A ball that barely reaches the rim - NBA Live 15 REVIEW

Reviewed on Playstation 4

Last year, I was dazzled by how low some people may go for a bit of extra cash, and EA was no exception.
NBA Live 14 sank lower than any other basketball game that I've played before, and I would've rather played NBA Live 10 instead.
NBA Live 15 brings a few new ideas that mostly fail to shine, even though most of them are fairly interesting.

WASTED GREENS
This year also, EA has brought in the ESPN-like user interface which does give a nice impression and a sense of realism. It's original, shiny and dynamic, but the license was is again, like last year, a money waster.
In addition, game modes such as MyCarreer have been tuned up, but only in some aspects that are hard to be noticed. Things such as the experience gauge have stayed the same, while bugs, glitches and wrong calls are still very annoying. I still lose points by shooting at the right time (my player is a good shooter, and timing is important just not as it is for the other players), for making a good foul in order to stop the attacker who is on his clear path to a masterful dunk... Basically, you only get live XP for hitting shots or nailing layups, which is boring and repetetive. Not to mention that already on my second level, while playing against OKC, i had to have more assists than Russel Westbrook... Yep, Russel Westbrook, the big 0.
Legendary basketball moments are still there, and they look more polished definitely, especially when the players have to shoot, it can look gorgeous.

COVERS DON'T MATTER
NBA Live 15 looks and sounds well, but it performs way worse than it actually should.
The commentators (hell, can't even remember the names) are simple and cannot be compared to Kevin and Steve Curr from NBA2K... The animations of the players have been fixed by a tiny bit since last year, but they still perform like on PS2. The ball physics are better, the ball does bounce off the rim better and more naturally, while the jerseys swing beautifully like flags on the wind.
NBA Live 15 also has some awesome graphics. The players don't look as bad as last year, and the arenas look more realistic than ever! Light effects are cool, the sneakers look nice, no muddy textures.
PLAY AS A TEAM
NBA Live 15 uses a brand new AI engine that probably doesn't really work that well. Friendly AI moves unnaturally, and they even sometimes run into their own teammates. It can be frustrating a lot.
THE VERDICT
NBA Live 15 is a small improvement from last year that still doesn't hold up with bigger games such as NBA2K. EA can surely make ideas, but making them come true can be as hard as it gets.
I give this game a 6/10. If you ever want to try out something besides NBA2K, you should get this, but only when the price drops. For more info, check out IGN.

Still home...

It's been like 12 days since I was healthy and ready for school and stuff...
For these 12 days, I coughed, I sneezed and I had a constant temperature. I really, really have no idea what has come over me, I've never been this much ill before. Usually, I become ill once a year, and it usually lasts for about 3-5 days. This time, some virus got me and I got no idea whether I will go to a concert on Friday and to a party on Saturday... I haven't seen any of my buddies until two days ago, when some of them decided to pay me a visit. They actually did a prank, but I didn't mind.
Anyways, i'm still bored like hell in heaven, mostly because i gotta study the subjects that my grades are bad in. Laters.

Long term awaiting... Doesn't pay out - DESTINY REVIEW

NOTE: I played the game on a PS4 and an Xbox 360, the experiences were the same.
I simply had to review this game, because it caused so much hype. I may not remember the names of the story characters so well, but let's just say that they're not that important.
Enjoy the review!
THE HYPE ZONE
Bungie, a studio famous for its long collaboration with Microsoft and its Microsoft exclusive franchise HALO, has brought us DESTINY, a game worth so much mentioning. DESTINY is the first game released after the end of the pact between Microsoft and Bungie and, as many have expected, the game just doesn't live up to the hype... Nor to the 500 million dollars that was spent on it.
But yes, the game is not boring, it has a ton of content worth risking to get, a mediumly interesting story and freedom.
ENTERING THE WORLD
Like most MMOs, DESTINY lets you fully customize your own character, but strong limitations are there, so it's definitely not like something you would see in Saint's Row IV's famous Initiation station. Be careful what you choose, because once you put an ugly green slime on your face, there is no going back...
After finishing the simple character creation, i was off to the huge mystical world of DESTINY. After the first cutscene, you start off with a simple gun, and you are taught to survive and kill by tutorials.
SO, WHAT'S THE CATCH?
DESTINY looks like, feels like, sounds like and plays exactly like an MMO should, except that it has that refreshing FPS element that everyone is a fond of. Killing enemies, defeating huge bosses, collecting loot, raiding... All can be done with a friend, and it can be hell of a fun process, buut, already after my 7th or 8th mission, same enemies started attacking me, while I encountered the same boss three times until I reached level 14...
Reaching higher levels in the game is hard, mostly if you go solo on most missions and if you don't grab the necessary loot the game drops you at the end of missions. It's also worth mentioning that you always get the same loot at the end of a certain mission.
At the end of the main story mission cycle, you can keep collecting loot, fighting other players in PVP areas, raid caves and enemy strongholds and gain more experience so you can get to the highest level possible.
So, after you've done the campaign missions, there's still a lot to do.
HOLES IN THE LOST WORLD
Like every MMO game, DESTINY is filled with flaws and some can perhaps make you never want to come back to it again.
During exploration or PVPing, connection lag is a common issue and it can last up to 10 seconds... Framerate issues are noticeable, especially in the PS3 and 360 versions of the game. I got a bit of texture popping on both the PS4 and the 360 version, but nothing too serious. As for the hubs and merchants, various bugs still appear when trying to buy something or sell something. Once, my game froze on the loading screen, and going back to the interface was impossible, while on my third day, my character and all my progress was deleted out of nowhere... Good thing I don't like spending money on microtransactions that much.
THE VERDICT
DESTINY is a high budget game that at some points manages to live up to the hype, but also at some other points falls down close to rock bottom. I give this game an 8/10. For more on DESTINY, visit this.
Laaaters!

New Borderlands!

Yeeeeeh... New Borderlands, The Pre-Sequel... Looks the same as Borderlands 2, but has waaay more content. A buddy of mine bought it last week for PS3, and maaan, did we have fun with that game... We mostly played the campaign, and it was awesome... So much more stuff to unlock... Like an FPS Little Big Planet, except that you don't control puppets this time. If you've played at least one of the previous Borderlands, you will know what I'm talking about.
A few days ago, i got ill, and I cough like hell every 30 seconds (yeah, i counted, and this is an average number). My temperature first was at like 37.2 degrees (Celsius), then, out of freaking nowhere it jumped to 37.4 and then jumped higher than MJ all the way to 38.4... Talk about some virus that maybe one guy from my class had not so long ago... But i doubt he is the source of my infection. A lot of my friends told me, as a joke ofc, that I have ebola, since at this time, it is the main desease, right? :D It certainly ain't ebola, but it sure is one of the stronger viruses that came over me... Ever. I get ill once in a year, and it's usually something easy, like higher temperature and mediocre coughing. This right now is a neverending temperature with hardcore coughing, and my throat is sore like crazy. Anyways, hope you peeps are having a nice day, because i'm certainly not. :D Laters.

It's called football... Get used to it...

A few days ago, there was a football/soccer game in Belgrade, Serbia. It was a game between Serbia and Albania, a qualifying phase for the UEFA Euro 2016 Championship. First, let's keep it in mind that Serbia and Albania are two countries that are bordering (Serbia S and Albania N) and their relations aren't the best. Let's also keep it in mind that I'm Serbian, so I will, obviously, be more supportive for my team. Second, UEFA made a terrible mistake by letting this match ever happen. The alternative way around chaos breaking loose was to play the first game and the rematch on some neutral stadium somewhere else.
The kick-off was peaceful, no harsh words from anyone, no fights etc. No Albanians were allowed on the stadium except for the Albanian Football Comitee members (players, coach, manager etc). The Serbian supporters were quite peaceful when it comes to saying bad words towards the Albanians, because if they weren't, the match would've been stopped way earlier.
In the 40th minute of the match, a flag representing the look of Greater Albania with an offensive message towards the Serbs, appeared attached to a wireless controlled drone. As the drone reached 6 feet above the ground, a Serbian player, Mitrovic, took the flag off the drone so he could give it to the main official. As he started to make his way to the ref, a few Albanians rushed at him like a bunch of horny baboons... I'm serious. They started hitting him and pushing him, whilst trying to take the flag away. That's when the already fired up fuse reached the gun powder barrel... Fights started on the pitch, Serbian supporters started running onto the pitch, while the security tried to stop them (let's be honest here, the supporters had a valid reason for doing so... They even went in with some objects to throw at or hit the Albanian players, and I found all of that pretty damn funny... And I respected those supporters, because all of the Albanians deserve that, all of the Albanians are bad people, and that is something i made sure of a long time ago).
After a few minutes of chaos erupting, the flag was taken away by some Serbs and burned somewhere in Belgrade, while the Albanian players struggled to get back into their dressing room. They literally were running for their lives, and it looked funny...
A lot of people will blame the Serbs for this... But lemme tell all of you, Serbia is to be blamed for maybe 5% of this! Maybe even less! The only bad thing Serbs did was the pitch supporter invasion... And that's not even that bad! If there wasn't for those Albanian players and for the dumbass brother of the Albanian prime minister who controlled the drone with the flag, NONE OF THIS would've ever happened.
Some British people say that during the match, the supporters were yelling 'Kill the Albanians!' when they were actually just singing patriotic songs... Yet again, we are blamed for everything we are involved in... Just because some fatass liar decided to tell a story on how the Serbs killed 20k Albanians, when in reality it was just 1k-2k people, mostly men that tried to kill our soldiers first. In reality, Albanians killed 30-40k Serbs during the 90s and another 10k during the past 14 years, and nobody ever gave a shit. Why? Well, that's on you to find out. Also, all of the Albanian politicians and government members are criminals, human organ sellers, human traffickers... I hope you understand something now.

School field trip tomorrow!

Eeey, so tomorrow is the school field trip that i've been waiting for for a long time... It will last three days and it will be a blast. People think we go on those to learn something new about the monuments and such, but it isn't true... For the most part :D I am interested in the two monasteries that we will be visiting, so i hope that won't be boring. We will also visit some other cities in my country and a couple of villages. But, when it comes to the entertainment, a shit ton of people from my school will go to the disco, which is located about 50-100 meters (a bit less than 0.1 mile) from our hotel. I won't be going to the disco because a lot of peeps will be there, it will be scorching hot, and i can't beat my sweat at all! I sweat like crazy. And also, my girl won't be going either so, why would i go without her :D Today I gotta study a lot... Unfortunately. I fucked up some grades, and I'm expecting more of those this week. I guess my start of the second year wasn't as shiny as i had expected. Laters.