I realized something.....

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.