tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68507692182814122032024-02-06T18:33:31.563-08:00Life of a Gamer GirlEvery hour has it's game.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.comBlogger468125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-44238862565402415242019-08-26T14:51:00.003-07:002019-08-26T14:51:57.209-07:00The Working Girl's Game Review: Lego Harry Potter (years 5-7)So I finished this game a while ago and I'm finally getting to the review.<br />
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<b>Game</b>: Lego Harry Potter (years 5-7)<br />
<b>Genre</b>: Platformer<br />
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<b>System</b>: Xbox 360<br />
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<b>Developer</b>: TT Games<br />
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<b>Story</b>:<br />
This follows along the story of Harry Potter from the Order of the Phoenix, the Half-Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2. Since Harry is only at the school for the first 2 years there are some more areas to explore as they travel around to find the Horcruxes. If you're read the books or seen the movies than you're familiar with the challenges that Harry, Ron and Hermione face as they grow closer to facing Lord Vordemort. There are some scenes that feel a little weird because they might be very small, or non-existent, in the books/movies but have some decent game play involved.<br />
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<b>Characters</b>:<br />
The characters are the same as the books/movies with a small new ones thrown in. There seems to be a lot more muggle characters to find than in the first game which is frustrating because muggles can't do any helpful magic spells. One draw back that became very frustrating was that there was only one "key" character. That meant that you couldn't access any of the key spots until you've found the character and unlocked it. Since you don't get the opportunity to find that character token until about half-way through the story there's a lot of key boxes that you have to come back to. The other thing I found while playing was that there was only about 5 characters that I actually played with. There wasn't any reason to play with a lot of the characters that you unlocked. And when you finally get to play in the Free Play the game seemed to pick the same characters every time . . . and quite a lot of them. There seemed to be a lot of characters to choose from while playing in Free Play. Too many in fact that is was annoying trying to pick the one character that you wanted.<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics:</b><br />
The spell wheel is the same as the first Lego Harry Potter but there's a new spell this time. Aquamente allows you to shoot water at things and make them grow or fill-up a container. The downside to this spell is that you can't see the places that you need to use it on unless you have that spell as your active spell. If you do then water drop icons show up where you need to use it. If you have another spell active you can't see those water drops. It got annoying switching between spells and suddenly have to fight someone but have the water spell active (which doesn't help in a fight) so I just pick one character to have always have that spell active and then I would just switch characters instead of moving around the spell wheel for another spell I needed at the moment. I found having to remember to check for water drops annoying and there were several places that I missed around Hogwarts that I had to go back for because of that.<br />
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There were waystations to move between Hogwarts, the streets of London and the campsites. Sometimes it was confusing which waystation you needed to get to where you wanted to go. I also had problems with the waystation to go to Hogwarts that is in the tent. Sometimes it didn't want to work for me so I would have to go back to London and then take the train to Hogwarts which was a lot of running around just to get to someplace.<br />
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<b>Art Design</b>:<br />
There seemed to be a lot more details on the screen and things to look at while exploring around. The art style was still the blocky Lego look. I think there are way too many versions of the main characters. Do we really need 11 versions of Harry (or some amount like that)? While there was a lot to look at on each level the play area in each level sort of felt smaller than the previous game. There just didn't seem to be a lot of areas to explore and look for things.<br />
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<b>Overall Impression</b>:<br />
While I enjoyed playing this game I found it a little bit more annoying than the first one. The thing with the Aquamente spell and the small number of characters that I ended up using because they would do almost everything in the level made it not feel as engaging as the previous game. While it was nice to look at there also seemed to be more scenes included in the game that were not a big part (or any part at all) in the books or movies. I know it's hard to get everything in either the books/movies into the game but this game felt a little more disconnected from the source material than the previous game.<br />
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<br />Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-65611168438055433902019-06-30T22:33:00.000-07:002019-06-30T22:33:03.448-07:00Dabble, Binge, Wait or PassI'm two games behind on my Working Girl Game Review and I promise to get to those as soon as I can. But in the meantime I've been thinking. If I wait until I finish a game before I give my impressions of it those reviews are going to be few and far between. It also doesn't help that I'm trying to get through some older back log games that are not exactly current. So I came up with an idea.<br />
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<b>Dabble, Binge, Wait or Pass</b><br />
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What does that mean exactly? Well, if I've played a game for a couple of hours and have gotten a good sense of what the game is I'll write up my first impressions. It won't be an in depth look at the game overall just a DBWP assessment of how I feel about it at that time. What does those words mean?<br />
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<b>Dabble</b>:<br />
This is for games that you can pop in and out of and not have to worry about trying to follow a story thread or relearn game controls. It's an easy in and out type of game. Something that you can play for a couple of minutes and than not come back to for days and still be okay when you pick the game back up again.<br />
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<b>Binge</b>:<br />
This is a game that needs to be played in long sittings. Taking any time away might make you feel confused and lost when you come back to the game. Like not remembering where you need to head next in the story. Or maybe be frustrated having the relearn all the game mechanics and controls when you come back after being gone a while. This is game that needs to be focused on and given your full attention if you want to follow along.<br />
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<b>Wait</b>:<br />
This is game that is okay to play . . . just not right now. It's the game to pick up when you have no other games to play or don't want to focus and get involved in a game. That doesn't mean it's a bad game; just one that will give you a good experience but not a whole lot of depth. The type of game where you skip the cut scenes because you just want to get to the action and don't really care about the story.<br />
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<b>Pass</b>:<br />
Should be self-explanatory. These are games that are not worth your time. That's there's more important things you can do instead of playing this game. Like having all your toenails ripped out at once. That kind of game.<br />
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These will be my Working Girl First Impressions and I hope it helps me get reviews and impressions up for a lot more games. There will be older games and new games in the mix. I've got a lot of games that I haven't played and maybe this will help me (and you) figure out what games I enjoy playing and can focus on. If you have any thoughts or suggestions, please let me know.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-37173677892542146032019-06-14T16:36:00.001-07:002019-06-14T16:37:21.223-07:00The Working Girl's Game Review: Band of BugsI finished this game over a year ago including all the DLC but I haven't done a review on it until now because the game left me with a sour taste in my mouth from the DLC. I think enough time has past that I an objectively look at the game and give it my honest assessment of what I think. I will be adding a new section to review the DLC separately and if I play any games with DLC in the future I'll be doing thing that way from now one.<br />
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<b>Game: </b>Band of Bugs<br />
<b>Genre: </b>Tactical RPG/Tactical Battle Map (see below)<br />
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<b>System</b>: Xbox 360 Live Arcade<br />
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<b>Developer</b>: NinjaBee<br />
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<b>Story</b>:<br />
It's been so long that I don't remember much of the story. There's something about bugs being born in goo but you're a special bug because you weren't (or something like that). There's a rival bug clan that wants to take over the area which includes breeding grounds or something. The main game is broken up into 20 levels that don't really have much of a continuing story. They give you the basics of why you're fighting in this area but the connections between battles is barely there. That being said, for this type of game (tactical RPG) I really don't need story. I just want to fight things and level up and get to the next battle. Story in these types of games is secondary to me. The only Tactical RPG game that had a story I was interested in was Final Fantasy Tactical Advance on GBA. But for this game story wasn't very important to me so I didn't pay too much attention to the what and why of what was going on. That's not to say that it didn't have a story, I just didn't feel like it was necessary to pay attention to the story in order to enjoy the game.<br />
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<b>Story Score</b>:<br />
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<b>Characters</b>:<br />
On of the interesting things about this game is that you can use your Avatar in place of the main character. This means it looks a little weird to see yourself fighting alongside some large bugs but also helps to make you feel more involved in the game. Each character type is the same class of character. So a grasshopper is going to be an archer whether they are on your team or the enemy's team. A butterfly is a magic user and a beetle is a tank. That's very useful in helping to instantly identify which enemies you need to stay away from or out of range and which ones you need to attack and try to get rid of as soon as possible. Since you know who/what everyone on the enemy side is and what they are capable it helps to focus your attack on the enemies that you think we'll do the most damage to your team to try and eliminate them first. Knowing all of this by just looking at the enemy makes the battles easier when they are just "kill the other team" but require a little more strategy when the game type is something else. I liked knowing my enemy and being able to plan accordingly without having to wait until they attack me to see what type of character there were.<br />
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<b>Character Score</b>:<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics:</b><br />
The Game Mechanics of a Tactical RPG are pretty basic and simple. The battlefield is a grid and your character can move so many squares around that gird and different squares might be at different heights. If your character is a good jumper they can move from one lower square to one that is 2-3 higher next to it. If not, then you have to take the long way around and climb up gradually. One of the strategies of moving is to try and get around behind the enemy because you will do more damage if you hit them from behind than you would if you hit them head on. Also, there's bonuses if you are flanking the enemy with one of your teammates and combo moves available as well. In addition to decided where you're going to move you then can choose from a menu of actions. Those could be attacking, using magic, using a item or changing your weapon. Once you've moved and taken your action your turn is over.<br />
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Everybody on both sides as the ability to go once in a round. But instead of having a set order of which character is going to go next, on your turn you can select which person you want to move, attack or heal. But once they have done their action they will not be allowed to move again until everyone else on both teams have moved and a new round has started. So plan wisely.<br />
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The turn order is also not one for one. You take a turn and then your enemy takes a turn, wash, rinse, repeat. You'll have an indicator up in the top right that shows you what the turn order is. Your color is blue, the enemy red. So there could be 3 red squares in a row before you get to a blue square. That means 3 enemies will take their turn before you will get one. Always keep on eye on that or you could find yourself in trouble. As characters die you'll lose one of those blocks per turn which means if you still have 5 characters left but the enemy is down to 2 players, you'll get to attack 5 times in a round but they will only attack twice. Makes battle cleanup pretty easy . . . except on maps when enemies will continuously spawn in.<br />
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I've played several tactical RPGs and while I love this genre there was one thing that I didn't like about how it played. You had to move first and then attack. Other games will let you attack and then move. This would allow you to attack and then run away to safety. In this game you could only move first and then attack. So if you have a melee character you need to get right up on someone but since you can't move again until the next round starts there's a good possibility that your character could get surrounded and be in trouble and there's nothing you can do about it. I would love the ability to attack and then run away. Not that I'm a coward, I just want to get to safety. Definitely not a coward.<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics score:</b><br />
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<b>Art Design</b>:<br />
I like how this game looked. Very bright and colorful and easy on the eyes. Once a character has taken their turn in a round they turn a grayish
color so you know you can't use them again until the next round. There were some character models that were a lighter color, or next to a lighter environment, that made it a little difficult to see whether they had turned gray because you already used them in that round. And this could be very importation since some maps need you complete an object before the end of a particular round. The art was cartoony and fun and very enjoyable. When speech boxes came up a little portrait of the character would be displayed with a facial expression matching what they were saying. Because the graphical style was more cartoony than realistic (and I don't want to be looking at realistic bugs) I think the game will age well and you could play it 10 years from now and still enjoy how it looks.<br />
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<b>Art Design</b> <b>score</b>:<br />
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<b>Overall Impressions:</b><br />
I love this game type and really enjoyed playing the game on the initial play through. Trying to perfect the game was a different matter entirely. There were a variety of battle types. You have just kill the other team before they kill you, escort missions, get to a specific point on the map before the end of a specific round, kill the leader (where you don't have to kill all their henchmen), and defend a section from incoming enemies. This provided a good variety of what you needed to do so no one particular battle mission was boring or repetitive. The environments were all different too. It could be lush and green on one map and a snowy ice field on another and another could be filled with poison traps. You can use the environment to your advantage in battle too. If you can get a couple of enemies to bunch up on some ice blocks and then have your butterfly use a fire spell he can melt the ice and all those enemies will fill into the water and die. If you can take out 3-4 enemies in one action that just might be enough to turn the tide of battle.<br />
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While I enjoyed the regular play through I wanted to perfect the achievements; and they all seem reasonable to get. One of the achievements was to get a gold rating in all of the main story levels. There are 20 of them and some where so easy you would bumble your way through the level and get that gold. Others, where much tougher. The medal are bronze, silver, gold or platinum and who you do in the battle determines what medal you get. Depending on the object for that level depends on what stats are most important. You could lose several members of your team but if you killed the enemy boss early you could get enough point to get a gold (you get negative point for each member of your team that dies).<br />
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There was one level in particular on an icy map that even though I meet the objective before the end of the required round and had all my players still alive, I wasn't getting enough points for doing enough damage that I couldn't get the gold. I had to play that map over and over again before I finally figured out what I needed to do to get the gold (and I just barely got it). And that was something I didn't like. There were a couple of maps that seemed to have a very set order of what you needed to do to get the gold ranking. If you deviated from that set order of things, even if you completed everything beautifully, you wouldn't get the gold. Those maps became a trial and error trying to figure out what the game wanted you to do to get gold instead of letting you play it out how you wanted to.<br />
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One thing with RPGs is that if you are having problems with a particular enemy or area you can go somewhere else and grind a little bit to level up and go back to fight them when you're stronger and have better items or equipment. That's not the case in this game. If you go back to play a previous level, because you're trying to get a gold ranking, you don't take your levels or current items with you. Whatever level you were and whatever items you had on that level are what you've got to work with, no matter when you go back to play that level. There's no easy cake walks through previous levels to get a better ranking. Maybe because of that I shouldn't call this a Tactical RPG but instead a Tactical Battle Map game. Progression is not backwards compatible.<br />
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Overall I liked the base game and I'm glad I played it. <br />
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<b>Overall Impression score:</b><br />
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<b>DLC</b>:<br />
There were several DLC expansions to this game. They were Ninja Sticks of Fury, Red Kingdom and Tales of Kaloki. Ninja Sticks of Red Kingdom were very much in the same vein as the base game. Same characters, same battle system, etc. I did like the humor in the Ninja Sticks of Fury and a new character that was introduced. Unfortunately you really didn't get to play with that new character very much so that was disappointing. But now we've got to talk about Tales of Kaloki.<br />
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That DLC was set in space. Yep, space. It's the bugs sitting around a campfire telling stories and you play out one of those stories. You're main character is a rooster who happens to be space pilot and you relive his heroics in space. This DLC felt very jarring even though you know it's the original bugs telling a story. You're thrown in with a whole new bunch of ships without any training or help to figure out what anyone does. Because of that you've got to click on each ship to see how they move and then see how they attack before you can decide what to do. And it's not just 2-3 different ships. You've get much more than that. I think in one mission there was probably about 6-7 different ships you had on your team that you've got to figure out how they move and what they do.<br />
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The map was difficult to navigate at first as well. Since you are in space there's no up and down you have to worry about but there are a lot of obstacles in your way along with bombs and flowing rivers that will move one square in their direction each turn . . . which usually ends in bad spot or on a bomb. The general game play was still the same as the main game but everything else had changed and it was too jarring and left a sour taste in my mouth once I had finished it. The achievements for the DLC wasn't anything exciting either. <br />
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<b>DLC score:</b><br />
Ninja Sticks of Fury and Red Kingdom<br />
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Tales of Kaloki<br />
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I hated that this DLC was affecting my overall feelings about the game.
That's why I didn't want to write a review when I finished because I
figured my impressions would be tainted by this last impression I had.
Now time has passed and I feel comfortable giving this game my honest
review without being tainted by that final DLC. If you want to play this game I would recommend it and the Ninja Sticks and Red Kingdom DLC but I would stay away from the Tales of Kaloki DLC . . . or at least know what you're getting into before playing. If you want to see my play through of the game and all the DLC check out my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY-O7SpELFJAiYql2XorZb9F3TF-xUo3A" target="_blank">Band of Bugs YouTube playlist</a>.<br />
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<br />Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-87973101182820749832019-03-27T15:04:00.003-07:002019-03-27T15:04:46.486-07:00Upcoming absence . . . maybeI thought I would give a heads up a little early about something that's coming up in my life that might take me away for a while. I am scheduled to have eye surgery on April 29th and I'm probably not going to be staring at a computer for a while after that.<br />
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After meeting with a corneal specialist it has been determined that I need a new corneal transplant and while they are doing that they can also put a new lens in my eye. Fixing 2 problems at once. It's good news and I'm excited at the possibility of seeing out of my left eye again. There are a couple of things that make me nervous and the closer it gets to that time I'm sure I'll get more nervous but it's manageable now.<br />
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The first thing I'm nervous about is the cost. My last surgery was at the end of the year and I didn't have to shell out too much money before I met my out of pocket maximum for the year. Since this is happening earlier in the year I'll have to pay more because I'm no where close to reaching that maximum. It sucks because I had such great plans for my tax refund but I'll get through this.<br />
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The other thing that I'm worried about is actually a good thing. I'm worried about seeing again. I know that sounds weird but after not being able to see really anything out of the left eye for 7 months and then (hopefully) being able to see things again is going to send my brain into overload and I'm imaging I'll have a VERY bad headache for a couple of weeks while my brain adjusts to the new inputs.<br />
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I've got my next game all recorded and I'm starting to edit it. I'll start posting that game next week as tomorrow is my last video for Lego Harry Potter (years 5-7). I'm not going to tell you what game it is but I hope you like it as it's my favorite game of that particular genre. I've also finished filming the whole things so I know how long it will take to post videos. It will run from next week through most of June.<br />
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Now I'm sure you're thinking that that would give me plenty of time to film new things (or finish up filming old thing) between the date of surgery and the end of June but like I said before I probably won't want to do that due to the eye strain of staring at a computer screen or TV screen for a while. I'll try to film some things in games I have in progress but I also have to have time to edit what I've already got done.<br />
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I think I'm going to spend a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my YouTube channel going forward. I started the channel to force myself to finish games and it has certainly helped me to do that. But unfortunately it's a lot of work to film, edit and post videos while working a full time job and trying to spend time doing my other hobbies. <br />
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And there's the rub. I haven't had a whole lot of time to do my other hobbies. I can't remember when the last time I read a book. I know I'm in the middle of one (The Book Thief) but with all the eye drama it's just been too hard to read at times. I also like to cross stitch and I'm working on a large project for my dad. I've told him that he can't die until it's finished and at the rate I'm going it's going to be another 15-20 years before it's done. He turns 80 this year.<br />
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I guess what I'm getting at is that while I love to play games and make videos and post them to YouTube, I love to do other things as well. I just don't have the time to everything that I use to before I started YouTube. Every time I look at the analytics and what I want to do with my life I think it's not worth the effort any more at the expense of my other hobbies. But then someone comments on a video, or I get a new subscriber and I feel guilty about walking away . . . especially with some games unfinished. <br />
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It's a problems I'm going to be thinking a lot about while I'm out of commission for a month or so. So even though videos should be going up while I'm out there might be a lag before other videos get posted once the next game is done. If you can think of reasons to keep on posting . . . or reasons to quit let me know.<br />
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(and yes, I know I need to post a Working Girl's review of Band of Bugs and Lego Harry Potter (years 5-7)Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-87629492144722914352019-01-18T10:50:00.000-08:002019-01-18T10:50:15.812-08:00Eye update and current life evaluationSo I was out on disability for 2 months after the accident. I returned to work the week after Thanksgiving full time and it took a while to get back in the swing of things. The good news is that I was already working from home 3 days a week so my boss just let me work from home full time until I felt comfortable driving in the office. It's an hour commute each way looking directly in to the sun both ways. In January I started coming in on Fridays (traffic's lighter) and in February I'll start back on my 2 days a week in the office.<br />
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Speaking of driving, I HATE IT. I have no depth perception and it's really scary when there's moving vehicles all around you. I'm having the hardest time with the side to side perspective. If I'm in the inside lane, all the traffic coming from the other direction look like they are coming straight at me. I know they're not (at least I hope they're not) but it still looks that way to me. I only drive when absolutely necessary. And I might be like that for a long time.<br />
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The doctor wants to see if I can keep my original corneal transplant. It got cloudy with the trauma but has been clearing up gradually since then. I've been seeing my eye doctor every 2 weeks since the accident. If it continues to clear up I won't have to have another transplant. If it doesn't . . . then I'll have to have my name put back on the transplant list and wait my time until it comes up. Whether my name will come up faster because I've already had one or slower . . . because I've already had one, I don't know. They won't fix the inside of my eye until they know what the outside (cornea) is going to do.<br />
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So, if everything continues to heal and my cornea clears up I might need just one surgery to put another lens in my eye. It's going to be more complicated than a regular cataract surgery but essentially the same type of surgery since I don't have the little sleeve pocket that the lens usually sits in so they'll have to improvise something to make sure the lens stays in place and doesn't move around in my eye.<br />
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Either way, no matter what happens any surgery is still going to be months away for me. I've been trying to find my "new normal" and get back in to a regular swing of life. That mostly consists of me sitting at home doing very little after work because my eyes are so tired by the time I'm done. i also sleep a lot on the weekends (which messes up my sleep schedule during the week for work).<br />
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I have started playing video games again but most of the time my heart isn't in it. I've started posting again this month but only 2 days a week instead of 3. But I've been thinking a lot about that lately. I've begone to question if I should continue recording and posting to YouTube. There's so much time, and vision, involved that my current circumstance is only making more difficult.<br />
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I started my YouTube channel to help force me to finish games. I figured if I took the time to post of video of a game I was making a commitment to actually finishing the game. But since it's so much harder to play the game, and then edit the video for a game, I'm starting to think it's not worth it for me anymore. And that makes me sad.<br />
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I've actually finished a bunch of games because of my YouTube videos. I'm afraid if I stop posting then my finish rate will just go down. But on the other hand it's just so labor intensive for me right now when I'm already struggling to do normal things. And while I'm proud of each and everyone of the people who have subscribed to my channel my analytics tell me that's not who's watching my videos (and they don't watch for very long). If I'm putting all that strain on my eyes I really have to think if it's worth it to continue.<br />
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I might be healing physically from the accident, but the emotional, psychological and mental process of healing and coming to grips with the fact that I'm now temporarily (hopefully) half blind and will be for possibly another year or more is progressing much slower. I cry and small stupid things. If I miss something because I couldn't see it I cry even more. It's a process and it will take time and I know I'll get there but I have to look at all the things in my life and see what things are helpful to me and what things might actually be harmful to me. <br />
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Spending a lot of time and effort to do a simple thing like play a video game and edit the video might be more than I can handle. I've told myself that I will finish the games I currently have in rotation (i.e. whatever I'm in the mood to play at that time) and see how I feel after that. Some of those games are long (like Lost Odyssey) and I might have to make a decision about those earlier than that. The problem is I don't like to leave things half finished. If I stopped posting videos in the middle of a play through of a game, even if I continued to play it "off line" from YouTube, it would still feel unfinished.<br />
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I've got a lot of decisions in my life and things I've got to deal with now. I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. But I know things will be better because I want them to and I will work towards that to try and make that happen. It's just that this is where my life is now and I've got to deal with it the best way that I can for the time being. If anything changes, I'll let you all know.<br />
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<br />Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-7016877779822085392018-10-09T12:11:00.001-07:002018-10-09T12:11:40.801-07:00Out of Commission So . . . I'm going to be out of commission for a while. Possibly 1-3 months. And all because of an innocent accident.<br />
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I was sitting on the floor folding laundry on Saturday afternoon (9/29) when I decided to give my dog a hug who was laying in front of me. I put my hands behind her front legs and started to pull her up. Apparently she didn't want a hug at that time and flipped out and slammed her head directly on to my open left eye. She didn't hit cheek or nose or eye brow. Just a straight hit to my open eye. It happened so fast I didn't have time to blink.<br />
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If you've been following my blog for some years now you know I don't have a good history with my eyes. Especially my left one. The one she hit. And this time it's not any better. It's worse. Much worse.<br />
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She knocked my contact lens out and my artificial lens I had implanted when I had cataract surgery. When I got to the hospital they said I had ruptured my eye. They took me by ambulance to another hospital where they had people trained for this type of injury. I was only at the other hospital a little less than an hour before they wheeled me in to surgery.<br />
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The doctor said that I had lost my pupil, the little pocket that holds the lens and obviously the lens itself. I had also lost a bunch of other stuff in my eye which I don't remember what he called it. My corneal transplant was barely hanging on by a little flap. The surgery that I had that day was just to see if they could reconstruct it to be a eyeball again. I'll have to have additional surgeries to see if/what help they can do to restore any vision in that eye.<br />
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After surgery the doctor said he would be happy if I saw light and shadow and movement. I could. It looks like very bad shadow puppets on a very dimly lit wall. I couldn't see enough to tell how many fingers he was holding up and I couldn't see colors or shapes. If everything heals and is okay in a month they'll refer me to a specialist to what they can do for vision.<br />
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I will have to have another transplant surgery. Right now I think the only reason I still have an eye is that they could use the existing transplant to close up the eye. The doctor said they didn't have any corneal tissue at the hospital so if they didn't have that to close up the now ruptured hole in my eye I don't know what they would have done. <br />
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I don't know know what they are going to do about the lens you normally have in the eye. Not only did I lose the lens, I lost the pocket that the lens sits in. They're going to have to MacGyver something in order to get that to work.<br />
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Needless to say I have a long road of surgeries and recoveries ahead of me. This all happened about a week and a half ago so I've had time to calm down, accept my fate and get past the worst of the pain for now. It hasn't been easy. Even typing this is hard and I'm going to have to rest for a long time afterwords to recover. <br />
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As for playing video games that's out of the question for now. I do have videos in the can that I could edit and post to my YouTube channel but it hurts to much to look at the screen and those will only last so long and I'm not recording any more. So for the time being I'm taking it easy and contemplating a lot of my life. That's about all I can do at this point. If things change, I'll make another post. Right now my bad eye is watering like crazy and it's making it harder for my good eye to focus. <br />
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So, I guess I'm out of commission for while. This is the life for the next several months for this gamer girl. Play on!Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-30697417959408075752018-08-31T10:20:00.001-07:002018-08-31T10:20:52.352-07:0050,000 and countingI did it. My gamer score is finally at 50,000. Well . . . actually it's at 50,011 but I still finally crossed that threshold. <br />
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It's been 11 and half years in the making. As best as I can tell I got my first achievement on January 6th, 2007. I actually got 3 achievements on that day. All of them in Hexic HD which came free with the Xbox 360. I got Flower Child, Cluster Buster and Star Gazer. And thus my journey began.<br />
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I remember the beginning of that journey. I was not an early adopter of the Xbox 360. All the stories of Red Rings of Death and such made we want to wait until Microsoft got their act together. The Xbox 360 was out for more than a year before I finally got one. I sat and watched all my friends rack up their gamer scores and I couldn't wait to start earning mine. Unfortunately I was big in to playing on my PS2 and didn't play much on the Xbox 360 for quite awhile. That all changed once I got Gears of War and found a great group of guys to play it with.<br />
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I was always lamenting how fast their scores seemed to increase versus how slowly mine was inching up. But now, for some reason, getting over 50,000 seems a decent amount. Of course I have several friends with gamer scores over 100,000. But they don't have much of a life outside of video games (sorry guys, but you know that's true).<br />
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I had a goal of getting to 50,000 by the end of the year. Getting it this early was a bit of a surprise. What achievement was the one that pushed me over the edge? It was in Minecraft (the new version). Delicious Fish. Catch and cook a fish. It was just enough to put me over the edge. And since that version is different than the Xbox One version I have the chance to double up on the achievements and get my gamer score even higher.<br />
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I wonder if it will take me another 11.5 years to get to 100,000. I don't think so, but stay tuned. You never know.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-35103749370018418632018-07-24T12:23:00.002-07:002018-07-24T12:23:51.344-07:002 new (mini classic) consolesSo I have 2 new consoles. They are classics. They are minis. Can you guess what ones they are?<br />
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I picked up the SNES Classic Mini first and then about two weeks later I say an article online that the NES Classic Mini was back in production and available in stores that day. So . . . at lunch I took a little trip to my local Best Buy and bought one (after I did a bunch of research online to make sure they had some in stock).<br />
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I haven't plugged them in yet as my life outside of work has been consumed with getting my swimming pool back in service after a devastating monsoon storm. When it's over 110 degrees outside the last thing you don't want to have working/swimable is your pool. It's the only relief that doesn't cost an arm and a leg on your electric bill. You still have to pay to run the pump, but if your pump can't run . . . well, you now know what I was dealing with. Now that the pools back in swimable condition (although it's so warm it feels like a taking a hot bath) I can get back to playing video games.<br />
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One thing I would like to do with the NES Classic Mini is to play Mario Bros and finish the game by playing all the levels. I use to play this game (along with Duck Hunt and Tetris) every time I would go babysit my niece for my sister and brother-in-law. Once he showed me the warp pipes I took advantage of them every chance I could to skip levels . . . especially worlds with water levels. I hate water levels. <br />
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I've "finished" the game but I haven't played all the levels. This will be a real test of my platforming skills as there are whole worlds in that game that I haven't even seen yet. And there's some Bullet Bill levels that I had to play because I skipped some water levels and I hated those levels. This should really interesting. <br />
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I'm also excited to play the original Zelda games. I've played later ones in the series but it will be interesting to see where/how that all got started.<br />
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I haven't decided if I'll record my play through of any game or not. I know Nintendo has a strict policy on having their video game footage on streaming platforms like YouTube. I don't have enough followers, or likes, or views or whatever YouTube is using to measure things now a day and I don't really care about that. My YouTube channel is for my use/pleasure/enjoyment. Anything beyond that is just frosting.<br />
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Is there a game on the NES or SNES Classic that you would like me to play? If so, let me know in the comments below.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-24042774374988934392018-07-24T12:03:00.000-07:002018-07-24T12:03:08.716-07:00Games with Gold ChallengeI didn't make any New Year Resolutions this year. Why? I just wasn't feeling it. With a resolution I was feeling the pressure of "I have to do it" . . . when in reality I rarely do. So I didn't make any and I felt okay about that for a while. Around the middle of January a thought occurred to me. Instead of resolutions, why not a challenge? I had a moment of epiphany and I knew exactly what "challenge" I would undertake.<br />
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Every month I download the Games with Gold free games on Xbox . . . unless I have them already (that's happening more often than not nowadays). Why not play ones of those? Why not make a challenge out of it? And so I did.<br />
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I've decided to pick one of the free games each month and try playing them. Maybe even finishing them. If I did that it would be 12 finishes in a year. That might be a record for me. I probably won't record them but I'll play them.<br />
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So far I've dabbled in Back to the Future: The Game and Zombi. I got a little frustrated with Back to the Future because I had to go through and select every response option before I could progress the story. It was at the Professor's house and you're trying to get the book back from Biff. Having to go up to your dad and talk to him about 4 times before you could progress things was annoying. But I'll keep playing.<br />
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In Zombi I got out of the training missions and was feeling only so-so confident in my ability to move on. But it was time to go to bed so when I get back to it I might start all over to refresh my skills and be more confident in my ability to survive. I am a serial starter after all.<br />
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It's an interesting concept for a challenge and I'm curious to see how it all plays out at the end of the year. I'm not setting it as resolution as I don't want to force myself to do it and feel guilty if I fail. There is no failure this way . . . just more new games to start playing.<br />
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Are you up to the challenge? Could you pick one free game each month and play it to see what it's like?<br />
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<br />Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-61319747858973250962018-03-23T14:01:00.001-07:002018-03-23T14:01:55.575-07:00I'm so smart . . . sort ofGuys, I figured it out. I figured out how to record form my PS4. I can't wait to start playing some of those games now. Apparently you have go in to your settings and turn off HDCP. I was under the impression that an update turned that off automatically and you had to turn it on if you wanted to. Apparently the reverse was true. Any suggestion of what I play first?<br />
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Games:<br />
Horizon Zero Dawn<br />
Ratchet & Clank<br />
Bloodborne<br />
Grand Kingdom<br />
I am Setsuna<br />
Mighty No. 9<br />
RimePengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-24841223055872602252018-03-20T12:21:00.002-07:002018-03-20T12:21:39.801-07:00What I've been playing . . . Just to give you an idea of what I've been playing recently (some recorded, some not). In no particular order.<br />
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Lego Batman (Xbox 360)<br />
Lego Harry Potter years 5-7 (Xbox 360)<br />
Voodoo Vince Remastered (Xbox One)<br />
Final Fantasy IX (PS[on my PS3])<br />
Gems of War (Xbox One and PS4)<br />
Skyrim (Xbox 360)<br />
Band of Bugs (Xbox 360)<br />
Back to the Future (Xbox One)<br />
Zombi (Xbox One)<br />
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Some of the games pending (which is a polite way to say I need to continue playing them again) are:<br />
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Dark Cloud (PS2)<br />
Summoner (PS2)<br />
Psychonauts (PS)<br />
Halo Combat Evolved (Xbox 360 and Xbox One [part of Master Chief Collection])<br />
Dark Souls (Xbox 360)<br />
Rayman Origins (Xbox 360)<br />
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And the games that I can't figure out how to record them again:<br />
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Final Fantasy X-2 (PS3)<br />
Prototype 2 (PS3)<br />
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I started playing the Lego Batman game before I thought about recording it. I generally play a level as a warm up especially if I haven't played anything in a while.<br />
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I'm obsessed with Final Fantasy IX. I think it's my favorite Final Fantasy game. I follow the game on Twitch and I'm constantly watching streams of it. I had to do that because my game disk has an error on it and won't let me get through the first 5 minutes of the game (I think I blogged about that). So I bought a digital copy through my PS3 so I could play it. Unfortunately I still can't figure out how to record from my PS3 so I'm just playing it for fun. I love that game.<br />
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I started playing Band of Bugs because I missed playing a tactical RPG game. I've loved getting back in to this genre even if the game is not that exciting (I'll have a review up once I've finished all the DLC). There's something about having to plan your move AND your attack that intrigues me.<br />
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Back to the Future and Zombi have interesting reasons why I'm playing them. I'm going to do another blog post about that specifically. Can you figure out what they have in common?<br />
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Skyrim is a very interesting choice for me. There wasn't any particular reason that I wanted to play that game specifically just that I wanted to play an intense RPG game to scratch a Dungeons & Dragons itch that I have.<br />
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Since December I've had a really strong desire/need to learn how to play Dungeons & Dragons. I bought the Starter Kit, Player's Manual, dice (lots and lots of dice), miniatures and the paint the make them pretty (or at least colorful since I'm just learning how to paint them). I talked with my brother dain and he said he was interested too. We even got together and went through the first section of the starter campaign. Since then, every time I try to get with him to play again, he blows me off. You want to clean room instead of play D&D with me? That's like a girl saying "I have to wash my hair" so she doesn't have to go out with you.<br />
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Since I wasn't getting my fix in real life I thought I would turn to my digital life to find the equivalent. I was thinking Elder's Scrolls Online, Neverwinter, Oblivion or Skyrim as good choices. With Neverwinter or Elder's Scrolls Online I felt like I had to be able to invest several hours of game time to it each time I played. I wanted something I could pick up for a hour or just 20 minutes. I've probably got about 10 hours in to Oblivion but I think I would be so lost if I tried to pick up where I had left off. I wanted to start fresh and new. So Skyrim it was. The choice then became: on what system?<br />
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I have the original on the Xbox 360 and the remastered on the Xbox One. I've played about an hour of it previously on the Xbox 360 and had 2 achievements (from 2013). I could have played the remastered one but then would I be able to go back and play it again on the earlier (uglier) version? I figured I would start over and play it again on the Xbox 360 and just take my time and enjoy it. Once I've completed it there I might play again but on the remastered version and record that playthrough to post on YouTube. At least I'll know what I'm doing and won't be fumbling around so much.<br />
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The other games that are pending and I need to play I'm just stuck in or frustrated with. That's what happens when I play games. I hit a block and stop playing. Posting videos to YouTube is suppose to help me keep playing them when I do get blocked. I think I need to work on that.<br />
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For those that I'm recording you can check my progress on my YouTube channel. For those that I'm not recording you can check my achievement lists to see how I'm doing. For those that don't have achievements I guess I could start tweeting about my progress. I need to do more of that too. You can find me at @PengwennGamer. Is there any one of those games that you'd like to see me play more than the others? Let me know in the comments.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-64073108531378638132018-03-20T11:35:00.001-07:002018-03-20T11:40:07.538-07:00New Purchase - PS4 ProGuess what?<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>I bought a Playstation 4 Pro</b></span></span></div>
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Yes, I know I probably don't need a new gaming system but I couldn't resist and I'll tell you why.<br />
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I have a list of games I'd like to own for the PS4 and two of them came up as free games this month for Playstation Plus members. Well, lucky me I'm one of them.<br />
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Bloodborne and Ratchet & Clank were/are the free games for the month of March 2018. If I wanted to save some money, now would be the time to get a PS4 . . . except that getting one isn't actually <i>saving</i> me money since I would still have to pay money for the console. But I couldn't pass up the opportunity especially since I got a nice boost in my paycheck with our year end bonuses coming through.<br />
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I got the PS4 Pro (1TB) and immediately downloaded those 2 games. I also picked up some free to play games as well just so I'd have something else to play. One of those games is Gems of War.<br />
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I have Gems for the XBox One and love it. I'm about level 167 or so and I've put a large amount of hours in to that game. Unfortunately I realized around level 80 or so that I did some things in the beginning that have hurt me later on in the game. At the time I didn't know better because I didn't fully grasp how things would play out. Once I did, I felt like a fool. With getting the game again on PS4 I now have the chance to start over and take what I've learned and maybe be better at training, or faster at leveling up. So now I'm playing the same game on two different consoles.<br />
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Of course just having have these few games wasn't enough. Could I call myself a real gamer if I only have a paltry list of games for the latest system? Not in my mind anyway. I've since been on a hunt to find bargins and great deals on other PS4 games. And my wish list is still growing.<br />
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I've picked up I am Setsuna and Horizon Zero Dawn. I'm so excited about both of them. I can't wait to play them. The question now is: Which game do I play first? I've got so many games on the go right now it's hard to figure out what to play out of those without adding another one to the mix. But whatever game I pick I was going to record it and post to YouTube. Except things haven't gone has planned.<br />
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Once I got the PS4 hooked up and downloaded an update, I turned on the Elgato and that's when things started to go wrong. Even though one of the systems the Elgato is natively set to record from is the PS4 it wasn't recognizing the signal and freaked out like it does with my PS3. (I still haven't figured out why I can no longer record from my PS3. I've been able to do it in the past but it won't work any longer no matter what I've tried.)<br />
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Once I gave up on that and just started to play and enjoy my new system the power started freaking out and it would turn off and back on again randomly. The thing with Gems of War is that if you are in a battle and lose connection (either you internet goes out or your power) you get "credit" for losing the battle and a loss goes on your record. After this happened about 3 times I just turned everything off and went to bed.<br />
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I haven't given up yet on recording from my PS4, I just have to figure out what went wrong. Unfortunately I haven't had the chance to play from it again either. Like I said, I've got a lot of games going at once. More on that in a later post.<br />
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So if you've got a PS4 system and would like to recommend games to me to play/buy I'd love to see them in the comments below. I've ignored the PS4 games for so long because I knew I wouldn't be able to afford the system for awhile so I really don't know what good games are out there; older ones or newer ones. I could really use some suggestions. Any games. Any genres. I'm open to trying new things.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-71523785304235306502017-10-23T10:11:00.001-07:002018-03-20T11:35:54.931-07:00Single Player only?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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So when I first started playing video games on a home
console it was on the Nintendo System . . . at my sister’s house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was my brother-in-law’s and I would play
it while I was there babysitting my niece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first console I got to call my own was the Super Nintendo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had asked for a NES for Christmas but my
mom said the salesperson said the SNES was the latest and greatest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t happy at first but I grew to love
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly because I could get all the
games I liked on the NES (a trend Nintendo has a repeating their games when a
new console is released) but also because it was the only system I had for a
long time.</div>
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I remember when I got my first Playstation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a hand me down from my brother because
he had recently got a PS2 and it was backwards compatible so he didn’t need the
PS any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first I was skeptical but
at that time I had a lot more expendable income, I was able to branch out even
more and get a wide variety of games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also found that Playstation had more game I wanted to play then Nintendo did at
that time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I eventually bought my own
PS2 and I fell in love with that system more than anything else.</div>
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When the Xbox system came out I wasn’t really interested in
it at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was until I saw that it
had Star Wars Battlefront and I watched my brother play it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t interested in shooters (didn’t have
a good experience with the ones that I bought (and traded in immediately) for
the Playstation).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I wasn’t
interested in playing online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t
resist and I almost bought it on Playstation but since my brother had it on
Xbox I decided to go buy that system and play it on that console. </div>
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Why am I telling you all of this (since I’ve probably told
you something like this before)?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I
started to notice a trend on my game buying habits between Playstation and
Xbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It started with the PS2 and
original Xbox and has continued ever since.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But now things are changing once again.</div>
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The games that I bought for Playstation were single player
games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally there would be a
multiplayer game but only local co-op and no online play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Xbox games I would get the multiple player
online games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it was something I
wanted to play with friends, it was something I got for the Xbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wasn’t buying single player games
for the Xbox.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I viewed my PS2 as single
player and my Xbox as multiplayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
how it’s always been.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But something has
changed.</div>
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While I make a lot more money now than I did back when this
all started, I also have a mortgage and a lot more expenses now that I didn’t have
then.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once again I find myself in a
position that I have to be a little selective in the games that I buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t afford them all . . . at least if I want
to have food to eat and a roof over my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve had to make some tough choices of what games I have to have now . .
. and what games can wait until later.</div>
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After a lot of soul searching I’ve figured out a compromise
with myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it all comes down to
the type of game and how I want to play it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it’s a single player game only I’m not going to buy it right
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll wait until I have more money
or when it goes on sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That usually
means that I don’t play those game right away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sometimes it’s several months, or maybe a year or more, before I get
around to purchasing it and playing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That makes it hard on me as my friends usually get it right away and
really want to talk about it but they don’t want to spoil it for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been times when I play with
friends but I have to exit the party for a while so they can talk about it
without spoiling anything for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
they are done discussing it they invite me back to the party and we continue
playing as normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They only problem I
have is that they think 6 months is long enough to be careful about
spoilers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that they don’t think
they have to be cautious talking about a game around me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, I might not have bought it
within that 6 months, let alone starting playing it.</div>
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Now, if the game is mostly multiplayer based (like Star Wars
Battlefront or a Call of Duty, etc,) I’ll get those games right at launch, or
as close as I can afford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it’s no fun to pick up a multiplayer
games 6 months or a year after launch and you find yourself playing against
people who have mastered the game already or . . . well, everyone has left and
moved on to the next best game out there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If there’s a possibility that either one of those scenarios is going to
happen I’m going to make every effort to buy that game and get in on the action
while it’s still new and hot.</div>
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That being said, it has to be a game that I really want to
play online with friends . . . and maybe strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m not going to enjoy playing online
after a couple of weeks, it’s a game I probably won’t get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m getting very picky in my old age.</div>
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So picky in fact, that I’m starting to notice that the number
of multiplayer games that I buy each year is getting fewer and fewer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m finding that, even playing with friends,
I’m really not enjoying the online experience as much as I use to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m more in to single player games and
things I can consume on my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t
have to be linear games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They could be
open world as long as they are single player.</div>
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I find that really interesting at this time because EA just announced
that they are closing Visceral Studios and reworking the single player linear
story game they were working on for the Star Wars universe and they are
scraping that and going to build something more fitting today’s appetite of
what they think gamers want.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently
that’s multiplayer games with lots of microtransactions and loot boxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason I’m just not in to the that
at this point in my life.</div>
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The games that I like to watch on YouTube and Twitch and the
games I like to play now are all single player, story driven games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give me a game that lets me experience
something for myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not be reminded
that there’s always someone faster, smarter and with better eyes than me who’s
going to kick my ass in an online match.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To me, that’s just not fun anymore.</div>
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So why mention the games consoles earlier?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because I’m finding it very weird to only be
gravitating to single player games on my Xbox One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels strange to be on that system and NOT
be playing with my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love
playing the games (I wouldn’t be playing them if I didn’t) but I miss having
things to play with my friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I’m sure
that will all change in November when Star Wars Battlefront comes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure almost everyone on my friends list
will be getting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s where I first
met most of them in the original Star Wars Battlefront game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe that will rekindle my love of multiplayer
games and take me back to the glory games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Until then, I guess both my Playstation and Xbox consoles are single
player only.</div>
Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-86584955450925525812017-10-17T11:01:00.000-07:002017-10-17T11:01:43.012-07:00New Game Console?I have a bunch of money saved up and if it doesn't take all of it to fix my garage door, I think I'll buy a new gaming console. Which one should I get?<br />
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Playstation 4 Pro<br />
Nintendo 3DS XL<br />
Nintendo Switch<br />
Wii U<br />
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I've wanted a PS4 for awhile now and that desire has only increased watching videos of Horizon Zero Dawn. I want to play that game so bad.<br />
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On the other hand there are a LOT of games I'd like to get for the 3DS. And I could get those games cheaper since they've been out for a while. That makes getting one a little more attractive if it will save me money in the long run.<br />
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On the other hand the Switch might just scratch that itch for another handheld, portable game system. There are only a couple of games I would get so far for the Switch but I'm sure there are more coming.<br />
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On the other hand I could get a Wii U. Why a Wii U? Pikmin 3. Enough said. I love the Pikmin games and I could play them for hours fine tuning my harvesting skills to shave just a few seconds here and there off of collecting things. There are just so many subtle ways you can improve on your game play. I don't know of many other games out for the Wii U that I absolutely have to have and I don't know if one game (even if it's Pikmin) is enough to buy a system just for that game.<br />
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On the other hand I could just add the money to my new computer fund. Hopefully I'll be able to get a new very good supped gaming PC within the next 6-9 months. Other expenses come first but I'm saving and hoping for that day.<br />
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With all these arms I feel like Parvati. I wish I was just as powerful a godess as she is. Unfortunately, I'm not. I'm mortal and have to make these all important life and death (of gaming) decisions. So what do you think I should get? It might not happen as it all depends on how much it will cost to fix my garage door so it will open again. But if there's money left over . . . Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-31509587808212351112017-10-02T17:14:00.004-07:002019-06-14T16:36:55.330-07:00The Working Game Girl's Review - Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits<!--[if !mso]>
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I finished another game! I love saying that. This feeling is
even more wonderful for this game. Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits
was a game that I got all the way to the final boss and fought . . . and lost .
. . about 5 or 6 times or more before I put the game away out of
frustration. Then my stuff got stolen. This was a game that I
really wanted to see how it would end but I wasn't sure I wanted to go through
and play it all over again. But I did. And now it's done. Here's
my review of the game. Slight spoilers ahead.<br />
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<b>System</b>: Playstation 2<br />
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<b>Developer</b>: Cattle Call<br />
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<b>Story</b>:<br />
This is the story of twin brothers who were separated as babies and grew up
living two very different lives. One was raised as human with a hatred of
Deimos. The other raised as a Deimos "wannabe" raised to hate
humans. Both humans and Deimos use Spirits stones in their society and
want to control all the Spirits stones so the other doesn't get them.
Both species want to wipe out the other and Emperor Darkham wants to take
advantage of those dark feelings and rule the world himself. Unfortunately,
there is a higher power pulling the strings behind the scenes called the Divine
Ruler (who later turns into the Lord of the Black Abyss). Can the Deimos
and humans put their differences aside and join forces to defeat evil and save
the world for both species? You'll have to play the game to find out.<br />
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<b>Story</b> <b>Score</b>:<br />
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<b>Characters</b>:<br />
There are 2 main characters and parties that you control and play. The
story moves back and forth between the brothers and their stories. The
supporting characters for both policies are pretty similar so both parties play
pretty much the same. The hatred for Deimos from the humans; and humans
from the Deimos is built up for believable. The reasons why Darc (Deimos
brother) hates the humans and wants to rule the Deimos over the humans and why
Kharg (human brother) wants to protect the humans from the Deimos are
understandable from the things they've gone through in their lives. When
the brothers finally get together and meet each other you're hoping for the
best but things don't turn out that way for a while.<br />
<br />
Each character has a personality with likes and hatreds all around.
The parties are so similar that it would have been nice to have a little bit
more differences between the human/Deimos counterparts. when you get to
the final boss the best characters to take in to the battle are not the ones
you'd think of at first. When your parties combine which characters you
take in to battle make for some interesting exchanges in dialogue.<br />
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<b>Character Score</b>:<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics</b>:<br />
The battle is a turned based but allows for movement so characters can get
behind enemies to do more damage. That means you need to think about
where/how you're going to attack but also where/how the enemies are going to
attack as well. It is sort of open world with the player deciding where
they want to go next. There are extra areas that are not required by the
story but can be accessed for experience and loot.<br />
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There are four functionalities that I would have liked to have had. 1)
I would have liked the ability to save when I'm on the world map. You can
only save at designated save points so if you venture too far away from one (or
you're hurting and in need of help badly) you've got to figure out what spot on
the map has a save point and then work your way back there. You can
always escape a battle and not fight if you don't want to but it's annoying to
backtrack a way to save before you get to a new area.<br />
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2) the camera is fixed in battles. There were so many times that I
wanted to swing the camera around to get a better look at the
battlefield. Maybe it was to make sure I'm directly behind the enemies
(some enemies are hard to tell) or maybe it was to see my character better
because they were behind a bunch of other characters or obstacles. Since
you can't do that, lining up the perfect shot was difficult at times.<br />
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3) There are too many skills to learn. I did a bunch of grinding
in this game and yet I still didn't learn all the skills that my characters
could. I even had a character or two that didn't learn all the star
levels either. I tried to use those characters as much as I could,
especially towards the end, but they never did earn much experience or skill
points compared to the other characters. When I finally decided which
ones I was going to take in to battle I was worried that they weren't a high enough
level to really be that usefully. While I'm all for games giving you lot
of skills/things for your characters to learn I think they should all be
attainable by the time you reach the final boss and without having to grind to
learn them. <br />
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4) comparative inventory management. I would have liked a better way
to compare new equipment with what I currently had. The best way I could
find was to take an item off and highlight the new item to see how much it
increased/decreased stats and then do the same with the item I had one. I
know there was a replace option but the info it gave me wasn't enough for me to
feel like I was making an informed decision.<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics Score</b>:<br />
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<b>Art Design</b>:<br />
The art design seems very simple by today's standards. This is a
Playstation 2 game and the system wasn't as powerful as gaming systems are
now. I do think it holds up very well and is not jarring to the eyes to
look at it. Just very simple and clean looking with very little
embellishments to the scenery. The colors were vibrant or muted, depending
on the environment and didn't fall in to the cliché of matching the elemental
attacks that each character could have (i.e. water attack = blue clothing, etc.).
I think it looked good and didn't interfere in the game play even if not
inspiring.<br />
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<b>Art Design Score:</b><br />
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<b>Overall Impressions</b>:<br />
I'm so glad I went back and replayed this game so I could finish it.
The story has a nice message and the game play was fresh and allowed for
experimentation so you could play any way you wanted to. It's a game that
holds up in all categories and I think should be played by everyone that wants
a good experience. It's not ground breaking or phenomenal in the game
industries but very much worth a play.<br />
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<b>Overall Impressions Score</b>:<br />
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If you want to see how badly I played the game here's a link to my YouTube
playlist for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-B6YByrDR0&list=PLY-O7SpELFJAUNUpQukB6Hmuxi2SIncxa" target="_blank">Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits</a><br />
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<![endif]-->Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-67165932034750550912017-10-02T16:02:00.000-07:002017-10-02T16:02:22.755-07:00I've lost my wayI've had a really hard time recording games lately. And it hasn't been fun. There's one game where I can't get past a boss even though I've filmed 3 sessions attempting to do so. <br />
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There's another game where I exhausted all my lives before even finishing the first level. After restarting and refilming getting through a couple of levels I exited the game thinking it would save at the end of the level. Turns out it doesn't. If you want to save you have to pay gold to do so. So when I came back to play and film more I found out I didn't have ANY save file. So I restarted . . . again . . . and filmed the first couple of levels again and got to the point where I could save, but I really couldn't. It costs 100 gold to save and I had 98 coins and no way to get more. I wasn't in the mood to play any more, and it was very late, so I just shut the game down and deleted the film. That was no longer a game I wanted to play.<br />
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I tried another game but after 30 minutes of tram and elevator rides with nothing happening I was bored. And if I'm bored anyone watching would be bored too. Not good either.<br />
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I was so upset after messing around with these games for a couple of weeks I found myself with absolutely no desire to play video games. At this point I had burned through my backlog of videos and had nothing left to post. I felt like I had lost my way and I needed something to get me wanting to play again. I needed something I would love to play and it would put in a good mood. <br />
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I knew the perfect game.<br />
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There is one game that I love and always put me in a good mood. I've wanted to play and finish this game for so long but I've had other games in the works. The game is Final Fantasy IX. I love that game. Whenever I feel stressed out I like to watch Twitch streams of this game and it always make me feel better. I was less than 10 hours away from finishing this game before my stuff was stolen and I would love to see it through to the end. Maybe now was the best to restart the game. So I did.<br />
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It did not go well.<br />
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At the first moment you get control of the character and start the kidnapping of the Princess (about 5 minutes in) my screen froze. No big deal. I'll just restart. I did. It froze again and then changed to a screen full of pixilated colors in a funky grid. Okay, maybe my disk is dirty. So I took it out and cleaned it off . . . and tried again. Third times the charm, right?<br />
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Nope.<br />
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The same thing happened. My game disk was fucked up and there was no way to get around that. I talked to my brother to ask him if we knew where his FFIX game was so I could borrow it. He wasn't sure and I wouldn't be able to borrow it (if he found it) for a couple of days. Damn.<br />
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So now I'm out of videos to post and have no desire to play a video game ever again. Now you might think I'm over reacting but there's a lot of other life stuff that was contributing to this feeling. So what was I going to do?<br />
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After a good night's sleep I remembered that I started my YouTube channel to help me finish the games I want to play. It's not about playing games that are current or topical or trendy or whatever. I post games on my channel to make a commitment that I'm going to see that game through to the end. Games that I want to play. Games that I want to finish. So I've decided to take a break.<br />
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I might not be posting regularly for the next while. How long? I don't know. I need to find my gaming mojo again and I don't know how long that will take. What does that mean for the games I currently have in progress? I'll still post videos when I can but I'm having issues with those games too.<br />
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For Dark Cloud I'm still bummed about my supped up sword breaking. I've got a replacement and I'm currently grinding to get it back up to an acceptable level. Once I'm happy with what I have I'll get back to actually playing the story and filming more videos. As for Summoner, I got really frustrated with getting lost in that game and hated having to keep referring to my strategy guide to find out what I needed to do and where I needed to go. I know that's what a strategy guide is for but I really prefer discovering things on my own and only using it in an emergency. I hope the whole game isn't an "emergency" for me.<br />
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I might make some "What I'm playing" videos so you can see that I'm actually playing. I can tell you that I've played a little bit already in Fallout Shelter, Gems of War and Slime Rancher. I might branch out and play some other games, but for right now those games or all I can muster at the moment.<br />
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If you lose the urge to play games what video game gets you back in the mood? Any suggestions for me? I might be fumbling around while I've lost my way but I'll find my way back and really start playing games again. I always do.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-86085048739519558322017-09-08T16:48:00.000-07:002017-09-08T16:51:14.143-07:00The Working Girl's Game Review - Lego Harry Potter Years 1-4It's been awhile since I finished this game but I've been so busy I haven't had time to write my final review of the game. Well, here it is.<br />
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<b>System</b>: Xbox 360<br />
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<b>Developer</b>: Traveller's Tales<br />
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<b>Story</b>:<br />
The story is based on the movies which were based on the books and remain relatively faithful to both. There are some creative ways in which the story is unfolded so that you are playing the main character instead of just watching what is happening around you. It starts with the brief beginning of how Harry was placed on the doorstep of his Aunt and Uncle and grew up being tormented by his cousin Dudley. But the real story of Harry starts when he gets to Hogwarts and learns to be a wizard.<br />
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As you play the story based missions you have interludes that take place in Hogwarts where you go to class to learn spells and can discover things around the grounds. Not all areas are open for you at the beginning so you'll need to learn spells to unlock new areas.<br />
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While walking around Hogwarts can be fascinating and fun, it can also be very confusing and easy to get lost if you are trying to go to a specific place in Hogwarts. While you are still playing the story missions Nearly Headless Nick will leave a trail of ghost studs of where you need to go next. Once you complete the story missions those ghost studs go away and you are left to fend for yourself. I had to go online to find a map of Hogwarts otherwise I never would have found my way around.<br />
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You had 6 levels based on each of the first four movies/novels called chapters. I wish I could the story a full 5 penguins but some levels were long and tedious, while others seemed rush and short. Inconsistencies in the flow of the story have me taking one penguin away.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">There are already built in characters to the story that are absolutely wonderful. Bringing those characters to life in Lego form was interesting at times. There are character tokens you find while playing the game and once found you can go purchase them so they can be used in the levels. Some characters, Hufflepuff for instance, will only be able to access areas for their specific house. In addition to the main set of characters in the books (i.e. Snape, Dumbledore, Tom Riddle, Draco, etc.) there are a lot of other characters who's real value to the game is only in finding their token and buying their character. There is no reason to have them other than to pad the character token collectibles. And boy are there a lot of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Some of the really interesting characters I wasn't able to unlock until later in my play through of the game. I wish I had had those characters unlocked earlier because they were fun to play with. Unfortunately that isn't the case for a lot of the high profile characters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Because of how the character tokens are spaced out and who you might need for each level you will probably end up playing each level several times as you unlock a new type of character which will unlock a new thing in a previous level. If you want to wait and get any many characters unlocked as possible before playing the Free Play modes it turns out to be a lot of grinding (and getting lost) in Hogwarts. And even then you won't be able to unlock everything because some characters you find in Hogwarts are needed for the levels, but some characters you find and unlock in the levels are needed for Hogwarts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">The downside to the characters besides way too many to find and unlock is that they didn't offer up a whole lot of variety in what they could do. The evil witches and wizards have the Avada Kedavra spell but that's about it. Depending on which version of Harry, Ron or Hermione you pick you might not get one that has learned all the spells yet. Trying to defeat a Boggart? Make sure the character you picked has learned </span>Riddikulus. The easiest way to fix that is to always pick a character from later in the game. This usually means you play with the same 4-5 characters for all the levels. Not much variety there.</div>
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There is one game mechanic that I absolutely hated. And another one that was annoying a lot of the time.</div>
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The one that was annoying was the camera. You couldn't always move it around to get a better view of what you were doing. There are 4 banners in the front hall that you have to zap and they unfurl. When they do you will get a gold brick. You need all gold bricks to get 100% in the game. I had all the gold bricks except this one . . . but do to camera angles and such I couldn't get Slytherian and Gryffindor's banner to unfurl. I watch who know how many videos on how other people did it (who didn't seem to have a problem when I did) and still it took about 30 minutes of trying on 3 or 4 nights before I finally got both of them to unfurl. To this day I still don't know how I did it when it failed all the other times.</div>
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That was the worst offender for the camera but it was so annoying in so many other instances. It was almost enough to make me pull my hair out and quit playing the game forever. I didn't, thankfully, but I'm really hoping it's not too much of a problem in the next Lego Harry Potter game (or any other Lego game). </div>
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The one game mechanic I absolutely hated is partially my fault. But only because the game didn't probably explain things to me. </div>
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In the previous Lego games I've played you collect red bricks that you can then purchase which gives you modifiers that can make your game easier . . . or just plain silly. Do you want your Stormtroopers to carry carrots instead of blasters? There's a red brick for that. Usually you find those in the levels that you play . . . not in the hub world. For Lego Harry Potter things were different and the game never explained that to me.</div>
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All the red bricks . . . and I mean ALL . . . can be find in Hogwarts. Now I mentioned earlier that you walk around Hogwarts in between story missions. That's great and all but it doesn't explain that you have to come back and walk around and do everything again to find the red bricks to get the score multipliers, the extra hearts, the invincibility, etc bonuses that make playing the game so much easier. I didn't realize this until I was through playing the Free Play modes for the first 2 and half movies. Because I didn't have things like "Character Token locator" or "gold brick locator" there were a bunch of things I missed while playing through the levels for the second time. Which meant I was going to have to play them a third time. </div>
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Once I figured out I had to go back to Hogarts to find the red bricks and then buy them I had to spend a lot of time grinding in Hogwarts before going back to the levels. Once I did go back to the levels things were so much easier when I had all my helps turned on. I wish the game had told me that.</div>
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Another thing that was annoying, but avoidable, was that all the extra spells that you can buy, but don't really need, are put in to one slot on your spell wheel. If you wanted to use a specific one, like Glacius to freeze people, you'd have to wait until it's icon popped up in the slot and hope you cast the spell before it changed to the next one. Now, you don't have to use any of these spells as you play the game, but they are hilarious to see what happens when you do. But . . . if you want to get all the achievements you have to use the Glacius spell to freeze a bunch of people. Now you could have just bought that spell so it's the only one in the slot but it's a lot of gold and there's cheaper spells to buy and equip. So if you have multiple spells it's just a matter of watching the spell slot and hoping you time it right. Annoying.</div>
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There wasn't really anything too special about the art design of the game. It was whymsy and magically and it fit the game. How they transformed things into the Lego shape and design was interesting but not as rigid as other Lego games. It fit the mode and humor of the game and was enjoyable to look at.</div>
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Other than the items mentioned in the Game Mechanics section the only other real problem I had was with a specific level. The Tome Riddles Diary level where you go back in time and play with Tom as one of your characters and the level is done in a sepia tone theme it glitched out on me 3 times . . . in 3 different places. It was really frustrating the first time. I held my breathe the second time as I made my way through the part where it glitched only to have the game glitch again a little further on. And the same thing again a little further past that. I was afraid that I might have a game breaking glitch and would never be able to get past that point in the game. It took several attempts but I did. After that, whenever the screen would freeze for a bit I was worried that the same thing would happen all over again.</div>
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It was fun to play the game and made me immediately want to start playing Lego Harry Potter years 5-7 but I've decided to take a break for awhile. The humor in the Lego games is spot on for the characters and sometimes that is enough to make up for the annoying things that happen along the way. The game isn't ground breaking or revolutionary but if you are a fan of the Harry Potter series (movies or books . . . or both) it should be something you sit down to enjoy. If you're like me and do stupid mistakes it should provide you with around 60 hours of enjoyable game play. If you're better than me at video games (and everybody is) you could probably complete it in 30-40 hours. If you do play it I would take your time and enjoy the experience. It's worth it.</div>
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If you want to watch how I played the game (very badly), here's a link to my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R4ROiqsHeg&list=PLY-O7SpELFJDaukZHvRlYj9XvqSUaTco6" target="_blank">YouTube playlist</a> for the game. </div>
Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-13557270678799433872017-07-07T11:19:00.001-07:002017-07-07T11:19:52.955-07:00Steam Sale noobieOkay, the Steam Summer Sale has ended and my bank account is heaving a sigh of relief. <br />
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I figured it out the other night and prior to getting my laptop a couple of years ago it's been about 9-10 years prior to that since I've had a computer beefy enough to play games on. Once I got my lap top I wanted to start getting back in to gaming. Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have an optical drive so all those computer disks of the games that I own I didn't have a way to install them. I could have gone out and bought an external CD drive but there have been other things I've had to spend money on.<br />
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This year I couldn't wait any longer and I started buying Steam games when I found something that I liked. I had 7 before the sale started. Games like The Witcher (the original), 7 Days to Die, Dead by Daylight, More or Die, RWBY: Grimm Eclipse, You Must Build a Boat and just prior to the sale Playerunknown's Battleground. Now I have a total of 67 games. I think I went a little overboard.<br />
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But the good news is that I really didn't spend all that much money (I love sales). What's even better news is that I got some of my old games that I have on CD so now I don't have to worry about trying to find a way to install them. Games like all the Thief games, the Half-Life games (please make Half-Life 3), and a metric butt-ton of Star Wars games among many, many others. I've even gone back and got original games that started series like Fallout. I always like to play series from the beginning so I can see how the game progressed through the years.<br />
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I don't know when I'm going to find the time to play all these new games (although I've have started playing Portal [love that game]). And I don't have the hard drive space to install them all on my laptop. My next goal to complete before my birthday next year is to build a really good gaming PC. Then I'll probably just plant myself in front of it and play until my brain melts. I can't think of a better way to spend my time.<br />
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Did you pick up anything in the Steam Summer Sale? I'm curious as what games people got. I know there were a bunch more that I wanted to get but my budget decided it wasn't a wise move. And I was only looking in the "under $5" list. Maybe next time I'll check out the "under $10" list as well. I better start saving up now.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-6458989814467407452017-07-07T10:59:00.002-07:002017-07-07T10:59:58.290-07:00Begging for money in YouTube commentsI received a couple of messages on my YouTube channel that were saved for moderation in my spam folder. And they were spam. It was so obvious it should have been embarrassing.<br />
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The first message was on a recent video with the person saying they liked my channel and that they were collecting money to help the poor in some African country. They said that donating just $1 would go a long way to help. They even provided a helpful link where I could go donate. It was a nice gesture to help less fortunate so I left that message in my spam file before approving because I don't want to censor people. But I also don't want people dumping shit in my channel because I let them. I decided to look at the next comment and come back to the first one later.<br />
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The second comment was from the same person on the very next video on my channel. Once again they said they liked my channel and that they were starting their own YouTube channel and it would be very helpful if I donated just $1 to help another YouTuber out. Strangely enough they provide the same link as the previous comment. It was pointing to a patreon account. The same one that was asking for money to help the poor in Africa. Hmm.<br />
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Needless to say I deleted both comments and muted that person so they couldn't leave any more comments. I don't think of this as censorship but more that I have the right to determine what kind of comments are on my own channel. You can bitch and moan about me; how I play, how I sound, whatever, I don't care. You can even complain about the games I play. But my channel is not for you to solicit money from myself or anyone else who happens to visit my channel and watch my videos. No panhandling allowed. <br />
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I hate to have to delete comments, but it's got to be done when the ones leaving the comments are assholes like this person. The only other comment I have deleted was someone who posted a link to a porn site. That doesn't need to be there either. It's way too easy to find porn sites on the internet without going to my YouTube channel first to look for a link.<br />
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Now if those people want to go leave their messages on other people's channels they can go right ahead. If those channels want to leave those comments up for all to see, that's their prerogative. For me, I'm going to delete them. My channel was created for me to force myself to finish playing games and maybe entertain others in the process. It's not for begging. If you want to do that just move on to the next channel . . . after you've viewed my videos. :) Feel free to leave a regular like or dislike message before moving on. And thank you for watching.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-9052509762497883632017-06-09T14:59:00.000-07:002017-06-09T14:59:08.148-07:00Technical difficulties . . . please stand by<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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It’s been a stressful rough couple of weeks for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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For starters: I had 2 vacations planned back to back (not my
idea or the original plan) and I had to take my car in for an oil change
(overdue) and other general upkeep and maintenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow that turned into a $1,200 bill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that’s a lot of money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My car is an older car (2001) and I’ve been
thinking about getting a new one, but I wanted to be debt free (except for my
house) before I got a new one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That bill
has pushed that thought back a couple of months or more.</div>
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Next: I bought a new mattress and box springs and had the
delivery date changed on me 6 times before I finally got them to deliver the
goods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course I had to threaten them
that I would cancel my order and take my business elsewhere if they weren’t
delivered by a specific date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were
but I only had 3 nights sleeping on that wonder soft fluffy cloud of heaven before
I had to head out on vacation.</div>
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Vacation #1: My first vacation was stressful because I was
traveling to a place I’ve never been and I was responsible for all the
expenses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a bit relaxing (almost
to the point of boredom) even if I didn’t really get out of the heat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was nice to get away from the rat race,
but also nice to get home again.</div>
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Vacation #2: I was only home for 3 days before I left again
on a family reunion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now don’t get me
wrong, I love my family but being trapped with all of them in one house (there
were 16 of us which wasn’t everybody) for 3 days is not the relaxing vacation I
like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was chaos, crying children,
glasses broken, coyotes barking, howling and killing in the middle of the night
and my brother snoring like a lumber jack and keeping me up all night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to go from my quiet, peaceful
existence to something that resembles more of disaster movie than my idyllic
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I said, I love my family but
I’m not use to being around so many temperamental kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And don’t even get me started on being
trapped in the very small back seat of a pickup truck for almost 6 hours going
and almost 8 hours coming back (stupid construction delays).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When I got home I was very excited to film some more videos
and edit them for my channel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I tried to edit them.</div>
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When I went on my first vacation there wasn’t going to be
anyone home so I took all those valuables that I didn’t want stolen and secured
them elsewhere so they’d be safe while I was gone and house was empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, when stashing my audio mixer,
the settings got messed up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some
reason I didn’t check them too carefully (I only checked the volume setting)
and went and recorded a couple of videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t know why I didn’t even do a mic check before recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I guess being on vacation really fried my
brain.</div>
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When I listened to the audio recording while syncing up the
files I realized how bad it was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh
shit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t know what went wrong and
I didn’t know how to fix it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did a lot
of research trying to find a way to minimize the damage (there was no way I would
be able to fix it completely) and I learned a lot . . . and learned that there
is still a LOT more that I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All of the videos I posted this week had bad audio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully I know enough now to fix the
problem with the things that I want to film this weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, well I’ll have to think of something
else.</div>
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Spring must be the season of technical difficulties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was having issue with the audio and
gameplay tracks getting out of sync the longer the video was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then there was the gameplay audio was getting
out of sync from the gameplay video even though they were on the same track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of these problems were evident while
playing, but only were noticeable once I was editing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It made things very frustrating.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even changed up my posting schedule to give
myself more time to editing some of the more difficult files.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned a lot then too.</div>
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To fix those problems I had to end up uninstalling both Audacity
and Elgato and reinstalling them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I
did that, things were back to normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
that was when I went on vacation and I came back to another set of issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is so frustrating because there are so
many things I want to do with my YouTube channel and other things that I just don’t
have time for because I’m dealing with all this crap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been posting videos for 2 years now and
it really doesn’t seem that long, but I also think I should be further along in
my plan than where I am at now at this point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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It also doesn’t help that I don’t have any support in what I’m
doing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My family thinks it’s a waste of
my time and just don’t understand that I enjoying do things like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friends just want to play games and aren’t
interesting in making content with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It doesn’t really matter though because I’m going to continue to keep
doing what I love whether anyone supports me or watches my videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The whole point of this was to finish games and
have fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I am finishing games (I’m
almost done with 2 more that might be done before the end of the month), I’m
really not having a lot of fun right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Things will get better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever
else goes wrong I’ll figure out how to fix and I will move on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So if you watch my channel and notice
technical difficulties . . . please stand by.</div>
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Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-41579397049211208042017-05-02T11:04:00.002-07:002017-05-02T11:04:41.196-07:00Pengwenn: The Origins StoryI've been thinking a lot about where "Pengwenn" all began. It was in August of 2004 actually.<br />
<br />
I love to write. But writing can be a lonely endeavor. I had a subscription to Writer's Digest and each year they put out a list of "101 Websites for Writers". This particular year I wanted to find like-minded souls that I could commiserate with when things were bad, and celebrate with when things were good. I checked out several of the sites listed and settled on <a href="http://www.wordtrip.com/">www.wordtrip.com</a> as the one I wanted to join. The only problem was I didn't have a screen name and I refused to use my own name to sign up. The internet was for anonymity and privacy. <br />
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My brother and I sent the day throwing names back and forth trying to find just the right screen name for me. We just couldn't come up with something that fit my personality and that I liked. We took a break for a while and we got back together my brother had the perfect name ready for me: Pen-gwenn. That's how it wanted it shown so people would know my name right away but still see how to say it. I took out the hyphen.<br />
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I signed up on the website and the rest is history. Sort of.<br />
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When it came time to sign up to Xbox Live and create a gamertag I seriously thought about creating a separate name for gaming then the Pengwenn I had for writing. After all, gaming and writing are two different things. But the more I thought about it. Pengwenn was who I really was. Or who I really wanted to be. It was me. I've been Pengwenn ever since every where I can be online. <br />
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When I created a Twitter account I couldn't use just Pengwenn so I used I_Pengwenn (or something like that). I didn't really use that account and years later when I decided that I wanted to be more active on Twitter I had forgotten about that account. I still couldn't use Pengwenn so I created a new one and settled on @PengwennGamer since I would use it mostly for gaming.<br />
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I grew up in a VERY conservative house and community. Where "gosh darn it" was a vile swear word and we weren't allowed to say that. We weren't allowed to get angry and yell at people either. That wasn't very nice. But being Pengwenn online I finally find a place where I can be me and break free of those conservative constraints. I challenge anyone to play a game of Call of Duty online and NOT get angry or want to swear at someone. <br />
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Pengwenn isn't an alternate persona for me. It's not an act. I'm very much Pengwenn in real life. Except that Pengwenn doesn't have bills to pay, bathrooms to clean, laundry to do, etc. You know, all those things you have to do in real life just to exist. Gwenn has to dress a certain way to go to work. Pengwenn can wear nothing at all if she feels like it (and when it gets up to 110 degrees or more who would want to). Gwenn has to guard her tongue when she gets mad at work. Pengwenn lets it fly . . . even if she's just made at herself. I'm much more comfortable as Pengwenn. No constraints. No restrictions. No limits. And I actually prefer to be called Peng or Pengy instead of Gwenn or Gwenny. Even in real life. It just sounds more like me.<br />
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Don't get me wrong. I love my name in real life. It's unique enough without being totally weird and out there. That's also what Pengwenn is too. My brother explained that a penguin is a very unique bird. It has feathers, but doesn't fly. It's more agile and graceful in an area that you would least expect (water). I'm not what anyone expects. I dance and do other girlie things, yet I'm not a girlie girl. I like sports. Not just watching them, but playing them. Yet I'm not a tomboy either. I'm just me. The unexpected, flightless, swimming bird. We tried not to make comparisons to me waddling around when I walk but I think that part is coming true the older I get.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-89985198687207155632017-04-19T12:18:00.004-07:002017-04-19T12:18:51.374-07:002 Year Anniversary on YouTube<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Today is my 2 year anniversary of posting video on YouTube.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t believe it’s been that long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks to YouTube I’ve finished a bunch of
games with several more about to be finished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before I started my channel I don’t know that I would have been able to
say I’ve finished ANY games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not
perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not even close.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m getting better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I will never be perfect because there are
just too many games out there to play.)</div>
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What have I learned:</div>
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It take a lot of time to get a video filmed, edited and
posted on YT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I wish I could
just film and someone else do the editing and posting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other times I wish someone else would play
the games and I could just edit them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
currently in a “I like to film” phase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
hoping to store up a lot of videos to edit later when I’m in that “I like to
edit phase”.</div>
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I still don’t have a rhyme or reason to what I post and when
I do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the exception of the month
of October (scary/spooky/Halloween games) and a military game for Veteran’s Day
in November.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to pick a game around
a holiday but those 2 holidays make it easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve tried planning on playing an older game when a new sequel comes out
but I can’t time it right so I never know when to start filming or posting
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I’ll figure that out later.</div>
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If <a href="http://howlongtobeat.com/">howlongtobeat.com</a> says it takes about 10 hours to
complete a game it will probably take me about 18-20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thorough and ’m a completionist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like to check every nook and cranny in a
place before moving on to the next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
sometimes I have to check 2 or 3 times because I was talking and not paying any
attention to what I was doing so I might have missed something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s probably annoying to watch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know it’s annoying to me but I can’t help
myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a small OCD thing that I
have that even gets on my nerves (but not as much as if I DIDN’T check
everything a couple of times before moving on).</div>
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If I have to concentration and focus really hard to get
through a difficult section of the game (like a boss fight or tough puzzle) I
tend to get really quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know
how other YouTubers can carry on a conversation yet still focus on the problem
at hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t seem to divide my
attention enough to do either one of those things well in those
situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I usually just keep my
mouth shut and concentrate on the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Maybe I’ll get better . . . . </div>
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I don’t think I’ll ever get better at video games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though I’m playing more than I use to, I
don’t think I’m learning anything to make me better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My reflexes aren’t getting any better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My problem solving skills aren’t
improving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I even think I
might be digressing and going backwards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m still having fun so I’ll keep playing.</div>
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Some games are so much easier to edit than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lego games are easy to edit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other games like Arc the Lad: Twilight of the
Spirits and Dark Cloud are a little more time consuming to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of that has to do with load screens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some games have a lot of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some have really long ones.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And some have a lot of them that last a
really long time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally when I’m
watching videos online, I find it frustrating to sit there for 10 seconds (or
more) staring at a blank screen because it’s a load screen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edit those dead spaces out!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For some games that’s tough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
others it’s a dream.</div>
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I never thought I would like the editing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seemed the most tedious and boring part of
the whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first, it really was
boring and tedious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more I’m doing
it the more I find I like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even when
I’m not really in the mood to edit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s something about the editing process that makes it more creative than
what I feel when I’m playing the game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If I could find a way to do that for a living I think I probably
would.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s still A LOT about editing
that I don’t understand and know, but I’m willing to learn.</div>
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Every game I play (or plan to play) I think of in terms of “will
this make a good video/series”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
has been one game that I filmed 3 videos in and when I went to edit it decided
that it wouldn’t be a great game to post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The game itself is not bad, it just doesn’t lend itself to compelling
gameplay that I would want to watch if someone else was playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People have made videos in this game, but I
can’t watch them for more than a couple of minutes at a time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand there are games I really
want to play and I know they would make a great series but I don’t have the time
to devote to those games now so . . . I don’t play them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This sucks and I don’t like it, but I don’t
want to start a game and play it for a while only to restart it later because
now I want to film it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tough choices
man.</div>
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I’ve decided that I will play and post videos of the games
that I want to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll try really
hard not to think that I’ve only got to play and post new games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or games that are famous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or popular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s not fun to play a game when you feel like you’re being forced
to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes all the fun out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I want people to enjoy my games then I’ve
got to enjoy them myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if I lose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or die a lot of times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why there’s a long time between videos
for Psychonauts and Rayman Origins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
not feeling those games right now so I won’t play them until I’m more excited
to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that I might be
playing a bunch of older games that have been around for a decade or more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like some of those older games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ll also try to play things more current
because I like those games too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
channel will just be a smorgasbord of the things I like at any given moment.</div>
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For some games I think I want to have a big chunk of the
game recorded before I start publishing the videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find it easier to remember what to do, or
remember what the controls are if I keep playing it for a while before I get in
to a schedule of posting videos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all
games are like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Lego games are
easy to sit down and record just one level here and there as needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not all games are like that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also think that having a large part of the
game already recorded before posting gives me a better idea of how long the
game will last.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I can do better at
scheduling topical games if I do that.</div>
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Doing this is like having a second job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m spending 20-30 hours of week to get 5 or
so videos posted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s not leaving a lot
of room for any other hobbies or things I’d like to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a sacrifice I’m still willing to make
even if my family doesn’t understand why I do it.</div>
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Right now I still love what I’m doing and I will continue to
record videos and post online.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I won’t
stop until I no longer find any enjoyment out of playing games and finishing
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I don’t see that happening any
time soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love seeing my audience
grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Little by little.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And when I say I’m open to suggestions of what to play, I mean it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I might not get to it right away, but I’ll put it on the list of what to
play next.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So far I have 6 or 7 on the
list.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some suggestions by friends, some
for other reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll learn more
about those later on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, it’s
been a good couple of years.<br />
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Things to work on this next year: 1) learn how to use Photoshop and 2) make better thumbnails. 3) Make intro channel animated slate for videos (might need a LOT of help on this one). </div>
Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-21469656501128477722017-01-17T14:13:00.002-08:002017-01-17T14:13:10.415-08:002017: The Year of Playstation has begunI have dubbed 2017 The Year of Playstation. The majority of games that I will record and post to YouTube will be Playstation games. I'll still throw in a few Xbox games from time to time (or on the weekends) but my main focus will be playing (and finishing) a bunch of Playstation games.<br />
<br />
The first game I'm focusing on is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY-O7SpELFJAUNUpQukB6Hmuxi2SIncxa" target="_blank">Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits</a>. (click the link for the playlist on YouTube) I'll be getting back to playing more Dark Cloud if I can ever get past this one dungeon level I'm stuck on. I think I might have figured out how to do it so maybe some of those videos will be coming out soon too.<br />
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I'm working on making some upgrades to my gaming set up but until then I can't get my Playstation 3 hooked up. I'm hoping to get that done this weekend so I can start recording PS3 games again. I got Bioshock Infinite from my Secret Santa so that will be one game I play and record. After Christmas I kind of splurged an quite a few PS3 games but I won't tell you what ones those are . . . you'll just have to watch my channel to find out. <br />
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What do you want me to play? If you have any suggestions, let me know. If I don't have it, I'll try to find a copy. I love shopping for video games.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-37368723354411566822017-01-17T13:58:00.004-08:002017-01-17T13:58:38.919-08:00The Working Girl's Game Review - Far Cry ClassicSo the first game I'm going to try and give a thorough review for is Far Cry Classic, Not exactly a modern game, but that's okay. There might be people who played any of the other Far Cry games and might be interested in picking up the original and completing their collection. Also, I can hone my skills at giving reviews. This is new to me too. I'll try to keep it spoiler free as much as possible, but a few things might have to be spoiled to explain a point I'm making.<br />
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<b>System</b>:<br />
Xbox 360 Arcade <br />
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<b>Developer</b>:<br />
Crytex<br />
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<b>Story</b>:<br />
You play as Jack Carver who is running a boat tour business. His only costumer this time is a lovely lady journalist named Valerie Constantine. Except she's not who she says she is. More on that later. While cruising around some archipelago islands their boat is attacked and Jack and Val are thrown in to the water. Jack wanders ashore and now has to find his charge Val. The locals aren't friendly and Jack has no idea where Val might be. Jack finds a radio and receives a broadcast from Harland Doyle that he might know where Val is. While he doesn't know whether or not to trust Doyle he just wants to get Val and get off the island.<br />
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The Island holds a lot of secrets. A very big one is that there is a secret organization that's been experimenting with genetic engineering (specifically weaponizing) and this organization and mercenaries don't want this secret to come out. Especially the main guy Krieger. After Jack rescues Val she confuses that she's CIA and there to find out what happened to an undercover agent . . . Harland Doyle. Val releases the mutants (called Trigens) thinking that they will help distract the mercenaries to make things easier for Jack. Unfortunately that just creates a new enemy for Jack to fight. Val wants to find all the data and destroy the lab. Oh, did we mention that Jack is an ex Army Special Forces operative? Nope, well you don't learn that right off the bat either. Now you know why your player is so proficient in guns right from the get go.<br />
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<b>Story score</b>: 3 penguins <br />
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<b>Characters</b>:<br />
Jack seems okay. He's got some snarky stuff to say in response to Doyle's instructions. If the game mentioned he was ex-Armed Forces at the beginning of the game I missed it. It wasn't until much later that you learn who he really is/was. The whole first half of the game is all about rescuing Val so it makes it seem that she's incapably of doing it herself. After you rescue her she's very capable of taking care of herself. And if you play some of the later "escort" missions right you can get her to take out most of the enemies so you don't have to. Doyle is not upfront about who he is either. And there's another side to him as well. But I won't spoil that.<br />
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<b>Character score</b>: 3 penguins<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics</b>:<br />
The aiming and gun control was okay. There was one thing that almost made me quit playing the game before I figured it out. When you come across a new weapon you get the "Y" button prompt if you want to switch weapons. That left me thinking I could only carry 3 weapons; primary, secondary and a pistol. That is NOT true. I was also left thinking that the only way I could heal was to find a med pack somewhere. I couldn't figure out how to have one in my inventory. I also found that I could cycle through 3 different types of grenades but I couldn't see them in my inventory. In fact I couldn't find my inventory at all. <br />
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It turns out that you have to hold the left bumper to pull up your inventory wheel. Once I did that it was amazing what I could do with my weapons. And healing . . . oh, look at that I had a med kit in my inventory and never knew it. I didn't want a pistol so now I could equip that and swap it out for a better gun. I didn't figure this out until almost half way through the game. I had to go online to find help because I was so frustrated with the game. There is NOTHING in the tutorial part, the menus, or the booklet for this game that explains how to pull up the wheel and use items on it (like much needed health kits). I can't tell you how many times I died when I could have healed myself. Once I figured this out the rest of the game was much easier . . . with one exception.<br />
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The other game mechanic that almost made me quit the game was the enemy concentration and spawn points. There were too many times where there was hardly any enemies at all and then the next level you'd be surrounded by a hoard of them all the time. The enemy concentration points were very unbalanced and it always happened at the worse time. You'd be hit by a punch of enemies right at a check point . . . which is the only way to save your game. If you died, you always came back right in the middle of all the enemies and usually at very low health (this is why it would have been good to know I was carrying around a med kit). <br />
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The worse level for this was the River level. I can't tell you how many times I hit a save point, died, respawned only to die instantly again. There were 4 times in that level alone that I had to jump back a save just so I could survive spawning in. It also took me about 30-40 minutes to survive long enough to get to a second check point after repeatedly dying at the previous one. It made editing the level a nightmare. I don't mind a little variety in the concentration level of enemies in section of the game but this game took it to the extremes and I hated that.<br />
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<b>Game Mechanics</b>: 1 penguin<br />
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<b>Art Design</b>:<br />
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The night time missions are dark. I mean VERY dark. I actually had
to set up brightness all the way up just to see what was going on on the
screen. Too many times I walked in to a tree but didn't know that
because I couldn't see the tree. Once I uped the brightness it was so
much more playable. I left it all the way bright even for the daytime
missions and it didn't blow out the image out so I just left it there
for the whole game.<br />
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The game did look dated with flat graphics but it's an older game so I figure it for that. I'm sure it looked stunning when it originally came out.<br />
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Art Design score: 3 penguins<br />
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<b>Overall Impression</b>:<br />
After playing this game I'm left a little bewildered as to how this game launched the whole Far Cry franchise as I know it today. This game seems very different from what I've seen of Far Cry 3,4 and Primal. But I wanted to start at the beginning and see where everything started. <br />
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I finished this game and I'm proud of that especially with all the problems I had playing it. It's not one that I would play again. And it's not a game that I would recommend to a casual gamer. Only those who are completionists like me and who like to play a whole series of a franchise would get any 'enjoyment' from playing this game. <br />
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The achievements are another thing that is not evenly spaced throughout the game. They come in fits and spurts, especially towards the end. Some of them you wouldn't think to do if you didn't read up on what the achievements are. I played on easy and there's an achievement for playing on the hardest difficulty. I don't think I'll get that one, although now that I know how things work I might make an attempt. It just find it too frustrating to really put my heart in to it. Once is enough for me.<br />
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Overall Impression score: 2 penguins (out of 5)<br />
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Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6850769218281412203.post-84758932031642476862016-12-27T14:42:00.001-08:002016-12-27T14:42:36.980-08:00Game reviews / Final impressionsI've been thinking about game reviews a lot lately. I like reading reviews of games to help me decide if I want to buy it or not. Then I usually watch some YouTube videos of gameplay, but never the beginning of the game. Sometimes what I read and what I see don't add up. And it makes me wonder how much of the game the reviewer actually played. <br />
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If a game takes about 60 hours to play did the reviewer actually play the whole game before they wrote their review? Probably not. They've got a lot of other things to do . . . and other games to play. They probably played enough to get the gist of the game but that's not the whole picture.<br />
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But you can't always trust what you see on a YouTube video either as the whole picture. Unless the player is commenting about everything they are experiencing (story, game mechanics, art design, impressions, etc.) they're not giving a whole picture either. Yes, they might oh and ah at things, or yell and cuss at times, but there's more to that if you want to get the whole essence of a game.<br />
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Since I'm finishing a lot more games than before maybe I could write a review of the games that I've finished and you can compare the review I write with the gameplay videos I make. These won't be professional level reviews, just my impressions on how things went. I figure I could stick to some basic categories and talk about those things that may or may not influence you playing a game.<br />
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I'm thinking about the following categories:<br />
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story<br />
characters<br />
game mechanics<br />
art design<br />
overall impressions<br />
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What do you think about those categories? Do you think there should be more things that I cover? Less? I haven't decided if I will give out a final score/rating for the games. I don't know if it would be on a 5 or 10 point scale. Or maybe 100. Who knows. Just throwing out ideas now. Let me know what you think.Pengwennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01979393865540991227noreply@blogger.com5