GTA V Review

Hello Gamers

I think I want to do a review of GTA V, I haven’t yet told you all of my opinion of the game. First, I know you probably already have the game, this is for those of who do not have the game, and it’s completely awesome. Its graphics and script are unparalleled in open world non syfy gaming today. It’s beautifully creative and lifelike, down to its Facebook imitation with “lifeinvader”. The physics of the game have a great balance of realistic and nonrealistic. It neither takes from the game nor gives too much realism. This shown in the example of flipping cars with one button, and in how the jet skis can function on land, though at severely reduced speed.

Some bad things about the game: I smack into walls far too much when trying to climb them.

That’s…. basically all that’s bad with the game…

So, more good things. I really enjoy the car handling, in fact, I found out that in the streets near Michaels’s house, there are often Infurnus’s and Bullet’s just spawning, which go really fast, and are durable. Basically if they come in black they are the Batmobile. I also like the fitness aspect of GTA V, in biking and jogging how your character gets tired, how swimming is not fast, just like average every day middle aged men swim, and how lifelike the gamer really feels.

I won’t spoil any missions, but I will talk about Heists, now I’ve only done the first one in the game, but I think they’ll all follow suit. What I wanted to say about them is that they’re very well thought out, the game gives you choices from which way to rob the joint, to who you hire in your crew. The better the skills they have, the more they want, but if you train the ones with low skills (meaning just use them often) they’ll want the same percentage as always.

Another realistic thing about the game is its phone features, and the stock market. In game, with real in game money you can trade stocks in companies. This will put you in debt or bring you up to riches, remember kids, only bet what you can lose.

Would I recommend this game to my friends? Absolutely, you have to try it out for yourself, even if you don’t own it, play it. Play it on your friend’s computer, during work, when he or she’s out of the house. GTA V hit it on the money with this installment and I look forward to whatever they will do in the future. Remember Gamers

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DC Universe

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Finally I have joined most of the adult gaming world. This past week I had finally downloaded GTA V, a bit late mind you, but I had a bit of trouble finding where my computer’s space kept going. I eventually found out that it was from an older game that I hadn’t done a blog on yet, which inspired me to make this blog.

The game in question was DC Universe Online, a fantastic big game by SOE. As the title may suggest, it is a game focusing around your heroic journey as a DC super hero or villain. You can choose to fight alongside Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman for Justice, truth, and the American way (and yes, I still say “American way” because nobody ever told me that I had to be politically correct, I’m no politician.  Or you could join the Legion of Doom, fighting alongside Lex Luthor, Darkseid, and someone else I can’t remember…don’t judge, everyone chooses heroes first anyway.

This game, like many MMO’s like it lets you choose first your side, then gender, mentor (class), specific ability (weapon/defense method), and finally what everyone has a mental image of: their super suit (cue the Disney-Samuel L. Jackson moment in your head).

I’ve played this game quite a bit, and I have to say it’s the best game including both villains and heroes, standing behind the Arkham Series and sits in front of the Lego Batman series. The gameplay is quite easy to master, with a traditional quick bar and multiple abilities you can train helping you fight the good fight. I also have to say something about how great the armor and item system works. Items are very clearly separated by color, unlike some other games where it’s hard at just a glance to see what it is or if it’s valuable. Not here however, here you know immediately what’s what.

If you never see one opening trailer for the rest of your life, I urge you to see the trailer for this game. The story is very rich and I was on the edge of my seat, which believe it or not is not that common. My reaction to the trailer included surprise and aww as to how great the story concept really was for this game.

Would I recommend this game to my friends to play? I would say absolutely, you don’t need to play religiously, just go and play it; you can even play for free! And for you non-coms you might just learn something

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Battlefront

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I have to tell you all about my excitement with the upcoming Battlefront game being released. Now one cannot compare Battlefront without also looking at the visual similarity of the new Star Wars movie coming out. So I predict that the game might include story or filler similar to the plot of the new movie. Battlefront the first in my opinion was a great game, and so was the second, but I have some reservations about the third, specifically how it looks like it may copy some other modern combat games in functionality and interface. This scares me, to think that we need any more a complicated interface for a game that owes its fun to simplicity. We can only hope that it will stay simple, or at least easy to learn. I also hope that it won’t become so story driven like those other modern games. I think with as much or a little more of story as the previous games will be ample.

One thing to look forward to is I hope that weapons will become somewhat like GTA V, where you can take them, and swap them with ncp’s. This could also work with armor, how armor is upgraded and sold.  This could provide a nice little choice element to the game. There is one downside to that theory though, if it is so, there might be the introduction of money into the game, which is the kind of over non simplicity I’m warning about. I don’t want anything like a micro economy in my galaxy; it will complicate the game too much. These games were meant for fun, not economy.

The last thing I’ll address is my hope for better vehicles in the game. Hopefully we get better vehicle speeds, larger maps to use these vehicles, and possibly better AI to command to get into transport ships like the ones in the movies.

I suggest we all look out for more trailers, and hopefully the game will live up to its predecessors, and remember gamers
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Simulator Games

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Today let’s talk about the saddest excuses for video games in the world: Simulator games based on the real world activities. They are buggy, most have no story or characters, no play value to begin with, and certainly no thought put in when they were being created and coded. I was watching Nerd Cubed play through “Airportsimulator” today, and, while laughing so hard I nearly fell out of my seat I thought about something. I thought “what if they were meant to be bad”. This thought intrigued me, because it seemed plausible. Games are always so fussed about during development that I think it could work as a good ironic joke.

Then I got to thinking about how stressful it must be for game developers. I mean, they get paid to predict what people will like, and like enough to pay through the nose to play their game. This is what makes me think that some game makers have either gone out of their gored, or decided to put a big prank on the valued member of Steam.

For those of you who don’t know, Airport simulator, like so many other simulators had problems. Physics engines were off, meaning that vehicles bounced off one another like they were bouncy balls. Planes landed as if they were “popping wheeleys” and so on.

A similar thing happened on farm simulator, where tractors had no physics when colliding with cars, seeds were wonky, and the game was just more of an ironic comedy twist on the lives of farmers. Another strange thought occurred to me, “who WANTS to play a game where you are a FARMER?????” I don’t know anyone who owns a computer that they also game on, who also wants an agrarian livelihood.

The only thing to do in that game worth any fun was finding other cars and bouncing into them, and that’s all I have to say to how horrid these games are, and may I suggest: keep your money and invest in better?

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GTA V Tricks and fun things

Well, I’ve finally got GTA V, and I thought I’d let you in on some fun things to do while walking around Los Santos.

First fun thing to do with Franklin, who has the special ability of slow motion driving, is to go really fast down a street in a car, aiming for other cars. This is especially fun if you can get a car without adequate seatbelts so when on impact you go flying into other traffic. This is also fun if you use the invincibility cheat to keep yourself alive, otherwise you’re probably going to die in this stunt, costing you valuable money in-game. By the way, it’s a five thousand dollar bill to die in GTA V, thanks Obamacare.

Another fun thing to do, at least that I enjoy is to freak out someone walking on the streets with your car. What you do in this, is you drive as if you intend to hit and run, but with Franklin’s special ability you can swerve to miss at last second. This will prompt the computer running AI to make the pedestrian freak out and run, while this is a really dirty trick to do in rl, it’s perfectly fair game in GTA V.

When you’ve tired yourself with that, try to survive gas station explosions. What you need to do here, is first get a fast car, very fast. Then you get about a good half mile away from a gas station if possible, if not just far away to build up some speed. Then you just peel out and try to hit as fast as possible, if you need to, bail at last minute to see if you survive that instead.  I’m not sure if it’s possible to survive it or not, but it’s just so fun to do.

I hope to give you some tips on fun things to do with aircraft in the near future, as I have yet to go to the airport. And as always, if you have any requests on topics, or posts, comment and I’ll get to them.

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I finally have GTA V

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As I said earlier this week, I finally got GTA V, and I have to tell you that I absolutely love it.

I’d been waiting for this since it came out for pre order on Steam. And after many days of debugging my hard drive, scraping up as much space as I could get my hands on for the total sixty flipping 60000 Kb for the game. But I can tell you, it was worth it. There is nothing more hilarious of driving down a street as Franklin and being able to turn on your special ability to ram the very unsuspecting car coming toward you. I haven’t gotten to play much of this game, so this might not be my only post as of yet, this blog is mainly to alarm you to the future posts I plan to write about my shenanigans.

I guess I will talk a bit about the game, so if you want to experience it for yourself, go do that, but I’m just assuming everybody on the planet with a pulse has it now. I enjoyed how the game thrust you immediately into the story, I can’t speak for the games, but this was an intense opener. From robing a joint to well… robbing a joint, you won’t get bored or tired in the first ten minutes of the game. One of the many nice things about the game is how smoothly the camera handles, there is no calibration tech work to be done in the options before you can play properly, it glides like your mouse, both perfectly in sync.

The cars are fantastic in the physics, how they recoil once you smash it into a wall, and the best part is that you can flip them when they get stuck, where as you could not in earlier games (I hear).

The camera is another good thing going for the game, it follows you, and without it making very hard angles where you can’t see where you’re going, or who you’re trying to hit. I have every confidence that it will be a fine game once I get into it more, and I think I'll plan on converting some fun things to do. For instance I might talk about mount Chilliad or perhaps crashing plains into the freeway.I would usually recommend this game to anybody but add it is everyone shuts already have it so, it would be like telling you to get your flu vaccine after you had already gotten sick.

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Mario Kart

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Let’s talk about Mario Kart Wii, the best game that is guaranteed to ruin your friendships if you choose the rainbow level. In this great game you return as the Mario brothers and their friends to race across the universe in head to head competition…to not get hit by the fracking blue shell the least. This game is awesome for the casual get togethers with friends, parties, and any other social forum where you want to show off your road rage skilzz.

This is a great game for variety and choice. You can choose motorcycles, carts, and cars. All have the same basic speed, but they all handle very differently. The motorcycle is my favorite choice, because of the maneuverability and what seems like a better turn rate than the cart or car.

You also have choice in what person you drive as, you can play from Mario or Luigi to Bowser or Wario. The choices are limitless.

Maps in the game are also very cool because of their hidden variety. Many maps have secret paths or ways to beat your opponent. Not to mention the weapons you could get from the boxes laid across the map. With a large assortment of possibilities including speed boosts to your vehicle, bananas to slip up your enemies, or simple shells to throw at your enemies.

I like this game because it was one that I had a passion for beating. For many weeks every night for about an hour and a half before bed I’d get on and play for completion, filling out my “driver’s license” by placing first in almost all of the races. It was my theory that if you always stuck close to the insides of turns (therefor going the shortest distance) and also staying in second until the final remaining seconds of the race then suddenly using everything I could to get the other driver off the road and winning the race. It was a great idea, and won me lots of races. Another way I did this was hoping for a shell weapon and saving it for when I got to second, and using it just before the finish line. This strategy kept me from being hit by blue shells all the time.

I’d really recommend this game to anyone who had roadrage they want  to take out in a safe environment.

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