Alone in the Dark: Part 3

So, my friend, Blade579, and I have progressed in the game, "Alone in the Dark". Although there has been many times that we have been so frustrated with the game, the option to poor lighter fluid on the xbox did seem appealing. Regardless we stuck through it and got much further, granted i doubt we at all close to the ending, we have progressed. Which brings me back to the list of things we hate about "Alone in the Dark".


*Text messages


*Clues


*Evil trees


This officially concludes our list of things we hate about, "Alone in the Dark"... until we find more things we hate. Anyway here are some helpful hints to those who get stuck in some of the places we did.


1) Don't forget you can blink! trust us it can help



2)Don't get obsessed over clues that could possibly mean NOTHING!


3)Don't forget about weapons on the floor. I know it seems stupid, but trust us they are always around and they will never run out of ammo.


4)STICKY BOMBS!


And that is all the helpful hints I have for you today.


This is smightnight saying,

"Till next time, in the lobby"

Rediculous weapons in video games

From magical farting unicorns to enormous foam finger hand cannons, ridiculous weapons have always made their way into our most favorite of games. Is this a bad thing? Well, it depends on your sense of humor. Do you enjoy killing necromorphs with your imagination? Or prefer to cast a "party" spell in a room full of prestigious knights? Either way, you'll need a weapon that requires the ability to tolerate the absolutely crazy and broken weapons that you will either love or hate. Let me start with a few of my favorites:
Mr. Toots (Red Faction: Armageddon)

The Foam Finger (Dead Space 2)

Every other weapon in Dead Rising

Bonus weapons (Soulcalibur 4)

Hal's rifle (Fable 2)

And I will continue this tomorrow with another post. smightnight and I are about to watch "Pulse". We have high hopes.

cont.

Hey all, this is the continued list of ridiculous weapons in video games...

Golf Club (Halo: Reach)

Scarab's gun (Halo 2)

and etc. Honestly, I enjoy these sort of weapons every now and again, but when used regularly, like in Dead Rising, the weapons lose their finesse. Then again, this is coming from the guy that enjoyed Dead Rising: Case Zero (an XBLA arcade title) more than Dead Rising 2 (The actual $60 game). I enjoy weapons such as these, but not when they are used in rapid succession and constantly. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to destroy buildings in Red Faction with the backside of a unicorn... I still can't get over that... haha.

"Live, Love, Laugh, Ragequit"

-Blade579

Red Dead Redemption: 25 Things to do in Multiplayer

Have you ever found yourself in RDR free roam, shooting at the law and other players, just waiting for the excruciatingly long experience bar to fill? This happens to me almost every time I decide to pop into the cowboy free roam shooter and find a session. It may just be me, but I have had enough of the tedious "shoot, melee, gain bounty" mentality that I have carried out for months, so I have devised a "list" of sorts to help you entertain yourself and/or your partner:

1. Gain a HUGE bounty, then escape to Mexico!
2. Have a fistfight on dangerous surfaces (large rocks, over a body of water, edge of a building)
3. Start a huge brawl with NPC's
4. Play "how many knives can you stick into your friend?"
5. Name your mount
6. Set bears on fire
7. (undead nightmare req) Beat up zombies... with your fists
8. Fall down the cliff on Torquemada
9. Stab dynamite
10. Stab fire bottles
11. Stab people
12. Run towards other players holding lit dynamite
13. Fight bulls with your fists in MacFarlane's Ranch
14. Walk around in Aurora Basin (shallow water)
15. Get the covered wagon in Gaptooth Breach
16. Jump out of a wagon at high speed
17. Knife your friend's mount while riding very fast
18. Play with dynamite
19. Get chased by cougars
20. Have a HUGE posse battle at Cochinay
21. Search for a donkey, then try to keep it as your mount for an hour
22. Run into players/NPC/s with your mount
23. Try to disarm EVERYONE
24. Push pedestrians
25. Drive your mount/wagon/chariot off the cliff between Armadillo and MacFarlane's Ranch.

If you want me to post more, please comment or message me and I'll go around in free roam and discover weirder and more amusing things to do.

"Live Love Laugh Ragequit"
-Blade579

Alone in the Dark

So I'm sitting on my couch thinking "I have absolutely no games to play!" when I remembered that I had just picked up Alone in the Dark a few days ago. I had this epiphany at around 12:00am this morning, so I couldn't exactly form a very intelligent or even sensible review of this game with the 30 minutes I will play of it before I go to sleep, but I gave it a shot anyway, Of the first 30 minutes of Alone in the Dark, I realized one very important thing, noticing the warning signs of a bad game are very helpful tools. I noticed that this game was going to be a grind the second I was shown the first actual button prompt, "Press right stick to blink"... I mean, really? Why on Earth would I want to make my deranged Survival Horror protagonist blink?! Maybe this mechanic is just part of the tutorial of the game, but I have seen several people die so far, so I assume I am somewhat in the game. (Though I have yet to encounter an enemy...)

As far as survival horror games go, this game is delivering somewhat. Given I died within the first five minutes multiple times due to lack of an objective, the game looks legitimately scary. If I were to pinpoint exactly what has scared me the most, it would probably be the lack of an enemy. Honestly, there is nothing worse than seeing glimpses of an enemy tear someone apart, only to have them vanish before you can lock your gaze upon them. If they keep this shrouded terror in the shadows, I expect some sucker punch scares and very tense situations further in the game. Hopefully, the horror and surprise will make up for the strange mechanics and the awkward controls.

Now, to get to the reason I actually picked up this game in the first place. I had heard stories from a friend of mine about a game with a very interesting build-your-own-weapon- mechanic, and, seeing as how Dead Rising 2 felt like more of an arcade game to me, I wanted a survival game with a building weapons mechanic similar to that of Dead Rising's. Have I seen any of that yet? No, but that's just because of my failure to comprehend what the tutorial meant by "follow the man with the gun's instructions". ( I decided to take the "I'll do what I want!" option and did the opposite of what he instructed several times, and each time was met by a butt-stroke to the back of the head.) Well, seeing as though I have literally seen about 15 min of actual gameplay, I will save the actual review for later. Until then!

"Live Love Laugh Ragequit"
- Blade579

Completion of Xbox 360 games

Are you or a friend burdened with the "completionist" bug? Do you have the urge to find every collectible, complete every mission, or finish every objective? I do, but not to the point where I cannot finish a game without discovering everything. I have actually only completed only one game all the way, meaning I finished every quest, collected and stored every weapon and armor, made every spell, bought all houses, and discovered all locations. The game I speak of is Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. I have invested over 200 hours into that game, ensuring I didn't miss a single thing. I don't know what it was about Oblivion, but it was just so interesting to me. The physics engine, the story, a first person open world RPG, it had so much going for it. Unfortunately, I haven't gone back to play it since I finished everything, so now it is just sitting at the bottom of my stack of games.

Honestly, I could not think of anything better to write about today. This "post a day" challenge was issued to help improve my writing skills, and that is all well and good, but I just can't think of what to write about. I didn't have time today to research anything of importance, and with the free time I did have, I just tried to unlock golden visor in Halo Reach. Hmmm... I could talk about Halo Reach, but I assume that it has already had hundreds of reviews by now, so I will just post about my experience. Let's start with... Matchmaking.

Right off the bat, I will introduce the main topic that drive even the most experienced players to ragequitting: T-Bagging. (T-Bagging- the act of repeatedly crouching over the body of a previously killed alien/enemy/teamate, and mimicking... well, I don't have to go that far...) Ok, let's just say that T-Bagging is a juvenile, strange, and very rude form of being a sore loser. I can't possibly begin to fathom why someone enjoys imagining doing "that" to a dead alien/enemy/teamate. Yes, I am keeping this post free from vulgar language, but that is only because "certain people" read this blog. If you want to read someone insult a race, be prejudice, or throw random insults at a wall, look at any other blog. Well, as much as I would like to continue, my character on Halo Reach beckons me to buy him the gold visor. I will post again in the morning. (or night, whichever is more convenient...)

"Live Laugh Love Ragequit"
- Blade579