Blah, I'm so burnt out...So I finally start my gamer blog and have been diligently posting each day starting from this Monday. http://superpad.blogspot.com/ I'm a lot more careful with word choice and take longer to think about what I want to say compared to what I write on this blog, haha. This blog, I write in a train of thought with minimal structuring (depending on whether I plan it out or not). I'm not planning it out this time as much as I usually do since I want to keep it short and go finish Genji. Yeah...I didn't beat the game yet...haha. But I did Beat Unreal Tournament 3 with my friend, and it's one of the things I wanted to talk about anyways:
[Unreal Tournament 3 - PS3]
This is not a review btw, I'm already too tired from doing the review on NBA Jam today on the other blog. I'll probably do a lot less game reviews here now since I'm doing that as my job on the other blog.
Sooooo, the biggest surprise (besides buying it used for $5 at Play n Trade) was that this UT installment had a story. Whaaaaaat? A story? UT has always been about running killing people. Sure, it follows the universe of Unreal (I did not like the series, it's soo slow...and only UT2004 I really liked) but it never gave as detailed of story telling as UT3, as shallow as it may be. So some alien dudes pop outta nowhere and start killing the humans and the surviving human mercenaries are brought to a team who participates in the tournament. The surviving humans want revenge and decides to work their way up the tournament to find the woman...creature...thing...that started killing everyone. AWESOME, LET'S GO KILL. Oh wait, we don't really kill? We're just capturing points and flags?
Yeah, a majority of the game was Capture Point (called Warfare) and Capture the Flag (basic CTF mode) and let the player go into Deathmatch on occasion. I'm so glad I had a friend playing with me because GOD, the computer AI on your team is idiotic! You will as them to defend and they'll rush up. You order them to attack and they end up in a vehicle next to the capture point constantly shooting the captured point, but not taking it back. It was mostly the character Jester, the main character's sister, that caused the most problems. So, the killing was very satisfying at points and there were aspects that were very enjoyable (lots of weapons and vehicles, a hover board, crazy level physics, etc.). But for the most part, UT3 was a showcase that presented the possibilities of the engine. Well it worked since several dozen companies are using the engine for all sorts of games. It was interesting having dialogue, cinematics, and narration throughout the story, but it didn't really matter and wasn't very dynamic. It was pretty much "find this woman and kill her". Not a bad deal for $5, it'll be a good distraction from my other games once in a while by playing death match against the AI. The opponent AI is pretty smart though, compared to the ally AI.
Hmm, so besides that, what else to talk about...Ummm, I played Quake Live for the first time since June. I died a lot and barely did anything, but I found it to be enjoyable for some reason. Everyone was playing at such high experience and skill that I felt a bit of a league thing going on. It was a Clan battle, so I'm not surprised. I enjoy playing against stronger opponents and learning from them. Quake Live is like UT2004, or more like UT2004 IS Quake. It's free, and it plays off the browser, which is astonishing and beneficial to me because of limited HD space.
It's fun to watch pros play competitively in games. Especially when stuff like this happens:
Halloween was this past Sunday. I didn't feel like doing anything. My friend invited me to eat sushi with him and then we played DotA with him and his friends. I missed DotA so much, mainly because I didn't mind losing because we were all friends and treated each other respectfully. I missed that a lot when I was playing LoL (League of Legends). People need to be more civil on the internet...wishful thinking. I bought Nation Red on Steam during the Halloween sale and enjoyed the fast (very fast) paced action of killing zombies. At night, I played games again with my friend on Team Fortress 2 for the Halloween event and got one item throughout the whole night. I'm getting less work done since I spend so much time on one thing (recently, it's the blog). I need to catch up and start finishing stuff (games - both making and playing, music, books, art, videos, etc.) Time passes so fast now, it's scary. I want to enjoy life, as well as the time that I have now since I'm not working yet. But time is moving so quickly and not allowing me to do the things I want completed while still enjoying things that are necessary. It's a lot of give and take...Hmm, an hour passed already. Guess I'll go and work on Genji some more. It's not a long game. I think it's about 10 hours long. But the game has aspects which I find irritating and it discourages me from playing it each time I pick it up. Oh man, and I'm thinking of beating Ninja Gaiden Sigma after Genji...
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