The Fit Gamer Podcast Episode 15

The Fit Gamer Podcast Episode 15

On this episode there is a lot of talk about DreamHack Winter that just went down. Mainly the Counter Strike Tournament where Fnatic and NiP faced off, the two big swedish teams.

Some speculative regarding the future in stemcells and the next thing instead of plastic surgery. 
Also some talk about what we played recently, Fallout 4 and League of Legends for example.

You can listen to the episode in the player above but it will be on iTunes, Stitcher, aCast and other places like that.

Getting some Vitamins into my system

Vitamins is a good idea

It is something that can be considered quite obvious. But are most people taking supplements to make sure they get all the vitamins the body needs?

Like we spoke about on the latest episode of The Fit Gamer Podcast. During the winter when it is cold and dark we don't get the same amount of vitamin D. And there is something referred to as "winter depression" or something. It is about as scientific as the happy feelings people have when the spring is coming. 

I am expecting a delivery of some nice vitamins any day now. And especially since I have been starting to get bad colds every now and then when the weather turns cold it is a must-have for me. 

In Sweden at least, almost any grocery store is selling some kind of vitamin labeled to suit different persons. Some boxes says women 50+ and such. That is actually great because it helps the general public to purchase vitamins. They don't feel that they have to read and see if it is the vitamins they want. Many people would just have said, "Naaah too much work" and just skipped the vitamins. 

In times where the amount of calories we need is easily covered due to all the fat and glucos in our foods, it is not certain that we get enough of the vitamins and minerals in our regular diet.

When we for example filter away bad shit in our drinking water like medicines and detergents, certain minerals disappear as well. 

Don't be one of them saying vitamins is for weak people. It might help you stay healthy, get better workout results and avoid the feelings of depression during the darker season.

DreamHack Winter 2015

DreamHack Winter 2015 (No Spoilers)

I guess that it is all over this time. The DreamHack Winter 2015 in its original location. Nowadays they are showing up all over Europe. But it is really an old tradition when it comes to the summer and winter DreamHacks here in Sweden.

I am one of all the fans that will watch replays of the games for the weeks to come. I have not been able to watch a lot of the games live. Mainly due to the fact that I did not have any Internet at all during the weekend.

The Counter Strike tournament seemed to have a looot of exciting games. I will not spoil anything at all. But I bet that there will be a  lot of exciting games from the group stage all the way to the final. There were some big stomps as well as really tight matches that you can watch in the replays. I sure will!

As a swede, there will be a lot of games to watch simply because NiP and Fnatic were in the tournament. And they played each other! El Clasico of swedish Counter Strike!

I am really disappointed that there are no League of Legends to speak of. Riot and the LCS is so big that there is really no intrest or possibility for the best teams to enter other tournaments.

There should be playlists on Youtube to allow you to watch all games in the correct order. Because by just searching for games randomly, you will often get the results spoiled by seeing what teams are in the final.

Pro Evolution Soccer Free to Play

Free to Play Pro Evolution Soccer

Is this for real? They are releasing the game for free?
Not quite. I haven't read a lot about it. But it seems that this version will only contain 7 teams and access to something called "my club". 
Some of the clubs that it is supposed to contain are Juventus, Roma, Bayern Munich, Brazil and France. The mode called Training mode will be available as well.

In order to earn money on this release it seems that they can make some money by people purchasing content using micro-transactions in the "my club" section.

This will probably be released December 8th. 

The link to the news story I read is here

Zlatan returned

Zlatan returned with style

Zlatan returned to Malmö tonight. The club where it all started. Back then the club was not even playing in the first division in Sweden. And now, he gets to come back to face Malmö in Champions League. 

That is quite the story! 

He has been and still is the source of inspiration and hope to a lot of young players in not only Malmö, but in Sweden. 

To make sure that people got to enjoy the game he helped with the finances for a big show with big screens on the town square in Malmö.
Thousands of fans gathered there, despite the cold weather here in Sweden. It was not many days ago there was a snow chaos I believe in those parts of Sweden. But people wanted to join up and watch the game.

What about the game itself? Malmö started out with a really young centre back who deserved a chance to play against players like Di Maria, Ibrahimovic and Cavani according to the manager. I am not arguing with that. 
It is not certain that the result would have been any different with an older and more experienced centre back. The left back in Malmö were also a young player who even played in Champions League in the previous season and made quite the impression. A bright future? Only time will tell. 

Keep an eye on Pa Konate!

Paris is certainly on another level than Malmö. The amount of money the squads are worth are not even in the same universe. That showed. Paris got ahead early. 1-0 in three minutes and after that it continued in a similar fashion. 

Zlatan himself put the ball in the net in the second half, making the score 3-0. 

The game ended 5-0 and Zlatan got substituted in the 85th minute to recieve the cheers from the crowd. The king had returned!

He did not take every opportunity to shoot. He was passing the ball a lot giving his teammates opportunities to score. 
Unwilling to score too many goals against Malmö or wanting to show his growth as a player? Maybe that was just the way he would have played any other game. No matter the reasons, he had a good game.

New DLCs for Batman Arkham Knight

DLCs for Batman Arkham Knight

They will be available for owners of the Batman: Arkham Knight Season Pass. Apparently it includes two new Arkham episodes and something called "2016 Batman v Superman Batmobile Pack.

If you don't own a season pass, don't worry. You can pick them up seperately at December 1st. 

Catwoman and Robin will get some time in the spotlight as well. In different Arkham episodes they will have a story that we can play. Catwoman wants revenge on "The Riddler" and Robin goes after a money laundry operation.

HERE is a link to gamereactor where they have a trailer for it.

Hopefully this is targeting the console versions since, as far as I understand it, they still haven't gotten it to run smoothly on PC? Spend some time to perfect the content that you already sold?

Or better yet, hurry up and finish a brand new game! 

But to think positive, releasing a lot of DLCs might make them lower the price on the original game thinking that they can earn money on people buying the new DLCs as well. And I am currently playing through the first games to get to know the story. And waiting for the issues to be resolved and the price to drop for Arkham Knight. 

So this might turn out to be a good thing for me in the end.

Payday 2 devs tries to win back community

Payday 2 devs apologizes

This has been a huge thing lately. When Payday 2 released micro-transactions that could be called "Pay-to-Win". The system is not something sensational. A lot of games are using that.

However...

These particular developers had previously promised the community surrounding Payday that this would never happen. And yet... it did. 

So now they have released a blog post saying that they screwed up and that they are sorry. But will they remove the feature?

I did not get that impression after reading fragments about it. They say stuff like "I must stress however that we cannot currently make any promises but these are the things we will be discussing as we move forward."
But like I said, I did not read the entire blog post. I just read an article on it and felt I had to update the blog some. Since I already mentioned this mess several times on the blog and on the podcast.

Will saying sorry repair the damage done if they don't back on the whole "pay-to-win" thing?

If I understood it correctly there will be a small chance to get the loot in the game without paying for it. But I am guessing it will be quite rare.

I own a copy of the game. But I will never play that shit online for rewards. I will just play the story mode co-op. That is it. Which means that I am not really affected by this shit. But all together, I feel that they are risking the future of this series based upon this. 

Will the fans buy the next game? 

Will some other developer release a similar game in order to try to take over this community? The players are there, just come and grab them.

The blog post can be found HERE and reading a bit more of it there seems to be them trying to convince players to keep playing due to them talking about future tournaments and prizes.