A few weeks ago, I started playing SKYRIM. Yes, I know I'm only 3 years late to the party. (I'm currently planning out a long blog about all the reasons why I choose to wait to play these games, bear with me.)
It seems like glitches and Skyrim go together like egg and mayonnaise - I've encountered several glitches that interfered with quests so badly I had to look up solution videos on ways to get around them - I've encountered both the Erikur disappearing underneath Solitude glitch and the falling from the sky after completing The Break Of Dawn quest - both of which required some serious thought and sneaky techniques to get around them as I'm playing on an Xbox 360 and do not have console commands to abuse.
As well as the more awkward glitches, I've encountered a fair few funny ones too, like disappearing NPCs, flying horses and my adopted daughter Sofie frequently getting stuck in weird places in my house, like under the table and behind the beds.
While playing through the Dragonborn DLC, I entered a house in Raven Rock only to encounter this hot mess:
The floor had completely disappeared and all of the loose items were caught in some weird constant falling limbo - I had to use the rugs, benches and tables to play SKYRIM LEAPFROG to escape this sheer nonsense. Ah Skyrim, never change. :)
24/10/2014
23/10/2014
How My iPod Turned KNUCKLES Into SPIDERMAN
I love iPods; I got an iPod 80GB classic as a present from my mam and dad for passing my GCSE exams in late 2008, all ready for me to wear at college and be all anti-social with. I also really like video game soundtracks, as evidenced by my obvious love of video games. :)
So my iPod (I call her Lisa) is filled with awesome heavy metal stuff, random cheesy 80s and 90s pop and a buttload of video game soundtracks, including Final Fantasy VII (obviously), Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and most of the 6th-gen Sonic The Hedgehog games.
I was sitting on the bus the other day, listening to some music from Sonic Heroes, I was bored and didn't want to make eye contact with the other ugly people on the bus, so I looked at the screen. My iPod is fastidiously organised, by the way, everything has proper titles, album names, dates and album artwork. For video games, I use their box art, of course.
For those of you who have an iPod Classic, you'll know that the album art gets a weird little mirroring effect, like it's beside some water or something. This is what produced this rather odd result:
Look at Knuckles' head - I saw that and immediatley thought SPIDERMAN. My iPod turned KNUCKLES into SPIDERMAN. How awesome is that? :)
So my iPod (I call her Lisa) is filled with awesome heavy metal stuff, random cheesy 80s and 90s pop and a buttload of video game soundtracks, including Final Fantasy VII (obviously), Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and most of the 6th-gen Sonic The Hedgehog games.
I was sitting on the bus the other day, listening to some music from Sonic Heroes, I was bored and didn't want to make eye contact with the other ugly people on the bus, so I looked at the screen. My iPod is fastidiously organised, by the way, everything has proper titles, album names, dates and album artwork. For video games, I use their box art, of course.
For those of you who have an iPod Classic, you'll know that the album art gets a weird little mirroring effect, like it's beside some water or something. This is what produced this rather odd result:
19/10/2014
Mini Review: The Binding Of Isaac
I'm still somewhat new to the world of PC gaming and Steam. Console gaming and I have had a long mutually fulfilling relationship together, whereas I'm only starting to delve into the world of PC gaming - mainly because I've never had a PC powerful enough to run half of the games - but after shelling out for a £500 gaming PC, I decided that it was time to use it for more than just The Sims 3.
My friend Ash gifted me The Binding Of Isaac and the Wrath Of The Lamb DLC for my birthday - ah, Steam, you make life so simple sometimes. I only recently started playing it - and it's AWESOME.
As I'm more of a console gamer, I couldn't get used to the WASD keyboard layout, but thankfully, you can use your own joypads with JoyToKey - once configured, I've had no problems with using a wired Xbox 360 controller.
The Binding Of Isaac comes from the same developers as Super Meat Boy, which is evident by the game's very unique art style and its excessive use of blood - yes, this is NOT a game for children. Despite its somewhat cartoony graphics, this game is SERIOUSLY DARK.
The game is filled with religious imagery, particularly of those of death, hell, torture and the seven deadly sins - all of which manifest as freaky enemies ranging from corpse-feeding flies, mutated spiders and cancerous tumours with legs - all of whom attack by launching various bodily fluids.
You play as the titular character Isaac, who has fled to his monster-filled basement to avoid being sacrificed at the hands of his delusional mother, who believes that God himself has told her that Isaac is unclean and must be sacrificed in order for her to prove her faith. Isaac starts out naked, using only his tears as a weapon. As you continue, you will collect questionable power-ups, including virus injections, gouging out your own eyeballs, a conjoined fetus attatched to your head and CANCER. Cancer is a fucking POWER UP in this game! WTF?
The game is a top-down dungeon crawler with rougelike elements - every run through the game will be different. Every time you die and reload, the layout will have rearranged, different monsters will appear and new power-ups will be there to find. Adding to this is a VERY UNFORGIVING difficulty curve; the very first dungeon acting as a tutorial each time, or a warm-up for experienced players, before throwing you bleeding eye-sockets first into hordes of twisted Satanic monsters.
But oddly enough, the brutal difficulty is what is KEEPING me playing the game. Every time I die, I just want to reload - see what items I can find this time around; hopefully pick up some more rotten meat and disembodied organs to increase my health, and hopefully find the laser scope to cram into one of my retinas.
Like Super Meat Boy, The Binding Of Isaac is filled with secret areas, items, power-ups and unlockable characters - as well as a huge pile of interchanging randomised boss monsters. I can guarantee you will be not be disappointed with this game if you are a long-term Steam supporter.
My friend Ash gifted me The Binding Of Isaac and the Wrath Of The Lamb DLC for my birthday - ah, Steam, you make life so simple sometimes. I only recently started playing it - and it's AWESOME.
As I'm more of a console gamer, I couldn't get used to the WASD keyboard layout, but thankfully, you can use your own joypads with JoyToKey - once configured, I've had no problems with using a wired Xbox 360 controller.
The Binding Of Isaac comes from the same developers as Super Meat Boy, which is evident by the game's very unique art style and its excessive use of blood - yes, this is NOT a game for children. Despite its somewhat cartoony graphics, this game is SERIOUSLY DARK.
You play as the titular character Isaac, who has fled to his monster-filled basement to avoid being sacrificed at the hands of his delusional mother, who believes that God himself has told her that Isaac is unclean and must be sacrificed in order for her to prove her faith. Isaac starts out naked, using only his tears as a weapon. As you continue, you will collect questionable power-ups, including virus injections, gouging out your own eyeballs, a conjoined fetus attatched to your head and CANCER. Cancer is a fucking POWER UP in this game! WTF?
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Nuggets Of Recommendation:
You'll like this game if you like:
- Excessive gore and disturbing imagery
- Top-down dungeon crawling
- Fucking BRUTAL unforgiving difficulty
Similar games:
- Super Meat Boy
- FTL: Faster Than Light
- The Legend Of Zelda (NES Original)
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14/10/2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: My Episode 5 Choices!
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Now I've finished the last episode (I assume; unless they bring out a DLC like 400 Days), I can safely say that season 2 is not as good as season 1.
But as with a lot of games, it can be hard to live up to a Game Of The Year. With the exception of Oblivion and Skyrim, I can't think of any game that's managed to surpass itself after being GOTY. (Behold, three more examples of where this has happened:)
Went for cover: Yeah, fuck the baby, it's all about me. I wasn't risking my arse to save the useless pile of puke.
Tried to help Luke: After Jane, Luke was my favourite, and I hoped that I could have saved him. But obviously, I couldn't. :(
Wanted to leave with Mike: I picked this option just to see if I could actually go through with it - and I wouldn't have minded as much, I could have left Kenny and the filthy baby to freeze to death.
Shot Kenny: FUCK YES. FUCK YES. FUCK YES.
I'd been waiting for this opportunity for like 6 fucking hours! Killing him felt better than killing Duck AND Larry combined in season 1!
Sided with Jane: Yeah, fuck those strangers. Jane taught me to look out for number one - and I wasn't risking meeting MORE arseholes. For those of you who didn't pick this option - it's quite possibly the best BADASS Clementine moment in the game. :)
So, until next time - if they bring out any more DLC episodes or a season 3. (I'm doubting it though...)
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05/10/2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: My Episode 4 Choices!
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HERE COMES SPOILERS:
Oh Christ; this episode had so much fucking baby bullshit in it... If there's one thing I hate more than kids, it's fucking babies. Although I was friendly with Rebecca, I tried to make excuses about the baby, rather than being an outright cock. But for fuck's sake, Kenny is getting more on my tits than usual - why is he so fucking posessive over this ugly baby? It's NOT his!! I hope the fucking baby dies and Kenny shoots himself out of depression. ¬_¬
This is a screenshot of my results from Episode 4:
Saved Sarah: Special Sarah doesn't deserve to die, she's never wronged me before... Though, if she'd declined my offer one too many times, I may have felt inclined to leave her behind to get eaten.
Stole pills: I could tell right from the start that Arvo was a cock; and besides, a woman giving birth is someone who needs pills more than some woman who whinges. (That's the impression I got of his sister, anyway.)
Volunteered to crawl through: I didn't actually think this was a choice; but I'd given in to the requests of the less arsey characters before. I love how Clementine is so sarcastic now. It's fucking awesome. :)
Held the baby: I actually tried to avoid this, by saying "I don't know how" - but she still ending up holding the disgusting pile of puke. On a related note, where the hell are they getting nappies from? Or is that baby blanket just saturated in piss and baby shit?
Shot Rebecca: This happened too fucking quick for me to even take in - I was just like: FUCKING WHAAAAT - then Kenny did it. After I realised what happened, I was quite disappointed that zombie Rebecca didn't EAT THE BABY. Why didn't she EAT THE BABY? It would have been piss funny if she had EATEN THE BABY. :(
Although it wasn't a choice; I chose Jane over Sarah when the deck collapsed. It was a choice between my two (alive) favourites, and Jane is clearly far more fucking useful than Special Sarah. Then the ungrateful bitch decided to leave! COWBAG!
The last episode, episode 5 will be up soon. :)
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02/10/2014
The Walking Dead Season 2: My Episode 3 Choices!
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HERE BE SPOILERS.
Unlike Season 1, I've found myself taking the silent option a hell of a lot. (The "...." speech choice, or Y on the Xbox 360.) Mainly because I found myself not agreeing with any of the other choices - namely when I didn't want to agree with fuckhole Kenny or upset any of the characters I actually like.
Special Sarah is starting to grate on me a little... However, I have a definate favourite character now: Jane. She reminds me a little of Molly from Season 1, but even more fucking hardcore. I hope we get to be BADASSES together. :)
This is a screenshot of my results from Episode 3:
Helped Sarah: Special Sarah is really starting to annoy me; however I did feel sorry for her after Carlos slapped the shit out of her. And anyway, I'm BADASS Clementine, I don't care what people say to me for not doing my work.
Told Bonnie about Luke: I was so pleased to see the return of some of the characters from 400 Days - namely Bonnie, because she was my favourite of the lot, and easily the least arseholey one. I forgave her for being a sneaky, Southern ginger bitch and decided to tell her the truth.
Tried to hide the theft: BADASS Clementine time again here. I hoped I could get away with it. (On a somewhat related note, I stole the gold watch in episode 1, but haven't found a single choice that's related to it in any way...)
Watched Kenny kill Carver: As much as I fucking hate Kenny, I hated Carver too. Besides, I like me some gore - and so does BADASS Clementine.
Chopped off Sarita's arm: There was two trains of thought to this one - firstly, Reggie's story proved that if you cut off a bitten arm fast enough, you can survive. But on the other hand, I wanted to upset Kenny - which it certainly fucking did. Unfortunately Clementine broke her BADASS persona I'd been building and pulled out her old stupid sad face that she did all the time in Season 1...
Episode 4 is on its way... :)
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