It's a Trap!

THIS

So that happened.

If you don't feel like reading that it's basically a former mod talking about how the game is a scam. Which worked on me because asshole X convinced me to pay 50 fucking dollars for. Fuck.

As much as I want to rage about this there are plenty of other things to talk about. So why not League.

I've been playing a fuckton of League (of Legends) lately. Like an unhealthy amount. I went from level like 10 back in September to 30 at the beginning of November. Now I play ranked games and am at about 1300 ELO and I didn't even know the names of half the fucking champs 2 months ago.

My grades have dropped, I am in a sad state of living, but I cannot stop playing this goddamn game. I got a bunch of my friends hooked too so we might have enough to start our own ranked team.

I've logged at least 200 hours over the past 2 months. I metagame all day when I'm not playing. I watch streams, I test my own builds, I've watched all the champion spotlights. I don't even play like any other game anymore (although I just bought Terraria and that's a lot of fun).

My life is in shambles.

Maybe I'll start recording videos or something of my games. That's like the only thing I could do. I want to start streaming but it would be hard to find a viewer base without anyone knowing of the stream. Also I can't really see myself casting anything because I'll never pretend that I know more than other people about anything. So who knows, maybe YouTube is the goto.

Hmm.. Other than that... well in some recent news the latest Humble Bundle features a bunch of THQ games. Which is far from indie but I'm not gonna complain about getting Saint's Row 3, Darksiders, and Company of Heroes for under 6 bucks. Plus you can set it so that THQ doesn't get any of the money! BECAUSE FUCK YOU THQ, THAT'S WHAT YOU GET FOR MAKING A 50 CENT GAME.

But yeah, definitely check that out it's an amazing deal.

Not much else to report.
Peace
-T

XCom Enemy Unknown

tl;dr  THIS GAME IS AMAZING GO BUY IT


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So I've started playing XCom, if you didn't already guess that.

I was a bit skeptical at first, in fact, I played through the tutorial when I first installed it a few weeks ago and then just stopped. Mainly because I started playing a lot of League of Legends because a bunch of my friends started playing it, but I cannot justify putting this game down for so long.

Ok, so, it starts out. And you're pretty much just thrown into battle after a short cutscene. That's when I learned this game was a turn-based strategy game. See I had never played the original XCom so I had no idea what I was getting into. ARCH3R told me it looked like an amazing game, and he's usually right about stuff like that, so I got it.

So after a few tutorial-esque introductory bullshit you get complete control of your base, and your soldiers, and your research projects.

Man. I was expecting some sort of futuristic Fire Emblem after the first battle, but this game is much more in depth than that. One thing I know a lot of people love about this game is the character creation, but I'll get to that in a sec.

First of all, I would like to say, I hate games that try to let you micro-manage too hard. Have you ever played Age of Empires 3? You know that "Home City" bullshit? Yeah that was fun for like 2 minutes. If I wanted to skill build I'd play a goddamn RPG for fucks sake.

But XCom... Oh god.. it's just not comparable to anything I've played.

Honestly, I know the game mechanics are nothing revolutionary, but just the game feel and everything is so well done. This is the first game where I've cared about my characters, whether or not I succeeded at missions, how my base looked. All this bullshit that doesn't even really make a difference to the actual gameplay. I was confused and aroused. It was magical

Ok, so I've got my base, I'm researching only weapons (because everything else is pointless amirite) and killing aliens. That's a pretty sweet combination if you ask me. It's like Civ5 meets Fire Emblem meets Gears of War. And they had a long discussion about starting a business together and what key business elements they could each bring to the business table.

Business.

Ok, character creation.

By far the best part of the game in my opinion. Not just because you can customize each individual member of you squad, and change their loadouts, and armour colour, and race (yeah you can actually change their race, it's hilarious), but because it makes you care about what happens to your team after you've created them. You've given them all defining features and names, and nicknames! You don't want to make these motherfuckers die! Then you'd have to make more!

So naturally, when I got a hold of this I created the dream team:

Biggie Smalls, Bubba Sparxxx, Daft Punk, and Michele Obama.

What could possibly go wrong?

I'll fucking tell you what, Bubba Sparxxx got ambushed and took a plasma shot to the face. And Dumbass Michele Obama missed a shot at pointblank range and got poisoned by a slenderman.

Slenderman is legit in this game, look at this shit.

Look at that lanky-ass motherfucker.

They refer to him in the game as "Thin Men". Are you kidding me? You could at least try to conceal the fact you're ripping the character off.

They actually freak the shit out of me though so well done.

So like I said, it's hard losing squadmates. I was actually upset when members of my main team died. I mean, I expected it, and I was careless, but still. There's even a little memorial page in the barracks of your base with the names of all the dead soldiers from your campaign. It's beautiful. I'm not very far in the game, but I can imagine they'll be a cutscene at the end where it'll show all those names. That would be hilarious.

I do have to say though, as enjoyable as it is, creating new soldiers is pretty tedious. I'll usually have like 2-3 custom ones on my team and then just fill up with randoms because I want to get back to playing the game.

Also I would like to say how the mission system is kind of bullshit. Once the story progresses the missions get harder and harder, makes sense right? But if a large chunk of your team dies, which has happened to me several times, it makes it near impossible to get through the missions with low level casuals named "Feng Seng". Seriously, who created the naming database for this shit?

Good game overall though, 2 thumbs up, probably like an 8.5/10 just because of the mission system and there were quite a few graphical flaws. Speaking of which, the graphics are nothing spectacular. I mean they're nice but I honestly expected a little better.

In other news. I hit summoner level 21 in League the other day. Almost ranked! Yay!

Also WarZ is getting better everyday, like they're actually patching it daily it's awesome. And it makes it easy to laugh at the people on reddit who said it was a scam.

Peace, internet

-T

Everything went According to plan

Well.

Nope.

Not quite.

The WarZ alpha launch was pretty interesting, I found out that streaming/recording anything from the alpha breaks the NDA for the game. So I didn't do any of those things, even though no one would have seen it. Once beta is up though you better believe we'll be posting some content.. I promise..

-T

MAYBE

Hai

Let's start off with my absence from this blog. I haven't really been feeling in a blogging mood for quite some time, but I figured why not, I have things to complain about to the internet!

While I never thought that something like the state of my internet could make me legitimately sad sometimes, it actually does. I think it's because basically my whole life I haven't really had a good stable fast internet connection, and when I was going to college last year I did, and it made me feel really good and then POOF moved to make money in a shitty place that uses satellite internet. 

Okay I'm done. 

Maybe I'll post later.

Maybe.

-A

Zombies and Live stream!

Oh hey there internet.

So, haven't posted anything real.. I guess ever, this blog has just been bullshit since the beginning. However, something is actually happening now!

So this new game is coming out (well in alpha stage) on Monday October 15th called The WarZ

It's basically DayZ, but it's a standalone game, not a mod. And it's supposedly been in the works since before DayZ was a thing. I actually have no idea but that's what I was told. Go check out the forums there's a bunch of cool shit on there.

But anyway, A and I (huh, A and I.. AI.. that's kinda neat) both preordered this game with legend status. That means we get to play right when the alpha becomes live. So on Monday night, we will be streaming.

I've already set up a twitch account: twitch.tv/tikatee, and we tested it out a few days ago and it appeared to be working fine.

So be sure to tune in, let's say around 8PM Atlantic time for some zombie killing fun.

Of course no one reads this so I won't expect m(any) viewers.

Peace.
-T

Campooter

And here I am!

As promised I'm making a little posty-post as a little bit better of an update.

Here are a couple pics of my parts and build, pre and post-op:

Other than a few minor hiccoughs, the build went pretty smoothly and is running great! I still can't get over how fast shit loads from my SSD!

In terms of gaming, like I said before playing a lot of different games just because I can, and spending too much money for games online...

Started playing League of Legends like I said, and I really want to get good at this game. I'm still very low level so not even close to getting ranked or anything like that. Hell I haven't even done any meta-gaming so I pretty much have no idea what I'm doing. I've mainly been playing Mid Twisted Fate which is hilariously fun because most of the people I play with/against have no idea what he can do. I've got a couple friends who are higher up who have been giving me League tips so hopefully once my school schedule calms down a bit I'll be able to get decent.

I should be playing more SC2, actually I haven't played it once on this computer yet. Maybe I've just got heavy ladder anxiety or something, I dunno. I guess we'll see how that goes.

My main priority currently is school unfortunately so I can't commit as much time to gaming as I'd like, but what can you do?

I can't remember if I mentioned this on here yet but I'm currently in my 2nd year of a Computer Science degree. So that's what I do... Maybe I'll start blogging about coding or shit that I do in that aspect...

Speaking of school I better get back to my assignments.

Signing off

-T

Fuck

Okay so yeah, It's been like five-ever since I toasted so I thought I send out an update.

I'm tired as fuck right now and just remembered about this blog so I'm not actually doing a real post now, just a quick update.

My gaming computer is built (I named it Azazel <3) and I've been gaming like a motherfucker ever since, and spending more money than I actually have. I should not own a credit card.

But yeah, just finished my first play through of Borderlands 2. A ordered it but he's a nigger and is still up in Iqaluit so he hasn't gotten it yet, once he gets it I think we're gonna start playing together, I might even record it. Ain't that some shit.

Other than that... Playin some Diblow tree, Canter Stroke GO, I don't fuckin know, bought the latest humble bundle a few cool games in there. Started playing League of Legends and am starting to get decent with a few characters, probably gonna start playing SC2 again soon now that I can take a break from Bjordernalds.

But yeah, that's about it.

I'll post more later, like later in the week probably.