Video Gaming at its lowest

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  I had completely forgotten about that game until I saw this. Man, I really need to play through it again. And I shall!

I am very sorry for the lack of posts. Being home for the funeral, mixed with illness and an utter lack of motivation towards anything has caused me to not update either blog very much.

This is about to change! I have been making some outlines for Gamer Things and have some screenshots of my pokemon White playthrough. I am also getting Dead Island soon to play with three of my friends here in the east. So I will be talking about that a lot and maybe do some shitty recordings of the playthrough of that as well.

Now, to sip my tea and play some LoL

This is my man crush.

Now for some updates: these past few days have been bad. I have been really sick, tonsils have been acting up again, so this makes doing things annoying and makes laying in bed and playing Deus Ex much more appealing.

Also, today I got some very bad news. My grandfather passed away this morning due to pneumonia complications, or so the doctors believe. So I will be heading to Kentucky for the viewing/funeral.

But this is a gaming blog, and I won’t be updating on all that stuff. I will be doing some more Gamer Things posts and more LoL things and more Pokemon posts. I have a long flight on Wednesday, so that will be a lot of Pokemon time.

Thanks for your continued support, everyone. It is highly appreciated.

slightly1337:

oh hello new girlfriend <3

Riven, The Exile!

She can handle a wide sword :P

I really hope this is her actual splash art… That invisible motorcycle splash art was awful.

I cannot express my joy over this game thus far. Not only is it making me think a little, it is also just… Ugh it is stealing my soul already. The dialog is amazing, the graphics are crisp, the gameplay (fuck you, haters) is amazing, the cover mechanics feel good, and the story is just deep as all get out. Eidos, you have done the series well with this one. Hats off to ya.

I am pretty excited for this Champion. Her skills sound like a lot of fun.

I finally found a champion I never seem to get bored with. I think Talon is going to be my main from here on out, with Caitlyn, Teemo and Malzahar on the backburner/when the team needs something that’s not melee. I will find a tank, which I think will be Amumu so make him free to play, Riot. And support, I dunno who will fill the role.

I really enjoy Talon though. He might not be the strongest character, but he can really help make sure that kill doesn’t get away with Rake and Cutthroat. And his ult just seems to scare and confuse people in my level range. It also does really good damage, since most people don’t build any armor right now. So it’s kind of fun to just stomp on people. Even if I don’t get the kill, it’s okay by me, so long as they died. I just really enjoy his kit and his capabilities. So I want to keep using him as long as I can. I want to be a master of the character and be scary with him.

Regardless, this was a fun game. Feeding Garen always assures a rage quit, and the enemy Xin Zhao raged hard before quitting. Sorry bro, we just out played the lane, and you kept over extending when you knew we were in the brush, so really, it was your fault. Oh, and i’m not blacking the names out anymore. I was being courteous, but I don’t care anymore.

Okay, my faithful few, I figured I would ask for some of your input here.

Tomorrow, I have the chance to buy one of these two games. Both are highly rated, look fun, and I have been looking forward to both for a while now. I am torn on which to get. So I am going to list the pros and cons of both for me.

Deus Ex:

Pros:
Great story
Prequel to one of my favorite games
Multiple play throughs
Beautiful graphics
Amazing voice acting driven story
Is an RPG
Is a Hybrid Shooter

Cons:
Won’t be playing it on PC
Boring for people to watch

That’s about it for the cons. The not being on PC is a huge one though. But my laptop is shit and would explode playing that game, so I have to go with it on PS3. Deus Ex is an amazing series, very well written, handled, and laid out for the player. The original Deus Ex was a masterpiece of gaming, and really, it still is. Immersive story line, amazing mechanics, and always giving you options on how to do things. You can play that whole game while barely encountering a single enemy or boss if you look around and play it smart.

The series also has the “No Kill” challenge, which is always fun for me. I love doing it in MGS, in Deus Ex its actually a lot more rewarding. It is like Mass Effect, but less Aliens, more Nano enhancements. And I love some Mass Effect, but Deus Ex trumps it, in my opinion.

Dead Island:

Pros:
I hate Zombies
Multiplayer
Is an RPG
Interesting setting
Hilarious to watch
Seems to have a good story

Cons:
Reports of being highly buggy on all platforms
Boring to play without a party of people
Somewhat repetitive

I think that is all for the cons on Dead Island. I say it seems repetitive because it is pretty much just a different style of Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising. You get quest, you kill zombies, you get to quest objective, you kill zombies, you complete quest. You kill more zombies. While killing zombies is all well and good, after an hour or two, I could see myself stepping away from the game and saying “Meh, I’ll go shoot people on Red Dead and go on a rampage in the town.” I know that all games essentially follow this flow, without the zombies, but zombies never seem to present any challenge to the player. Ooh, they are fast, but still easily killed. Oooh, there are a lot of them, okay, but they have no intuitive AI, so if I can find a good spot, I can sit there and just wail on them till I win.

Dead Island did do something right though with the stamina bar. In Dead Rising, running around like a maniac killing thousands of zombies was fun, but realistically impossible. Dead Island gave us the stamina bar, but I have the feeling by end game, it will be pretty much pointless. I assume talents give you stamina boosts or something. If not, awesome, the stamina bar is the bees knees.

So what do you guys think? I will remind you all.. I have no friends. Well a couple. But most of them play it on 360, and I hate paying for Live, cause I am a cheap ass like that. Even if I did play it on 360, they are so far ahead that it’s kind of pointless.

Deus Ex, I don’t have to worry about anyone but myself, which usually works pretty well, but makes me lonely too.