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Friday, February 28, 2014

Broken noses

Recently, during an IT class, a friend of mine punched another friend of mine in the nose benting it into the side and pushing the nose inside the skull making it to bleed both outside and a little bit in the inside. There was blood on the floor and my friend was laying down until the paramedics came to take him to the 'Urgent center' AKA one of the most ugliest hospitals in Europe and the biggest one in Serbia. About a few days later, Serge Ibaka from OKC accidentally hit LeBron James with his elbow. LeBron fell on his knees and you could see blood pouring from his nose onto the wooden floor. Now he looks like BATMAN!!! #OMGYOLOSWAGMONEY420BLAZEITPRICKINDASTICKSWAGBOY123... Laters.

HTML...-ing

Since i was 8, i have wanted to be a programmer, a video game developer. When i was even younger, believe it or not, i did some work in 3DMax. Of course, those were just simple shapes being modified. Now, when i finally have some knowledge that i needed for knowing programming languages, i can start. I wanted to start in JavaScript, but the thing was that i needed a bit of elementary knowledge from HTML. HTML is a web designing program, it doesn't involve binary numbers and digits, those are only for networking stuff. Some people think of HTML as CSS. CSS is a presentation language, it's an addon to the HTML experience. With HTML you can create your own website or domain that you pay for (i think). It can be pretty complicated sometimes, but when you get into it, it all starts to make sense. When you learn a code and its basics, you will probably have to understand what that code is for perfectly, otherwise you won't know how to use it. That's all. I'll be writing maybe a review soon. Laters.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Well, there goes my second source of entertainment...

You know what happends with a Chinese battery charger when you try to plug it in that thing that looks like a piggy nose? Yerp, it breaks. I plugged it in, appearently, with more power than i should (don't judge me, i got a lot of power in my hands, i usually use more power than i should :P ). Now, in this country you can't find those chargers anywhere, because INTEX (the company i have the tablet from) don't sell their shit here. And no, i didn't imply racism... It's obvious that the Chinese make cheap stuff. I won't be writing as much as before for a month or two and i also won't be coming on the net... I won't be writing that many reviews as before, and i certainly won't be writing any tomorrow or today. Oh and BTW, you know that feeling when every girl you have a crush on has a boyfriend... Yeh, it sucks. Anyways dudes, i'll talk to you all soon, hopefully :P. Laters.

An even wilder wild West - Red Dead Redemption REVIEW

NOTE: I played this game a long time ago, but i remember what it can offer. I'll probably forget to say something important, but don't hate me 'cause of that.

Huge worlds of our past, BC, AD, Medieval, the New Age etc. All of those ages have been shown in video games, but Red Dead Redemption takes the cake. Rockstar games has been famous for their ability to show the real life in a certain era, and they have made sure that they do it best. RDR is a primary example of what a postapocalyptical story should be.
PRESENTATION
You're John Marston, once a member of a gang after they left him to die. Now, his goal is to find his wife and son and kill the 'old friends'. It took me about 10-12 hours to finish the campaign and boy did i have fun.
A lot of missions have an interesting structure and hardly any mission looks even a tiny bit alike some mission before. As you progress, you get emotionally attached and when you see some of your favourite characters die, you start to wish you didn't play that mission. RDR is a game about how life looked back at the beginning of the 1900s, at the time before the Mexican revolution and when the cannibals roamed a lot. The creepiness of the situation sometimes is big, a long with the backround music that plays and scary found objects such as human bodyparts, strange blood puddles etc. Some missions with shooting have some badass music like the 'Triggernometry' also found in the game's launch trailer. Many enemies hold guns, and you level up as you kill them. There are a lot of repeaters, rifles, revolvers and even mounts such as horses, cows and wild piggies. Needless to say, you probably won't even try out all of the guns in the game before you finish the campaign. You have infinite horses, if your horse dies, you can get another one by just pressing one button. the thing is, not all horses have the same stamina bar, some have a smaller one, some have a bigger one that also drains slower. Taking out gangs in various locations (canyons, buildings, forts etc.) you level up, gain loot and money. You can sell the loot for some cash and with that cash you buy ammo, upgrades and mounts. Money from multiplayer goes to the campaign.
GRAPHICS
2010 and the game still looks badass, makes even GTA V tremble. The level of detail is really high. The lighting effects are astounding! Just a beautiful game.
MULTIPLAYER
You choose your own character that you will be free roaming with, killing players with etc. You cannot customize his apparel, but there are a lot of characters to choose from. You level up the same as in the campaign, by taking out gang hideouts, killing bounties and gaining loot. You can also create a posse and invite other players to play through the gang hideout with you.
THE VERDICT
The best Wild West based game on the market. A truly wonderful experience, never really though R* San Diego would create a masterpiece like Red Dead Redemption. 10/10. For more reviews, check out my blog. Laters.

Sunday, February 23, 2014

The never-ending world - STAR WARS: The Old Republic REVIEW

Many MMOs come out in free2play form, and they barely last for a few months while the developers invest thousands (and sometimes even millions) of dollars into its developement. Most of those games are unfinished, unpolished and crude. SWToR is a great exception. After being in developement for almost 8 years, this massive game has been released, firstly in pay2play form, after shifted to free2play.
PRESENTATION/MULTIPLAYER
The game has two big factions' the Republic and the Sith, and i'm guessing a lot of people know which is which. There are no level restrictions, you just play untilmyou reach a certain level, but a lot of the available items can only be bought with real world cash, and they can be pretty damn expensive. The world is consisted out of 10-12 sub-worlds. Sub-world that you spawn in vary depending on your character and faction. I you choose to be a member of the Sith, you can perhaps choose a class and spawn on a ship in Space. I chose to be a Republican, a trooper to be more accurate and i spawned in a world where there are only troopers. The campaign is pretty long, might take you 20-30 hours to complete if you are free2play, but technically it doesn't stop there. After that you have PVP arena fights to participate in, all sorts of monsters to kill, you might even not explore the world completely after you end the campaign... Basically it's like WoW with guns, lightsabers and starships. Starships can be obtained somewhere after you reach level 16. Till then you will spend most of your time looting enemy bodies in search for credits, armor and other items that can be sold to a street vendor. Mission structures are sometimes a pain in the ass. You go to a dungeon, you kill some scavengers and you get to your checkpoint... After you finish what you had to, you now have to go all the way back to the mission source (the person that gave you that mission to complete) but you have to fight the goons again, not to mention if there get to be more than 5 of them each time. Skills and powers are learnt by talking to a trainer. Learning each skill costs credits, so do the upgrades. If you get to a part that you cannot go through, you should get a companion to come with you, they have way more firepower than you, the same health amount as you and whenever you start to heal, they heal along with you. If you die, you get two choices, the first is to get revived and get back into battle, while the second one is to get revived and be sent to the nearest medical camp. Getting revived after dying doesn't lose you any items, which is awesome, considering that it's a F2P game we're talking about.
GRAPHICS
SWToR looks great for a huge MMO game. The graphics can look like the ones from SW: The clone wars sometimes, or at least remind of it. A big flaw is that the game is poorly optimized. I have a two times stronger GPU than the one the official system reqs website for the game, a two times stronger CPU, two times more RAM, but the game still lags and stutters, even on lower settings than medium. Also, remember that you need a really fast internet connection (500kb/s) is recommended.
THE VERDICT
SWToR is one of the best MMO's i've ever played. It absolutely beats WoW. I give this game a 8.2 for it being really fun, but also for being poorly optimized and sometimes a bit too nerve wrecking. For more reviews, check out my blog. Laters.

'Stalking' Angela

I was surfing the net before bedtime and when i went onto 9GAG to see if there's anything new, i saw an image that had over 15000 followers and 2000 comments. The image was about an infamous app called 'Talking Angela'. From the devs of 'Talking Tom' this game is a bit too inappropriate, one way or another. The question is, is this app the front door to a pedophile ring, or is it just plain creepy. It surely is hard to understand why Outfit7 would even be putting this game as suitable for children while the main in-game character can ask you questions such as 'do ypu have friends, what's your name, have you ever been on a date'. It's painfully ridiculous and absurd, but it may be possible that there is someone watching your every move via that front camera right there on your phone/tablet. I downloaded the app yesterday to see what's going on (don't worry, i hid both of my device cameras while using the app). When i first entered, the apo asked me whether i want to turn child mode on. Child mode is a function that keeps the chat box off. Via the chat box, Angela/maybe someone else sends you messages, gramatically correct messages that don't really seem that were written by a dumb human pedobear. I turned child moden on, nothing special happened, then i turned it off and the chaos began. I started to realize why people got so scared. The messages i received (and many other users) were pervy, inappropriate (especially inappropriate for children under the age of 13), but it surely was just a brain farter. I also realized that the bot i was talking to is programmed to answer your questions, talk to you, understand you, give you some sort of a self-confidence boost etc. Pedophiles can't type fast, they're probably not on the other side. It may be, but that is a really, really, really low chance, that they are watching you, but not also typing to you. After just 20-30 minutes, i deleted the app, got bored of it because it sucked anyway. There are also rumours that you can see older guys through Angela's eyes, but i think that is ridiculous and would need a lot more processor power than your tablet/phone has. Would i allow this to my children (if i had any lol)? Nope. Sometimes i just wonder why people create games like these where it's easy to switch between safe and normal mode. This should have been made for adults only. Anyways, you can download the app and nothing will happen to your device, because Google Play/iOS store would have removed it already if it had some sort of malware inside. The stories about police investigating the app and a girl missing because of the app are probably false, the poor girl probably went missing after being followed by a guy. Hope this helps. Laters.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Your typical pay2lookcool - Blacklight: Retribution REVIEW

We all love free2play games, but all of them gotta have some flaws, right? Ghost Recon Online, NFS Online etc. Blacklight: Retribution is a free2play game developed by Perfect World. It stands out as one of the best F2P shooters i've played in a while, but it certainly gets on my nerves sometimes.
PRESENTATION/MULTIPLAYER
As most of the F2P games out there, B:R is a game that contains only multiplayer. It's filled with guns, attachments, equipment and some other customizations. It almost got into Steam workshop, but the devs strictly kept the imagination for themselves. As soon as you start, you can go through a short tutorial. After that you receive some items that last forever. Most of the items can be bought to last for a period of time, most of them cost a lot, and when you look at the price for permanent use of an item, you will be shocked, but it does make sense. There are absolutely zero hackers and cheaters in the game, but there are a lot of people that use the P2LookCool (AKA Pay2Win) method. It may be a little bit harder to kill pay2winners, and most of them don't really know how to play. Loads of guns to buy, loads of heroes to buy (BTW they cost a fortune). After only a few hours of playtime, i earned enough GP (the in-game currency) to buy myself a new gun for permanent use. Of course, the same thing applies for attachments, where some cost more than a high powered shotgun. Safe to say, if you wanna buy a gun, you'll need hard work, but playing Blacklight is like playing a F2P CoD, so a lot of players will get used to it. Loading times are very short.
GRAPHICS
B:R looks cool, but its optimization is weak. My PC meets the minimum system reqs, but i still cannot run the game on higher settings than the lowest. Still, the game looks badass, and i cannot complain against it.
THE VERDICT
B:R is one the best F2P shooters out there. It gets way less attention than it should. I give this F2P FPS game a 8.3/10 for its dynamic gameplay, strategy and fun. For more reviews, check out my blog. Laters.