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| Team Fortress 2, valve |
Friday, 24 June 2011
Monday, 13 June 2011
Flashback to the Past:!0 Games I played as a Kid
I still remember as a Kid, I play a variety of games with my friends and relatives or by myself too. Today's Post is gonna cover 10 games I played as a Kid and why I like playing them!
1:Hide and Seek
Tag is a classic children's game that has survived to..well..at least our generation. Its a fun and thrilling game where one person is the catcher and the rest has to hide and try not to be found. The Catcher has to cover their eyes and count to ten while the rest of the group will hide and the game ends when everyone is found. Hide and Seek is fun because its thrilling and full of suspense as you try to find the best hiding spot where the catcher will not look and the happy feeling as the catcher fails to notice you hiding while being in the same room.
2:Freeze tag
I still remember playing this game during primary school during recess where me and my friends would play it at the parade square almost everyday. This game is where one person is the catcher and the others try to prevent the catcher from touching them if they fail to do so then they are frozen and cannot move but other players can touch them and unfreeze them and continue. Freeze Tag is fun as it gets the adrenaline pumping from all that running and evading the catcher and I really love moving and running about as a kid as we had a lot of energy back then.
3:Snake and Ladders
The Classic Board Game, Snakes and Ladders, A simple board game featuring snakes and ladders. The game is played on a grid board where each player rolls a dice during their respective turns to decide how many squares to move. If there is a ladder then the player gets to go up to the connecting square but if its a snake then the player has to move down instead. I love it as its very simple to play and its mostly based on luck as the major factor to winning is the dice so if your lucky and get the correct dice rolls you can win.
4:Uno
Another Classic game, Uno is a Card game where you cards with numbers and and is coloured in red,blue,yellow and green and to win the game , you must discard all your cards.the first player will place a card on the table and the next player can only discard a card with the same number and/or colour of the first card and this continues with the rest of the players. Uno is very fun as its simple to grasp as well as its fun to come up with strategies to win and it is fun sometimes to ruin someone's game by playing the Draw X cards which can help you win the game :D
5:Checkers
Another Classic Board game,where 2 players (Black and Red) try to eliminate all of the opponent's pieces before the opponent does the same. The players can only move their pieces diagonally and the pieces can only remove the enemy piece if there is a space behind that piece. I love checkers as its a simple yet complicated game as there are so many strategies that you can come up with to play the game.
6:Tetris
One of the well-known games in modern culture, Tetris is a puzzle game where you align pieces together to form a line so that it will be removed from the screen and the main goal is to survive as long as possible but if the entire screen is filled up then you lose. I really really really love tetris! Its a good time-killer and it works out your brain in the process too by figuring out where to put which pieces so that it would bite you back later and the fact that the speed of the game increases as time passes and more lines are cleared.
7:Pokemon Red/Blue/Green
The 3 versions of Pokemon that started it all, Pokemon is a RPG for the gameboy from game freaks. In Pokemon, you play a silent protagonist who starts out in a small town and gains a pokemon(pocket Monster) from the local researcher/professor who happens to be the only professor in the region and so you starts a quest to be the pokemon champion. The Creator of this series got his inspiration from his own childhood experiences of catching bugs in his hometown and so he wanted future generations of children to experience the same through pokemon. Why I love Pokemon? Well firstly I love the character designs of the 150 pokemon and I want to Catch them all because of it! Secondly, I find the attacks of that the pokemon can do amazing as you cant find animals in real life suddenly shoot giant lazers or summoning a giant tidal wave.
8:Monopoly
As a Kid, I played monopoly with my classmates after the End of the year exams as there was no lessons being held so we were allowed to play games during class. Monopoly is a Well-known Board Game where players are trying to gain sets of properties on a board and the player wins if they obtain X amount of sets. Like some of the games i mentioned above, I love Monopoly as creating strategies to win is FUN, and causing misfortune to the other players by forcing them to pay costly rent as they pass by your property.
9:Black & White
Ah..Black & White, one of my favorite games on the PC, Its a god game where you get to pick a creature(Cow,Monkey,Tiger,Lion,Wolf and Others) and perform miracles to influence and get people to believe in you so that you can progress through the game. I love this game as i love my Giant Tiger and its sometimes fun to pick up tiny villagers and throw them across the island for fun or get my tiger to eat them or set them on fire.....or cast a fireball and throw it into the sky or going to an enemy settlement and throw a giant Rock into their buildings...ah I love the smell of destruction and Chaos in my island....and I love my 2 advisers, Good and Evil who are 2 funny dudes...
10: Super Mario Land
Yes, the super famous Mario, That Italian Red Plumber who eats mushrooms and butt stomps on enemies and rescues his girlfriend in almost every single game in the series but its truly fun as nothing beats butt stomping or jumping on goons and beating up bowser almost every single time and sometimes is entertaining when you accidently slide your way into a bottomless pit...>.>
1:Hide and Seek
Tag is a classic children's game that has survived to..well..at least our generation. Its a fun and thrilling game where one person is the catcher and the rest has to hide and try not to be found. The Catcher has to cover their eyes and count to ten while the rest of the group will hide and the game ends when everyone is found. Hide and Seek is fun because its thrilling and full of suspense as you try to find the best hiding spot where the catcher will not look and the happy feeling as the catcher fails to notice you hiding while being in the same room.
2:Freeze tag
I still remember playing this game during primary school during recess where me and my friends would play it at the parade square almost everyday. This game is where one person is the catcher and the others try to prevent the catcher from touching them if they fail to do so then they are frozen and cannot move but other players can touch them and unfreeze them and continue. Freeze Tag is fun as it gets the adrenaline pumping from all that running and evading the catcher and I really love moving and running about as a kid as we had a lot of energy back then.
3:Snake and Ladders
The Classic Board Game, Snakes and Ladders, A simple board game featuring snakes and ladders. The game is played on a grid board where each player rolls a dice during their respective turns to decide how many squares to move. If there is a ladder then the player gets to go up to the connecting square but if its a snake then the player has to move down instead. I love it as its very simple to play and its mostly based on luck as the major factor to winning is the dice so if your lucky and get the correct dice rolls you can win.
4:Uno
Another Classic game, Uno is a Card game where you cards with numbers and and is coloured in red,blue,yellow and green and to win the game , you must discard all your cards.the first player will place a card on the table and the next player can only discard a card with the same number and/or colour of the first card and this continues with the rest of the players. Uno is very fun as its simple to grasp as well as its fun to come up with strategies to win and it is fun sometimes to ruin someone's game by playing the Draw X cards which can help you win the game :D
5:Checkers
Another Classic Board game,where 2 players (Black and Red) try to eliminate all of the opponent's pieces before the opponent does the same. The players can only move their pieces diagonally and the pieces can only remove the enemy piece if there is a space behind that piece. I love checkers as its a simple yet complicated game as there are so many strategies that you can come up with to play the game.
6:Tetris
One of the well-known games in modern culture, Tetris is a puzzle game where you align pieces together to form a line so that it will be removed from the screen and the main goal is to survive as long as possible but if the entire screen is filled up then you lose. I really really really love tetris! Its a good time-killer and it works out your brain in the process too by figuring out where to put which pieces so that it would bite you back later and the fact that the speed of the game increases as time passes and more lines are cleared.
7:Pokemon Red/Blue/Green
The 3 versions of Pokemon that started it all, Pokemon is a RPG for the gameboy from game freaks. In Pokemon, you play a silent protagonist who starts out in a small town and gains a pokemon(pocket Monster) from the local researcher/professor who happens to be the only professor in the region and so you starts a quest to be the pokemon champion. The Creator of this series got his inspiration from his own childhood experiences of catching bugs in his hometown and so he wanted future generations of children to experience the same through pokemon. Why I love Pokemon? Well firstly I love the character designs of the 150 pokemon and I want to Catch them all because of it! Secondly, I find the attacks of that the pokemon can do amazing as you cant find animals in real life suddenly shoot giant lazers or summoning a giant tidal wave.
8:Monopoly
As a Kid, I played monopoly with my classmates after the End of the year exams as there was no lessons being held so we were allowed to play games during class. Monopoly is a Well-known Board Game where players are trying to gain sets of properties on a board and the player wins if they obtain X amount of sets. Like some of the games i mentioned above, I love Monopoly as creating strategies to win is FUN, and causing misfortune to the other players by forcing them to pay costly rent as they pass by your property.
9:Black & White
Ah..Black & White, one of my favorite games on the PC, Its a god game where you get to pick a creature(Cow,Monkey,Tiger,Lion,Wolf and Others) and perform miracles to influence and get people to believe in you so that you can progress through the game. I love this game as i love my Giant Tiger and its sometimes fun to pick up tiny villagers and throw them across the island for fun or get my tiger to eat them or set them on fire.....or cast a fireball and throw it into the sky or going to an enemy settlement and throw a giant Rock into their buildings...ah I love the smell of destruction and Chaos in my island....and I love my 2 advisers, Good and Evil who are 2 funny dudes...
10: Super Mario Land
Yes, the super famous Mario, That Italian Red Plumber who eats mushrooms and butt stomps on enemies and rescues his girlfriend in almost every single game in the series but its truly fun as nothing beats butt stomping or jumping on goons and beating up bowser almost every single time and sometimes is entertaining when you accidently slide your way into a bottomless pit...>.>
Sunday, 15 May 2011
Your life A Video Game!??!?!?!
Yes! You heard me Correctly! Your Life can give birth to a Video Game...Well Not your entire Life....Parts of your life will suffice.... :D
Today I'm gonna List down 5 Aspects of my Life that Can be used in Video Games!!!!
No.1: Transportation and Journey
I live far away from My School so I take a long time to get there. So I need to plan which transport to take and what route to get to the next part of my journey. But usually I walk to the train station and take a train all the way there but there are multiple ways to get there too via train. So How to translate this to video gaming? Make the gameplay about getting from Point A to B. A game of this example is a wii ware game called Tomena Sanner or you can also say its like Crazy Taxi too Cause this two games are "racing" games where you go from point a to point b as fast as possible.
No.2: Music Makes the World Go Round!
Music Is one of the important aspects of my life...I listen to music almost 24/7 hence the headphones I wear almost everyday! Music is featured in alot of games. It is used in soundtracks to gameplay elements like Rockband and the Guitar Hero franchises. I would use music to influence the gameplay like what Child of Eden does its the spiritual successor to Rez and well its a rhythm shooter where each shot will produce a sound which affects the music. As a gameplay element I would use music for example in a hack and slash like Devil May Cry series to affect your fighting style like how he/she attacks or how fast she/he attacks and there will bonuses to attacking in sync with the music.
No.3: (Day)Dreaming
I'm truly Fascinated by the Human Mind and its ability to dream. From Fever dreams to Nightmares, So many Universes just spawn from our grey matter. A Unison of left and right brain . Well Game Wise, I would use dreaming as a generator of items,Worlds,Dungeons,Units. As from your mind there are ideas that spawn so why not use it! Well For example, The .Hack series has used random word generators to create different dungeons for you to explore and has used the Human Mind as well as in Persona 4, The Place where all the dungeon Takes place is actually a representation of the collective human mind.
No.4: Clothing and Appearence
Well who does'nt want to look good? Well at least I certainly Want to look good! I always go look or buy new clothes few times a year at various establishments like Cotton on and others. I love games that have a full fledged Character Designer or aka Make-A-(Blank) mode. Bioware has one of the best character creators in the gaming industry if you look at their creators in mass effect or dragon age, they provide you with the tools to make any character you can think of. Another game with a great character maker is Spore. The Creature Maker from Spore is awesome with the ability to make from a polar bear to a dragon or a 3 headed polar bear dragon. But Not to get carried away, If it were to be the main gameplay element, the combination of what clothing you wear could give your character bonus or abilities or skills and in multiplayer ,you can totally identify your character easier. Also If its mostly about Create-a-Blank mode then it would be like a god game where you create life on the way you like it and see how it evolves and grow.
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| Spore,Maxis |
Lastly....No.5: People and Relationships...
I know if you've played Persona 3/4 you will automatically say: SOCIAL LINKS!!!!!
Like Social Links in Persona 3/4, people and relationships can grant you bonus and perks if you treat them right! That sounds kind of abusive....but its true cause from people and others you help others as others help you and from this we all grow for the better or for the worse. This is one of the common aspects of our lives..with technology, our world has shrunk and its not hard to find others too. In a game sense, If the main gameplay mechanics are people and relationships then it might as well be a dating game cause social links mechanic is essentially a dating game but more of a friendship version not a romantic one but sometimes it is. But you can go even futher as this gameplay mechanic is found in Visual Novels too. So basically for gameplay, People and Relationships will grant you rewards based on your actions.
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| Social Link Rank Up,Persona 4,Atlus |
So There! These are 5 parts of my life that can be used in Gaming! So Be Inspired and Just stop and Smell the Roses Cause you might find some sight that will take your breath away!
Saturday, 7 May 2011
Oh NO!!!! A BAD GAME!!!!
HI!
Well today im gonna talk about a DOA game (DEAD ON ARRIVAL) called Valhalla Knights.
Its a Game for the PSP made in japan.
Well the games takes place in a Cursed land where the forces of good and evil battled and waged warfare.You play a custom made character who awkens in this land with no memories, the people living there are cursed which caused them to live forever,unable to die.
Well I dont like this game as the graphics used in the game are very bland and repetative and so is the combat as action style battle system isnt really action packed and together with the bland graphics bore me even more. Not even the character customization can save this game from bordem. So its kinda a bad game since the main gameplay is kinda shallow and boring...well they can improve it by making more colourfull and more variety of areas instead of all be connected to dungeon and they could go further with the battle system
Well today im gonna talk about a DOA game (DEAD ON ARRIVAL) called Valhalla Knights.
Its a Game for the PSP made in japan.
Well the games takes place in a Cursed land where the forces of good and evil battled and waged warfare.You play a custom made character who awkens in this land with no memories, the people living there are cursed which caused them to live forever,unable to die.
Well I dont like this game as the graphics used in the game are very bland and repetative and so is the combat as action style battle system isnt really action packed and together with the bland graphics bore me even more. Not even the character customization can save this game from bordem. So its kinda a bad game since the main gameplay is kinda shallow and boring...well they can improve it by making more colourfull and more variety of areas instead of all be connected to dungeon and they could go further with the battle system
Sunday, 1 May 2011
Play Testing: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Gameplay Footage of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance,From Square Enix
Hey! This is a "Play Test" where I talk about a specific game like in this case: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance from Square Enix.
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| Marche (FFTA) ,Square Enix |
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is a Tactical Turn Based Role Playing Game for the GBA in 2003. Its the spiritual successor to the PS1 Game Final Fantasy Tactics. Which itself is similar to another Square Enix Creation: Tactics Ogre. The Story takes place in the town of Ivalice, a snow covered town where the main character , (who can be renamed but we shall call him by his default name) , Marche just moved to.
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| Snowball Fight Tutorial |
The Game's Tutorial is a snowball fight which teaches players the controls which essentially is this :
Players Move one character at a time on a square grid. The Character with the Highest Speed will go first like most rpgs, The Players are able to move, attack or use skills, when the player moves or finish using a skill/attack the players have to set which direction the character will face as this will affect the accuracy of the attack recieved or dealt. For example, two characters facing each other will have less accuracy than a character attacking a character facing the opposite direction then the attacker.
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| Cid, A Judge, From Final Fantasy Wikia ,Square Enix |
Eventually, Laws are introduced in the second battle of the game.Laws are rules placed by Judges before each battles starts, If any character breaks any Laws they will get a card depending on the Level of the Law and the worst card to get is a Red Card which will remove the character from the battle and for an X future battles.
The Game has a variety of Classes to choose from depending on what race the character is ranging from a bowman to a thief.
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| Ritz(FFTA), Square Enix |
The Story is about Marche's and his gang's Journey to discover themselves as they get cast into the world of Ivalice the Country after his friend Mewt and Rtiz find a mysterious Tome with Weird Text.The Story is not a normal one as the main Character is in a sense the Antagonist of the story as Marche wants to return to Ivalice the town but his friends object to it and want to live a new life.
| Shiva(FFTA), A summon, Square Enix |
Part 2: My Play testing Experience
I am a fan of the Tactics Genre as Its fun to create strategies to outwit your opponents and win the battle. So Naturally I am a Fan of this game too! What I love about it is the Job system, each races has a variety of jobs to choose from. In my various sessions with the game, I always go for certain classes as they suite my play styles which are Ninja,Assassin/Sniper,Dragoon/Templar,Morpher/Illusionist,Hunter/Summoner and Time Mage.
This Jobs will always be in my party at all times, Ninjas are useful as they can learn dual wield which allows them to learn 2 skills at one time which also allows them to deal more damage. Assassins and Snipers are my damage dealers as Assassins are one of the most deadliest job in the game as they can instantly kill any opponent if used correctly and snipers can cause status alignments from afar, Dragoon/Templar are my tanks which means they absorb damage and deal them back to the enemy but not so much in a tactical game so they are sort of my back up damage dealers. Illusionist and Summoner are my AOE specialist as the Illusionist is one of the 2 jobs in the game which are able to AOE the entire enemy party which comes in handy sometimes and the summoner can summon..well summons? and they have alot of mp to use when healing. and time mage is my support character. In this game , you can use another class skils while being another class which comes in handy two so you can switch roles when needed to.
The most usual strategy is this: Placing all the non-squishy party members around/in front of the squishy members or i.e the tanks and damage dealers defend the mages and healers and archers.
I would Cast support skills on my party before going after the enemy, The most effective way to do more damage is to get behind an enemy and attack or face the back of the enemy if attacking from long distance.
I also love this game because of the satisfying skill : COMBO
In battle, each KO gives the character 1 judge point which allows the character to do 2 things: Summon the Race Totema( Affects the entire enemy/player Party) or do a Combo. In this game, if a character is nearby any friendly characters who are able to combos will join the combo if initiated. The Epic animation of several characters beating up a enemy unit is satisfying.
The Only negative thing about this game is that the you cant skip the tutorial and its a little slow into opening the world to you as you have to scroll through a wall of text to get to the job system in the opening hour of the game. Also the Laws sometimes can cause frustration in battle when you get several laws that work against you if your unprepared.
But Overall I still Love this game as I Played it Several Times over the years and still play it till this day occasionally. It Spawned a Sequel called Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2 which further refined the gameplay and expands the game even further. So Please go Play this game or Play the sequels and the other games mentioned in this post! BYE! <3 Zaky!
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| Final Fantasy Tactics Advance,2003, Square Enix |
Friday, 29 April 2011
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