Gaming is educational

Kids learn a lot from games

People who are against video games and states that it is bad for our kids are most likely people who themselves never have spent a lot of time with it. 

Sure, nowadays there are a lot of stuff surrounding all the smart phones. When I was young there were no smart phones. It was the video games that was around and the Internet. That was the best education you could ever get in the english language.

Today most games are played online and to be able to communicate with teammates the kids are using programs like Skype to speak to each other. That is great training. Because it is not like reading from a textbook. The kids are trying to express certain things to their teammates so that they can understand. The situations that come up is not scripted, the kids have to improvise using english. 

The text and audio in the games are not very often translated into other languages either which gives the kids a lesson in spelling and pronounciation as well.

I can understand the people talking bad about video games if the kids are not doing anything else than just sitting in front of the TV or computer. That might be negative in some way. But to be able to sit and concentrate on something that they find important for an hour or so is good. 
To be able to sit down and focus for a long time it is important with other activities like sports. It is the same with school. Kids can't be forced to sit down for such a long time every day. We need more physical education in schools!
Another thing they learn is to interract with people they do not know. They can even learn things about leadership. Since all these games have a lot of players, the players often form guilds or teams. Those needs leaders, and by leading they are learning leadership.

So please don't say that video games is all bad for the kids!

The Walking Dead - The Game

New game for Roman! The Walking Dead!

So there is a sale on Steam on some of the Telltale games. 

I felt that I enjoyed the "point and click" game called Frankenstein: Master of Death a lot which made me buy another one like it.

I have seen a few seasons of the TV series Walking Dead and I liked it. Games that are directly made after a movie or a TV series are generally bad I'd say. Since you already know exactly what will happen. 
This game however is just taking place in the same universe that the TV series. That was appealing to me! The games I have been playing recently are also zombie games.

I don't want to spoil too much of the game. That is why I just put up this video from the beginning of the game. It is not the first minutes of it but there has not been a lot of playtime before this video was made. 

It is from my Twitch stream.

It is a lot of video material in the game. Which means that you can sit back, relax and just enjoy the video. It is a perfect game to play when you just want to play something but you don't want to focus on last hitting like in League of Legends or focus 100% on aiming like in Counter Strike. 
Time flies when I play this game. And even though it is not difficult so far, I have had a few puzzles that I have enjoyed breaking. They were hard enough for me to feel that "Yes!" feeling when I got passed them.

You are creating a story, a movie. And your decisions will impact the rest of the game a lot. You will see a good example of that in the video above. And the choices are not easy to make. A lot of dialogs are tricky as well. Like, what do I answer to this question? And there is a timer on the time you have to choose your response. 

Klopp in Liverpool

Klopp takes over Liverpool

Not easy to recognize without more beard and the yellow Dortmund attire.

I think a lot of people was looking forward to when Klopp were finally taking a new job. He had a fantastic run in Dortmund despite the obvious, Bayern were picking up all the players in Germany that they wanted.
Lewandovski the biggest proof of that. In the end he managed to keep a few though, Reus being one of the most famous ones.

What is he all about?

Some of the talk that I have heard is that he is good at building a team from scratch. I suppose that is referring to Dortmund. I am not sure but I don't think they were a team fighting for the title before he got there. To quote Klopp himself after he signed the contract he said that "Liverpool job is the biggest challenge in football" not word by word but that is what he said.
And Liverpool must be considered just that, a great chance to build something. The club has a fantastic history. A lot of fantastic supporters. But it will be tough. A lot of supporters mean a lot of pressure.

Brendan Rodgers did spend a lot of money on a lot of different players. That means there are plenty of players that are ready to show the new manager that they deserve a chance to play.

Will we see Hummels in the Premier League now? He was chased intensively by, among others Manchester United during the summer. Now when his former manager has taken over Liverpool, will he cross the ocean and play in the biggest league in the world?

A strong striker might be all they need. Or will Klopp call Balotelli? I hope that Balotelli returns to Premier League. He is always entertaining and there is a lot of football in him. They do have plenty of players for the midfield, and I would say they do have defenders if they can start to get great performances from Lovren etc.
I don't think Klopp will spend a lot of money. I believe that the board has considered him for the job because he will be able to build a team based on the current players. There are no transfer window open now anyway, so he will have to make due with the players he got.

Even though the last season started catastrophically the Dortmund fans knew they had him to thank for so much and praised him when he left. Beautiful scenes and great to see. 

Even though I am a fan of Manchester United I am curious to see what will happen. I would like to see Liverpool rise again to become a club that challenges for the title again. And I am excited about Klopp taking over as manager.

Fallout 4 - S.P.E.C.I.A.L movies

Fun movie clips regarding the attributes in Fallout 4

The different attributes that you are choosing from in Fallout 4 are Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility and Luck.

To market their new game they have been releasing a video on each of these attributes. They have made the movies comedic explanations on what the different attributes mean and how they effect your character. The videos can be found below this text.

Strength

Perception

Endurance

Charisma

Intelligence

Agility and Luck is yet to be released.

I haven't been playing the series much at all. Although I got Fallout New Vegas for my Play Station 3 and I played that quite a lot. So I really enjoy the world that they have created. 

CS:GO items with crazy value

The value of skins in CS:GO is crazy

According to gamereactor.se a collection of skins has the value of 230 000 US Dollars. That is not items that makes your character in the game better in any way. It is only skins, it changes the appearence of the items you are currently equipping. 

How crazy is that! Are there really gamers out there paying these insane prices? With all the money that is involved in the community now, it is not impossible. 

You don't have to be the best player in the world, win tournaments etc to earn big bucks. You can be a popular streamer and earn big money from people subscribing to your channel, sponsors wanting to be seen on your stream etc.
So maybe some people tries to get more viewers by geetting the coolest looking gear.

When using Google to find out a bit more surrounding this subject I found people thinking it is the russian mafia using the world of gaming to launder money. CS:GO is not the first game where people have been saying that though. It started with World of Tanks and Team Fortress 2, I am not saying it is a fact, just that there are apparently rumours.

A video where they show a crazy collection

I don't even use skins with the value of 1 Dollar. When I play and get loot that is skins etc I am usually just selling it to be able to buy some cheap Indiegames for the profit. Unless I get a skin as a gift from someone of course, then I would not sell it of course. 
But if someone has the money to spend on these items I am not going to complain. It gives me a reason to check it out and be amazed by the amounts of money we are talking about. 
However if I would play a game really much I would definitely buy skins etc to make it more fun. In League of Legends for example, I have a lot of skins from the time when I played it a lot. Nowadays though when I play so many different ones I don't care about the appearence of my character in the same way.
The world is changing and it is the world of gaming that is growing rapidly. I like it!

The Forest - Big project after latest patch

Time to build big!

There is always going to be a "next patch coming soon" in this game I think. Since it is so early in the development process. That means that if I would start to create something, and they patch the game. It might be all for nothing. 
But thinking it through. It is a game, it is always for nothing ^_- 

So last night the project started. A big base, like a fort is beginning to take shape. I am doing the project with some help. The idea of having a stream is to interract with people. And in my case, when I started to play The Forest it was really helpful to have people watching and being able to help out using the chat. 
The guy I am currently building this project with is one of those guys that came in and watched my stream, helping me understand the basics in the game when I was completely new. 
It is great to meet new people! So now we are working together working on this big ass camp.

So if you feel like hanging out and chat you can check me out on http://www.twitch.tv/podcasterroman
I am always able to see the chat when I play so come by and chill. Like you see in the video below it will be a few sessions of "The Forest" in the days to come.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

Part 8

Part 9

Part 10

Part 11

The clips are from the same project as you can understand. They are divided in 15 minutes segments and that is why the videos are so short and so many. Unfortunately that is the way it will be for now at least.

I hope that you will enjoy watching the video and watch the project grow. 

Football Manager Handheld worth a shot?

Football Manager Handheld - Good or bad?

Football Manager is a big and complex game. There are so many options, so many different things to take care of. Of course, you can decide to allow your assistant manager handle a lot of it for you. But you are able to manage basically every single detail.
I can even feel it is hard to play the game on a laptop using the touchpad. So how would it be to control it on a small screen like a phone?
On the subject on games on phones, I am curious whether or not I would feel okay playing Hearthstone on a phone as well. I will soon try the Hearthstone when I get a phone that I will be able to play it on. And I am thinking about trying the Football Manager Handheld as well.

So I am searching the web for reviews, trying to find out whether or not it is worth buying it. 

Comments from reviews

It seems to be hard to navigate the menus. You can't just click a name to get to that screen like you can in the PC versions.

It seems that you can't really change a lot of tactical stuff either. 

The match engine sounds like it is a good one. Good 2D graphics and you can tell the difference from a great goal and a average one.

Signing players seems to be easy enough. But there seems to be a problem with searching for players unless you know their name.

I mean. The price is not that high and I suppose I won't have to buy the new edition every year. So I figure it might be worth getting it even though I might be bothered by the lack of functions that I am used to from the PC version.