Sunday 28 October 2012

Dark Meadows: The Pact

Awesome game, not for PC/Xbox/Ps3

I play it on an iPad.

You wake up in an abandoned hospital, and you see this old man in a wheel chair. He starts to talk to you for only a little while and he runs away because "the witch is here."

So you walk around the hospital and he talks to you through a loud speaker.

According to him, there are "monsters" around the hospital. But their actually just failed experiments on people in the hospital.

When they kill you, you don't actually die. You black out and wake up on your bed. All your saved data will still be there.

On the first floor (my guess), you're supposed to kill the witch. 
A white lady, very elegant when she fights. Very pretty, but when she attacks, you lose at least quarter of your hp.

I haven't finished the game yet, but I love it.

It's not very scary, although I might have described it like that. It's not dark or creepy, it just looks normal. There is always light, and it's always daytime.


Saturday 27 October 2012

Portal 2

Portal 2

Extremely good story, good game. Great idea for a game. 

One thing I forgot to mention in the last post, was that this game is about Portals. Kind of obvious, really. But it goes like this: You have a gun, with every left click is a blue portal, and right click is an orange portal. You need to have two portals, and when you enter one you come out of another. Example, you walk into the blue portal, you come out from the orange one. Really paradox-like sometimes.

So at the end Portal 1, the story ends with Glados' death. The giant crazy robot in charge of the whole science facility (called Aperture Science) that tried to kill you. You blew her and the facility up into pieces, and the ending credits of Portal 1 says that she is still alive - through a very creative song called "still alive".

So in Portal 2 I wake up in a room that looks like a hotel room and a robotic man's voice asks me to walk around, jump, and then go back to sleep.

Then I wake up the second time, woken up by a robotic head with a more realistic voice and an awesome Australian accent. I love this guy, he's hilarious. Both him and Glados.

Both of us attempt to escape from the facility, which is now run down and nature is taking over it. Grass everywhere.

I walk into the main chamber where I killed Glados the first time. It was supposed to be exploded, though I'm not sure what happened in between because I must have been asleep for years, my guess.

So apparently, the robotic Australian-accent head thing tries to take over Glados' body, and accidentally woke her up. Then she picks both of us, the robotic head and I, up with a large metal clip-looking hand and presses on the robotic head, and putting me into another test chamber.

So I am just supposed to perform various tests, and once in awhile I see the head. Luckily, he's still alive and he's trying to break us out of here. 

Once he does, we ran away and then we exchange the turrets (spherical objects full of bullets that shoot at me) with the broken robots. Causing the entire turret supply line to be filled with wrong the robots.

Then we cut the supply of poison gas. Can't remember what was the name again.

Then she manages to recapture me, but this time when I escape I put the robot head into a machine and exchange the bodies of him and Glados. 

After that he went insane, and turned Glados into a potato then threw both of us down what she called the "bottomless pit" which was not so bottomless.

Then after I reach the bottom, I will keep going up through lifts and stuff like that. In the mean time, found Glados.

As we were going up to kill the robot head, it seems that the "bottomless pit" is actually part of the facility that looks like it was from the 1960's or maybe older. (Random guess.)

Then there are recorded messages playing in various old rooms/test chambers that I enter, and it was apparently the voice of the robotic head. His name was Wheatley, and Glados' voice appeared and was named Caroline.

Soon, it turns out that Wheatley and Caroline was once humans and when they died their minds were programmed and put into robots.

Wheatley was once boss of the company, and Caroline was his assistant. One of the pre-recorded messages, most likely the last one, hinted that Wheatley was about to die, and he put Caroline in charge. After that, both of them were programmed and put into robots, but without memories of their human bodies. In turn, Wheatley once called it "smelly humans".

After that, I found Wheatley and he's trying to test some weird test subject he created. Then he found me and tests me again. He stated that when he doesn't test, he has a really bad itch.

After 16 tests which were insanely difficult, he tries to kill me by smashing spiked plates on me.

I find his "lair" and Glados and I planned to attach some corrupted objects on him so they can do that body transfer again.

My job was to attack him and damage him, then plug Glados in, and push a button. Apparently, Wheatley booby-trapped the button and the sides exploded, sending me flying out of the small room.

I get up and apparently - still alive- the transfer is going. While it is, he tries to kill both of us, smashing a hole in the ceiling. I sent a portal under him, and one on the moon. Yes, the moon.

So the portal absorbs Wheatley and I into space, but Glados saved me and I blacked out. When I woke up in the lift and I turned into her best friend. According to her, she learned several valuable lessons through Caroline, although to me it doesn't really make sense.

Then she sends me off. As I go out, there are turrets singing to me. Then a door opens. Sun, yellow tall grass or wheat or whatever it was, blue sky. A door slams, and you turn around not to see a facility, but a mere shed.

Glados sings another ending song, and the scene turns to Wheatley. He was tremendously sorry and regretful, and behind him a corrupted head - robot thing I plugged into his previous body - was flying around in space screaming "I'm in Space!" and "space!"

Thursday 25 October 2012

Portal

PORTAL

Epic story. By Valve - the best company ever.

Similar to half life.

Story starts off where I wake up as a lab rat and robots do various tests on me.(I'm human.) Then after awhile the tests get suspiciously dangerous. I mean, what kind of tests shoots the lab rat then congratulates them when they survive, then bring them to an even more dangerous test?

Half-way through the tests I was promised cake. A  speaker with a woman's voice is speaking the whole time, instructing a little and promised a party.

It starts to get suspicious when the things she say are a little abnormal like, "You, insert subject name here, must be the pride of, insert name of subject's parents/hometown here."

Soon I began to see strange drawings on the wall behind some machines that I might not be supposed to see. I thought it was creepy when after I was promised cake, I see on the wall some very mentally disturbing drawings on the wall and one saying "THE CAKE IS A LIE."

Soon I finished all the tests, I stand on a moving platform waiting for my "party" with "cake."

It moves to a pit of fire and decides to drop me in it.

That's where the fun starts. I escape, she tries to pursue and kill me, and I get to her main control room and kill her.

In the process I realize that there were supposed to be scientists and she killed all of them.

So after I killed her and she explodes and the whole science laboratory explodes. I faint and the ending song in the credits (which I enjoyed very much) says that she is still alive and apparently she is insulting me: Indicating there would be a Portal 2.
So now I'm playing Portal 2, definitely will post a review soon.

Game Reviews: Amnesia The Dark Descent


FREAKIEST, SCARIEST GAME I PLAYED ALL TIME. ONLY LASTED FOR FIVE MINUTES EACH TIME. PLAYED IT FEW TIMES AND GAVE UP.

I didn't really play much because I was too scared, brix has been shat. Story starts off that you're a guy named Daniel from London. You are running around the house trying to fight off amnesia, but end up you faint and forget.

You go around the house trying to remember who you are (gameplay). and then while you're at it you'll see "things" and hear "sounds."

You find notes hinting that you're an archaeologist and that you've made a big discovery. (correct me if I'm wrong.) One note from the past you before you lost your memory said that you are supposed to kill a man named Alexander who is old, and there is a ghost following you which might explain you seeing and hearing things. Sooner you find notes talking about the Gatherers.

Then later in the game you'll see blood and body parts on the floor. It's dark. When it's dark you lose your sanity, everything shakes. The ground shakes once in a while, but is it real? Doors fling open. SUDDENLY you hear some footsteps and grunting sounds. Scary music is playing. 

HIDE. KEEP QUIET. KEEP OUT OF SIGHT. BEHIND THE SHELF.

You see it. That creature. The Gatherer. Chains around its body. Sharp claws. Jaw ripped open. It doesn't look human at all. But the note that spoke of it said it was humans lost in the war. Some sort of thing happened to the soul, and those people turned into this... Thing.

The whole game goes on, you're in a mansion looking for some three-hundred year old guy.

TIPS

WHEN YOU SEE A HALL EMPTY AND ONLY CRATES ARE IN THAT HALL, RUN. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE.

THE GATHERER CAN BREAK THROUGH WALLS, SO HIDE IN THE CLOSET. IT CAN'T BREAK THE CLOSET.

YOU CAN THROW THINGS AT THE GATHERER, BUT IT WOULD JUST WOBBLE AND BE DIZZY FOR A MOMENT AND THEN DASH AT YOU.

Sunday 21 October 2012

Game Reviews: The Elder Scrolls V - Skryim


A game so awesome I couldn't even update my blog for a month.

This game is the best game I've ever played.
It has a really good, medieval setting.
The story starts off with you as a prisoner waiting for your head to be chopped off (Executed) and once you were at the chopping board a dragon appears. It destroyed the entire city (or town) and allowing you to escape. 

After you escape, you learn that the land of Skyrim that was once ruled by the people of Forsworn was taken by Nords (two different races) and then the Nords rebelled against their king. So the people who are for the king were the Imperials and those who rebelled were the Stormcloaks. 

After that you learn that you are a born dragonslayer, and you apparently absorb souls from the dragons and learn how they shout. Dragons have a special language which would take a normal person decades just to learn one word which you (player) can learn in a second.

Normally you get attacked by bandits now and then. I survived in that game by being a thief, the fastest way to earn money without doing work, minus the killing everyone part.

BUGS

There is one very common bug for the PC version, which I play. Quest name is: A Cornered Rat. One part is that you are supposed to go to the Ratway Warrens in Riften to look for some old guy named Esbern.
He is really, really annoying through the whole quest(s) because he has a bug that causes him to not open the door, not speak, and if you turn on subtitles it goes really really fast.
So the fix is either you instal a PATCH or you use a CHEAT.
PATCH VERSION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjreSGRvLyc

After DAYS of long searching this is a HUGE help. THE BEST ONE, and the easiest one. Ever. But IN CASE, I got a message while extracting. It says "extract denied". What I did was extract everything to the desktop and copied the sound folder into data.

This guy is awesome, I can't like this video enough times.

CHEAT VERSION
You speak to him, and after you're done he would not open the door. After you use the cheat to open the door, you must first sleep on his bed for at least 9 hours 24 would be the best, and then spam talk him (keep pressing 'E' while facing him) then he will talk a little by little. Just keep doing that and he would finally open the door, but it wouldn't fix it. It would just force the game to go on. setstage m1202 160

CHEAT IS HERE: setstage m1202 160
If you don't use cheats this is how you do it:
you press this button ` and a console command box will come out and you type the cheat there. Copy and paste will not work.

There are few more bugs but this one is the worst, the other bugs shouldn't be much of a problem if you google it.

ALSO
Most people may not have noticed it. It took me a long time to figure it out:

HOW TO UNLOCK SHOUTS.
Normally when you go to the shout wall you get the shout but it requires dragon souls to unlock it. After a dragon is killed and soul is absorbed, I still couldn't figure out why the shout isn't unlocked. Then I saw the little instruction on the bottom left corner of the screen: [R] Unlock.



The Walking Dead


Recently I saw The Walking Dead Season 3's trailer on HBO and I thought it would be a nice show, the first zombies show I've seen that actually has limited bullets.

I downloaded the first and second seasons before the third one started showing.
The starting was really good.
SPOILER ALERT
It started off in the hospital, and a guy who wakes up from coma who knows nothing about zombies, or "walkers" as they call it.

SPOILER OVER.
Since they have limited ammo the whole show has very, very little zombie killing. They argue and hide from zombies most of the show, which I find boring.
Right before the ending I thought, "I don't want to watch the next episode anymore" but then they had some cliff hanging ending and I had to watch the next episode, and it goes on through the seasons.

Some people might enjoy it, since it isn't as violent. But extra bloody and gory.

It's more like a "HOW TO LIVE DURING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE FOR DUMMIES" instead of "CHECK OUT THESE GUYS SHOOTING DEAD PEOPLE".