Well, I just noticed it has been a week since I started this quest to become a quality gamer and actually be good at games. So I thought I'd post some stats on how much time I've spent playing games this week:
WoW - 10 hours
Guild Wars - 3 hours
Day of the Tentacle - 4 hours
Sam and Max: Hit the Road - 2 hours
Devil May Cry 2 - 30min
Total Time (approx): 20 hours
Not too bad. I finished Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max this week. Also decided that I can't possibly play Devil May Cry 2 - I just can't get into it, the camera annoys me and feels really clunky.
Things to improve next week: Only go on forums like Gamespot etc once a day, maybe twice - once in the morning then once at night. I am spending way too much time on here just procrastinating and wasting time when it could be used on other things. Also I want to just record the time I spend playing console games, just on a piece of paper or something so I know. It's a dream, but I've always wished that us humans were integrated with some sort of stats mechanism, where you could view all these stats about yourself. For example: How much time spent doing things, how far we've walked, etc etc.
What else... I've reached level 4 on this site which is pretty cool. But as I said before, been spending a lot of time on the site, probably too much doing a lot of nothing. I rank as a 'Paper Boy' haha. I've also rated all the games that I've considered completed.
I'm thinking that WoW really isn't for me. The whole MMORPG thing just isn't exciting me much. I'd love to really experience PvP but the whole getting into a guild and then having to be really good avoid being flamed by your team is kinda offputting. I think I'd rather just play a game of cards, you know like magic (never played it) but to do with the skills in Guild Wars or WoW. I remember back in my highschool days of playing Pokemon card game in the library.. haha!
Anyways, I've done too much rambling. I don't have anything on my plate really tonight - decided I'll leave my assignmenting for tomorrow. The plan is to go to bed earlier than 2am though so I can get up around 9/10am tomorrow and get stuck into my final assignment.. woot! So what will I do tonight? I'm thinking I'll pick a game and get stuck into it. I'm leaning towards a Final Fantasy game. Probably FFVII - oh and this time I won't start it again!
Just once last thing - Cheerio to Delta Blues for winning the Melbourne Cup and making me $13 richer. :D
SargeOnline Blog
Sam and Max: Hit the Road - Another classic point-and-click adventure
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Well I've just finished Sam and Max: Hit the Road. I admit I used a guide throughout, I mainly went through it as if I was watching a movie. I'm sure I would have been painfully frustrated had I not used the guide, some of the things you had to do were crazy. For example attaching the hand to the golf ball retriever then attaching a cup to that, bungy jump and use the great golf ball retriever invention you've just created to get some tar from the tar pool. Absolutely crazy! The game is so random and really suited my sense of humour. I'm not sure if I'd enjoy the new Sam and Max games that are out at the moment, I think I prefer the 2D Sam and Max, but I'm only basing this on the screenshots.
I'm not going to review the game since I used a guide for the whole thing, but I've given it a score of 8.9. I probably had more laughs in this one, but thought at times it was a bit too random and the story was quite bizarre. The start of the game had nothing to do with the story at all involving the girl being kidnapped by this human/robot thing. I wasn't much of a fan with the controls of the game either, it should have kept the same system as Day of the Tentacle. At any rate though, this game is a classic, one of the best point-and-click games out there and I really wish they'd make more of them of this quality. They really just need to fix up the difficulty of the games I think, or just add in a hint system along with a score, so you can use hints if you get stuck, but if affects your score. Keeps everyone happy I'd think!
Yeah this blog entry kinda ended up as a review, maybe I will write one up later.
Just one more thing, my 'tracked games' list contains all games I have finished.
Happy gaming!
I'm not going to review the game since I used a guide for the whole thing, but I've given it a score of 8.9. I probably had more laughs in this one, but thought at times it was a bit too random and the story was quite bizarre. The start of the game had nothing to do with the story at all involving the girl being kidnapped by this human/robot thing. I wasn't much of a fan with the controls of the game either, it should have kept the same system as Day of the Tentacle. At any rate though, this game is a classic, one of the best point-and-click games out there and I really wish they'd make more of them of this quality. They really just need to fix up the difficulty of the games I think, or just add in a hint system along with a score, so you can use hints if you get stuck, but if affects your score. Keeps everyone happy I'd think!
Yeah this blog entry kinda ended up as a review, maybe I will write one up later.
Just one more thing, my 'tracked games' list contains all games I have finished.
Happy gaming!
Day of the Tentacle and other point-and-click adventures
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I've written my first review! Check out my Day of the Tentacle review here
In other news I'm sort of thinking the whole MMORPG thing isn't for me, I don't know. I mean, it's ok, but it's not blowing me out of the water and I'm not sure if I want to keep paying $20 a month to continue playing it. Especially at the moment when money is a bit tight.
I've added a few more games to my collection too, some old point-and-click adventure games. Though it kinda brought my profile down a bit as I lost my Good Taste badge. Probably because The Pandora Directive didn't get such a flash score. I might take it out of my collection anyway if I can't get it to work on my computer given it's over 10 years old.
My gaming will be slightly limited this week as I got an extension on my final uni assignment so I'm still working on that. Can't wait till next week!
-Sarge
In other news I'm sort of thinking the whole MMORPG thing isn't for me, I don't know. I mean, it's ok, but it's not blowing me out of the water and I'm not sure if I want to keep paying $20 a month to continue playing it. Especially at the moment when money is a bit tight.
I've added a few more games to my collection too, some old point-and-click adventure games. Though it kinda brought my profile down a bit as I lost my Good Taste badge. Probably because The Pandora Directive didn't get such a flash score. I might take it out of my collection anyway if I can't get it to work on my computer given it's over 10 years old.
My gaming will be slightly limited this week as I got an extension on my final uni assignment so I'm still working on that. Can't wait till next week!
-Sarge
MMORPG Insane!
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So I got myself Nightfall yesterday. I really should have bought it in a weeks time once all my uni work is finsihed, but because the collectors edition has the art book and 'behind the scenes' DVD and the fact that my current (and final) uni assignment is based on creating a game design I figured this would be inspiration for me. 8)
The behind the scenes DVD was great. The way they worked seemed a lot like the Pixar movies behind the scenes footage. They just have too much fun. Just when I think game design really isn't for me I watch this and I really would love to take it up and work with people like that.
I've downloaded that XFire program so I have a way to measure how long I'm spending actually playing games. I currently have no buddies on XFire (oh how sad) so if you have XFire add me! SargeOnline is the one.
So now in my possession are the hottest two MMORPGs out there - Guild Wars and WoW. Given that these are both never-ending games, I would like to involve myself with another game, probably most likely a console game that I can actually have the goal of finishing the game. But then again, maybe I'll just be content with my two MMORPGs for now. I don't want to push myself to play a game.
Also, I'm thinking I'll start renting games from now on to improve my $ rate per hour.
Peace and Cheerios,
-Sarge
The behind the scenes DVD was great. The way they worked seemed a lot like the Pixar movies behind the scenes footage. They just have too much fun. Just when I think game design really isn't for me I watch this and I really would love to take it up and work with people like that.
I've downloaded that XFire program so I have a way to measure how long I'm spending actually playing games. I currently have no buddies on XFire (oh how sad) so if you have XFire add me! SargeOnline is the one.
So now in my possession are the hottest two MMORPGs out there - Guild Wars and WoW. Given that these are both never-ending games, I would like to involve myself with another game, probably most likely a console game that I can actually have the goal of finishing the game. But then again, maybe I'll just be content with my two MMORPGs for now. I don't want to push myself to play a game.
Also, I'm thinking I'll start renting games from now on to improve my $ rate per hour.
Peace and Cheerios,
-Sarge
'From Noob to Quality Gamer' - Introduction
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Welcome!
This is the introduction post of my 'From Noob to Quality Gamer' blog that I have decided to create. Firstly if you haven't already please read the little description of this blog so you have an idea about what this blog is all about. Cool, done that? Read on!
No doubt the whole world will be reading this introduction blog so I'll keep it sharp. In actual fact, I don't really know how public these are. I haven't found a 'view blogs' link on gamespot yet, so perhaps I'll have to start interacting on the forum so people read this and then it'll grow and more people will read this.
I won't get into too many personal details, but something I feel is important to share is that I'm currently studying Multimedia at uni and majoring in Interactive Entertainment (game-related stuff!). During the degree I've learnt a lot about game design, design in general, and most importantly I think, is that I've learnt what is good and what isn't good in anything in the world of multimedia, and in this blogs case, it would be games.
Now my current problem in the gaming life/world, (and really in life in general) is that I spend way too much time lurking forums, reading about games and not a lot of time actually playing them. For example, if I spent 20 hours a week dedicated to games - i.e. 20 hours related to anything gaming so playing games, reading about them, reading/posting on forums. I would say that I spend only about 5 hours of that 20 so 1:4 ratio playing games. I really want to change this to about 3:4 ratio.
Another problem in my gaming world related to the above problem is that I never finish games. I constantly start games over and over again (Final Fantasy games - I'd say I've started FF7 about 10 times, and not once have I reached the 2nd disc!). From memory I've only ever finished Final Fantasy X and Jak and Daxter. I would say I own a pretty decent amount of games so this is a poor stat that I wan to improve on.
I also want to be able to get value out of the games I play. I will write a blog another day, or draw up some graph of the progress/time spent (approx) on all the games I own and work out some sort of hourly rate I'm getting out of my games. Here's a quick example - I reckon I've spent no more than 10 hours playing Gran Turismo 4. I'd even go as far to say I've spent 5 hours playing it. I got the game for $100 (I know, I'm a fool, but I just love buying a new game, opening it and playing it for the first time) so that's $10/$20 an hour I've spent playing GT4 - not a very good strike rate. I'd be much better off going to an arcade!
These are just a few of gaming problems. Some may say that games are meant to be fun, it doesn't matter if you finish them. To me games are fun, they always have been and always will be. I want to be a quality gamer - meaning I want to finish games to get that sense of accomplishment, and yet still spend roughly the same amount of time as I do now doing those game related things.
Till next time. Please send me comments. If you want to add me to MSN or email me or anything like that please just send me a comment/message (I hope you can with this.. haha).
-Sarge
This is the introduction post of my 'From Noob to Quality Gamer' blog that I have decided to create. Firstly if you haven't already please read the little description of this blog so you have an idea about what this blog is all about. Cool, done that? Read on!
No doubt the whole world will be reading this introduction blog so I'll keep it sharp. In actual fact, I don't really know how public these are. I haven't found a 'view blogs' link on gamespot yet, so perhaps I'll have to start interacting on the forum so people read this and then it'll grow and more people will read this.
I won't get into too many personal details, but something I feel is important to share is that I'm currently studying Multimedia at uni and majoring in Interactive Entertainment (game-related stuff!). During the degree I've learnt a lot about game design, design in general, and most importantly I think, is that I've learnt what is good and what isn't good in anything in the world of multimedia, and in this blogs case, it would be games.
Now my current problem in the gaming life/world, (and really in life in general) is that I spend way too much time lurking forums, reading about games and not a lot of time actually playing them. For example, if I spent 20 hours a week dedicated to games - i.e. 20 hours related to anything gaming so playing games, reading about them, reading/posting on forums. I would say that I spend only about 5 hours of that 20 so 1:4 ratio playing games. I really want to change this to about 3:4 ratio.
Another problem in my gaming world related to the above problem is that I never finish games. I constantly start games over and over again (Final Fantasy games - I'd say I've started FF7 about 10 times, and not once have I reached the 2nd disc!). From memory I've only ever finished Final Fantasy X and Jak and Daxter. I would say I own a pretty decent amount of games so this is a poor stat that I wan to improve on.
I also want to be able to get value out of the games I play. I will write a blog another day, or draw up some graph of the progress/time spent (approx) on all the games I own and work out some sort of hourly rate I'm getting out of my games. Here's a quick example - I reckon I've spent no more than 10 hours playing Gran Turismo 4. I'd even go as far to say I've spent 5 hours playing it. I got the game for $100 (I know, I'm a fool, but I just love buying a new game, opening it and playing it for the first time) so that's $10/$20 an hour I've spent playing GT4 - not a very good strike rate. I'd be much better off going to an arcade!
These are just a few of gaming problems. Some may say that games are meant to be fun, it doesn't matter if you finish them. To me games are fun, they always have been and always will be. I want to be a quality gamer - meaning I want to finish games to get that sense of accomplishment, and yet still spend roughly the same amount of time as I do now doing those game related things.
Till next time. Please send me comments. If you want to add me to MSN or email me or anything like that please just send me a comment/message (I hope you can with this.. haha).
-Sarge
Here I am on gamespot
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Well, I've taken the plunge and got myself a free gamespot account. Now I am not really a hardcore gamer/leet/tech person (as this post would probably suggest), yet I'd probably be perceived as a bit of a geek in the outside world.. but that's another story.
My main problemo and reason for blogging is that I want to do the add games to my collection thing and can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. I'd also like to know how one gains levels on this site so I can perhaps one day upload videos.
While I'm on the subject of videos (and if anyone actually reads this) what do you people use to create your home videos? Yes a video camera seems the logical choice, but I'm more wondering as to how on earth do you afford such a thing? I'm a multimedia student and you'd think I would have one, but I don't, simply can't afford one. The closest thing I have to a video camera is my iSight in my macbook.
Another reason for this post is that I'm taking a hunch and assuming that after I've made this blog, a new link will be available to me on my profile so I can finally get to the adding of games to my profile.... experience and joy :P
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Again, if anyone does read this - what exactly do tags do? It doesn't show any examples (again, showing my very unleet/untechi'ness about myself).
My main problemo and reason for blogging is that I want to do the add games to my collection thing and can't for the life of me figure out how to do so. I'd also like to know how one gains levels on this site so I can perhaps one day upload videos.
While I'm on the subject of videos (and if anyone actually reads this) what do you people use to create your home videos? Yes a video camera seems the logical choice, but I'm more wondering as to how on earth do you afford such a thing? I'm a multimedia student and you'd think I would have one, but I don't, simply can't afford one. The closest thing I have to a video camera is my iSight in my macbook.
Another reason for this post is that I'm taking a hunch and assuming that after I've made this blog, a new link will be available to me on my profile so I can finally get to the adding of games to my profile.... experience and joy :P
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Again, if anyone does read this - what exactly do tags do? It doesn't show any examples (again, showing my very unleet/untechi'ness about myself).
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