New Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L video - Agility

New Fallout 4 S.P.E.C.I.A.L Video

So these videos have been hilarious so far. And here is the one showing us what agility means. A really clever way of giving their fans a little something while waiting for the release. It also makes sure to remind us that the game is coming soon.

Far Cry 3

Far Cry 3

Uplay. It had to be f-ing Uplay! There are few systems surrounding the gaming industry that I hate more. And sure enough. I had to mess around for like 15 minutes before I got the game running. 
I bought the game via Steam and when I had installed it and was going to start the game I was sent to the Uplay..
And I had saved my account information. The account name and password etc on a piece of paper, I mean that can't go wrong, right?
Hah! Instead of signing in with my account name though, they were asking me to insert the emailaddress. That information however, was not on the piece of paper!

So eventually I figured out which email I used and reset the password etc. And I could start the game! Though I had to restart both Steam and Uplay. It just kept telling me to go to Steam, go to Uplay, go to Steam etc.

At first I had to agree with some comment I read about the game. Like Skyrim, but with guns. However after a few minutes. Especially after I saw the map I was certain. This is exactly like Assassins Creed! A lot of stuff inside the game as well. Like the radio towers. They are the exact same thing as the vintage points in Assassins Creed. You even have to exit them in the same fashion. Instead of jumping down into a pile of hay, you use a zipline though. 

Honestly, this fact might make me a bit more prone to get bored by this game faster. Since I have played all the Assassins Creeds quite recently so the entire thing feels a bit old to me.

But there is a reason why I played through all the Assassins Creeds. I enjoyed them. So I am enjoying this game as well!

The story is okay I suppose. Don't really need a reason to run around in this beautiful enviroment. So the story will come in second hand. Really scary dude that is the enemy though. They have made that well, I bet some are really freaked out by him.

It is a really nice game to stream. Got some nice conversations going the first time I streamed it on Twitch. And that is a big plus for me. I love the social aspect of the gaming/streaming. Plus I can get help from people if I get stuck on some things.

I will definitely play this game for many hours in the days to come!

"Stealth game sale" on Steam!

Stealth games for sale!

What is a stealth game?
Assassins Creed and Splinter Cell of course. But a whole lot of other games as well. Apparently Far Cry, which gave me the chance to purchase Far Cry 3 for the price of 4.99 €. Awesome!

Was thinking about it for the longest of time though. Was a bit skeptical regarding the fact that they are promising so much. Open world. Use animals?! to kill enemies. I am supposed to send a f-ing tiger on people? 
Driving cars. Using a sniper rifle from a hill or sneak through the bushes taking the enemies out in silently. 
Can a game really have all this and still be good at it all? I mean. That is a looot of features. But I bought it and I will be back with some thoughts about it.

Find the "Stealth Sale" on Steams website  Here!

Trailer Far Cry 3

PlayStation Now

PlayStation Now Launched

Sony has launched a new service that allows you to stream games via the PlayStation Network to your console. There are over 100 PS3 titles in the service. Even old PlayStation2 titles are available like Shadow of the Colossus.
The service is compatible with PS4, PS3 and PS Vita.

You can have a one week trial period for free. But unless you actively quit you will automatically sign up for the service. So don't forget to tell them that you don't want to continue.

So this service will stream the games. That means that you will need a fast and stable connection. The service will be testing your connection when you log on to make sure you will be able to use it. 
Another thing though, if you are idle for too long (how long?) you will get disconnected to make room for other players. 
They need their bandwidth it seems.

If you don't want access to all of the games for the price of 12.99 (pounds I think it is) you can rent one game instead for 2.99 (pounds?). If you are a person that don't feel like games has any value once you have beaten them. This might be something for you.
Personally I would not prefer to play my games this way. I prefer to be able to go back to playing the game every now and then. And I am a sucker for physical copies.

But like I said. It could be a great thing for many gamers out there! If you play through a few games a month this could be a profitable way to get hold of the games. I am not sure about how many new titles there will be here though. It sounds like there are just PS3 titles so far? As well as the ones from PS2 as well. But there are most definitely some good old titles that you have missed over the years.

I think the service is only available in the UK. So no wonder I took a guess that it was pounds? It can have changed however, don't know when the news I read were from. This sounds like something they would definitely try in other parts of the world, not just in the UK.

I remember that Nintendo pulled something like it a few years back with Nintendo Wii. You could buy the old NES games and play them on your Wii.

My source was the Gamereactor app. Hopefully we can hear about Sony releasing it in more regions soon.

Bosch! Favorite detective now on TV!

My favorite detective when reading books is apparently on TV! How could I have missed that. There was a movie a few years back where Michael Connelly had another one of his characters made into a character on TV. 

Back then it was Clint Eastwood who played Terry McCaleb in Blood Work 2002.

So obviously I haven't seen the TV series yet. But believe me I will. There is something funny about him even though it is probably not meant to be that way.

Veteran from the war. Living alone. Like a lot of cops on TV he likes alcohol.

It is these really crazy cases, hey it is Hollywood! And in some way Michael Connelly makes my mind spin and try to solve the puzzle as I read about Bosch. That is an amazing thing. 

I saw a trailer I believe it was of the TV series. I am not so sure what I saw. If that was supposed to be Bosch? I had imagined something else. But is that not how it always is? If you read a book and then watch a movie or a series based on the book you will get disappointed.

No matter what I was expecting. I will definitely watch the series and see what it is like. Hopefully they have made a few episodes from the books. That would be awesome, since the cases from the books are entertaining.

League of Legends Worlds

So Worlds huh? Awesome!

This is the thing everyone have been waiting for. The best of the best. 
Which metas will be strongest? 
Which team can be able to adapt their style of play to outplay their opponents?
Which region is the best?

Upsets has happened so far in the Worlds. Will we see more of them? I haven't seen all of the matches yet because I slowly watch the replays one by one. I would not want to miss any of the action. 

Is it just me or have you also started to play more League of Legends right now? The motivation from watching these guys play is amazing.
For me personally, I started to play Fiora. Watched Dyrus video on how to play her as well. Great stuff.

But lets go back to Worlds. Which teams have been dominating so far? Any players that have excelled?

KOO has been insane in some games. At their matches against CLG and PNG I believed them to be unstoppable. That was however not true it turns out. FW won against them and that was an impressive display. 
Back to KOO. Kench impressed on me during the game against CLG. He swallowed his own ADC meaning that the opponents burned their ultimates on him (the support) and then the ADC could finish up the fight.
KOO also showed me the power of Mordekaiser and Darius in their win against PNG.

FW did start out with some weird decisions during their battle against CLG. But they managed to turn that one around. And like I said, they managed to get an impressive victory against KOO later on.

Nice to see Malphite against a team with a lot of AD. Strange thing that they did not ban away the Malph before choosing a team that lacks AP.

Been playing some Batman lately and it felt like the Joker were playing when BKT - SKT. The new rules are, there are no rules! Olaf mid! 
The players on this level are so capable of change and can figure out exactly what to pick against what in matter of seconds. I am impressed!

It was in the match against BKT and H2K that Mordekaiser was picked for the first time. Crowd went crazy, cheering for the Kaiser! 
Unfortunately they did not get a lot out of the Morekaiser early, they did not push towers a lot using dragon etc. Lacked ranged dps since Morde was playing botlane with a support.
They won however, crazy strong team.

xPeke chose Anivia against Mr. Anivia?! He showed some balls right there. It worked out well in the end as well. 

AHQ vs. Fnatic were some crazy shit if I remember correctly. Mobile teams with teleports and shit. Like in Matrix, there is no spoon. There is no laning! Teamfiiiights!

Can't wait for the rest of Worlds! Lets get ready to Rumble!

Early Access - Good concept?

Early Access - Is it a good concept or not?

So this is reaaaally common these days. Games are released as Early Access for people to buy. Before I go into it more I will just give the background of the development that I will commentate in this post.

Background

At first video games were not connected to the Internet what so ever. That meant that the developers had no chance of releasing a patch to fix bugs and mistakes that were in the game after it is released. 
So when the game is released it is complete! End of story! If the companies failed to release the games without bugs they would get a bad reputation. I suppose that delays were more common back in these days since the companies really could not afford to release anything before it was complete.

Then the Internet came and the companies were able to patch the games after release to fix certain issues that the games had. I suppose this was good, because after all, not all bugs were found in the earlier era. 
There would always be glitches that players found. Now the companies could release a patch to fix things like that. 

With the Internet coming and more and more games become online games the world of gaming grew. Now companies could put up servers with the alpha and beta versions of the games to allow a certain amount of players to try it and give the development team some feedback.
You could sign up for a chance to test the game in the development stage. This was actually really fun the times where I actually got to test some games myself. 
Because in many ways you got to be special and try the games before all your mates that all wanted to play the same game. But they would have to wait for the release. Haha!

But these were all closed betas. With time, more and more open betas came. And I would say that the early access games that we see today is just simply open betas that people pay to play.

So these new early access games. Is the concept good?

Pros
- All players that wants to test it during development stages get the chance to do so.
- The development team gets a lot of feedback from players
- The developers get a lot of funds to be able to continue the development of the game
- Streamers might play the game and make it popular like with DayZ where the developers haven't spent a penny on commercial. Twitch & Youtube have done that for them.

Cons
- The developers get a lot of the revenues from the game even before they have even finished it. Will they bother to finish it? When purchasing a early access game there is a disclaimer saying that the game might end up in a way that you did not expect. There are sooo many games now that is released on early access and my guess is that many of them will stay that way.

I can't seem to come up with many cons although it is a fairly big one. Hopefully players will be able to foresee which games will go through with the development and which ones won't. 

Examples of Early Access Games

I mentionded DayZ as one of the games that have been riding on the wave of success that Twitch and Youtube have had with the streaming community. But DayZ have been in early access for a long time and won't get finished in the near future either if I remember it correctly.
This game started out as a mod for Arma2 and I am not so sure that they have changed soooo much since then. I might be wrong and then I apologize. But  when I tried it a few weeks back it felt a lot like the Arma2 mod. Since I liked the mod I was not all disappointed but I hope that they make a lot of progress in the development of that game. Now when they are competing against H1Z1 that is cheaper, and will be free-to-play and I'd say ahead in the development process. In the favor of DayZ is the fact that H1Z1 might be spending a lot of resources on the Battle Royale and not so much on the normal servers. 

H1Z1 is another tricky one. Their mode Battle Royale has had great success due to the streamers. But they said that when the game is going to be released it will be free-to-play! At the moment though they are selling a looot of copies and I believe it is around 20 euros a piece.
Why would they want to announce the game as finished and then begin to release it for free? The skeptical person in me says that will not happen for a loooong time.

The Forest is another survival horror game that is early access. When I got that game their Steam page stated that this was really early access alpha and it would take some time with a lot of problems during the development period. 
Oddly enough I haven't noticed any problems. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I (the player) do not play on servers that they are maintaining. When I play I create my own game and for multiplayer I have to host the game myself. 
There are constantly new patches with new content and old bugs getting fixed. So on the subject, this is a positive example so far.

I love the concept! But I don't like getting screwed. So I guess I am bound to be disappointed at times. I mean. Yea, it is cool to be able to try games out during the development process. If there is one! If the game is not having any progress then it is not early access. Then it is just a non-finished game that the developers are getting money for anyway.

I will try DayZ again someday soon to see what progress they have been making. Lets hope I am pleasently surprised. The Forest though is a great buy I'd say. There are gameplay videos on this blog under the "gaming" label.