Thats right! Not only do I design and describe my new system, I impliment it aswell!

My Life:

Not a lot beyond the norm has happened over the past few months (school and games). Though I did receive my mid-year report card and its pretty much what I always get - all C's in English and top of the year in Science and Math and second in IT.

New Games:

Quite a list here:

Gears of War, Geometry Wars: RE, The Longest Journey, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Sam and Max: Culture Shock and Grim Fandango

Gears of War:

Really great game - that's about all I can say, great graphics, innovative game mechanics (cover, active reload), cool (yet a "bit" 2 dimensional) characters, unbelievable action, very good learning curve, lots of replayability (beaten it 3 times, almost 4) great Co-op that makes the single player feel flat without it, just plain awesome.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved

This is the first game in a long time to take me off of Counter Strike - which I play(ed) religiously. It falls into the category of incredibly easy to learn and incredibly hard to master which makes, combined with cool graphics and (maybe not so original) concept an incredibly addictive game.

The Longest Journey:

Great game, Best story in a game EVER! There are some truly incredible moments in this game thanks to the intricately woven storyline, not the least of which is when April (the main character) meets with the mysterious dark people. To present this great story is an incredible group of voice actors that bring life and personality to the game. The background environments are extremely detailed and add to the atmosphere greatly. The puzzles are some of the best thought out I've experienced in an adventure game, no longer do I just randomly use things in the inventory on every possible thing to try and solve the game through brute force (I'm lookin at you lucasarts) but through logical thinking -with a few exceptions - one involving a deflating rubber ducky, a clamp and a piece of clothesline (it makes a fishing rod that you use on a key). The one thing I have to say against this game without spoiling anything is that the ending is a HUGE anticlimax. Really good and immersing game overall!

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

After playing TLJ I immediately bought Dreamfall, no sooner had I begun playing that I began to feel disappointed. I don't know what I was expecting - maybe in the back of my head an exact copy of TLJ (gameplay wise) with better graphics but no, it was very different, though I didn't let that stop me from playing it, what did that was the bland characters, the brain-dead combat (mash the A button untill they die) and the annoying stealth sequences, I finally couldn't take anymore in the caves in chapter 5 (anyone who has played the game knows what I'm talking about) and haven't touched the game since.

Sam and Max: Culture Shock

Pretty funny point n click, pretty simple puzzles, cool unique characters. I hope to get others in the series.

Grim Fandango

Are you starting to see a pattern yet? No? (lots of old skool adventure games). This game provides a very interesting, humorous and compelling storyline from the one and only Tim Schafer. Like I mentioned earlier Lucasarts is known for its tough as nails adventure games and this is no exception, a lot of the puzzles require either hours of scouring environments and combination attempts or a guide/Faq to work from.

Utub:

An excellent short film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKnhOJ-R80

What would you choose?

Shoutout:

To the Trigames.net podcast hosted by Austen, Tony, Al and Ethan with special guests such as community member 'Slunks' and the man himself Alex Navarro.

http://trigames.net/podcast_home.php

Also to Tyler over at Glaiel Games - he's pretty much my age and he makes hella rad Flash games - go check it out!

www.glaielgames.com

OK, OK, I know, I know

Its been about 5 months since my last (kinda) in depth blog post so I'll revise the blog scheme and hope it makes it a bit more regular.

from now on (hopefully *crosses fingers*) I'll split the blog into segments, not all blogs will have all the segments listed and may only have one. Here's the list:

My Life: Stuff that happens in my life not gaming related

New Games: Any new games I purchase and my impressions of them

Speak Out: the rants I was refering to 3 posts down

Utub: I watch a lot of vids on teh Utub and if I see anything interesting I'll post a link here

Shoutout: this is just a link or reference to a website or group that I have an interest in

0th3r g4mez: anything else gaming related that comes to mind

So thats the structure I'll add other segments if I think of any more (feel free to suggest some in the comments) and the first post to follow the structure should be up soon!

Hey dude, just wanted to say I've finished uploading all of the MGS3 speed run videos. Watch away!

Just as a quick update Dystopia- a mod for HL2 is being released in about an hour and a half for dowload!! After playing the demo straight for the past 2-3 months this is a big deal fo me. for more info on the mod go to www.dystopia-game.com!  

After reading over my previous blog post, I realized that it was very poorly written (I typed it first time into the submission form) and said nothing of my actual interests or what is going to end up in the blog beyond "I’m a huge FPS fan" and "the place where I shall post all things gaming about me". I believe I can improve upon it so here’s my first "'Real' real blog post".

Now for my interests, I like games (obviously), mostly, as I stated before, First Person Shooters. That said, I like to think I enjoy a large variety of games, including (but not limited to) RTS'(can't wait for supreme commander though I’m gonna have to upgrade my PC to play it) Platformers (Ratchet & Clank), action adventure (God of War, GTA, MGS, etc etc...) and straight up adventure games (Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy).
So those are my gaming interests.

Now that I think about it I don't really have many interests outside of games. I don't really like music, nor am I remotely into sports so what do I like other than games??? Well I do like a few movies and TV shows. I like a lot of sci-fi (Star Trek and Babylon 5) though I definitely would not say I'm a trekie or anything like that. I also like some drama stuff like CSI (The original Miami sucks though NY ain't that bad) and the west wing is great! If you look at my life in school you would find I generally have few friends and stick to myself a lot. I excel academically usually scoring highly in tests and best in a specific subject no one would point to me.

On to the purpose of this blog, being the first I’ve ever made it will in general have rants to do with anything in my life that I want to put out into the general view. I will try to limit most stuff to games discussion though if something remarkable outside of gaming happens in my life I'll obviously post it here. I hope to be able to post a new rant once a week with special announcements in between. Some upcoming rants may include such titles as 'Violence Makes a Game Good???' and '100% complete, Is it worth it?' so look out for them and more on the blog!!!

A much better introduction if I do say so myself. of course there is a lot more that can be said and I'll probably rewrite it again in a week or two but this will do for today. Adios!!!!

P.S I now know why people call this place 'Glitchspot"
P.P.S If anyone can tell me why there is four blank lines at the bottom of the post it would be appreciated

 

 

 

 

Welcome to my blog! the place where I shall post all things gaming about me. Firstly a bit about myself. I'm 15 years old, I live about an hours drive south from Sydney. I have a PC, a PS2 and an Xbox 360. Im a big FPS fan. I'm in 10th grade and learning how to use flash in my spare time. Right now im playing Call of Duty 2 for the PC, Oblivian for the 360 and Bully for the PS2. I've been obsessed with CS:S for the best part of a year now and I won't be stopping in the foreseeable future. All the other games on my "now playing" list I am playing on and off cause I just can't put them in the same cupboard as "Enter the Matrix"
I stumbled apon Gamespot when I was looking for info on some game I was interested in and soon added it to my ever-growing bookmarks about 2 years ago. I slowly found new features such as on the spot and the hotspot. I became a paying subsciber mainly to ask questions on on the spot and participate in tornaments. By the following week every member could ask a questions and I found out only US citizens could participate in tourneys. about 4 months ago I started tracking other peoples' blogs and yesterday decided I wanted to start my own so here is is in all its glory!...

Why didn't anyone tell me!!