

Touche~ happy gaming everyone

Devil May Cry 4 review. El Magnifico Diablo

2008-11-26T02:08:00.001-08:00

It's kinda out-dated but it is still a good game. LoL.
Dante is back and this time you gotta play a new character, Nero.
In this installment the combos are even more deadly, stylish, and jaw dropping.
Storyline and gameplay is still fascinating as ever and the cool in-game cutscenes will make you revisit the theater gallery over and over again. *Eyes refuses to blink because of Dante's cool actions."
Okay, let's go straight into it.

Gameplay.
There is one major issue before you buy this game. Make sure you have a gamepad, if not you will be having finger cramps or maybe keyboard faulty. The game needs a gamepad to look perfect, without it, it's asking for punishment.
In this series, you have to stop an old hag from releasing hell pon the human world. Not so original eh?

You play as Nero in the first half of the series. Don't worry fans, you will like him as much as Dante soon enough.
Everyone knows that DMC series offer a very hardcore hacking, slashing, pounding, blowing up demonic entities.

it's about time they decide on planting a new character with a new ability. Nero's demonic right arm or better known as the Devil Bringer, can crush, pull, slam, tear any demonic minions and not to mention Bosses. Nero has only a few arsenal compared to Dante, the almight sword, Red Queen and the standard revolver, Blue Rose. As for the final weapon, franchise fan will go nuts upon seeing this weapon back to action. The Yamato.

New moves from both characters were over the top brutal and gorry. Each hack and slash send the enemy flying around and deforming in a very entertaining manner.

Apart from minions, if devil bringer was pulled successfully upon bosses, you will see Nero performed a finishing blow sequences by beating up the bosses in an unexplainable sensation.

Arm extension mode!!!

The graphics and in-game scenery are extremely breathtaking. Dungeons and maps are carefully well designed so that the player does not get lost easily.

It is almost impossible to get lost in this game as the design are so well done that you can even memorize it.
Although the graphics rocks, I have to admit that I do not like the puzzle soliving sessions that much. I will elaborate on that later.

Destruction comes within a package.

You must be thinking, it is still an action game. Moves are limited and sometimes gets repetitive. Wrong.
In DMC 4, thanks to Nero, players can now unleash hellish cool looking moves with his Devil Bringer. Slashing and tossing your enemies in the air and ground has never been this fun.
What bout' Dante you say? He can now switch style anytime everywhere like rubbing your own genie lamp. Yes, he can now change his fighting style willingly without accessing to any menu.
Resulting hundreds of different ways to crush your enemies with both characters.

The game still allows players to unlock history, character's and monster's data, and skills. As for skills, you will need Proud Souls to purchase them. Fear not, if you find the skill you bought is unwilling, you can have a refund anytime. Not much different in terms of orbs, they are still the same as the last series.

No different than it's predecessors, few more modes will be unlock if you finish the game at least once on every different mode. There is one mode that his very fun and it's exclusive for the PC only, The Legendary Dark Knight mode, this mode multiples the number of enemies you have to face compared to normal modes.

Say that I am good looking before I punch you in the face!

Puzzle solving session are not that hard in DMC 4 but it forces the player to roam around visited areas. Although you don't mind venturing this beatiful and gorgeous architectural landscape, you still find it kinda odd that you will have to walk it over and over again.
Not to mention you have to play as Dante and walk upon revisited map again but just with different puzzles to be solve. Irritating.

Apart from puzzles, boss fights are very spectaculars. The fights were very entertaining as they really need good reflexes and dexterous finger. What is more entertaining are the cutscenes after the fight. Prepare to see a move that is out of this world and some super athletics moves by Dante and Nero.

FistXSword, new anime XD

Again, the repetitive issue. The boss are fun to fight but it forces the player to kill it multiple times. On the second half of the game, Dante has to gone through each and every bosses that Nero had gone through. Making it feels a bit overkill don't ya think, Capcom?

The game system allows both DX 9 and DX 10. Both them are dead gorgeous. You will notice the cape floating around when you are jumping and the characters are in fluids motions. Still, Nero has the upper hand, the glowing Devil Bringer graces through the scene as it crushes every enemy that stands on his way.

Conclusion
The game is remarkable. Cool Graphics, gorgeous design of scenery, cool voice acting, and spectacular gameplay.
But, the game tends to be repetitive after sometime.
Nevertheless, the cool gameplay compensated it.
So? What can I say. It is still one of the good games.
Devil May Cry 4 earns his way to the top with a nifty 8.5 /10.

Wish list Upgraded

2008-11-25T16:01:00.001-08:00

These are the things I wish to get in 2009.
Well, New Year, New wishes.

1) Playstation 3
Everyone that knows me I always wanted a Sony PS3.

2) A new DVD-writer/ DVD burner. (Completed.)
Samsung sucked to the core. Getting Pioneer or maybe Matsushita.

3) A new processor. A Core 2 Duo.
My mobo can't seem to support quad. But people say you don't need quad because no games really need that much processed. Unless you wanna have a 8x AA High end games, it's a different story.
Core 2 Duo and Duo Core is the same. =_=... they just name it short.

4) A new 21" LCD Monitor by either Samsung or LG.

5) A new keyboard. This keyboard is hard to press. I can still bare with it though.

6) An external HDD at least 200 GB. I need to backup my stuffs, especially Animes and games.
200 GB is very very enough.

7) A new VGA, I want the Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 (COMPLETED)

8) A CD player for my car. Hell it's about time.

9) Bass and Amps.

10) A healthy and wealthy for the coming years for me, lou po and friends.

11) Call of Duty : World at War. Play and review on it. (COMPLETED)

12) Left 4 dead. Play and review on it. (Pending)

13) Be able to play Crysis on very high and write a review on it. ( Pending, Alan I want my DVD back !!!)

14) I wish I had more ideas on how to write game reviews.

15) Get a job and start earning money so I can get these things on my list. (Pending)

At least one of them are completed. I can be happy now.

Call Of Duty: World at War. Nazi and Japs really ain't enough!

2008-11-23T06:17:00.001-08:00

As expected from the long awaited COD 5. It is really worth upgrading the card for.
There is no much different compared to the last COD. Where concrete buildings are now jungles and building rubble. Cut the crap, now I will go straight into the gameplay.
Tyreach applied the Look East Policy by adding Japs into the game.

Gameplay

Like the previous COD series, it still allows you to play few great factions of World War II.
You play Pvt. Miller from the Marines and Pvt. Dimitri Petrenko from the Soviet Union.
You'll start off with the US, which you are a sheep waiting to be slaughter until your comrades save your sorry ass.

Heads down.

The first thing you notice when you shoot the A.I, you will see their limbs flying all over. So, if you see a Japanese hopping around with one leg. It's normal.
Their Banzai charge can be repelled if you are quick enough to press V.
For the Marines' Campaign, I loved it in a good way and the bad way.

The good, the mission is very enjoyable. The Japs are surprisingly sneaky and coward.
They hide behind the grasses and suddenly BANZAI! , shooting you from tree top, and springing out from spider traps. It brings new sensation for the players.

Ready for Banzai Charge

The bad, I died infinite times. Usually, they took me by surprise from the back with their bayonets + Banzai Charge and pineapple bombardment if I tend to take cover too long.

Resulting, a very tense and frustrating gameplay moments on each campaign. Playing over and over again in the same scene, hearing the same line repetitively. Gosh!

You see what I mean?!

Two new weapons are added into the game, the flamethrower and the bayonets. The bayonets allows you stab the enemy in a more greater range compared to the knife. The flamethrower will burn your enemies and spreads fire all over the place. It tends to overheat too fast, a little bit too fast. MG-42 tends to overheats too. Which make the game even more realistic yet exciting.

The Marines' campaign offer a very tense sensation throughout the mission. You will be taken by surprise so many times until you are immune to it. While the Soviet Union campaign is very straightforward compared to the Marines.

For the Soviet mission, the Germans are far more easier than the Japanese. They are more straightforward and always tend to be far more less aggressive. Well, at least they don't charge at you.

Settings are mostly building and villages compared to the Marines, which are jungles and caves.
Woohoo! An urban warfare and a guerrilla warfare in one package.
Rejoice, you can ride tanks and play as a gunner in an military aircraft to shoot down zero fighters.

Fear not players, weapons are very nicely tune and thousands of variety to choose from.
Although I still shoot my comrades at the back to take some ammo. Hehe.

The finest masterpiece ever created in any COD series is the new level in this game called Nazi Zombies.

Nazis that you shot down from the game has come to live again and this time... they are not human. Tyreach developer's team manage to survive until stage 23.
LAN with four of your friends and try it out in the Coop mode.

URA!!!!

The gameplay is simple, survive with your four friends inside the house AS LONG AS YOU CAN. Earn as many points as you can by killing every zombie you see. Then, buy more powerful guns, barricade the windows, and unlock new areas around the house by the point you've earned. The zombie increase by numbers and gets more faster after each stage. Death is inevitable, just put up a hell of a fight.

I manage to get to stage 9 only by myself. =_=.

Multiplayer.

Nothing much has change compared to the last year Modern Warfare.
Challeges are still there, it is still very engaging and it is still a very deadly-fast-paced-game.
Asides from helicopter you will now get a group of attack dogs and tanks.
You still have addictive level up system and the hardest Challenge system in the game.
In other words, it is just COD 4, but with WWII guns and settings.
Ps. You can use Japs in MP gameplay.

Conclusion

The game delivers a very good SinglePlayer Campaign and as well as Multiplayer.
It still has outstanding graphics and not to mention that the voice casting is superbly done.
Bonus level are even more fun to play with friends.
Although this series does not differ from most of the COD predecessors. It is still a game to be own.
This game won the hearts of the players by a 9/10.

Call Of Duty 4 Review. Duty Calls.

2008-11-17T12:03:00.000-08:00

Hell it's about time. With all the interesting issues circulating over the world. Infinity Ward finally got the message that World War 2 is history.

This is why it is called Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
The game focuses more on multiplayer compared to singleplayer campaign. Well, no more Europeans for you, Middle-eastern baby.

The Gameplay

Campaign

Basically, You have to stop someone from releasing nukes.
Unfortunately, the single player campaign is very short. You can expect yourself to shoot and sprint your way to the credits within 5 hours.
It does give you a sense of satisfaction as the quality and the moment of the game will make you tremble.

Captain Price has returned !!!

Jaw-dropping moments are inevitable in this series. Although it is a short game, you will still raid through buildings all over middle-east, sneaking past through an army and avoiding yourself from being squished by tanks, dress up like a bush and becoming a sniper stud.
Unfortunately, it is still too short for an average FPS but the audio voicing and graphics are very well done.
If you have beaten the game over and over again. It's time to go for...

Multiplayer
Most of the maps are taken from a portion of single player maps. The maps in this game are healthy and allows you to engage them in different style. The map varies from wide open spaces which sniper and assault rules the map to close-compact that emphasize on versatile and speed.

What is more addictive is you get to rank up if you play the game frequently. Rank Up allows you to unlock more guns, perks and an honorary title.

If you are bored of massacring players or the other way around. You can always complete Challenges.
Challenges are a list of stunts you must pull to complete it. You will get a nifty exp when completing each of them and some awesome accessories for each of your guns. Killing 2 birds with one stone.
They are called challenges for a reason so some are hard to complete.

I must get those before X'mas

What makes it even more cooler are the perks.
In other words, they are enhancement.
Most perks offer extra abilities towards the players itself.
If you want to be faster, the Extreme Conditioning perk will make you sprint longer.
While some affects the weapon like,
Steady aim, grants you more accuracy when you are shooting off hand.
Perks can be pretty nasty sometimes, some perks allows the killed player to pull the pineapple before they die.
While some of them just manage to reach the handgun and take a pretty good aim at you.
Nevertheless, this is what makes the game enjoyable.
Another addition is, if you are able to kill 3 enemies in a row without dying. You can deploy a radar that shows enemies' location in the minimap. Killing 5 will allows you to summon an aircraft that carpet bomb in your chosen area. While 7 kills, a chopper will arrive and buzzing around the map shooting your enemies in the air. Beware, the chopper can be brought down by enemies. Heh, and you thought it will be invincible.

From the darkness, I now summon thou, Chopper!

You have a few modes to choose from. The classical TDM style, FFA, Capture the Flag are all there. Lastly, you can change the game rules by setting into hardcore mode, where weapon are more deadlier or an old-school mode which you pick up guns and perks.

Conclusion

The single player mode is kinda disappointing. But it still provides a very enjoyable yet memorable moments.

The real killer is the multiplayer that this new series has to offer.
Graphics, audios and gameplay are absolutely excellent.
Tons of guns, accessories and perks to unlock.
Gameplays can be varied into different kinds.
It is the next best thing after Rainbow Six and Counter-Strike. It's a breakthrough.

What more I can say? Hell, my friend is been playing it for the past years and he still finds it the best damn thing.

Again, Fans or No Fans. It deserves a 5 out of 5.
Gamespot is 9.0/10

Gears of War Review. Gears Gearing Up!

2008-11-16T18:12:00.000-08:00

Brought to you by Epic Games in 2007 Nov. This is one of the few games in the world you must own.

The sequel is already out, and I am still doing this review LoL. Anyways let's get started.
I would like to do it on newer games but it looks like my VGA does not allow. T_T.

Gears Of War is a 3rd person shooter that emphasizes on cover, tactics, and cooperation.
There is no way you can go Rambo in this game. A. I here are accurate, deadly and ugly.

E-Day (Emergence-Day)
It is time, that humans are almost in a brink of extinction in their own soils, Sera.
The Locust are the antagonist in this game. As they, live in underground and emerge from their hole anywhere they wish.
There are advanced creatures that uses weaponry and you will find them hellishly annoying as they popped up everywhere.
Fourteen Years after E-day
You play as Marcus Fenix, a former COG soldier that has been spending four years in prison. He joins back the military after Dominic Santiago successfully extracted him out of the prison.
Your mission is to obtained the resonator, a device that will allows the COG to map the Locust Tunnels.
Then, COG will launch a Lightmass bomb straight into the heart of the Locust forces.

GamePlay
Remember, everything is designed to be meant as a cover. A post, a mailbox, concretes, cars and so on.
As I said before this game heavily emphasizes on cover.
If you are new to this game. It may take some time to get the hang of it.

Duck, hide and shoot!

Your survival depends on how well you take cover. Shots can be made while taking cover.
You can either right-click to zoom-aim to have a more accurate shot but it reveals a part of your head which will prove sometimes fatal. Or you can just blind-fire from the cover without revealing yourself.
*note that blind fire will have more lower accuracy compared to zoom-aim.*
You can move from cover to cover. Which makes this game looks cool.

The second trick is quickly bring down an enemy.
In most shooters, there will always be reloading. This is the feature that makes Gears Of War enjoyable.
Reloading in Gears Of War is never the same compared to other shooters.
During the reload's process, there will be a scale with a mark below the weapon like this...

Notice the mark? If you hit the gray area, you will have a faster reload.
If you hit the white mark.....
You have performed an Action Reload. It grants you faster reloading time, increased firing rate and enhanced damage.
You will not gained any bonus if you do not press anything but pressing without hitting the gray or white areas will jam your weapon. Thus, making reload a little bit more longer.

Sometimes, the player are required to choose which way to go for some chapters of the game. Picking any of them is almost the same and it does not affect the ending. Well, you can always replay the game and choose another route right? No loss there.

This game allows players to play on Co-Op mode via Windows Live.
You can have 2 players playing at the same time for the Story Mode.

If a player is downed in co-op mode or Multiplayer. You can either save him or save yourself.
Well, if you choose to save him. You will have to get near him and help him up by pressing the action button.

The game's intense. There will always be more Locust surrounding you. You have to take them out quickly, aiming for the head is a necessity and looping a grenade to the emergence hole is a must. Fortunately, aiming for the knees and legs will immobilize the Locust, allowing you to downed them thus stomping them to the curb.

Eat Dirt!

You are surrounded by 3 major aspects in this game.
Death, dirt, and Locust.
Death is in the whole game, you never really met any survivors except for your squad. It's just Locust and the eerie surroundings. People have evacuated the city. So basically, you are alone with your squad and some Stranded.

Since everyone evacuated, all buildings are by far empty. Empty prisons, empty gardens, empty parliament and empty building. There is only dirt and dust. No sign of life in Sera anymore. It's like having an adventure on Forsaken Island.

Locust are your best friend, they keep you busy and entertain you for the rest of the game. Expect action in anytime and anyplace.

Later in the game, you will be able to command a squad. Although they are only a few simple commands. They still provide your squad from getting wipe off in a split second on higher difficulty.

How do you kill Locusts in an abandon civilization? One answer....

Weapons.

The weapons are awesome but it lacks on variety. You have an assault rifle, a sniper rifle,shotgun, pistols, unique grenades and a heavy weapon.
Now, is the trademark of the game. The chainsaw bayonet that attached to your standard Assault Rifle, the Lancer.

Hit the "F" button to rev your chainsaw, creating a vicious sound and click the fire button to cut your enemies into pieces.

Muaha-haha-Muaha-haha....DIE!!!

This is one kick ass weapon, it makes you feel like that you are far more superior than any Locusts for that short moment.
"The Hammer of Dawn."
HoD is a more tactical weapon that can only being used on certain conditions.
It fires a beam from the heavens exactly where you wanted it by holding the fire button long enough.
This makes it far more difficult to use. But anything that comes between the beam is reduced to ashes.
The weapon can only be use on certain scenarios. You can never really give us too much power.

Tenchu! Punishment from the Heaven.

Another weapon that I came across is the Torgue Bow.
This futuristic bow can perform an instant kill to the Locust infantry.
The Torgue Bow requires skills to kill.
The bow must be held long enough for the arrow to penetrate the enemy.
The arrow will penetrates the Locusts and blown them up to pieces after a few seconds.

And I thought I can shoot Locust to the balls for the first time.

Results
Overall, this is a game you must have.
The game has good storyline, sharp controls, rated M for Mature; bloody and brutal, a very good multiplayer gameplay and it has uber-xcelente~ graphics.
The game will eventually leaves you a feeling of satisfactions. And making you playing it over and over again.

The Downside of the game?
The variety of weapons. It still has a little bit lacking on choices of weapons.
And if you played Hardcore mode. You will be rip apart in a matter of seconds.
This game is a punishment to some players that are bad in shooting as the Locust are far more harder to die and you are more easier to be crush in hardcore difficulty.

But this game still provides very good entertainment, bloody experience, engaging storyline and multiple ways of finishing the game.

Gears Of War is arguably one of the most entertaining and enjoyable that will rock your gaming collections.

I do find the final boss' cutscene a little annoying. Veteran players should know what am I talking about. If dying multiple times doesn't get you. Maybe hearing the same lines over and over again will. XD

Gamespot reviews rate this 9/10 with Editor's Recommendation.
I personally gave it a 4.5/5.

Epic Games' games are worth getting!

Everything will be ok.

2008-11-16T17:20:00.000-08:00

I figured it out that I needed much more readers on my blog.
So, I have made a decision.
I will be posting game reviews at Gamespot.
I want to really see how far I can go internationally.
I need more comments and opinions towards my post.
Frankly, the post comments are good but it is still not good enough. This is the most painful yet shortest way of improving.

I need more readership so people can judge my work. I am serious about being a Game Journalist. I don't want this to be another mere dream.
That is the only way I figured out I can improve. Although, it's painful. This is the only way.

My only request?
Root for me. Bear with me. If my one post really can't make it and you feel like commenting about it. Do not hesitate. Do yourself a favor. No! Do me a favor.

How do I feel?
Happy. Cause all of you guys rooted for me. Especially my GF.
Especially when I heard you are going to buy me a VGA as X'mas present. But, save the money, dear. You need it to get your own stuff.
And thanks to my friend for hearing me out and being honest.

So, feel free to drop by I've post a review on RA 3 for Gamespot Let's hope it turns out good or better.

Ziwen's Guide to Zombie Survival ver.2.0

2008-11-15T02:41:00.000-08:00

*Available and Usable for KL Residence and Klang Valley areas only*
*This is not a serious post.*

It doesn't matter where you run or hide.
If there is the living, there is always the dead.
Imagine, for just one day. If the streets are crawling with zombies, you and/or your friends are the only survivors.
Maybe this guide will be a little bit of help.

Before we start, I need to brainwash you. Yep, throw away your current definitions for the walking dead especially the one in the current movies.

So, if your definition of zombie is depicted as freakishly fast or nimble. Scrap it.
If it talks or it knows how to turn the door knob. Forget it.
If it does have the ability to think. Scrap it.
So, Zombies from games like RE 4 and RE 5 is out.

This my friend, is a Zombie

1) Limping ankle. Yep, this is why Zombies can't run in the later stage. So, they limp. Never underestimate it's speed when it is on an early stage.

2) Busted knee. This is why zombie can't walk properly. They're disoriented.

3) Injured hands. Zombies never feel pain because they are dead. So, stay out of it's reach. Once it grabs you. It's bye bye.

4) White eye. Good news and Bad news. Good news is they can't see. Bad news, they can smell, they have extra sensitive hearings and they can sense body heat cause they are cold. Physics. heat transfer.

5) Super strong fingers. Did you know, if humans did not have a sense of touch it will make them super strong? I mean really, humans hold back 80 % of their strength because they are afraid. Now you know, if one of it grabs you and lands a bite......sign up for Adam's family.

Overall, most zombies have blood all over their mouth and shirts, disoriented necks and pale skin.

Now you know, how they look like....so the next step. Weapons.

Weapons.

Anything shorter than half of your arm is not advisable.
Kitchen knives are a big no no. Who are you going to hurt? A burglar? Bring them to cut something though.
Sticks, planks, steering locker and swords are good weapons.
And not to mention a flip chair.
Can sit and beat up someone depending on the situation. How convenient.
You don't have guns in Boleh-land. So...if you have one. Cherish it.
Guns are for desperate measurements. Sounds attracts them. Fire them only if you need to.
You don't need your car. Take out the batteries and run for it.
Aerosol is good.
Cooking oil is good. Pour it to the floor and watch the zombie falls one by one.
and stay calm. Loosen your head or lose your head. Choose.
* it is best not to engage them. Fleeing is always the best option.*

Types of Zombies you will find in MY-land

Lala-Zombies (Lazies)

If the apocalypse has gone for more than 3 days.
Sungei Wang and Times Square are crawling LaLa- zombies. Please don't get bitten.
The infected will have their hair change into extraordinary colors.
Their greatest fear is water and hair-shaver. Yes, the barber's personal friends. If they start attacking you. Turn on the shaver as they will stunned by the sound.
Do take note. The more colors they have, the more vain they are. This is the most pathetic types of zombies you will ever meet and without a doubt the most good looking ( depends on your taste)
*Gosh, they are even more annoying when they dead.*

Mata-zombies.

Instead of for the other zombie standard line, "brains...."
Theirs are "kopi....kopi..."
And you still think coins are useless in an Apocalypse!
Dropped a few coins and laugh your ass off as they can never touch their feet with their hands.
Cabut after that.

Rempit-Zombies. (RemRemzies)

Weird kinda zombie that resembles our MatRempit. With helmets on. And an ekzos pipe stuck on their bodies or any other significant motor parts.
Nothing special though. They still hanging out on KLCC and highways alot. On foot.

Lepak-Zombies

You will meet them normally wandering around the backdoor,the stairs, and the parking lot of a nearby supermarket. They don't any harm though. They socialize with their kind alot.
Just don't go piss them off. If you are walking down the stairs and stumble upon them. Take another route. If you get bit by them...nothing much really you just sit and socialize with them, thats all.

I found out that classicals music like Mozart, Beethoven, and etc. will chased them away. Coincidence?

Mamak-Zombies (Mamakbies)

If you ever see flour near the area never go there cause one of them should be waiting.
There are 2 types of Mamak-Zombies. The Teh-Tarik Zombie which it runs around and drinking teh-tarik. Roti- Zombie which they feed on flour more than human flesh. Baked flour are their favorites.

So if you get bitten, you will have symptopms like dark skins, craving for roti-canai, wants to drink teh-tarik. This post is getting more ridiculous. =_=
They are vegeterian. So, save your ammos.

PS. Do not ever steal their food and drinks. They will chase after you and make you into one of them.

DOTA- ZOMBIEs (Zotabies)

They lurks around CC area. If you are hiding in a cyber-cafe beware of this entity. They doesn't do much though. They just sit and DOTA with other DOTA Zombies.
Interesting enough, the dead plays better than living players. Maybe because they don't curse like a normal human does. Ethics of players. It doesn't matter anymore if you are dead.

They just need to dota. If you see they crawling around and starts to bite you, turn on the PC.
Then they will slowly walk towards the computer. A very complex type of zombies.

Discount-Zombies (Dizbies)

Mostly being seen during Mega -Sales period. These zombies walks faster than any other zombies. Most of them are females when they are alive. They behave like a normal human when there are special promotion. The more greater the promotion, the more faster and stronger they will get. If you walk into them without any price tag on your body. They will not hesitate to turn you into them. GG.

PS. They will not show any interest if you are expensive. Just take a price tag and tag yourself.

This the last one, good job on making this far. With all the wackiness around, I do not think you can tell anything anymore. SO might as well beware of.

I-Am-Not-A-Zombie (human)
They are definately not you everday zombies. But, they can be hostile or harmless, depending on which type you met. If they are hostile, kill them. If they are harmless, team-up with them at least you provide more target for the zombies to chew on.

This is the most ridicilous yet most enjoyable post I have ever written

Heroic Villains *Upgraded Version8

2008-11-12T10:39:00.000-08:00

For every moment, there will be heroes and villains. Some villains will always live on our heart and some will always scares the shit out of us and some.... are so annoying but they will still make our day.

From the rising dead to an a computer A.I. This post will be about my Most Fav. Villain list of all times.

There is nothing behind me!

Tyrannosaurus - Rex.
Dino Crisis, tomb raider,Turok, Jurassic park ? lol
Playstation
Fav quote: T-rex cries

What is more fearsome than confronting a reptile with huge fangs and while you are low on ammo. What if you have full ammo, it is immune to bullets. =_=

In Dino Crisis, the T-Rex is very well known for it seismic effect it cause when it's walking.
And then the good ol' shout cries it releases. So, you have 2 choices. Waste ammo or Flee.

Devastatingly deadly and living up to it's expectations. Dino food will be served with you as the main dish if you get careless. No to mention it takes a lot of efforts to kill it. The T-Rex serve it purpose well keeping you preoccupied, stunned and busy. (stopping power) XD. It sure is the one of the best villain of all time. I wanna play Dino Crisis again. T_T

I wear make up, I am EMO

Cefca Pallazo or Kefka
Final Fantasy 6
SNES, Playstation.
Fav quote. MWAAHHAHAHAHA

And you all thought it was Sephiroth when it comes to FF series. How amusing. For the real hardcore fan like me, Kefka is a 100% master among bastards. He is evil, insane, and hateful towards existence itself.

As the Boss, he is punishingly difficult and frustrated. I loaded for maybe more than a 100 times.
And I beaten him out of pure luck. Damn.

Not only he is annoying, dispatching those Magitek Armors and summon monsters. His laughs still echoed in my eardrums. He poisoned the city rivers and killing everyone. Yes, the ultimate form of evil. Defeating him makes my day. He is a sad clown.

All Hail Britannia...opps I mean MGS 4

Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of The Patriots.
Liquid Ocelot
Playstation 3.
Fav. Quote : SNAKE !!

Booyah! One of the most memorable villain of all time. He loves war and afraid that warriors like him will be discarded if peace kicks in. Ocelot hopes that hatred brings more hatred, conflicts will be left unresolved.
Creating a new world which it will be a free world, without rules, without a system.
Heck, that is one helluva dream. He has all the traits of a villain. Persistent, sneaky, cunning, smart, he can put up a fight, super soldier.

A true masterpiece of villain. The fusion of evil and greater evil. This is the true villains that will really be somewhere in our heart. Superb Villain.

I think a video is better to prove he is such a badass .

Darlie Double Cross Action Toothpaste

Nemesis
Resident Evil series.
Playstation.
Fav quote: Stars...........
A total badass experiment that can rips of limbs. It runs, uses weapon, and never dies.
What is more horrific than shooting something it never dies. It chases you from map to map.
Just when you thought you were safe from the onslaught. It suddenly crashes through the windows and chokes the living hell out of you.

Nemesis vital points:
Instead of moaning like a drunkard zombie. It rushes and lunge a fist towards your face.
It is hideous.
It can shoot down a helicopter with it's rocket launcher.
Here are some memorable moments of fighting it.

You prefer horizontal or vertical? Or both?* Slashes*

Vergil
Devil May Cry 3
Fav quotes: .... none....
Playstation 2/ PC.

The evil twin brother of Dante and the sons of Sparda. Unlike any other villain, Virgil is very cool and can kick serious ass. He has always wanted more power. In the end, trying to kill his own brother and obtained the power of Sparda without regarding what happens to the human world.

Handsome, cool, wields a katana named Yamato.
Get the game, beat it and play as him. LoL. He is as tough as Dante though.

I'm blind not deaf.

Illidan Stormrage, The Betrayer.
Warcraft 3, WOW
PC.

He is one sad case.
Dumped by his beloved,Tyrande
Being imprisoned for 10,000 years,
Being discriminated by his own brother, Malfurion
Having someone which is annoying hunting you around for the rest of your life, Maive

It's like the whole world is against him. Hell, if I were him I will become a Villain too.
and A very powerful one indeed.

I will be twice the King my father was.

King Arthas Menethil
Warcraft 3, WOW: WOTLK
PC.

Driven by vengeance.
Arthas slayed his own people in his own hands rather than having them turning into the undead.
Driven by vengeance,
He chased his foe all the way to Northtrend and stumbles upon a cursed runeblade,Frostmourne.
Corrupted by the blade and driven by vengeance,
He successfully vanquished the undead force and sailed back to Lordaeron.
Corrupted by the blade,
He killed his father and allows the undead to overtake the city.

I shall always remember how innocent he was when he was a noble Paladin.

The gas mask is cool....

Psycho Mantis
Metal Gear Solid
Playstation/PC

This is one of the most classic gameplays that I have ever stumbles upon.
Before the boss fight. He will have a little chat with you.
Then he will displays his powers. Like,
reading your memory card, fucking with the TV screen, makes your controller vibrates. As a result, this is making it far more personal.
At first he puts up a rather difficult fight. Reading every movement you have while you are fighting him. Not until.....
You received a codec call, instructing you to remove your controller from Player 1 port and connects into the Player 2 port to defeat this guy.
Hideo Kojima is a genius!

Gotta get ready for a date. Until next time.

Of Guns and Weapons

2008-11-12T02:20:00.000-08:00

After thousands of thoughts and ideas.
I have came out with a list of most powerful weapon I have ever encounter in a game.

Weapon are the most important aspect in any FPS games.
Crushing endless wave of enemies make you feel bloody good as if you are god.
In other words, the better the killing efficiency, the better the weapon gets.

There is no such thing as too much power. - Blizzard Producer.

So here is the list. Let the mayhem begins!.

Gears of War series.
The Lancer.

The Lancer is an automatic machine gun equipped with a Chainsaw.
It delivers a bloody yet nasty kill by chopping your enemies into bits with the chainsaw.
Not to mention, it owns in both medium range and short range encounters.
This is definitely one of the best weapon in terms of firepower and killing efficiency.
The let down is the ammo drains so fast when you are blind firing.
Accuracy of this weapon is not in the top-notch. If your enemies are on a further range it will be difficult to get a clear shot to the head or body.

I gave this mac-chain-gun a 7/10.

Half-life
Machine Gun

Used by me almost all the time when I play Half-life . This is not the gun you wanted to mess with.
Fast-fire rate, accurate shots and a very very deadly secondary weapon.
The secondary click, launches a grenade upon touch. Watch your enemies explodes into shreds. Nothing is better than taking out 3 to 4 enemies in 1 helluva shot.
Nothing is this simple.
The downside for this gun? 50 ammo per clip and 5 little grenades launcher for the win.
But, to kill in long range is still a pain. Not to mention, the firing rate is so fast that 50 ammo means nothing. You will be finding yourself reloading all the time.

But still it deserves an epic 8.5/10

Serious Sam.
The SBC Cannon.

Anyone that plays Sam sure will have seen this weapon. Chased by endless waves of foes?
Fear not. Hold the fire button longer and release it towards them with this baby.
Killing upon impact, leaving bones and meats all over. And then, it explodes. Killing all the nearby enemies.
This is a mini WMD. Effective both in Melee and long range.
The only let down of it is, it needs to be charged for few seconds before unleashing it's maximum potential. But, it is still a job well done. Never give us too much power.

The Cannon owns a respective 9/10.

CRYSIS
The Nanosuit.

Maximum Strength,Speed,Armor and Cloaking.
Strength grants you lesser recoil, higher jump and throws enemies for few feet away. Remember kids the second star to the right. XD
Believe me, it saves my arse alot of times from dire situation.
Armor mode, fortifies the suit's defense that allows you to take alot of shots without hurting.
The suits passively heals you and provide data about your missions, health status and weapons. Without the suit, you are just basically another soldier.
The only let down is the energy it consumes. Well, it is better than running towards the forest naked while facing an army of Koreans and Aliens.
Do I really need to do review on Cloaking? Geez. Oh yeah, your weapon cloaks as well. Doesn't it pawns?

10/10. Final decision. You will not be better off without the suit. Unless you are Rambo equiped with two MG-42s in both hands on steroids. Die* RATATATATATATATATA

Half-life 2
Gravity Gun

This gun wins in both originality and creativity.
I love this gun when it turns into the Super version. It makes you like walking killing machine that suck soldiers and throw them miles away.
Flipping cars, carrying explosive barrels, sucking unreachable weapons and solving puzzles.
Half-Life 2 uber physics engine unleashes this weapon to maximum potential anytime.
So?What is the score?
11/10.
It is basically over the par, why?
It brings the new meaning of FPS gaming. Name me a weapon that uses the surrounding against your enemies. None, I can assure. It can turn anything into a weapon. You can even kill something with bricks for god sake.
And no Ammo or energy requires.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
Knife ( Writer's speciality.)

OMFGZ a Ninja. Yes, a 1 hit kill for anything that comes in the way. Except for tanks.
It is more powerful than the chainsaw from Doom 3 and Serious Sam.
This is one of my favorite weapons in COD 4.
Well, I always have more than 5 knife kills average in 5 - 10 minutes games. Sprint, dodge bullets, and knife is one of my greatest combo in the game. XD. Not to brag, am I right Ah Yia? lol.
Although it is a pwnage weapon. It is very risky actually.
The after swing animation will leave your character unarmed for at least 1 second.
This is a huge disadvantage. I died most of the times if I miss my target.
Well since no much player can master it. This weapon only rate 7/10.

That's all for today folks. I have a great time writing this entry. Well, i will try to play more FPS games and reviews on it. Until next time. Bye.

MMORPG, Multiplying Online Retards Players Games.

2008-11-11T11:16:00.000-08:00

I planned to discuss it with my friends because it's regarding my future. I start it here first. I will tell it verbally if I had the chance. ( very busy these days.)

All of my dear friends know that I love to game and always updated on video games. No matter consoles or PCs platform.

and ONE DAY.

DickshiatDickhead: Zi Wen, intro me some online games. Very sien at home.

Ziwen:I don't play MMORPG anymore. I can recommend you consoles or SinglePlayers(SP) PC game though.

DSD: Then, don't want la those are boring shiats. SP games are boring as hell and not challenging. There are for geeks.

Ziwen: Why? (Too bad this geek so good looking rite?)

DSD: No friends, not interactive, there is always a pattern for it, A.i Sucks... Cheats available. Hacks.

Ziwen: Games are games, MMORPGS are just singleplayers game which have more human elements inside them. Did you really think you play for the system? You play for the sensation.

DSD: No lor... SP games normally doesn't have quest. And are all pirateds. And You can download MMORPG clients for free and still not violate the law. Original too. The concepts I mean.

Ziwen: ....(You just gave me an inspiration. You do not mess with the ZiWank) Ok, buy this game. Fallout 3 and Oblivion Elder Scrolls IV. If you say there are no any MMORPG elements in there. I will cracked my fingers and never hold a pen to become a gaming journalist anymore. ( Bind fonts are added lines, I did not said that lol.)

SP Games are not popular in Malaysia. Online Games rule Malaysia. Out of 3 gamers, 2 of them play MMORPG. Why?

Because their frogs in the well. Or a newer term. Gamers in the pent.

Fuck... how MUCH " ONLINE " games have you seen these days? It's like cockroaches. They fuck and breed everywhere.

I know you can play with friends but, what fuck? Why must it be MMORPG?

I will not state the Pros and Cons of SP games. Why? it is not even a competition. It's just Personal Preferences. But I must point few things towards MMORPG players like DSD.
We are gamers, let's use game to decide shall we?

1) Call of Duty 4. Modern Warfare. *MUST GET*

The current most updated game in the CC right now. If you saw someone playing something like CS but it's more enchanced and realistic.
Hell that's the game.
This game can satisfy your so called, "Level Up needs" or "Get- a - Rare- item -need."
What is more better than unlocking guns with your own skills? Rather than hunting equipments from monster that depends on a certain luck to obtained the item. This is what MMORPG always does. Drop rates, leveling rate, Fame. What the hell. They never changed.
I know everyone will be getting the same gun, if the item was based on experience instead of luck. But do not forget.
If you have the same gun, same equips, same ability, same class as the other players. The last thing to determined who will be the better player is....

SKILLS. nuff said.
I would rather love a game that are based on skills instead of pure luck.

MMORPG's have their Wizards, COD4 have their Snipers.

Classes? COD 4 has it too, customize classes somemore. Get the game and Join the multiplayer sensation. Oh! btw can your Wizard do melee kills? Snipers can. In fact I like a game that is Balance. Where the noobs and the pros can learn to co-exist together. It's a gift. So tell me next time if you met a lvl 15 character in Ossyria. Good luck.

2) Final Fantasy series *must get*

Gamers that never played FF series before please get it.
It's the core of gaming, basic principles of gaming.

The Principles and Laws of leveling, map walking, quests,characters classes were all born from this FF series.

For god sake? Can't you tell. RPG+ MMO = MMORPG. DUH!

So, what MMORPG ever created? It's called Grinding. Which is you hit and hit and hit and hit the same monster over and over again until you level. Boring shit. No, it's not shit. Even shit can be fertilizers. it's worst than shit. It's the ugliest thing that mankind ever created.

Final Fantasy series has good A.I and quests. A.I can be repetitive sometimes but NPCs are the same too. Come on. They are computers. Give them a break.

You want challenge? Get the game and try beating the Ultimate Boss in each game.
Not interactive you say? I burn you a copy la. Please just don't say MMO is original. Please, I cannot bare to hear that. It's like saying I am a boy born with a vagina with alot sands in it. Please.....

3) Red Alert 3.

Thanks to the EA. You can now enjoy SINGLEPLAYER mission with your friends using Gamespy.

What not interactive enough? What is better than killing Japs, Commies, and Gwai- Lou together with friends.

PS 3 will be having RA 3. Yes, go online with friends.

What does a strategy game has to do with MMORPG?

MY point is. Even a SP Strategy game can now play online interactively.
So, please don't say MMORPG
1) their CONCEPT IS ORIGINAL
2) they are interactive.
3) They have quest.
4) They are not for Players in the Pent and has too much money. It's Free 2 Play.

F2p? Yeah, if you get pawned by a payed player then you comfort yourself by saying.
" He pays $$$ that's why he owned."

FYI, SP games are free and F2P for life.

And please don't say that SP Games are
1) Boring. Hell, you have no childhood.
2) They have no quest, no classes, Hax and cheats.
- Your so called knight, wizard, rogues, dragon knight, Blue mage, cleric, dark knight. Are all from FINAL FANTASY series. Suck my balls. Changing the class name doesn't make any different.
- Pirated? If I only have the money.
- Hax and cheats. I wonder what is Bots, keylogger and hacks. Yeah, I have no idea what is that. I think they are programs that allows you to "IMPROVE" your gameplay.
3) Can't kill other players. They come in MULTIPLAYER didn't you know?

SP games are not literally Single Players. They always have a multiplayer option available. What the hell is wrong with GAMERS NOWADAYS!!
"Dun wan la, dun wan play Red Alert 3."
Why?
"Coz cannot kill real life players."

*Ziwen kills retard player with crowbar.

IF I ever come by with this kind of MADNESS RETARDS PLAYERS again. I will lock them up in a room along with a PC and force them to play SuperMarioBros.. in 8 bits

By Yours Excellency,
Ziwen

PS. If every gamers out there are like that.......Here are few tips and hints. and I never despise MMORPG.

Don't argue with me if you call me to recommend games next time.
Don't despise SP gamers. They are still gamers, the same as you.
You need to stop playing MMORPG frequently and take a good look at this.
Please learn to judge things at a logical manner and open minded perspectives.
Games are for entertainment, passion.
Another note. The best games are definitely not the NEW GAMES. Games that are excel in graphics and up-to-date are not necessary the best game.

New Year's wish list. UPGRADE

2008-11-11T02:44:00.001-08:00

Games you should get. PT 2

2008-11-07T21:25:00.000-08:00

Perhaps it's time to know how to use the edit button. But I think starting a fresh post is way better.
So, the ramblings continues.

6. Guitar Hero Series.

Jam, jam, jam and butter.
What is more enjoyable than sitting at the couch and holding the joystick and pressing buttons repeatedly.

What really makes Guitar Hero the best are the rock music tracks. Invite a friend along and jam till morning. Ah Ben don't learn drum la. Play Guitar Hero. LoL.
What's more frightening is the Guitar Hero cultural impacts towards America. Wikibabyia

7. Call Of Duty series.

I only played COD 2 and 4 Modern Warfare.
It is one of the best FPS games ever created. Bullets and explosions are like oxygen in the air.
Giving a headshot to the A.I has never been this fun.
The gameplay graphics are stunning. Watch aircraft bombards buildings and then it crumbles.
Or experience the snowy Berlin and having hundreds of Germans up yours arse.

Let us hope COD 5 allows us to play the Japanese with a katana. XD. Banzai ! Nippon-Banzai.

8. Bio Hazard or known as RESIDENT EVIL series.

The most famous Survival Horror Game before Fatal Frame.
When I was a kid. This game makes me have nightmares. Zombies are everywhere, insufficient ammo, health and guts.

I played this game when I was 9. Believe me, with my imagination the game is so real. I hid under the bed, pressing the joystick, muted the audio, and it still gave me one hell of a freight.
I love the game anyways. This is the my first game that I manage to complete.

Ps. The door animation and stairs animation are still freshly burn in my memories. Zombies in that days are cool.

9. Fatal Frame.

Any guys that claimed that he has been bestowed upon balls of steels can gladly try this game.
It's like playing Ghostbusters. Except you don't get a phone call or a cool vehicle.
You are a highschool girl.
You use a freaking Obscura Camera (Demon Exorcising Camera) instead of a Photon Blaster.

Why this game shrink balls?
1. It's dark and dusty. Your torchlight sucks, luckily it's infinite battery.
2. You can't freaking run. Highschool girls are weak, press the X button to run. That is not running, it's running in motion with a speed of walking. I died XX times in this game because of this game functions. So next time, Don't Run turn around and shoot.
3. Camera only works if it has a film. Higher level ghosts requires higher level of films.
4. Canon 40D and digital cameras cease to function in the game. LOL. Joking
5. Watching a ghost with a twisted head and a long tongue climbing on top on the ceiling it's not cool.
6. Suddenly appears behind you, and started licking you all over is not cute.
7. Having surround audio and a ghost indicator in the screen makes it even worse.
8. Playing it midnight gives you an eerie feeling as if someone is behind you.

I cursed thousands of times in this game. I died like 458 times in this game.
I hate the puzzles so, www.gamefaqs.com XD. I enjoyed the story though.
Ok, for the one that believed me here are some screenshots.

Saya takut, I have to admit. Looking these pictures brings back bad memories. I completed in 4 days. playing like 6 hours per day. I can't feel my balls for that 4 days......the horror.

This the end XD. Thanks for your time. Get get the Gaming going.

Games you should get.

2008-11-07T12:34:00.000-08:00

What's the best game of all time?
I can assure there is no answer to that.
But...There are always games that you should get in your entire life.

*note that consoles games are included in this post."

Games are getting more and more sophisticated each year.
Let us not forget the old epic games. Without them, there will never be a newer engine, a newer gameplay and newer terms. XD

These are the games that you really should get if you don't have it.

1. Blizzard's Diablo trilogy.

Yes, what is much better than bashing hellish demonic minions with your friends?
I still remember the days that I played with my friends back at a nearby cyber cafe.
Shouting and cursing through out the game.

This game is one of the best games you should get. Do I really need to review on it?
What the hell? Who doesn't know anything about Diablo ?
This game is not just epic, it's the legend
Fans or no fans it deserves a respectful 9 out of 10.

2. Metal Gear Solid series.

Cut off your balls if you have no idea what this is.
MGS are one of best stealth tactical espionage game I have ever played.
It has all the elements of a good game. This is the few game I really enjoyed playing over and over again. If you are perfectionist and like to collect items in a game. This is the game for you. I like doing that though, secret scenes. Codec spamming, calling Colonel and Otacon over and over again. Damn, it bring back memories.
Tom Clancy? Sorry but nothing beats Hideo Kojima when it comes to this.
That guy is a genius.
Come on you just have to face it, other than Squaresoft's Final Fantasy series that release on the Sony platform, what is better than this? You tell me.Don't give me Dynasty Warrior. This is the most anticipating games of all times.

3. Final Fantasy series.

One of SquareEnix's most powerful creation. Especially 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 and tactics advanced. Although I played all of them. Those are the one you must really get.

The one I miss are the later ones, 11 and 12. Becoz of $$
So, what makes Final Fantasy a winning RPG?

There are thousands of RPG games out there but why can't they beat them?
Squaresoft has 3 best aspect in an RPG game.
First, is the epic STORYLINE. Second, it comes in 3 International Language. Third, is this guy.

Yes, its him. He is the one that save Squaresoft. Which when they had a financial crisis back in the early days. He brought us joy, happiness and the meaning of gaming. Salute.
P.S when I mentioned SquareSoft. It's SquareEnix.
SquareSoft is the company before they merge with Enix. It's just a reminder.
SquareSoft = Sakaguchi
SquareEnix = No Sakaguchi.

4. HALF-LIFE series.

The Lambda, the Crowbar and the Scientist.
What more combination can you ask for? It's the perfect harmony to create one of the most enoyable game. Brought to you by Valve Software.
Shooting zombies, combines and robots that is half of your size or ten times of your size. What can you ask for more?

The main reason are the weapons though. Yeah, baby. Firepower is the main essential in any FPS game. Who wants to play a game running around with a handgun? Come on, even James Bond don't do that anymore.

5. Hitman series.
*Ave Maria song kicks in*
You play as Agent 47. A bald-bar coded, enhanced genetic soldier that walks around killing targets. Duh.
There is only 2 ways to finish this game though.
The easy way. " Commit Genocide." - use thousands of bullets.
The hard way. " Silent Assassin."- No guns. Just bare hands and a wire.
Well, I kinda play both ways. But I like the hard way more.
Hitman are one of the most difficult games, especially Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
The A.I are like dogs.
They recognize you by the smell not the face. Damn. What's the purpose of dressing up and running anyways.
But, still it is one of the most enjoyable. Hey, come on. There are 100 ways to kill your target. From pushing him through the balcony to sniping him in the head. What's more enjoyable than watching thousands of cops looking for you while wearing their uniforms. Assassination has never been this fun.

Well it's almost six. I better get some sleep. Long live the games !!!