Just chilling out over here and then, you're not seeing me blogging too often because I'm busy with either reading threads, playing Sam&Max, playing Most Wanted and... yeah, I'm trying to found a way to get money so that until the big day of E3 I shall have TA... Do you have any interesting suggestions? Already have some, but just want to have as many backup plans as possible. :P
And yeah, I felt sick some days ago... :( Fortunately, I feel better. :) OT board, here I comeeeeeeee....
So, since my last blog, I started to re-play NFS: Most Wanted, this time for PC, and here are my first impressions in several nutshells:
1. It's even more pretentious than Carbon as in system requirements. The environment is extremely complex and also I believe that the weather system contributes to this as well. And I'm not even on maximum detail, but even onmedium detail it doesn't work too smooth sometimes.
2. I picked up the game in the hope that the pursuit part of the game is more consistent than Carbon. Well, I can't believe it myself, but it's true. Unfortunately, all the challenge series (over 60) are only tollbooths and pursuits, butat least they arevery fun... until some point whenthe cops start to have the bad habit of appearing right after you entered Cooldown. Pretty frustrating and I'm only halfway through all the Challenge Series... Ironically, the hardest thing is to do isn't completing the milestone(s) but to evade once you've done that...
3. Checked out Quick Race and I'm amazed to see that drag is actually easier than I thought. The traffic is a bit frustrating even when it's minimal but other than that I didn't expected to handle the manual transmission so easy.
Also, I'm seriously thinking of getting Sam & Max Episode 1: Culture Shock. A friend of mine showed me today the demo and I can say that I was really impressed.
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=25722866&union_id=7764 Of course, the list isn't complete for now, nor the tMods have choose 500 users yet. Still, it will be a solid basiswhen there will be 500 users with those two emblems.
As for the exams, I just got in the results: my average result is 8,50. Combined with the average of grades between 5th and 8th (which is 9,39), I got a total average of 8,945. Neat.
1. I am now on Summer Break! :D
2. I can now work on the famous Top 25 (and not only 25) leaderboards and I promise that you guys will have a surprise soon...
3. Remember when fastesttruck found an admin called capsizedsailor that had in his profile a weird emblem called 'I voted' (now, it's official but still it's pretty weird...)? Well, while checking out my definitive admins list, easteast found his profile again, this time he has (pay attention if you didn't read before in fastesttruck's blog) level 70! Before screaming out loud, remember that we are talking about a staff member, and one that tests a lot. We don't know the reason why he is doing that and we don't know why he still has 30,12% after few days either. Future will tell...
Maybe you're already tired of updates, but this blog needed anyway more regulate updates and well... This morning I've finished the Maths exam and tomorrow morning I'll do the last exam - Geography. Someone said on one of my previous blogs that he was amazed I can choose my subjects or something like that. Well, if you meant this, the third exam can be given for either Geography or History. The Maths and the Romanian exams are "must-have", so to speak. Like I said, I've prefered Geography and I am so familiar with all the Geography stuff that I don't need to "rehearse" until tommorow. I'll do that though because I want to have a high mark at this exam. :)
On my last blog, someone said that I must like racing games a lot. Well, I simply like racing games, but I can't say that the NFS series are like my favorite ones. Back in 2002 when Hot Pursuit 2 was released, I couldn't found anything of the pleasure I had in the previous NFS installments (High Stakes/Road Challenge, for instance). Everything seemed crappy to me, and even though I am now replaying it and think it's fun, still it isn't half the game the "old-school" NFS fans are praising so often even after so many years. After that, I remember that I was very excited when NFS: Underground arrived, but there was something in the game that really determined me to ignore the next installments in the series. No, it wasn't the tuners or the night-only environments, it was the utterly irritating "drag" racing mode. It was impossible for me to get used to the annoying manual transmission so I abandoned the game after several tries of beating the first drag race in the game. I always thought that developers should let us choose between those two types of transmissions and not force to use one of those if we don't like it. Tell me, how relaxing it is to have to pay attention to the gears, to your opponents, to the track and to the cops in the same time?... I've started Underground 2 because I've read in previews that you could focus on a specific type of races so that you won't have to play all the racing modes if you don't want to. I was disappointed to see that after completing the first non-drag races, no other race was unlocked so technically I had to beat the first drag race in order to advance... I abandoned the game as well, maybe too early. Afterwards, I've rented the Xbox version of Most Wanted but don't remember too much out of it... I already had Carbon for some while on my harddisk, but only few months ago I've tried to get into it... And well, it was really fun. No drag races (well, anyway, Palmont City isn't the perfect city for drag competitions...), lots of neon lights all over the city, hilarious cop chases, not-so-hilarious heat 4/5 cop chases, the simple posiblity of cruising through the town late at night... Many think that Carbon is the worst post-Underground game to date; I'd say that it reignited my interest for the series. The future doesn't look too bright with ProStreet in the event horizon, but I might aswell replay all the NFS games I didn't really played... Maybe I could finally get used to the manual transmission from drag races...
Today I don't have exams, tomorrow I have, but anyway I'm making a blog... I've been enjoying my MP3 player, I finally got used to the headphones and I can happily use it whenever I can't listen to music at my PC because dad is around... The headphones are stereo, which means that you can "locate" the sound effects - voices in your head, drums at your right ear, a creppy soundwave moving from ear to ear, giving a new definition of the word "chillout". :lol:
Anyway, I'm thinking of starting a new game right after the exams. I've finished Carbon a long time ago and still free roaming from time to time (300+ pursuits evaded :) and 15 busts! :( ). Few weeks ago, I've started Hot Pursuit 2 and I already reached the last challenges at both Hot Pursuit and Championship event trees and man, it's really hard to get a Gold even with a Aston Martin Vanquish or McLaren F1 LM... or especially because of that?... I'm thinking of starting either Most Wanted or Underground 2. On one hand, Most Wanted has lots of cop chases (I've heard the bounty actually matters unlike Carbon) and a big city (to be honest though, Rockport seems boring to me especially because of the lack of neon lights that could have determined a wider color palette) while Underground 2 doesn't have cop chases but instead the city of Bayview is huge and good-looking and you can cruise through the city without being interupted by any cops . While this sounds nice, it would have been better if we could choose wether to enable or not police... Plus, Underground 2 has a lot more customizing options than Carbon (eg. in Carbon there's only a base paint for the car but U2 lets you paint specific parts of the car resulting a visual effect somewhat similar to the orange pearlescent paint from Carbon...). Both MW have drag racing, but I think I could get used to... Well, I can't decide so could you give me some advice on this?...
So, I just arrived from my first important exam - the Romanian language and literature exam. In February this year, the minister released on the Internet 100 tests for each exam discipline. I've prayed for an easy test to come and - what do you know? - I (in fact, the whole country) got the test with the number 11 on it. And 11 is my birthday! Anyway, the test was pretty easy and I'm really looking forward to see the final results next Monday.
In two days I got the Maths exam and the day after the Maths exams we got the final exam - the one for Geography or for History, depending on what you prefer. And I go for Geography. :)
In the meantime, my dad bought me a really cheap mp3 player from an obscure company called Well. How cheap? Well, 8-9 times more cheaper than an iPod Mini. :o You'd think it's a pretty bad player at this price, but in fact it's a pretty good bargain. Sure, it only has 1GB, it doesn't look as good as an iPod, only knows few formats, the display isn't color and the buttons are pretty hard to handle - in comparison with iPod. But overall the sound is pretty awesome and since I never play songs at the maximum volume, I don't have too many pretentions on this side of things. In the end, I am happy that I can finally listen to songs without having to turn on the computer or without having to listen to my parents' pathetic comments on how Sigur Ros or in fact any artist on my playlist isn't good music... Yeah, that's why I never listen to music while my dad is around.
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