Welcome one and all to another random Monday blog here on "In the Mind of My Mind". From the blog title and the music which should be playing by now you may be asking what exactly am I counting down for. Well that's what we are about to get into; a couple weeks back I did an interview with a small organization referred to as the Fighter's Allegiance Of Jamaica or FAJ for short. For the in-depth run through for those of you that missed it you can go check it out before I go any further by visiting this link: http://zalgocometh.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-answer-lies-in-heart-of-battle.html
Well its almost here and i'm pumped, amped up and super excited. Jamaica's first major video game tournament of this nature, with prizes totaling over $100,000; what more could any gamers ask for? A chance at money, a chance at looking cool in-front of honeys and most importantly whooping some serious ass and showing your dominance over all who step up to the challenge. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you.....MASH DI BUTTON!!!!
With all that being said I can't afford for this event to miss me. It will truly be a once in a lifetime experience to be apart of a first time even like this in Jamaica. This is history in the making people and unless you are a SDA (Seventh Day Adventist) you really shouldn't miss this; no wait scratch that even if you are SDA you should still try to come and support such an epic event. Hell just in case you were hype enough as is we another video to get the hype juices flowing for all your gamers out there...
Obviously seeing as how i'm a mind reader I know a couple of you out there are wondering what else is there to appeal to the masses of people who aren't gamers. Well no worries we got you covered too as the event will beheld at "The Spot" sports bar and grill on the University of the West Indies campus in lovely Kingston Jamaica; so there will be much food and libations and entertainment for one and all to enjoy. This event is supported and endorsed wholeheartedly by VXG, The Spot Sports Bar and Grill -UWI, Enhanced Realizm, Str8 Games and Yardie 876 Gamers. What more incentive do you really need to come out and enjoy a Saturday afternoon? Hell obviously i'm going to be there so you got to come out and show some support even just for me....pweese pwetty pweese. On the reals though I need to hit up the lab real hard this week so I don't get my ass brutally kicked in the first round of this tournament so I doubt there will be a video game review this week but we will see what I can do for y'all. You know I love y'all; so wish me luck, come out and support and ope to see you on Saturday For more information feel free to check out the Fighter's Allegiance Facebook event page for MASH DI BUTTON!!!
Also be sure to subscribe to the FAJ's youtube channel for highlights of the past present and future tournaments that will be held. You can just click this link to go to their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQQ1df3sLTWPY4Qx1NX7eYg?feature=
Its Friday so you know its time for a new video game review. Trying to clear up some of the back log of games I have to review so even though this isn't a fresh release it just recently debut on the PC. From Raccoon City to the depths of Umbrella corp we have traversed the vast universe of Resident Evil on multiple generations of platforms. Today we check out the latest installation in the series Resident Evil 6. The question on everyone's mind is "How does it stack up against the earlier releases that garnered it its fan following?" Come along and see how it fares...
Resident Evil 6, known as Biohazard 6 in Japan, is an action-adventure third-person shooter video game in the Resident Evil series, developed and published by Capcom. The story is told from the perspectives of Chris Redfield, a former member and founder of the BSAA traumatized by a failed operation, Leon S. Kennedy, a Raccoon City survivor and agent for the U.S. government, Jake Muller, illegitimate son of Albert Wesker and associate of Sherry Birkin, and Ada Wong, a freelance agent framed for the bio-terrorist attacks by Neo-Umbrella. They must all confront the force behind a massive bio-terrorist attack with the newly developed C-virus in cities across the world. Resident Evil 6 allows players to select between three scenarios with connected story-lines, each with their own intentionally different design. The player characters from each scenario will have their own partners which are controlled by either the computer AI or another human player via local or online multi-player.
What’s Good:
Graphics: Definitely Resident Evil has come a long way in term of graphics; especially from what I have seen here on the PC version I played. Textures are smooth and well blended, hair detail and skin colors are definitely above average. Capcom did a fine job bringing Resident evil into this current generation of gaming from the the character models to the environments you can see the attention to detail.
Replay Value: This game will have you playing for hours upon hours on end. There is certainly no shortage of content in this game. Each campaign is broken into varying chapters and the chapters have sub chapters as well. Couple that with both online or local play and going further to factor in the skills that can be bought which you will need skill points to buy you will definitely not be going out anytime soon once you start playing this game. There is just so much content you honestly don't know who you should start off with first.
What’s Bad:
Game Mechanics: I don't know whether its the clunky movement, the occasional camera angle issues or just the annoyance of being forced to walk when I really want to run but something feels off about these aspects of the game mechanics. Don't even get me started on randomly tripping over bodies on the floor for some strange reason. I saw strange because I really don't see how having that in the game was an effective game design choice but whatever.
What Should Have Been Added:
With how the game is structured I hope they Add other characters from the Resident Evil franchise as DLC and have intertwining campaigns as such helping to fully tell the story of how every thing happens and got to the state it is in currently.
Final Thoughts:
While the series may not be living up to the legacy set by the original Resident Evil series, this new direction that Resident Evil is venturing into is not completely a bad thing. The have definitely improved upon their initial effort to take the game in this direction from Resident Evil 5. I most definitely did not enjoy playing that at all but this game feels much better than its predecessor So definitely don't write this game off quite yet, Capcom has done a decent job modernizing and structuring the ebb and flow of the game to cater to a wider and more diverse audience now. Not to mention even with the changes to the usual game flow we still see elements of the original games present in the game. ie. scarcity of items and bullets. Check out our introductory play-through and see if it appeals enough to you to wanna try it out.
Hey y'all; here we are in week three of free games month here on Zalgo Cometh. It is time for another video game review and today we will be looking at Slender. Slender is a free indie-developed psychological horror/survival horror video game released in June 2012 as a beta for Microsoft Windows and OS X. The game is based on the Something Awful forums' creation, Slender Man.
Slender begins with the player in a forest at night. The player is equipped with a flashlight that has a battery which must be conserved. The player is able to jog for a short period before running out of breath. There are 10 different landmarks scattered throughout the woods including vehicles, a building, a giant tree, rocks, brick walls, a stone pillar, a tunnel, cut down trees, and fuel tanks. Dirt paths are present, but the player is able to travel in any direction and is only bound by fences which enclose the area. The goal of the game is to find a total of eight pages hidden on 8 of the 10 major landmarks in the forest, though collecting the 8 pages will not end the game. Each page is a message or drawing concerning Slender Man, who pursues the player through the forest. Each time the player collects a page (or if the player fails to collect a page after a certain period of time) Slender Man's pursuit of the player becomes more urgent. Asked a friend of mine to play the game as well and give me his input and here is what he had to say...
So
since I got this from the Boss, to do areview on. I decide to just
jump right into the game. Without knowing the legend of the game slender is something you should not
try to do, trust me. This cat and mouse game give you at least fifteen minutes
of game play if you mange to make it to
the last page. If not, it's a game not for the weak hearted, that would scare you and your friends into a
heart attack or give you high ratings in your YouTube video about them. It's a
simple sandbox game that you can get trap and lost in if you do not know where you're
going. If you
can get past the low graphics, eerie noise and a paranormal creature that is
hunting you. It's a great game to see who gets scared the fastest and loudest. This is Sir. Chalo
Underpants signing out.
Well think he pretty much covered it all; not much to say since its a short free game but if you want to check it out for yourself you can go to http://slendergame.com and download it or click here. Well until next time folks try not to die from a heart attack, its a lot fun being scared at times so be sure you try out the game or you can just watch me suffer through it here...
Hey there gamers and non-gamers alike; been a while, well technically two weeks since I brought you some video-game goodness. Well i'm here to rectify this in a big way, for the month of August we will be reviewing and featuring free games available to any and everyone since its been a while I did a review for a free game. Coupled with that i'm going to have a another video-game giveaway for Steam again; so much freeness you would think money never existed. Ok maybe not that much freeness but you get the point, there is going to be a bunch of freeness to take advantage of. So enough dillydallying lets jump into todays review; today we play Pockie Ninja II Social.
Now after seeing that I don't even feel like I need to hype this game up anymore. How could you not want to play something with a premise like this, then couple that with the fact that we are talking about ninja's here, then to top it all off you get to see all this take place from the ease and comfort of a browser. No heavy duty machinery or console required? Tell me how awesome I am for bringing you this game today...Go on....i'm waiting. Now granted I said this game is free and technically it is, it is modeled on something called the free-to-play model. In a perfect world all aspects and features of the game would be free but sadly we do not live in such a world as the programmers and development team behind the game have families to feed and bills to pay. So let me just break down what that equates to for the new or non gaming readers out there:
Free-to-play (F2P) refers to any video game or social or mobile application that has the option of allowing its players/users to play/download without paying. The model was first popularly used in early massively multiplayer online games (MMO) targeted towards casual gamers, before finding wider adoption among games released by major video game publishers to combat video game piracy and high system requirements. Since games using the concept are available at no cost to players, they use other means to gather revenue, such as charging money for certain in-game items (like powerful bonuses which are usually available for real money only) or integrating advertisements into the game. Free-to-play can be compared to pay-to-play, in which payment is required before using a service. Pay-to-play games usually offer equal gaming experience for all players while free-to-play games give advantage to premium players. Now that we have explained that lets talk about the actual game; here is what it looks like...
Pockie Ninja II Social is a browser-based, innovative tactic game. Based on the storyline of Naruto, the game combines village building and battling to create a brand new ninja world. Players can find 84 ninjas from Naruto, employ favorite ones to construct a fancy village, or send these ninjas to the battlefield and build a formidable ninja army. You begin the game by choosing a ninja of your liking from six ninjas (3 Male/3 Female) based on the three types of classes in the game; Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, and Weapon. The game's damage system operates on a similar system to the game of Janken (rock, paper, sicssors) where Ninjutsu beats Taijutsu, Taijutsu beats Weapon, and Weapon beats Ninjutsu. Always pay close attention to your opponents class type as it plays a vital role in all upcoming battles and can severely turn the tide in your favor.
After entering the game with your newly chosen character you find yourself in a vast open space; this is to be the site of your ninja village as you build it from the ground up. You can decorate your village to raise its prosperity level and keep your fellow ninja happy as well as granting you access to more expensive and more profitable buildings to sustain the economy of your village. The game has a very easy to use and follow graphics user interface (GUI) which clearly shows all the commands and instructions in plain view; add to that a brief tutorial to get you started on each new aspect of the game as it comes into play. The game essentially takes you through the story arc of the popular Japanese anime Naruto on which it is based in the guise of levels in which you battle other ninja type enemies to clear challenges. These challenges reward you with Ryo (the game main currency) and assorted materials useful in upgrading/constructing buildings in your village. As I make mention of battling lets take a look at the in-game battling system...
So battle takes place on a grid layout that determines your field of battle; sometimes it is level other times you may find obstacles obstructing your path such as trees or boulders just to name a few. Players can move their ninja strategically so as to get them in range of their opponent to fire off an attack or conversely move them away to delay the opponents attack pattern. I made mention of the varying class types earlier this also affects movement of individual ninjas:
1. Taijutsu based ninjas have the most mobility on the field being able to move the furthest distances; this is counterbalanced by giving them the shortest reach leaving them only able to attack an opponent that is in the square directly beside them.
2. Weapon based ninja have the medium ground in terms of mobility on the field being able to move a sizable distance without sacrificing their ability to attack from a distance.
3. Ninjutsu based ninjas have the least amount of mobility on the field being able to move about only 2-3 squares from their initial positions but they are blessed with the most range on their attacks.
Each ninja you gain has one attack skill available to him/her by default there is a second slot for another attack skill but this has to be unlock by paying 30,000 Ryo. There is also a main skill that can be taught through the use of a skill book you can acquire through varying means in-game. These two skills in addition to the primary physical attack each ninja has are what you use to battle against the opponent until you have essentially depleted the life points of all the enemy ninja. Battles can be done manually where you dictate the movement and attack patterns of the ninja's in your control or battles can be auto piloted where the ninja move and attack for themselves as best they see fit. So even if you don't fully get the battle system you can use auto-combat until you do.
Well guys I think I have explained all I can without spoiling too much of the game at least this review should provide you with enough information as always to get you interested and wanting to play the game. So what are you waiting for; all you need is a Facebook account and you are good to go join the awesome world of Pockie Ninja II Social. So click the link and get started, you got some catching up to do...(b'.')b
