The Many Reasons Why PC GAMING RULES.

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

*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.

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

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

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.

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

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.