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		<title>Just talking about games I&#8217;ve been playing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi! As you can guess from the title, I&#8217;m just going to be talking about random games. DSiWare titles, an iPhone game, a few Xbox360 titles and PC games. Maybe more if I can think of anything else to comment on. Art Style PiCTOBiTS (AKA PiCOPiCT) This DSiWare title, selling for 500 points is totally [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi!  As you can guess from the title, I&#8217;m just going to be talking about random games. DSiWare titles, an iPhone game, a few Xbox360 titles and PC games. Maybe more if I can think of anything else to comment on.  <span id="more-1690"></span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picopict" target="_blank">Art Style PiCTOBiTS</a> (AKA PiCOPiCT) This DSiWare title, selling for 500 points is totally worth it.  I downloaded it simply to take a look at what this brick like tetris like game could be and I was automatically hooked. It&#8217;s difficult. Increasingly Difficult and I totally want to get better at it to unlock more art, and bit music from this group called YMCK. You can unlock them with currency and play it from the menu. If you look this up on youtube you can find all of the music. I hope Art Style gets more retro inspired fun like this in the years to come. And that they bring it into North America and the rest of the world of course!  Check one out here:  <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LImI26d1W6A&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LImI26d1W6A&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>Other than that, I&#8217;ve purchased a few other titles on the DSiWare store but I wasn&#8217;t AS impressed as I was in the previous title mentioned. I tried <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Style:_AQUARIO" target="_blank">AQUIA</a> (AKA AQUARIO) from Art Style as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxlife" target="_blank">BOXLIFE</a> (AKA HACOLIFE). They didn&#8217;t hook me as much as PiCTOBiTS. They both have a pretty good level of difficulty in them though so if you&#8217;re in for a challenge in something that would seem like a simple game, you&#8217;ll find it there. BOXLIFE has a pixel like charm to it, which is neat.</p>
<p>I got a title named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Flip_Champs" target="_blank">Mighty Flip Champs!</a> this one has an increasing difficulty as well, but the first few puzzles are a complete walk in the park. you basically walk this super deformed girl over to her frog lover or something like that. Eventually you&#8217;ll need to gather things before you meet him. Apparently this is a game meant to be taken as a speed run type game. You want to improve your time and see just how much you can optimize out of it.</p>
<p>And the last title I will have a small blurb on it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_vs._Donkey_Kong:_Minis_March_Again" target="_blank">Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Minis March Again!</a> This is a series that interested me from the beginning but I never got to play with any previous version of it. You have wind up marios that basically go forward from the time you do the first crank. They will collect coins and open the door to exit the level. It&#8217;s fairly simple. There are boss stages that are entirely different however. I didn&#8217;t get a chance to play this one too much but I will give it another chance eventually in the future.</p>
<p>Onto <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggle" target="_blank">Peggle</a> now. I&#8217;ve been playing this on my iPhone, it was a dollar a while back and I figured I&#8217;d check it out. This game is totally worthwhile. It&#8217;s exciting to play it well, when you finish a level you get an over the top congratulation. You just want to do it over and over. I finished it in a few sittings. Now I&#8217;m playing through it again and trying to get an even better score. I use the zen owl. Having the green peg upgrade from him totally rocks on non-moving stages. Also, this it totally pick up and play on the iPhone, it will save your state and allow you to resume whenever!</p>
<p>Enough of the Handhelds now!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve sunk most of my time recently on the following titles:Â Team Fortress 2 (PC),Â Left 4 Dead (XBox360 and PC),Â Final Fantasy XI (Xbox 360 and PC), Demigod, Plants Vs Zombies (PC) and Prototype (Xbox360).</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll start by mentioning <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2" target="_blank">Team Fortress 2</a>. Ever since the last patch, I&#8217;ve spent a decent amount of time playing with my friends. I like to jump classes in all my games. I have invested far more time in medic in this game however. This, for some reason is the class that&#8217;s lacking in a team most often, but in my opinion it is the most exciting and it will often make or break a team. I&#8217;ve played a decent amount of Pyro as well. This game is great. There&#8217;s just so much community love out there for it that there&#8217;s tons of youtubes out there with dubbed sound clips. The achievements are neat too. Some are clever. I got one for getting a guy to rage quit apparently. I had no idea an achievement like this existed! Here are <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/Sassi/stats/TF2" target="_blank">my stats</a>! I really don&#8217;t have any sniping skills.</p>
<p>Still playing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_4_dead" target="_blank">Left 4 Dead</a> on both XBox360 and PC. But mostly Xbox360. Not playing no mercy constantly is pretty nice. The fact that the Xbox version got patched up to current was very sweet a few months back. It unbroke the game, but it&#8217;s still pretty cookie cutter and you&#8217;ll use the same tactics over and over again. It&#8217;s mindless fun though and that&#8217;s what counts!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve come back to an old favorite, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XI" target="_blank">Final Fantasy XI</a>. I mostly play on Xbox 360 but sometimes on PC. Saving macros on the server makes everything really easy for me! I decided to level jobs I wouldn&#8217;t have even considered in the past. I dropped my goal to get Ninja to 75 (currently 65) to level other jobs. Scholar was my main goal, but I&#8217;ve kept White Mage and Red Mage at the same level. I plan to do this for as long as I can. After this is complete I may go back to melee. I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;ll cap up my Ninja and move over to Monk. Eventually, I would like to get back into Assault/Nyzul. I&#8217;ll have to get into Limbus and Dynamis for a short while too. Einherjar is another one I&#8217;d like to try. Everything mage is semi-new to me so I like the change of pace. It&#8217;s funny how this game after so many years still stands apart from the rest of the MMOs. The cross platform aspect of it is also quite wonderful.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been playing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demigod_(video_game)" target="_blank">Demigod</a> still, less frequently though. I love this game but on the steam platform it may have flourished a bit more than on the Impulse one. The game has some pathing and balancing issues. It&#8217;s also quite annoying to play with a person with high ping as it makes the game choppy and nearly unplayable for everyone else. I also cannot play this with my friends easily.</p>
<p>I got Plants Vs Zombies for both me and my significant other. We both played this tons. I would have loved the progress to be saved on my Steam profile somehow. I&#8217;ve had to replay the same parts twice because I move it over to my Asus N10J (semi-nettop).</p>
<p>I also purchased and played through <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueberry_Garden" target="_blank">BlueBerry Garden</a>. It&#8217;s a pretty game. I liked the music and the art but it offers no replay really. It&#8217;s cheap though so if you don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to hold you back go ahead! I&#8217;d also suggest And Yet It Moves. Not entirely the same thing but it&#8217;s got charm also!</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve been playing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype_(video_game)" target="_blank">Prototype</a> on Xbox360. I love this game! I don&#8217;t care about graphics, they&#8217;re more than acceptable. I&#8217;ve seen people complain about them but honestly, that&#8217;s being pretty picky. The abilities you unlock, using them and the exploration of NYC is pretty fun. I&#8217;ve gotten quite a few &#8220;orbs&#8221;. I&#8217;ve heard people complain about the difficulty but I&#8217;ve just been caught by a spike once honestly. It&#8217;s quite easy to feed off poor random innocent bystanders while doing your thing. I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of people on destructoid talk about both these and inFamous. I believe episode 102 of Podtoid had a few people discussing these. Anyways, I&#8217;ll try and complete it this week. I believe some review will be incoming soon on behalf of Dave. Metacritics don&#8217;t do this game justice however. To me, between this and inFamous I totally prefer this one but it&#8217;s quite frankly a pretty big coin toss.</p>
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		<title>Games coming out in May 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jobocan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April has been a relatively lame month in gaming, and there&#8217;s really not much interesting in the remaining days of the month. Instead, let&#8217;s get hyped for next month! With a few interesting releases&#8230; Well, it could be a fun month, we&#8217;ll see. For now, let&#8217;s look at the releases for each system! The multi-platform [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>April has been a relatively lame month in gaming, and there&#8217;s really not much interesting in the remaining days of the month.</p>
<p>Instead, let&#8217;s get hyped for next month!</p>
<p>With a few interesting releases&#8230; Well, it could be a fun month, we&#8217;ll see. For now, let&#8217;s look at the releases for each system!</p>
<p>The multi-platform games are at the bottom of the list, and the japanese import games will have <strong>(JAPAN)</strong> written next to the titles.<br />
And slightly bigger boxart sizes for the more interesting games O_O</p>
<p>Read on!!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;">DS</span></p>
<p><strong>Desktop Tower Defense</strong><br />
Originally a fun little flash game, now becomes a DS game. It was a fun little time-waster, so it&#8217;s probably gonna be no more than that on the DS either.</p>
<p><strong>Puchi Puchi Virus</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="puchi?" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/all/boxshots2/929366_97865.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="90" /><br />
This game was supposed to come out a long time ago, sometime last year, but it never did(despite the ROM being leaked). Well, now it&#8217;s actually coming. A fun little puzzle game published by Nippon Ichi Software America. Souldn&#8217;t be too bad.</p>
<p><strong>Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D&#8217;s Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="childrens card games!" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/7/955057_115260_front.jpg" alt="" width="150" /><br />
It&#8217;s Yu-Gi-Oh&#8230; Not much more to say. If you like children&#8217;s card games and don&#8217;t have a yu-gi-oh game on DS yet, this will be worth checking out.</p>
<p><strong>Naruto Shippuuden: Ninja Council 4<br />
</strong><img class="alignnone" title="narutard" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/4/939114_86711_front.jpg" alt="" width="150" /><br />
I had it last month, but I guess it was pushed back. I don&#8217;t have very high expectations for this, but it&#8217;s probably gonna be a bit fun for Naruto fans.</p>
<p><strong>Steal Princess</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="princess+whip?" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/4/943704_117350_front.jpg" alt="" width="150" /><br />
I don&#8217;t know&#8230; It&#8217;s published by Atlus so it&#8217;s pretty sure to be rare fast, and the trailer on youtube makes it look not too bad.</p>
<p><strong>Gyakuten Kenji (JAPAN)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="OBJECTION!" src="http://gmstar.com/images/ds_gyakutenkenji.jpg" alt="" width="150" /><br />
A must for Phoenix Wright fans. In this one you play as prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. But considering the type of game it is, it&#8217;s probably not gonna be possible to play if you don&#8217;t know japanese.</p>
<p><strong>A Witch&#8217;s Tale (JAPAN)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="a witch with a tale" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/all/boxshots2/946820_103286.jpg" alt="" width="100" /><br />
This was supposed to come out some time last year in the US, but the developpers randomly decided to change the game&#8217;s genre(from an Action RPG to a normal RPG) and, of course, they pushed back the release. It&#8217;s now coming to japan, so the US release should be coming in not TOO long&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (JAPAN)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1452" title="kh3582" src="http://www.thesavepoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/kh3582.jpg" alt="kh3582" width="150" /><br />
It&#8217;s Kingdom Hearts&#8230; And the 3 seconds of gameplay I saw last year looked pretty good, so this should be interesting.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">PSP</span></p>
<p><strong>Patapon 2</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="pata pata patapon!" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/6/950766_108190_front.jpg" alt="" width="200" /><br />
Budget priced, and just now it was announced to POSSIBLY be downloadable only(despite them still shipping the game with boxes&#8230;). A bit random, but whatever. The first game was apparently really fun, so this one should be just as good.</p>
<p><strong>Bleach: Heat the Soul 6 (JAPAN)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1453" title="bleach" src="http://www.thesavepoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bleach.jpg" alt="bleach" width="175" /><br />
A fighting game with Bleach characters, and the sixth in the series. I&#8217;ve only had&#8230; around 10 minutes of experience with that series, so I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s really good, but it must be doing something right if it went up to 6 games in the series (hopefully that &#8220;something right&#8221; isn&#8217;t just &#8220;being about Bleach&#8221;&#8230;)</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">PS2</span></p>
<p><strong>Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="long title of doom" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/1/951791_119359_front.jpg" alt="" width="210" /><br />
AKA game with uselessly long title. Not familiar with the &#8220;Devil Summoner&#8221; sub-series, but it should be interesting enough.</p>
<p><strong>Secret Agent Clank</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="psp box" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/7/943337_96193_front.jpg" alt="" width="175" /><em>(yeah, it&#8217;s the PSP boxart, probably won&#8217;t change for the PS2 version)</em><br />
Another PSP game gets ported on the PS2. A good option if playing it on the PSP isn&#8217;t possible&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Wii</span></p>
<p><strong>New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat </strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="lame" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/9/954379_113944_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><em>(japanese boxart, expect the same thing for the US boxart)</em><br />
Another &#8220;New Play Control&#8221; game, this time it&#8217;s Donkey Kong taking center stage. Be ready for some random Wiimote Waggling! &gt;_&gt;</p>
<p><strong>Klonoa</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="klonoa" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/1/954341_116662_front.jpg" alt="" width="210" /><br />
Klonoa was a fun game originally, and the remake should also be really fun.<br />
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Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="another guilty gear xx" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/7/957567_119322_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
More Guilty Gear! Another version of XX. This time, from what I&#8217;ve read, Kliff and Justice are back, and there&#8217;s a bunch of random balance fixes and tweaks.<br />
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Punch-Out!!<br />
<img class="alignnone" title="little mac is awesome, wonder if Giga Mac is as badass?" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/3/954363_121315_front.jpg" alt="" width="220" /></strong><br />
It&#8217;s Punch-Out, but this time with Multi-player and awesome graphics! Should be badass enough.</p>
<p><strong>Boom Blox Bash Party</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="blox that go boom?" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/9/957669_119463_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
Didn&#8217;t play the first Boom Blox and frankly I have no interest, but this should be a pretty popular game&#8230;</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Xbox 360</span></p>
<p><strong>Raiden Fighters Aces</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="raiden?" src="http://gameaccess.ca/cover_images/large/xb360raidenfightersaces.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
A compilation of Shoot &#8216;em ups. Seems pretty fun from the videos I checked. The only interesting 360-exclusive release for the month of May.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">PS3</span></p>
<p><strong>Cross Edge</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="awesomeness" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/4/946194_116213_front.jpg" alt="" width="220" /><br />
Finally! Looks to be a really fun RPG with characters from Disgaea, Darkstalkers, Ar Tonelico, some other random stuff, and some new characters. The Battle mechanics look fun, so this could be worth looking into.</p>
<p><strong>inFamous!</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="inFamous! some guy using the dark side of the force?" src="http://www.ebgames.com/common/images/lbox/270262b.jpg" alt="" width="220" /><br />
It was just announced that it was pushed up one month, coming near the end of May, and it looks really fun. If interviews about the game are to be believed, everything that LOOKS climbable is, and the lightning powers look cool. Should be a very interesting release!</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">PC</span></p>
<p><strong>Crysis: Maximum Edition</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="crysis..." src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/all/boxshots2/956125_117352.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="142" /><br />
It&#8217;s Crysis&#8230; Not much more to say.</p>
<p><strong>Plants vs. Zombies</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1454" title="platsVSzombies" src="http://www.thesavepoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/untitled-1.jpg" alt="platsVSzombies" width="200" height="150" /><br />
Zombies are quite overused recently, but whatever. Seems like a little tower defense game where you place various types of plants to kill zombies.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: xx-large;">Multi-Platform Games<br />
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<p><strong>X-Men Origins: Wolverine (PS3/360/DS/PSP/PC/Wii/PS2)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="wolverine!" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2003/all/boxshots2/953918_113196.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="115" /><br />
This looks like it could be pretty fun. Expect much lamer version on PS2/PSP/DS/Wii, but it should be really good on PS3 and 360. The PC version is the &#8220;uncaged&#8221; edition, and I have no idea what&#8217;s different about it. If it&#8217;s well optimized (not like that lame PC version for the latest Spiderman game), it should at least be playable. Oh, and you can have the classic yellow-blue outfit, awesome <img src='http://www.thesavepoints.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Bionic Commando (PS3/360)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="robot arms are awesome" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/0/943680_97006_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
The gameplay videos for this are really not convincing me, but this will at least be a rental. The ue of the robot arm might be good, and the gunplay looks&#8230; just about as good as in any third-person shooter.<br />
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel (PS3/360)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="sacred shit" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/3/938603_85516_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
Didn&#8217;t like the PC version much, but if you liked the first game, you should like this one too.</p>
<p><strong>Left 4 Dead (Game of the Year Edition) (PC/360)</strong><br />
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Not really a big release. All it includes is the game with all the patches up until now and the free DLC already on the disc. Nothing special&#8230; But if you don&#8217;t have L4D yet, it&#8217;s well worth checking out.</p>
<p><strong>Terminator Salvation (PS3/360/DS/PSP/PC/Wii)</strong><br />
<img class="alignnone" title="christian bale" src="http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/944032_97767_front.jpg" alt="" width="180" /><br />
Well&#8230; the latest trailer was vastly unimpressive&#8230; Maybe it&#8217;s because so many games lately are third-person shooters that all play the same?</p>
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		<title>Oh Mercy, No Mercy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a delayed review on Sonic and Prince of Persia, I figured I&#8217;d give you guys a few pointers in Left 4 Dead. Particularly&#8230; the No Mercy stage. The only stage I ever play in versus. I&#8217;ll also conclude this post with a few game improvements I think valve should bring to the game. More [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a delayed review on Sonic and Prince of Persia, I figured I&#8217;d give you guys a few pointers in Left 4 Dead. Particularly&#8230; the No Mercy stage. The only stage I ever play in versus. I&#8217;ll also conclude this post with a few game improvements I think valve should bring to the game.</p>
<p>More after the break!</p>
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<p>Tactics!</p>
<p>As a survivor, you NEED to stick together. You also want to survive. The longer the level lasts, the lower your probability of survival is. I&#8217;m not saying run for your life, slow pokes be damned. I mean&#8230; once one person gets eliminated the rest of you just became that much easier to incapacitate!</p>
<p>Close the doors behind you! Zombies can&#8217;t open them by clicking X or whatever PC users press. They need to bust through. If you manage to close them and gain distance from them, you&#8217;re that much better off. Special zombies are slower than you. They&#8217;ll only catch up once they can press X due to the fact that they&#8217;re so far behind.</p>
<p>Use your pipe bombs and molotovs well. I&#8217;ve seen some folk just throw them cause they got them. It can be such a waste at times. For the final stretch of any level, when you call an evacuation, use molotovs on tanks only. Keep a pipe bomb for your rush to the vehicle. Before that last point in the map, I&#8217;d suggest using molotovs to cover holes in the ground from where the zombies climb up from, or possibly when you believe a tank might get triggered. By now you should know the usual spots or patterns that the AI director spawns the tank. As for pipe bombs before the evacuation segment, I&#8217;d suggest using it at moments when you &#8220;alert the horde&#8221; or get puked on by a boomer.</p>
<p>Melee, Melee, Melee. It&#8217;s EXTREMELY practical VS Hunters and Smokers. Someone&#8217;s tangled right next to you, melee. Can&#8217;t reach the smoker? Melee. Don&#8217;t bother killing him, you should know where he is and he can&#8217;t bother you for a while. Hunter&#8217;s pounced a guy next to you, instead of unloading your clip on the hunter and the survivor. Try to melee! I&#8217;ve seen people pump the shotgun for a few seconds without getting the hunter off the person. All this time the hunter&#8217;s just eating away at the survivor&#8217;s HP.</p>
<p>If you REALLY need to move and you feel the need to heal the survivor in front of you&#8230; don&#8217;t toss him some pills if you have some. That shit&#8217;s instant. Bandaging isn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>As a special zombie, there are tactics you can use too! As a boomer, when you manage to puke on folk, your regen timer for the puke takes a while to come back, just wait a while and then jump in your your kamikaze attack. The fact that they&#8217;ll shoot you will ooze them for that much longer. And of course, coordinated attacker with other specials works quite well when the survivors can&#8217;t see each other. As a smoker, dragging someone to a precipice, is AWESOME. Dragging someone from a window, making them retrace their steps is AWESOME. Dragging them off a roof to fall and take damage is AWESOME. You can almost kill a guy if you drag them off the roof during the last segment where they go to get evacuated from mercy hospital. Pairing up with a hunter benifits you alot. As a hunter&#8230; pouncing on folk that have just climbed stairs will get them to fall back down. Getting those people running point alone, lets you dig into their chest for a while before they get help. Same goes for those folks that are lost or alone in the back. If they manage to be alone in a point of no return this usually spells death. As a tank, cars can be your friend. You can pin people down with them. Try and not kill your fellow zombies in the process. Stay away from fire. Stay away from the line of sight of those turrets.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it for now! Comment if you can think of other tactics!</p>
<p>So what improvements should valve bring to Left 4 Dead? Vote return to lobby. I once played a game with a guy spamming this every moment he had. This idiot was pissed that his buddy was stuck in spectator and instead of exiting the game and finding another one, he decided it was great to make everyone vote continuously. The return to lobby screen takes a LARGE portion of the screen. To improve this, I would say that capping the amount of times you can call such a vote would be a wise move. Another one would be to announce who is calling the vote. I knew who was doing it because I was observant enough to notice such a pattern. I couldn&#8217;t however vote kick the dude. He was on the other team. They had no idea who it was and we had to suffer through this for a fairly long period of time.</p>
<p>On top of the Mercy Hospital, there&#8217;s some metal ramp you can hide under. This ramp allows zombie access through one narrow passage. It&#8217;s the best and easiest way to camp it out until the chopper. Hunters can&#8217;t pounce in because they hit the top of the ramp. Smokers are completely open to being shot down while trying to pull one out. Boomers can puke on them from the side of the ramp but it&#8217;s useless, the zombies can&#8217;t make it inside. The tank will get killed on his way in. a simple molotov and all the survivors shooting in the same direction will take him down quite fast.</p>
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		<title>Who you gonna call?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghostbusters! Hey guys, Kyolux here! Seriously, if you grew up in the 80&#8242;s, you have to make yourself the favor of watching this game trailer. I was ever-doubting the success this game would get once released, but after seeing this? I don&#8217;t really care how it&#8217;ll play (still hopefully good), the story and characters are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ghostbusters!</p>
<p>Hey guys, Kyolux here! Seriously, if you grew up in the 80&#8242;s, you have to make yourself the favor of watching <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43328.html">this game trailer</a>. I was ever-doubting the success this game would get once released, but after seeing this? I don&#8217;t really care how it&#8217;ll play (still hopefully good), the story and characters are going to be awesome.</p>
<p>Read my full rant after the break</p>
<p><span id="more-399"></span> I&#8217;m slowly and surely getting back in the gaming world, after submerging myself into end of semester works. Â Ok I did play a few games. Vluk was nice enough to let me give a go at Left 4 Dead, which plainly rock. Â Sorry we didn&#8217;t kept up with you back then. Â I since then planned to grab it on pc when I&#8217;ll have time for it.</p>
<p>On the upcoming reviews from me part, well, I finally got around to get my copy of Yakuza 2, so expect that when I&#8217;ve given it a full go, I&#8217;ve got an almost finished game of Star Ocean on PSP, which I&#8217;ll review and compare it to my memories of the Super Famicom version and I also have this sweet heavenly game (sorry guys, I&#8217;m a sell-out on this one) Valkyria Chronicles. Â When SEGA planned this game, they just told themselves: &#8220;Hey let&#8217;s use all those seiyuu (voice actors) this Kyolux guy likes&#8221; and put them in our next game. Â I&#8217;ll be covering that in detail in my review though. I&#8217;ll try to get all three of those games reviewed by the end of the month, I know it&#8217;s still a while, but 2 of them are RPG, and one has RPG elements too.Â  SEGA has really surprised me though, both Yakuza II (I sadly never tried the first game, but I&#8217;m drooling over the PS3 sequel) and VC are two games they didn&#8217;t seem to have messed up. (I&#8217;m talking to you Sonic the werehog)</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s all from me tonight, I&#8217;m off to watch Code Geass Lelouch of the Rebellion in 1080i before some well-needed sleep.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, coming up real soon is our new feature, which we hired an expert on the matter to fill it in.</p>
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		<title>Random things. Week of 01/12/2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi!</p>
<p>I figured I&#8217;d post this week about my going ons. There is no full review yet but pending someone doesn&#8217;t beat me to it. (You&#8217;re free to do so!) I will most likely review Sonic Unleashed and Prince of Persia. I picked those up yesterday. Not knowing what to think of each because things have been quite hush for both! I played one hour of each last night. Am I satisfied? Yes. Quite satisfied.</p>
<p>More after the break of course!</p>
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<p>PoP (Prince of Persia) is pretty simple to fight and navigate in. Elika saved my butt while I was pressing jump at innapropriate times where I would have plummeted to my doom. I&#8217;m fairly sure that the lack of platforming misshaps will not ruin the whole experience for me. If we&#8217;re comparing it to the original, it&#8217;s nowhere near as difficult of course. This seems to have a sands of time spin to it a whole lot more than anything else. The art direction is great. I think they were going for some sort of Cartooney <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging" target="_blank">HDR</a>. The story and voice acting is superb so far I find. It makes me think of the weird dynamic relationship you&#8217;d see with the original star wars trilogy. Yes a star wars reference. I&#8217;m a trekkie at heart but I can still make those! That&#8217;s all I will say for now.</p>
<p>As for sonic. It&#8217;s come under fire a whole lot. I think most people dissaprove of Sonic team&#8217;s (or Sega&#8217;s) constant &#8220;revamp&#8221; of the franchise. Over the years they&#8217;ve just been trying to change it up all the time to find that special something that makes it ultimately desirable or something. Addition of tails, then knuckles, then metal sonic, shadow, those pokemon like creatures from adventure, a hedgehog/human princess romance, giving shadow his own game. The list goes on. I&#8217;ve played 1 through 3, sonic cd and dabbled in adventure. As far as 3d Sonics come, this one has to be the one with the most solid handles ever. I didn&#8217;t find myself doing stuff I wasn&#8217;t intended to do and was more likely to run through the stage with extreme speeds and the least amounts of stops and/or deaths ever. So this made me remember the good old days. The intro CG is nuts. I love it so far. I&#8217;m up to werehog time now so I guess this is where the chips (yes chips hah) will fall as to my liking of this game&#8217;s new gimmick.</p>
<p>Whoa, did you notice those two other tags for this subject? World of Warcraft and Warhammer&#8230; Yeah.<br />
I&#8217;ve been playing both. I resumed warhammer lately, a friend of mine started playing. It&#8217;s an exciting game. Open RVR is where it&#8217;s at and well scenario of course. I&#8217;ve moved servers and can&#8217;t wait to reach rank 30+. This new server has a solid high tier playerbase. Tier 3 however is rather empty and full of folk that don&#8217;t seem to understand how to capture a keep. I&#8217;m begining to think the exp boost may be leveling people a bit too fast. They don&#8217;t seem to understand core mechanics of the game. Example, pulling a keep lord. I unlocked a Knight of the Blazing sun also, it&#8217;s okay but I prefer my Witch Hunter.</p>
<p>World of Warcraft. WoW. WoWcraft. Yes, I&#8217;ve started playing. I&#8217;m keeping a friend of mine company while she plays something else than Final Fantasy XI. I had tried this when the game was initially release whatever amount of years ago. This is a terribly popular game so much that I you would find all kinds of people in it. Alot of people who have learned to play an MMO before they learned to write legible english of course. I&#8217;m not saying I write perfectly but you can at least understand what I&#8217;m saying and I never use shorthand. Anyways, I&#8217;m up to level 22. I probably won&#8217;t join a guild or anything like that. I&#8217;m not in it for the social/group aspect really. This isn&#8217;t FFXI. You can get by with pickups and small groups. Between this and Warhammer I prefer warhammer of course. The games are almost identical but the class dynamics are so much more fun in warhammer. The interface is almost identical but I&#8217;d say I prefer warhammer once again. I am aware that I can plugin the crap out of it and change the interface drastically. I&#8217;m talking about out of the box here. Frame rate and general handling of the game is considerably higher in WoW though.</p>
<p>Still playing left 4 dead. If you can&#8217;t keep up and get through a level at my pace (and most of the rest of the team) you deserved to die. You&#8217;re not meant to exterminate the entire zombie populace. Run for the hills! I like those little tricks you get from watching other folk play. I can untangle people from smokers a whole lot better now. Just melee the dude directly, don&#8217;t worry about the smoker. He won&#8217;t do shit for at least a minute. Molotovs on tanks are a must. Tanks knocking folk off the roofs is awesome. Survival as a boomer is nice. Leaping up as a hunter is fun. Please, when you&#8217;re next to someone getting clawed by a hunter, don&#8217;t just unload your clip on him and the hunter. Melee the hunter off. It&#8217;s faster, you don&#8217;t need to be accurate and now you have two people capable of shooting. Grouping with the assault rifle works exactly like CS. Smaller bursts, better accuracy. As a zombie, timing is everything. Striking at regular intervals and together is totally going to own the crap out of the survivors. Last night I had a team with a molotov throwing person that managed to team kill me somehow&#8230; in the end saferoom. Later in the game the other survivor used a medic pack on me while I was at 90%HP I was so frustrated. We managed to win but mostly thanks to the fact that we were playing campaign on easy somehow.</p>
<p>Anyways. That&#8217;s it for now.</p>
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		<title>Left 4 Dead mini-rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, here&#8217;s a two-fer. This is just a rant however. I feel that the impressions that Jobocan posted covered alot of what needs to be said about Left 4 Dead. So here goes. I absolutely detest people that either purposefully throw the game because they couldn&#8217;t play with their friends or just want to be [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, here&#8217;s a two-fer.</p>
<p>This is just a rant however. I feel that <a href="http://savepoints.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/first-impressions-left-4-dead-pc-demo/" target="_blank">the impressions that Jobocan posted</a> covered alot of what needs to be said about Left 4 Dead.</p>
<p>So here goes. I absolutely detest people that either purposefully throw the game because they couldn&#8217;t play with their friends or just want to be a douche about things. Last night I did not find a single game where I had competent team mates. When it&#8217;s one single person just having fun in the saferoom you can vote kick him no problem. A replacement should take his place rather quickly due to the drop in drop out nature of this game. But when 2 out of the 4 survivors are doing this you can bet your ass I&#8217;m going to call return to lobby and leave once the vote passes. Also&#8230; if you think you&#8217;re Arnold or some crap like that and can take on 3 to 4 specials on your own. You&#8217;re doing your team a disservice. By straying you&#8217;re openning yourself to an ambush or possibly the rest of the team. Once the alliance falls down to 3 it&#8217;s quite easy to take it appart with the right timing.</p>
<p>Rant over.<br />
Play cooperatively and run like hell.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, playing as a zombie rocks.</p>
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		<title>First impressions: Left 4 Dead (PC demo)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jobocan</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I first heard of this, I thought it would be something similar to RE4, with slow useless zombies that aren&#8217;t exactly hard to kill or anything, and overall wouldn&#8217;t interest me.<br />
I recently saw some videos and thought &#8220;Whoa, this looks crazy&#8221;. Well today the demo was made available to the public (instead of just people who pre-ordered) so I thought i&#8217;d take a gander.</p>
<p>Read on for my impressions.<br />
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<strong>Graphics</strong><br />
The graphics aren&#8217;t too bad. The zombies look kinda scary, some more than others, the environments are really well done. The playable characters though don&#8217;t look THAT great. There&#8217;s some nice details and such, but overall they don&#8217;t look real. I think the graphics really fit well though, and overall it&#8217;s a really good looking game.<br />
Other than that there&#8217;s a few graphical glitches. Most notably right down the first stairway, I could see a zombie&#8217;s head pass through a wall from the next room, or you can pass through your teammates&#8217; bodies and see them transparently and such which just looks weird.</p>
<div id="attachment_316" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><a href="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/glitch.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-316" title="glitch" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/glitch.jpg" alt="Weird stuff like that happens" width="655" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Weird stuff like that happens</p></div>
<p><strong>Sound</strong><br />
This is spot on. All the sound effects, the voices, the zombie screams everything fits in great. I was totally freaked out he first time I went in the subway and heard the Witch there. Not much more to say here.</p>
<p><strong>Gameplay</strong>Â <br />
Really like this. This is definitely not your normal zombie game. Instead of the weak and slow zombies from normal zombie games, the ones here are fast and strong, and there&#8217;s a lot of them at a time.<br />
The game plays like a normal FPS, using the HL2 engine, so right there it&#8217;s a pretty different take on the usual zombie game. Â The game is really fast-paced, but at the same time it retains the usual &#8220;is there something around the corner&#8221; feel zombie games usually have.Â </p>
<p>So you start off on top of a building, and you must get in the streets to Â get to the subway to eventually get to a safe spot. You get a few weapons on the way: Shotguns, Machine Guns, Molotov Cocktails, pipe bombs and Pistols with infinite ammo (you have to reload, but you still have infinite ammo) which gets really badass once you get a second pistol. So basically you&#8217;re going from room to room, or just different sections of the map to get to the next and you kill zombies on the way.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s the normal zombie who runs fast and gang up on you, but there&#8217;s also a handful of boss enemies. Hunters are super agile and stick to surfaces and kill by jumping on you and slashing at you until a teammate helps you out. Smokers strangle you with their really long tongues, and release gaz when they die, reducing visibility and such. Boomer are fat&#8230; They vomit on your and explode when you kill them (putting vomit on you if you&#8217;re close to them). Their vomit attracts hordes of normal zombies, so be careful.<br />
There&#8217;s 2 also super bosses: Tanks, who are just really big and strong. And Witches, who &#8220;injure&#8221;(if you don&#8217;t get helped fast you die) you in one hit. Those will attack you if you startle them (AKA flash your light at them, shoot near them, or shoot them), and they have really creepy voices when you&#8217;re near them.<br />
So there&#8217;s a nice variety of enemies and the bosses really make things interesting.</p>
<p>If I had to fault something there, it&#8217;s the AI controlled teammates. They constantly get in the way and are kinda useless unless there&#8217;s a horde attacking.</p>
<p>Overall the gameplay is really good, much better than I expected, I was really surprised. Fast-paced, requires a bit of strategy, and overall just really fun to play.</p>
<p><strong>Overall</strong><br />
I was actually surprised. I wasn&#8217;t expecting this kind of fast-paced action from a zombie game. This is more about teamwork to get to the end and just blowing the crap out of everything in your way than it is about conserving ammo and such like other zombie games (I mean, you have dual-pistols with infinite ammo).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a really fun game, better than I expected. Great gameplay, nice atmosphere, it&#8217;s just really well done. Â I didn&#8217;t play the online yet, but i&#8217;ll be sure to give it a whirl sometime soon.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be buying this game until it gets a price drop, but there&#8217;s no doubt in my ming that it&#8217;s a really good game. If you like FPS or zombie games, at least give it a try, you could really end up liking this.</p>
<p><strong>Screenshots</strong><br />
Took a couple.</p>
<div id="attachment_317" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><img class="size-full wp-image-317" title="l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0001" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0001.jpg" alt="2 of your useless teammates" width="655" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">2 of your useless teammates</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_318" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><img class="size-full wp-image-318" title="l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0003" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0003.jpg" alt="Disgusting, just got vomited on &gt;_&gt;" width="655" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Disgusting, just got vomited on &gt;_&gt;</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_319" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><img class="size-full wp-image-319" title="l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0007" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0007.jpg" alt="This zombie is about to get pwnd" width="655" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">This zombie is about to get pwndÂ </p></div>
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<div id="attachment_320" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><img class="size-full wp-image-320" title="l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0008" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital01_apartment0008.jpg" alt="Why not shoot my teammates? not like they are useful anyways" width="655" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Why not shoot my teammates? It&#39;s not like they&#39;re useful anyways</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_321" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><img class="size-full wp-image-321" title="l4d_dem_hospital02_subway00111" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital02_subway00111.jpg" alt="Currently dying after stupidly attacking the witch. At least I could still shoot in that state." width="655" height="409" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Currently dying after stupidly attacking the witch. At least I could still shoot in that state.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_322" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 665px"><a href="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital02_subway0012.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-322" title="l4d_dem_hospital02_subway0012" src="http://savepoints.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/l4d_dem_hospital02_subway0012.jpg" alt="Those tanks are big, but nothing a shotgun cannot destroy" width="655" height="409" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Those tanks are big, but they&#39;re nothing a shotgun can&#39;t take care of.</p></div>
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